Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-11
NORTH CAROLINA.
TIE PROGRESS OF THE rREE.scHooL
SYSTEM,
Major Fingers poport-The colered In
dustrial Fair-A Good showing
Political Matters,
.sneclnl telegram to the Dispatch

,,,oorcss made, cduca,i0nllly, In The state
In ,hr uasi wear. The expenditures for puO.
IT, instruction have far exceeded those
~, rrcyious wears. aud The general charlc-
,.r II the votb Es been more satisfactory
IN oil rcspeci, over 100000. u - cSti-
mated. has hecn expended. The num-
her N public sch'ol.hOusoS has IN
,rea.cd io over COCO. The direction
If .pccial flort now Is IN the
line a. rncttcring school terms.
1lt.c have tteo too short, say three aud a
b.fmouths. The erection Of better school
houses i. another special feature. The
uil,uc school, afe great alds q the higher
Institutions ~ earning and the colleges,
and every i~uroysmrlt In The first named
Z. At once f,'i On the latter. The percent
.ees Of Attendance are much more iayor1-
bic. and the report viii, from Us first page
10 it, last. show very pldnly how conscicn-
tious has been Maior Fingers work. lie
bssahlV hepu uphe'd lay the state officers
snd finds au increase of enthusiasm add
interest anon. his great corps OF teachers
which must crafty him, a. II certainty
gIalihcS others.
TIE COLorrp PEOTK's PAIR.
ope Of the most pleasant events 10 the
ooIorcd msr or woman which the entire
vcar affords l. the annual state Fair Of the
North Carolina Industrial Association,
which /, now in progress. When Governor
4r,f~opcned the first fair in 1879 he urged
thc coiored PEOPLE never 10 let the fairs
cease % b. annual eNpO>tions OF their
rgc,', imprN cmcut, industraily and So
cqlv. 80 nj fair has been missed;
,nd. though interest rather Jagged one or
two wears. vet II W., chiefly due 10 incOm-
pc,rni officers. The president now is John
:. carv. of Fayetteville, man held in
bish 1c>pcc' hy his race a. well as
Us the white people, and the sccrc-
,iry is George e. WaSsom. also an excellent
officer. OF course. the fair is not on scale
couuarablc with that Of the white people,
,et il j. well worth seeing. and il literally
r,,ronizcd by White people. There are
some $50 ct tries. these being mainly field
crops. poultry. cattle. and household and
i,urv article, There l. always more or less
.b0w ~ ri lures by colorcd artists, and the
1,ulk If ihi> " HIk Is crt ditabl0. In poultry
IN, fan can ltat H." rs the phrase il. for
the negro is hy instinct n poultry fan
c,cr The fairs are held at what was
Jurjpg the war Petisrew's Hospital,
and LATER Camp Russell, occupied
ly the nit,d States troops from 1866 10
fS-.. In 1851 the United states gave back
m. property to the state. TO which OF right
q belonged, and which had made formal
claim for il. lbc state has year after year
III me Colorcd people Use these grounds
fur their isir., and II besides gives them
annually 500 10 be used in the payment OF
premiums. The displays made are fully a.
creduabie 10 toe negroes AZ are those at the
white fairs 10 the whites. That very plainly
represents the Improvement tho colorcd
people have mtdc. As this fair was the
ir,t one ever hid 10y the colored people,
beginning. o, stated. in 1879, it has always
attracted more attention than Others.
II las alWly, received Official altCn-
ton. and since 1870 the Governors
Jarvis and >yalt,) have ALWAYS opened It,
and the Commissioner u Agriculture has
followed th,m I'm speech. The white peO-
ale feel kindly interest in the fair, and Il
b., always had their hearty aid and en-
courascmcut. Nearly all the well-knoWu
negro orators have spoken at these fairs.
Fred. DoUgi = telng so overcome here
some years ago nj what he saw, and what
De- heard Governor Jarvis say in bis adj
dress 90 the negroes, that ne actually re-
fused 10 make q political speech at night in
the city, aud merely spoke few words OF
friendly comment on the things he had
seen. II was very practical illustration Of
the fal,ity Of Radical statements and beliefs
about the South. -
SOME REFLECTIONS on THE ELECTION.
