The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-02
CITY IN BRIEF.

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"A this evening at 6;o9 . o'clock.
The regular meeting of the MmlSterinP
Circle of Kings Daughters will he held
to-day at the residence of the president.
Rev. \. II. Cobb. editor of the Baptist
Almanac. is here this week finishing ul
his work ON that publication lie eA
pects 10 issue il next week,
Who is he? The Fayetteville Observer
Ssvs. 1T is rumored that a Raleigh boy
i soon to we'd one of Fayetteville
charming young ladies.
All except two or three sheriifs in the
State have completed their settlement oil
taxes with the State Treasurer for the
past year. The accounts still unpaid
amount, all told, to about $1,000.
T.g3er advices offer no encouragement in
the condition of Mrs. James III. lasslter,
nee Miss Ellen Faucet, whose critical
Illness at Denver, was chroncled yesteF-
day The announcement of her deatn'
however, was premature.
Miss Katie Waite, of Cumnock, was
here yesterday 10 consult her lawyers IN
reference to the suit against her brought
by Samuel A. Henszey, of Philadelphia.
Cant. w. II. Day. who is one of her attor-
neys, accompanied her home.
The annual meeting of the Brotherhood
of St. Andrew was held Monday night
in the Chapel of Christ church. Nearly
every member of the organization was
present The following officers were elect
evf for the ensuing years John G. Drewry,
director: DIR. II B. Battle vice-director;
Charles Root, secretary, and John Ward,
treasurer.
These are busy days in Sheriff Pages
Office. Taxes are coming in very rapidly,
though only about one-half of the total
amount has yet been collected. There
are about 5000 individual taxpayers in
the county. OF these exactly 3.34S have
paid their taxes-1 ,030 in Raleigh and
2.31S in the country. These receipts in
cIude most of the large taxpayers
State Treasurer Worth is finding it a
little hard to make both ends meet about
this time, being the close of the fiscal year,
and bills for all manner of things coming
in. Monday Sheriff Page took him Il
check for $1,000. to help bridge over
tight places, though the time for
sheriffs to settle this years taxes has not
yet arrived.
Col. F. A. Odds telegraphs to the Rich
mond Dispatch "Populists here are adj
vising people who want to bet to put up
money on Senator Pritchard's defeat.
Populst Chairman Aver had letter from
Republican member of the Legislature
saying he proposed to vote for P6pulist
for Senator. Aver insists that there will
be plenty Of silver men in the Legislature
to elect a silver man."
James Brantley. who is serving out a
life sentence for the murder of Robert
Bonner in Beaufort county year ago,
and three other life conyicts, tried the
other day to poison the guards at the pen
itentiary, 10y having a Croatan Indian,
who waits on the guards table, put NOR
phine in their coffee The bitter taste Of
the drug betrayed the plot and nobody
was hurt 1t is believed that they intend
Ell to poison the guards with hope that
they might thereby escape. They secured
the poison through driver who is a
''trusty.'
Rev. w w. Rose, Of the North Caro-
lima Conference, and his bride, nee Miss
Emma Foushee, passed through Raleigh
yesterday morning on their way to Ridge
way to visit Mr.. Roses parents. This
popular young couple were married al
$50 o'clock yesterday morning at the
home of the brides parents in Pittsboro
Rev. DR. N b. Cobb, her pastor, and
Rev. II. Il. Rose, the gr0om's brother
officiating. Miss Foushee was one OF
Pittsboros most loyabe young women
She is a sister of Mrs, James Thompson
of this city. Mr.. Rose is one of the ablesi
young preachers in the North Carolina
Conference.
Commissioner Patterson yesterday re-
turned from the West, where he has been
holding Farmers Institutes. He has
within the last two weeks, held Institutes
IN Stanly, Montgomery and Cabarrus
All of them, with one exception, that held
On Thanksgiving Day, were well attended
and much interest was manifested by the
farmers in the work The Commissioner
thinks that great good may come from
these Institutes in the way of keeping
farmers yersed in the best methods Of
agriculture and general farm manage
ment. so far as scientific investigation
and experiment can aid in such work
An Institute will be held at Chadbourn
Columbus county, on December IS and 19
This is a colony of Northern people re
Gently settled in the South, and this Insti
tnte is held at their request.
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