The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-11-16
State News.


of taxables for this year to the State
Auditor, and grand showing it makes.
The total property valuation is $685.
261, which is no less than $4,000 900 In
excess of that in 1898. The taxes due
the State will exceed $21, 900 and be
$4,000 more than last year. Over 81
2O0, 900 OF stock in incorporated com
panies is returned, and 81 zoo, 600 of to-
bacco reported on hand.
Wake county has made its report
to the State of taxable property. The
total is S11 1887 ,468, an increase OF ST.
100000 over last year. This makes the
county stand next to Durham and
ahead of Mecklenburg in increase.
The insurance commissioner has
made up his monthly statement, which
shows that 81 life, 70 fire and Ii ac-
cident and surety companies have been
licensed while only six out OF sixteen
fraternal orders complied with the re-
quirements Of the Craig law. The COM
mission says the sraternal orders pay
less attention to that law than any
others appearing to think that because
they are fraternal they are not covered
by it,
The Commissioner Of Agriculture is
advised by the cattle owners in Clay
county that they have formed club
20 protect their territory from tick fe-
GER. They call on the State to forbid
the entry Of stock into Clay from Geor-
[ gia and South Carolina at any and all
seasons The intensely cold weather
| loo xxui.,f 10. LjI Tho fjnlxc
| It appears that the South Carolinians
and Georgians, having no quarantine
laws, have a contempt for quarantine
laws.
| Elijah Moore, the brutal negro who
! was hanged at Greenville in the pres
ence of a great crowd, is the man who
was in Jail in Raleigh for months. He
was a terrible fellow. He went to a
store, called the clerk to the door, split
his skull with an axe, plundered the
store and burned it. His next step was
to try to make it appear that five or six
negroes were the murderers. All OF
them narrowly missed lynching. Then
he said he was lying and that he had
only one accomplice. He and this man
were hurried to Raleigh to prevent
lynching. Finally Joyner confessed
that he alone was guilty. His crime
was committed in the hope OF getting
81 800, which he had heard was in the
safe in the store.
The State charters the Mcmillan
Miller Lumber Company, Of Duplin;
capital, $4,000. It is notified of the in
crease of the stock Of the Paragon
Drug Company Of Asheville from SIS,
900 to $4,000.
The four-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Miller was burned te
death at the home of her parents
about ten miles west of Winston, las
| week.
The case against A. J. Marshall, {:
we'll known lawyer in Wilmington, N
c., who is charged with being an &C
complice In counterfeiting case, viii
be tried at the December term of th'
Federal Court in Raleigh.
The territory between Murphy an,
Asheville is alive with mineral AM
timber men, and large development
in the near future will surprise n
one,
The debts of the penitentiary up t
December 31st amount to 100000. an
those contracted will be $4,000. Thes
last claims will have to wait until tn
/ Legislature provides for their paymen
as under the Supreme Courts decisio
they can't be paid out of the bon
fund. The warrants for debts are no'
being allowed so as to conform to tn
courts decision.
, Governor Russell issues a warrau
+ for the execution of Lorenzo Brown
. colored, at Greenville, January 26tl
tor rape.
The State Treasurer will before th
fiscal year ends be called on to pa
y 100000 to the public schools. It is
9 direct and unconditional appropria
ton. At the statement Of date of Octt
9 ber 1st there was $4,000 available
: the Treasury. No doubt Father Wort
q will scrape around and get the none.
We learn that w. G. Ledford ha
discovered rich vein Of cormdum o
= his property on Shooting creek, Cla
:. county. The vein Is three or fou
. hundred yards long and is rich at dii
!. ferent points where It has been Gu
and tested.
The Davis-Crews knitting mill g
"a Kernersville, reported lately as to b
q established, has organized with L.
e Davis, president. and q. G. Davis. sc.
t, retary and treasurer, The compan
II will put IL machinery for daily capal
d ity Of 100 dozen pairs OF half-hose.
e The chairman Of the penitential
8, A large force Of laborers gre still I
/ work digging out from under th
q steam tug Blanche which was grount
st ed at Southport during the stor1
+ Tuesday mcgutnx. It Is thought th,
Y it will be several days before they wi
u srcnned in finatinr her. Sh IL ncS ve,
badly damaged