The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22


fng-fslling OF In Crime.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel,
Raleigh. y. c., June Is
What is known as the old" or city
cemetery here is one Of the quaintest
places OF the kind in the state. A
broad walk is the dividing line between
the two races. Whites and blacks
there sleep their last sleep. The GEM
etery was established in 1892. 1t was
the sole one and was then outside the
city A cluster of rough granite monu-
ments, or rather headstones, marks the
place of burial of several persons of the
English and Scotch workmen who came
here 10 prepare the stone for the pres
ent capitol. On one of these. below
the usual inscription, are these words:
He died Flint" Were the "Flints"
a society or were they obdurate unbe-
lievers? On another of these tomb
stones is the Queerest name of all in
the cemetery-Mrs. Jinling Cattenach.
She was scotch.
Ihe republican and populist men,
sore by reason of the newspaper at
tacks on them. They express their SEN
tlments in no uncertain tones The
members of the present legislature are
also exceedingly sore both by reason
or that body's bad record in many re-
spects, and also because of the use
they know will be made in the 1898
campaign of it's errors of omission and
commission.
The Agricultural and Mechanical COL
IeSe has a fine plant. There is only one
trouble; the heating is deficient. This
part of the plant will have to be i'm
proved. There are now the main build
ing. mess hall, with dOrmitories above.
TOUR dormitories, engine and electric
lSht house, mechanical department
horticultural building, barn and dairy.
A hospital will next be built.
The actual number of students in at
tendance during the last term approx
lmated 200 There is room for twice as
many and they ought to be in attend
ance. There We're over 500 at the
South Carolina agricultural college.
and 1t is said the one here is superior
to it.
In the mechanical department there
are on the ground floor four rooms In
the one for the freshmen wood working
is taught and there are the work
benches for thirty students. In the
sophomore room wood turning is
taught. In the room for the juniors are
forges and the senior room is ma
chine shop.
The students work on the college
farm, being paid : cents an hour there
tor Each day about a dozen are so
employed so as to lose only one dav q
week from their class work Only one
or two laborers have to be hired. The
farm is in fine filth. 1t is really. as
any visitor will agree, a model.
All the students save three or four
room in the college buildings and all
get their meals in the mess hall. The
college provides the food, in very good
shape too. and charges only IS for it.
L asked the students if the fare was
good, and they said yes
Inc whole expenses Of a county STU
dent for the term of nine and one half
| months are only $50, and of a pay stu
dent $3.50, this including tuition and
lodging. So 1T is the place for poor
boy. 1t is thoroughly democratic.
L asked several students why the at
tendance was not larger. They said
that stude~ IS who had been found de-
hclent O. Who were lazy, went home
and So" ID the news that the "A. &
! M. college is no good" To get at the
real state Of things about any college,
1t Is capital plan to talk with the
students themselves. 1t was made
quite plain that the studious young
| men like the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical college very much. 1t deserves all
their good opinion and all their effort
There is extant a letter written in
1865 by General Braxton Bragg. in
which he handles General w. II. G.
Whiting, Of Fort Fisher fame. without
gloves. This letter has never been pub
lished, but will be, no doubt
The first six months of this year.
| nearly completed, show a falling of in
crime in this state, which is very no.
ticeable. The fact was made clear sew
| eral years ago, from the official re-
turns to the attorney general, that the
greater portion Of what may be termed
cruel crimes are committed in that part
| OF the state west OF Raleigh. The an
nual returns continue to show this to
| be the case.