Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-11

CHARLOTTESVILLE LOSES THE
SCHOOL, OF METHODS.
MONEY FOR GEOLOGICAL REPORT.
Commissioners Koiner VIII Ask the
Legislature for an Appropriations
Industrial Training I'm the south
A Fine Cavalry Troop.

|
The Summer School OF Methods for vir-
gina white teachers. will be held at
Roanoke this year.
The school has for several years been
held at Charlottesville. but the Roanoke
people have been working with so much
energy to secure It, and have displayed
| such generosity In contributing to the
| fund for the entertainment OF the teach
ers, that the State Board OF Education
| could not resist. The Roanoke City Coun-
Gil voted $3.50 for the expense of the scnool,
and $3.50 for this purpose has been raised
by popular subscription.
The school has not been officially located
in Roanoke, but it Is understood that Off
cial action is all that is lacking to make
the selection final, and that this will be
forthcoming in a day or two
One Of the normal schools for white
teachers will be in or near Tidewater.
and one in the Middle Valley or Northern
Virginia. The Southwest will have only
the School of Methods.
COMING BACK TO-DAY.
Governor Tyler and party will return
from Cuba this morning. Governor Iyler
will find quite an accumulation OF busi-
ness when he gets back, though private
Secretary owen has attended TO all mat
tiers not requiring the personal attention
Of the Executive.
Mr. j. NJ. Gaines, Of Hagerstown, Nd,
has written the Governor that ne mas
mailed TO him a complete list Oh the
wounded Confederate soldiers at the
Hagerstown and Williamsport hospitals
after the battle of Gettysburg. He asks
the Governor to present the list to the
Confederate Museum. The list has not
been received.
WANTS AN APPROPRIATION.
Commissioner Koiner. Of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. Will ask the next
LEGISLATURE TO make an appropriation
for the expense of geological survey
of the state. Since his term of Office be-
gan he has had almost innumerable calls
for such report, but there is none, nor
has there ever been. Ii is the intention
Of Mr.. Koiner to propose that the surveys
and reports which have been made Tor
various railway companies Of the late
be added 10 and made complete. ms
will give the state complete resume OF
its mineral wealth at a comparatively
small cost
"Ten thousand dollars is about what
such a survey and report would cost
think" said Mr. koiner yesterday. one
big manufacturing plant in virginia IN q
very little while pays into the state urea
surv a sum in taxes the equal of that. l
believe such a report would be the means
of bringing several such enterprises TO
Virginia. Many States having not one
tenth the mineral wealth OF Virginia are
continually advertising their wealth. ana
they are getting the industries, too. VIZ
ginia is given the 90 by because we 90
not let the world know what we have
got"
A FINE CAVALRY TROOP.
Captain II. c. Land. of the Surry Cav
airy Troop. was at the Adjutant-Gene-
raFs office yesterday. lie says his troop
is in a fine condition. There are now
fortv-odd members enrolled, and twelve
candidates are awaiting enrolment. Ihey
will be added as soon as equipment can
be secured for them. The attendance at
drills. despite the fact that many OF the
cavalrymen live far from the rendezvous
is nearly always good. This Is now the
only troop of cavalry in the state service.
Major j. b. Johnson (colored), VINO com
manded the First Battalion OF the sixth
a..
asking that the four companies when ne
recently commanded be allowed TO re-en-
ter the service of the State. He says all
the men under him wish 10 have their
companies again enrolled among the Nir-
einia. volunteers. He says the companies
are now being held together as a social
organization.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
DIR. II. =. Frissell, president of the
Hampton Normal and Industrial lnsu-
tute. was at the rooms Of the State Board
of Education yesterday, and gave some
account of his recent tour of the Souih
for the purpose Of inspecting the INDUS
trial schools. and schools at which indus
trial arts are taught. DR.. Frissell mas
that all the Southern States are doing
something in this direction, and that sew
eral are doing more than the more Ia
vored States of the North.
Senator Rorer A. James, Of Danville,
was at the Capitol yesterday. Senator
Eugene Withers, of Danvllle, was also at
the Capitol. He is In Richmond to argue
a case in the Court of Appeals