North Carolina finances show a deficit amid 1879 spendings
The Raleigh Observer reports total receipts $552,839.95 and expenses $577,658.45 for year ending September 30, 1879, with taxes and special levies totaling $272,714.91 and separate sums for the Insane Asylum and penitentiary. It argues state spending exceeds revenue by about $23,000 annually, but the Raleigh paper cites anticipated lower contingencies and printing costs for 1880, projecting no two-year deficit.
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Raleigh Observer
Insame
North Carolina
Fayetteville
Gazette
D&c
General Assembly
Willing an Incumbrance and the Honest Will
An old man jokes about his will and incumbrances as a lawyer lists his assets including a troublesome dog a sow and a box pipe with a note that a house may go to his chosen heir despite an encumbrance on the home. The piece ends noting that self-made men often prove safest for great undertakings due to tested durable character.
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Jenny
Holme’s Cottage
Edith
Deane
Avevsta
Granite Hall
Gonneil
Lancaster
Maine
Associated Press
Eph
Edison’s Electric Light Exhibition Advances at Menlo Park
Public display preparations for Edison electric light move quickly. Two street lamps, chandeliers and wiring connect to the generator as hundreds visit Menlo Park to witness the glowing lab lights and learn the horse power, cost and mechanism behind the new illumination.
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Edison
Menlo Park
Ineventor
New York Herald
Destruction of a Montgomery distillery sparks shootout
Deputy Collector Byrd and his company were fired upon while aiding the destruction of a Montgomery County distillery. George Luther and Joby Colfigott fled as the squad approached at daylight. Officers cut down the older stills and seized the vessel. Luther and Colfigott opened fire from the brush, wounding a deputy’s guide and his horse.
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Byrd
Comepany
Montgomery County
Raleigh Observer
George Luther
Joby Colfigott
Luther
Collicott
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