The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-11
CITY IN BRIEF.

Telephone subscribers viii add to the
list John u Smith, No. 181.
Mr.. L. W. Holt, of Burlington, takes
two hundred feet shelfspace at the State
Fair.
Jim Young's paper calls Rev. R. a..
W. Leak ''the Big Leak OF sill the LEAKS
in North Carolina"
FL. L. Bowers's distillery, near Selma,
is said to have been seized yesterday by
Deputy Hill, of OnsloW.
A farmer was in town yesterday who
about the same time last year got S95
for four bales of cotton. This year he
got $160 for four bales.
Mr.. IL. l. Stewart, of Winston, who
returned home yesterday, said that he
had come to Raleigh to deliver the 10th
Supreme Court Report.
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.. John Nichols said yesterday:
''The politicians who are talking politics
now are like the little boy learning to
shoot a gun; he wastes all his ammuni-
ton before he gets to his game"
Secretary of State Cooke has returned
from Louisburg. Capt. Cooke says the
crops out his way are good-and what is
better, the farmers have most of their
cotton still in hand, though, OF course,
the yield fell off s)me.
The Literary Department of the Ep-
worth League, IN charge of the third
vice president, has arranged for an en-
tertainment on the 18Th instant by Pro-
fessor Ford, of Baltimore, who is said TO
be uuexcelled III his line
Colonel Fred. Olds and little boy,
Douglass, went out shooting birds yes
terday. The Colonel, as is known, is a
crack marksman and is getting Douglass
in good form against tie bird season,
which is almost upon us.
The ladies CT the Church Improvement
Society of the First Baptist church will
give an entertainment this evening at the
Pastors home-beginning at s O'Clock
All the friends of the church and con-
gregation are cordially invited.
Strict middling cotton brought 8
cents here yesterday, and the farmers
were happy The receipts doubled in a
day being yesterday 436 bales. The local
market is steady and strong. A cotton
man said that the heavy frost of yester-
day really did the cotton little harm
Speaking of General Miles, who has
lately succeeded General Schofeid in
command of the army, Mr.. Watkins
Robards said yesterday that Gen. Miles
was stationed In Raleigh just after the
war. Many others of our older citizens,
also, will probably recall this.
Mr.. W. FL. Afford, who was 80 badly
injured Wednesday night by ]. j. Wish
arr, was little better yesterday, and it
is heped he will soon be cut. Mean
while tie trisl will be deferred, and
Wishart yesterday vas released under
bond.
Mr.. E. s. Tillinghast, sou of Mr. D. K
TiIlinghsst, of Raleigh, favors us with a
copy of ''the Washingtonian" published
by the School for Defective Youth in
Vancouver, Wa b. His Raleigh friends
will be glad TO hear of the success Of
young Mr.. Tiilinghast in his far-aRay
home.
Referring to the election called TO vote
on the issue of bonds in Raleigh, Jim
Young's Gazette says: at is proper that
the election should have been called in
cold weather, for it will doubtless be a
very cold day when the people by their
votes authorize the issuance OF the bonds
IL question"
The State Printers are al work upon
the State Records, which Judge Clark Is
preparing for the press These records
are awaited with much interest, as they
cover the most stirring period OF our
early history. The forthcoming volume
will probably be completed by the mid
die of November.
Captain Ashe referring to the Raleigh
correspondent Of an out-of town paper
said that the suggestion was made that
the Democratic lentral Executive Com
mittee was more than duly colored by
a social ed Raleigh element. Capt. Ashe
said that such a statement was, he
thought, mainfestly misleading, as there
were, as he then recalled, not more than
five of the committee from Raleigh,
namely Hessrs. Battle, Ashe, Ed. Cham
bers Smith, Simmons and Beckvith.
Moreover, Capt Ashe said that nova
Gays the campaign was almost wholly
in the hands OF the Democratic chair
man whether rightly or wrongly and
that the central executive committee at
best was not a railing factor