The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-27

SUNDAY.
Mr.. W. G. Upcburch was not so well
yesterday.
Mr.. Tai Murray is again at the S. A.
L. ticket window.
Mr.. T. Palmer Jerman is still testing
the mineral waters in South West Vlr-
ginia.
Commissioner / atterson is in Dallas
where he is holding farmers institute.
He will be here to-day.
At the Soldiers Home Sunday Mr.. n.
B. Broughtop held religious services.
One "old vet" was converted.
Messrs. Morson and benson open their
academy for boys and young men on
next Monday, thesecond OF September.
The Chamber of Commerce meets in
special session tonight. The new Ulcers.
will be elected. A full attendance is
desired.
The deaf boot black, who has been
here for several weeks, lett yesterday
for Fayetteville, he having secured en-
ough money to buy ticket.
Rev. Alvin Belts is conducting revival
services at the Swain street mission. The
Tabernacle church received one person
into membership last Sunday.
The condition of Col. Oct. Coke was
reported yesterday morning to be better.
In the afternoon came change for the
worse. His life hangs in the balance.
Master Lee Skinner, son of Mr.. B. s.
Skinner, of the A. and M. College, has
taken a position as collector for the Citl-
zens' National Bank. He is bright
young man.
The Union depot last night was brill
liant with ninety incandescent lights
which have just been put in position in
the shed. The Raleigh Electric Com
pany furnished them.
Mr.. j. W. oliver, of Varina, Wake
county. showed powder flask yes
terday that was used all through the
Revolutionary war by John Spence,
soldier from Cumberland county.
Sheriff B. A. Horn and Deputy W.
", Horn, of Monroe, arrived yester-
day with four convicts for the peniten-
tiary. One went in for five years. None
of the others caught as muGl as lus-
trHm.
The State Board of Public Charities
will meet in Raleigh on September 9th.
Capt. benson says that the meeting is
not held for the transaction of anything
except such business as is regular and in
routine.
Auditor r. NJ. Furman, State Treas
urer Worth, Governor Carr and Chair
- ~ nd Of
directors left yesterday morning to visit
the State farms on the Roanoke. They
will spend several days on their tour of
inspection.
Col. Thos. Pence, of the Press Visitor,
was seen in more places at once yester-
day than any man was before him. In
fact he broke the ''dog days" record for
activity. And when the paper came
the people saw that this hustler had
hustled in vain.
Rev. j. E. White, a recent graduate
of Wake Forest College and now rising
young Baptist divine of Edenton,
preached morning and evening at the
Baptist church here yesterday. He was
the guest of Editor j. W. Bailey, an old
collegemate.
Cannot the City Fathers throw little
just a httle-more energy into the
electric Eghts2 The weakness of the
lights the past few nights, with the sput-
tering, is anything but satisfactory or
creditable to a metropolitan city which
should never hide its light.
Those who passed the station house
rather late Saturday night were startled
by series of unearthly screams, mingled
with much talk of profane character.
Annie Jones, drunken eolored woman,
was raising the rumpus. "Thirty days.,
said Mayor Russ yesterday morning.
One of the sights of the city these
days is Mr.. Walter r. Henry, who sits
by the hour like picture, his huge form
framed by the window of the Caucasian
Office. Mr.. Henry is waiting patiently
Warrington the seven columns of proof,
which will serve as the means of letting
down his corpulency from the heights of
Democracy into the depths of populism.
Commissioner of Bureau of Labor
Statistics Lacy and Clerk Logan Terrell
are both kept very busy preparing the
next report of the bureau. Mr.. Lacy
says tnau the reports ne mas 80 lar re-
ceiyed from all kinds OF labors are very
satisfactory and show that the people
are beginning to take an interest in the
work. This is encouraging and the next
report of the bureau will be the best ever
gotten out
Miss Daisy Watt has gone to Monroe
and entered upon her duties as principal
of the primary department of the High
School of that prosperous town. Miss
Watt is graduate of st. Mary's School,
Raleigh, and of the State Normal and
Industrial School, Greensboro, and is a
young woman of rare accomplishments.
Monroe is fortunate in securing one of
Raleigh's most talented and popular
young women.
On yesterday afternoons train from
Greensboro dropped in Col. W. W. Car
all he q