The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-11
North State News.

Superintendent J. S. Mann, of the
States prison, sent out to the judges
of the. Superior courts the State over
a letter calling their attention to the
fact that the department for the dan
gerous insane is overcrowded, the capa-
city being 40 and SO on hand-5 white
females, % white males, Z cOlored fe-
males and IS colored males. Having
more patients than can be cared for
he is obliged to lock four white men
and one colored man in the same cell
each night. He says he knows this
is contrary to the spirit of the law,
but it is absolutely necessary to pro-
tect the lives of the inmates Of the in
stitution. The addition OF any more
patients will overtax the $1,000 apprO-
priatiOn. He says he feels it his duty
to call the attention of the judges to
this matter for the reason that an ad-
ditional patient has just come in from
Mecklenburg.
A child Of Mr.. Charley, who lives
near Vashti, Alexander county, fell in
to a spring Thursday afternoon and
was drowned. The child was three
or four years old, and the spring was
hollow log Or gum set upon end in
the water. The child fell head down
ward and could not get out or give
any alarm.
Michael Freeman, the emigration
agent, who was arrested in Raleigh for
employing negro laborers to carry them
out of the State, without having State
and county license, the tax being 5000,
is still in Jail here, unable to give
the $500 bond that is required before
he will be released on bail. A war
rant has been received from Johnston
county on similar charge, and should
re give the bond here, he would be
Immediately re-arrested on the john
ston warrant. 1t developed that he
had engaged $50 Or more negroes.
Announcement is made that the COM
mencement exercises of the Baptist
University for Women, will be held
June 4th to 9Th, and that the bacca-
laureate sermon will be preached by
Rev. w. NJ, Vines, of Norfolk, and the
missionary sermon by Rev. F. D. Hale,
OF Wilmington. The literary adde's
will be delivered by Rev Frank Dixon,
of Washington, D. c. The graduating
class consists Of ten young ladies.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Woman's Missionary Society Of the
North Carolina Annual Conference Of
the NJ. g. Church, South, met in Louis
burg last week. The conference was
largely attended.
Elaborate preparations are in prog
ress for the observance of the Fourth
of July at Guilford battle grounds.
Charles Gilbert, formerly mail car
rier between huntsville, Yancev coun-
| ty, and Ivy, Buncombe count, charged
with robbing the mail pouch last Janu-
| airy of $4,000 in checks. money and
money orders, came into the United
| States court at Asheville and through
his attorney, Ellis Gardner, pleaded
/ guilty to the charge and was SEN
| fenced to Is months at hard labor by
| Judge Boyd. Gilbert is a white man
| 80 years of age and of a not overly
| s1rong mind. He appeared in court
this morning sh4bblly dressed and ap-
peared to possess little intelligence.
Governor Glenn appoints r. N. Hack
EFT, Of Wilkesboro, States proxy and
director of the Wilkesboro-Je Jefferson
Turnpike Company to succeed Col. P.
M. Pearsall, resigned. The Governor
| says the turnpike, which is between
| Wilkesboro and Jefferson, is within
| four miles of the top of the Blue Ridge
mountains now. and the work is being
| pushed rapidly. A we'll financed syn
d1cate, he says, has been looking over
the road recently with view to pur-
chasing it and constructing in connec-
| ton with it a good electric line, both
| Tor passengers and the developing OF
lumber interests, which are among the
finest in the country.