The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-28
THE. TAR HEEL CAPITAL
Rul'ng Of Internal Revenue Department
CaHplIcaies Cigarette Stamp Tax.
OLD SOLDIERS KINDNESS REWARDED.
County officers Conventions KIaicuic.i
--Dnte of state Alliance Needing
Will Not be Changed Gold Fever
Spreading to Rowan tounty-Kich
Finds NcpOrIed.

NaieiSii, ~. u, July T.-tSpecial)--
The State Treasurer to-day issued Il
call for statements by all State banks
as to their condition up to July 23d
!. The military company al oxford (I;.
Third ReSilncnD goes into camp next
month with the Confederate veterans vi
Granville.
Miss Elsie Riddick, or Gates county,
IL appointed sterographcr and type
writer 20 the Agricultural Department
me ruling OF the Commissioner of In
fernal Revenue that the new law re-
gardinS tax on tobacco. that ii went
Into effect July 2Sd, will cOmpiica;c
matters. AS cigarette STAMPS were sold
on the 2ith In this district at the old
price.
,Jcs3e Snotherly, Confederate SOL
der from Monts emery county. in 1861.
saved the life of q Federal soldier dur
ms q battle In which the woods haC
caught lire. He provided the wounded
man with waiter and gave him his name
NOV comes the sequel: the Fedora.
sends the Confederate $500 as q gift
The annual meeting or the Farmers
State Alliance Will be held at Hil,sborU
August 10th. Efforts have been made
to have the date changed en- account q:
the school tax election. which will be
held that. day. but President Graham:
decides against any change.
The organ Of the State Alliance I'd
lcules the county officers convention a.
Mprehcad City, which began to-day
saying 1t Is school to practice how
to got office and hold it without sll,
ping Cog
II Is said that under the new law no
pictures or coupons can he put In cigar
cite boxes. or IN smoking tobacco pack
aEe3. and the stittencnt -is made thai
4 =, t..k -.
ployment
The gold fever" has spread from
Nanly county into Rowan Some good
nnds arc, being made.
io-daE at Salisbury, before Kerr
Craigc. testimony was taken In the
matter Of the North Carolina railroad
lease.
1t is asserted that the opposition to
INC public school special tax Is incrcas-
Ing daily
A letter from Wilmington says tina,
early next month the first Of the l0-inch
disappearing guns Will be placed In p,-
s,tion at the battery near old Fort Cas-
well. Two other like guns Will follow.
and later mortar battery.
The State ISlremcn's tournament al
Fayetteville promises To be n handsome
s'fair Seventeen companies will take
cart.
Senator Prtchard g now at his homo.
completely worn out, after the Scnate's
fatiguing session.
west OF here all tramps are being
picked up and sent to work OH the roads.
Some of the local officials here say thai,
tramps cannot be arrested simply be-
cause they are tramps.
Yesterday white man and
woman of the lowest tyne
were arrested here for outrageous
behavior at the public park The man
attempted to run and constable
brought him down by a shot In the
thigh. He Is in the hospital and the
woman Is in jail.
Some OF the machinery for the silk
mill at Greensboro "a branch of the
great Paterson milD is arriving. Next
week 1t begins work. and will employ
zoo people, all natives Of the Greensboro
section.
The Railway Commission TODAY is
sued the following circular:
TARIFF OF TELEGRAPH TOLLS.
From and after the 1st day OF Scptcm-
Der. 1897. the Western Union TeleGraph
company shall not charge or collec !,
more than fifteen cents for transmit
sng any message OF ten body words or
under, exclusive OF date, address and
signature. between any two points with.
In the limits OF this State, on its lines.
nor more than one cent for each adj
ditional word.
telegraph companies. other than the
western Union Telegraph company,
snail be allowed to charge and collect
twenty cents for message of ten body
words or under. exclusive OF date. ad-
Dress and signature. between any two
points within the limits of this Statc
on their respective lines. and not more
than one cent for each additional word
whenever message Is sent over
TWO or more telegraph lines owned, con.
1rolied and operated by separate ana
distinct corporations or individuals, the
Joint rate shall not exceed thirty cents
Tor such message OF ten body words or
less, exclusive OF date, address and sig