The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-10
The First Attempt Ia Establish nm
Academy 1SOu-Raleioh school

The FIRST Attempt Ia Establish an
Academy 1S0o.-Ialcioh school.
\ school win be opened a. Raleigh
Oh h 26th instant for the instruction
OF young gentlemen and ladies in the
most useful and necessary branches
81 education. viz. the sciences. cia~
sizes. arithmetic. English gramnier.
reading. writing needle work. etc. The
conducted by Mr.. German Guthrie.
that Of the young ladies by Mrs. Lang
ley.
Terms:
For reading, writing. arithmetic
and needleWOrk. nine dollars per an
mum. or two dollars and q half pei
quarter. for a less period three i year,
For English grammer. classics an
the sciences. thirteen dollars per an
mum, or three dollars and a half per
quarter.
The reputation which Mr.. Guthrie
has acquired in The Pittsburg Acade-
my renders il unnecessary to say any
thing here in his favor and Mrs.
Iangley's talents in this line have al
ready been experienced to be suca rs
deserve patronage.
Mrs. Langley will receive board"r1
at fifty dollars per annum. or twelve
dollars and 4 half per quarter. the
boarders finding their " bedding.
II to be such as she nay be favored
with, she gag TO pay the stricte.t
attention. Boarding may also be mad
at other houses in the city.
Application to be made to Peter
CasSo, Raleigh Cf by letter the post
age must be PAID of whom II fur
ther particulars relative to h astab-
| ment may be had.
Raleigh, July Is, 1890.
Advertisement Raleigh Register,
July Is. 1900.
Evidently the school referred to
above did not succeed. for in NoVeE7-
Der, 1901, n number of Raleigh citi-
zens lament the lack Of an academy
in the following petition:
The Beginning Of Raleigh Academy
1901.
To the Honorable the General Assem-
bly, of the State of North Carolina
The petition of the undersigned in
habitants Of the City of Raleigh, n
its vicinity:
Sheweth: That your petitioners. fully
impressed with the Importance of af-
fording the means of education to the
rising generation and lamenting the
want Of an academy at the seat of
government of this State Ca place in
their opinion particularly adapted for
such an institution in which youth
of both exc might be taught. at
least, the most useful branches of
learning, instead of sending them TO q
distance to be educated, as at present
parents and guardians are under the
necessity Of doing. And your petition
ers being also in need Of q cOmmOd-
ious room or rooms in which to hold
meetings of a public nature, on various
occasions. they pray your honorable
body that YOU will be pleased to favor
tho ,dortali ~ q thew ha We in view of
establishing such a seminary, and OF
erecting such public buildings, by
granting unto them, as a site for his
one of the public squares Of
the said city; n if your petitioners
might be permitted to designate that
which appear to them most conVen-
lent for the occasion, they would name
Burke Square situat in the north
eastern part Of the city, as the most
eligible.
Should your honorable body be
pleased to grant the prayer of your
petitioners, it is their Intention to have
made Immediately a plan and estimate
of the contemplated buildings, and to
open a subscription, in order to raise
the necessary funds for the erection
of the same, which they AVE no doubt
Will be cheerfully entered into by the
inhabitants of the city and neighbor-
hood ~generall"-
And your petitioners will ever pray.
III. POTTER.
Raleigh, November, 1901.
,1t,; ,-;u po1L WIN Write
WV 'nnan Pohar, Fleming
- IaLn
povrars ~ DiIIara yvillie ZONES Lewis
Greene J. Marshall, James Mears, q.
Guthrie. S. HAYWOOD. John Ing1es.
Glendening S. Wheaton, VIM.
r Phipps, Joshua Suggs Sen,
I peace WiIian shaw. william Boy
II II Cool,a Jobn Hogg Thee.
rIrno, r. Co+ae p Darieon 1, Mas
eanhnra - Ni]Ifans charles Pa.
,iCb n NcEa;tban Iohn porter. Wm
II Hoywoo3 - Casweu. Fl X. Aud
HiI1 Tobn HAYWOOD. !
The Petition Is successful. 1871.
An act 10 establish an der in the
city of raleigh: