The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-30
OlLEGEs LARGELY ATTENDED
Number of ~MatricuIates at the
Institutions in Raleigh
Work on the Raleigh and Pamlico
struction OF the Church of the Good
Shephcrd-SeIection of North
Carolina History to be Made-Other
Raleigh News Notes,
Messenger Bureau
MESSEHSeI buI tdu,
Raleigh, y. c., October u.

RaIelgn, n. u, OCTOBER II.
Governor Glenn will return here
Sunday morning from the campaign.
State Auditor Dixon will not return
until after eelction day Captain John
w Duckett left for Robson county to-
day to do some campaign work.
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina Literary and Historical Asso-
ciatiCn will not be held until later in
the year 1t is usually held during the
week Of the state fair but was this
time postponed. ct this Professor D.
H. Hill makes report on literary &C
tiviiity in the state during the year.
The state library has secured a num-
Der of books written by North Caro-
linians some Of these being this years
products.
The first Of N,vember Edwards &
Broughton expect TO pegln tne pleiinl-
mary work On the large !. hIiiis
tablishment which they will buila nei
very near their present place of busi-
ness.
Arrangements have been completed
for the resumption of work in the next
few days on the Church of the Good
Shepherd. Some of the workmen have
arrived. There is to be a great deal
of elaborate stone WORK in the interior
of the structure. Work on it was be-
gun in 1898, but only about a third Of
the outer stonework has been COM
pleted, the granite coming from Rowan
county.
The number of students at ST.
Mary's Female School here was today
225, that at the Baptist University for
Women 34S, that at Peace Institute
100, which is the limit, and at the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical college 45O.
F. S. Spruill Of Louisburg is to
speak at Tarboro, October 30th at
night in the democratic campaign.
This year the Raleigh Electric Com
pany has increased its mileage 2 IL
miles, laid with heavy rail, has added
7 cars to it's equipment, bringing the
total number up to IS. 1t has in
stalled a five hundred KiloWatt steam
turbine generator and $50 kliloWatt
motor generator set and has built a
transformer station and installed in
this transformers with a capacity. of
600 kilowatts.
The postoffice receipts for the year
aggregate s67,79O, which is an increase
in four years of S17,7
President Charles F. Merserve Of
Shaw University, coIOred, says that
500 students are now there. The In
dustrial Building which is now under
construction is to cost $4,000.
President A B. Hunter Of st. Au-
gustine's colored normal school says
that the number of students there is
now 346. The value Of the buildings,
ETC., is s83, 500. The schCOI owns 10
acres of land. It is now building
new hospital, of granite Quarried on
it's own property, for ST. Agnes hos
pital. The cost of this building will
be about $4,000 The students are
doing the work The amount of en-
dowment is about $4,000. The value
of the building at Shaw university is
given by Dr. Merserve as $4,000.
There has been placed in the Hall Of
History a letter written By the late
Mrs. Jefferson Davis from New York
city to James Fl. Jones, who during
the war was the coachman and who
was always the devoted friend OF Pres
ident jefferson Davis and herself. The
letter has been placed beside one by
Mr. Davis to the faithful Jones. The
latter attended the funeral Of Mrs.
Davis at Richmond. and was shown
many attentions there He is employ
ed in the document room # the United
States senate This position having
heen secured for hin, by General Will
liam R. Coke who was SO long the see
retary Of that body.
A strong force OF railway coNstrlc-
tors have been moving here from West
Virginia to build link OF the Raleigh
and Pamlico So nd railway from m
lico Junction to this CITY L is sad
that the work viii ia completed about
March 1st. It is the desire OF the
company at the earliest p IS bic mo-
ment 10 put on passenger mi freighc
trains on the line betw en- Raleieh and
Wilson. The very rainy summer caus-
e dmuch delay In the work an fer
this reason some tire has also been
lost during the present month
Some OF the school teyt book men
made their appearance today pr Tmi
nary to the meeting OF the text book
commission November 18th at which
the selection will be made OF three
books which will complete the list,
these being the North Carolina History
and books on reda Scgy aGd civics. The
book agents who are here say that only
about a half dozen - their number
would be present On TIE 18th end go
before the commissioners. The history
OF the state il TO be by Nor'A Ca
liniaa and 1t is understood tfat thcze
books have been submitted both by
Prof D. II. Hill. Of tbs city. and Mr.
Allen Of Goldsboro.
All the proofs have teen read FOR the
nth volume Of the bog aDhi"sl his
tory OF North Carolina. which is the
most elaborate publication Of the kind
ever MADE In the south This vo'uma