The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

CHARTBG&H To CORPORATIONS
sussl Income 90 the Ssase frem Grants
ting f~,Sem-Thira Regfmens Enenmp.
mens- Railways PayiDg Taxes ON
Judge simousenss Assessusens-Wak
Smallpox Hospital Closed
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. N. c., July %. :
The Third regiment broke camp &C
Morehead City at 3 O'Clock this morn
ing and arrived here at s:45 O'Clock.
Colonel Perry said the encanpment
was q pronounced success and that du-
ring his ten years OF service In h
state guard he had never see such
rapid improvement Contrary to re-
ports there was little rain during the
e-ncampment There was no sickness
and one accident. the latter being OF q
trifing character. The troops were
here two hours and their presence re
called the scenes last year.
Next Monday $50 state c~onvicts viii,
be sent to Ashpole 10 work on a new
branch Of the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
way and s~eventy-fve will be sent 10
Aberdeen Z work on an extension OF
the Aberdeen and Rock Fish railway.
This line is owned by John Blue. It
will reach some OF the large cotton
mills in Cumberland county.
A report IL made as to the removal
Of the state arsenal from the capital
square. to the effect that IL will be
cheaper 10 tear 1t down and rebuild
than TO nov it as IL stands.
This state receives not one-tenth
what other states. New Jersey for in
stance, receives, for the granting Of
charters. Here the cos Is $50 for q
charter granted by the legislature and
$25 for n granted by a clerk OF court.
there was n charter granted by
the legislature permitting a tobacco
company to form a trust and have as
much as $12 900, 900 capital. and anoth-
ercompany. a copper mining ore, was
actually authorized to have $250,000,-
o capital. In New Jersey the tax
would be upon the capital stock.
There is on foot a strong movement
to put the entire county OF Nash under
the dispensary aw. 1t is said that the
Guilford county ~dispensary at Green's
boro, will by the end of the year pay
that town $13. 000, and the county
50, 900, while both county and town last
year got only $4,000 "a on bar rooms.
The smallpox hospital or pest house
here is closed. The cost to this city
OF smallpox this year was Sc. 709. There
were ninety-one cases and 161 suspects.
There We're two deaths. The pest
house vas closed yesterday and for the
first time since February 10th there
was no a case of smallpox.
The ~fusionists and the democrats
have clashed in Currituck county,
where Zach party elected a county SUI
perintendent of public instruction. The
state superintendent recognizes the
democrat.
The total rainfall here this week is
only 4.2S inches. Yet the total rain
fall TO date is below the average for
July.
The Atlantic Coast Line railway to-
day paid its taxes $27, $50, to the state
treasury. These taxes are on the basis
of the recent order Of Judge Simonton
that the tax assessment should be that
Of 1898. The Seaboard Air Line has
paid its taxes on that basis, and so will
the Southern railway pay. The West
ern Union will pay on $500, 900 valua-
ton, which is $3.50, 600 less than in
1898.
lHt COTpUTdIlOu cOrnfnlSSlOn- meets
next Monday and 1t Is said will o
slider the Jim Crow" car question.
This morning the United States mar
shall served on the corporation comm -
sion and AS clerk Judge SimontJ. ~
der restraining them from certifying to
the auditor and treasurer the tax as
sessment of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company at 81 .000, 900. but direct
ing that the assessment be at $500. 900.
An order was also served upon the au-
dItor and treasurer, restraining them
from collecting the tax on the 81, OOO, 600
valuation. The assessment last year
was $75O,O00. This week the company
endeavored to induce the corporation
commission to reduce the assess
ment to $500, 600, but failed of success.
The application to Judge Simonton for
the restraining order followed. The lat
ter is r~eturnable September 18th. The
udg will at that time hear argument
as to why the injunction should not DE
permanent.
The chairman of the p~enttentiary ex-
ecutive board says hat while reports
from the superintendent are required
monthly, he has made only one report,
July 5th. 1t shows that the receipts
from earnings We're SIG, 900, nearly all
of which had been expended.
There are now 100 convicts on railway
construction n in August 200 will be
added.
Work begins next month on a new
cotton. mill al China Grove. Work is
also in progress on a carpet mill, with
100 looms, at Greensboro. Never has
factory development been 30 great in
North Carolina as 1t is this year.
There Is n case OF smallpox at
Winston. A physician devotes his whole
time TO 1t and the town pays him $40
a day for his services. But little Is
now heard Of smallpox anywhere In the
state.
The rain ceased yesterday afternoon
naving fallen five days in succession.
Yet it was sosgradual that no da MAJ
was done, but all crops benefited.
Grape rot has not began on the Della
wares: The larger varieties. particu-
larry Niagaras. are badly injured.
The Interstate Telephone Company
now mas 200 miles of toll wire. Ii has
ordered 600 miles of copper and is rap
Idly extending its ines in this part OF
the STATE.
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