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f. I THE MORNIMG POST. JAN. 7 1899 2 : I ' i ! ! mits That His Figures Are Weak. FI6QRIS REPRESENT EST . ARE JI BUSED ON "Figures" the Pen With a Balance of $46,453 35 Owes Father Worth lor $15,827 45, Borrowed a Year Ago Some Statistics of the Convicts at the Pen The Directors of thej Penitentiary met yesterday: and received the report of the Ex-Superintendent J. 'F. Mew borne. The new superintendent, Cap stain Day was present, j The Board declined 'to i transact any business and consequently did not. take advantage of the opportunity to con firm or reject the' appointments of Cap tain Dav. The Directors were not in--- session three minutes The reDort of the Superintend ent wad received and accepted -without being: read. Immediately a motion was made to adjourn until the next regular meeting and this prevailed Director. Sigrmon stated that this meet ing was called specially for the purpose of receiving the Superintendent s . re port and that no other business should be transacted. SUPT. MEWBORNE'S REPORT The report of Superintendent Mew- borne is a novelty. Instead of coming out, behind Mr. Mewborne figures him self out a winner by $46,453.35. At the same time he admits that his figures cannot be realized. I asked Mr. Mewborne how he arrived at the figures. He replied that he did tiot thnk the penitentiary would do as well as the figures showed. In ex planation of this he said that the re port was based on estimates ana mat in making the estimates he had been conservative and careful, but that with his knowledge of the affairs of the" Pen itentiary he did not think the institu tion would" come out $46,000 ahead. TherS are in outstanding audited bills $62,670.S9 and a .balance due the State Treasurer of $15,827.45. The Superin tendent estimates the -farm products exceeding sales $169,705.40. Herewith is the balance sheet of the Penitentiary for the year '98, by which the ext-Superintendent figures himself ahead bywnore thjin $46,090. Balance due State - - Treasurer '$15,827.45, Bills audited, for ex pense's for the year '98. Paid ..$107,713.21 Bills audited for ex- j -penses for the year 1898. jUnpaid . $ 62,670.39 $170,383.60 Value! of produces consumed during the year j $ 50,137.75 $236,348.80 j CREDITS. Collections from sale of farm and other products and from wages of convict labori Value of farm pro ducts! excluding sales .j..... Value pf Bricks on hand; and the sale of ... J. . Book- accounts Cash in Bank and drawer $ 97,907.91 $169,705.40 1,835.72 12,150.87 1,202.25 $282,802.15 $236,348.80 $ 46,453.35 '' This balance of $46,- 453.35 consists of farm products on! hand for support and sale $31,264.51 Bricks Son hand , 1,835.72 Book r accounts due by IT. S. Govern ment i $3,602.50 Ojok iaccoun'ts due by R v& C. F. R. R4 2,089.76 Book accounts due i by i personal ac- ! counts ....... 6,458.61. 12,150.67 Cash in Bank and drawer 1,202.25 l !1. , tiji,. . . . . .... ; ' j. 453.35 Of these. $107,713.21; bills audited,' $28, 929.57 was for debts contracted by John R. Srrjith, former Superintendent and audited iri the current year. The account of the Penitentiary with the S'tate Treasury 'is given herewith: STATE TREASURY. Balance due Treasu- ! ry Jan. -, '98 j $15,827.45 Vouchers audited! and paid in 98 . 107,713.21 Deposits in '98 .97,907.91 Bal. over drawn Jan. ! 1, '99,.. 25,632.75 5 - '.V $123,540.66 $123,540.66 I - - CASH. : Jan. lft, '98 cash on ! hand; .$272.39 Amount collected in ! 1898 I.......... 97,670.58 Deposited in Treas ury . Balance on hand Jan. 1st, 1899.. .... . $97,907.91 35.06 i j . $97,942.97 $97,942.97 COMMERCIAL. AND FARMERS ! ' 'BANK, j Amount on ; deposit j. . tor commutation .. i $1,167.19 In addition to the above there are on hand unpaid vouchers amounting to $62,670:39. . ; AS TO THE CONVICTS. The number of .convicts on hand Jan uary 1st wate 1,091; white males 223; white1 females, 3; colored males 823; colored females, 41; Indian male, 1. The number; of United States prisoners on hand, were 174. The number of escapes was 47; num ber died, 21 f number pardoned, 46; num ber .discharged, 325; number recaptur ed, 25.1 ' Thej number of prisoners received from January 1st, '97 to January 1st, '98. 