The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-23
IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.
TEN THOUSAND SETTLERS IN THE
PAST FOUR YEARS.
No Foreigners Coming to this State.
Errors In Acts OF the Last Le1fsIa.
ture-School Funds from State Treas.
ury-What h state has Paid Ont
for Education-Raleigh Gossip.
Messenger Bureau.

80 4ARAA ~
The commissioner of immigration
informs me that during the past four
years more than 10000 persons from
other states have settled in North Car
ohn He says that hardly any for
eigners have come: that in fact the
latter do not come south; tina they go
west, their movements being really
directed by the great and
railway companies. H says a very de-
siraole class of people is coming here.
Mr. Hackett. who is indexing the acts
OF the last legislature, says he does
not think the laws will appear until
after July 1st. The public printers are
by the terms of an act of 1901 given
three months from the time of the
awarding of the printing contracts to
deliver the laws.
There are some awkward errors in
some of the acts; this being notably
the case with the one requiring the
non-indigent insane in the hospitals 20
pay for their maintenance etc. Gram
NAUTICAL errors. mixing of sentences and
superfiuous as we'll as omitted words,
make it very ambiguous. The attorney
general is looking into the matter, to
see how it shall be construed.
h year 500. 900 from the state
treasury, OF a current appropriation,
Will be available for the public schools
whenever called for. Another s1OO, 900
was appropriated this year, to bring the
School terms up to not less than four
months. but this will not be available
until the taxes for this year are COL
lected, which means the end of the year.
Inere is great interest in public edu
cation. noW-far greater than ever be-
tore In this state. Governor Aycock
says last years political campaign was
really an educational one.
AT the office of the superintendent of
public instruction it is learned thai
during the past twenty years his state
has expended $3.50, 1854 for white and
$4,O91, 139 for negro public schools 1t
also spent So, 1923, 564 for general expenses
Tor both races. of which the whites got
the benefit of sc and the negroes of A
per cent. The total expended was s15.-
225,OOO. The negroes pay 5 per cent Of
the taxes.
Steps are to be taken to collect by law
subscriptions to the Raleigh auditori-
um. This will raise a howl. 1t is as
serted in the most positive terms that
the auditorium will never be built on
the site selected. The secretary-treas-
urer of the company SO told your cor
respondent and makes a report to that
effect.
The cold weather makes the armer
feel blue.
There is a great deal of cotton in this
county-thousands of bales in fact. 1t
is a novel sight to see the vast acreage
prepared for cotton planting and then
see the cotton of last years crop piled
in the yards of the farm houses.
The North Carolina section of the
American Chemical Society meets here
on the 29th instant.
A baby born here, weighing only 14%
ounces died yesterday. 1t is asserted to
be The smallest ever born.
1t is expected hat a survey for an
extension Of the Raleigh inc Cape Fear
railway will oon begin, and
are given that construction will closely
follow the survey.
Chairman Travis. of the penitentiary
board, has gone east to arrangp for fur
nishing forty convicts to cut timber for
a saw mill owned by a firm.
A labor agitator from Danville is
here in the interest of the textile
strikers there. He claims they are
locked out" The mills there are not
worrying about the strike. They have
enough stock on hand to last until Oc-
tOber.