Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-18
NORTH STATE FUNDS.
Report on the Condition OF The
Treasury.
ALL DENOMINATIONS PLEASED.
Crowded with Work-rhc Alliance
aud the North Carolina Railroad
Lcasc-stcps. To Test It's Legality
Finally Taken.


RALEIGH. y. c., December H-Cspe-
cial)-Tho legislative committee which is
examining the books. etc, OF the state
Treasury ends that by the end Of the
week it will complete its work. The
balance i'm the Treasury November 3o
1924. was s3l7. Sl5.Cs. the receipts during the
fiscal year. N1SS.S SELL. Total, N,50i,2llN.
The disbursements were $l,3j'tJJ2G
leaving an actual balance November 80.
1895. of aB602.52. To this is added 49,
Oi656 on 1926 taxes. The educational
fund was $7.li737. Of which $4,000 was
from the balance uncalled for OF the
direct-tax fund; the disbursements, $li,595
The actual balance of the general fund
is Sl2556l.96.
Governor Carr ordered special term OF
Buncombc County Superior Court, Judge
IIoke to preside to begin April 9Th, for
the trial of civil cases
Some Of the school-bOOk companies are
working hard TO get their books into
use before next June. This fact Is be
coming quite apparent.
There Is great pleasure not only among
the Methodists here but among members
of other denominations at the return
of Rev Or W. G. Norman as pastor
of Edenton-Strect church. lie has served
eight years here. and four years At Louis
burg. Wherever he is sent he serves the
full term Of four years.
\ gentleman of Beaufort, now here,
SAYS that the majority of the residents
suspected there was Tascality i'm regard
to tho "cravevard insurance" The
negro Wigfall. who was insured. could ~
speak above "a whisper while Charles
Arthur, a bcggar, did not weigh 100
pounds Some people considered 1t a
meritorous thing TO get all the money
possible out Of insurance companies from
other States
The name Of the new daily afternoon
paper here is TO be the Call, after all.
permission to use that name having been
given
Ii is positively stated that Mr.. j. W
Tufts. Of Boston. has not bought Jack
son Springs, i'm Moore county. lie is
building an electric railway to his new
winter settlement. "Pinehurst,' and viii
extend this TO Jackson Springs, it Is said.
CROWDED WITH WORK.
The car-whecl works hero are crowded
with work. and are pressed TO keep up
Airline.
There are strong limitations that it
Will not be great while before the
Wilmington. New Berne and Norfolk rail-
way Is extended 10 Norfolk from New
Berne. one man, Mr.. r. \. Mcintyre,
owns the entire road. There is hardly
a similar case Of ownership in this state.
Up to a few years ago the county of
Castor had more registered whiskey dis
tiilerics than any other in the state 1t
is now claimed that In the county OF
Wilkes alone there are more distillerils
than in this entire revenue district.
There is great regret expressed here at
the death of Colonel Robert j. Steele,
Of Rockingham county, who. Ike the
Hollis. Odells and Worths. had done
50 much for the cotton-mill Industry in
North Carolina. His age was -. and he
was a faithful worker until the last.
United states Marshal Carroll left to-
day for Washington. % see the Attorney
General
\ NOVEL ESCAPE.
4 prisoner on the chain-gang Of Gull
ford county made his escape in a novel
fashion. lie told guard that in the
woods near by he saw a cat chasing
rabbit The guard went 20 see this
sight. and the sly convict fled.
Rev. T. VI. Jordan. one OF the los Bap-
list evangelists In this State. reports that
he has preached in soventy-seven coun-
ties and has baptized 1000 persons.
The fire which destroyed the court
house of Cherokee county originated in
a room on the second floor in which
several men were playing poker
In the Foust murder trial at Green's
boro' the jury fails 90 agree, and has
asked for further instructions.
An addition tho Wilmington Cation.
Mills has been completed.
T. j. Wilson sues the Winston Street
Railway Company for $1,000 damages for
killing his little son.
!. VI. Kuler has resigned as superin-
tendent Of the Raleigh street railway,
and Charles johnson succeeds him.
WILL TEST II.
The State Farmers Alliance has at last
taken the step OF instituting suit 10 test
the legality Of the lease of the North
Carolina railway 10 the Southern railway.
IL is a most important case. When the
alliance was in session last August at
Cary the directors Of the North Carolina
railway met at Burlington, made the
lease. and ratified II within twenty-four
hours. The alliance at that time desired
10 institute injunction proceedings 10 pre-
vent the lease. but was informed by a
lawyer that it would be ten days before
the ratification would take place. so no.
thing was done until IL was too late Ex-
Judge Schenck. Spler Whitaker and
Charles A. Cook now appear as counsel
for the alliance, and file motion for the
use of the Attorney Generals name in the
nature OF quo WarrantO TO annul the
lease and repeal the charter of the North
Carolina road. The matter comes I'D be-
fore the Attoreny-General here next Non
day. as ~ must pass upon the question
of the use Of his name IL is not
thought he will do this unless Governor
carr President Alexander and the di-
rectors Of the North Carolina railway are
represented before him. The action the
alliance takes is proceeding against the
Southern railway.