The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-22
HUMAN LIFE GROWN CHEAP
GROWTH OF DIVORCE EVIL
Good Laws Well Enforced the Only Safety OF Society,"
Declares DR.. Kingsbury. Criticism OF
the Leopard's Spots.

Faucette, and the Episcopal minister, kew
Edwin Geer. Among teachers there were
several prominent representatives, namely,
Prof. J. H. Horner, LID, Prot. Ashbel
G. Brown, formerly of the University, and
two assistants, and Samuel l. NenaDle,
at the head Of the oxford Female Acade-
my, an old, experienced teacher. Then
there was the retired classical teacher,
the venerable Thomas H. WllIe, 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 @. Watson,
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. 1 name John H. Mills,
Eugene Grissom, Benjamin A. Klttrell,
William r. Virgins and one or two 9th
ers. The late General James NJ. 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 assassinated when
not more than tWenty-slx years OF age.
Grissom read medicine later, was a cap
tain in the Confederacy, and became lore
most in politics and his profession Mr.
Mills was teacher in the Baptist Female
College, at Oxford, was later president OF
i, 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, a man of admirable
f mind and fine equipment. He died a few
years ago. kittrell died when he was
? about thirty-one. Dr.. Grissom took his
}, own life in Washington City a year or
r two since. l now turn to strong, resident
: lawyers to complete the claim l made at
I the start. This bar had some ten OF
) twelve lawyers, some OF admirable parts.
:. I do not count Hon. A. w. Nenable, who
! did not come to Oxford until much later,
: but resided on his farm in the northern
b section of Granville. For the same rea-
q son I omit another able member of the
f county bar, Col. James L. Amis, who
lived some ten miles or so from the
d Court House. a gentleman OF very high
character and good abilities, and a most
g useful man, citizen and Christian. H
V now lives in Virginia. 1 name Judge
Robert 3. Gillian, clarum ct venerable
| nomen. Marcellus V. Lanier, LID, the
n very learned lawyer concerning whom
a recently wrote in the News and Observer,
! Calvin H. Wiley. afterwards distinguish
ed; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas B. Ven
IDLE. Confederate Army: Thomas E
ID Spruill, James T. Littlejohn. Leonidas c
Edwards, John ". Hays. Robert w. Las
G. sitter. and two or three Others. That vii
re do for a small village and not all has beer
n told.
The dispensaries in North Carolin;
towns have paid we'll. They paid excel
lently in South Carolina. The message tC
ro the Legislature Is that the State received
re $685.. 154.0 90. In this State the reports ar
favorable so far as [ have seen from dis
To- pensaries. / note that Waynesville, wit
1907 inhabitants, had an income IN 100
n of s7,7S9; Louisburg, LIS population
received $1,000; oxford in three month
of got 81, 351.43. Population 2,059.
l In 1898 North Carolina had 1S6 cotto
in mills, with %, SOL looms and LOIS. sc
I s%pindles. How many has it now? Ate
It's five years it should show a goAdly il
crease. w no can give lue HuuuDt1 II
ed August, 1908? South Carolina leads
ic- looms and s~pindles, but not in number
lat l see in that excellent and ably edite
ne North Carolina newspaper, the Reidsvil
Webster's Weekly, a fine showing for tt
State south of us, taken from the Spa
Ter tanburg Is. C) Free Lance, for the yea
est ending in 1900, based on the cens'
a. figures:
he I'm cotton manufacturing in the pa
he decade the number of factories has i
IN. creased from "a to 80: the capital inves
rth ed from 81 IA, S33 to S39, 258 ,946; the nu1
A Der of operatives from SOIL to sc, pol; Il
cry amount paid in wages 81, so, 494 to s5,06
1sh $40; the cost of materials used (cotto,
ian from $3.50, 800 to SIT, 263, $50; and t
it value of product from So 500, 79S to s3f
vas 723.019.'
nd I would be pleased to see North Ca1
lial lina's figures for ten years ending wi
Cd. June Goth, 1903. Here are some fgur
on not pleasant to consider. They are fro
ion the Spartanburg Herald. Truth hur
.ote lowers pride sometimes. When Nor
Carolina raises more money by hone
lich just taxation-compelling people VI
lit money to pay what they owe the Sta
an there Will be a better showing. But
to the South Carolina figures:
cen I'm the first place the illiteracy of
tive white persons ten years old and oN
5 a IS. in South Carolina 1876 per cent.
ned North Carolina 1875 per cent. The az
who age length of school term is, in Sol
/ at Carolina Sc days, in North Carolina
n ] days. The expenditure for each pu
SAP enrolled is in South Carolina 1852.
had North Carolina s4.56. The school ful
its raised for each adult male u years old
700 in South Carolina 1897. in North CO
nted lima s2.65. The average value of sch
1 OF property Is IN South Carolina 1901.
fair North Carolina 1888. South Carolina
y in something like IS per cent. of the wea
ads. of North Carolina. South Carolina s
or ports four State institutions for hig
re- education at a cost to its taxpayers
ould IN round numbers 100000 annua
its North Carolina gives. we think. so
lame thing less than half this amount to
rev colleges"
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