The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-07-30
CITY IN BRIEF.
Concert at Pullen Park tonight.

Concert at Pullen Park tonight.
The Governor yesterday appointed a.
Commissioner of Deeds for North Caro-
lima Joseph T. Harrison, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Mr.. E. W. Woddell, who has written
"The Song of the Soldiers Home" hopes
to secure enuogh from the proceeds to
educate his some at the A. and M. Col
lege.
Prof. Irby, of the A. and M. College,
talked agriculture at the Pockridge Pop
ulist picnic in Wilson county on Satur-
day, Mr.. Guthrie and Hal Aver talked
politics.
Mrs DR.. r. H. Lewis yesterday was
considered better than at any time during
her sickness. 1t is believed that the
fever is well-nigh abated, and that with
due care, the patient will soon have been
brought past the danger line.
The News, of Charlotte, has taken a
bicycle census of the town, and figures
up the valuation of these wheels at $780,
600. Raleigh would probably run as
high, if not higher. From the total
valuation of bicycles in the State, If mar
roWly looked after, a snug sum should
come into the Treasury, as stated few
days ago in these columns.
The Central Baptist Association, of
which the First Baptist church of this
city is member, meets Mount Yer
non, near Neuse, n. O., to-day. DR..
Durham, DR.. Carter, J. W. Bailey and
W. N. Jones are delegates from the
First Baptist church. An interesting
programme has been arranged, and
many prominent Baptists will attend.
Eugene Howle, the 10-year-oid son of
Mr.. Tom Howle, who lives near the city,
is just recovering from what was a
vicious attack of fever. Mr.. Howle said
Sunday that some of his tenants, also,
were down with the fever, and that the
whole trouble was accounted for, by
those about, in the proximity of
Walnut creek, the channel of which
seems to need deepening. AT present,
The refuse thrown upon the shallow
banks gives out odors to poison the air
of the whole section, and many of the
neighbors are putting their heads to-
gether trying to find against whom q
proper remedy may lie to put an end to
the pestiferous source of all these ills.
Mr.. q. A. Bromleigh, who is stopping
at the Marlboro, is busy trying to establish
in Raleigh, chapter of the Knights of
Dixie, an order founded for the purpose
of perpetuating those things concerning
the civil war, which are dear to South
ern people. The order is two years old
and is said to have a membership of
eleven thousand. General Lewis, of
Goldsboro, is an active and enthusiastic.
member, and Mr.. Bromleigh came bear
ing from him letter to Governor Carr,
who promptly endorsed the letter in a
commentator of Mr.. Bromleigh and his
mission to the people of the city. The
list is growing, as seen yesterday, and
the signs seem all good that chapter
will soon be formed of Knights of Dixie.
Mr.. Sam Harper, of Fayetteville, so
popularity known here, returned last
night from Salt Lake City, where he has
been to the meeting of the Educational
Convention, lately held out there. Mr..
Harper climbed Pixies Peak, where the
favorite sport was snow balling, in which
he engaged. Mr.. Harper reports lake
in which the bather can simply float
without any exertion, smoking cigar at
will if desired. Mr.. Harper says out of
$4,000 inhabitants, AZ, 900 are Mormons,
yet the gentle voters are in the majority
because, among the Mormons, there is
such a preponderance of women. The
practice of polygamy still exists largely,
however, among the lower classes, and
secretly from the law. Yet against one
of the millionaires of the territory, there
is now pending a suit, the expenses of
which will probably cost him $100,000
and all because he had three wives. Mr..
Harper looks much stoutened, and comes
back with many merry picture Of this
land so wonderously beautiful on the
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