The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-04
Tillman-Hoar Incident Recalls
Breoks~Sumner Fight.
GEORGE p. PELL PROMOTED
DR.. Stephen B. Weeks 1ndexlng
the Colonial Records.
HIS NEW BOOK GOES TO PRESS
Harry Skinner Has Found Democrats
In His District Who Will Support
Him--SettIe's Private
Secretary.

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Washington, d. c., Feb.3.-(S peclal,)
Mr. Tockhart has gone home on bust
ness to be absent several days.
Harry Skinner came in the best OF
bumor with himself and everybody
else. He said his friends gathered
around him during his visit home, ana
he will have not only their support on
his return. But that of several Demo
Gratis. also. 1t would be interesting
reading to know the names OF these
Democrats.
am told that nr Woodland Will have
another young man in addition to MI.
Gregory, who has heretofore held the
position of private secretary alone
News comes here that Mr.. Shaw
father, at whose bedside the Congress
man has fingered for some weeks, is
not expected to live. There are many
expressions of sympathy.
Young Mr.. Gales, son of the late
Seaton Gales, and who has hitherto
been employed in the office of Mr.. W.
r. Tucker, of Raleigh, is here to accept
a position under General Passenger
Agent Turk, of the Southern Railway
George is as clever lad as one meets
i'm a long while, and his promotion is
as deserved as it is worthy of his com
potency.
CONGRESSMAN Henderson is still here
greeting his old friends, as well as
attending to some private business.
GnnnIppf
sponsible for this: He remarked when
TilIman was speaking of himself as
farmer that he had the proper name,
"Till-man"
Governor O'Ferrall and staff and
about thirty others, including a COM
mittee from the Virginia Legislature,
will pass through here tonight on
their way to Camden, New Jersey, for
the purpose of studying in that State
the question of good roads. The Nir-
ginia delegation in Congress has been
invited by Roy Stone, special agent of
the Agricultural Department here, TO
accompany the Richmond party.
George Pell, formerly of Raleigh,
where he was on the staff of the State
Chronicle, has at last received his pro-
motion as editor of the monthly Cat
dlO2up OF 1uDllc documents.
Stephen Il. Weeks has commenced
the indexing of the Colonial Recodrs Of
North Carolina, which work he was APP
pointed TO do by the State-Legislature.
Mr.. Weeks is confidential clerk in the
Bureau of Education, and is peculiarly
fitted for the task in hand. His library
is said to be a curiosity, and TO include
some of the rarest books in existence
on North Carolina history After Mr..
Weeks will have finished his work, it
viii be pleasure 10 look through the
many-colored pages of the old Com
monwealth's doings. In addition TO
this, Mr.. Weeks new book went to
press last week, entitled 'Quakers and
Slavery" 1t is most highly spoken Of
as filed with interesting reflection and
research from back to back.
In the Richmond Dispatch of Sun
day, in the Raleigh correspondence,
dated Saturday, the 1st instant. APP
pears the following:
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at Washington. He says he has two
men at work there addressing docu-
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