The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-19
new INCOME
FOR STATE
Assessments Against Rail
roads Create an Increase.
HAS MORTGAGE ON FIDDLE
Deacon Allen Would Not Allow State
Treasurer 8. r. Lacy's Orchestra to
Enter the Church. First Regl-
ment to 90 into Camp.
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RALEIGH, N. G., August 1S.-The Cor
poration Commission to-day certified 70
the State Auditor and state Treasurer
the tax assessments against the several
railroads operating In tho state, as recent
~ levied by them. These taxes, payable
into the State treasury direct will amount
to about s1sO.000 1t will be several days
before the taxes due tho several coun'
tics and towns can be calculated and GER
titled to the respective local authorities.
These taxes will aggregate about 100000.
1t Is understood that the railroad COM
panies will offer no further resistance to
the levy and collecting lof these taxes,
this being for the reason that the assess
fment OF property generally Is very high
%this year.
The railroads will pay about s75o.ooo
taxes this yoar. or this amount tina At
slantio Coast Limo will pay $2b0.00o; Sea-
board Air Line. sl2S0OO. and Southern.
4 SIT, 200.
IA Tho state has chartered tho Piedmont
Grocery Company, Of Hickory; capital
i $4,000 The concern will do q wholesale
and retail business.
AUDITORIUM AND CONSERVATORY.
Il The Building Committee OF tho Baptist
Female University has adopted plans
1 drawn by Sawyer and Hook, architects.
of Charlotte and Durham, for $4,000
AUDITORIUM and conservatory Of music
\ building work, on which Is to begin JUST
{ as soon as practicable. The building Will
4 be Of. Romanesque architecture, four
stories, with q three story wing. The uu-
ditorlum will scat $500 people.
Fsf The Reacle q nd Ga NIT nj Hose Com Da f1iUS
Of the Raleigh Fire Department. expect
to attend and participate In tho tournn-
ment events to DO held In Salisbury OF
Labor Day September It'll. They will
go I'm bent on fetching back some Of tho
best prizes. B t al
FIDDLE BELONGS TO DEVIL.
Some days ago state Treasurer r. r.
Lacy was invited to go out to samariu
Baptist Church Sunday and deliver an adj
dress SO he concluded he would do the
nice thing and spring pleasant surprise
on the congregation by carrying with
him an excellent orchestra Of several In.
struments, including a violin, horns and
flute but when they reached the church
Deacon Allen positively refused to allow
the instruments to be carried into the
church. declaring that 'the devil has a
straight mortgage on the fiddle, and the
horn, too, and Gods house Is no place
with. However, the address by Mr.. Lacy
on Sowing and Reaplng'' was greatly
enjoyed
MILITARY. 3ENcAA1PMENT.
The First Regiment. North Carolina
National Guard, Colonel q r. Robertson.
OF Charlotte. commanding will go into
camp at Ashevlle tomorrow. and Cover
nor Aycock will leave for the camp Sat
urday to be on hand for the official In
spcctlon Monday.
Tho Secretary OF State to-day charter
ed the Dlllsboro Milling and Manufac-
turing Company. Of Dlllsboro. Jackson
county; capital $4,000
The Piedmont Springs Lumber Com
pany, OF Morgantown, Is chartered with
100000.
Cotton planters in this section are great.
ly puzzled and alarmed over tho fact
that cotton plants are dying in the field
without any apparent cause, and In the
midst of excellent seasons. The State
chemist to-day began analyzinG q num-
Der OF plants with view to asccrtaining
the trouble.