The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-31
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eonvicts yesterday.
Tramps broke into the house of Mr.
4. N. Belts at Apex and stole $3.50 be-
longing to his daughter.
Quite 9 number of Raleigh people are
expected to leave on the nine o'clock
train this morning for the Reidsyille
race
Very destructive forest fires are re-
ported by the farmers who we're in town
yesterday from different parts of Wake
county.
Referring to DR.. Eugene Daniels ser
mon at Fayetteville last Sunday, the
Evening Telegram says lit was very
fEe one. -
Weather Officer vo2 Hermann said
last night that it would rain to-day
s'dead sure" 1t was only stopping over
in Pensacola few mCmeueS Tor dust
sandwich
The North Carolina Teacher, edited by
Maj. E q Harrell, has entered on its
thirteenth voluma. 1t is neat and full
OF news about schools, and suggestions
to teachers and p pills.
Cards are out announcing the N lr
rage of Miss Florence McMackin to Mr..
R bert Webb Hodges, of the Southern
Express Company, November ID, 1895,
at IL o'clock Cathedral of the Good
SHEPPARD No cards IN the city. 3
The news states that Mr.. W. W.
Phifer's celery farm of so, 600 plants will
fsrnish celery for Thanksgiving. Raleigh
folks have to send al the way to Kala-
mazooo for most of their celery. 1t
should all be grown at home.
A ticket office of the S. a. L. is to be
opened at the agents Office on Fayetts-
vile street, and Mr.. Leard, the hustling
representative, says that coupon tickets
will be on sale there to all parts of the
North and South, somebody being on
duty all the time for the convenience
and accommodate of the public.
Mr.. Willard Mial was in the city yes
terday. Mr.. Mial insists that the mill
ponds are fuller now than they were be-
fore the drought set in. He says he
does not believe there is any leakage into
the ponds from the roots of the trees,
but his theory is that not SO much water
is used fom the pond.
1t is thought that within two months,
the Southern Railway will be in shape to
run through To their new terminus at
Norfolk Eight new engines have been
ordered from the Richmond Locomotive
Works, says the Portsmouth Star, and
new passt niger steamer will be put on
between Norfolk and Baltimore.
Governor Carr yesterday ordered spe-
cial term for Jones county court, Deem
Der 9th being named. The insurance
swindlers will then be tried, Judge Ora
ham presiding The inference from the
words of Judge Graham during the trial
in Beaufort the other day was that JUS
tees C uld not meted out there, Della
mar and Nooe both having been dis
missed on one charge So the court
will pick its flint and try again in Jones
county.
The cotton receipts yesterday were not
quite 100 bales. A prominent cotton man
said that farmers we're refusing to sell
their cotton at these prices, though there
had been rally of half a cent from the
lowest poi1t touched in the recent break.
One old farmer said yesterday that cot
ton ''layin' 'roun' a gin now was as great
a curiosity as niger baby with three
heads He said they would sen the
cotton seed and corn before they would
the cotton at these prices. They think
they have not more than half crop,
and they want good pay for it.
That spectacle was outrageous last
night at the door of the church Of the
Good Shepherd. AS the bridal party
entered, there was jam Of people, and
the bride stood waiting on the foot Of the
steps with her first maid of honor for
several minutes before the doors were
thrown open. She was crowded upon
by press of young fellows who INDUCED
in all kinds of ''horse-piay' stuff which
they seemed to regard as funny, but
which was nothing less than brutal IN
der the embarrassing circumstances
Finally the young lady with the bride
had TO turn round and beg them to keep
back, rs they were stepping even on the
BRIDES train The whole scene was a
disgusting Exhibition of rowdyism.
Editor London, of Chatham, is in
town in attendance upon the Supreme
Court Mr. London is just from At
lanfa, but jestingly said that what he
knew about Atlanta would be found in
the Chatham Record of this week. Mr..
London was one of the Executive Com
mittee If the National Association of
Editors which met at Atlanta. He says
that there were committeeman there from
40 States and Territories, literally from
Maine to California The National
Convention of Editors will meet in ST.
Augustine, January 21st, and Mr. Lon
don says the programme viii be most
attractive; that the editors will be given
excursions all over the State, iii short
that Florida will be turned over to them.
Mr.. London was delighted with every
thing a Atlanta and snaciaJlv with tho