Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-14
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

presenting to City readers as choice extracts
those we give below from the Corporation Proceed
ings of April Z, 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 our citizens who are
afflicted with desire to eat, are to be taxed-that
is, the eating houses to be taxed, and per con-
sequence, the consumer always pays the tariff,
the burthen for wagging jaws, by City permission,
will fall at last upon the persons troubled afore-
said with eating propensities:
ssBe 1T ordained by the Board of Commissioners of
tile city ct R~Leigh, that all persons opening Res
taurants or Eating Houses (not Hoels in this City,
shall pay to the City Constable ty-five dollars,
within ten days after opening the same and in
of failure to comply with this Ordinance, double
tax of tttv 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 of
each and every said Restaurant or Eating House.
Be it further ordained, that the opening keep
ing of such house houses, for portion of the
year. shall be liable to the full tax above laid.
BE 1T further ordained, that nothing herein con-
tanned shall be construed authorize the retail
ing of intoxica ting drinks in said Restaurants or
Eating Houses"
Then again, liquor may be sold by the quart
gallon, and no tax thereon fer the City but it shall
not be retailed at any price. We do not see why
a tax may not be imposed, and then on liq-
by the small measure well on persons
who eat. 1t wiU be sold by the small measure
matter how stringent the law against it. The
evil may be regulated not suppressed; and, in the
regulation of it, we can see no objection to a tax
such as might be allowed to retail.
Again, observe that au ordinance has been
passed making it Unable 20 the extent of two dol
lars in the case of white persons and ochppa6le in
the of slaves to stick any bills cards, posters,
advertisements, &c, on 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 so frequently to
be seen sticking about the City. All right. We
exist in the hope that this very polite, sagacious,
and wel-tinled act Of legislation will largely add
to the City revenues.
We fling together aggregation of NUM-
cipal wisdom and brlancy- at the same
tin" to the City authorities, assurances of dis
tinguished consideration
a. Nh. Peter Fleming made complaint against
the Raleigh and Castor Railroad for obstructng
of the streets; and the City Attorney instruct
ed TO institute proceeding to have said obstruction
removed.
e. The City Treasurer instructed to borrow
$500 pay for Street repairs, until the collection of
taxes.
81 The City Constable reported that he had been
unable to get the Town Clock repaired and set
work owing to the cold and windy weather. it being
too cold and unsafe to work in the tower in such
weather, but that he hoped to be able to have it at
tended to forthwith and he instructed to do 50
immediately
a. The Intendant was instructed to purchase the
necessary tools and implements for working the
streets OF the city"
~ If the Castor Road has run into any
ones way, at is one 81 en- added to many Others,
of the startling progr ssiveness 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
remeded. Corporations have 10 souls.
(2) We presume this additional $500 will run
the City debt up to about $4,000. This is
couragin especially W hen reflect that real es-
tate is now taxed only to the limit allowed by the
City charter, and that the poll tax is only So.
Those fines for sticking bills and posters, and the
tax eatinghouses will, it is seriously apprehen-
ded, so materially increase the City to
render it the duty of the authorities to make we'll
co. ,dered effort to loan out their surplus cash.
(3) Boreas, it seems has been 'obstructing'
the Town Clock. He is to be ATTENDED" to- we
are glad to perceive, "torth~iM and = nstruc-
tons" have been issued to have him dealt with
" Immediately" Good lick! We are refre he'd
by the knowledge, thus officially impaired, that
our City authorities have at length been struck by
an idea. Likewise, the clock has not struck with
any SOFT Of regularity for some time past. Blow
wind, crack your cheeks but
Boreas, "spare that clockl
Twang not its wandering hands;
The town would feel the shock
IT'S " safer as t-SdndS
True fifty cent lecture; It's " safer !" and truer
as it stands, for every can know at least once
in twelve hours with unerring certainty, the time
of day.
a. The streets, then, are to be scraped. This
is a movement worthy of the Board but we sup
pose this scraping is to be done by native hands.
Native mud should not be removed by foreign
hands.
Even as the Moslem pilgrim looks with longing
eye, through shade and sunlight, for a glimpse of
the sacred shrine at Mecca, to which he is bending
his wearied feet, so shall we look to that favored
thirty dollar source of official information, the Ra-
leigh Star, for further revelations
The capacity to 90 in debt is one of the INSOFAR