Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-06-26
THE NEWS In RALEIGH,
A BUDGIsT OF INTEREsTING
MATTERS.
Railway Taxation and the Rail.
way Commissioned Naval re
serve IL FayOred-Mr. I.OmdOn's
UnWearyiiig Efforts.

serve Ii FayOred-Mr. I.OIidOn's
Unwearying Efforts.
RALEIGH, June 25 = Special. MIR. W.
II. Mcclure, Of Clay, was here ON Tues.
day in attendance upon the meeting OF
the committee to organize the Culorcd
Industrial school under the annual ap.
preparation by congress, at first Of $l5..
600 annually, to be increased gradually
to $25 900, to lc divided in proportion
to population between the races. M
place was selected, as no offers had been
made. The matter stands open Tor the
present.
Mr.. ]. p. Caldwell. of the Statcsvill,
Landmark, aud President Of the N. {.
press association. was here yesterday. as
one oi the executive committee, to fix the
time for the annual press convention. II
meets at Winston, and the time was fixed
for the 1 lth, 18th and 18th of August.
The condition OF MIR. {. NJ. Busbcc is
uninprovcd.
The railroad commission has re-
sumcd its work, and is now engaged IL
fixing the rate OF taxation on the rail
roads of the State. This question is q
,erplexinS one, as the commission finds
itself in conflict with some of the pruvis
ions OF the machinery bill OF the last
legislature.
learn this morning of some very active
work done by the revenue service for this
the +th district. Since the LIST of January
it has captured 43 illicit distillerics. Thi.
shows that the mounshincrs ol this sec
tiOn are more numerous than those ir
the mountains.
! BY the first oi December next through
trains will he running from Portsmouth
Va, to Atlanta, Ga, over the new lin,
via Raleigh and Monroe, N. c.. ant
Chester, S. C., making a very formabl,
competing line for southern travel. B,
the same time, the short cut" from
Wilson, N. c., to Florence, S. c., will b,
finished, and then Wilmington will ceas,
to be on its present great line of travel.
| The last of the direct tax lists go ou
to the counties today, and Gov. Holt hal
sent with them special instructions t.
county clerks. The whole amount to b,
refunded in North Carolina is $40+, 900
by no means trilc to the counties in
tcrestcd.
A Naval Reserve.
Gov. Holt is very much interested il
the project of forming naval reserve o
North Carolina scamcn under existing
acts OF congress. The matter will b
brought before the cncampmcnt Il
Wrightsvillc, with the prospect that {
battalion of naval militia will be formct
on our coast. Secretary Tracy has writ
ten to Gov. Holt i'll enthusiastic terms
and is full Of the idea 1t is more appru
pirate than rs usually regarded even b,
North Carolnians. Our coast line is tn
longest on the Atlantic coast, and it
certainly the most perilous. 1t has bt
gotten a numerous body of hardy, skillir
seamen, accustomed to hattie around tn
stormy head lands of llattcras, Lookou
and Cape Fear. A large body of ther
arc engaged in deep sea fishing, and ais
in transporting the produce ol the farr
to market. Ohr coast people are almos
amphibious. They live on the water
they 20 to court in boats, they go t
church in boats, and they go to marke
in boats.
rhe marine charac tcristics Of Mort
Carolina have been long recognized by III
government, and our state has had tou
secretaries of the navy.
The Next National Editorial Al
sOciatiOn.
have Just seen Mr.. II. A. London, ed
tor of the Pittsboru Record He is CT
thusiastic in his purpose to have the mex
} national editorial convention held q
Asheville. 1t will be Of immense impor
ance to Asheville if it could be there S
held, for those who compose it will hol
the highest rank in intelligence, accuraC
of observation and powers OF description
8 Ashevillc will get such word painting {
she has never had before, and q wild,
publicity than could he otherwise given
Mr.. London informs me that Mr.. Jol
! M, Moring died this morning At his res
dcnce in Chatham county OF heart ia
ure He was gentleman widely ar
tavorably known throughout the stat
{ a lawyer at one time OF high rcputc, q
, active politician, a firm speaker OF Il
house of representatives at the session
1889, and all who remember the I'M
b dents of that session will remember Il
, GOODNESS, the tirmncss, and also t
gentlcness, with which he met t
troubles arising from the continuous tu
= bulcnce OF a particularly refractory mel
k Der OF the house.
t Mr.. Moring was Just fifty years OF as
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