The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-02
SCHOOLS MUST BE SEPARATE
No Joining of Public and Denomina-
tional Scholastic Define the Word
Peddler Strong Feeling Against
Mormons-Home Mills Buying Little
Cotton.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh. y. g, September Is.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction issues the following 10 h
county superintendent of cducation:
Il soill have some enquiries in regard
to combining the public schools with
UNCONVENTIONAL schools. and. therefore.
write you in substance what / wrote
the county supervisors during the year
1898. 1 think it best for the committee
always to provide a public school lot
and building. The spirit OF all our
laws seems to be against combining
church and state in anyway. When
the public chool is combined with a
UNCONVENTIONAL school the best inter-
est Of the public school can rarely il
ever be served. The public school will
not have the support Of all the people
when united with the church school,.
The public schools are for all the peo-
pie, supported by all the people, and
serve all the people by giving
instruction without any regard 10 de-
nominations or churches. The Law
provides for combining public schools
with private, but / do not think this,
in any sense. e UNCONVENTIONAL
or church schools. Therefore, my in
struction to o as county superia-
tendent is that you do not ombine
public schools with UNCONVENTIONAL
schools. I am aware that these church
schools have well prepared teachers:
but, Notwithstanding this, the primary
object for which they are employed L.
to benefit the church, and In every
community We find some parents who
will not send their children because the
school Is under church influence other
than their own We must not have any
hindrance or objections to our public
chools that may be easily avoided.
We must have the united support OF
the people In the public school work
II n work Is ever to accomplish what
IL should"
The supreme court has before 4,
case involving the question Of who G.
a peddler. The court has heretofor.
held that a peddier ID a person who
sells goods he has with him her and
there, but in 1895 the legislature drew
the between a drummer and
a peddler. saying that any person who
tells by order. for future delivery. to
individuals for their own individual use
n 70 for resale. b a peddler. Tho
court. II Is practically certain. win
hold to the same definition
Colonel Thomas 5. Kenan has been
unanimously Reelected clerk OF the cu-
preme for eight years
The feeling against the Mormons Il.
now growing In this state. There ara
over Sky OF tnem at Work pro9eiyffng
in North Carolina. A few Counties haye
driven them out
Inc postmaster at Scotland Neck fs
found TO be short in ais about
$40. ~
1t L. said that the home cotton mills
LIE buying very little, but are wait
ing Tor a decline IN prices. a very i'm
prooaole thing. IL IL said the exporters
r rushing all the cotton they can
get out OF the country and that the
tracks at Wilmington are blocked
Win COTTON ars-ove 400 Ia number:
50 many In fact, that the railway peo-
PIE are holding cars back until the
block L. removed.
Judge Purnell in the United tSate9
district court here holds that In chan
cery the record of a case constitutes
thes statement on appeal
The negro state conference here was
an entire success In its line OF work
Tor the bettermsnt Of the