The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-04
CITY IN BRIEF.

Crir0inal Court convenes here on Sep
TENDER 4th.
The services at the Y. NJ. @. A. will be
conducted by Mr.. Jno. T. Pullen, this
evening, at o'clock.
The paper mills of Mr.. J. N. Holding,
at the Fails of Neuse, are now running
on full time, all the machinery hum
ming,
The Seaboard Airline has received
another one of those large new engines
ornered from the Richmond Locomotive
Works. I is beauty.
There will be meeting of st. limo
thy's Guild tomorrow evening, at the
home of the President, Mrs. Z. Il. Cam
eron, at half-past o'clock.
The sheriff of Rockingham comfy ar
rived here yesterday with rope. On
the end of the latter dangled John Rich
ardson, who will serve a term in the
penitentiary for larceny.
AT 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning
Mrs. Bette White died at the home of
Mr.. J. W. Allen. The funeral services
will he held this morning at 8 o'clock
from the residence, near the Edenton
Street Church parsonage.
Mayor Russ landed hard on ''Pine
Top" again yesterday and away to the
roads he went again, for thirty days.
"Pine Tops" right name is William
Lewis, and the Mayors court proceed
ings are never the same without him.
Populist State Senator J. NJ New
borne, who has been here this week on
business as a member of the Board of
Agriculture, says Lieut.. Gov. Doughton
will get more votes than any other Dem
ocrat who could be nominated for Gov
ernor.
Hay-riding parties are all the go
among the yonng people of the city these
nights when the moon shines bright.
Early in the evening and then again,
later, is when one hears the merry rattle
and shout of the outgoing and return
ing party.
Chairman Victor Boyden, with Rev
enue clerks Steed and Brown, of the
Civil Service Examining Board met yes
terday in the post Office to hold com
petltive examination for the positions Of
guager and tQrekeeper. There were
eight applicants.
Mr.. J. E. Pogue desires to state that
he was in error in stating to the Chair
man of the Street Committee. Drewry,
that his tiye-foot sidewalk paving on
Hargett street cost 6313 cents per
square yard. Mr. Pogue says tffat the
cost was less than fifty cents for the
square yard.
The friends of Miss Eliza Pool, lady
principal of the Murphy graded school
here, who is now at No. 205 West nth
street, New York, will be sorry to hear
that she is now confined to her room
with spralned ankle. The accident oc-
Cured while Miss Pool was in bathing at
Manhattan beach. The sprain is an in
convenient but not serious one.
The female base ballists ''took in the
town" yesterday morning. They trav-
ersed the principle streets in bus and
were followed by steaming crowd Of
negroes and street gamins. The bus
was preceded by the indispensable brass
band. At.tne park they gave free ex
hibition-an earnest of what night be
expected of them in the afternoon.
The addition 125x100 feet and three
stories high, to the Raleigh hosiery yarn
mill is completed, and the placing in
position of 4, 600 more spindles begins in
a few days A low pressure cylinder Is
being connected with the engine, to give
600 horse power. There is room in the
annex for 1900 spindles, and later the
others win be put in, giving the mill 15,-
900. This mill is the only one of its
kind in the State.