The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-20

at the head of the Oxford Female Acade-
my, an old, experienced teacher. Then
there was the retired classical teacher,
the venerable Thomas H. Willie, Esq.
There were several physicians, two of
them alumni of the University of North
Carolina, and the greatest of all North
Carolina doctors were born within this
State, DR.. Lotion G.. Watson, afterwards
Professor in Pennsylvania Medical Col
lege, Kentucky. There were two mer-
chants who were University of North
Carolina men and another of excellent
gifts and a logical writer, and still an
other who used the pen brightly. This
is enough to make good my guess as to
the twenty-five. There were several
young men who had good parts, and gave
much promise. l name John H. Mills
Eugene Grissom, Benjamin A. Kittrell,
William r. Virgins and one or two 9TH
ers The late General James M. Leach
told me that Kittrell, who had removed
to Lexington, N. c., had the best legal
mind in that judicial district. Virgins
was a lawyer, removed to Washington
Texas, where he was assassnated when
not more than twenty-six years of age.
Grissom read medicine later, was cap
tain in the Confederacy, and became fore
most in politics and his profession. Mr..
Mills was teacher in the Baptist Female
College, at Oxford, was later president of
1t, and still later the founder and super
intendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum,
and later founder and superintendent of
the Thomasville Baptist Orphanage. He
was of Virginia birth, man of admirable
I,aIa Pow
years ago. Kittrell died when he was
about thirty-one. DR.. Grissom took his
own life in Washington City year or
two since. 1 now turn to strong, resident
lawyers to complete the claim 1 made at
the start. This bar had some ten or
twelve lawyers some of admirable parts.
do not count Hon. A. w. Venable, who
did not come to Oxford until much later,
but resided on his farm in the northern
section of Granville For the same rea
son I omit another able member of the
county bar, Col James L. Amis, who
lived some ten miles or so from the
Court House, a gentleman of very high
character and good abilities, and a most
useful man, citizen and Christian. He
now lives in Virginia. / name Judge
Robert B. Gillian, clarum ct venerable |
nomen, Marcellus " Lanier, LID, the
very learned lawyer concerning whom I |
recently wrote in the News and Observer |
Calvin II. Wiley, afterwards distinguish |
ed; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas B. Ven |
able, Confederate Army; Thomas E. |
Spruill. James T. Littlejohn, Leonidas c. |
Edwards, John W. Hays, Robert w. Las
sitter, and two or three others. That will |
do for small village and not all has been
told.
The dispensaries> in North Carolina |
towns have paid well. They paid excel |
lently in South Carolina. The message to |
the Legislature is that the State received |
$685.. 154.00. In this State the reports are
favorable so far as / have seen from dis |
pensaries. note that Waynesville, with
1907 inhabitants, had an income in 1902
of s7,7S9; Louisburg, 1,17S population,
received $1,000; Oxford in three months
got s2,35143 Population 2,O59.
In 1898 North Carolina had 1856 cotton
mills, with 22,561 looms and 1,01S, 303
spindes. How many has it now? After
five years it should show goodly in
crease Who can give the number for
looms and spindles, but not in numbers. |
1 see in that excellent and ably edited
North Carolina newspaper, the Reidsville |
Websters Weekly, a fine showing for the
State south of us, taken from the Spar
tanburg Is. CO Free Lance, for the years
ending in 1900, based on the census
figures: |
"In cotton manufacturing in the past
decade the number of factories has in |
creased from 81 to 80; the capital invest |
ed from $11,141,S33 to $39, 25S ,946; the num- |
Der of operatives from SOL to 30,201; the |
amount paid in wages 81 $40, 494 to $685. |
$40; the cost of materials used (cotton) |
from $6,S19,32O to $17,263,SS2; and the |
value of product from $4,000, 79S to $780, |
23,010''
I would be pleased to see North Caro- |
linas figures for ten years ending with |
June 30th, 1903. Here are some figures !
not pleasant to consider. They are from
the Spartanburg Herald. Truth hurts, |
lowers pride sometimes When North !
Carolina raises more money by honest, |
just taxation-compelling people with
money to pay what they owe the State, !
there will be better showing. But to
the South Carolina figures:
I'm the first place the illiteracy of ma
tive white persons ten years old and over
is, in South Carolina 1876 per cent, in |
North Carolina 1875 per cent. The aver
age length of school term is, in South
Carolina IS days, in North Carolina IS
days. The expenditure for each pupil
enrolled is in South Carolina $4,62. in
North Carolina $456. The school funds |
raised for each adult male 81 years old is, |
in South Carolina 1887 in North Caro- |
lima $265. The average value of school
property is In South Carolina $201, in |
North Carolina s1S3. South Carolina has |
something like So per cent. of the wealth |
of North Carolina. South Carolina sup |
ports four State institutions for higher |
education at cost to its taxpayers of, |
in round numbers. 100000 annually. |
North Carolina gives, we think, some |
thing less than half this amount to its ,
colleges"
What a little world of its own is the !
great city of London, Thomas De .