Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-09
State Treasurer Worth Makes Pub
lie His Annual Report. s:s.....
eENITEnTIARY RECEIPTS
Excess over disbursements Loaves y
Dehoi. TO DO Mes-Anniysis OF soil.
10 DO sIade by Agricultural Depnrt.
mon.-Prinier's Mistake In so..lns
upa Law-

Raleigh, N. c.. Dec. S.-The State
Treasurer to-day made public the
statement Of receipts and disburse-
ments for the fiscal year ending
November S0th. The receipts were ST.
545.717. or this s1S5.5oo was from bond
sales to pay penitcntlary debts and
for farms; s59.64& from the sales OF
fertilizer tonnage tax tags; 1888. 900
from railway dividends: $751; from
penltentiary earnings; sS4, 600 from rail-
way taxes: s7S3,o0O for taxes from
counties; $4,000 from the insurance
department..
Inc disbursements aggregate 81 ,G00,-
333. or this. S64,9S5 was to the Agri-
cultural Department.; SSS,972 expenses
Of Legislature; s295,0O0 interest on
bonds; S63,s60 expenses Of judiciary;
Sl2,222 for legal expenses and services;
Sl6.G50 for normal schools; sS6,939 to
penitentiary lin the shape of earnings
returne0; appropriation to penl-
tertiary 100000; school for deaf mutes,
Tertiary, 100000; school for deafmntcs,
$4,000; pensions, S12l GIG; public print
Ing, $24,S56; public schools, special APP
Dropations $4,000; Railway Commits
sion, 10000; Corporations Commission
Sc, 1885; geological survey, $40, 525; State
Guard, $4,000; State hospitals for in
sane, S237 900; Normal and Industrial
College for girls, $4,000; State Univer-
sity, $31, $50
The excess OF disbursements over re-
ccipts. after deductlng the penitentiary
bonds. is $4,000.
OHIO WILSON UNDECIDED.
To-day S. L.. Rodgers, Corporation
Commissioner, met S. Ohio Wilson and
asked the latter the direct question
whether he intended to bring suit to
obtain his (I'odger's) position on the
commission, Wilson said he could not
ms yet say what he would do; that
Whatever he did must be done before
the February term OF Wake Superior
Court. Wilson says he has not as yet
retained counsel in this matter, but
is comforting about the matter.
PENITENTTARY RECEIPTS
Senator Travis, chairman OF the
PenTtentiary Executive Board, says lie
now feels sure the penitentiary's re-
Aceipts this year will very nealy equal
ats expenses; that it Is not probable the
Heticit will exceed $4,000. This does
not Include the $50. 600 which the Legis-
isture appropriated for the years ex-
panses. That is all gone. None OF it
viii be refunded. Mr.. Travis says the
pcnitentiary cannot induce Mr.. j. r.
Tillcry to agree to allow the lease of
the 'Grillery". farm to be surrendered.
There is considerable demand for con-
ricts for railway work-on the Raleigh
and Easton, n short railway out of
Tarboro; the Ashpole Branch of the
AtlanticCoast Line, and John Blues
railway in Moore county. About three
hundred convicts will be available for
this class of work. There are now
seventy-seven at work on the AshpoIc
Branch. Mr.. Travis says the cotton
crop will be as large as expected.
ANALYSIS OF SOILS.
The State Board Of Agriculture to-
day directed the State Chemist to be-
gin January LIST next physical and
chemical ANALYSIS of the soils Of the
State, to show the adaptabillty OF lands
TO the various crops. and the proper
ton OF fertilizers required to bring
lands to the highest productivencss.
It VIII require some years to complete
the work. Georgia and Louisiana are
the only other Southern States which
have taken this very important step.
a committee, with John S. Cunning
nam as chairman, will cooperate with
the State Chemist in the work. 1t is
probable that next year will be de-
voted to one district.
a PRINTERS MISTAKE.
An attorney day or two ago asked
the Secretary of State whether there
was not an error in section ii of the
chapter In the acts of 1899 relative to
the probate of wills. AS printed. that
section repe:Ns CHAPTER 104S act 1897.
which prohibits gambling and Iotteri
les. while in the copy furnished chapter
124S is repealed, the latter referring to
proof titles to land lying in two coun-
ties. The attorney was notified that
the error was made by the printers.