The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-20
CITY IN BRIEF.

Friday night at the Academy-Agnes
Wallace Villa, in "The World Against
Her."
Rev. W. NJ. Clarke, former rector OF
the Church of the Good Shepherd,
will preach there next Sunday.
The Wake County Sunday School Con-
ventiou will meet in the FIRST Presbyte-
rian Church, in this city, tomorrow, at
10 o'clock.
In the NEWS AND OBSERVER office last
night Mr.. Lee Afford was badly burned.
A Merganthaler Linotype was thrown
out of gear, and it threw white lead
around in shower.
Mr.. Fl. T. Chandler has leased Mr..
Plummer Bachelors farm, near the
Federal Cemetery, for term of years,
and will cultivate the plantation from
the beginning of the year.
Proprietor K. Z. Crawford, of the
Park Hotel, has just made arrange
ments to pave the street in front of the
hotel. He~wf1l also buy an omnibus to
carry passeng. RS TO and from the Union
Depot.
Commissioner Lacy has received the
first proofs of the ANNUAL report of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. This will
be cut about December 10Th. 1t is now in
the hands of Safe Printer Stewart. The
report contains many novel features,
and is more complete than ever.
1t is understood that cards will be
ssued in few days for the marriage of
Mr.. Harry Corbin, of Kansas city, Mo-,
to Miss Ida Carr, daughter of Col
Julian S. Carr, and one of the bellies Of
North Carolina. The wedding will oc
cur Thursday, December 18th. The
nuptials will be solemnized at Somerset
Villa"
The people Ct Raleigh will read with
interest the announcement that DR..
Harvey @. Upcburch, son of the late w.
G. Upchurch, Esq, who has recently
graduated in medicine, will remain in
Raleigh and practice his profession. He
is well equipped, and has large circle
of friends, who will wish him the largest
measure of success.
The Secretary of State and Mrs
Cooke passed through here Yesterday,
en- route to their home in L3uisburg.
They were summoned home by a tele-
gram which conveyed the sad news of
the death of Capt. Cookies sister, Miss
Belle Cooke. The deceased had been
an invalid for years. The funeral took
place yesterday at the old home place in
Franklin county.
Contrary to general report" said
Register of Deeds Rogers. II am still
issuing marriage licenses at the old
stand, for the same price-three dollars
pair. Some people seem 10 think that
since Mr. Perry sued me about matter
of this kind, | have shut up my shop"
Yes er iay lceU Sc YVES issued TO Mr.
j. J. Maynard and Miss Parthenia Won
BILE They are both from near Apex.
Capt. @. B benson, of this city, has
just been appointed manager of the
Southern Educational Association for
North Carolina. The next meeting Of
the association will be held in Little
Rock, Arkansas, December 31st, Janu-
airy LIST and End. The railroad companies
have given greatly reduced rates, and
this bids fair to be one OF the largest
conventions of Southern teachers ever
held
Judge r. W. Winston passad through
yesterday afternoon, returning to Dur
ham from Newbern. He has also at
tended. Lenoir County Court. II have
noticed particularly the trend of things
for sometime" he said to NEWS AND
OBSERVER man, land / find that since
the elections last fall, crime is on the in
crease" Whether this was due to the
,ule of Fusion, the astute Judge said
not.
Mr.. 7. K PurnelI returned yesterday
from Winston, where he has been for the
past week He says Bill Fife, in the
stock phrase, is ''stirring Winston from
centIe to circumference, aud that the
most hardened old sinners are not salts
fiei unless they can 60 To church four
times II day. they raised 81 200 for
Bill Fife yesterday. Oae pious Old negro
ma.ked 'BrHdder Sam Jones come
along and stir 'cm up like the dc mangler
IN &c steam lauuGry; Builder Fife ne
C me along and iron EN- out "Why is
it, ask d al outsider OF a prominent
Winston citiz u, THAT We all hsar e. Y
few mouths Of Winston being shaken
from one end to The other by these big
evangelists, and after all the town Gems
no better than some other places |
know" "Well, p" replied the prominent
citizen, 1--WE take our religion here ike
we do our bus ness on thirty, sixty or
ninety days time"
A Creek Dried Up ~ Fire.