The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-03
CITY IN BRIEF.

CITY IN BRIEF.
The Park hotels new omnibus has
arrived
Work was yesterday resumed on the
Baptist Female University on North
Blount street.
This evening the Board of Aldermen
meets u regular monthly session at
the mayors office.
To-nanrow evening at the Marlboro,
the Raleigh Academy of Medicine holds
it's asnuai banquet
Receipts of cotton on the local mar
ket yesterday were light. The farm
ers are still taking holiday.
Frank Stronach's auction sale Of
horses and mules took place at his
stables On Wilmington street yester-
dag.
The financial committeegof the First
Presbyterian church will hold its first
meeting Tor the New Year next Mon
day eveaisg.
Frank Thornton. the largest meI-
chant il Fayetteville, who failed "a
short time ago. will reopen his estab-
lishmens Monday.
The Streets of Cairo passed
through Raleigh yesterday At the
close Of the Atlanta Exposition these
Arabs folded their tents" and lit out
for the North. They occupied a whole
car on the S. A. l.. mail yesterday.
IL is said that the management of the
Atlantic Hotel, at Morehead City, will
depend largely on the action of the
Teachers Assembly. The removal of
the Assembly would be a blow to this
popular seaside resort that has SO long
been known as "the Summer Capital"
The United Kings Daughters are
making q canvass of the city, to secure
six dollar annual subscriptions for the
charitable work of the order. In their
various circles, and the mission rooms,
the Kings Daughters have.done a good
work in Raleigh, and deserve hearty
encouragement.
At Cary last evening Capt. II. r.
Guess gave a New Years dinner com
plimentary to Rev. John +. White, the
new secretary of the Baptist State
Board Of Missions, and Rev. n. NJ. Wat
SON. pastor of the Methodist church
at Ede1ton, Register of Deeds Rogers
was among the invited guests.
Mr.. Eugene benson has been elected
captain Of the 90 football team of the
University of Maryland. In the sea-
SON just closed he was half-back of the
team. There are five hundred students
at the University, and out of this large
number three North Carolinians have
been selected for places on the eleven.
The new fire department headquar-
tiers. on West Morgan street, present
a handsome appearance. All the ex-
terror work has been completed, and
carpenters and pIasterers are busy OH
the interior. The building is very sym
metrical in design, aud will probably
be the handsomest fire department
headquarters in the State.
'sBen Nohammed.'' Zen Hassan, :"
"Ben Hamo," the big fat fellow that
plays the plink-plunk for the "danse
du ventre," the women from Morocco
aud Fex and Damascus were aboard
They 60 to New York, and after a.
while will sail for the orient. Most of
the people in the street" came from
Morocco, and not from Cairo at all.
Mr. John r. Holiingsworth, who
came TO Raleigh some months ago as
manager of the Mutual Reserve Fund
Association of New York, has greatly
increased the business of that COM
pany IN the State. He is an expert
enced insurance man, and popular gen
tleman, and he and his family are an
addition to Raleigh's population that
the city Is glad TO welcome.
DR. Capehart, of Avoca, a leading
member of the State Board of Agri-
culture and proprietor of the largest
fisheries in the State, is being urged
for United States Fish Commissioners.
DIR. capehart is recognized every
where as an authority on tine subject"
said prominent gentleman yesterday
and no man in the whole country is
any better fitted for the position
To-day the State Railroad Commits
sion meets again. Only routine bust
ness will be transacted this week.
Commissioner Ohio Wilson was in
town yesterday. Clerk III. Clay Brown
who has been quite sick, was ut his
post again yesterday. The last pages
of the annual report of the Commits
sion are finished and this interesting
document will probably be issued
within n week.
At Metropolitan Hall this evening
Prof. Laska, the mind reader and
paimist and Mrs. Ames will give a pub
lie exhibition. 1.-THE Little Quakeress'
will lecture on marriage, picking out
of the crowd persons adapted to each
other, and in the process viii select a
husband for herself. Laska will give
exhibitions OF sleight-of- hand, mind
reading, phrenology and palmistry The
entertainment is free, and all are in
yited to attend.
The New York Herald notes that
Assistant District Attorney Osborne,
whose marriage to Miss Leila Grey
Van Wyck, daughter of Judge Angus
tus Van Wyck, of the Supreme Court,
Kings county, will be celebrated on
y fur