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

Friday, Oct 18th, Col. S. T. Ford
t. e entertainer, will appear at Metro
politan Hail.
Twenty one convicts were brought in
Yesterday, 10 from New Hanover, 7
from 0howan and from Vance.
1t is gratifying to note that Mr.. Arm
istead Jones, who has been quite Ill fol
sometime, was out again yesterday.
Last night, after prayer meeting at
the Tabernacle Baptist church, Rev. DR..
Sims received one new member by bap-
tism.
Roles's furniture factory is shipping
more furniture than for sometime past.
They report general improvement in
trade
This afternoon the executive commit
tee of the Y NJ. q. A. meets to elect a
secretary of the association. Mr.. T. H.
Briggs is president of the local 7. M.
G. A.
Mayor Russ and Mr. W. T. Ball had
an alteration on Fayetteville street yes
terday afternoon that resulted in per-
sonal encounter. Noserious consequences
resulted.
The new fire headquarters building is
rapidly assuming definite form. The
walls are now above the first story, and
the window castings of the second story
are being put in.
Mr.. Pulaski Oowper says at Louisburg,
from which pace be has just returned.
handsome new hotel, modern in every
way, is being built. sLouisburg is one
of the Invest towns in the State,n he 1e-
marked.
Receipts on the cotton market were
200 bales yesterday. Cotton was nearly
quarter of cent higher, middling
bringing as nigh as SIS cents Liver
pool bought cotton heavily yesterday on
account OF the frosts in the cotton belt
Good attendance and excellent pres.
poets are reported from the colored
normal schools in the State, all of which
are now going ahead without trouble.
ssghe normal department at Cullowhee
(for whites is said to be in fine eondi-
ton.
In the mayors court yesterday Peter
Nipper was fined s. for disorderly con-
dnct; William Lewis, an old offender,
was sent to the roads for thirty DAYS, foI
drunkness and disorder; and two ''plain
DRINKS" were given twelve hours in the
city cooler"
Editor Joseph A. Harris, of the Hills
boro Observer, was here yesterday to
see the wild west show. He reports
that PopUlist rally will be held at Mer-
ritt's near Chapel Hill, next Saturday at
which Rev. BaylUs Osde, "Esq !" is to
be the star speaker.
Tbs Yates property at Cary, which the
Alliance is to secure for its shoe factory
and general offices, will be sold by order
c. court next Monday. The offices Of the
Farmers State Alliance will be moved to
Cary about November 18th. The inter
ests of the Alliance are to be centered in
this suburban t08n,
Me-. J. G. Bcomell, an old time printer,
who was foreman of the printing office OF
the d, D. ard B. Institution forty
wears ago, was z the city yesterday The
printers, at that time, got six or seven
dollars a week, and when Mr. Bromell
left the institution they We're getting
fourteen dollars week.
Governor Carr has silver medal the
size OF a dollar. 1t is one of those pre-
sented by the State Of South Carolina t.
the survivors of the palmetto Regi
mentu who returned from Mexico. Il
was found on the battle field of Benton
vile. aud was probably lost there b.
some Confederate soldier. 1t has th'
name "John ". Cant" Governor Car
desires to ind its owner.
tOur Record, little paper published
by the Baptist Tabernacle, gives this III
teresting item: ION the first of Jul,
last, brother b. T. Faison passed int
the seventeenth year of his remarkable
record. For the fifteen years past b.
has not missed Sabbath or been late a
Sunday school. If there is another oE'
in the world with such record w
would be glad il the newspapers would
find him."
a Wilmington lady came b. re yester
day on the afternoon train TO seek be
daughter, who ran away from her HON
in that city She said that a few day
ago her daughter ran away from home
and is thought to have come to Raleigh
She says her daughter is little girl, c
slight form, with coal black hair an
ewes. She is said to have come her
under an assumed name, but her res
name is reported to be White.