The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-26
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS
pETfTfOsERs WANT the SALOONS
osrAY OP6N TILL MIDNIGHT.
s,inlty College Is Erecting Building TO
Accommodate the Women studeh"
Who VIII be Admitted TO Curriculum

RALEIGH. ". c.. August 2.-special.-
Tic following railroads or yesterday paid
taxes TO the state Treasurer as follows;
Atlantic and North Carolina railroad.
X.s.S.sS; Raleigh and Augusta SS'lSLf'
Carolina and Northwestern, SiS9.hi fltlS-
boro. $3.50; Palmetto. sis2o6.
Jadco 4. III. purncl has appointed MI.
a. j. Loftin. OF kinston, United states
commissioner.
There were fully Ave hundred c1our-
klonists from Koldsyiile here yesterday.
An exclusion passed here over the Sea-
board TO Norfolk Ga merchants eAcur-
SION with 6l2 passengers aboard. Inc
soaboafd viii run nine more OF these
inerchants1 excursions during Septem-
Der.
An ordinance passed by the Board OF
Aldermen some time ago, requires saloons
10 close business at IL o'clock at night.
a petition IS being signed by many ask
ing that the time be extended 70 u
o'clock.
TRINITY's CO-EDUCATION.
AS women are 20 be admitted 10 all
classes at Trinity College, woman
building is being built there for their ac-
commOdatiOn.
The Southern railroad has given orders
for underground rails 10 be put down
from Charlotte TO Mooresyille, and on to
Mocksyillo on that link.
The August bulletin Of the North Caro-
lima Agricultural Department will be de-
iaycd this month. on account OF the
trouble as 10 mail rates. IL is not yet
settled by tho postoflico Department az
washington to let II 20 as sccond-class
mall matter.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
Superintendent Mebane Of the public
schools Of the state. has issued cir
cular regarding the better attendance
OF the schools. and I'm the last clause he
says: 81 am in favor Of better schools.
better teachers, more earnest honest
effort to make them TO be attended by
our children. and then st. after We have
good schools. the people viii not send
their children. / shall be In favor Of
compulsory education"
In the cotton mills IN the state there
are employed 1900 persons. Castor
county. which Is the leading mill county
IN the State. leads with 1885 woman, 9ss
men. and Jd children. The mills in the
State are getting good orders for their
products.
The Republicans are kicking because
Secretary Of State Cyrus b. Thompson
has two Populist clerks in his office
give tho chief clerks place 10 a Populist
but think at least one Republican should
be employed.
SUPREME COURT REPORTS.
There are now nine complete sets OF
North Carolina Supreme Court reports
owned by the State while sixteen years
ago II dld not have one complete set
il has all the reports Of the courts Of
last resort IN the United States except
eighteen volumes. One Of these missing
volumes IS the forty-nfth New Hamp-
shire. The State Of Virginia has two
OF these, but cannot sell the duplicate.
Senator Butler declares I'm his paper to-
day that Colonel A. y. Andrews is the
modern political overseer in North Caro-
Ina He speaks at Clinton September
9th on THE Great Reforms Needed and
How to Get Them" lie SAYS certain
papers In the state will betray the state
next year. and knife Bryan 1900"