The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-02-26
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. February .

There will be a fine battalion of the
North Carolina state guard in the pa
rade at the Inauguration of President
Mckinley, made up of companies from
Raleigh, Charlotte. ASheville, Concord,
Kings Mountain and two other points.
Ov~ercoats and blanket were issued to-
u-V - the troops VINO go.
State Treasurer Lacy said today that
so far only t~hirty-four sheriffs have
made complete tax settlements. forty
two have paid in part n twenty-one
have not paid q cent. He will begin
proceedings in a very strict way against
these d~elinQuents. He says that dur
ing the present year $4,000 will be
due the public institutions, on tho
present a-ppor.ionment and that to Nice:
this there is only about $3.50, 900 on hand.
The exhibits which this state sent 70
the Paris exposition and which won
any medals, are being returned They
will be given the necessary attention
and be re-installed in the museum.
Their are some 1000 specimens.
The state Sunday school convention
is in session at High Point. Stale
Treasurer B. r. Lacy, its president, was
Unable to attend it, owing to the great
pressure of official work here.
Tbs legislature Will row begin to
rush it's work. So far it has been rath-
er lie :surely. with only one night sessi'n.
whe chairman of the joint finance COM
mittee remarked today that only tfte=n
days n'pre remain. The revenue OIL!
wiz be reported tomorrow. There has
been a great fight over it in comm lttee.
1t was mainly prepared by Rep"esen-
tative Willard. who has ransacked the
tax laws of all the states to find SUD-
jects of taxation n means of getting
tIXes. He does not at all relish the
=t,ilyir~ ont Of oyoS and Cni6 f064N-
ali that is needed is for some n 10
appear and argue against a tax AID
out it goes" The fight against the tax
of y cent per 200 on cigarette manu-
featured INC the license tax Of s. Oh
al dealers in them was continued to
day, the owners of the factory at VIII
SON. the ANTITRUST factory, eadins
in it. Their will be no dog tax.
A new school law is now being pre-
pared by the committee on education.
TIE fertilizer control act VIII. be
practically the present act. with d few
notifications A committee is prepar-
ing il.
The antitrust bill. prepared by carn-
mi'.ec. was introduced today. 1t is the
mcct stringent ever proposed N TINS
state.
A large number OF prominent people
left here TODAY for Goldsboro. as MEM
WV III NAS - bNN
mains of DR.. George l.. Kirby. Gov
ernor Aycock was one of the honorary
pallbearers. The Raleigh academy OF
medicine was present at the railway
station in a body. All the public insti-
tutiors We're represented. DR.. Murphy,
of the Western hospital, was also a
pallbearer.
DR.. Richard H. Lewis, secretary OF
the state board Of health. said today
smallpox was steadily spreading. Tcs
local guarantees are Ineffective; many
cases are concealed. and in a great
many cases there Is no disinfection ut
it IS not thorough. and the disease starts
again. The only way to stamp out the
disease is by state vaccination.
The tax on the gross earnings of
railways on a mileage basis will stand
in the revenue act.
A republican of prominence from the
west said to an equally prominent
democrat, who told me, that he was in
favor Of making a with the demo-
Gratis, ending the arrests of democratic
registrars and the fight to keep Sena.
tor Simmons from being seated, giving
the democrats six of the ten congress
sfonal districts, and really to let them
nave two more districts. the constitu-
tional amendment not to be antagon-
lied; the democrats to stop the i'm
parchment of the judges and to con-
cede the republicans the Ninth and
Tenth districts certainly and two others
nOminalllv.