The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-20

The child of Mr.. J. G. Birdsong is
critically i'll with membranous Group.
The Railroad Commission meets Mon.
day and will be in session most of this
week.
Governor Carr has offered a reward OF
800 for Robert Dockery. who ischarged
with the murder of NJ. Brice in Chero-
kee county the 3rd of last September.
General Storekeeper and Guager
Powell, who returned from Montgomery
county yesterday, says that two illicit
distilleries were seized in Moore county
Thursday.
The regular meeting of the Ministering
Circle of the Kings Daughters will be
neld at the Marlborough House to morrow
(Monday) afternoon at 80 o'clock. 1t is
hoped every member will attend.
Monday afternoon at $50 o'clock the
suit OF s. B Perry VS. J. J. Rogers, the
marriage license case, - will be called
Judge Whitaker, Il gaTs' counsel, will
return Monday in tim to appear in the
case. TIE date Sept. 18Th" has been
changed.
Superintendent Howell tells us that the
graded school teachers and scholars who
will go to the Atlanta Exposition will not
go on special train, but will leave at
4.05 O'Clock Monday afternoon on the
Southern. The teachers will attend the
Educational Conference which will be
held at Atlanta this week.
AT the m aeting Of the Shriners Friday
night in Charlotte, it had been expected
that Col A. B. Andrews would Dec )me
a member. But the Colonel said yester-
day that he had been too busy to go
over, inrimatiag, however, that he would,
as soon as he could spare the time from
business for the initiation
The News AND OBSERVER was in error
in its statement that the incandescent
electric light circuit on Fayetteville street
was If for three hours, Thursday night.
1t was off only forty eight minutes Mr.
Bonner Is enc Of the most expert ''trou-
BILE tracers, in the State in bis line, and
remedied the accident inside CT an hour.
Cotton sold here yestf rday as low as
from 8 1-2 to 8 5-S It went off %
points in New York due, it was said, to
heavy realizir g M(r-over, tho crop
which had been estimated at six and a
half million bales, was figured up by
this weeks Chronicle to possible ssyen
millions or more, which strong authority
had its immediate effect.
OF course, it is well-known that the
@. F. and Y. V. r. r. is to be sold, but
the rumor that it is TO become the pro-
perty of the Southern seems entirely
premature. A prominent Southern
official said yesterday that he knew
nothing of any such intention on the
part of the Southern, nor did he know
rho would be the bidders when the
road was sold.
Southern Railway train, No. IA, from
Greensboro to Goldsboro, passing Raj
eigh at 1105 a. m, and train No. 10,
from Goldsboro to Greensboro, passing
Raleigh at 900 m, now are operated
daily, including Sundays, Since the
recent change Of schedule on the South
ern there was no Sunday connection for
Wilmington, and the running of these
two trains d. ", including Sundays,
makes this connection.
Mr. Fl. A. London, who passed through
the city yesterday, expects TO leave next
Wednesday for Atlanta to be present at
the meeting of the Executive Committee
of the National Editorial Association.
The meeting will be held on the cath
instant, to arrange plans for the annual
meeting in Florida in January. Mr..
London represents North Carolina in the
Executive Committee, of which there are
altogether some sixty members. Some
of the Western States having more than
one Editorial Association have more than
one committee aember. North Carolina
has only one.
Parents vino desire their hildren TO
have the benefif of brief and inexpen
sive trip TO the Atlanta Exposition, after
the State fair, may have the privilege Of
their going on the $40 train Of the Sea
board Air Line Thursday, October gath
Pupils Of the Raleigh Male Academy aud
their friends will be under the charge of
Capt. benson. Fare, seven dollars; for
those under IL years, three dollars and
fifty cents Names TO be handed in by
3 p m on Tuesday, 22nd Party to re-
turn. leaving Atlanta at 12 m. Sunday,
reaching Raleigh at 1875 a. IA, by com
Portable ves.ibule train.
New Phones.