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NORTH CAROLINA. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



James City Dispute. On April 24 Gov. Carr 

 issued orders to the Adjutant-General directing 

 that the State militia be dispatched to James 

 City for the purpose of aiding the local authori- 



THE NEW SEAL OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



ties in enforcing obedience to the courts of law. 

 This place is on Trent river, opposite New 

 Berne, and is inhabited by a large negro popula- 

 tion. It was settled in 1863 by negro families, 

 who were removed thither from New Berne by 

 " General " James. They erected rude cabins 

 and made themselves thoroughly at home, be- 

 lieving they had been given the land by the 

 United States Government. Other negroes soon 

 entered the place, and before many days had 

 passed a large settlement had gathered all be- 

 lieving the Government had given to them the 

 land. But "General" James was no general, 

 and had no authority to give away the land. 



The negroes named the village, after their 

 benefactor, James City. They drew up a sys- 

 tem of government, and elected aldermen and 

 policemen, and the population increased rapidly. 



About ten years ago James A. Bryan under- 

 took to regain the land. James City fought the 

 case through several courts, and finally the Su- 

 preme Court decided, beyond all dispute, that 

 the land on which James City is built is the 

 legal property of Mr. Bryan. Thereupon Mr. 

 Bryan endeavored to come to an amicable settle- 

 ment with his tenants, but without success. 



Finally the sheriff and posse, went from New 

 Berne to James City to evict the negroes, but 

 people gathered from all quarters, and a mob of 

 more than a thousand negroes prevented the 

 officers from acting. As the negroes firmly de- 

 clared their intention of resisting eviction, there 

 was no course left but to call in the militia. 

 Gov. Carr accompanied the troops, and on April 

 25 held several conferences with the negroes 

 and Mr. Bryan, which resulted in an amicabje 

 adjustment, the negroes agreeing to sign leases 

 for three years, paying rent at 50 cents to one 

 dollar a month. 



The Waldensians. In the spring of this 

 year a small colony of these people, from Eu- 



rope, settled in Burke County, at a place called 

 by them Waldese. 



State Seal. This year the Legislature 

 adopted a State motto,' and provided that it 

 should be a part of the State and of the coat of 

 arms. The seal in its new form is presented in 

 the accompanying illustration. 



Industrial. There are one or more cotton 

 mills in each of 43 counties, and a total of 140 

 in the State, besides several in construction. 

 In these mills are nearly 10,000 looms and over 

 500,000 spindles, consuming last year 165,200 

 bales of cotton. In addition there are 13 wool- 

 en mills, 57 factories that make carriages and 

 buggies, 32 that make wagons, 25 that make 

 furniture, 6 that make hubs and spokes, and 24 

 that make sash, doors, and blinds. There are 

 28 canning factories for vegetables and 14 for 

 oysters, 14 cotton-seed oil factories, 54 fertiliz- 

 ing factories, and several that make barrels and 

 crates and baskets and brooms. 



The tobacco factories exceed in number and 

 capital those of any State in the Union. There 

 are 110 producing plug tobacco and 9 produc- 

 ing smoking tpbacco. Durham alone sold 11,- 

 000,000 pounds of tobacco last year, and paid to 

 the Government for stamps $616,129; Winston 

 paid more, and Asheville sold over 5,000.000 

 pounds of leaf tobacco. 



NORTH DAKOTA, a Northwestern State, ad- 

 mitted to the Union Nov. 3, 1889 ; area, 70,795 

 square miles; population, according to the census 

 of 1890, 182,719. Capital, Bismarck. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Eli C. D. 

 Shortridge, Independent ; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Elmer D. Wallace ; Secretary of State, C. M. 

 Dahl ; Treasurer, Knud J. Nomland ; Auditor, 

 Arthur W. Porter ; Attorney-General, William 

 H. Standisli ; Commissioner of Agriculture and 

 Labor, Nelson Williams ; Commissioner of In- 

 surance, James Cudhie ; Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, Laura J. Eisenhuth ; Railroad 

 Commissioners, Peter Cameron, Nils P. Rasmus- 

 sen, Benjamin B. Stevens ; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, Guy C. H. Corliss ; Associate 

 Justices, Alfred Wallin, J. M. Bartholomew. 



Valuations. The total assessed valuation of 

 property for 1893 as equalized by the State board 

 was $90,105,280, of which the valuation of per- 

 sonalty was about $23,000,000. Included in the 

 assessment were 176.490 horses, 6,738 mules, 280,- 

 731 cattle, and 44,902 swine. The tax rate for 

 1893 was 4 mills on the dollar for State purposes 

 and \ mill for interest on the public debt. 



Legislative Session. The regular biennial 

 session of the Legislature began on Jan. 3 and 

 ended on March 3. The choice of a successor to 

 United States Senator Lyman R. Casey was one 

 of the duties of the session. On the first joint 

 ballot, Jan. 18, the following vote was cast : For 

 William N. Roach, Democrat. 23 ; Walter Muir, 

 Independent, 17; J. H. Worst, Republican, 13; 

 Lyman R. Casey, 11; Richard T. Kingman, Re- 

 publican, 7 ; W. J. Anderson, Republican, 9 ; 

 James R. Smith, Republican, 8; scattering, 4. 

 Although the Republicans had a majority in 

 joint convention, they were hopelessly divided, 

 and as a result 61 ballots were taken before a 

 choice was made. Several times during the bal- 

 loting the Democrats and Independents united 



