Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-23
A Plain Letter from Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction.
MURDERERs AT RALEIGH
A Monabcr of tho lcno,r County
Hoard Sets Good Example TO
OtnOr schoo, Authori.i es- would
DO Murdorers. who Confess Their
crims,nroushs Hero for snio
Keeping.


construction put upon the Supreme
Courts decision in the school board
cases by State Superintendent Mebane
no end of rumpus Is being kicked UP
in some counties. Some of the wild
and woolly fusion committeeman and
supcrintendents do not seem to under
stand that the courts opinion did not
nullify contracts and so are proceeding
70 GUST our teachers, lock schoolhouse
doors and do other like sensible and
orderly things. All this has been giving
MT. Mebane good deal of trouble and
IT Is a feature of the situation that eX-
tremists on both sides censure him for
!ailure to take their part. AS a mat
ter Oh tact but for the conservatism
ana good sense Mr.. Arebane has shown
IN dealing with an extremely trying
situation great harm would have been
done the schools and hundreds of
teachers would have been bounded and
annoyed.
AS stated by a Pittsboro correspon-
dent yesterday in one township of
chatham county the property OF the
teacher, woman, was thrown out and
the schoolhouse locked by the old com
mittee. Il. B. Lineberry. a fusionist,
is the OLD superintendent OF schools for
Chatham. and to him Mr.. Mebane yes
tcrday sent the following letter which
applies to all like cases elsewhere
Raleigh. N. c., Dec. 81, 1892
Mr.. r. II. Lineberry, Pittsboro, N. c.:
Dear Sir : / wish to say to you that
the reason I asked you for special In
formation as TO the status of school af-
fairs was that your county was one of
those not passed upon by the Attorney
General. You will remember the fol-
lowing from his letter Superintcnd-
ents elected by the new board in those
counties where the old board retired
under Nonr own advice are the legal
ones This, as you know, does not
apply 10 your case as county super
1ntendent, as YOU were elected at the
same time the county superintendent
was elected by the new board. You
viii also remember this from the let
express any opinion as to which was
the de facto board. in those counties
where there were contests.
The committees appointed by the new
board i'm accordance with the school
law are regarded as valid and should
be carried out in good faith by your
committees.
In those districts where two sets of
committees were attempting to act
and where both committees employed
teachers, | shall hold that the COM
mttee appointed by the new board,
teachers. these contracts must be kept
rather than the contracts made by the
committees of the old board, because
these committees were regarded by this
Department as the de facto school com
mttee and al! of their acts in accord
ancc with the school law up to the
decision OF the Supreme Court are re-
garded as in full force and effect.
III the acts of some OF your commit
tee are rs reported to this Office by n
citizen Of your county, then I must say
that such conduct is nothing short OF
an outrage. Here are the words that
come to this Office: "Thc committee
appointed by the old board Aunn.-aAa
threw out the books and other property
belonging TO the teacher and securely
nailed up the doors and windows, and
shut her out, although she had been
teaching for one month and was giving
entire satisfaction to all except to three
of the old committee, who hal not sent
to her and would not send because
they did not employ her themselves"
II this report be true you need to put
stop to it at once and see that the
woman who has thus been imposed
upon is restored to her position, and
the men who thus acted be removed at
once from Office.
Yours very truly.
c. II. MEBANE.
Superintendent Public instruction.
letter OF Mr. i. G. Tyndall, one Of the
old board for Lenoir county saying he
did not care to reassume the duties OF
the Office if 1t would disturb the
school work OF the county. Mr.. Me-
bane wrote him in commentator of
his conduct.
TIE UNIVERSITY ELEVEN.
The University of North Carolina
eleven has reorganized for the season
of 1900-'01. Mr.. II. ]. l[oebler was
elected captain OF the team. Mr.. Koch
Ter has played on the University
eleven for two seasons, and has made
for himself an envinble repution In
football circles. Last season he was
the competent half-back of the team,
and the previous season played left
end. He is said to be one OF the best
players of the school. and we may con-
fidently expect that next season the
University will retain it's right to the
title of champion
FOR SAFE KEEPING.
John Taylor and Robert Fortune. the
two young negroes who shot Mr. Rob-
ert Hester. prominent farmer of Nash
county, the details OF which are told
in another column. We're brought here
this morning at 2:05 o'clock on the
westbound Southern Railway train.
Sheriff w. NJ. Walker, of Nash, and
Deputies Harris and Mayor brought
the prisoners here, though they were
confronted by mob, and 1t was only
by the employment of good Judgment
that trouble was averted.
The shooting occurred yesterday af-
ternoon about two o'clock at Mr. Hes
tcr's farm. q mile or such q matter
from Rocky Mount. The would be