Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-04-18
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

those we give below from the Corporation Proceed
ings of April 7, published by authority, at the
impresslvely low price of thirty dollars per annum
and no questions asked, in that luminous and lu-
gubrious concern, the Raleigh Star. We begin
with the ordinance concerning eating-houses, by
which it appears that those of citizens who
afflicted with desire to eat are to be taxed-that
is, the eating houses are to be taxed, and per con-
sequence, as the consumer always pays the tariff,
the burthen for wagging jaws, by City permission,
will fall at last upon the persons troubled as afore
said with eating propensities:
"Be 1t orlained6y the Board of Commissioners of
the City Of Raleigh. that all persons opening Res
taurans Eating Houses (not Hotels in this City,
shall pay to the City Constable twenty five dollars,
within ten days after opening the same; and in case
of failure to comply with this Ordinance. double
tax of ftv dollars shall be imposed in default there
Of after being notified by the City Constable; and
it shall be the duty of the City Constable to give
the above required notice to the keeper or owner of
each and every said Restaurant or Eating House.
Bs stJurther ordained, that the opening or keep
ing Of such house or houses for any portion of the
year. shall be liable to the full tax above laid.
Be 1T further ordained that nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed as authorize the retail
ing of intoxica ting drinks in said Restaurants OF
Eating Houses"
Then again, liquor may be sold by the quart or
gallon and no tax thereon for the City but it shall
not be retailed at any price. We do not see why
a tax may not be imposed, now and then, on liq-
uors by the small measure as we'll as on persons
who eat 1t a0iW be sold by the small measure,
no matter how stringent the law against it. The
evil may be regulated, not suppressed; and, in the
regulation Of it, we can no objection to tax
on such as might be allowed to retail.
Again, we observe that an ordinance has been
passed mahiI'a :. c-.'- .l----. -~'
lars in the Of white persons. and whppable in
the of slaves to stick any bills, cards. posters,
advertisements, &C., any private building in the
City, without leave from the owner or occupant.
We presume the &c. refers to those three-cornered
Know Nothing posters which are SO frequently to
be seen sticking about the City. All right. We
exist in the hope that this very polite, sagacious,
and well-timed act Of legislation will largely add
to the City revenues.
We now fling together An aggregation of muni-
cpal wisdom and misunderstanding at the same
tim" to the City authorities, assurances of dis
tinguished consideration:
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the Raleigh and Castor Railroad for obstructing one
of the streets and the City Attorney instruct
ed to institute proceeding to have said obstruction
removed.
a. The City Treasurer was instructed to borrow
$500 to pay for Street REPAIRS until the collection of
g. The City Constable reported that he had been
unable to get the Town Clock repaired and set TO
work owing to the cold and windy weather. it being
too cold and unsafe to work in the tower in such
l,,kx A.. G1vo 20 IAo tl. 90 hnyn stof-
tended to forthwith and he was instructed to do SO
Immediately.
a. The Intcndant was instructed to purchase the
necessary tools and implements for working the
streets Of the city"
az If the CASTOR Road has run into any
ones way, it is one sign, added to many others,
of the startling progressiveness Of the times. The
matter should be attended to- and if any real grev.
ance exists, which we do not doubt, it ought to be
remedied. "Corporatons have no souls"
(2) We presume this additional $500 will run
the City debt up to about $l2 800. This is en-
couraging, especially when we reflect that real es
tate is now taxed only to the limit allowed by the
City charter, and that the poll tax is only 81
Those fines for sticking bills and posters, and the
tax on eating houses will, it is seriously apprehen
ded, materially increase the City revenues t
render it the duty Of the authorities to make wei
considered effort to loan out their surplus cash
(3.) Boreas, it seems, has been "obstructing
the Town Clock. He is to be attended" to, w
are glad to perceive, "torthwith and "instruc
tons " have been issued to have him dealt witt
immediately" Good lick! We are refreshe'
by the knowledge, thus officially impaired, tha
our City authorities have at length been struck b
an idea. Likewise, the clock has not struck wit
any sort Of regularity for some time past. "Blo,
wind, crack your cheeks but
| Boreas "spare that clock!
Twang not its wandering bands;
| The town would feel the shock
'Tis " safer as it-stands
True as fifty cent lecture; tbs "safer and true
as it stands, for every one can know at least ono
in twelve hours, with unerring certainty, the tim
of day.
a. The Streets then, are to be scraped. Th
is movement worthy of the Board but we SUI
pose this scraping is to be done by native hand
Native mud should not be removed by foreig
hands.
Even as the Moslem pilgrim looks with longn
eve, through shade and sunlight, for glimpse
the sacred shrine at Mecca, to which he is bendiu
his wcaried feet, so shall we look to that favore
thirty dollar source of official information, the R
leigh Star, for further revelations.
The capacity to 60 in debt is one of the insepa
Il ol,lo oooon,noo;p,onts in t;one IF ab;l;