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to petitions signed by 401 farmers, one farmer's 

 institute was held. 



Boundary. The circuit court of the United 

 States decided that Maryland dredgers have no 

 right to take oysters from the beds of either Po- 

 comoke river or Pocomoke Sound, these being 

 within the jurisdiction of Virginia. A survey of 

 the waters of the State, to be used in determin- 

 ing her boundary line, is nearly completed. 



Riot in Roarioke. On the evening of Sept. 

 20 a mob attempted to take from the authorities 

 a negro who was accused of assaulting a white 

 woman. The militia was called out to guard the 

 jail, and the negro, in charge of the police, was 

 taken to the woods for concealment. When the 

 mob attacked the doors of the jail the militia fired 

 upon it from the windows ; the firing was returned 

 by the mob, and 18 persons were killed and 27 

 wounded ; among the latter was the Mayor. 

 When the officers in charge of the negro at- 

 tempted to return with him to the jail, he was 

 taken from them and hanged to the nearest tree, 

 and his body was riddled with bullets. A pla- 

 card was placed upon his body with the inscrip- 

 tion : " Mayor Trout's Friend." The feeling 

 against the authorities, who had tried to protect 

 the negro, and against the militia was very 

 strong. The mayor and others were compelled 

 .to leave town, and, to satisfy the mob, a com- 

 mittee of citizens suspended from office Mayor 



Trout, City-Sergeant Traynhaw, Chief of Police 

 Terry, and Special-Officer McMorris, the city re- 

 maining in charge of President Buckner, of the 

 City Council. On the 25th the committee asked 

 all the fugitives to return. 



Jefferson Davis. On May 27 the body of 

 Jefferson Davis was removed from the tomb in 

 New Orleans, where it has remained since his 

 death, to Memorial Hall, in that city, where it lay 

 in state until the next day. It was thence re- 

 moved to Richmond, the funeral train stopping 

 only at Beauvoir, at Montgomery, Greenville, 

 S. C., Atlanta, Ga., and at Raleigh. N. C. Reach- 

 ing Richmond early Wednesday morning, May 

 31, the body was taken to the Capitol, where it 

 lay in state through the day, and in the evening 

 it was interred with impressive ceremonies in 

 Hollywood Cemetery, in the grave selected by 

 Mrs. Davis. The cedar coffin in which the body 

 originally was placed was reinclosed in the vault 

 from which it had been taken, which then was 

 closed with a marble slab bearing a facsimile of 

 the autograph of Mr. Davis. 



Confederate Monuments. At Charlottes- 

 ville, on June 7, a monument to the memory of 

 the 1,080 soldiers whose remains are buried in 

 the cemetery at that place was unveiled with 

 appropriate ceremonies, and in Portsmouth, on 

 June 15, a monument to the Confederate dead 

 in Portsmouth was dedicated. 



WASHINGTON, a Pacific coast State, ad- 

 mitted to the Union Nov. 11, 1889: area, 69,180 

 square miles; population, according to the cen- 

 sus of 1890, 349,390. Capital, Olympia. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, John H. 

 McGraw, Republican; Lieutenant -Governor, 

 Frank H. Luce ; Secretary of State, James H. 

 Price; Treasurer, Ozro A. Bowen; Auditor, 

 Laban R. Grimes ; Attorney-General, William 

 C. Jones; Commissioner of Public Lands, Wil- 

 liam T. Forrest; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Charles W. Bean ; State Printer, 

 Oliver C. White: Adjutant-General, R. G. 

 O'Brien; Chief Justice, R. 0. Dunbar; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, T. L. Stiles, J. P. Hoyt, T. J. 

 Anders, Elmon Scott. 



Finances. The receipts of the State treasury 

 for the year ended Dec. 31, 1893, on general fund 

 account were $755.153.40, and the disbursements 

 $745,541.88, leaving a balance of $9,611.52. The 

 appropriations from the general fund for the 

 current fiscal term of two years ending March 

 31, 1895, amount to $2,199,011.08, including 

 $244,761.08 for deficiencies; and the unpaid 

 warrants drawn in pursuance of such appro- 

 priations aggregated, on Dec. 31, 1893, $983,- 

 618.76, bearing 8 per cent, interest. To meet 

 this floating indebtedness, the State Treasurer 

 estimates the revenue receivable under the gen- 

 eral tax levy of 1893 at $835,175, and from 

 liquor licenses, insurance taxes, and fees paid 

 State officers, at $150,000, for the fiscal term. 

 The receipts on military-fund account during 

 1893 were $54,573.70, and the disbursements 

 $53,077.61. The State's bonded indebtedness is 



$300,000, and bears 3J per cent, interest. The 

 balance in the bond interest fund, Dec. 31, 1893, 

 was $6,685.72. 



Assessments and Taxes. The State Board 

 of Equalization fixed the total valuation of 

 property for 1893 at $283,110,032, divided as 

 follows: Real, $227,201,096; personal, $41,165,- 

 560; railroad track. $14,743,376. On this valu- 

 ation the board made the following levies: Gen- 

 eral fund, $835,175; military fund, $56,622; 

 bond interest fund, $14,155.50'. Railroad track 

 was divided for assessment purposes into six 

 classes, and valued at from $5,300 per mile for 

 first-class to $1.000 per mile for sixth class. 



Legislative Session. The third Legislature 

 began its regular session on Jan. 9, and ad- 

 journed on March 9. The railroad legislation 

 of the session was important. Under a peculiar 

 provision of the Washington Constitution any 

 bill disapproved by the Governor after the ad- 

 journment of the Legislature passing it must 

 be submitted to the next succeeding Legisla- 

 ture, with a statement of the reasons of the 

 Governor for such disapproval : whereupon such 

 succeeding Legislature is required to vote upon 

 the question whether the bill shall pass, not- 

 withstanding the objections of the Governor. 

 In accordance with this constitutional provision, 

 a measure known as the Wasson bill, passed by 

 the Legislature of 1891 and vetoed by Gov. 

 Laughton, was brought before the Legislature 

 of 1893, and was passed over the veto. The bill 

 provided that no greater charge should be made 

 by railroad companies for carrying wheat, bar- 

 ley, flour, or other mill stuffs, potatoes, melons, 

 or hay than 85 per cent, of the rates charged 



