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NORTH CAROLINA. 



the usual training of a young officer. With all 

 this, he is said to take very little interest either 

 in military affairs or in politics. He is not well 

 built and powerful physically as his father was, 

 and is of a retiring disposition. He was be- 

 trothed to Princess Alix of Hesse, who is a 

 granddaughter of Queen Victoria, her mother 

 having been the Princess Alice, who died in 

 1878. The marriage was celebrated in the Win- 

 ter Palace at St. Petersburg, Nov. 26, 1894, one 

 week after the funeral of Alexander III. The 

 symbolic rite was performed by the metropolitan 

 archbishop and his assistant priests. Two jew- 

 eled crowns, bearing figures of Christ and the 

 Virgin Mary, were held above the heads of the 

 pairduring'the ceremony, several Russian grand 

 dukes relieving one another in the task, while 

 the high priest, standing before the couple, 

 joined their hands under his stole. At the close 

 of the ceremony the bride and bridegroom kissed 

 the portraits oii the crowns, which were then re- 

 moved. The princess was obliged to adopt the 

 religion of the Greek Church, and received the 

 name of Alexandra Peodorovna. 



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; 555,500 in 

 1810 ; 638,829 in 1820 ; 737,987 in 1830 ; 753.419 in 

 1840; 869,039 in 1850; 992,622 in 1860; 1,071,361 

 in 1870 ; 1,399,750 in 1880 ; and 1,617,947 in 1890. 

 Capital, Raleigh. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Elias Carr ; 

 Lieiitenant-Governor, Richard A. Doughton ; 

 Secretary of State, Octavius Coke; Treasurer, 

 Samuel McD. Tate; Auditor, Robert M. Fur- 

 man ; Attorney-General, Frank I. Osborne ; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, John C. 

 Scarborough ; Commissioner of Labor Statistics, 

 B. R. Lacy : Commissioner of Agriculture, John 

 Robinson ; Railroad Commissioners, J.W.Wilson, 

 J. W. Mason, and E. C. Biddingfield ; Adjutant 

 General, F. H. Cameron ; Chief Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, James S. Shepherd ; Associate Jus- 

 tices, A. C. A very, Walter Clark, James C. McRae, 

 and Armistead Burwell all Democrats. 



Finances. The following is from the report of 

 the committee appointed by the General Assem- 

 bly of 1893 to examine the accounts of the Treas- 

 urer and Auditor for 1893 and 1894 : 



Receipts for fiscal year 1893: Public fund, 

 $1,491,467.27 ; educational fund, $59,656.02. 

 Disbursements for fiscal year 1893 : Public fund. 

 $1,284,024.41 ; educational fund, $26,909.77. 

 Balance, Dec. 1, 1893 : Public fund, $207,442.86 ; 

 educational fund, $32,746.25. 



Receipts for fiscal year 1894: Public fund, 

 $1,446,988.71 ; educational fund, $51,822.25. 

 Disbursements for fiscal year 1894 : Public fund, 

 $1,143,749.33 ; educational fund, $43,734.53. 

 Balance, Dec. 1, 1894 : Public fund, $303,239.- 

 38 ; educational fund, $8,087.72. 



There is a balance in the treasury of $311,- 

 327.10, of which amount $8,087.72 belongs to the 

 educational fund. The remainder is the public 

 fund. 



The aggregate balance of book funds remain- 

 ing in the treasury on Nov. 30, 1892, was $338,- 

 969.74, showing a difference against this year 



of $27,642.66. In the meantime there has been 

 apportioned from the educational fund to the 

 various counties of the State for the benefit of 

 the common schools $36,084.30, the greater part 

 of which has been paid, making an actual in- 

 crease of the surplus during the two years of 

 $8,441.64. The cash balance in the treasury 

 Dec. 1 was $114,531.15. Under the funding act 

 1879, $3,322,800 in 4-per-cent. bonds have been 

 issued in exchange for the old recognized debt 

 of the State. There are still some old bonds 

 outstanding, which when funded will require a 

 further issue of $292,970 new 4-per-cent. bonds. 

 The State owns, as an investment, $156,750 of 

 these bonds, and the Board of Education owns 

 $143,250. 



The total amount spent for pensions this year 

 was $105,132, an increase of $5,818. On the roll 

 there are 4,886 pensioners, a net increase of 36. 



The rate of taxation was reduced in 1893 from 

 25 to 22 cents. 



A majority of the counties have no debt. The 

 aggregate public indebtedness, the Auditor says, 

 will not exceed one twenty-fifth of the aggre- 

 gate value of the taxpaying property of the 

 State. The taxable property is $262,927,119.87. 

 The per capita State and county taxation in 

 1893 was $1.44. 



Of the funds returned by the United States 

 Government for distribution among citizens who 

 paid the direct land tax there remains $24,000 

 in North Carolina 4-per-cent. bonds, worth 

 $24,480 ; cash in bank, $3,508.39 ; loaned to the 

 State by act of Assembly, World's Fair, $25,- 

 000 ; balance principal, $52,988.39. 



Farm and Home Ownership. The census 

 statistics show that 41'72 per cent, of the farm 

 families in the State hire, and 52-28 per cent, 

 own the farms cultivated by them ; that 4'88 

 per cent, of the farm-owning families own sub- 

 ject to incumbrance, and 95'12 per cent, own 

 free of incumbrance. 



The corresponding facts for homes are that 

 74"23 per cent, of the home families hire, and 

 25'77 per cent, own their homes; that of the 

 home-owning families 95-1 per cent, own free, 

 and 4-9 per cent, with incumbrance. 



There are 5 cities in the State in the class 

 of those having a population of 8,000 to 100,000, 

 and in these cities 73*7 per cent, of the home 

 families hire, and 26'3 per cent, own their homes, 

 and of the home-owning families 6-3 per cent, 

 with incumbrance, and 93-7 per cent, own free of 

 incumbrance. 



Education. The school population numbers 

 601,900 white and 359,385 colored. The school 

 fund, derived from the sale of swamp lands and 

 apportioned to the counties, amounted to $43,- 

 267. At present the State provides for only 

 thirteen weeks of school. In the cities the 

 school year is nine months. The number of 

 schools for whites is 4,603; for colored, 2.376. 

 The sum of $775,449 was expended for schools 

 during the year. The average salary for white 

 male teachers is $26.33; colored, $24.69; for 

 white female teachers, $22.72 ; colored, $20.14 a 

 month. 



The Normal and Industrial School for Girls 

 at Greensboro had 391 students in November. 

 It has been established only two years, and re- 

 ceives but a small appropriation from the State. 



