The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
CITY IN BRIEF.


Don't forget the picnic tomorrow,
The train leaves at eight o'clock.
Dnqhi has gone TO Durham where
he served the banquet at Trinity last
night. =
busy making out receipts for stock
tax. druggists license, and tax on u.
and / Associations and banks.
The Rosenthal Clothing Co. yester-
aay filed deed of sale to ). Stet-
heimer. of .ritusyille, Tenn, for $500
which covers all the stock now on
hand
The PRESBYTERIAN Sunday school pic
mic goes 10 Wake Forest Friday next
A dav OF genuine pleasure in store Tor
all who attend. You are going, OF
course
TiEman 'pitchfork" badges have APP
peared in Raleigh. On each one OF the
three Is to / silver prongs is affixed
ferocious gold-bug- Sher-
man and carlisle.
The Board of Education of the Raj
eig.h District, Methodist church met
here this. week and resolved to hold
educational mass-meetings in every
charge in the district
The members of the Wait Saving
Circle are requested to meet at the
residence of Mrs. VIM. Wyatt, on North
Blount street, this Thursday evening
at five o'clock, promptly.
For the first time in the history OF
the city not single case of larceny
occurred for thirty days, during the
month Of May. This is shown by the
report OF the chief of police.
Del n.rr1, 10 n a f.
tended Trinity commencement yester-
day were: Secretary of State Cooke,
Messrs. r. T. Gray, b. C. Becl<with, L.
8. Blair, w. G. Separk, Rev. ID. ii. Tut
tie and many others.
Secretary w. I'll. Overton and two
delegates from the A. and NJ. college
Y. NJ. C, IL will leave next week for
the Southern summer school of the
Y. NJ. G. A. at Knoxville. Some twenty
or more G,'lt gates vii! go FROM North
Carolina.
1t was Il pleasure to greet ". {.
Douglass. Esq. in Raleigh last week,
and mo. { so to learn that it is his
purpose to move from Carthage TO
Raleigh. He is a successful lawyer
and a strong Baptist, and rs strength
to the cause wherever You find him.
Biblical Recorder.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the \. NJ.
G. A. met Tuesday afternoon, but al
iourned without transacting any bush
ness they are awaiting the action OF
the Board of Trustees. 1t is probable
that new baths will soon be put III the
associa ton rooms.
Mr.. ]. NJ Norwood has moved his
cigar factory from Fayetteville street
to PA South Wilmington street, over
Fred. Woollcott's. MIR. Norwood gives
five per cent of the returns Oh his
"Our Little Orphans" cigars to the
I. o. o. f. Orphans Home at Colds
boro
The Odd Fellows of the city have
decided to run the annual Triple Link
excursion to Norfolk, Baltimore,
Washington and New York sometime
during the month of July. This is one
of the best conducted and most pleas
ant excursions that leaves this city
during the summer.
The State Board of Agriculture
transacted only routine business at
its meeting yesterday. To-day the
Board will consider the proposed i'm
proyements to the museum. 1t is pro-
posed to annex the porch of the second
floor and enclose the space in glass.
Room is badly needed, and this Will
provide more space for exhibits,
Superintendent Lawrence, of the Or
phan Asylum, returned to Oxford yes
terday. He came here to make a con-
tract for the roofing of the new cot
tages that are now building at the
asylum The first of these is about
finished and the others will be done
before the years end. The new build
ings will add to the efficiency of this
charity that is so near the hearts of
North Carofinfans.
Yesterday afternoon the town clock
had it's face put back into place ana
che gilded hands began again their
daily rounds. The roof of the clock
tower has been retinned. and the
tower repaired. One of the workmen
attracted a good deal of attention
day or two ago by climbing the flag
staff that surmounts the tower. The
entire roof of Metropolitan Hall has
been re-tinned and repaired, work
that needed doing long ago.