Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-02

lNllNi w Ahb OOoAto Va -
and of education in all the counties in
the State:
son the first Monday Of June an cleo
ton for a county superintendent, to
hold office for the term of two years
from the first Monday Of December
next will be held. The progress
made in counties in which efficient SUI
perintendents have heretofore operated
demonstrates the wisdom of the Legis-
lature in providing this Office, aud sm-
phasizes the Importance Of the duty
imposed upon your boards and trustees
to select men worthy and well qualified
to perform the duties. The decision
Of the Supreme Court in the case Of
Barksdale ~. The Commissioners OF
Sampson county having settled the
point that even to carry out the pro-
visions Of the school law the county
commissioners cannot exceed the con-
stitutional limit of taxation. desire to
call the attention of the commissioners
to the fact that if the limit is not
reached the duty imposed on them by
this section is not only mandatory, but
is relieved by this decision Of all the
doubt as to its constitutionslty. The
Limitation is 81 on poll and Cos
cents on each 800 worth OF pro-
perty to be applied to general
State and county purposes, and does
not apply to special taxes laid by spe-
cial acts Of the Assembly, Whether
the limitation is reached or not it is the
duty of the County Board Of Educa-
ton to lay before the county commis-
sioners an estimate of the amount ne
cessary to continue the schools four
months. 1t is hoped the commission
ers will find some margin to be applied
to the schools. In the case Of Puett
& Pasour rs. The Commissioners Of
CASTOR county the Supreme Court has
decided that the local assessment act
is unconstitutional, and therefore no
taxes can be levied under this act."
The North Carolina Teachers Educa-
tional Association has been called to
meet at Kittrell's July eth.
John Mendenhall, well-known citi-
zen Of Randolph county, has committed
suicide by hanging himself in the loft
of his house. Bad health was the cause.
The decision Of the Supreme Court in
the Durham eraded-schoOl case renders
it impossible to longer maintain the
Newberne graded school by taxation.
The discontinuance of the school does
not by any means necessarily follow.
The public-school funds and receipts
from property will probably maintain
the school up to and including the fifth
grade. Newberne, like Durham, has
no colored graded school, and this dis
is what the court held to be
illegal.
Hon. Thomas Rufiin is seriously i'll
at his residence, at Hlllsboro'. His /
health for two years has been rather
feeble.
A band Of desperadoes have been
committing numerous depredations near
High Point. They assaulted on sepa.
rate occasions two girls--one white and
he other colOred. Some think they
ire escaped convicts. A white man
md two negroes have been seen fire.
iuently. There are, Of course, many
escaped conyicts-some notorious cri-
hiding in various parts Of the
state. They have escaped from time
o time in the past fifteen years.
Some damage was done by hailstones
long the southern border of the State
esterday. All along the line Of the
)arolina Central railway it was heavy.
'rops were not sufficiently advanced
o permit extensive damage.
A great masS-meeting is called at
lorganton next Saturday to discuss
be question of a new railroad. The
eople Of that section have the railway
raZe.
Forty-two years ago Judge G.. W.
rench, Of Washington, ID. c., then q
ian of twenty-five, courted Miss Fran
es Nancy, of Beaufort, this State.
hey we're separated. A few weeks
go, after forty-two years Of silence,
e began to correspond with her, and
esterday he arrived at Beaufort and
hey were married. The brides fam
y is we'll known in all that section.
State Treasurer Balm issued forty
70 licenses to drummers last month,
edmond taking nine of this number.
Rev. W. II. Watkins, we'll known
ember CT the North Carolina Confer
nee, died yesterday at his home at Al
emarle, Stanley county.
Mecklenburg Presbytery is in ses-
On at Shelby. 1t chose Rev. A. G.
uckner moderator and Rev. P. r.
aw clerk.
At a meeting OF the colored Presby-
ry at Laurinburg on Thursday eve
ng a great number OF white and
lored people packed the church, not
lily on the main floor, but in the gal.
ries. where all the seats were filed
ID all standing-room utilized. A sud- 7
IN cracking Of timbers was heard
most Immediately the galleries broke
,wn and fell with loads Of people !
ION that portion Of the congregation ,
ated below. The greatest excite ment 8
sued, amounting almost to a panic.
hose who were not entangled in the .
reck quickly vacated the building. I
10 injured were rescued. Great relief
rs felt when it was known that no one
As killed. A number had an arm or
3 broken, and still . larger number {
ere bruised and scratched. Among
e injured were couple Of white men,
nnfovees NJ the Cavnt;ra Cantral rail | {