The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-02
BIOLOGISTS
AR.E|:'A|''1'||' WORK K.
Valuable Investigations Are
Planned BY Mr.. Holmes.
SCHOOL MONEY DIVIDED
Receipts Of the Ralelg hspostoff'ce Show
~ 8 Big increase Opinions Handed
Down BY the Supreme Court.
Company Chartered.

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l8i RALDIGH. N. q. jApril 1.---state Gcolo-.
glst Holmes gave out to-day tho state
/. mont that Il. d Colsor, for tho state Geo
logical Survey and the United States Fish
Commission, began to-day the further
examination Of tho oyster beds In Cove
and PnmllcoS Bounds Professor Georges
B r, Merrill Of tho United States National
Museum, nnd Mr.. Lovcy, Of the State
Survey, will on May 1at begin an exami-
nation OF the buildings and ornamental
stone deposits In North Carolina. " w. II.
Weed. Of tho United States Geological
\ Survey. and Mr.. Watson, OF tho State!
\ Survey, will soon make m examination
1 Of the copper deposits IN the State.
Il ID asoertaincd that In tho seventy
s. four counties that received MD from tile
second 100000 10 mako public school
terms four months, there were 1880 white
4 and 1874 -colored districts which received
wilt sbe remembered that the nppllontlons
Il from each county had 10 DO made for spe-i
clio districts, and must be applied to-
those districts only Z
55J9s5 The receipts IN tho Raleigh postofnco
4 for the fiscal year ending yesterday show
Y a gain Of 515,04S.0g over tho year previous.
II the total receipts for the year having
been $50 1898, against ( $40, 6a2.22 during
tho year previous. ri ..,i
"a number OF answers are being 70 3
+ oolved In tho Office Of the superin tendenti
4 Of Pubic 1nstruotion to his recent letters
to HuperlntendentB In r. other Eouthern
! States asking operation In an effort
to Induce tho trustees OF the Peabody
fund to divide the fund among ,,lo States
entitled to II rather than concentrate Il
Il IN a great normal college for teachers, as
I proposed. The South Carolina superin-55
tendent wrttcs that their Board Of Edu-t
cation hns adopted resolutions similar to
u those by the North Carolina Legislature
urging tho distribution OF tho fund. The
Buporintondcnts in Tenn essee and Mary
land write that they arc In hearty sym-5
\ patty with the effort to have tho fund
Ii distributed rnthor. thnn Concentrated In
ono great normal college. gsl n
Mr.. u. G. Beddingtield, Democrat
imombor Of the North Carolina Copora-
't!on Commission, to succeed Dr.. .. II.
Abott. Republican, Tho oath was adj.
ministored BY Associated Justice Con-
nor, OF 3 tho Supreme Court, The COM
mission now consists OF FRANKLIN MoNeill,
3 chairman; 8. L, Rogers and ID, G. Bcdd- :
sEingneld. Or. Abbot Is now working vigor-
ously& for an appointment by President
Y Roosevelt to o position In the Depart
ment OF Commeroe. q 53s s%,4.
Tho Secretary Of State to-day ohnrtcred
the B. Jewol Company. Of Winston-
8 snleun. 80 900 capital, TO manufacture fur
niture, Tho incorporatbrs are Walter A..
4 Shore, "a. Jewel and Thos. Shore.
5S2t Tho operatives Joint stock company, Of
Charlotte, was chartered with s.. 700 CAPT
Y tai to conduct a mercantile buainoss in
Il the suburbs OF Raleigh. T. W. Ingle and
4 B. 1. scarboard arc tho principal incorpor-
8ators, M X "a @ "a
Tho meancst "April fool'' thus far re-
ported In Raleigh was played on Captain
Y j. J, Barnard, register Of deeds OF Wake
county, About O'clock this morning
y somo prn INK plnyers called up hts resi-
denoc, which Is fully a milo from the
Il oourthouse,5 and told him couple had
lust arrived Of, mo soaboard train from,
4 Southern Pines and wanted n license TO
y get married ut once at the Marlborough
s Hotel, ind do please come down and
ISSUE one. Tho goninl capita in, who has,
u by the way, beon recently promoted to
i major in tho state Guard. hustled Into
\ HIS clothes and walked down, only to find
= that II was nil an April fool"
I. IN tho Supreme Court opinions werc
handed down for tlLs week az follows:
Pastcrf1old w. Sawyer, from Pasquotank.
now trial: Burnett vs.. Railroad. from
Cumborlnnd. error, state w. Marsh. nom
Union. Judgment arrested Btatevs Bar-
rott, from Moore, new trial; Austin Va.
Austin. from Union, error; Eflrd vs.. Tele-
4 phone Company, from Union, error;
3 Bhuto vs.. Cotton Mills. from Union, new
trtnl; Rushing VI. Btyons. from Union.
new trial; Hendloy VI, Mcintyre, from
n Arson 1.-TWO casos) affirmed in each: Hunt
4 Icy VS.. IInsty. from Union. no error; Cot
ton Mills vs.: Waxhaw, from Union, per
5curiam, petition to rehoar dismissed;
Hlnsdale VS.. Graham. from Moore, dis
Y missed by consent OF parties; ellis vs..
\ Arringda1e, from Person. dismissed by
Y consent OF parties. s3