The Washington bee., 1911-03-11
PARAGRAPH|C NEWS
(By Miss G. B. MaxhcId.l

| pioneer textile manufacturer, died at
the age of Is years. He founded at
Fort Mill, S. c., the first gingham
mill established in the South.
A three-dollar gold piece, made in
| 1870, was sold to S. H Chapman, of
Philadelphia, for $I,45o. Accompany
ing the coin was a certificate saying:
This three-dOllar gold piece is a dup
llcate OF the one under the corner
stone OF the San Francisco Mint, and
| is the only one in existence
| According TO reports, King George
Will entertain 100000 children of Lon
| don at a coronation fete, to be held
IN the Crystal Palace June 90.
The old controversy which has been
fought in the courts for many wears
as TO whether West Virginia should
pay a part of the debt of Virginia, has
at last been decided, and the sum Of
81, IS5, SOY Is to be paid to Virginia.
This is % per cent of the debt which
Virginia owed at the time of the Sc
cesSion.
Mr.. Stuart, superintendent OF pub
lie schools, thinks provisions should
be made for the backward pupils, also
school for pupils of more than aver
age brightness. This, he thinks. will
meet the individual pupils need more.
According to Sarah Louise Arnold.
dean of Simmons College, the col
lege is at fault, for it substitutes in
tellectual accomplishment for the
heart learning which has made the
greatest women most helpful and most
influential.
A painting, believed to be worth
| $1,000, has been discovered in Min
neapolls, Minn. The painting Is bv
Benozzo GoZzoli, who executed it
some time in the fifteenth century.
1t IS thought to be about $50 years
old.
B. n Duke, the tobacco merchant
of Durham, n. c, sent his check for
$500 to Kittrell College, which sum Is
to be applied to d building now being
constructed and which will be known
at the Duke Memorial Building.
1t IS said the True Reformers will
| soon be in working order again
Report has it that the late Bishop
Grant was bought for 10000 when sold
as a slave.
Alter 55 years of service together.
Mother Carmel Argelaga and Sister
Frances, both coming from Spain to-
gether, died within 24 hours of each
p '!ar- at p ccagent- ~ Los Angeles.
Receipts of the Washington post
office during February amounted to
| $I32, ,66I.42, or an increase of 8.37 Der
cent over the same month of last
year.
Twenty-six million dollars were sent
back home to Italy in 1910 by Italians
living III this country, according to
statistics compiled by postoffice au-
| thorities here.
1t IS stated by postal authorities
| that there IS no special delivery of
| mail III the Philippine Islands. Let
tiers bearing special delivery stamps
and addressed to the islands will be
| treated the same as ordinary deliy-
cry mail.
From March 3, 1910, to March 2
1911, seventy-seven persons were con-
victed of violation of the excise
| laws, according to the annual report
| OF the Excise Board. From Novem-
Der I, 1909, to October 81, 1910, $40
retail and I26 wholesale licenses were
granted.
Report comes from Montgomery.
Ala, that a harvest is being reaped
III the South by selling Bibles i'm
which Christ, the angels and various
Scripture characters are "coiored. j"
The Bible usually sells for from y
cents to ST, but with the illustrations
pasted in they are selling for $40 on
installment plan
Fifty years ago-March 4-the i'm
mortal Lincoln became President of
the United States. Chief Justice
Roger B. fancy administered the oath
of office
Count Leo ToIstoi, son Of the ia
nous novelist, IS planning to spend
three months in this country to study
the social conditions here
Mr.. Charles ID. Hilles. now Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury. was the
special guest at dinner Of Secretary
Norton last week. Mr.. Hilles admit
ted that he had decided to undertake
the work, with every knowledge Of
the sacrIhces secretarial goats are ex-
pected to make
Judge DeLacy, in addressing the
mass meeting of the colored Y. w
{. A. at the Third Baptist Church.
SAID: Although women do not vote.
they have great influence over the
men who vote, and should use it for
the upllft and moral righteousness of
the community There were other
speakers also.
Mary Wray, who was born a slave
IN Virginia in February, 1907, and who
helped to cut and haul ties for the
first railroad built in Nashville, Tenn.
died in Seattle, Wash, last week.
Nearly 1000 sOuyenir-hunters strug-
gled with a force of policemen in
wild effort to get human bones which
were unearthed by workmen on the
site of the FOrsythe Methodist
Church. the second oldest Of that de-
nomination in New York.
J. n. Brown. of Butler. Kan. a
Democrat, says John Brown was an
assassin and anarchist, when discus
sion of bill to appropriate $4,000 for
the John Brown Park at Ossawatomie.
Kan, arose in the House at Topeka,
Kan.
At mightnight yesterday every pub
lie clock in France was stopped for
9 minutes and 2I seconds for the
adoption of the Greenwich time.
The Alabama Legislature adopted
resolution requesting President Taft
TO pardon the five men who are sery-
ing term IN the Federal penitentiarv
at Atlanta for peonage.