Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-01-24
MATTERs AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Board of = grieuItur-. The Scotch I'M
migrants. Mr.. Hale'S New
Paper, Ete.


RALEIGH, Jan. 20, 1864-The State
Board of Agriculture met Thursday,
and transacted much important bust
ncss. Hon. Kemp 2. Battle offered 4
resolution, directing Commissioner
McGeehee to enquire and report
the following points regarding a State
exhibit 1t New Orleans next winter:
1. 4 lat facilities cen be secured
for the transportation to and from New
Orleans of such material as the board
may desire to exhibit ?. What space
can be obtained on the floor'of the ex-
position building, and lis exact loca-
ton in the same, and as this is impor-
tant, he is authorized to visit or send
an agent to New Orleans, if he should
deem it necessary. 3. What will be
the probable cost of making such an
exhibition at New Orleans, of our re-
sources and industries as shall be in
every way worthy Of the State. A.
What money Will be at the command
Of the board available for this pur-
pose.
The sum of $500 was appropriated
to be spent under DR.. Dabney's direc-
ton, in further, exploring the phos-
phate beds of Eastern North Carolina
Mr.. William Hart, a Scotch gentle
man, and an artisan in wood was here
recently, and I learn, that after look
ing over the State, has concluded to
make Winston his future home. A
friend of his last Fail, during the
progress ofthe Boston Exposition, sent
him copy Of the Boston Herald con-
tanning marked descriptions of North
Carolina's wonderful resources. That
one copy will probably be the means
Of giving to your thriving city most
enterprising citizen.
| was speaking recently with Mr..
Patrick, Commissioner Of Immigration,
and he told me that the "crofters"
from the Scotch island of Skye, are to
sail for North Carolina tomorrow
There Will be three hundred in the
first party and many more Will doubt
less follow. They will settle in Rich
mond county. Strikes us that Mr..
Patrick being a State officer, should
not contine his efforts in behalf of his
own immediate neighborhood, but to
scatter new comers in different parts
for example, he could not do better
than to send some to your own locali-
ty, where | know labor to be scarce in
the factory seasons, and not over
abundant at any time.
OF course the SEsTI1EL's readers
have heard, ere this, Of Mr. Peter
HaIe's new paper, the Raleigh Regis
ter. He promises to make it a semi
weekly and-I haven't Il doubt in the
world that it will eventually become a
daily. There is a sad need here for 81
good morning paper, as everybody
seems dissatisfied with the present
makeshift. Mr.. Hale being journ-
alist ''by nature and more so by prac-
tice'' will easily fill the vacuum and
add strength to the Democracy that
during the regime of the present capt
tai daily, has dwindled down from ff-
teen thousand to the pitiful majority
of four hundred and something.
OF course everybody talks about
the State Exposition next Fall, and
says its going to be a grand success,
and | am sure every patriot in North
Carolina wishes it to be. | was glad
to see the SENTINEL last week urging
SO strenuously upon the business men
Of the Twin City to awake to the reali-
zation of the Importance Of being fully
represented, and moreover to invest in
the stock Of the Exposition company.
Many Of us here, remember we'll the
Forsyth Exhibit, ct the State Fair a
few years ago. Now if you can go to
work, and do as well as you did then
in proportion to your progress since, |
think your people will feel better
about il, and l am sure it will be the
means Of attracting not only marked
attention to your wonderful growth,
but it will be productive of increasing
the immigration that now seems to be
pouring in your direction. C-Sro.