The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-12
STATE EXPERIMENT FARM
Rose Culture on a Large Scale-Truck.
Ing n Dafryfng Carried On-The
Act Issue The New Prf-
vate Charter Law-Great Deal OF Cot
ton Stealing.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. Apr 9,

Raleigh, April 9.
Cotton dealers say that after careful
consideration of the subject they be.
IeVe there Will be al increase Of ~
much as 10 per cent. in the acreage. AZ
they remark. this is really a great in
crease
Inc supreme court today tooK up APP
peals from the Tenth district. Justices
Furches and Douglas were both on the
behch- They look well. Chief Justice
Furches particularly SO, and received
congratulations.
Al the State experiment farm rose
culture Is being tried on a large scale
Io.VVO being planted Tor Henderson d
20. AT the farm the vegetables Tor lhA
Agricultural ana Mechanical college ar.
grown. and there are also experiments
on vegetables. The large college farm.
Is no" part OF the experiment farm.
Inc dairy is al important feature. IA
mas now forty milk COWS. The poultr,
experiment station has zen broods. tn.
and Plymouth Rock are founl
TO be the best.
Inc reVenu act, SO a~nXiOuSly lookeL
Ior. was issued today by the secretary
OF state. The auditor is preparing the
new tax forms and the corporation
commission is preparing its instruc-
lions TO county tax assessors, etc., all
based on this important act.
All the reports show That fruit is safe.
Ihe winds have prevented frost in the
sections where there is much develop
ment.
n committee which is investigating
eX-Clerk Martins frauds in The treas
ury may be able to finish its work this
week. 1t declines to allow the 81, O91
paid by Martin to penitentiary employ
ees from his private account, as reduc
ing the amount of his defalcation. II
finds he advanced money to employees
and then deducted it when he paid them
in state funds.
The state charters the Harrison
Wagon Company. of Cary, his coun-
ty, capital $4,000. 1t is the first COM
pany chartered under the new private
corporation law. which is practically a
copy OF the New Jersey law n which
imposes a tax upon the capital stock.
All charters are now issued directly by
the state, which is thus enabled to
know what their capital stock is, and
each June the secretary of state will
furnish the facts to the corporation
commission and the auditor. Their is
now no record of the corporations in
the state. The clerks of court in the
counties will continue to receive fees.
The tax OF corporations is now grad
uated according to the amount of CAPT.
tai. Heretofore it was the same for all,
whether great or small.
1t is found that there are remarkably
few criticisms upon the statue OF Vance
in the capitol square. People from all
parts of the state have now seen it and
nearly all are admirers.
Assurances are piVpn that the state
will make a great exhibit at the
Charleston exposition. Letters from
various parts of the state indicate this
very clearly.
Efforts are being made to break I'D
cotton stealing here. Arrests are being
made. In n case a negro tool a bale
of cotton from a platform. hired a dray
and sent the cotton twenty-eight miles
to Durham where he sold it to the
mills.
The negro here who tried to kill
a fireman by jumping into the locomo-
tive while the fireman was underneath
it. cleaning it. gets twelve months on
the roads.