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We suppose that 8,000 Republicans may have 

 voted for prohibition, leaving, perhaps, 40,000 Demo- 

 cratic supporters of that side. Of the 166,325 who 

 voted against the measure, perhaps 75,000 were Dem- 

 crats and 91,000 Republicans. To be sure, these are 

 only surmises, founded on the normal strength of the 

 parties, and taking it for granted that tfie 30,000 

 voters who did not vote were about equally divided 

 between the parties. We assume that the 214,000 

 votes cast represent 114,000 Democrats and 100,000 

 Republicans. And so it appears that nearly twice as 

 many Democrats voted against the bill as tor it, and 

 more than eleven Republicans voted against it where 

 one voted for it. These calculations are, however, 

 more curious than profitable, for the whole matter is 

 mere speculation. All that we know is 'that the ma- 

 jority approximates 120,000. 



In May a convention of colored Republicans 

 was held in Raleigh, which demanded greater 

 recognition of their race by tlie party in the 

 State in appointments and elections to office. 

 In September a meeting of county superin- 

 tendents of public instruction was held in 

 Raleigh, and a State association was formed. 

 There are in the State sixty-six educational 

 institutions, such as university, colleges, high- 

 schools, military academies, etc. There are in 

 addition graded schools at Raleigh, Wilming- 

 ton, Bakersville, Goldsboro, Fayetteville, Salis- 

 bury, Charlotte, and Greensboro. There are 

 twenty-one agricultural societies and clubs of 

 note. There are four paper-mills, all water- 

 power, with a daily capacity of eight tons of 

 paper. There are fifty-nine cotton and woolen 

 factories, besides factories for the manufacture 

 of tobacco, agricultural implements, furniture 

 and wood-work, sewing-machines, etc. There 

 are no less than twenty-two railways, whose 

 lines are wholly or in part in the State. The 

 extreme length of the State, east to west, from 

 Dare to Polk Counties, is 485 miles, and the 

 extreme breadth, from Brunswick to Granville, 

 north and south, is 188 miles. There are ten 

 sounds, and the area of the sounds and bays is 

 3,300 square miles. There are fifteen lakes, 

 covering an area of 200 square miles. There 

 are three Insane Asylums and two Institutions 

 for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. The 

 different sections of the State were settled as 

 follows: By English Quakers and Baptists in 

 the northeast; by Swiss and French in the 

 east ; by Scotch in the southern tier of coun- 

 ties; by Scotch-Irish a little farther west; 

 by Moravians in the northwest, and by Dutch 

 in the west center. The various crops are 

 chiefly raised as follows: Rice and corn in 

 the east ; cotton a little nearer the center ; then 

 corn and cotton ; next tobacco ; yet a little 

 farther west the small grains ; then the great 

 fruit country ; and on the extreme western bor- 

 der the region where buckwheat, wheat, barley, 

 etc., flourish. 



The acreage of tobacco was 57,208, and the 

 yield 26,986,213 pounds. North Carolina stands 

 fifteenth among the States in production of 

 corn, and the increase is 50 per cent over 1870. 

 In the cereals the State is reported as follows: 

 corn, 27,959,894 bushels; wheat, 8,385,670; 

 oats, 3,830,622; barley, 4,799; rye, 284,993; 



buckwheat, 45,209. In oats and rye it is nine- 

 teenth in order of production, barley thirty- 

 eighth, rye seventeenth, and buckwheat eight- 

 eenth. 



Below is given the cotton yield of the State 

 according to the United States census of 1880. 

 The counties have been arranged in three 

 groups, the first embracing the nineteen sea- 

 coast counties, which produced only 33,613 

 bales of cotton. The next group comprises the 

 old ante-bellum cotton counties as far as prac- 

 ticable; these produced 226,505 bales. The 

 other group, as far as may be, gives an idea 

 of the new cotton territory, brought under 

 culture since the war; the number of bales 

 produced in it runs up to nearly 130,000. It 

 includes Wake, now the largest cotton county 

 in the State, where but little if any was grown 

 before the war. The entire number of acres 

 devoted to the staple in 1879 was 892,982, and 

 the number of bales grown was 389,576. 

 These figures were increased ten per cent in 

 1880, and increased again in 1881. Most of this 

 increase is in the new cotton territory, so that 

 year by year the culture of the staple is extend- 

 ing in the State : 



SEA-COAST COUNTIES. 



ANTE-BELLUM COTTON COUNTIES. 



