The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-07-31
PERSONAL.

Mrs. James Dinwiddie has returned to
the city.
Mrs. E. E. Moffitt has returned from
Morehead.
P. B. Wilkes, of Monroe, was here
yesterday.
Percy Gray, of Greensboro, was here
yesterday.
S. A. Ashe, Jr., left yesterday for
Chapel Hill.
State Geologist Holmes is stopping at
the Marlborough.
J. N. Holding and wife are at the
Raleigh Paper Mills.
Mr.. R. H. Horne, of Fayetteville, was
here yesterday on business.
Miss Steadman, of Oxford, who has
been in the city left yesterday for Fay
etteyille.
Mr.. @. II. Strickland, a prominent
resident of Youngsyille, was in Raleigh
yesterday
Mr.. Philip CRAFTSMAN is here, to spend
the summer visiting his sister, Mrs.
Rosenthal.
Senator Marion Butler, wife and child
passed through Raleigh yesterday for
Goldsboro.
Mess n. a. Sinclair, 81. R. Horne and
Newton H. Smith came in on the excur-
sion yesterday.
Bishop Cheshire is attending the Com
mancenent of the University OF the
South at Sewanee, Tenn.
Prof. F. NJ. Harper formerly of this
city but now Principal of the Athens,
Ga, schools is in the city.
Seven convicts were brought in yes
terday from Cumberland county by
W. W. Aubrey and two guards, assist
ing.
Superintendent A. Leazer, of the State
Penitentiary, left on the southwest
bound train yesterday for Iredell
county.
The Methodist parsonage of Edenton
street Church has received the finishing
touches and is now being handsomely
painted.
Mr.. James McAllister, of Central Falls,
raised through the city yesterday for
Wilmington where he goes to the mar
rage of Mr. George Worth to Miss Emma
Chadhourn.
Mr.. a. NJ. McPheeters returned home
from Atlanta yesterday morning, and
left last night for Henderson to attend
the Sunday School Convention of Abe
marie Presbytery which met at Hender
son last night
Mrs. W. Fl. Bagley left yesterday for
Wilmington to attend the marriage of
her nephew, Dr. Geo. @. Worth to Miss
Emma Chadbourn, which will take place
tonight in the First Presbyterian church
in Wilmington.
Mr.. N B. Broughton left yesterday
for Morganton and Asheville for few
days rest, and will probably return Sat
urday. He will make an address before
the Biblical Association now in sort Of
Chsutauqua session at Ashey'lle.
Mr.. G. F. Uzzle, Of Wilson's Mills, is
in the city and will remain day or SO
looking after his building contracts. He
has two or three more new residences n
completed by him in the next few
months.
Yesterday Miss Mary Shipp, Miss Mary
Turner and Miss Eleanor Vass left Raj
eigh for Old Point Comfort, Newport
News and other Virginia resorts as the
guest of Miss Mary Johnson. The young
women will be gone week or more and
were accompanied by Miss JohnsOn's
father, Mr.. G. E. johnson.
Mr.. J. A. Holmes, State Geoliglst,
is back from Wilmington, where he has
been examining phosphates. Mr.
Holmes says the crops down that way
are looking well, and that there is
large trucking development around
Wilmington, all along the railroad lines
from Goldsboro to Wilmington.
Rev. E. G. Vardell, pastor of the Pres
b5terian kchurch at Newbern, passed
through our city on yesterday to attend
the Sunday School Convention at Hen
derson. Mr. VIM. S. Primrose, Prof.
Jas. Dinwiddie, Prof. W. A. Withers,
Rev. DR.. E. Daniel and Mr.. A. M. Nc
Pheeters, all Of this city, are on the pro
gramme for speeches at Ibis Convention.
Mr.. @. B Edwards who is back from
Columbia where he went to put in bid
on behalf of his firm for the public print
ing of South Carolina, said yesterday
that though the contract went to a
Charleston concern, yet his bid was low
er than that of any one el-e, the freights
alone being against him 1t is gratifyi &
TO know that Raleigh has facilities that
put her figures below her competitors.