The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-22
THE UNIFORM FREIGHT RATES
Established by the Corporation Not
Satisfactory to the Southern - The
Extra Public school Appropriation
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. c., November Is.
Very few revenue seizures have been
made in this district lately, the officials
report.
Auditor Dixon says the state pension
board will add few names to the list,
these having been passed on since the
list was printed. He says the contract
is awarded for a central heating plant
at the soldiers home The Daughters
of the Confederacy will pay for part
Of it.
The last carload of this states eI-
hibit will be shipped to Charleston
Tuesday. Secretary Bruner goes there
Monday and curator Brimley. of the
state museum. goes Tuesday. By De-
cember 1st the entire exhibit will be
installed.
Today j. NJ. Culp, traffic manager Of
the Southern railway, was here to see
the corporation commission regarding
the new freight and passenger tariff
recently fixed by the commiSsion-uni-
form on all the Southern's lines and
branches in this state. Mr.. Culp does
not like the tariff in some respects and
filed one for the commission to consid-
er. Tie object today was to arrange
an entirely satisfactory and proper
tariff
The state board Of education appor-
tions of the first 100000 appropriated
by the legislature to the public schools
Is cents to each child between 6 and 21
years. AS was stated sometime ago,
the second 500, 900 cannot be apportion-
ed until January, as returns must come
in. A circular about it was sent out
today. This shows that the report
| must be filed as to what particular
schools need aid to bring them up to
four moths in the year; whether the
county has reached it's limit in taxation:
whether fines and penalties have been
paid over, etc. 1t does not include local
taxation.
The county superintendent of Wilkes
county informs the state officials that
ten or twelve barrooms in that county
do not pay a cent of state or county
taxes. The matter will be strictly look
ed into.
1t was expected that a suit involving
title to the land on which the town of
Dunn stands would be tried this week
in Harnett court, but it goes over to
February.
An Asheville man writes the auditor
that he sees in the papers Dare county
is to be sold. He wants to know if at
public sale; what the amount of debt
is for which it is to be sold, also the
acreage. The fact IS that under a de-
| cree of the federal court $4,000 acres
| of timber lands there are to be sold, as
| the outcome of a long timber war.
Attorney General Gilmer is better
His attack of typhoid fever has beer
| in progress three weeks.
| To show the shortness of the cotton
| crop in this section farmer said yes
| terday he had picked six oales from
| thirty acres and that perhaps half q
| bale was left. Your correspondent
| looked at the cotton. One-half the bolls
| were killed by frost.
| Claude Bernard, United States dis
| trlct attorney, gives out the news tha
| ex-senator Jarvis is to be a candidat,
| for the nomination for congress in the
| First district.
The October weather report for thi:
| state, issued today. says mean temper
| ature was ~59.S degrees, almost precisel!
normal. The highest was at Southport
| the lowest at Linville. The highest OF
| one day was 80, the lowest "a Th,
| rainfall was only 1.63 inches, or 2.O6 be
| low the normal.
| r. A Hester, shot in the head las
| night at his farm near here by a negro
named Hinton, is still alive.
1t is asserted that Julian S. Carr il
to be a candidate for the United State
| senate again.