The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-08
CITY IN BRIEF.

Air. Il. a. lively. Of West Virginia, il
IN the city.
Mr.. II. h. MeNair, Of Tarboro, is 40
the Park
Deputy Collector Gibson, OF Hamlet,
was iiere yesterday.
Mr.. n. A. MeKeithan yesterday re-
turned to Aberdeen.
Col 7. S. Carr, Of Durham, was here
fora few hours yesterday.
To-day: Hop growers meet here to
form a State association.
Chairman Holton returned to Vim
ston early yesterday morning.
Messrs H. G.. and Claude Doclxery re-
turned yesterday TO Rockingham.
Ex-senator Hi G. Olive. of Wake
county, spent yestsrday in the city.
The deer just received at the State
museum was presented by Or. ] N.
Eager.
DR. Blacknall continues very ill.
much to the regret Of his host Of
friends.
staunch Republican Ham. G. Jones
is here. But the big bugs ii politics
have flown.
Misses Mary and Lucy Cole. Of DUR
ham, arrived yesterday, and entered
Peace Institute.
This morning at + o'clock the fun
eral of the late Mrs. Robbins, from
Edenton Street church
Last evening DR.. and Mrs. Bennett
Smedes entertained 4 number of
friends at tea.
Miss Mamie Baxter and Miss Stella
Cheatham, OF Ridgeway, are the guests
of Mrs Charles r Cheatham.
At the Marlborough: +. O. Porter,
II. e. Draper, North Carolina: G. C
Tucker. South Castor.
Deputy Collector Shelbnrf5 Of Dur
ham, and Deputy Collector Thomas, Of
Louisburg, are at the Marlborough
Miss Blanche Morgan, who has been
the guest Of Miss Lillian Thompson,
yesterday returned 10 her home in
Durham.
Mr.. A. G. Mitchell returned Xester-
day from LittIetol His father, to
whose bedside he was called, is much
better
The Horse Review" says: ''The
guesses on what John II. Gentry and
Patchen Wilkes will bring at auction
next week rang from roo to $37, 600
o. J. Carroll, United States Marshal
for the Eastern District of North Caro-
lima, left on the Southern train yes
terday afternoon for Durham, n. g.
The Board Of Trustees of the Uni
yersity will meet in the Gov
ernorss Office on Wednesday next, the
18th inst, at IL IN.
IT is pleasing TO learn from a
friend who saw Capt. S. A. Ashe, late
yesterday evening, that he is decidedly
improved. He has been reported as
quite sick for two or three days past
Mr.. Al. +. Page, Of Aberdeen, spent
yesterday in the city. lie went to DUR
ham last evening. Mr.. Tufts, he says,
is now in Moore county, and pine
hurst" is about ready for the reception
Of visitors
Mai. w. A. Guthrie, Of Durham, a
first cousin Of the genuine Father OF
Fusion, was here for a few hours yes
ferday He was silent as clam, and
wasn't talking little bit about poll
ties He wouldn't say anything about
the Butler manifesto or the Wood let
Ter or the Pritchard letter, or anything
on which an anxious public is waiting
to hear from the gentleman who has
been more kinds of politician than any
other man in the State.
Grand Master Lumsden went last
night to Durahm to attend q public
meeting at which Rev. n. Nj. Jurney is
To deliver an address to the Odd Eel
lows. A new lodge of Odd Fellows Is
soon TO be organized at Southern
Pines. There are now III lodges in
the State, with about five thousand
members. The Odd Fellows have just
begun the erection of ten thousand
dollar building for the orphanage at
9oidsboro: the cornerstone will be
laid in May. when the Grand Lodge
meets at Goldsboro.