The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02

988A.
Fear and Northern RaA
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c.. April -
The state treasurer makes the FOL
lowing statement as 10 the state
bonded debt. ETC.:
The state debt is 1 per cen.. coasoI'
dated bonds. due in 1910. s3,3-o.s5s;
per cent North Carolina railroad cos.
struction bonds, due in 1919. s.. 30. ooo;
n~on-inteyest bearing outstanding old
bonds convertable into 4 per cent. con
solidased bonds. $40. $50. Total debs
ss,3SI,7.o.
The states investments are: 30,002
shares stock North Carolina Railroad
Company, now WORTH s4,SSo.310; L.. 666
shares stock Atlantic and North Caro-
line Railroad Company. now worth
1858 $50; $l36, $50 of 4 per cent State OF
North Carolina consolidated bonds. now
| worth S4S $50. Present value OF state's
investments. 5,05I. $40.
This estimate is upon North Caro-
lima railroad stock at 155 and Atlantic
n North Carolina Railroad Company
stock at so per share, and North Car
elina 4 per cent bonds at los.
, The interest on the 4 per cent con-
ScIodtcu DOuuS - amply ,pFoNlue1 Tor
out OF the taxes levied for the purpose.
/ The interest on the 6 per cent. con
stralction bonds Is paid out of the divi-
dends on the states stock in the North
I Carolina railroad, which by the terms
of the lease to the Southern Railway
Company, is now $19s ,013, and is to be
| $210,el4 per year after 1901 fcr ninery-
four years.
The real and personal property OF the
state in 1898 was assessed at SEES SCI .f9s.
which is not more than two-th4rds ~
its real value. The state collects "a one
fourth of 1 per TAX on this assess
ed valuation.
h tad yalorenE tax together with
the special privilege, license and other
I. Incomes brought into the state treasury
in 1898 a-total of 81, 337 ,552-ee for anpur-
(, poses, showing receipts in excess of
disbursements of $50, 960.31 for the year.
| The Plan in view by the penitertiary
board yesterday was to purchase the
Caledonia, and Northampton ferns.
Western members OF the directorate,
however, brought strong pressure 10
bear to take only the Caledonia farm
on the Roanoke n the farm in Arson
county near Wadesboro. The argunssnt
made today as to this was that the
Roanoke district is naiarfaI and That
it was best TO put prisoners from rae
west on an u~p-country farm. Cla1pfe
Dockery, who used to- be the chairman
Of the fusion directorate, sat with the
full board last night. Inquiry WIS
made today of Senator Travis, chait-
man of the executive board, as %
whether the democrats would retire sr
not. He repfied: I'VE will, hold on a
while. We have about oDnclnded Il
give Superintendent Day a tria | and
see if he will permit us to- sup ervise
matters, as he yesterday offered to do
If we would remain"
State SuD~arirfPpdant of PfTbIic In
struction Mehane has returned fr ON a
visit to Washington, where he, c. ID.
McIver and Editor William Bale v, OF
The Biblical Recorder, made spe, eches
in the interest Of a graded school for
that place. There will be within the
next six weeks. local elections in a dos
en- cities n towns on the question of
levying special taxes for schools. Raj
eign will vote-on a $50, 000o bono issue.
! Superintendent Mebane devoted yes
. terday to an inspection Of the negro
normal at Goldsboro. He says
! of it: The school is in bad shape. II
has not the teachers it should have"
! The last of the public acts Of 1899
was received, today by b index
/ marker, and tomorrow THE index win
be completed
Much interest is being 1elt here in ths.
visit of h cruiser Raleigh to VIII
mington. Correspondence is in prog
ress between people here. and the presi-
); dent Of the Wilmington chamber Of
= commerce, with a view TO ascertainirg
! whether the cruiser will be at South
port or will go to Wilmington. A rate
of $3.50 for the round trip, from Raleigh.
is TO be arranged.
Two more cases of smallpox were
discovered today. Physicians say the
| infected houses ought to be burned SO
as TO prevent any trouble next fall.
/ They say such open houses cannot be
l an+ira1y diCinfa0tad Same Foolish y.a-
/ sons have spread the idea among the
| lower classes of peopls that the dis
| ease is not smallpox, because it has only
attacked negroes. Such statements
have done mischief. The disease IS no:
| only smallpox, but some of the cases
| are of the continent type.
| General Manager Angler, OF the Cape
, Fear and Northrn railway, says that
/ twenty-one miles OF track are 1aiGz The
/ road is now four miles across the Har-
nett county line and heading southeast
towards Southport. Angler says 500
men are now at work on it This roads
difficulties with the Raleigh and Cape
Fear railway are ended and the latter
will pay the expenses OF the crossing.
The old First Presbyterian church is
being torn down. It was in ~this-church
that the state convention Of 1895 was
held, during the period between the
burning Of the old capitol and the
building of the new one. That conven-
ton d~isfranchised the free negroes. Al
it William CASTOR made his famous
speech in favor of allowing Rorxar
Catholics to hold office, aud carried
his. point He received an autograph
letter from the pope in acknowledge.
ment of his great and successful effort
The corner stone for the new Epis
|, capal church of the Good Shephert
has been prepared. Il is from tn
Temple Wall at Jersualem. On 1
are the following inscriptions: Sen
from Jerusalem at Easter-tide, 1896, b,
the rector of this parish as a monumen
unto God" Church Of tire Good Shep
: herd, 1~S74-1S99." "A Precious Corner
Stone" A bishops chair: Of olive WOO
: from the Mount Of Olives win he pre-
scented by Mrs Roma Niles Lyman
General Young Ordered to Manila
Washington, April 2S-An order wa