The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-23
DANvTT.I.E.


A YEw MOVE FOR THE EDUCATION OF COL.
OREp PeoPLE-wHEAT ITEMs-DEATH OF
AN AGED woMAN-PERsONALs-o DOOR
AMUsEMENTs.
Correspondence OF the Richmond DispatcbI
July %, 1881.
For about the last sixteen years the
Friends Freedmen's Association, OIL Pblla-
delphla, have been keeping up schools Tor
the colored people at many places IN me
souih-as at Danyille, Greensboro, Hign
Point, for instance. II has been tue custom
OF the Association to appoint the teaeneTs,
fix their salaries. and call upon the authorl-
ties OF the several towns TO pay something lot
their support. Supplement their salaries
Il the terms generally used, believe. The
schaoI authorities at Danville have been
co0perating with the Association, and for
tbe last several years have been paying
their teachers annually between one thou
sand and fifteen hundred dollars. | am
Informed by one OF the school trustees that
this course will be pursued DO longer;
that the trustees will take charge OF the
coIored school, appoint Que white man
"a principal, and employ as far as pos
sIbe colored people as assistants. The
teachers sent down by the Association
have not been teaching ordinarily mole
than six months in the year. The trustees
now propose TO have sessions OF the length
usual in the schools for white children.
They propose al-O to have such instruc-
ton given the colored children as will be OF
most service TO them In those pursuits
which they must follow, such as cooking,
laundry-wOrk, general house service, &c',
&c. This along with the ordinary lnSlruc-
ton in the common-sc1oOl studies. Of
course 1t will be required that the teachers
appointed for the cOlored schools shall nave
passed satisfactory examinations.
I ought to have written some days ago
that Major Sutherlin bad sold bis crop OF
wheat Tor four thousand bushels thereby TO
Mr.. George w. YarbrOugh, OF the Danyllle
mills, at Sl.2j per bushcl. We have this
morning two other wheat items. Mr.
Abram Riyes, Of Halifax, who trades in
Danyllc, reports that he made one hundred
and fOrty.f four bushels from six bushels OF
seed, and Mr.. Boiling CLANCY ninety. seven
and a half bushels from four bushels OF SEED.
Mrs. Judith DOss died near Wards Spring
dep0t, in this county, on The 9th instant, al
the age of 102 years.
PEOPLE are speaking in high terms this
morning Of the sermon on Jacob preached
here on Tuesd1y night by Rev. Or. Hatcher,
who was then on his way home from Patrick
county.
In the hottest part Of June there was
tournament held in the northern part OF
this county. Another was held in the same
region on The 10th instant. Another, TO be
held at Chatham this time, is now talked
about. The programme is even made out.
Well, the young people OF this county "do
not mind the weather il the wind don't
blow" For Sunday.SchOOl pic-nics, for
public-,chool pic-ncs, for tournaments, for
political pic-nics, for all kinds OF out door
amusemeuts in which gentlemen and ladies'
may engage, they are ahead OF any other
people in the State. And when the nomi-
nations have been made and the canvass has
really begun they will enter into 1t with
zest that few other people viii manifest
They Will even applaud Colonel Cameron
when be may happen to make good bit,
and vote against him call the same"
ALPHA.