453; from January -st, '98 to Jan uary 1st, '99 390. Total received since the opening of the Penitentiary in 1870 numpers 12,591. The average of con victs received for .the past two years is S43 as compared with 959 for the two years previous '95 and 96. (The num ber received last year is comparatively : oeing xne smallest number re ceived at the prison since the year 1890. JI iine,.convicrt received in 98 there ttlc luiierates, 143 can read and MIES DOLLARS i write, 5 can read and none know good mnp-iish. ff the total number of con victs in the pen, 546 'aie illiterate, 484 can read and Write, loi can reaa, t know good English. The occupations of the convicts areas follows: barbers 1; Blacksmitn 4. tsricK mason 3. Bolt maker 1, Carpenters b, cook 3, druggist 1, Engineer 1, fireman 1, waiters, laborers 1,052, miner 1, machinists 3, office work l, painierb , plasterers 4, printer 1, physician 1, shoe makers 3. The ages of the convicts under, lb vwrs of asre 6: from 16 to 20 years oi age 292; from 20 to 30 years of age 480; from 30 to 40 years of age lo; irom u to 50 years of age 63; from 50 to w years of age 29; from 60 to 70 years of age. 99. : , There, are 331 convicts married, io single and 45 widowed. Those serving life sentences numuer 51; one is serving 60 years, 28 are serv- ing 30 years terms ana m aie seivms 25 years terms; 471 are in tor larceny, 112 for murder; 79 attempt to rape and 71 burglary. MR. MEWBORNE'S LETTER. The Superintendent's letter to the Governor, which accompanies the re port is given herewith: REPORT OF THE SUPERINTEN DENT OF THE STATE'S PRISON FOR THE YEAR 1898. Office of the Superintendent, Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 1, 1899. To the Honorable, The Board of Direc , tors of the North Carolina Peniten tiary: Pursuant to Act of the General As sembly, Chapter 219, of the laws of 1897, I have the honor to submit the follow ing report for the year ending Decem ber 31st, 1898. Just before the first day of January, 1898, I visited each farm and took an in ventory, and with the aid of the Su pervisors, estimated the values. I found in some instances not near so much as is incorporated in the re port of the year 1897, and in .other in stances more. You will see by reference to the statement of Calidonia Farm No. 2. under the "head of Live Stock on hand that 31 mules are given when in reality there were fifty; I have made the change by incorporating fifty in my re port, and also the others which you will see by comparing the two reports. Great quantities of cotton and cotton seed are put down as being on hand when the fact is the greater part had been drawn on and the money depos ited in the Treasury. I have made notes which will explain, in the several state ments. All this accounts somewhat for the large amount of vouchers left In the office unpaid and also those after wards presented, the payment of which has exhausted a large part of this year's earnings. These things, gentlemen, I called your attention to at your first meeting after I examined the last report. The farming operations have been more extended this year than ever be fore. Two new farms have been added namely: The Tillery on the Roanoke and the Rice farms on the Cape Fear river. The former is operated on the croper system, the Penitentiary fur nishing Supervisors, Overseeis, Guards and Convicts to make the crop, and getting one half of the products. There have been cultivated 265 acres in rice, which is now being threshed and the yield is estimated to be 10,- 000 bushels. On 5,300 acres we have produced 3,283 bales of cotton, the larg est amount ever before produced on the State farms; but at an average of 4 cents, it is not encouraging to one who would hope to make this great business self-sustaining. On about 4,- 350 acres, there have been made 73,700 bushels of corn which will be twice as much as will be needed for support. About 500 acres were planted in pea nuts and the yield has been about 9,000 bushels, a poor yield, the season being bad for them. 2,805 acres were sown in wheat and prdduced 7,320 "bushels, 5,391 bushels of .which are stored at the Weldon mills, Weldon, N. C. to be ground into flour; 1,480 acres were sown in oats and produced 24,075 bushels, and many more would have been saved but for the extremely wet season in har vest. There have been cultivated in all crops over 12,800 acres, being 11 acres for every man and woman con vict, old and young, sick and well in all the penitentiary and 16 acres to every man and woman, old and young, sick and well who were on these farms to labor, and about 39 acres