The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-09
CITY IN BRIEF

CITY In BRIEF.
Only an adj in the paper,
Pertinent, terse, and well set:
Only a crowd of buyers,
Anxious the bargains to get.
Only prosperous business,
Prosperous though times were bad;
Only an opulent merchant
Enriched by the power of the al
Gentry and Patchen run great race
to-day in Lexington.
Sheriff Seagraves, of Ashe, brought in
one convict yesterday.
A party OF Italians passed through
yesterday en- route to Atlanta.
The Glencoe stock farm will have
seven fine blooded horses at the fair.
There are now 362 patients at the
Insane Asylum, 1873 males and 179
females.
Clarence, the two year-old son of Mr..
Charles f. Grady, died yesterday at the
residence on West Lane street.
A large party of Philadelphia gentle
men passed through the city yesterday
en- route to the Atlanta Exposition.
To day will be holiday for the Public
Schools and the A. q NJ College to give
the boys chance to see Buffalo Bill,
Mr. Charles a. Hervey has so far re-
covere1 from his sickness that he has
removed to ms home from Rex Hospital.
Receipts on the cotton market yester-
day were about $50 bales. The market
is bullish, with middling selling at s 3-S.
Before his honor, the Mayor, yester-
day appeared Andrew Andrews, colored,
for disorderly conduct. He was fined
$3.50
The Southern west-bound train that is
scheduled to leave here at 80 a. N. has
been changed, so that it leaves at 2
o'clock a. m.
Hackney Lee, the negro who was
struck by Charles Horton, was talking
a little yesterday, and considered some
what better. He is still in very critical
condition.
Those people who think it sin to go
to circus can wait for the decision OF
the Attorney General to day. If he de-
cides it is no circus, ergo it will not be
wicked to 60.
Mr.. George a. Pullman, a nephew of
the palace Car magnate, occupied the
drawing room OF Pullman car on the
Seab0ard Air Line yesterday. He was
on his way to the Atlanta Exposition.
Lawyer Purnell said yesterday: f'Haye
you seen that picture of Judge Russell
on the market house Those ALVIN
Joslin' Autographs are in face and
feature very much like Judge Russell. .
Thirteen convicts were brought in
from the eastern part of the State yes
terday afternoon. They were mostly
from New Hanover Two 20 to the pen
for ten years each, having been convicted
of burglary.
Mr.. Num-, OF the weather bureau,
said yesterday 'fhe weather will be
fifteen or twenty degrees cooler to-
morrow, and we will have frost for two
d&ys." Further than that, the weather
men will not prophesy.
Superintendent Scarborough is still
sending out copies Of the new school
laws, which have recently been printed
in neat pamphlet form. He il still de-
luged with questions from examiners
and committeeman as to what the law
means.
Attorney General Osborne S expected
to-day from Charlotte, and Treasurer
Worth, from Kinston. The Attorney
General will be called upon to review his
his opinion lately rendered that the ex-
hibitlon of Buffalo Bill was a circus
within the meaning Of the law.
Squire J. D. Newsom yesterday mar
ried his first couple The knot was tied
in the Register of Deeds office. and the
affair had in itno tinge Of Gretna Green.
Miss Martha Hinton, aged %, and Mr..
John Hobbs, aged %, were the parties
sat interest +" They both live in Wake
county, near Raleigh.
Mr.. A. f. Page, when he was here,
said that his son, Walter Fl Page, was
now associate editor of the Atlantic
Monthly. The position in pay aud liter
airy prominence is promotion from the
Forum, of which Mr.. Page was the edi-
tor. Walter Page is remembered with
pride by his Tar Heel friends, and for
many years has been felt as distinct
force among eminent men and thinkers,
specially OF New York City.
It is said that one of the objects of the
recent change in the schedule on the
Southern was To effect through con.
nection at New Orleans with the "Sun
set Limited" thence to San Francisco. A
few hours will be given at New Orleans
for the passengers to walk, and the
Southern Railway viii run solid train
from New York city to the ''Golder
Gate" Mr.. Turk has been working or
this railroad feat for nearly six months