The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-08
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OFF AMY M0RTH GAR0LlNA DAILY

oodlv walk as well as godly conVer-
sation!
To-day some of the delegates went
to Thomasville to see the Orphanage
and the orphans, and were we'll pleased
with all that they saw and heard. Mr..
Boone is moving matters along well,
and the Convention pledges him hearty
cooperation.
ORPHANAGE AT BROWNSVILLE.
The North Carolina Baptist Orphan-
age Association was organized in tie
Ps stor's study CT the First Baptist
church of Raleigh, \. c., on the 10Th of
November, 1884. The same year tine
Mitchell dwelling was erected by Dr.
John Mitchell. The first annual meet
ing was held on the grounds of the or
phanage near Thomasyille on the 5th
of August, 1885. The first orphans
registered Nov. 18th of the same year.
1t owed its origin to the great heart
and big brain of j. ii. Mills, who con-
ceived the idea of building the Orphan
age and who built it. His strong and
sunny face are missed from this con-
vention, and the lack of his words of
wit and wisdom, his touching talk
about the Orphanage,-this is the one
great lack of the convention. With
Pritchard and Hufham here, repre-
senting the Old Guard, the absence of
Jack Mills is a positive loss felt by
every one particularly those who have
been in closest touch with the orphans.
May he live long III the land where he
has wrought so unselfishly. so labor
iously, so noble. He has builded in the
lives of the young people he has train
ed and in all good people monument
that will stand as long as men honor
unselfish devotion to the weak. His
successor who is here has taken up the
work with zeal, and all friends oi the
orphan work bid him God-speed.
In 1889 the charter was amended and
the name Of the institution was chang
ed from the North Carolina Baptist
Orphanage Association to the North
Carolina Baptist 0rphanage.
The property of the orphanage con-
sists of 309 acres of land about half of
which has been cleared and is now in
cultivation, lying west of the town OF
Thomasville on the Southern Railway,
and the following buildings.
The Biggs Building dwelling and
eating house) paid for by Noah Biggs.
The Mitchell dwelling. paid for by
DIR. John Mitchell; the Mitchell eating
house, paid for by VI. W. Mitchell.
The Watson Buildings, paid for by
John Watson.
The Durham dwelling. paid for by
the First Baptist church Of Durham.
The eating house paid for by the Mt
Zion Association.
The Lea chapel 24x36, built by
Grand Mother" Lea as she was loving
liz called, and is used for preaching,
Sunday School and other religious ser
vices.
The Infirmary, 50x100 feet, built
by Mrs r. y. Fleming; The Nursery,
built by Dennis Simmons, having 5
rooms and combining dwelling and
eating house.
The Lassiter building erected by j.
II. Lassiter and containing the General
Managers and editors offices, proyis-
ion room and library.
The Miller building erected by Miss
Fannie Miller; and the bathing house
BY Miss G. G. Lilly.
All these buildings are Of brick and
well adapted for the purposes for
yhich they wcre intended
Five of these are school buildings.
There are five teachers, four of whom
are females, the other is treasurer of
the orphanage. There are five ma
irons. The school session is from s
a. NJ, till 1918 p. M. at o'clock the
children are required to perform man
ual labor with the same regularity and
energy that they pursue their studies.
The register shows the names of 315
children received into the olphanage
mp to the present tine. The. are
now l3D children there. Mr.. .jno. IL.
Mills was General Manager of the in
stitution from its organization up to
the last annual meeting. Rev. j. r..
Boone was chosen to succeed Mr. Mills
at that time MIR Boone is admirably
adapted by nature ard by experience
to the work before him. lie has had
children and youth under his control
for the greater part Of his life He is
an amiable, discreet. cultivated and
Just man lie is fearless, but not in
flexible, and knows exactly how to
temper justice with mercy
The family Of the general manager
reside on the orphanage grounds, and
the influence Or Mrs. Boone constantly
eXerted upon the children all around
her is most wholesome and happy.
Charity and Chiidren.the organ ofthe
Orphanage, is q 20-coIunin paper, pub
lished every Thursday ~ SI.G0 d year.
The paper will receive much more at
tention in the future than in he past.
| an editor. Mr.. Archibald Johnson. hav-
ing been employed. who will devote
his whole time to the paper He is a
man OF capacity, full OF zeal and good
works.
Last year the receipts in cash and
| in kind amounted 10 $9,375.7j.
No endowment vii be received for
he institution, the trustees believing
hat il should rest wholly on the
| hearts Of the people
The past ten years proves that the
| people will not be found recreant to
the trust reposed in them.
was compelled to leave before the
convention completed it's work for the
| day.
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| POSTAL OFFICIALS DISMISSED.
| WASHINGTON. Dee Z. Postmaster
| General Wilson has dismissed William