for every horse and mule. I am satisfied that at the present prices, of farm products, with its too extensive farming operations, its ag gregated enormous rents, its exceeding ly large guano bills, its great expense to keep up the supply of teams and tools, together with the diminution in con victs, with just as many officers, over seers and guards to pay as it would be li mere were several hundred more cnn. I victs, the Penitentiary cannot be Self- SUStainiUa It therefore ought to be brought down to a narrower scope, and possibly it were better if one or two of the best farms were purchased by the State and farmed all together in provision crops. A contingent appropriation ought to be made by the Legislature of at least $35,0000 dollars, so that for whatever purchases it has to make, it will have the cash to pay. It is a hard lot both for the Penitentiary and its Superin tendent to be as it has been this year almost entirely dependent for credit, and a great State institution ought not to be in such a condition; the last Leg islature made no appropriation. The Criminal Insane 'Department has been left as I think the law antici pated it should be, almost entirely un der the management of the efficient superintendent of the Central Hospital for the Insane, 'Dr. Geo. L. Kirby. Under your direction we have fitted up apartments in the west end, at con siderable expense out of the earnings of the Penitentiary to be occupied by the Criminal Insane who were confined in the eastern end, so as to have them as much together as is practicable. There ought again to be made an aD- propriation of $3,000 a- year for their support, j I Hillabrant to carry on a shirt making ana laundry Dusiness, He commenced operation in February of this year, has employed an average of seventy con victs at 24 cents a dozen for making shirts and 25 cents a dozen for laun- arying as per your contract. It has not been profitable to the Peni tpntifl rv because the prices paid are too low to maKe it so. According to your instructions and by the help of your chairman an applica tion was made, and the United States Government for the present, has ae-rri to place its convicts in this Denit n 4. or j. . 1 x.. .0 uems ;a. aay ior maintenance. This anciuaes rood, clothing and medicine, and there cught to be more employment iji mese necessary idlers and eaters to be engaged in, in order to help out the small pay which the United States Government allows. We are working some of them in the shirt factory and laundry and made brick the past sum mer with them. I nave had nearly completed at the Anson farm a stockade for the youth ful criminals, so that they can be kept separate and anart from h nthar i victs, and the young fellows ought to be put there as soon as every thing is ready for them. This I think with rnor management and training will answer for "A Reformatory For Young Criminals," until a better can be de vised bv the legislature. J think it would be better to uni form them instead of their wearing stripes. 11 this will add somewhat to the ex penses, but if the object of the law is as much to reform, as.it is to punish, I, tkarD nnorht to be some means pro- vided by which they can be separated from the hardened criminals, and given such moral and religious training as is calculated to make them better, so. when they shall haVe. been discharged and enter again among good citizens, the latter would feel and know that their country was better perhaps by receiving back among themselves ithose who had been taught and trained, rath er than those who had been contin uously in company 'with the hardened convicts of the State's prison. Religious services have been held with marked effect at the Central Pen itentiary each Sunday of each month hv ministers of four of the denomina tions or Raleieh. Four of the farms have had regular preaching throughout the year. At the other three farms it has been irregular. The Sunday school here has been conducted by Christian gentlemen and ladies every Sunday without fail and without re muneration. It is a labor of love with them, and rain or sunshine they came and minis tered to the spiritual necessities of the "sDirits in prison Some of these have labored in this good work for 21 years. There ought to be-built a nice chap pel for this work separate and apart from the main building and used for no other purpose. I invite your attention to the reports of each of the officers, the Warden, and? Physician. I thank you gentlemen .for your courtesies and help, and'.