Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-15
figures From the Annual Report of
the Corporation Commission.
sTArE BANKS CONDITION.
Big saio OF Bonds rs win.Ion-The
Youngest bride In tho stnte-To
Usiiizo tho Water Power Mt s.cph-
ems miii-Thioves Successfully Fly
Their Trade at Henderson.

Raleigh, N. c., Feb. 1.-THE annual
report of the Corporation Commission
was Issued today. 1t says the increase
in railway mileage was los; gross earn
ings of railways, $13.253627; operating
expenses. SS,156. 500; net earnings, s5,-
067.127; an increase OF s79G, Psi over the
earnings OF 1885, The capital stock of
all the railways is S59,OO6,S0 funded
debt s14.641.62S; total cost, sS2,123, 467;
interest paid on funded debt, s2,121.S4S;
dividends. $685. 62.
The commission says the number OF
State banks is so; capital stock, s2449,-
Sl1; deposits. $9.152, 1922, undivided sur
plus. sS43279.
All the railways save the exempted
ones were required to enforce the Jim
Grow" car law. So far as the Commits
sion is Informed, the law Is working
well.
The commission asks the Governor to
Gull TO the attention of the Legislature
next June tho fact that the State re-
venue act has been construed by the
Federal Court not to confer upon the
commission power to assess railway
and other property for taxation, in or
der that the Legislature may amend
the law
BIG SALE OF BONDS.
A special from Winston says; The
Winston Salem Gas and Lighting Co.
has Issued and sold bonds to the
amount of s125.000 for building It's plant
here. The money was secured from
the Citizens Loan and Trust Company
of Wisconsin.
A YOUNG BRIDE.
Durham county probably has the
l,,.fs{n .
barely thirteen years old and her name
is Mrs. Percy Crabtree, nee Mangum.
The ceremony that made her wife
was performed at the home of the
brides mother. Mrs. Margaret Man
gum. In the Flat River section, Sunday
night. The husband is twice the age
of the bride, being twenty six years
old. Mrs. Mangum came in person to
the register Of deeds and authorized
him to Issue the marriage papers, It
Is understood that the mother first on
posed the match at this time and asked
her daughter to wait The brlde-to- be
and groom elect insisted that the cere-
mony be performed at once and she
yielded. Both parties are we'll known
In this section. Mr.. and Mrs. Crab
tree will live at the home OF the brides
mother for the present. at least
TO UTILIZE WATER POWER.
A company Is being organized at
Goldsboro to utilize the splendid water
power at Stephens mill for manufact-
uring purposes. That this spot so
picturesque and so we'll by nature fitted
has not caught the attention of those
In search of desirable manufacturing
sites is astonishing indeed. Soon there
gold mining will be the order of the
day, and why not the buzz OF the saw
and the hum of spindle and wheels,
too.
THIEVES AT WORK.
A Henderson correspondent writes:
Thieves of Henderson made heavy and
successful raids on Kitchens, pantrIes
and woodpiles OF our citizens Saturday
night, and OF course enjoyed good din
ners and comfortable fires Sunday.
The sufferers were Captain Shaw,
NIessrs. Linthicum and Stark. Mrs.
Norwood and Mrs. Briscoe. Besides
losing hams. lard anA-ether groceries,
a watch belonging to the son of Mr..
LinthfCum was stolen alSe