The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-25
CITY IN BR EFF

CITY IN BR EFF
Ell. Pool was up yesterday before the
Mayor charged with stealing Watch.
In default of 800 bond, he was sent
on to court.
R. Fl. Brooks, the son of Mr.. W. @.
Brooks, of Raleigh, has been appointed
Chief Marshall of the Alamance Fair,
which opens at Haw River, October H.
Sheriff Boyd, of Caldwell county,
brought in two prisoners yesterday Tor
the penitentiary, and Sheriff Cartwright,
of Pasquotank, one. They are all short
termers.
Mr.. VIM. A. Guthrie, of Durham, said
Yesterday that his brother in-law, Mr.,
Julian S. Carr, left Durham yesterday
afternoon for New York, to meet his
daughter, who is just returning from
Europe.
The ciUizens of Palmira yesterday filed
with the Railroad Commission petition
for freight and passenger station at
that point of the Norfolk and Carolina
Railroad. The citizens of Saluda
also on the Southern Railway fled like
petition.
At the late meeting of the Celored
Baptist State Sunday School Convention,
James Fl. Young, editor of the Gazette,
was elected president, jos. Perry, OF
Raleigh, corresponding secretary, and
w. F. Roberts, of Raleigh, treasurer.
The next meeting will be held in Colds
boro.
The people, through the newspapers,
continue to beg that the streets may be
sprinkled, but their begging don't seem
to count for much, as the longer they
beg, the dustier the streets seem to get.
There is a sprinkler, and plenty OF
water, and that is all the public know
about it.
There is constant demand on Secretary
Nichols by the exhibitors for more space
at the fair grounds, Mr.. E. B. G. Ham
bley, of Rockbridge Farm, asking for %
additional stalls for his famous cattle.
He has recently brought some valuable
jersey stock from the North. which Will
be among those he sends to the fair.
Yesterday as a crowd OF gen lemen
were coming down the Seaboard
Air Line platform bound for the Silver
Convention. hole was noticed in the
platform, and Capt. Bunen's attention
was called to it. He humorously remarked
that maybe it couldn't stand the strain
of that load of silver that was passing in.
The Board Of Internal improvements
yesterday made the following appoint
ments for the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima Railroad. They comprise the Gil
rectors of the road, Of whom W. S.
Chadwick, of Carteret, is re-appointed
President, and W 7. Dortch, Of Wayne,
is appointed States Proxy. The other
directors are g. Z Foy, of Craven, VI.
T. Caho. of Pamlieo, Charles Dewey, OF
Wayne, Enoch Wadsworth, of Craven,
". L. Kennedy, Of Lenoir, Samuel
Latham, Of Craven, and W. W. CAIRO
way, Of Lenoir.
Among the silver arrivals yesterday
are the following stopping at the Var
boro: Vim. a Guthrie, Durham; John
Fl. Pearson. Morganton; j. j. Mott,
Statewide; j. NJ. Smith and Claudius
Dockery, Rockingham; L. d. Robinson,
Wadesboro; E. s Walton and K. A. Cobb,
Morganton; P. H. Cooke (son of Secre-
tary Cooke and Sheriff FL. G Kearney,
Louisburg; Congressman Harry Skinner,
Greenyille; Geo. W. Guilford and o. K.
Stilley, Washington; W. H. Kitchin,
Scotland Neck; Senator J. E. Fowler
Clinton; B. z. Keith, Wilmington; Geo.
E. Butler, Clinton; VI. N. Ellsworth,
Wallacs; J. T. Hill and Fl. j. Faison,
Faison; Z NJ Peterson and Q T. Her
ring, Clinton; NJ. L. Wood, Lewiston;
Thomas J. Jarvis, n O.; E. NJ. Koonce,
jacksonville; J. D. Kerr. Clinton; James
H. Sheriff., Catawba.
Marshal Carroll is just back from Will
mington yes erday, whittier he was sum
moned last ga. urday in connection with
the military supplies on board the Com
modore, bound for Cuba. The Marshal
said when he went on deck in his official
capacity the Captain ''got on his ear,
saying he didn't care anything about a
u. s. Marshal, and he did not propose
to have private property interfered with
on board bis vessel. Then the Captain
sent for ID. l. Russell, lawyer, candidate
for Governor, and other things, and re
tanned him as counsel. Mr.. Carroll said
that they both said that they wanted &c
know how it was that he was authorized
to seize the arms on the vessel, etc. They
threatened to hold him and his bonds
men responsible, but the Marshal said
that the authority he had, while there
was no necessity of showing it to them,
was all sufficient for him, and that as tc
his bondsmen, that is just what he had
them for, for just such an emergency as
this. So your Uncle Dan and the Gap
tain came down off their bluff roost'
and left the Marshal on deck in undis
puted possession, with the thermometer
at 1870. The Marshal stood on deck there
for five hours, unloading all kinds o.
dangerous things-machetes, guns, can
non, powder and shot, and everything
calculated to hurt the feelings of thu
Spaniard 1t was pretty severe strair
en- the Marshal, accordingly he came
back quite unwell yesterday. There
were 488 boxes seized in all, and thu
Marshal said there seemed to be consid