The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-29
CITY IN BRIEF.

III
The tobacco sales still continue on
regular days.
Work has temporarily stopped on
Shaw University.
A game of baseball will be played be.
tween Raleigh and Louisburg at Athletic
Park to morrow at $3.50 O'Clock.
The executive committee of the State
Farmers Alliance is expected TO meet
here day.
Mr.. Woodford Fuller, popular young
man of Goldsboro, has accepted posi-
ton here as night clerk in the Park Hotel.
Mr.. Ed. Chambers Smith yesterday
received one of his silver calls from Dur
ham with about twenty five names signed
to it.
His Exeellency Governor Carr, Audi
tor Furman and Treasurer Worth, who
are now visiting the Roanoke Farms, are
expected back to-day.
Messrs J. Fl. O'Hara & Co., of Rich
mond, Va, writes Secretary Nichols that
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of their agricultural implements.
Mr.. a. P. Bryan, agent here of the
Southern Express Company, Is much
better and has gone for a little rest to
Wilmington and the Eastern part Of the
State.
There was a runaway yesterday across
the grounds of the Executive Mansion,
in which figured two mules and negro
driver. Neither the mules nor the negro
was hurt.
eEMiss Gertrude Register, a graduate of
st. Mary's School who attended the Nor
NAL and Industrial School at Greensboro
last year, has been elected the assistant
IN the physical department of the Greens
boro Normal and Industrial School.
Major John @. Winder, ex-vice- presi-
dent of the Seaboard Air Line, who has
been sick for some time, has gone TO
Jackson Springs to recuperate. He is
accompanied by Mrs Winder, General
Manager John q. Winder aud his wife.
The incorporators of the shoe factory
which the Farmers Alliance will run at
Cary are Thaddeus Ivey, W. S. Barnes,
j. W. Denmark, Cyrus Thompson, W.
II. Worth, John Graham AID A. D. K.
Wallace. The capital stock is $780,
Commissioner Patterson is holding a
Farmers Institute in Lincolnton to day.
He is accompanied by DR.. FL. B. Battle,
and was joined yesterday at Lincolnton
by Mr.. a. O. Holiday, President of the
a. 81 NJ. College Mr.. Emery, also pro-
fessor at the college, will follow later.
1t was said yesterday that Mr. Edgar
Leach refused the offer OF the position
lately made vacant by the resignation of
a. ]. Cooke, the clever soliciting freight
and passenger agent here of the Sea
bogrd Airline. 1t was said, also, that
Mr.. Leard will succeed Mr.. Cooke.
There was received in the Governors
Office yesterday letter from one of the
big papers of Chicago requesting his Ex-
cellency to give his views as to the best
methods of preventing train robberies.
The paper seems to be getting together
such views from the Governors of all the
States. But Private Secretary Telfair
said yesterday that there were no train
robberies in North Carolina.
The will was probated yesterday of the
late Mr.. l. w. Dent, of Wake county.
The will was drawn the goth of February,
1884, and left to his wife, Emma E Dent,
seemingly all he possessed, namely, his
farm, with stock, etc. Yesterday the
widow filed her dissent to the will,
through Mr.. J. n. Holding, from which
it was inferred that Mr.. Dent had &C
CURED some property since 1884.
William Montague, colored, was re-
leased yesterday from Jail on bond Of
$500, with Rev. 0. L. Struggled as
bondsman. Montague was put in jail on
charge of house breaking, but Mr..
SPRINGFIELD, it is said, having known him
before, said he was a smart negro and
ought to be at work. So he accompanied
Mr. Struggled from the jail and was
put TO work.
Mr.. j. B. Sneed, well-known as clerk
r. the Park Hotel, has resigned his posi-
ton 10 90 on the road He will be sue
ceeded by MIR. p. r. Mason, formerly
night clerk. Mr.. Woodruff, elsewhere
referred to, will take Mr.. Mason's place.
Both Mr.. Sneed and Mr. Mason are "tne
as silk" in their business, besides being
royal good fellows Mr.. Sneed's many
friends will miss him in his accustomed
place.
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