The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-30
le News % Observer
SATURDAY.. May 80 1896.

SATURDAY,
May 80, 1896.

Rev. DR.. Eugene Daniel Vent yester-
day to Norfolk. Va. Last nlght ne
delivered an address TO the Makdlflle
Ieaoue" This league embraces MI
the PRESBYTERIAN churches of the city.
His subject was John Calvin.
Gov. Carr appointed I. r. Penning-
ton, a commissioner of deeds.
The new wiring of the city system
of fire alarm telegraph will be com
pleted this week. The new battery is
already in use, and is working well.
A meeting of the directors of the
Raleigh Street Railway will be held
to-day.
The following invitations were re-
ceiyed by friends here yesterday: MIR.
and Mrs. w. Haywood Dali request
your presence at the marriage OF their
daughter, Carrie, to DR.. Charles
O'Hagan Laughinghouse, on Wednes-
day morning, June the tenth, 1896, at
seven O'Clock. Methodist Episcopal
church. Snow Hill, n. c. Miss Dali
Is one of the bellies of Eastern Caro-
lima, and DR.. Laughinghouse is one OF
Pitt county's most prominent young
citizens.
4 number of young ladies passed
through Raleigh yesterday, going
home from Salem Female Academy.
Ten or fifteen university students are
in town to-day, preparing for the
coming commencement. The neat
uniform OF Horner School was in evil
dence on most of the trains yesterday,
the students returning home.
AT the First Baptist church Sunday
there will be memorial meeting IN
memory of the former pastor Of the
church. the late Rev. DIR. L. II. Pritch-
ard
Examinations are now in progress
at the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind. The commencement eN-
ercises will be sheld Thursday and
Friday of next week.
Rev. DR.. B. H. Carroll will begin the
series of meetings in the Tabernacle
Baptist church Sunday night.
At Cary last night the campaign of
tha Prohibition party in North Caro-
lima was opened by Oscar Winburn, of
Fayetteville He speaks to-day in
Jonesboro, and viii canvass the State.
Mr.. and Mrs. John ~ Simpson issue
invitations to the marriage OF Miss
Carrie Mullins to Mr.. William Henry
Hunter, which will take place at their
home III Raleigh, Wednesday after
noon, June 10th, at three o'clock.
Rev. G.. p. Bostick, the Baptist mis-
sionary who is engaged in the Central
Mission work in China. is here. Some
twenty persons are engaged in this
work of missions in the heart of China,
and the larger number of these are
from North Carolina The work great
~ needs reinforcement. Mr. Bostick
viii remain in North Carolina all the
summer, and will address the various
Baptist associations in the State upon
the Importance of the work. He begins
his missionary campaign at Apex to-
day, where he will address the Raleigh
Baptist Association.
Prof. Charles j. Parker left yester-
day afternoon for short trip in the
interest of the State Teachers Assem-
bly,. 1.-THE Indications, he remarked.
point to the greatest educational re-
yiyal North Carolina has ever had We
are going to have an educational camp
meeting like the religious meetings
slar forefathers held; and we are going
to have the same old enthusiasm. too"
DR.. w. J. Hawkins left yesterday
afternoon for Florida to look after his
large interests there. isn't Florida
unbearably warm at this season."
asked him. Not at all" he replied,
1.-THE Northern people flock down there
in the winter, and they come away too
soon to enjoy the full season, April,
May and June, are, according to my
notion, the most pleasant months in
the year in Florida"
st. Johns Day is the event of the year
IN Oxford. The Grand Lodge of Masons
meets at the asylum there June gath,
and with proper ceremony celebrates
the day of its patron saint This
year Mr.. II. n. Hackett, of Wilkesboro,
will be the orator. The Oxford Orphan
Asylum is the greatest monument that
North Carolina Masonry has made for
itself. Superintendent Lawrence
writes: 1.-THE good people of Granville
are making preparations to give you
hearty welcome and good time.
The Asylum is doing a great work for
North Carolina, and is worthy of the
best thought of every North Caro-
lmian."