The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-23
rITY III BRIEF.

secretary Noh6 Wot' Soh0AtsOASN% O''0A
day to be some better.
There will be big barbecue at Tom
Walkers farm, near Durham, next Sat
urday.
The Raleigh Hosiery Yarn Mills are
now running under press OF orders until
8 O'Clock at night.
Mr.. J. A. Jones, of this county, has
been elected principal of the Roanoke
Institute at Weldon. He is a graduate
of the University.
The case of Harriet Whitaker, brought
from Weldon on charge OF t. ana a. !,
will come up before Justice Roberts to
day. Harriet says she proposes IN her
defence to make things lively for some
folks.
Wednesday, the trustees re-sold at
auction the name and good will OF the
old firm of Alfred Williams Il Co., and
the same was purchased by Haywood u
Williams, proprietors Of the new BOOK
store here.
The Mallory Durham Cheroot Com
pany writes to Secretary Nichols that it
expects to have an exhibit at the next
fair and will have from 10 to 10 hands
on the spot making cheroots just as they
do in the factory.
A full plate-glass front is being put in
at the Express Office, and the interior IS
being generally renovated and RENTED
with plastering, &c. 1t was SAID yester-
day that the Improvements would cost
several hundred dollars.
The vacancy caused in the Sheriff's
office by the resignation OF Mr.. K. ".
Page, who recently took part interest in
the Oak City Laundry here, will not,
Sheriff Page said yesterday, be filled just
now. No one has yet been decided upon,
nor probably will be for two weeks,
when the tax lists come in.
Chairman Dewry said yesterday that
at the next meeting, September 9TH, of
the Board of Health, there would be a
recommendation to keep hog pens out
side of certain limits; that, moreover,
there would probably be an amendment
excluding them from the city altogether
after January 1st, 1896.
For sometime in our quotation Of local
stocks, the stock of the Raleigh Cotton
Mills has been quoted at 100. The stock
has gone up from 100 to 102 4 to 102
1-2, and is regarded as gilt edge stock at
this advance This stock i'll the last
year paid a dividend of per cent, and
also issued scrip dividend of 40 per cent.
The constable Yesterday notified JUS
tiee Roberts that he would be on hand
to day with the parties for whom war
rents were issued few days agosto Oak
Grove township TIE case is the one of
alleged SANDER against Miss Maggie Gray,
and the rainy weather has stood in the
way of more prompt appearance of those
interested. The case will probably be
called this forenoon.
Mr.. W. A. Turk, G. P. A, in letter
received yesterday has signi6ed his viii
lingness to make the rate of one fare for
the Fair and one cent mile for two or
three days Secretary Nichols has re-
piled asking for the one cent Tor four
days, the time covered by the Fair, and
is Inclined to believe that Mr.. Turk will
accede to the request. Tickets thus sold
will be good until Monday, the Fair
closing on Friday, the tournament day.
A gentleman said yesterday that Mr..
Griffin, of Baltimore, began this week
sinking an artesian we'll on his farm
near Neal, Halifax ccnnty, n. c. Splen-
did overflow wells Of the best and purest
water have been obtained at small eX-
pense and at the depth o. $50 feet at
Franklin, Va, and at Lake City, S. @.
1t is learned that flowing water has also
been obtained at Tarboro at 300 feet.
These wells may revolutionize the health
of Eastern North Carolina. Our peni-
tentiarv authorities have for some time
had in contemplation putting down arte-
sian wells on the Roanoke State farms.
Wednesday contractor A. D. Holland,
of Goldsboro, completed the construction
of the water works at the Insane Asy-
lum, including a brick, cement lined
reservoir containing 500, 900 gallons, and
2,700 feet of main, nearly all inch.
There are some G and some 10 inch.
Yesterday morning test of the new
works, which are to protect the Asylum
and its many out buildings from fire,
was made by Chief of the Fire Depart
ment Mailer and Mr.. McPheeters, super
intendent of the Raleigh Water Works.
Four streams were thrown through fifty
feet of hose, with one inch smooth-bo
nozzles, streams having vertical height
of about 100 feet, and rising clear above
the main building. The test was entirely
satisfactory, there being no break, leak
or accident. The pumping engine car
ried 105 pounds of steam and this gave
the streams the same force as that given
here in the city by the tower pressure.
AWAY co THE KNIGHTS.