Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-22
Price Four Gents.

| enjoyment or the guests. 16e next town
 south, beautiful drive of nine miles, is 1 Franklyn a busy place. in which is the
 finest church in the State belonging to the colored people, being large white painted l edifce seating some five or six hundred.
 Here is also large three story school build | ing for the colored people, and in fact some
 of the best houses in the place are owned by
 successful colored people. As person re-
 marked, 'This place is wholly under the con trol and mostly owned by colored people and | is very thriving town"
 | On the trip to Raleigh the conductor Cor l the captain, as they called here of the train very politely asked me to witness the | stocking of shad in the Neuse river" After | passing the long suspension bridge which | spans this river alighting from the train, | which had stopped for the purpose, we went l down the embankment some 150 feet to the river. Following us were men carrying four 1 large cans (such as are used to carry the small fsh) in each of which was 5O coo small | shad (20O, 900 in all). The men, stepping out upon the rocks for 8 sufficient depth of
 water, uncovered the cans, when the small
 shad were soon Host to sight" We return ed to the cars and onward sped our way to l Raleigh On the road we passed Baptist
 college, at which there are over one hundred
 students. The fine old building and hand some grounds made fine appearance in the | setting sun Git was perfect fiItalian sunset') l which occurred at that time. Here would mention that when in Raleigh, through the kindness of and accompanied by E. Grissom M D. ILL D. superintendent Of the State Hos | pital foT the insane at Raleigh, we visited the | Shaw University, another Baptist institution. Here we were introduced to Presid- nt Tup- | per, who, when he found we were from New ! Haven, said he felt almost acquainted with
 us, as he had been in and had pleasant recol- leetlons of New Haven, and was acquainted with many people there, from whom he had | received encouragement as well as material | kins the builder was one of
 the trustees of his university | He said he had received encouragement and material aid from Mrs. Prof. WayIand Mrs o. F. Winchester, Mrs. H. M. Welch, Mir | $. Weir, Mrs. J. Nj. Davies and others. and
 could these worthy persons see the great l economy used and the excellent management | of the funds by MT. Tupper, and the great good he IS dong, they could not but feel | happy over what they have gwen, ani am
 sure would be willing to contribute still fur | ther for the advancement of that university l Besides the buildings already erected Mr. Tupper Is just finishing building for the medical department on an acre of land con- l tributed by the State. The university is greatly indebted for this acre of land to Doe tor E. Grissom, superintendent of the insane
 
 | la the Senate by one vote, went and asked as personal favor of two of his friends in the Senate to change their contemplated vote which change gave the acre to the uniyer-
 sity by one majority. The buildings are of
 brick, the clay for which NIT. Tupper pro-
 cured from and burned on the ground (virtu- ally taking the buildings to the material of
 which they were made, instead of taking the
 materials to the ground), he experimenting the whole from the time of digging the clay till the buildings s-were finished, remaining
 here through the entire seven months and
 taking no vacation Mir Tupper is most
 lndefatigable worker, superintends every
 thing himself and throws his whole heal
 body and soul into this "child" of his, and 8
 man more deserving of success does not exist
 am happy to know that success Is crovning
 his efforts MT. Slater, of Norwich, Ct. might have given a part of his million to
 this university and not gone auliss. The
 Shaw university" was named for gentle
 man in North Carolina, he being the first per-
 son who rendered assistance to President Tupper. The grounds are being graded and
 in time will be beautiful, and will be, if they
 are not now, one of the principal attractions of the ''city of oaks'' ito which ''city of
 oaks" l gave the greeting of the ''ci.y of | elms."
 We were met at our hotel and ''did the city" with Dr. Grissom, acknowledged to be
 ''the most popular man in North Carolina. g A Union man before the war, he changed to 8 Secessionist, commanded a company, was
 wounded, but when the surrender was made became and Is now Republican Dr. Gris- som has been offered, but refused, the noni. nation for Governor of the State. He was | elected some fourteen years ago superintend- 1 ent of the State insane hospital end has been ! reelected by every subsequent Legislature. A few years ago when the Democrats came
 into power and party feeling ran high" and | the red flag was thrown to the breeze on which was enblazoned ''eYery Republican to I be removed from office" Dr. Grissom was the only Republican who was retained, aad
 he has been retained by every Democratic I Legislature since, because they know his popularity and that they have not his equal l in the State, not only for that position, but
 that he is equal to any place the State can l give Dr. G. has two very bright sons, one l of whom is a very superior scholar, and whom ] the doctor hopes, when old enough, to send I to Yale. which college he holds in the highest estimation.
 Among the places of interest to which Dr. Grissom introduced us was St Mary's Episco- pal Institute, which has some 135 scholars from every southern State, quaint and ven l erable old building situated some 300 feet from the street in the most beautiful grove of immense oaks ever saw. Here we saw old pictures and O. her things of great interest We also visited the Peace Presbyterian h. stitute" (named for the founder, whose name
 was Peace). The principal is Rev. Mir Bun nell native of North Carolina, who is as- | sisted by Mrs BunneH, (the venerable father
 who for years presided over the institute be- fore removal to Raleigh still lives and re-
 sides with the son, and other competent in-
 structors. A visit to this Institute would well repay trip to Raleigh 4 speciality here is the Art department. The paintings and . kalyz passed in extent anything I have ever seen The "profciency of its scholars is immense 7" Everything about this Institute is perfect The grounds, being more recently laid out I do not compare with the exquisite grounds of St. Mary's After visiting the federal and confederate cemetery we went to the institu- | ton over which Dr. Grissom presides on the
 way to which We were shown the tree and l limb upon which General Kilpatriek hung 6 Texas Ranger" after the su&render, which l occurred in this way: After the surrender of
 the city of Raleigh to Sherman the Texas ! Rangers began to rob the stores, pillsge
 houses, etc. and as they left town passing | some of General Kipstrick's men a he1ten- | ant shot one, whereupon General K- ordered a pursuit. The lieutenant was captured and hung (not on a sour apple tree. but on the ! limb of an oak tree) and buried in the bank
 near by. Subsequently some of the women | of Raleigh had his remains removed
 and buried in the Confederate cem- | etery, and among the other graves | which had but small board this one
 was particularly conspicuous by the large
 slab which marked his grave The State in- | sane hospital over which Dr. Grissom pre- l sides andof which he has been so long the su- 1 perintendent, deserves a much longer notice
 than I can give. North Carolina has done
 many noble things and is grand old State.
 She Is, believe, the only State in the Union
 which as State supports her insane. No
 one can pay anything for treatment here
 same, the State supports them. Every in
 sane citizen of the State has the right to go l there free gratis Everything about and in | the grounds and building shows that there is
 a master mind directing all, and for the
 amount appropriated by the State for it's
 maintenance it is wonderful that | so much has been accomplished,
 and that so much could be done for the in mates. Cleanliness, neatness. order and an air | of comfort are marked features of the whole 1 establishment. Were money appropriated ] by the State (which, am told, under the | embarrassed state of it's finances could not l be- it would be, doubt not, the model ipsti- | tuition of the country. Dr. Grissom spoke
 very highly of our Connecticut institution
 and it's superintendent, Doctor Shev.
 1 Among the notables to whom we were pre- ! sented was His Excellency the Governor of | the State and his accomplished lady The | Governor expressed his regrets that he could ] not introduce us to places of intere-t in his | department as he had an engagement out of kl, 1sN