Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-26

OF Internal Revenue for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1898, has been published,
and is full Of interesting data and stats
tics.
Among the aggregate collections made
and reported 70 the Commissioner by the
collectors OF the several collection dis
trcts during the year are the following:
Second Virginia District, William Ryan,
Collector. $3ii 1898.
Second Virginia District, James d.
Brady Collector, tl.s2SSsl.s3.
Sixth Virginia District, Park Agnew,
Collector, H129.s07.32.
Fourth North Carolina District. Furni-
fold NJ. Simmons. Coll tor. S5O1ieeo
Fourth North Carolina District, Ed
ward c. Duncan, Collector, s6H ,226.S5.
Fifth North Carolina District. Samuel
l.. Rogers, Collector, slS,S5.76.
Fifth North Carolina District. Hershel
s. Hawkins, Collector. tl.s07, Z71.35.
The aggregate collections by States
were: Virginia. 50. s05, 1854; North Caro-
lima, s.. 2502S.Cs; Virginia two counties
OF Accomac and Northampton, belonging
to collection district OF Maryland. s2.cl7.lO.
ILLICIT DIsT1LLING.
Illicit, stills seized-Slxth Virginia, 2O3;
Fourth North Carolina, 2l9; Fifth North
Carolina. 1888; persons arrested, seventy
three.
The Commissioner says:
THE total number of Illicit stills de-
stroyed during the year ended June 30.
1894, the amount Of property seized ana
the number OF arrests made as com
pared with statistics on the same subject
In my recent report, do not give a mea-
sure Of the stimulus afforded by these
causes TO violations Of law OF this char
acter I desire to call attention to the
fact that in communities where this III
cit distiling prevails 1t has been found
that the vIolators of the law are not con-
fined to the unregistered Illicit distillers
alone. but embrace in many sections
large number of registered disullers' both
grain and fruit, who are driven 10 thls
course in self-protection TO meet the CON-
petition forced upon them by the Illicit
distillers who do not register or make
any pretence Of complying with the law.
In many sections they have gone so iar
as 10 hand together to render 1t impossi-
BILE for collectors to collect from them
nv nrocess of law taxes which have been
properly and lawfully assessed. tor IN
stance. in one section where last year
there was conclusive evidence that quite
a number Of distillers had evaded con-
siderable sums in taxes by falling TO re-
mort the full amount Of material pur-
chased. the pomace distilled, ana the re-
moyal of the Illicit product, when assess
ments were made for the purpose OIL cor
lecting these taxes and seizures Oh tne
distilleries followed it was found iinpoS,
sible in some cases 20 get any one AT an
To hid for plants worth from $5OO 10 SiVV,
and in other cases bids for property ol
that value did not exceed go ~,
"This indicates clearly the measure ol
influence these law-bfeakers are aDle u
exercise in moulding public opinion. ~ Is
unnecessary to multiply examples OF this
kind" ,,o,,nS
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
The number Of registered tobacco man
ufacturers Is as follows: North Carollna'
30 a decrease of l3 as compared wiz
1896: Virginia, 80, decrease OF Oh ti0
preceding year. .....,,ra.s
The number of cigar manuiac.u'eIs
operating during the year were: Nof'"
Carolina, IS; Virginia, 10.
Number Of dealers in leaf-topacco' NUT"
Carolina, 800; Virginia, 29l. -.
Cigarettes are made mostly in New
york. virginia. and North Carolina.
The States in which the largest quanu-
ties of chewing and smoking tobacco
were manufactured are MISSOURI hSn-
lucky. virginia, North Carolina, Mlchi-
gan. and Ohio-Virginia producing 3o''al'-
S94 pounds, and North Carolina producing
20 $50, 92S pounds.
LEAF-TOBAOCO, SNUFF, &C.
During the calendar year ending De-
cember 81, 1897, $50 leaf-tobacco factories
in Virginia used 37,973,9d pounds OF leaI'
and of scrap 557,O59 pounds North caro-
lima. with Z1e factories, used So iS1Soo
rounds of leaf and 55i,74S pounds of scrap.
In the same period Virginia manuiac-
tured of plug. fine cut, and smoking TO-
bacco and snuff, total of 35,7o, 1874
mounds. and North Carolina 29960,92S.