The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-16
HOT SCHOOL RUMPUS
Principal Scared by Pupils
for a Newspaper Article.
One Declares That a Negro Was Given His
Room in Academy and Hence He
Moyad Ont.

There is lively school quarrel going
on in Onslow, at Belgrade, in which Mr..
F. c. Henderson, the principal of Bel
grade High School, and three of his for
mer pupils are concerned
According to Mr.. H. ]. Cowell. as pub
lIshed over his signature in the Onslow
Messenger, published at Jacksonville, the
Belgrade Courier had an item like this;
THE High School here lost three of its
students last week. We supposed they
left because Mr.. f. c. Henderson exposed
and commented on some low down mean
ness done him the night he was married.
Mr. Crowell, one of the students referred
to, declares this to be IAN untrue and
detestable statement" and gives as his
beasons for leaving the school the fol-
lowing declaring that he can prove the
truth of his assertions:
Mr., F. C. Henderson moved us out of
our room (the one We were occupying in
the Academy to put negrojn the same
room. He told us to get out, he said lie
was going to put negro in our room,
so We moved and moved home. We never
have camped in the same house with a
negro, and never intend to as long as a
drop of Anglo Saxon blood trickles
through our veins"
Another of the students who left was
Miss Acoree G. Fountain, of Richards.
who asks space in the Messenger for "a
wronged and insulted woman to defend
her name" saying that her insults came
from the Belgrade Courier, but that the
editor would not publish her reply, the
article referring to Mr.. Henderson as
editor of the paper.
Miss Fountain declares that she was
guilty OF no low down meanness,' as
charged against her, saying that though
Mr.. Henderson had used no names. it
would have been more gentlemanlike"
for him to have done so. Her card con-
tinues as follows:
IF you were subjected to any insults
on the night of your marriage, or any
other night, they were not from my
hands. The way you referred to my leav-
ing your school was an insult upon an
innocent woman'S name. You did not
think for moment when you were writ
ing that article, that the three students
that left b. H. s. that week left for any
such reason as you gave. You did this
TO cover up the real reasons for which
we left. / had several reasons for leav-
ing your school / can give them to you
in plain English, as l could have done
while there, if you had asked me-"
Miss Fountain continues, by, saying the
school was rendered. unpleasant by Mr..
Henderson's management, and that ia the
absence of Prof White she did not re-
ceive the instruction for which she was
yaying, asking Mr.. Henderson "if he pos
sesses any of the principles of a gentle
nan" to give to, the, public, through his
newspaper, her reasons for leaving the
school, but saying at the same time that
she does not believe he will publish her
letter. In closing her letter, Miss Foun-
tain says a.
"You can take back what you, have
said, or you can prove that 1T is true. l
fully realize the fact that l am only a
poor woman with nothing but my name
and you are trying to take that as a
cover for your own misrepresentation.
But, remember, SIR Revenge is sweet
20 a woman am known in a very
small circle, but l had rather be known
in n small circle than in a larger one
as a person that would damage an inno-
cent woman's name to hide his own
faults"