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$420,449.67; other resources, $189,925.05; total, 

 $10,526,900.30. Liabilities Capital stock paid in, 

 $2,525,297.15 ; surplus fund, $376,581.41 ; undivided 

 profits. $311.666.93; dividends unpaid. $2,372.26; 

 deposits subject to check, $5,208.917.98: due to 

 banks, $186,882.69; notes and bills rediscounted, 

 $108,103.35; cashiers' checks outstanding, $48,- 

 995.91; certified checks, $9,309.33; bills payable, 

 $285.434.95 ; demand certificates of deposit, $277,- 

 660.37; time certificates of deposit, $529,597.28} 

 other liabilities, $656,020.71 ; total, $10,52(5,900.30. 

 The total resources and liabilities of the State 

 banks were $7,074,293.25; of the private banks, 

 $1,533,854.08; of the savings banks, $1,918,752.97. 



Valuations, etc. The total valuation of all 

 classes of property in the State was reported at 

 $265.867,197.99 valuation of land, $110,063,057; 

 of mineral, quarry, and timber interests, $430,552 ; 

 of town lots, $44.786,560; of personal property, 

 $76,967.160. According to the report of the Rail- 

 road Commission, the total mileage of the State is 

 3.477.99 miles, and its total valuation $32,099,- 

 931.90. The Atlantic Coast Line, 788.87 miles, is 

 valued at $9,779,875.80; the Southern Railway 

 Company, 1,005.20 miles, at $10,565,729.20; miscel- 

 laneous roads, 1,078.30 miles, at $5,700,659.75. The 

 total assessed valuation of the steamboat property 

 is $293,937; of the telegraph companies, $803,510; 

 the Pullman Car Company property, $96,918.15; 

 and of the property of the Mercantile Trust and 

 Deposit Company, $326,071.94; making the total 

 assessed valuation of the railroad, steamboat, and 

 telegraph property of the State $33,619,868.19. The 

 gross income of the Atlantic Coast Line was given 

 as $1,283,262.25; of the Southern Railway, $1,724,- 

 489.08; of the Seaboard Air Line, $757,483.40; of 

 miscellaneous roads, $505,609.36. The number of 

 men engaged in railroading was 9,966. During the 

 year 780 persons were injured on the railroads and 

 99 were killed. Of the killed only 2 were passengers. 



The Railroad Commission points to the following 

 items as results of its administration for 1898 : 

 Increased tax valuation of telegraph and telephone 

 property, $4,462,769.96 ; discontinuance of free 

 passes and enforcement of the free-pass law ; rail- 

 roads required to refund overcharges within 30 days 

 after notice ; freight rates on fertilizers reduced 20 

 per cent., and on corn 10 per cent. ; mileage books 

 made good for members of the purchaser's family. 



Education. There were in the State 628,480 

 school children between the ages of six and twenty- 

 one 415,262 whites. 213,218 colored ; there were 

 enrolled 399,375261,223 whites, 138,152 colored; 

 total average attendance, 213,240 144,357 whites, 

 68.894 colored : percentage of school population in 

 average attendance, 34^ whites, 32^ colored; 

 average length of school terms, 71 days for whites, 

 64 days for colored ; average salary of teachers, 

 white 'males $24.66, white females $22.98, colored 

 males $21.64, colored females $19.85 ; value of 

 school property, for whites $683,363, for colored 

 $246,851, total $930,214 ; number of schools taught, 

 5,083 white, 2,404 colored. 



Crime. The Attorney-General published a sum- 

 mary of the criminal statistics of the State for the 

 ten years ending June 30, 1898, and in connection 

 therewith a summary of the number of trials, etc., 

 since 1890, showing that the increase of crime keeps 

 pace with the increase of population. The ratio of 

 whites to negroes is as 2 to 1. The report of the 

 year ending June 30, 1898, is takon. This shows 

 that there were 9,729 actions, of which 5,015 were 

 against whites, 4,672 against negroes, and 42 

 against Indians; 9,011 against males, 718 against 

 females. There were 6,238 convictions, 1,596 ac- 

 quittals, and nolle pros, was entered in 1,794 cases. 