-through you I desire to thank the Governor for his favor and kindly advice. I also desire to thank Treasurer Worth for his as sistance in this great work. I am es pecially thankful to all the officers and employes who have always shown great courtesy to me. Respectfully submitted. J. M. MEWBORNE. P. S. The crops were largely esti mated because in the ungathered and unthreshed state it could not be other wise, j ! J. M. MEWBORNE. A RELIEF MEASURE. A BIN In Congress to Reimburse Neglected War Claimants. It is possible that many of the claim ants, who have bills against the gov ernment incurred during the muster in of the volunteer troops will be re paid through legislative enactment. It will be remembered that more than $30,000 is due the State, and the greater part of this amount is due citizens of Raleigh. The government declines to settle, because it has. an old Indian claim against the State. Some other very meritorious claims have been rejected by the government authorities because of the construction of the law. It is in connection -with such cases that Major G. W. Baird. paymaste and J. Q. Kern, composing the State Claims Commission of the War Depart ment, have transmitted to Congress through the Secretary of War, the fol lowing bill: THE BILL. "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assem bled. "That the act entitled an act to re imburse the Governors of States and Territories for expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to raise and organize and supply and equip the volunteer army of the United States in the existing war with Spain, approved July 8, be so amended as to apply and authorize the payment of all persons and corporations for services rendered and personal expenses in rendering the same, and for subsisting, clothing, supplying, equipping, paying and transporting men who were after ward accepted into the volunteer army of the United States." MANY HARDSHIPS. Accompanying the proposed bill is a letter from the commission in which it is stated that the duties of the mem bers have brought to their attention many instances of hardship resulting from great delay in making payment. The act of Congress sought to be amended, as construed and executed to the claims of Governors of States and Territories for the reimbursement of funds already expended by them. The letter then says: "There remains unprovided for a class of very meritorious claims, name ly those of patriotic individuals who furnished supplies and services in the confident expectation of prompt pay ment. In some instances Governors of States were not directly responsible for the procurement of the supplies and services, while in some the delay .be fore the regular session of State Legis latures leave the State Executive with out funds specially appropriated, and, therefore, available to meet the de mands. Actions In Behalf of School Funds. Superintendent Mebane has written Dr. Ritter, of Currituck, instructing him to bring action against ex-Sheriff Tillett for the amount of defalcation of the school fund, whteh is said to be between $2,600 and $3,000. Superintendent Mebane says he will proceed to bring action against the County Commissioners of Pasquotank to compel them to allow the school $1.50, instead of $1.29, the amount it has agreed to apportion to the schools. OPPOSITION ENCOURAGED. Popular Opinion In Pennsylvania Assumes That Quay Is Beaten. Philadelphia, Jan. 6. The Impression that the Supreme court will dispose of the issue in the Quay 'case without ar gument was strengthened today by the filing of an answer by Quay's attorneys to the argument filed by District Attor ney Graham the week before the stay was granted. Since the events at Har risourg popular opinion is approach ing a conviction that Quay is actually beaten. The opposition is solidifyin and Quay men seeing this, have caused to do publisned m newspapers they control the announcement that Quay's defeat means the election of Wana maker. The Wanamaker managers de nounced this as a machine' trick and issued a statement that they were con tending for a principle greater than any man. The Wanamaker element favors Senator Magee. Tbere are 600.000 neoDle emnloved in j naiy m rearing siiKworms. I T A. . - HAPPY WEDDING IN EAST Dili A Movement for Another Graded School Building. ' Well