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NORTH CAROLINA. 



NOVA SCOTIA. 



Assessment and Taxation. In the Auditor's re- 

 port, the table .showing the aggregate gross 

 amount of State and county taxes from the 

 various subjects of taxation is one of the most 

 interesting. Some of its items are as follow : 

 From land, $249,571.26 ; town lots, $67,225.- 

 95; horses, $19,241.54; mules, $13,933.69; 

 cattle, $11,823.24; farming utensils, etc., $29,- 

 527.46; money on hand or on deposit, $11,- 

 340.37; solvent credits, $41,172.80; other per- 

 sonal property, $39,780.20 ; dealers in liquors, 

 $24,327.80 ; merchants and other dealers, $34,- 

 280.20; deeds in trust and mortgage deeds, 

 $10,875.20. The gross amount of State taxes 

 is $583,308.51. 



The taxes levied for school purposes are as 

 follow: On liquor licenses, $39,882.47; on 

 134,732 white polls, $153,327.82; on 62,142 

 colored polls, $69,780.26. On the taxable prop- 

 erty in the State (including bank stock), $285,- 

 535.33. Total school-tax, $548,586.87. The 

 county taxes aggregate $984,441.89. 



The number of acres of land is shown to be 

 28,223,640, valued at $101,106,387; value of 

 town lots, $23,028,990; value of real estate 

 property, $124,135,377 ; number of horses 

 161,728, value $10,559,055 ; number of mules 

 91,230, value $5,127,782; number of cattle 

 825,325, value $5,209,828; number of hogs 

 1,892,320, value $2,129,380 ; number of sheep 

 626,340, value $637,879 ; value of farming 

 utensils, etc., $13,372,880 ; money on hand or 

 on deposit, $5,199,728; solvent credits, $16,- 

 927,371 ; stock in incorporated companies, $2,- 

 086,344; other personal property, $14,006,- 

 327; railroad franchises, $1,972,347; aggre- 

 gate value of personal property, $77,087,346; 

 aggregate value of all property, $201,222,723. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 met in Raleigh on May 1, chose delegates to the 

 National Convention of the party, and nomi- 

 nated candidates for Presidential Electors and 

 State officers. The platform complimented 

 President Arthur ; favored the Blair educa- 

 tional bill; declared that a well-regulated tariff 

 system, discriminating in favor of American in- 

 dustries, should be maintained, and all internal 

 taxes abolished ; and favored the repeal of the 

 system of county government existing. 



Congressman Tyre York, Liberal, was nomi- 

 nated for Governor. The other nominations, 

 divided between Liberals and Republicans, 

 were: Lieutenant-Governor, William T. Fair- 

 cloth; Secretary, William G. Candler; Treas- 

 urer, George W. Stanton; Auditor, Francis W. 

 Lawson ; Attorney-General, Charles A. Cook ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. D. 

 Winston; Supreme Court Judge, D. L. Rus- 

 sell. 



The Democratic State Convention met in 

 Raleigh on June 25, and took similar action. 

 The platform calls for tho abolition of " the 

 whole internal revenue system," and the re- 

 duction of the surplus in the national treasury ; 

 declares that " the duties on foreign importa- 

 tions should be levied for the production of 



public revenue, and the discriminations in its 

 adjustment should be such as would place the 

 highest rates on luxuries and the lowest on the 

 necessaries of life," and continues as follows: 



And whereas, There is now more than a hundred 

 millions of dollars in the treasury of the United States, 

 wrung from the pockets of the people by unjust taxa- 

 tion on the part of the Republican party j therefore, 



Resolved, That we will accept such distribution of 

 said surplus revenues of the Government for educa- 

 tional purposes as may be made by the Congress of 

 the United States; provided always, that the same 

 shall be disbursed by State agents, and not accompa- 

 nied by objectionable features and embarrassing con- 

 ditions. 



Jtesolved, That it is due to the white people of our 

 eastern counties, who have so cheerfully borne their 

 share of our common burdens, that 'the present, or 

 some other equally effective system of county govern- 

 ment, shall be maintained. 



The following is the ticket : For Governor, 

 Alfred Moore Scales; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Charles Manly Stedman ; Secretary of State, 

 William L. Saunders ; Auditor, William P. 

 Roberts ; Treasurer, Donald W. Bain ; Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, S. M. Finger 

 Attorney-General, T. F. Davidson; Assocu 

 Justice Supreme Court, A. S. Merrimon. 



At the election, on November 4, the 

 cratic ticket was successful. The vote for Go\ 

 ernor is reported as follows : Democratic, 143,- 

 249 ; Republican, 123,010. The following 

 the vote for Presidential Electors: Republican, 

 125,068; Democratic, 142.952; Prohibition, 

 454. One Republican (Second District) and 8 

 Democratic Congressmen were elected. The 

 Legislature of 1885 consists of 43 Democrats 

 and 7 Republicans in the Senate, and 97 Demo- 

 crats and 23 Republicans in the House. 



NOVA SGOTIA. The general depression af- 

 fecting other portions of the continent in 1884 

 was felt severely in Nova Scotia. The coal- 

 mines, one of the chief industries, were not 

 required to be worked to the utmost capacity, 

 the steel and glass manufactories of the prov- 

 ince were closed for a time, ship-building lan- 

 guished, and only the farmers and fishermen 

 were enabled to repeat the success of former 

 years. The people of the province grew dis- 

 contented under the high tariff, which benefit- 

 ed them more in theory than in practice ; they 

 also became excited over the Spanish -Ameri- 

 can treaty ; and these, with the general depres- 

 sion in trade, low prices for farm-produce, etc., 

 caused a demand from the Halifax Board of 

 Trade for the removal of the protective tariff, 

 or the alternative, annexation to the United 

 States. Nothing noteworthy in legislation oc- 

 curred during the year. The population, never 

 very great, has been somewhat diminished by 

 emigration, some to the United States, and 

 some to Manitoba and the new Territories of 

 Canada. Immigration has been very back- 

 ward. The proposal to have an outlet at Bos- 

 ton for the Canadian Pacific Railway has 

 aroused indignation in Nova Scotia. Tho 

 hopes of many in the province were aroused, 

 during the 1884 session of the Federal Parliu- 