T. seems quite ike nightmare when one
thinks - last week. anxiety and fear
about the elections. The first news was ap-
railing. and the great structure which the
Democrats hsd reared seemed 10 be falling
almost bodily. The later news. rs the OIL
cial counts 81 the votes came in, was Of
hcjt,r tenor, and depressed spirits rose
again. Not great msny over hall Of the
counties have ~ yet been officially heard
from. hut the Democratic maiorlie- con-
,iuur 10 mount upward. Nobody could
calculate; both parties SeTc wide Of IL. ,
mark first. The Republicans did not have
:he l,ast idea how things were going.
Ten DAYS before the election their chairman
said tha, Wake county would give 800
Democratic majority; it really gave nearly |
2.Gn0tothc Republicans. The Republicans |
felt certain ~ the First aud Second con- !
src->lona districts; they lost both. They |
hardly counted on nclting Graham in this |
district, or Il ~ an, by the barest majority. |
They Were sure - defeating Johnston in !
jhc Ninth district. but then. at the eleventh !
hour one 81 their own party was put up as /
:" >tralghtoul a. inst the Independent |
Malone whom the mass OF the Republicans |
were pledged 10 support, and so Johnston
W.. triumphant, and another radical clcu-
laii'n Wss wrong. As 10 the supreme |
Court, II was not 10 first thought by the
Democrat, that the Republican nominees
would Get any votes worth mentioning, bat
N last saturday il was calculated by
come good Democrat, that the Radicals had
certainty elected their Judicial ticket.
tWrlt, NJ. Bu-lrc. Ed. ohligingly made !
calculation 'or Your correspondent Suur-
DAY. and turel 800 It's the Republican
the Republican chair
man, claiming 300 90 1900. Everybody
Ml,,aicuiI,,d. because in some pccuilr
way the election wa, different from all
Other elections, and the usual ways Of e>ti-
mailing d'd Deco. work. FIRST the Republi-
'ai advanced ana The Democrats rcurcd;
DO" t.r rD' !,D j, thc ease. The Demo-
Pi' carry OBJ. STATE ticket by m9lori'ics
td iic "ti Dom lO 600 Co 5000 (a> claim,
r.. hal, tr>.n.'", ana may even have the
I'N'r iot-' after sil that has been
'd1 ana done. The rcVerscs Of the
0e'i'o1 have taught lesson, and
'Ic uni wasted al an. IL is sad
iiH' the smaller mioritcs In the General
As ma.y will prove a benefit rather than !
D.io-itr. au1 that what hI- happened
Do l''t viii bot -LoW the Democrats the
.ofc surely whore 10 place their attack and
'i ilfT operations IN lN>S. Questions
5uc up, aud there were complications be-
Ie Unknown FOB North Carolina politics.
N.nF o'd tlites-laulmarks in politics
..J passed awaf, some never - return
ia.ts. 'ud matters took such strange
.ic Thar not Few persons predicted The
I two or even more uew parties on
ruin. ~ .l. old ones.
'.-.Il turns from the Third congress
.r.i district show Nee lammy'' majority
h. a.>.l. lI. bad no opposition. Official |
NIt, i"m iuc Sixth district show Row.
org i..'F 90 hr G,loS.
>r'r. s.. .iors were voted FOR. andsthe
cams elected ., these being White
i.. Second district, Ar-O Of the Fourth, J
F-i ttH ~ t1c ifth, Thomas SCttle, Jr.,
Do on. Ni'tt. and Woody OF The Twelfth.
]. irrl, oUt. after all, that The Republican !
..'> w,ic not distributed IN several |
tIu., from which return, were not re-
''tJ carly. and tac Democratic majority
rs reach $1,000 or 10000. Thus iar the
-l' ruuIu. hl,c CONF in from >iXty-twO
p ir niuNy--iN couutics. The very best
npnfiou shows the following result in
.r Legislature: Senate. - Democrats, Is
.Dh.vtus, Q Independents; House, % |
'-ocra.., 81 Republicans, 10 lndepen-
lUt..
lie attendance a. the c0lorcd state Fair !
' fairly large. At noon John II. Lang !
on .colofcf) spoke, making q formal adj |
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