The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-21

of the school boy, a fiction.
| g. That in order to have confidence
established in a meeting of the general
committee at Charlotte on May 81, 1775,
they must produce at least one witness
who corroborates the date of the resolves
| in the South Carolina Gazette, and not
ask people to believe in the figures of
newspaper when all existing testimony
| is adverse.
| DIR. Battles power to present historical
facts in their true proposition and rela-
tons has been of great value to the
teachers. His first lecture on the Early
History of the University" was so well
received by the teachers that he was in
vited to deliver a second address.
| DIR. Kemp p Battles second lecture
! before the Summer School was ON some
of his "reminiscences of a few public men
| of this State, with George Il. Badger
as the central fgue. He gave incidents
| in Mr.. Badgers career from boyhood to
his death; how his kinsman, John Stanly,
determined that he should be elected
! Judge when barely of age, but the
scheme was frustrated by Judge Duncan
Cameron bringing out his favorite, Willie
p. Mangum; how soon afterwards, when
another vacancy occurred, he was elected
| judge at the age of %. He was very
severe on breakers of the law, ON one
occasion filming some gentlemen $500 each
for whipping a free negro, who had been
buying stolen cotton from their slaves,
at the same time delivering a powerful
lecture against lynch law. DR.. Battle
then described him as a lawyer, as a
statesman, stump-speaker, debater, con-
| troversial writer and as man. He told
about Webster's introducing him to
Choate as your equal and my superior
in the Senate" asked his opinion as be-
| ing superior to all the Senators in knowl-
edge of the common law, how, when af-
ter leaving the Senate, he accepted the
place of Presiding Justice i'll the county
court. Judge McGratt, of South Carolina,
said to Col. Marlborough, You tell me
that court is presided over by plain
justices of the peace. l don't under
stand it at all. There is an old bald
headed man in the middle who is no fool,
| tell you." Many other facts, some of
them numerous, in the life of this emil
nent man were told, including his extra
ordinary kindness to great and small.
| The late excellent Raleigh citizen, Mr..
| VIM. G. Upchurch, when he was a boy
| collecting bills tor his merchant EN-
ployer, was SO much impressed by Mr..
Badgers kindness to him, that thirty
years afterwards he begged and obtain
ed of his family the privilege of placing
a tablet to his memory in the University
Memorial Hall. Mention, too, was made
of the fact that after his paralytic stroke,
General Sherman, when he captured
Raleigh, did himself the honor of calling
on the sufferer.
/ DIR. Battle then gave short sketches of
VIM. A. Graham. Chief Justice Thomas
| Ruffin, and Chief Justice r. NJ. Pearson,
with incidental notices of Judge II. NJ.
, Saunders, Judge Anderson Mitchell and
others. Their chief excellencies were
rapidly sketched, and some anecdotes
characteristic of them were given.
The lecture on Monday evening by
Prof. p. z. Claxton, of the State Norm
al College, was one of the very best de-
livered before the Summer School. Prof.
Claxton has visited the schools of Ger
many and other European countries on
different occasions. Last summer he
spent most of the time at Jena. His ac-
curate account of the work of the schools
at Liverpool, Chester, Leipsic, Jena, and
schools i'll Switzerland, Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden was interesting and in
structive. A story of ones actual ex-'
perience, so well expressed, can but
please, and Mr.. Claxton should write
it for good magazine. Prof. Claxton
has engagements to speak in several
counties in North Carolina next week.
In a short time he viii begin some county
institute work
The lectures by DR.. Venable, who is
considered one of the ablest chemists
in America, and a few years ago lee
tured at Martha's Vineyard Summer
School, on Water" and lesson in
elementary chemistry by DR.. Baskerville,
were helpful. 1T will be of interest to
the teachers in the State to know that
DIR. Baskerville will soon publish his
text book entitled Chemistry in the
| Public Schools" There are ten or more
| teachers here from South Carolina.
They are intelligent women and express
| themselves as highly pleased #
| Dr.. Alderman speaks this week in
| Mecklenburg county and at Red Springs.
He has many engagements to speak in
| August.
Mr.. Charles J. Parker, Secretary of
the Teachers Assembly, was here on
Saturday and Sunday.
The registration increases, and there is
no relaxation of effort because of the
last week.
Judge Shepherd will lecture tomorrow
evening.
Superintendent Mangum, OF Wilson,
while not regular instructor in the
Summer School. has done some excel
lent work in the round table discus
sions. Mr.. Mangum is considered one
of the best school superintendent in the
State. 0
Rev. n. Fl. D. Wilson has returned
from the Durham District Conference,
where he read paper on Methods of
Studying the Bible"
Prof. Williams, of the Department of
Philosophy in the University, will lecture
tomorrow morning on "How to get an
idea" Prof. Williams's work is spoken
of in the highest terms by the professors
of Philosophy at Harvard University.
| Prof. Il. p. Moses addressed the Bap-
fist Sunday school on Sunday morning.
Several women attending the Summer
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