Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
FOR THE SOLDIERS.
North CAROLINA TO PERMANENTLY
AID HgR Ex-c0HFEDERArEs.
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LspecIal telegram . tho DIspatch.

RALEIGH, v. G., March 6.-In the senate
to-day the vote By wbich the pension bin was
passed vas Teconsidersd. An amendment
was then offered making the rate OF taxation
3 cents on property and cents on poll. Tbs
was adopted and the bill IL amended Vas
passed. The amount when Will be realized
from this tax will be about $4,000 annually,
or about two and 0ne-hsli times as much a.
ihesun heretofore appropriated Tor pensions,
which was $4,000.
In the House to day the machinery bill
passed which provides for the collection OF
taxes. The bill also passed appropraling
$4,000 annually for the support OF the in.
stituhons for the deaf and dumb aud blind.
The Durham Boara OF Trade YESTERDAY
rescinded the resolution by which the pro-
pretors Of leaftobacco warehouses were
prohibited from bidding on tobacco.
A bill was introduced In the House To-
day 10 meet the deficit al the penitentiary.
amounting 70 $4,000.
The Legislature has adopted resolution
thanking Lieutenant Francis Winsiow, OF
the United states navy. for his admirable
work In surveying the State oyster waters.
Hhe name Of tue Alma aud Little Rock
railway has been changed TO Maxton, Alma
aud Rowland railway.
at Crowley, which were burned last autumn,
will begin the manufacture on an extensive
scale OF cOtton-bagGIng from pine straw.
Very complete and extensive machinery has
been put IN for tnis purpose, aud great m
terest is shown in the matter.
The will OF the late Eugene Morehead. OF
Durham, WAS prObated Yesterday. The estate
is found 10 be worth S23O.O00.
The Durham telephone system was put m
operation this afternoon.
". y. Hayes, aged eighty years, com-
mitted suicide IN BERTHE county. Hls mind
had for some time been unsOund. He went
to a room in his house and hanged himself.
Monday party OF drunken men, heavily
armed. invaded the town Of Plymouth with
the syOwed intention oil cleaning out the po-
Ice and town generally. All have been cap
turcd and are in jail
A white man named Lee, 81 Pamlico coun-
ty, was found dead in his room with MS face
10 the FIRE. having fallen dead from his chair
wnue in the act Of eltinZ.
At Durham today white man named
Scrsggins was tried on tie charge OF having
sworn falsely while procuring a marriage
! license by representing that the groom WIS
eighteen years old when he was only si1-
teen. The bride 1. Thirty years OF age.
The farmers are at wori. on upauds. and
great deal Of ploughing hss been done.
The lands sre beng well fcriliZed, and all
obseryant people note gratifying Increase
In the amount Of homemade manure used
This state IL largely 0nd well represented
at the southern Quarantine Conference az
Montgomery, which is now IN session.
The farmers Of the GOldsbOro' section Will
organize truckers association next We'd
nesdqy. Great attention Is being pad 70
the trucking here and toe crops are well ad-
Yanced aud vigorous.
The number OF biis introduced in the
| House will hy Saturday next when the
time Tor their introduction eypiresj amount
| TO l.J00. and in the Senate TO over LOO
About hall will get tn ough. Tue work, so
FAR az bills sre concerned, VIII be heavier
than ever before n any siX'y-day term.
some negroes left here today !0r Kansas.
They have ~ not a few cases len debts
unsettled and simply packed up and gone
away. The negroes Nho work in jhe tur-
pentine forests IA Georgia, aud who leave
tbs state Just before CuTslma' IN such
great numbers, in great many cases lesye
their families 10 be maintained a. p8upors
eleven months 10 the year. There are han.
dreds OF such cases. The farm aborers who
are now going Yves. take Their entire iami-
lies IN every ease.