Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-07
NORTH STATE NEWS.
AN INTERESTING BUDGET GATH
Erred AT THE CAPITAL.
Treasurer Worth and the Tax en-
Lawyers and Docfors-i Distilicry
scized-tIcr own Counsci-Thc
Fisheries.


RALEIGH. y. c.. January 6-(spe-
cial)-Goyernor Carr Is at Washington.
d. c., for a few days. Mrs. Carr and two
little daughters will return here with
him.
State-Treasurer Worth does not like
newspaper item stating that lawyers and
physicians are angry because Of the new
license tax imposed on them. He
says they ought TO be entirely willing to
pay the tax; that the merchant and the
farmer have to pay for everything. He
adds that the Attorney agrees
with him that physicians Of charitable
Institutions Of the State. for instance.
the insane asylums, must pay this priv
ilege tax.
The question comes up again before the
State Treasurer whether a company can
deliver cabinets from warehouse in
this State to fiji orders taken By its
agents. said cabinets having been shipped
from another State by the manufacturer.
without paying the State license tax.
The Attorney-General decides that where
the sale is by sample and the transaction
is completed outside the S.ate-that Is,
the article Is sent direct 10 the buyer,
II H. interstate commerce. and not liable
TO tax. but where the delivery In this
state is made from goods stored in ware
houses, it is within the State, commerce,
and clearly liable.
DISTILLERY SEIZED.
Revenue Collector Simmons Is informed
of the seizure of the registered whiskey
dietillery of II. II. Willis. at Burlington,
because the warehouse had, 1t is alleged,
oeen tempered with.
4 civil term Of Wake Superior Court
began to-day, Judge McIver presiding.
1t is strange that malicious persons
send i'm so many false alarms of fire al
Wilmington-four on Saturday alone.
The keys to boxes are kept in glass
cover on the box here, and there has
been so little trouble as not 10 be worth
mentioning. once the persons who sent
in false alarm were caught and pun
ished.
Colonel A. w. Shafer, OF this city.
SAYS he thinks Thomas r. Purnell, an
other prominent Republican, made a
great mistake i'm attacking Daniel i.
Russell Shaffer is an ardent Russell
man. So. OF course, Is j. e. l.. Harris.
The latter says he is amazed at PUrnel,
who posed as q great friend OF Russell.
The Republicans here who are in favor
of Oliver II. Dockery are delighted at
these attacks on Russell, and they hope
to swing Wake county. the biggest and
most important In the State, into the
Dockery column. j. c. l.. Harris appears
to think Purnell is angry or piqued be-
cause ne was not invited to the ratifica-
ton meeting held by the Republicans
some weeks ago. Harris says that Pur-
nsis name was omitted by an oversight.
Strenuous efforts are being made to hold
Wake for Russell.
Mrs. Pate D. b. Arlington will be
her own lawyer, IL is said. In the case
against her for libelling ex-Judge Spier
Whitaker, which is dOcketed for this week
in the Superior Court here Whitaker Will
not appear in the case.
Collections for the widows and orphans
OF the men killed in the Cumnock mine
were made yesterday in all the churches
here. The Mayor is also collecting. The
Sunday school Of the First Baptist church
(colorcdD gave SO
The people of Charlotte and Greensboro
will make extensive preparations to re-
ceive the Liberty Bell on its way to
II will be placed on hide
pendence Square in Charlotte. and on
bullftll lONEA-fiDb-f
There are good many cases OF pneu-
monia. Seventeen cases are reported In
one township i'm Cabarrus county.
The report of State Labor-Commssloner
%. r.. Lacy shows that while in 1894 there
were 2lJ newspapers in the State, last
wear there We're 235. OF these - are
daily. 40 weekly. 80 monthly. and semi
There are ll2 Democratic, II
Populist. Farmers ALI
ance. 10 independent, ) Independent Demo-
cratic. II educational, IS non-political, 81
/ fraternity and not classified.
THE FISHERIES
As 10 the fisheries. Or. w. r. Capehart
reports that on the Albemarie sound alone
there is invested $4,000 in steam and
horsepower seines, and the yearly outlay
is 10000 IN keeping up the plants. which
employ 800 persons, and these in fifty
laws get over $4,000 in wages. The pro-
duct In iced fish is $4,000. and of salt
packed fish $4,000. These all 90 TO Viz
ginia and North Carolina markets.
W. {. Davis writes Mr. Lacy from
Elizabeth city that during last March
and April at ieast 100 vessels, with an
average OF 1900 bushels OF oysters each.
passed his fishery, and that as many
others went out of Ocracoke inlet, loaded
with North Carolina oysters. and that
over five sixths OF all these were carried
put of North Carolina.