Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-23

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Especial telegram 70 The Dispatch.l
RALEIGH, n. c., june 22.--Mr.
Quarantine, living near Chapel Hill,
lost two sons Saturday. They came
up TO their home, lay down on the pi-
ARA. were quickly seized with convul-
sions. and died in few minutes. The
boys had been eating cherries and other
fruits, and il is supposed had in some
way become poisoned.
". L. Person, Of Rocky Mount,
extends challenge TO all mail
carriers in the State. He walks
every day from Rocky Mount to
Nashville and returns, carrying an
average weight of rs pounds Of mall
matter. His best time with his burden
is five miles in fifty-seven minutes. HIS
challenge was accepted by Letter-Car-
rier jeff. Denton, Of this city, the con-
test 10 come OF on the race-track at the
State GROUNDS near this city, each man
20 carry IS pounds weight, and to walk
ten or f..teen miles as may be agreed
upon.
II has been decided to form a social
club here, composed Of the most prom
inent citizens. The purposes are to
entertain visitors to Raleigh and de-
yelop the many features necessary to
the prosperity Of the place.
This evening w. J. Hicks, a warden
Of the penitentiary, returned from
Franklinton, bringing l2j conyicts who
have been employed in the construc-
fion OF the railway from Frank
linton 10 Lorisburg. He left thirty
convicts there TO complete the last
half mile of the road The men brought
here will be put at work on the Cape
Fear and Yadkin-Yalley and Western
North Carolina railroads in few days.
There has been quite a pressure re-
Gently for more conyicts for these two
lines, and there is also special request
for ccnvicts TO build the new road from
Clinton to Warsaw. The authori-
ties of the Raleigh and Au-
gusta Airline will build the
road from Moncure to Pittsboro'.
The work will begin in August,
and fifty conyicts will be put on
the work in September. The in
terest felt in the construction Of these
short lines of road is very great.
Over 1900 applications for pensions
have been made by soldiers and sol
diers' widows under the act of the last
Legislature. The number Of applicants
will reach 1000. Auditor Roberts be-
lieyes only one peDsioner can be found
in Tyrrell county, while some other
counties furnish as many as $50. There
are many more widows than disabled
soldiers.
Only residents Of the State now are
entitled to aid under the act. North
CaIoliniaDs living in other States daily
make application, but their claims are
not entertained. AS the amount of the
annual appropriation is only $4,000,
each pensioner will get a mere pittance.
Friday night the citizens of Newton
were greatly alarmed at hearing an
Ominous roaring, such as accompanied
the cyclone year ago. Only severe
rain occurred there, however. A dam
aging water-spout started three miles
from the town, and followed Clarke's
creek, sweeping off crops as it went.
The exact amount Of the damage is not
yet ascertained.
Friday young white man was work
ing on the wall Of the insane asylum at
Morganton. He had committed some
offence. and was afraid the constable |
was after him. 4 stranger came to
the wall and so frightened the young
man that he fell to the ground, a dis
tance Of seyenty-fve feet. Strange to
say. he was not hurt, but ran of as
soon as he recovered his senses.
The State Colored Normal School
at Fayetteville closes its eighth year
Friday. The present session has been
largely attended and the progress made
by the students is very satisfactory.
The attendance is lG4. The State APP
propriates $4,000 annually for this
school. Ii is one OF the thirteen State
normal schools; the other twelve will
all be in operation in a week. The at
tendance at all will exceed $500.
Track-laying on the Spartanburg and
Asheville railroad begins August the
list. Two hundred convcts are rapidly
building the line between Asheville
and Henderson. More convicts go
there in few days.
Additions are daily made to the
members attending the Teachers As
sembly at Black Mountain.
After long debate Saturday the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously |
adopted Thatth educational interests
of North Carolina demand that the |
State make provision for giving aid to
young men and women preparing them |
selves in the normal schools Of the |
State for teachers of graded and COM
mon schools The wish Of the Teach
ers' Assembly is that the State
In the future use the entire nor |
mal.schOOl fund in establishing |
a permanent normal school for the in
Struction Of both male and female teach
ers-ths normal school to grant certi.
iicates Of proficiency to graduates,
which shall take the place Of future ex-
aminationS by county superintendent, |
and students at this normal school to
be sent to conduct all the county insti-
tutcS Of the State.