The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-06-07

On Monday night there was an important
meeting of the Board of Aldermen. After q
SCRAP" on the subject of the retail selling OF
liquor and the keeping of bottles iu drug stores
to the prejudice of the bar-keeper, the subject
was dropped without action, the law being con-
sidered sufficient to protect all interests.
The tax-rate was established as follows: On
real and personal property raised from rs cents
to 80 cents on the 500; poll tax from 81 80 to
$2.70; selling malt liquors $500; cotton COM
presses from 500 to $3.50; carriage agents from
$25 to $50; dealers in ice or lumber from $e5 to
$50; coal dealers $50; gift enterprise schemes
from $25to $50; hotels, 20 or more rooms, from
500 to $3.50; livery stables, ten horses or less,
from $25 to $40. fourteen to twenty horses, $50
to $75, over twenty horses, from 500 to $50;
street fakirs from $40 to $50; oil agenci.s from
500 to $500; water works from $500 to $3.50:
buying and selling beef Farmers laising
and selling their own meat excepted $25; pack
ing companies 800.
The gasftters' tax wss raised from $15 to sac;
horse traders $40 to $25; itinerant peddlers $40
to $15; photographers $40 to $40; safe agencies
$15 to $25; junk dealers 50 to $40 per month;
four horse 'busses $25 to $50; two horse 'busses
$40 to $40. A tax of $5 per day was placed on
book agents.
One thousand dollars was voted unanimously
to the Exposition. The Board refused to re-
move the SIS license on the lawyers.
One thousand dollars each has been subscribed
by county and city to the Piedmont Exposition.
Three thousand dollars are wanted, and the peo.
pie of Charlotte will be called upon for the re-
naming $1,000. Amy money necessary above
the $1,000 has been guaranteed by the Gentle
mems Driving Club. We suggest change in
the time of holding the Exposition from October
to the 21st of November, the day upon which
| North Carolina was admitted to statehood in
1888. Aside from the fitness. we think en-
t.usiasm will be added by the centennial fea-
| ture Besides, November is brilliant as Fair
| month.
JURORS FOR THE CRIMINAL CoURT.-At the
meeting of the beard of county commissioners
Tuesday, jurors to serve at the August term of
| the Criminal Court were drawn as follows w
Henderson, R 81 Stewart, Jno Barnett, w G
Ferrell, N G Davis. A L Dunn, NJ w Thrower.
w Dixon, r II Elliott, A Goodrum, ] w
Worley, 81 81 Capps. T B Knox, ] Watt, J W
| Morris, T A McWhirter, r e Lawing. T V Boyd
A L Butt, G A Collins, 81 Rea, G w Nor.
man, ] J McCraven, R L Cochrane, W Bigham
R Beaver. W o Query, G A Elliott, j K
Frazier. D Berryhill, B W Barnett, L G Nc
Coy, Coffey, J Lee Sloan, Jr, and T
Beatty.
Gertrude Tomlin was arraigned before Squire
Maxwell, Monday morning, charged with ab-
Quoting thirteen-ye -year-old Elizabeth Cassiday,
who lives with her mother next to the Charlotte
Hotel. The child had been sent to Columbia
whose mayor was telegraphed to return her
The abductress keeps house of ill.fame and
was bound over to the Criminal Court. The
child was returned to her mother Tuesday after.
noon.
| We take the following from the Washington
Star of May Goth concerning Maj. W. W. Elem
ming, formerly a. prominent lawyer of Char
| lotte:
"Col. and Mrs w. w. Flemming, 1897 Con.
necticut avenue, entertained last evening the
Corean legation, including the ladies, with few
/ friends"
Heriot Clarkson, Joseph Baruch and Richard
Carson sent the following cable last week OF
their arrival in Paris: "Paris fine Charlott.
! finer"
The negro Weddington will hang in Charlotte