The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-20
CITY IN BRIEF.

A meeting of the Council of State was
hold in the Governors office at the capl-
taI Yesterday at noon. -,
The w. r.. of st. Agnes Guild Will
meet with Misses Lucy and Belle An
drews this afternoon at O'Clock at the
chapel.
business of Importance is to come be-
fore the Womans Christian Temperance
Union Friday afternoon at o'clock, all
snamheYs are asked to be present at their
rooms.
There will be a meeting of the pastors
.of tho eity at the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms this
afternoon at o'clock, to arrange TOT
services on. Thanksgiving Day iui
attendance is requested.
Sheriff ]. II. Ellington, of Johnston
county. yesterday brought four new con
ryicts 10 the penitentiary. MIR Ellington
;s one of the few Democratic sheriffs re-
elected at the recent election. His ma
iority was 900.
1t was stated yesterday that Senator
Butler had been heard from IN regard TO
the Caucasian trouble and that he asks
that no further steps be taken till he
comes to Raleigh. He is expected either
to-day or tomorrow
Mr.. n. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, made
~. most eloquent talk in the Bapust
church Sunday night. Mr.. Broughton Is
one of those big-hearted, eonsecrated
Christian men whom the church could III
afford to lose-Lenoir Topic
Clerk Of the Court Dan ID. Young has
appointed r.. Ell. Perry, of Wake Forest,
magistrate vice Fl. L. Jones, resigned
Mr.. Jones having been elected sheriff,
resigned the magistrateship IN order TO
escape the double Office hold law.
Ephraim Barnett a respectable old col
ored man, living near Loves warehouse,
on East Davie street, died Wednesday
night from a stroke of paralysis. de
was about 10 years old, and one of~the
most respectable and reliable negroes ID
Raleigh. During the war he was cook
in Manly's Battery He went to Rich
snond last June to attend the Confederate
reunion.
Two damage eases against the Southern
Railway company have been removed
from Durham Superior court to the
limited States circuit court, which meets
here first Monday in December. The
plaintiffs in the cases are III. G. Hern-
don and ID. r. Herndon. They had
them removed on the ground that they
could not get justice in Durham because
of local prejudice.
The hungry officer-seekers are already
beginning to gather Though it is two
months yet before the new Superintend-
ent OF Public Instruction, Chas. A. Me-
bane. gees into office, the man who says
ne is to be his chief clerk is already here
with his family. His name is James
Graham, and he halls from Newton, n.
&C. He has evidently read the fable
of the early bird that got the worm.
AT his annual sale of blooded horses at
nublic auction Capt Williamson received
nearly an average of $50 head for his
horses. She Al animals bringing $3.50.
Many Of them were mere weanlings. Two
were bought by B. w .Burdick, of Albany,
NY. the owner of Baronet. One yearling
sold at $50. Franklin Chief, we'll
knows stallion, was bought by Mr.. Simp-
son. Of Monroe, for 1910. Mr.. Batche-
lor's seven horses brought 1895. The
buyers were from Virginia, South Caro-
lima and New York, and many from this
State were present.
Mr.. Il. M. Furman, State Auditor, has
returned from Asheville from his sad
mission. Ills son, Austin, aged 10, was
buried en- Sunday. He had appendicitis.
An UpefhLlVn Vas pcIAol lucet buI y Souii
not save his Iife The people of Raleigh
sympathize deeply with Mr.. Furman in
his trouble. The Citizen, writing of the
boy, says: Austin Furman was an adj
mirable youth, and his good nature and
strength Of character were reflected in
his ever-smiling, frank face. In many
ways he gave promise of development
into useful and more than ordinarily in
felligent man. About the time of his
death the Citizen was printing his
name In the honor roll of the Orange
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