The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-07
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., July 2, 1903.

State Auditor Dixon says ina ldS'
1900 corporations made returns 10
him. and that he believes the numoer
reporting this ear will reach low.
There must be more than this numper
of generations in the state. as the re-
mort made this week to the committee
which has in charge the raising Of
funds for the st. Louis EXHIBIT SHOWS
5000 manufacturing enterprises IN
North Carolina ~
state Treasurer Lacy has received
several opinions from Attorney zen,
eral Gilmer, covering polnS hisotseu
in the revenue act. One decision Is 1lial
nrrely interstate sales Of pianos n or
gans are not subject to n ~ cents TAX
IMPOSED by the revenue act, put tHdI
such sales to be exempt musI De en-
tirely within the provision OF the inter
state commerce law.
Another decision by the attorney gen
eral is hat the tax upon dealers III
fertilizers is under section 81 OF the rev
enue act this being what is known as
the merchants purchase tax; IN other
words hat such dealers are haole 10
the merchants purchase tax. 80.
. State Auditor Dixon accepts an n.y.
tation to deliver the address on the 5Vth
of J11lv at the great annual picnic at
the PRESBYTERIAN Orphanage at bd-
rum Springs. At these gatherings
from three to five thousand persons are
usually present. 49,;
State Treasurer Lacy accepts an lnVf
tation to address the teachers summer
school AT the ~ericultur and Mechan-
zeal college here July 9th. n MS
theme will be how state taxes are
raised. 1000,
A special term of Columbus county
superior court is ordered, to oegln july
9th. for the trial Of crlmlnal cases.
of ~ a nj ~ q n SANFORD.
lately accepted as Company M, lhlfo
National Guard North caro-
lima was today mustered into service
and will be Immediately equipped, SO
it can go int camp with It's regiment
Q~uartermaster General Macon ano
Colonel P. NJ. PearSall Will leave OH
Monday for the west to inspect loca-
lions for encampments, going nrst u
Charlotte. then to Hickory, n next tc
Asheville. They will then make thell
repor. AS yet no place has been nance
as selected. There appears to be a pup
lie belief that n regiment Will Ell
camp at Morehead City.
2 The number Of persons in
r AT the summer school at the A. and M
college here increased very consldera
bly, today and there is a general pelle
that it will reach 500 soon.
The Improvement in crops during IN
mast few days is notable and gratl1y
g ing. Hot nights and plenty of Sunshln
are doing a good work. Director w. Z
6 Crosland, of the penitentiary, n ma
lust returned from the penltentlar
farm on the Roanoke says n crop
Il there are small but promising. -.
S The tax assessors in this toWnShl
d covering Raleigh and suburbs say tn
= increase in valuation this year WI
reach 81. 900 900. If the remainder
the state keeps up with this game II
state treasurer who will need mons
;, so much to meet pressing cans VIII l
= made very happy indeed.
Dr. Much satisfaction is expressed amor
~Episcopalians at the selection OF he
10 DR. McNeely DuBOSe, Of AsheVllle,
ID the rector of st. Marys female cones
here. He is said to be a very Strof
%,
l. The report of Superintendent of pu
re lie instruction in this county says tn
in about 20 per cent. of the white chlldr,
of school age are enrolled in the pub
schools and about IS per cent of neg
n. children: the whites showing a gam
about sever per cent. over the preVlo
81 year and the negroes a little over
e per cent.
s.. Governor Aycock left early this NOR
II ing to attend the state bar associatl
elk convention at Morehead City.
The Arista Cotton Mills Company
Winston. chartered yesterday, has
one of its objects the requirement
jill COTTON mills III InlS Sldlc dllu Tx W
OF mess.
nd The revenue collections IN this d
MO trict for the year ended June Goth we
S2.O35. 423. The m for the CT
rent year, made by Collector Dunc
see are about the same. While there "
be fewer whisky distillerleS IN the sta
now that they nave to go into tow
ad 1t is intimated that tney WIZ Ila
ca about as much liquor as has been ma
by a much larger number, Tor the II
~ son that the plants which are eltf
IN lust finished or in course OF constr
t l ton will be very much larger than
be old ones in the country. In fact tf
)ut nave to be larger for the expense
M operation in towns is greater AS
If is impossible to say in how ma
~ towns there will be dlStlllerleS. +
haps the chief reason why the west'
distillers are undertaking to make 81
a fight against the Watts u rel
49, latlon law, is hat there are so I
i towns west Of Greensboro into Wh
the they car gain entrance. Their ii
against the law will certainly not n
them any. The law will certainly n
good and their action is very apt
Ign make the ext legislature ever m
stringent regarding them.
Gle The first canteloupeS OF the seas
home grown. are on the market.
prospect for them and for water
-. ons is fairly good. SO IS the Il
the prospect in this section.
:; The superintendent Of public instr
> ton decides positively that all pu
.oes school teachers must attend a teach
did institute. or summer school this y
be,, Several prominent citizens OF cat
ba county have called OF the Cover
50 and urged the granting OF a pardon
put ]. T. Mehaffey. who was convicted
on assault upon a girl a little over IA yf
-nef of age. The girl was n OF his
~ ployed cotton pickers. 1000 pers
Iece have signed the petition for par
go There is also opposition 10 cIemenc
this case. Mshaffey, a well-to-do
dge, - DTrnaI1 this afternoon dec.
are the Durham right-of-way case. dec
ing 70 remand II TO the 5
coIrts. This case was n in W
the Seaboard Air Line instituted
tuck domination proceedings under the S
code. before the clerk of Durham G
man against the Southern Railway,
fore North Carolina Railway Comp