The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
QUESTIONS As TO TAXES
Answered by the State
Treasurer.
THE FIRST REGIMENT BAND
To Make n Tour Of the State Soon After
ITS Return From Cuba-A Talk with
Blockade DistiIling-Fertflizer Tax
Receipta-COmmittee to Examine the
University-Two Men Charged With
Arson


University-Two Men Charged With
Arson
Raleigh, N. c., March 22,1S99.
At meeting Of the executive COM
mittee of the university, held in the gov
ernors Office, committee was appoint
ed to examine into the institution and
its conduct A committee was also ap-
pointed to superintend the erection OF
the Carr dormitory. This building will
cost about $4,000, and work will begin
on it at once.
Two white men were brought here
yesterday from New Light township,
charged with arson and were confined
in Jail.
State Treasurer Worth sent out the
following:
"To Sheriffs and Tax Collectors:
LAS we have received many inquiries
r~,ative to the changes in the Revenue
Act, send out this circular in advance
of the Revenue and Machinery Acts for
distribution. In answer to many que
ries received at my Office, tie section
relative to slot machines is as follows:
''On each slot machine where the re-
turn is uncertain one hundred dollars.
The tax in this section shall be paid to
the sheriff or tax collector, but shall
relieving any such person or establish
&L4 nv
violation of the law"
"The new law requires that horse
dealers shall pay $25 license tax to the
state and no tax to the county, and per-
sons who sell less than twenty head of
horses or mules in any one year shall
not be liable to said tax. The collec-
ton of the tax on piano and organ
dealers and the tax on druggist liquor
license shall be paid to the sheriff or
tax collector, instead of to the state
treasurer as heretofore. The Revenue
and Machinery Act will be ready for
distribution in about ten days and will
be sent to all sheriffs and tax collec-
tors
From letters received from Havana it
is ascertained that the band of the First
North Carolina regiment will make a
tour Of North Carolina so soon as it
arrives at home.
Deputy Collector J. P. T.. Adams
yesterday capturedaa 125 gallon regis
tered brandy still near Wakefield, this
county. The still belonged to Sidney
L. Horton, of this county. Irregulari-
ties were the cause of Horizons trouble.
He had only reported 26 gallons, but
search revealed the 125 gallons.
This morning asked Iarl Duncan if
illicit distilling in this state is on the
increase or decrease.
Very much on the increase" he re-
piled. Most of the blockading is done
in the eastern part of the state. Ten
years ago you could hardly find an il
licit distillery in the east, but now it is
just full of them. How do I account for
this? Well, as odd statement as it
may sound, most of the blockading g
down there comes from tobacco raising.
You see, men from the west have been
coming down east to teacL tobacco
growing, and, incidentally in the last
few years they have taught whiskey
distilling"
"Are not the stills pretty easily locat-
ed in the east"
mo not so easily as in tile noun
tains. In a hilly country you can get
on some eminence and detect the smoke
of still house without much trouble,
but in that low fat eastern country it
is difficult
I'm what country are there most
blockaders"
johnson, probably, with Wake not
far behind. Halifax and Lenoir are
afro reeking with still houses"
How do you really get your infor-
nation about still houses
Generally from private informants,
who get $40, for every illicit still house
reported. This fact does not seem to
be known in the east and most peo-
pie, seem to think that we disclose the
scurce Of our information. This is
not true; we make an absolute secret
Of it,
The Agricultural Department is col
lecting on an average Of about 81 500
from the fertilizer tax
The revenue act and machinery act
will be distributed in a few days.