The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
FINANCES.
Statement of the COunty's Indebted
~ncss-JaiIer Pate Comes Clear
Fayetteville People Coming to
Wilmington to Hear N~ordica-So-
ciety Has 1t Inning.
Especial to The MeSSenger.)

Fayetteville. May THE commits
sioners of Cumberland yesterday is
sued an itemized exhibit of the coun-
tvs financial condition. from which are
collated the following facts of interest:
The total debt of the county is $113,-
10000, OF which $S7, 5000 90 is in 3 per
cent. bonds of an original subscription
Of SEQ, 10000 to the Western Coal
Fields Railroad in 1856, now the Allan
tic Coast Line Railroad: court house
bonds, $2O,O Oo.O 90, less sinking fund of
$6,3S0.00; Jail bonds, ST. 500. 90, less sink
ing fur of S3,0 900. 90; Clarendon bridge
bonds outstanding IS, OOO.O 90. The school
fund for sixteen months, from Deem
Der 1st, 1901, to April 9Th, 1903, amount
ed to $32, 910.65; there was paid to white
teachers ST., 1858 and to colored teach
ers $7,5S2.32. The outside poor cost
$3.499.07, and the county home 81, 7S9. 81.
On good roads were expended 4,S5S.4 Al,
and the jail accoun amounted to So
996. %. The county has to its credit in
bank 500, 1928.
Immediately after the action of
Judge Cook in the superior court yes
terday on the report of the grand jury,
as to the condition Of the Jail, as given
in the last news letter to The Messen-
ger, Tailor A. j. Pate was put on trial
which resulted in his acquittal. In the
case against Sheriff Marsh a mol pros.
was entered. The criminal docket was
finished this morning. Solicitor Lyon
takes the steamer City of Fayetteville
for his home in Bladen, and Judge
Cooke enters on the civil docket.
Chairman Frank Mcneil, of the cor
poration commission, yesterday met
the tax listers and assessors of Cum
hnr1o nd n1rot fr,11r nvr10irino 70
them their duties under the revenue
act.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Slocomb, Jr.,
gave rare pleasure to their friends last
evening by one of the most beautiful
germans of many years, which they
gave in the armory. The favors were
lovely pink hats for the girls, and pink
canes and roses for the young men.
The nights merry-making closed with
q cake-walk, in which the prize, a huge
iced cake, was won by Mr.. r. H. Dye
and Miss Lillian SlOcOmb, with Mr.. c..
G.. Rose and Miss Louise Atkins, Of
Richmond, Va, close competitors.
Yesterday morning at the family res
idence on Rowan street, Miss Elizabeth
Brady gave a delightful luncheon and
progressive euchre party, in honor Of
Miss Marion Mallett, of Salisbury. The
prize was won by Miss Maud Haigh,
who presented it to Miss Mallett.
Yesterday afternoon at the residence
on Maiden Lane, Mrs. J. S. Harper
very pleasantly entertained at a re-
ception, in honor Of Mesdames Monitor
and j. T. Oliver, of Reidsville.
This morning at the family home on
Haymount, Miss Jane Tillinghast en-
tertained her friends at a dainty lunch
con, with progressive euChre, compll-
mentary to Miss Flay Williams, OF
Asheville. The prize, a handsome pho
tograph frame, was won by Miss Celia
M. Robinson, and presented to Miss
Williams.
This afternoon at the residence on st.
James Square, Mrs. ]. 3. Underwood.
Jr., entertainS her friends at a recep-
ton.
Fire, which broke out in a large pile
of cotton on the railroad platform at
Hope Mills, did damage to the extent
of $4,000.
| The ''Grays," the reserve corps OF
the Fayetteville Independent Light In
! fantry battalion will meet the Blues"
the State Guard company, at the
! armory on Monday next, to make ar
! engagements for taking part in the Me-
! mortal exercises of the 10th of May.
The magistrates of Fayetteville and
! Cross Creek met yesterday and ap'
. pointed Dad O~verSeerS, and reorgan-
/ lied the board of road supervisors
with Mr.. w. c. Troy as chairman anC
Mr.. Frank Glover as secretary.
The steamer City of Fayetteville
carries to Wilmington this Afternoon
many prominent men and women o.
this city, who go to hear Nordica.
Mr.. James Sutton, of Wilmington
takes a position with Superintendent
Jones at the electric light plant.