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

VII. NOOuS, VI htitfcii, - IL 'AN " =
Miss J. C. Palmer. Of Naldese, is ut
the Park.
Capt. w. A. Bobbitt, of Oxford, was
here yesterday.
Mr. w e. Manor returned yesterday
from a business trip.
Mr.. w. j. Halstead, of Currituck,
spent yesterday in the city.
Mr. Sherwood Higgs returned yes
terday from a business trip.
Mr.. T. A. Boone, Jr., of Durham,
spent yesterday in the city.
Mr.. w. j. Griswold, of Durham, was
here short while yesterday.
Deputy j. H. Shelburn was here
yesterday on revenue business.
Mr.. w. III. Williamson has gone to
Ossippee Mills on a business trip.
Mr.. NJ II. Jones, the Durham
ieweler, spent yesterday III the city.
Mrs. w. G. Davis. of Mount Olive, is
visiting Miss Marable, at Peace Instr
tute.
Mr.. o. 7. Smith. of the r. r. Morris
Manufacturing Company. Durham.was
here Yesterday.
Miss Sarah Farries,of Goldsboro.s no
has been the guest of Miss Kirby, re-
turned home yesterday
United States Commissioner Whta-
ker, of Durham, was here for few
hours yesterday afternoon.
MIR. r.. i. Raney attended the am
nual meeting of the stockholders of he
West End Land Company, at Winston.
Col. Julian S. Carr, who has been for
two days the guest of DIR. e. w. Black
well, returned to Durham last after
noon.
Miss May Heath. Of Chester. :. G.,
who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
j. S. {. Carpenter, returned home yes
terday.
Mr. n. j. Broughton has gone TO
to attend a meeting of the board of
trustees of the State school for the
deaf and dumb.
President Kilgo. of Trinity College,
was here yesterday. lie WAS on his
way to South Carolina, his old home
for a short visit.
Mr.. James Webb, ,Jr.. Of IIillsboro.
was here yesterday. lie is one Of the
principal stockholders in the cotton
factory now IN course of erection
there.
Mr.. G. ID. Benbow, Secretary of the
X. of Z. of North Carolina, went TO
Durham last night, where he and
Grand Chancellor Webb installed the
officers of the Durham lodge of
Knights of Pythias.
Mrs. w. j. Patten, WHO has been
spending sometime with her mother,
Mrs. Harvard, returned TO her home
in Schenectady, n. Y, yesterday az
companied by her sister, Miss Annie
Harvard. who will spend some time
with her.
Mr.. T. W. Sydnor, one of the best
known commercial travellers of this
section, was here yesterday. The
Sydnors family is generally ION the
road" for Mr.. Sydnor has seven broth
ers, and they are all knights of the
Grip" And they are all successful,
too.
Charles r. Thomas, Esq, of New
bern, who is here on legal business,
saws that all Kinston is resounding with
praise of District Attorney Aycocks
speech in defence of the men who were
charged with burning the town OF Kim
ston. As matter of fact, Mr.. Aycock
has no superior in North Carolina as
jury lawyer, particularly when APP
pearing for the defence. He is the sue
cessor of Hon. W. r. Dortch, as the
great advocate Of his section.
Mr.. X. II. Cowan, editor OF the Dur
ham Globe, who was in the city yes
terday, says that there is great indig-
nation in Durham against the prose
cutions which are prosecutions in the
revenue service. He says the Demo
Gratis condemn all this, but they draw
the distinction between the collectors
department and the marshaFs depart
lnent. Walker is condemned, but they
regard it as an incident of the bad fee
system They ought TO be paid sala-
salaries and he number of marshals
should be reduced.
Col Julian S. Carr returned 10 Dur
ham yesterday afternoon, having spent
the night and morning with his old
friends, Judge Thos. G. Fuller and DR.
BIacknall lie didn't say so, but a
friend said julie Carr is much more
pleased at having sold $1,000 worth oil
Occoneechee butter last year than oil
paying a cash dividend of S240, 900 on
Blackweil's Durham Bull Tobacco
though considering last years bust
ness and the fact that many great con.
Germs had TO pass "A dividend, that is
his greatest business achievement