The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-13
FINANCES OF THE STATE.
STATEMENT OF AUDITOR DIXON
IS GRATIFYING.
There VIII be Heavy Demands With
in h Next Two Months-Mexico a
Wonderful Country-North Carroll
ma s Exhibit at St. Louis Was Very
Creditable-State Board of pharma-
cy Licenses Nine Out of Is Appli-
cants.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., Dec. s, 100.


Raleigh, n. c., Dec. s, 1904.
The statement of North Carolina
finances given out by Auditor Dixon
IS a very gratifying one, showing a.
balance of the general fund of almost
exactly $40, 600. The treasurer. how,
ever. will have very pressing demands
upon him in the next sixty days. This
month he will nave to pay out $780,
600 for pensions, and in January will
be called on for 100000 for the pub
lie schools and also for $4,000 inter
est. He says that before February
1st he will have to pay out at least
$650,O00
The Secretary of State was asked
what recommendation he would make
in his annual report, and aid tina the
code commission had in it's recon-
mendation covered most of the
changes which he desired to be made
in the corporation laws and in regard
to IMMIGRANTS. He will, in his re-
port, recommend the erection on a lot
across the street from the present.
small brick building, for many years
used as an arsenal, but now a storage
place for books, of a four story fire.
proof building. He now has books
stored on the fourth floor of a store,
rents a brick warehouse, the arsenal
= is full, and so is the enrolling office
and there are many books stored in
basement of the agricultural building
The rents paid aggregate over $500
and the places are most unsuitable
He will also urge the placing of steer
cases in the rooms in the
capitol. At present the cases are of
pine wood, very heavy and awkward
and cannot be gotten out OF h doors.
Today DR.. and Mrs. D. H. Abbott
and Messrs. Henry and James Itch
ford returned from Mexico. They
were in the large party of Corporation
Commissioners and their friends who
mad a tour of the Mexican railways.
They were everywhere entertained
roayally, meeting President Diaz and
the Governors of the various states
through which their special train
passed. 1t was a very notable trip in
all respects. They find Mexico a won!
derful country and that its people,
greatly like those of the United States.
though the two countries were at war
but little over half a century ago.
Among today's arrivals were H. S.
Goodwin, Dunn; George NJ. Ives, New
Bern; s. A. Woodland, Wilson.
The picking of cotton mas been re-
sumed since the bad weather ended,
L-% ---x t. I'LL A-s-@l
Some of the farmers are greatly dis
heartened about the tumble In prices
and already there is talk of planting
much less next year. n is the very
thing desired. The farmers see that
a big crop is a draw back and puts
them much at the mercy of specula-
tors.
In the Federal court here there is
a case against a woman who is charg-
ed with sending obscene matter
through the mails, in the shape Of adj
v~ertisements of a medicine. The opin-
ions seems to- be that she will not be
convicted.
William Dunn OF the Board OF Ag-
~riculture, who is making the tests OF
the 276 varieties of cabbage, the seed
of which were secured by State Hor-
ticulturist Hume. says they are
planted and are growing very we'll
indeed. There are two acres in the
plants. Speaking of the Cabbage crop
i'm the vicinity of New Bern MI. Dunn
says it looks we'll and is larger than
usual. That is one of the very finest
truck growing sections in all the
south, and can hardly be ~equalIed
anywhere for cabbage growing.
The Board Of Agriculture sent a
COMMITTEES TO St. Louis in October to
see the North Carolina exhibits at the
exposition. This committee reports
to the full board, specially compli-
mentings CommiSsioner-General Her
bert Brimley. T. X. Bruner and State
GeoIogist Holmes for their work in
connection with the North Carolina
exhibits in the various departments.
The mining exhibit was the best the
state has ever made. The total ex-
pense of the North Carolina exhibits
was about $780, 600, of which the state
gave half. private individuals and
manufacturers contributing the other
half. 1t was a great how for the
money
The State Board of Pharmacy has
granted license to nine of the 10 APP
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