The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-16
RALEIGH NEWS LETTER
Legislative Joint Exanfnfng Com
afttee Finis-es Work and Files
Report-Chnrter to Granite
Company-Report OF Adjstant Gem
eral Register.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. N. c.. December Is.


The legislative joint committee. hav-
ing finished its examination of the
books. vouchers. etc, in the affairs of
the state treasurer and auditor. today
made its report
The receipts OF the general fund. the
report says, were 81. 9o7, s5S for the fiscal
year ended November 20th last, while
the disbursements were 1854. O04. leav-
ing s44, 954 balance. A year ago the
balance was IS. 600 on the wrong side
of the ledger.
The receipts of the educational fund
were sls,175 the pasance December 1.
1901 being 1854; the disbursements
were s2,Tc9, leaving on hand s4S. 909-
There is a public school fun of S145,-
$50 in state bonds in the tr~eaSGrer's
hands, this being the property OF the
state board Of education. II may be
that this fund or most OF ii will be
applied to the public schools in 1908. ~
this is done it will take a strain off the
treasury. The fund came from the sale
OF swamp lands and the bonds have
heen II the treasury q number of
years.
The legislative committee found the
books of the treasurer and auditor to
be admirably and correctly kept.
A charter Is granted the Hiddenite
Granite Company, capital 500, 900, with
headquarters at Salisbury. Its quar-
ries will be in Alexander county, near
H~iddenite.
The legislative halls are being thor
oughly cleaned. for the first time IN
many years. All the woodwork anil
the walls as we'll are being cleaned with
soap and water. and the Improvement
is remarkable.
A mad dog was killed here today af-
ter he had tried to bite three men ana
had bitten a horse and eight dogs.
Among today's arrivals were G. d
McIver. Greensboro: George Badger
Harris. Henderson,; H. NJ. Heath. Char
lotte.
AS yet not s12 has been received from
the public schools Of the state as a re-
suit Of the appeal for contributions on
North Carolina Day this year for the
Sir Walter Raleigh statue fund. The
money will have to be raised by other
means than this.
The report Of Adjutant General Bev-
eriy S. Register to the governor was
made today, and says that during the
year there has been very decided i'm
provement in the general coalition of
the State Guard. The officers are i'm
pressed with the need IF attention TO
details ana the result Is gratifying. lie
Dick BILL" now before congress, will
greatly benefit the guard and give Il
500. 900 more of supplies annually. 1t will
also pay for instruction Of troops in
field service. The strength of the Guard
a year ago was 1852. 1t is now 1896;
there being two infantry regiments Of
IL companies each and one of II COM
panies, a battery Of light artillery, four
naval militia divisions. three regiment.
al bands. There are one company and
one division less than last year, and
many companies has discharged all in
active and Indifferent men.
The trrups are we'll distributed in the
state. so as to give all sections the
benefit of their services. During the
year five infantry companies and one
division OF naval militia were disba1d-
ed and four new companies accepted.
There are so many applications on file
that 1t would be easy to double the
present strength of the Guard. The
condition Of the Guard is in most re-
spects better than eve before. Khaki
uniforms will be issued to all the troops
IN the spring. Five times during the
year, at Wilson, Edenton. Salisbury,
Henderson and Charlotte. the troops
were called on by the civil authorities.
An arsenal is greatly needed.