Known Young Man Dead at Creedmore Local Sensation In Politics Promised Farmer Held Up on the Road. Durham. N. C. Jan. 6. Specials- Down in Easturham a goodly crowd of relatives and friends and acquain tances congregated at the residence of the bride's parents to witness the . nup tials of Miss Addie Evans and Mr Charles Bridgers, of West Durham. The ceremony took place at 8;30 last night. Rev. Cabiness officiatlng.X News reached here this morning of the death at Creedmore, Granville coun ty ,of Will Freeman, at 2 a. m. today Mr. Fieeman was a son of Mr. E. Free man, of Creedmore, was a promising young man, aged about twenty-five ye-rs, and had been si.ck of pneumonia only a few days. He was buried in the family burying gtound at 4 p. m. to day. A letter from a member of Company I First North Carolina Volunteers, sta tioned at Havana, giving a description of the formal taking charge by the United States army, was received here this morning. The writer says that on that day, in some sections of the city spectators were very scarce, while American and Cuban flags were pro- fuse. It farther states that the Cu bans are very polite and kind to the boys ?n blue, and also records the fact that the First .North Carolina was given the position of honor on the right of the second division. The move to get another white graded school here meets with general appro bation. While our present graded school building is one of the best and most sightly in the State, its capacity is stretched out to nearly one thousand scholars now enrolled there, und another school building is regarded as a necessity. The Legislature will be asked to authorize the town to issue $16,000 in bonds for this purpose. Wagon receipts of tobacco have been fairly good the past few days, with prices ranging about as they did be fore the holidays, with possibly a small advance on good wrappers. It is said by Madame Rumor that an erstwhile Democratic appointee of Hon. F. M. Simmons is to accept -a position under Mr. Duncan, the Republican In ternal "Revenue Kollector. Indications are that this rumor will develop into a matter of fact in the next few days, the party having received the endorsement of ptominent local Republicans. Miss Audrey Booker, of Polenta, is visiting the family of-B. C. Rogers, on IMangum street. Weston Edwards, of Morrisville ,is a Durham visitor today. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Howerton went over to Creedmore today to attend the funeral of Will Freeman. B. C. Yates, a farmer living near Me- Mannen "Chapel, was held up last night about two miles from town, while on his way home, by two highwaymen, one of whom grabbed the bridle of his horse while the other presented a pistol and ordered "hands up." The horse became frightened and made a sudden plunge. releasing himself and IMr. Yates from a very awkward position. The whip was vigorously applied to the sensible horse. and Mr. Yates reached home unharmed financially or physically. But they do say his hair came near turning white, and that his horse Is entitled to the best speed record In the county. NICARAGUA CANAL BILL. Ciffrey Insists Upon Abrojtlon of Clay- ton-Bulwer Treaty. Washington ,Jan. 6. The Nicaragua Canal bill came up for discussion in the Senate before adjournment this after noon, Caffrey. of Louisiana, continuing Jjis speech against the measure. He insisted that steps be llrst taken to abrogate the Clapton-Bulwer treaty. Several minor measures were passed early in the session, a-il Uor gave no tice that he would next Monday speak in favor of Vest's resolution denying the right of the government to hold in subjection foreign people against their will. A memorial was presented from a Confederate post in Arkansas disap proving of the proposition to pension ex-Confederates. Students May Be Reinstated. Richmond, Jan. 6. Owing to import unate requests of numerous parents of cadets of the first class of the Virginia Military Institute, expelled as a whole for a premeditated breacn of discipline New Year's night, a special meeting of the board of visitors has been called for Thursday. It is thought the board will be lenient, as many of them are new men. If Jhe board were all mil itary men, the chances of readmission would be very slim. Treaty Certain to Be Ratified. Washington, Jan. 6. Friends of the peace treaty today finished their poll of the Senate, disclosing the fact that the convention will