NORTH CAROLINA. 



nry. lsil. to have $100,000,000 of bond* tfimran- 



lecd I >y tin- I'lliled Slates (ioNcrninelit. and In 



ha\e tin- work <if construction MI pen i-cd by olli- 

 ci-i-- .if tin- Knj.'inecr Corps of the I'nited Slates 

 army. This arrangement was pronounced by 



some to in- incompatible witii the CUjrton-Bvlwer 



treaty with (Jreat ISritain, anil other Senators 

 Voted against I lie hill lieeailse I hey Were oppnsfd 

 to sub-idles. It consequently failed to IWSH. 

 The eoiistruction company hud expended alwmt 

 $l.li(H).<MM). There had been issued up to thcdo-e 

 of the li-r.-il year stock of the par value of $20.- 

 7>.iMit>. Cash subscriptions of $1.041.000 hud 

 been paid in. and $5,058,000 of bonds hud been 

 disposed of for franchises, labor, privileges, and 

 property. 



Political Disturbance. President Saeasu is 

 a representative of the Clerical party, which has 

 it* head<|uartcrs in his native city of Leon, the 

 old capital, rather than of the Progressist party 

 that has furnished all the Presidents in recent 

 times. The rivalry between Leon, which in its 

 decayed condition still has 25.000 inhabitants, 

 and Granada, the center of the Progressist move- 

 ment, was formerly so great that it became neces- 

 Mir\ to transfer the seatof government to a third 

 and more unimportant town. Having served the 

 nriexpired term of President Carazos, he suc- 

 ceeded in getting himself elected for the next 

 term. Since then there have been many rumors 

 of a conspiracy to oust him by force. Acting on 

 the information of I/is spies, he had ex-Presidents 

 Joaquin Zavala and Chatnorvo, Gen. Enrique 

 Guzman, Gen. J. I). Rodriguez, and Anselmo 

 h'ivas, editor of the " Diario" in Granada, the 

 leading newspaper in Nicaragua, all suddenly 

 arrested on Aug. 23, 1801. Their arrest caused 

 intense excitement, and an attempt was made 

 to rescue them. The prison was attacked, the 

 soldiers were fired upon, and in the battle that 

 ensued. 6 soldiers and the chief of police were 

 killed on the Government side and more than 50 

 of the insurgents were shot. The prisoners were 

 escorted over the frontier on the following day 

 find forbidden to return on penalty of death. 

 While they were taken to the railroad on Sept. 3, 

 the people of Granada, on making a demonstra- 

 tion as though to release the prisoners, were fired 

 on by the guards and returned the fire, killing 

 the governor of the province, the lieutenant com- 

 manding the escort and 5 soldiers. On Oct. 12. 

 a corporal of the palace guard named Carlos Perez 

 made, an attempt to murder President Sacasa. 



NORTH CAROLINA, a Southern State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Nov. 21, 1789; area. 52,250 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 393.751 in 1790; 478.103 in 1800: 5r>.V,on 

 in 1810; 638.829 in 1820; 737.987 in 1830: 758,- 

 41!) in 184Q; 869,039 in 1850; 992.K22 in IHiiO: 

 1,071,361 in 1870: 1,399.750 in 1880; and 1,0 17,- 

 947 in 1890. Capital, Raleigh. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor. Daniel G. 

 Fowle, Democrat, who died on April 7, and was 

 succeeded by the Lieutenant-governor. Thomas 

 M. Moll. Democrat : Secretary of State. William 

 L. Saunders. who died on April 2. and was MU- 

 ceedid hy Octavius Coke ; Treasurer, Donald 

 W. Rain; Auditor. George W. Sanderlin: At- 

 torney-General, Theodore F. Davidson : Superin- 



tendent of Public Instruction, Sidney M. Finger; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, John ltol.inx.fi; 



l Illef .Ill-lice of the Supreme < 'i.llft . AllgllM UN 



S. Merrimon; Associate .lust ices, Walter < 'laik. 

 Jo-eph .1. Da\i-, .lame- K. Shepherd, and Al- 

 phonso C. A very. 



Population 'by RMCCM. The follow ing (able 

 shows the while and colored population of the 

 Stale in 1 MHO and 1890, as reported by the Fed- 

 eral cell -II* : 



