The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-09
CITY IN BRIEF.

day afternoon, returning from Newbern.
Messrs Morson and benson open their
famous male academy on September ID
this year.
Secretary of State Coke is still i'll.
His condition is about the same. He
has bilious fever with typhoid symp-
toms.
Mrs. A. ]. Bufaloe, who for two
months has been under treatment IN
Johns Hopkins Hospital, is now conva-
descent.
The Kinston Free Press says Miss
Minnie Ashford, of that place, has ac-
cepted a position as stenographer IN
Raleigh.
The low rate of $10.45 for return
trip from Raleigh to the Atlanta Expo
sition will secure a big attendance from
this city.
Prof. F. E. Emory, of the Experiment.
al station, has been invited to accept a
professorships in three different colleges.
He likes North Carolina far too well to
leave, though.
Governor Carr has called an extra
term of court for Cleveland county. 1t
will convene on the goth of August and
is called for the trial of both civil and
criminal actions.
Clerk of the Court Dan Young yester-
day appointed Charles Fl. Beine JUS
tice of the peace. He is appointed to
succeed Mr.. J. n Hubbard, who now
lives in Baltimore.
Mrs Spier Whitaker has issued cirs
cular letter to many persons in the State
for the purpose of establishing North
Carolina chapter of the Daughters of
the Revolution.
Wednesday morning Charlie Vickers,
the is months old child of Mr.. J. A.
Vickers, who lives four miles in the
country, drank concentrated lye. That
afternoon the little fellow died.
Prof. B. W. Kilgore, first assistant chem
ist at the Experimental Station, will go
to John Hopkins University in the fall,
having been honored with an honor
airy scholarship to that far-famed insti-
tuition
Mr.. Charles Mcdonald has heard from
his father in law, Deputy W. q. Troy,
who was partially paralized day or so
ago. His condition is much improved;
he can now use his hands partially and
has regained the use Of his voice.
Superintendent w. J. Young, of the
Institution for the Blind. is making
tour of the State, with the view of Sc
curing for the institution, every blind
child between ages of six and twelve
wears. He is meeting with much sue
cess.
a ''social tea" was given by the Bright
Jewels of Edenton Street Methodist
church last evening. From eight till ten
the rooms we're well filled with those who
had come to see the interesting program
carried out and to enjoy the refresh
ments furnished by the society.
1t was said yesterday that colored
boy, seventeen years old, named Barnes,
died here day or SO ago from the ex-
cessive smoking of cigarettes. The evil
dence goes to show, however, that
Barnes smoked only ducks; and there
is much more concentrated deadliness in
a stump than there is in the milder
''coffin nail"
State Treasurer Worth is determined
that the sheriffs of the different counties
must settle up their State taxes. Yester-
day he notified all delinquent sheriffs
that they must settle there State taxes
in full by September 1st. IL they do not
do so, he will on that day institute pro-
ceedings to enforce penalties provided
for in section 100 of the machinery act.
AT Oberlin a day or so ago Jim Young
eyroa1 biyr uaIF rxi%h q afap6h f0 the vii
layers, full of fusion and ''refawm".
He attempted, among other things, to
explain his course in the Legislature and
many of the acts of that ill-smelling
body Nevertheless, the loquacious ne
gro carried his audience with him, and
it is said that his hearers gave him to
understand that they were ready to fol-
low him again in 1896.
Superintendent A. Leazar and the ex-
ecutive committee of penitentiary direc-
tors are making their semi annual tour
of inspection of the State farms. The
health of the convicts is good, as COM
pared with other years. On the Roam
oke farms, the wheat crop did not turn
out so well as was expected. Cotton is
poor, but corn magnificent. There are
AOh AB$AI az WYNN SA WIZ AS~A 1890
The ladies of the Y. NC. A. Auxili-
AIRY are truly thoughtful. Just about
midnight, when heat and work bore
heavily on the NEWS AND OBSERVER
force, there came a freezer of delightful
ice cream and an abundance of accompa
nying cake, withthe ladies' compliments.
And as the thermometer went down, the
spirits of the toilerS went up; and SIX
teen hearts blessed the Auxiliary.
Frank Wood, known all over town as
negro character" will be seen no
more on the streets for month. He
became boisterously drunk Wednesday
night, and going into the Capitol square,
amused himself by shouting profane epi
thets at the defenseless statue of the
father of his country" In the mayors
court yesterday Frank learned that it is
not wise to "cuss' even a dead patriot.
Thirty days on the roads," said the
mayor.