Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-20

as far West as Minnesota There IS no
limit to the possibilities or this business
in the mountain counties Moses lone,
who has 10000 trees in Watauea, says ne
will set out thousands more, among tiiehi
500 Grimes Golden.
The news that F. II. Whitaker. who
was the State chairman OF the lndepera q
ent party in the late campaign. is 10
get an assistant district attorneyshlp IS
TOTAL VOTE IN. THE ELECTION:
The total yote east l., at 1oa 1he Less than
was cast in 1900. Then Aycock got 1890
and Adams his Republican opponent mt.
This year 5oyn of Pn emccl InStruc
ton. got 135, 724, and D. a. Long. his Kc-
publican opponent, 6S,12l. In other WORDS
the falling off of the total vote Is one
fourth. It is estimated mat 5000 ne reo
Shout 5000 whites who did not vote,
So rapidly has the work OF 6rnidnlng
the main building at the M tte+ 1hs work
will be completed bv the enc OF tnls
month. 1t is a large and imposing struc-
ture. ,,
NEGRO COLLEGE SHARPLY CRIT
Tho renort of the State Board of Ex-
aminers of Public Institutions, is severe
upon the negro State Agriculture! r, anu
Mocha nical College at Greensboro: mere
Of the races there Now the females are
Eliminated 81 The college has been criti-
cised very sharply before as nei!ls NE 1..',
ly a school. 1t was established IN way
as an experiment. OF course, It gels
rart of the national fund, as the la!ter
is given without regard to rare. etc. me
board urges consolidation OF the ne .sl.o
normal schools: This, too. was '''Gi i'l , not
act. A specific tax for maintenance oi
the insane is recommended the 1ooc
and quarters Of the conv1cts at NorA lol
the Goldsboro Lumber Companss; i Tha
company. which leases these conVlcts' Is
allowed to sub-let them
AN AFFLICTED FAMILY
Late in September E. K. Proctor, Jr;,
a leading lawyer at Lumper'on uisu:
Recently twin daughters died, ana nov
another daughter has passed away. MS
widow is critically Ill and SO is her SIS
The annual report of the State Super
intendent of Public instruction VIII warm
lv urge a continuance of the direct APP
preparation of s2ooooo to the, public
Schools and of the $500 annual asppro-
priation for free libraries for rural pub
lie schools. -,rD
The report will contain. that of the Text
Book Commission and of its sub-coinmls-
sion. The latter made the recomme lloa ga
tons of books. 1t is interesting TO note
how widely the Text Book Commission
departed from these recommendations IN
selecting the books AS to spoilers. Har-
rington's were recommended and adopt
, ed. AS to readers. stepping stones 20
, Literature are recommended ana
Holiness readers adopted. Ga minority oil
the sub-commission recommended Holmes.
while the majority said these readers
were "scrappy.') AS to writing books,
the Spencerian and Smitndeal's were re-
commended and the National System ana
Smithdeals adopted. AS TO arithmetlcs,
Mines Elements and the Standard were
recommended and Colaw & Elwoods ana
Mines Mental adopted. AS to drawing,
the normal drawing course was recon-
mended and adopted. and this was also
the case as to biographies, Maurys being
selected CA minority of the sub commls-
sion favored Frye's.) As to English gram,
mars, Beuhler's was recommended an: anu
adopted AS to language lessons. me
Mother Tongue" was recommended ana
Hyde's adopted. AS to United States
| History, Our Country" was recommend
ed. and Hanselrs adopted. "a minority
Of the SUBJ commission favored Hanseii 81
AS to physiology. Baldwin s was recon-
| mended and Steeles and Overton'S were
| chosen AS to civil government: Peter-
mans Elements was recommended ana
| none adopted. AS to pedagogy, rage s
| Theory and Practice was recommended
and .'Waymarks for Teachers adopted.
AS to dictionaries Webster was recon-
! mended and adopted.