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smoke so badly that they have sometimes been obliged to dismiss school, the building is horribly musty, and the air in the long upper hall, scarcely ventilated at all by the miserable windows at the ends was very offensive. You could not see all these things in a brief visit but a residence of three days in wet and dry hot & cold - for in had great changes proved them to us. The colored people all seemed eager to have a new building and promised to work for it. Mr Abell seemed fully interested. We suggested adding Mr Scott the teacher colored man and Paul Lewis our teacher to the board of trustees and he said he had no objection. Today we saw Gen'l Howard