The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-08

The side walks along Fayettt vile
street have been much improved OF late
by cleaning up the grass along the base
boards Of the fences.
Miss Lizzie Crowell, Of Wilson, daugh-
ter of Sheriff Crowell, of that place,
passed through the city yesterday on hel
way home from trip to the western
part of the State.
The Rev. Joseph Potts will speak to
men in the parlor of the Y. NJ. G. A.
this afternoon at 5 o'clock All men
cordially invited to come and hear him.
Good music for twenty minutes.
The S. A. l. and Raleigh teams had a
good game yesterday afternoon. They
will play another game to morrow after
noon, at o'clock. The batteries for the
S. A. L. will be Wilson, Watkins and
Owings; for Raleigh, Glenn and Little,
Murphy and Parker.
There was much complaint from the
women in the audience at the Academy
Friday night at the boisterous and al
most barbaric outlaws of the negroes in
the galleries 1t was remarked that
there were policemen in the house and
that better order should have been kept.
Mr.. R. S Piggott, Atlanta's baritone,
passed through the city yesterday, stay
ing last night at Haw River. Frank
Stanton, the Georgia singer, has re-
Gently written some beautiful lines about
Mr.. Pigg3tt's singing which will be en-
dorsed by his many friends here. The
lines are not in hand for insertion here.
Rev. Phillips, of the Peedybees, said
while here that the Arlington committee
was a Populist creation; that Treasurer
Worth was Populist creation, and that
in his refusal to pay the money which
he was commanded to pay by this Popu
list law, he would have to bear the fall
responsibility.
The colored people will have a grand
rally at Metropolitan Hall this afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock. Among Others who will
speak will be Messrs. N. B. Broughtoa
and Jac3b S. Allen. The cause is a
good one, namely to put roof on st.
Paul Church, and the larger the attend
ance and offerings, the greater will be
the gratitude Of the colored folks.
There were several railway officials in
the city yesterday, among them, @. Z.
Hart, travelling auditor Of the Southern
railway, from Greensboro; j. T. Elmore
and j. r Thrower, of Henderson, Of the
S. A. L., who yesterday were surveying
land about the Union depot; 7. ". Whis
nant, superintendent Of roadway Of the
S. a. L with headquarters at Ports
mouth
& free silverite said yesterday that in
his call Mr. Chambers Smith had said
only what Jonadab had said to Rechab,
namely, ..''If thy heart be as my heart,
give me thy hand" Loge Harris wickedly
remar ed right in the face Of this hand
some biblical quotation that he knew of
fifty negroes who would be among the
Rechabites, which shows that Loge is
eternally looking on the dark side. Out
with such an one
Mr.. J A. Holmes, State Geologist,
was busy yesterday at the Museum, get
ting together the State exhibit to take to
Atlanta to- morrow morning The Museum
hardly shows that anything is missing,
the exhibit, as Mr.. Holmes remarked
being confined mostly to The economic
minerals of North Carolina And, too, it
it al a work of love, those
at this end, working without money, the
railroad doing the hauling free, and the
Atlanta people putting up the exhibit
free. Mr. Holmes is d ing sound, far
reaching. wholesome work in pushing
the material interests of the State, in
which interests, probably more than in
any other, lies the future well being of
North Carolina, and of the South, too,
for that matter.