The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-24
CITY IN BRIEF.

The usual services will be held at
all the city churches to-day.
Mrs. w. J. Swink, of Albemarle sehos
twenty dollars for the Vance memoir
ial fund.
The Presbyterian Sunday School has
decided to hold it's picnic this year
at Mebane.
Rev. d. H. Tuttle will preach at
Central Methodist church at IL a. m.'
and p. M, to-day.
The order of the Thread and Needle
will meet Monday afternoon at 9:0o
o'clock ait Miss Simmons.
Mr.. John Homer Gore, business man
ager of the Wake Forest Student was
here Yesterday. The Student for May
has Just been issued.
Chief of Police Heartt has received
an invitation to attend the annual
parade of the New York police force,
which will take place from the Worth
Monument, in Union Square, june LIST.
The Sunday School of Christ church
Yesterday held its annual picnic at
Rogers Mill a few miles in the coun-
try. The large party went in wagons,
and enjoyed a happy day in the woods.
Mrs. h. j. Haughton arrived IN the
city from pleasant visit to baltimore
on Yesterday, and with her husband,
Lawrence j. Haughton, Esq, OF Pitts
boro, is visiting Capt. and Mrs. T. -
benson.
Capt. C. B. benson will go to Grand
Rapids, Mich, on June 5ith, to attend
the annual meeting of the National
Conference of Charities and Correc-
tions to represent the North Carolina
Board of Charities.
Messrs. Ed. II. Lee, Ashby Baker
and Geo. W. Thompson returned yes
terday from a weeks stay at Have
lock. They caught fish by the boat
load, and had no end of sport in the
waters of the sound.
Beginning on next Friday Rev. ID. III.
Carroll, of Waco, Tex, will preach
nightly for week at the Baptist
Tabernacle He is a very able man,
and his coming will be welcomed by
the whole community.
DIR. James Mckee, DR.. Hubert Roys-
ter and DIR. r. I'll. Lewis, accompanied
by Mr.. Charles Pearson, the architect,
went yesterday to Durham to visit
the Watts Hospital, and inspect its
arrangement. An operating room is
soon to be added to the Rex Hospital,
in this city.
J. Ed. Kestler, of CabarTus, is trying
to get up a company to publish pa
per in Raleigh to advocate fusion be-
tween the Republicans and Populists.
Mr.. Kesler is Populist who believes
the way to advance his party is to let
it be swallowed up by the Republican
party.
Rev. DR.. E. A. Yates passed through
here yesterday morning on his way
to Garner, where in the Methodist
church he held quarterly meeting yes
terday. At eleven o'clock to-day he
breaches at Garner. This church is
now connected with Central Metho-
dist church in this city, and Rev. d. H.
Tuttle is the pastor.
A first-claSs coach win be attached
to freight train leaving johnson
Street station for Wake Forest college
at o'clock a. m. next Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday. Returning 1T
will leave Wake Forest at 1880 p. m.
and arrive at Raleigh at 1920 p. IN.
This will be convenient for the many
people going to the Wake Forest COM
Inencement.
Mrs. Rosa F. Faribault, of San An
tonic, Texas, formerly OF this county,
uleu Oh May 1GuH ub Odn AuuonIO,
Texas. Col. Faribault, who was colo
mel of the Al N. C. Regiment, Petit
CREWS brigade, is paralyzed and not
expected to recover. He represented
Wake county in the Legislature sever
al times. They have a large number
of relatives in Wake and other coun-
ties.
Rev. A. C. Cree, of Wake Forest, was
here yesterday, returning from Clay
ton. At the closing exercises of Utopia
Institute Friday night the operetta
Lila" was presented by the pupils,
and Mr.. Cree says the presentation was
remarkably good. 'The school is a
credit to the place." he remarked.
Prof. Williams is the principal, and he
is assisted by Miss Jessie Ellington
and Miss Essie Watson.