 The percentage of crime by whites was not quite 



52 ; that of the negroes was a trifle over 48. The 

 cases tried for various crimes were as follows : As- 

 sault and battery, 660; abandonment, 55; abortion, 

 5 ; assault with deadly weapon, 1,032 ; affrays, 

 1.022; simple assault, 414; assault with intent to 

 commit rape, 27; arson, 10; attempt to burn 

 house, 1 ; bigamy, 19 ; burglary in the first degree, 

 19 ; burglary in the second degree, 21 ; carrying 

 concealed weapon, 942 ; cruelty to animals, 55 ; for- 

 gery, 53 : gambling, 399 ; housebreaking, 24; incest, 

 8; larceny, 1,497; libel, 7; manslaughter, 12 ; mur- 

 der in the first degree, 15 ; murder in the second 

 degree, 24 ; perjury, 57 ; rape, 23 ; riot, 3 ; robbery, 

 12 ; slander, 43 ; seduction, 35. 



Lynching. Emma Hartsell, daughter of Samuel 

 Hartsell. living near Concord, was found dead in 

 her father's house on the afternoon of May 29, she 

 having been outraged. A newspaper dispatch gave 

 this account of what occurred : " The young woman 

 was of a respectable family, and the news of the 

 affair spread rapidly. In a short time large bodies 

 of both town and country people assembled, and in 

 the course of an hour two negroes, Joe Kiser, aged 

 twenty-five, and Tom Johnson, aged twenty, were 

 arrested, and the sheriff managed to get them 

 safely to jail. The prisoners were placed in the 

 cage, the stronghold of the jail, and the sheriff and 

 other officers stood guard at the foot of the stairs. 

 They did all they could to prevent the jail being 

 forced, but as they looked out upon the sea of deter- 

 mined, angry faces they realized that nothing but 

 the blood of the guilty would satisfy them. It 

 was twenty minutes to ten o'clock when the mob, 

 unable any longer to restrain its fury, broke down 

 the jail doors. The sheriff and deputies were 

 overpowered and the crowd rushed up the stairs 

 toward the cell of the doomed men. The lock was 

 broken, the door opened, and the prisoner hauled 

 forth. The crowd called to the sheriff to get a 

 lamp, but only a lantern was to be had. By this 

 uncertain, fitful light the mob carried its victims 

 out, took them to the vicinity of the crime, and 

 hanged them to a tree. The bodies were filled 

 with bullets." 



A negro was hanged in Mr,con County, Nov. 7, 

 charged with attempting to assault two white 

 women. 



Industrial. There were 207 tobacco factories 

 in operation in the State in 1898, giving employ- 

 ment to 16,900 men, 9,700 women, and 5,200 chil- 

 dren. The production of plug tobacco had in- 

 creased 7,683,000 pounds over 1897, and 3,450,000 

 more cigars were made. The output of 323 lumber 

 mills aggregated $4,558,280 for the year. There 

 were 37 furniture factories, 126 tanneries, and !)C 

 flour mills in operation. There were but 33 cotton 

 mills operating in the State in 1870, equipped with 

 618 looms and 39,897 spindles ; ten years later tin 

 mills had increased to 49, the capacity of many old 

 ones had been enlarged, and there was an increase 

 of over 100 per cent, in the equipment, the looms 

 numbering 1,790 and the spindles 92,385 ; five years 

 later there was another increase of 100 per cent, in 

 round numbers, the mills being 80, with 4.071 looms 

 and 199,000 spindles: in January, 1898. there wero 

 207 mills, with 25.000 looms and 1,045,385 spindles. 

 Ten new spinning companies were organized during 

 the year, 9 additional mills were in course of erec- 

 tion,' and 10 hosiery and knitting mills were being 

 built. The average day's work is eleven and three- 

 quarter hours, and 293 was the average number of 

 days on which mills were in operation. 



Twenty gold mines were making deposits in th'J 

 assay office at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County lead- 

 ing in the number of mines, with Union second, and 

 Cabarrus third. There were 11 brownstone and 2.) 

 granite quarries at work, and 8 coal mines. Mica 



