The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-13
CITY IN BRIEF.

Mr.. 4. H. Croker went yesterday to
his home in Middleburg.
There will be a meeting of st Agnes
Guild this evening at Ais o'clock.
To- night at Peace Institute: The
Students Recital from Bach and Han
del
Mr. X. o. Burton has returned from
a brief professional visit to Sampson
county.
Rev. A. ID. Hunter was called yester-
day to New Hope chapel to preach the
funeral of Mrs. John Baugh.
Rev. ID. H. futile has been given
highly polished cane by an inmate of
the penitentiary in recognition of his
services as minister.
1t is reported that DR.. j. W. Carter.
pastor of the First Baptist Church, has
been called to the passionate of the
church in Wheeling, W. Va.
To-day in Forsyth Superior Court
the case of the West End Land Co VS..
Edwards and Broughton viii probably
be taken up.
Receipts on the local cotton market
Yesterday, 200 bales; prices on a basis
of 8@s1s cents for good middling; the
market was firm.
1t is understood that there viii be
before long call meeting of the City
Board of Aldermen, that may not be
devoid of interesting Developments.
One of the funny things ION
change" yesterday was the brilliant
stroke of youthful cotton merchant
in buying gin sweepings and sand
scrapings at six cents a pound.
Mr.. w. H. DE Lacy, chief assistant in
the Office of the Chief Clerk of the In
terror Department, Washington, ID. c.,
is In the city on Il visit to Mr.. Josephus
Daniels, returning from visit to the
Atlanta Exposition.
A pleasant party of Washington, \.
c., people passed through here yester-
day, en- route to Atlanta. In the party
were Col. and Mrs. John II. Small, Mrs.
DIR. W. A. Blaunt, Mrs. III. B. Mayo and
Miss Lizzie Laughinghouse
Sheriff r. W. King, of Pitt county.
arrived yesterday with two prisoners
for the State penitentiary. One of
them goes in for two years for horse
stealing He also brought with him
Eugene Tucker, who was placed in the
insane asylum.
In the Rocky Mountains on his re-
cent trip John Y. MacRae, picked up
lot of valuable gems plucking pearly
pebbles from the peaks, and humm-
ing 1.-THE Old North State" He has
had them set. and now shows in his
Fayetteville street drugstore Rocky
Mountain window.
The Raleigh and CASTOR railroad
company has a force of hands ready
to go to work as soon as possible on
the new Morgan street bridge over the
Seaboard Airline tracks. OF course,
if Morgan street were not extended the
bridge would lead to a blind fence
And the building of the bridge insures
the immediate extension of Morgan
street.
Mr.. Ezra Thompson treated a large
and intelligent audience last evening
TO many delightful stereopticon views
of Washington and vicinity, inter
spersed with interesting narratives of
the early history of the city and many
events of national importance that
have occurred there The entertain
ment was given for the benefit of the
new Presbyterian church.
mayor Russ neld biS morning 1eNee
from ten to two O'Clock yesterday. One
person who has become "A nuisance by
reason of frequent DRINKS was fined
SIPS. LOWE Haywood, coiored, who
was up for disorderly conduct, was dis
charged A number of the colored
population attended To tsee de thing
out" for one side or the other, and
there was some picturesque testimony
from the witnesses that constituted
"A black cloud