have the hard and fast support of sixty-two Senators, or i:?ZJhan Lhe two kiuiua. xtiia uuiuuer, iiiey say, uuts not include eleven Senators who -will probably support the treaty, but whose convictions are not particularly strong. The poll is said tp show that but two Republicans, Hoar and Hale, will be found with the opposition to the treaty. The world's annual coffee production is i,6UO,wo,wq pounds. Dreyfus Seriously III. London, Jan. 5. A dispatch to the Telegraph from Cayenne, French Guiana, says that the chief physician of the penitentiary has gone to the Isle Du Diable at the request of the com mandant to attend Dreyfus, who is suf fering from dysentery. His condition is reported to be serious. Suspicion Pointed and Negro Lynched Banks, Ala., Jan. 5. The" barn of a white farmer near here was burned yesterday, -and suspicion directed toward Marshal McGregor, a negro in the farmer's employ, as Being the in cendiary. This morning iMcGregdr's lifeless body was found hanging to a tree near where the barn stood. There is no clue to the lynchers. WHAT SHE WANTED. "The idea of a girl of her social posi tion becoming infatuated with a con tortionist." "I think she saw in him a man she could wind around her little finger." Cincinnati Enquirer. ST. MARY'S, A Girls' School of the Highest Grade. CERTIFICATE ADMITS TO VASSAR. Superior advantages in Art and Music and Languages, given to thorough instruction on Violin. ADVENT TERM BE6INS SEPTEMBER Gold medals awarded by N. C. Agricultural Society fo St. Mary's School for largest and best exhibit by female school at Thirty-sixth and Thirty seventh Annual Fairs. BUSINESS' DEPARTMENT. Thorough instrutcion in Stenography, Typewriting, Bookpeeking, Penman ship and English. Certificates guaranteed to pupils of eneigy and industry in four months. French, Drawing and Singing taught free of charge in the Primary and Preparatory Departments. NOW FOR 1899 1 We are indebted to our friends for a most flat tering business for the past year, but we areSgoing i in for a still better business for 1899. Besides a large and varied assortment of SCHOOL BOOKS. To meet the demands of the private and public schools in Raleigh and over the state, we shall carry constantly in stock A full and complete line of OFFICE SUPPLIES, BLANK And shall make it to the buyers' interest to get our prices before buying elsewhere Correspon dence solicited. Alfred Williams. & Co. There is a Cause ASON'S Are known everywhere as the BEST that are made. Highest-Grade Material, Latest-Im proved Facilities, Perfect Care in rianufacture, Are the causes which produce goods We manufacture 200 different kinds of Cakes, and Crackers, all of which are choice. We call house keepers' attention to the following leading brands, and suggest a trial. 7 CRACKERS. Mason's Standard Soda. Butter Thin. Favorite Milk Biscuits. Graham Waters. Bouquet Wafers (Plain and Salt). CAKES: Cafe Wafers, Queen and Fancy Mixed. Lemon:and Vanilla Wafers Honey Cocoa nut and Marshmallow Creams. . Sponge Dessert. Walnut Bonbons. - MASON'S ENGLISH QINQER-SNAPS A full line of Plain, Penny and Two-for-a-Penny Cakes for the jobbing trade. Our roods can t obtained from all to suit purchasers. A MEMENTO. "I presume you carry a memento of some sort in that locket of yours .' -Precisely, it is a lock of my hus band's hair." "But your husband is still alive. . . . . . . 1 -Ex- Yes, but his nair is an gone. change. HINDiPO RESTORES VITALITY ron life Made UltV -j ...... the .V&ca- of Me. GREAT TJRENCH REMEDY produces the above ran In 30 days. Cutes Herxous Debihty.Impotency. varicocele. Failing Memory. Stops ail drains and losses caused by errcrs of youth. It wards off la- anuy ana Lor.sumpuon. Youne Men regain M&rv hood and OM Men recover Youthful Vigor. It gives vigor and size to shrunken organs, and fits a man lor business or marriage. Easily carried in the vest pocket. Price r fl PTO 6 Boxes J2.a by mail, in j,;ain pack-J II U 10. age. with written guarantee. OR. JEAN O'HARRA, Paris Heartt & Heartt, Druggists, McRae's Old Stand Raleizb.N. C. Raleigh, N. C 1 1 1 F 1 1 f 1 1 tr t f 1 1 t Special attention, 22. 1898. BOOKS, STATIONERY, ETC. for Every Effect. CRACKER the effect of placing MASON'S in the lead. ARE THE FINEST MADE first-class grocers. All roods JAMES A. SANDERS, . .North Carolina Beprtsentatlit. 57 th Vear ... - . ... 1 r v t ...
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