Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-08
OLD NORTH STATE.
THE NEW LAW or TAXATION FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Work on the Annex to the Hospital
for Insnnc--Thc sheriff. Institute
A Qmeer Act-An. Interesting Dis
cOvery.
covery


RALEIGH. n. c., April 7.-(Special -
The State Superintendent OF Public In
struction says h. knew all The while there
would be opposition to the new law 10
encourage local taxation for pubic
schools He decides that the word "dis-
trict' in the act Vnesns township. since
the township is the smallest territory au-
thorized to levy a tax. There VIII 10
In a few cases some hardship. where .
school district now comprises parts OF
several townships and this will necessl-
tate some removals OF buildings
Work is being pushed on the large an
mex TO the hospital for the insane here.
so it can be occupied by June LIST. on
each OF the four floors are wards for
twenty-five male patients, and there are
bathrooms and a ward dining-room on
each floor. In the new annex TO the
female wing there IS a congregate dining
room. but this will not be the case as to
the male wing. referred 10 above.
The Governor pardons Henry Harris.
of Granville county, who was convicted
OF an assault growing out of some politi-
cal quarrel He also pardons John NJ.
Benson. ex-Treasurcr OF Baden county,
who was convicted Of embezzllng 5000
of county funds Benson was absent
quite awhile but returned and gave him.
sels up.
A new era" institute Of the colored
Baptists is in progress here. The white
Baptists are cooperating In this work,
Il. "a IL Of fhDt~
State convention.
Claudius Dockegy is to deliver the adj
dress May S0th Internationally at The
great National Cemetery at Salisbury.
THE CAPITAL CLUB.
The Capital Club will have an extremely
handsome building, and work on it Is to
begin April LIST.
The weather report for March says that
here the highest temperature was 50, the
lowest 81. There were frosts-2 OF them
killing. The rainfall was fS2 inches.
The statement is made that the Depart
ment of Justice IS inlmical TO Judge
Robert Z. Dick OF the Western District
This is strange. In view OF his long and
valuable service on the bench.
Interest In the approaching session Of
the State Teachers Assembly at More
head City IS greater than in a number
Of years past. It's sessions Will be held
I'm the building 1t formerly owned, but
which Is now the Town Hall and High
School Of Morohead City
The Moravians held a love feast" here
last evening. the first ever held by that
denomination anywhere in this section Of
the State.
ROSES IN BLOOM.
Roses have begun to bloom here. II is
regarded as extraordinarily early.
In few days State-Mine-Inspector
Hamrick will go to the coal-mine at Cum
mock. This is really the only mine cover
ed by the new minng-nspection law.
which was drawn only 10 cover coal
mines
The new directors of the North Carolina
railway are to take charge this month, 1t
is said.
Charles A. Cook. OF the state Board of
Internal improvements. has been here
three days. in conference with Governor
Russell and Attorney-General Walser.
Adjutant-Ge Andrew d. Cowles, OF
this State, is to be Minister 20 Greece.
This is said to be definitely agreed on.
Two convicts from Chowan and one
from Allegheny arrived at the penlten-
tiary to-day.
ONE or THE QUEER ACTS
One Of the queer acts passed by the
late lamented Legislature was Ito prevent
stock from running at large in the. town
OF Sparta, Allegheny county and TO pro-
mote the health OF that place" II pro-
yides among other things. that no chick
en-house shall be within 100 feet of any
dwelling. 1t is suggested by ways that
this IS "for the promotion OF chicken
stealing and the encouragement OF camp
meetings"
An effort was made to pass cigarette
law. 1t failed for the State. But law
did pass as to the town Of Columbus.
Polk county, prohibiting the sale therein
of cigarettes 10 any person whatever.
The "sheriffs' institute is the newest
thing In the way OF conventions. Three
weeks ago it was first talked Of In the
office OF the State Treasurer Your cor
respondent thought the whole business
was a Joke, and so suggested that TreA-
surer Worth lecture in the morning -
the revenue act. and Chlef-Clerk Den
mark in the afternoon on the machinery
act" and that between these entertain
ing feasts TO illustrate TO the sherifrs the
best methods Of hanging. OF chasing
criminals with bloodhounds, and OF pistol
shooting at criminals trying to escape.
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
Associate-Justice Walter Clark has
made the interesting discovery that near
~ sixty years before the expedition OF Sir
Walter Raleigh landed at Roanoke Island
and eighty-One years before John Smith
landed al jamestown the Spaniards made
settlement on the Identical spot after
wards occupied by the English as James
town. This Spanish Colony consisted OF
600 persons, men, women, and children,
with priests and physicians, horses and
cattle. .. DAYTON, the leader. died or
malaria. civil war broke out, ard after
year the Colony. named San MIGUEL.
was abandoned. It's very existence was
unknown, even to Bancroft. but recent
researches Ia the Royal Library at
Smancos, in Spain, unearthed the records
of this earliest and unfortunate Colony.
which antedated 81. Augustine forty
yeSrS.