The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-24

Institute, Mt. Vernon Springs Academy,
Oak Ridge Literary Commercial Institute,
Arson Institute. Yadkin College and
Rutherford Academy all admitted poys
and girls on equal terms and were all
established before 1862 | had Thought
these mixed schools were OF Yankee orr
gin / beg pardon OF the North Tor TINS
error or insinuatlon. Mr.. Wiley favored
graded schools, which showed his pres
cioncc aud progressive spirit. There was
a North Carolina Educational Journal
alter 1860 The State stood head in the
Northern money markets. We recall that
about 1852, the bonds sold higher than
those of any other State. After the re-
construction thieves and bummcrs and
traitors had get through with their leg
islative pillaging the great Vance said
that 1T did not have credit on Wall
Street to buy one mint julep.
by 1914, taere are gratifying signs that
in the North somo schools aud colleges
are wearying with the mixed attempt.
This ought to be abandoned IN the South.
/ quote the extract-wore.s Of Mrs. Ran
dali:
"Dr. Wiley III his talks to the teachers
tells them with pride mat Oh the 500
miles Of railroad tnen existing in the
State, 600 miles were begun and com
pleted aItcr the establishment Oh the conf
mon school system. Tlcre were also
several hundred miles CT plank road and
very important ship canal, ali inaugu
rated and completed within the same
period. He saw it all rs the result OF the
greater educational facilities in that
State
1t is an ungratoful task to turn from
the memory OF those halcyon days and
TO recall the blackncss OF the storm
which broke upon u.s."
The great conflict literally turned
loose the dogs Of war and played havoc
with our dear old North Carolina, God
bless and defend her" as Judge CASTOR
long time before wrote OF her The vile
carpet-bag thieves, and the lustful,
greedy native scallawags Cet their mem
cries never fade) ana their negro tools,
wasted and stole some $50, 600 GEO. and
left the dear old Mother peeled, stripped,
smtten, poor indeed.
Calvin II. Wiley was born in Guilford
county on 3rd February 1919, of Scotch
Irish parents. He was a most worthy
beneficiary OF the Dialectic Society of
the University of North Carolina, from
which now great institution OF learning
with its Ga members Of the Faculty and
GlS students, he was graduated in June,
1870 receiving the highest distinction in
his class. Never did a Society confer
more discriminating blessing than in thus
essayng to furnish opportunity to
most deserving youth to lay the founda.
ton OF future usefulness and distinction.
| recall two other examples. From the
same county of Mr.. Wiley there was an
other beneficiary of the same Society
some six or seven years later, who rank
ed first in his class, became afterwards
distinguished and excellent State Cecil
ogist for North Carolina, and died In his
prime. Just before his entrance as IL stu
dent there was another beneficiary, but
hrst distinction in great class for abil-
lty and scholarship. He became much
distinguished in public life and also held
high rank in bar
Dr.. Wiley not long after leaving the
University, settled in Oxford, in Gran
vile county, the then largest county in
the State, and fine ono it vas He
began at once the practice of law lie
resided in that then very handsome and
wellcducated village of probably 700 IN
habitants, and there he lived unbrokonly
Tor ten years. He came in contact with
a refined and cultivated popula ton The
village contained at least twenty or
twenty-five men who could have written
a respectable essay. granville county
had no superior then in the general in