The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-02

For the Genera Appropriation to Pub
lie Schools Railroad Matters The
Agricultural College The Alumni's
Student Loan Fund Oyster Dredging
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, ~. c., December -.

Raleigh. ". c.. December -.
The last legislature appropriated
500. 900 directly TO the public schools,
this being the first appropriation OF the
kind. 1t was the hope that the money
would be available before the end OF
this year, but the treasurer stated that
he did not a the funds The state
superintendent OF public is
now preparing warrants covering TIE
apportionment TO each county. the ba-
sis being 15A cents per capita to each
child OF school age the number being
taken from the last school census. Let
ters are pouring in. asking If the money
will be paid by the second Monday in
January. The auditor will issue his
warrants o. tie treasurer, the lat
ter gives tie safe superintendent no
assurance as 10 when they will be
paid 1t is certain this will not be by
the second Monday in January.
1t is said that Raleigh will in a year
have a high school Its system of pre-
paratory schools is excellent. The
buildings are refitted and we'll heated
and two new ones Will be built. There
is an increased attendance.
The Southern railway will next
month begin TO operate trains to Pine
hurst n Southern Pines via Green's
boro and the Aberdeen and Asheboro
railway. This is an entrance into new
territory, is the Seaboard has up to
this time handled all the business TO
these largely ~patronized winter resorts.
The Seaboard Air Line has not aban-
doned its plan of getting into Green's
boro via the Carthage railway, but
that matter is simply being help up
until the Seaboard Air Line consolida-
ton is completed.
Work on the Raleigh and Eastern
railway which was expected to begin
next month, will be deferred until
spring. The line will be about twenty
seven and a half miles i'm length and
, will extend almost directly eastward.
Raleigh has had a great deal of
trouble for months with its street
lighting. The plant is a private one,
and the trouble is that machinery cal
culated to operate 1000 lights has to
operate 5000 or more. The result has
been a bad failure. At last new ma
chinery has been ordered.
a largely attended reception was
given last evening by the superintend-
ent and Mrs. G.. l.. Kirby at the in
sane asylum, in compliment to several
young ladies from other points in the
state.
1t will be perhaps three months be-
fore the executive committee Of the
North Carolina Teachers Ass mbly
uCClutS MItlt Tic utAl dIllludl SSSSlOH
will be held. The one at Morehead
City last June was remarkably sue
c~essful.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
college here will reopen January 3rd.
Already twenty-five students have
passed the entrance examinations at
the various county seats INC about
twenty-five more have applied for ex-
animation at the college. of whom only
fifteen can be admitted, as there are
in all forty vacancies in the college.
The college was full by the 1St of
last November, since when new stu
dents have not been received. But dis
misSalS, designations, Withdrawals and
other causes have created since then.
forty vacancies. There have been
three dismissals for vicious como 1ct,
seven Withdrawals from poverty, TWEEN
ty discharges for neglect of study and
other duties, and ten designations by
tudents not v%enturing to try the term
examinations.
The Alumni Association of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college here,
through DR.. George S. Traps, president;
Colonel N. r. StanSel, secretary and
treasurer, and Mr.. Charles Pearson,
architect, chairman of the executive
committee, has established at the col
lege a student loan fund for the aid of
needy students. Over half the students
in the college are paying their own eX-
penses n MAN. Of them are forced
to leave each session for lack of money.
This fund is intended to aid the most
worthy. The amount given is $63, a
small nucleus to be sure but contribu-
tionS from the alumni and others, as
we'll as interest from loans, will stead
lily increase it. The conditions on
which the fund is given are as fol-
lows: %. That it be loaned in limited
amounts to needy students who are
faithful and efficient in the perform
ance of their duties. e. That the loans
be at current rates of interest and le-
gally secured. 3d. That the fund be
applied perpetually to this purpose
only, being reloaned, both principal
and interest, from year to year, and
not invested otherwise.
The oyster patrol yacht Lily is now
at Elizabeth City, undergoing repairs.
1t is said that as soon az ready she will
go to Beaufort to stop dredging there.
There are oysters in Carteret county,
which lave always been IKE by
longing alone. The people there resent
the dredging now being done, which is
unlawful. The dredges lave gone
there from Pamlic sound, where
there are no oysters.
Grand Master of Masons Noble says
the grand lodge will dedicate the tenn
pie at Rocky Mount January 3rd. 1t
cost SIG, ZOO.