The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

ton with the Caralegh Mills.
Capt. S. A. Ashes condition is re
ported as improving. He has been
very sick man.
Mr.. VIII West has accepted a posi-
ton as book-keeper for NJ. II. Norris
and Brother.
The receipts on the cotton market
Yesterday were eighty-fve bales; the
price for middling, 77s cents.
Rev Sylvester Belts is conducting a
very interesting revival at the Fay
etteville Street Baptist church.
There are ninety persons at Peace
Institute" said Prof. Dinwiddie last
night, land not sick person in the
house. The infirmary is empty"
The will of the late Mrs. Lucy Man
gum was yesterday admitted to pro-
bate She lived in Barton's Greek
township. Il. ID. Mangum qualified as
administrator.
There will be a meeting of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union
Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the
residence of Mrs. Joseph Blake, West
Morgan street.
Mary Mial, alias Mary Cook (and
put in Jail on a charge of bigamy. was
physical condition
Mrs. Sarah Williams, widow of the
late Alfred Williams. Esq, and one of
the oldest and most respected resi-
dents of Raleigh, is very i'll at her home
ON Fayetteville street.
No seizure has been reported to the
internal revenue office here in the last
few days. Has the agitation" any
thing to do with the falling off in the
number of moonshiners pulled?
There will be an important meeting
of the Hospital Circle of Kings |
Daughters at the home of the Treas |
urer. Miss Margaret Louise Mailer
Friday, January 31st, ut o'clock p IN.
The Progressive Farmer" which
was left alone in the building when
the State Farmers Alliance moved its
offices to Hillsboro, is now moving into
the second story of 135 Fayetteville
street.
''pritchard claims to be such Il strong
advocate OF silver" said a prominent
gentleman yesterday, why didn't he
attend the meeting of the avowed adj
yocates of silver, held in Washington
short time ago.
The committee appointed by the
Athletic Association to select a suit
able place for Site for an athletic
field have not yet come to conclusion.
They have examined several accessible
pieces of property near the city limits.
People who have been lying awake
nights on account of the tramp scare,
may go to sleep. The alleged haunt
of Dusty Rhodes" and Weary
Watkins" north OF the Pilot Mills, is
entirely abandoned, and there are
fewer tramps than have been here at
any time in many months.
Mr.. Thomas \. Boone, Jr.. Of Dur |
ham, who was here yesterday, denied |
that his brother, Mr.. X. b. Boone, had |
stated that if he had known what the |
evidence was against Walker, the Dur |
ham deputy marshal, he Or. B.Boone) |
would never have appeared in his de-
fence Mr. Boone says his brother |
made no such statement.
DIR. X. d. Fleming, of Warrenton, |
was here yesterday, returning home |
from Thomasville, where he attended |
the meeting of the directors of the |
ThomasviIle Baptist Orphanage. The |
board of directors met to arrange |
programme and select speakers for the |
annual Meeting" at Thomasyille next |
July. This annual meeting" is a great |
gathering and rally of the friends of |
the Orphanage.
Mrs Palmer. OF the Waldensian |
colony in Burke county, is here to |
confer with DIR. Battle regarding the |
condition of the colony, and to secure |
the cooperation of the Agricultural |
Department in its future development. |
These interesting people, who had such |
hard lines when they first settled in |
this new country and strange land, |
seem to be prospecting now, and are |
pleased with their new habitation.
DR.. j. f. Miller, of Goldsboro, super |
intendent of the Eastern Insane |
Asylum, was here yesterday on bust |
ness for the institution. He says there |
are now in the asylum $40 inmates, 100 |
of whom are women, The institu |
ton is full and running over, and some !
twenty-five or thirty applications for |
admission are on file. BY April 1st, |
the new addition will probably be |
completed: this has a capacity of |
uinety-two.
Tomorrow Mr. j. Frank Mitchell. |
the popular young gentleman who has
become well known TO the public as
ticket agent for the Southern railroad |
at the Union depot, will retire from
that position, TO accept travelling |
position with the Coats Thread Co., of /
New York He will be succeeded 10y |
Mr. Logan d. Terrell. a clever and |
competent young man, who until re-
Gently was chief clerk in the State /,
Bureau Of Labor Statistics.