The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-24
PROr. MlMSON TENNYSON
A PLEA FOR RENEWED STUDY OF The
GREAT POET.
Special Train to Raleigh--Dr. Eben Alexander
Miss Carr in Atlanta Breezy Briefs
and Personals.
and Personals.

4 .nerinl train is to be run from Dur
ham tn Raleigh on the evening VI
Th.nksriying day for the benefit OF those
! u.h., may wish to hear the discussion
h,lvcrn Wake Forest and Trinity. Inc
| Gro for the round trip is only one dol
| lar. Durham ought and doubtless Will
furnish a large delegation.
Mir. w. ii. Willard, who has been
unite sick ut the residence OF MT. .. w.
Holman, is convalescent ana on yes
ter,lay was taken to his home IN hai-
cigh. c.
Solicitor w. p. Bynum was here Sun
day and went to Oxford, where court
is in session this week.
Mr.. r. G. Strong was here yester-
day on his way to Oxford court.
DR.. Eben Alexander, of the University,
will deliver n lecture on Greece ana
IN. Greek people" tomorrow at lO:oO
o'clock in the assembly hall Of the grad
ed school. Superin tendent Flowers has
bcen fortunate in securing this gentle
man to deliver this celebrated lecture
on the occasion of the Thanksgiving ser
vices. The public has been cordially
invited to attend and cultured au-
d:epce will greet him. His intimate
acquaintance with Greece and her peo-
ME peculiarly fits him for discussion
OF the subject chosen.
Mr.. L. ]. Long, one of Durham's most
artistic painters. has large contract in
| pinehurst, n. c., where he went yes
/ tcr,lay to resume his work.
Mr.. A. G. Cox, one of Durham coun-
/ TVS most successful business men, was
/ here yesterday from Williardsville.
! Mss Maggie Whitehead is here from
! Salisbury on visit to the hospitable
/ home of Mrs. NJ. Fuller.
| Mr.. T.. A. Carr, president of the In
| ter-State Telephone Company, went MP
! the Southern yesterday on business.
/ Nr. G.. A. Terrell has gone to Dam
| vile. Va, where he will engage in bust
ness.
| Mr.. J. D. Bridgers is suffering again
! from that dreadful disease, erysipelas.
| He is confined at home.
Mr.. l.. II. Simmons, who has been in
| charge of the ice factory the past sea-
son. has resigned his position and will
] 20 to some other point.
| Mr.. Albert Walker, who has been here
| for several days visiting his parents,
| Rev. and Mrs Alexander Walker, left
| yesterday evening for his home in Win
! ston. where he is largely engaged in the
| manufacture of plug tobacco. lie is
| one Of the cleverest and most successful
| business men in the State.
| Mrs. W. f. Ellis is visiting her distin-
| guishcd father, Rev. Frank Ii. Wood,
| presiding elder, in Winston, n. G.
Miss Lalla Ruth Carr, the accomplish
ed daughter of Col. Julian S. Carr, of
/ this cry, is being elaborately enter
! tanned by the elite of Atlanta. So the
/ journal tells us.
/ The cold wave is here and the wind
blowing almost a continual gale while
| the dust is terrible.
Rev. ID. N. Caniness returned yes
| terday evening from Caldwell Institute,
| where he had been TO marry q couple.
| He was absent on this mission Sunday
and Capt. L. j. Parrish filed his pulpit
at II o'clock in Carr church.
4 cultured and appreciative audience
| greeted Prof. Minis in the Trinity lee
| ture room last night.
/ The lecture was based largely on the
| New Life of Tennyson by his son, and
| was in the main a presentation of the
| poets character as it was related TO
/ his poetry. TennysOn drew great deal
| of his inspiration from the early home
of his boyhood at Generosity and from
| the home of his manhood at Foaming-
ford on the Isle of Wight, where he lived
| in the sympathetic love of his wife and
/ sons and the affectionate fellowship of
| his friends. Many incidents and anec.
| dotes were given to illustrate the purity
| of his life, his wide reading,
his efforts to perfect himself in
his art. The spiritual side Of Tennyson's
| life was dwelt upon at length-he had
/ almost as much of religious genius
| as he had of poetical His letters and
journals and the "reminiscences of his
| friends show in what nigh atmosphere
he lived at all times. His faith in inn
| mortality and in the love Of personal
| God was especially strong-a faith that
none of the scientify materialistic
thought of the century could shake.
After Ill his richest and best character,
his highest thought, is to be found in
| his poems. The lecture closed with a
| plea for the study OF Tennyson's poems,
that had appeared to such wide range
| of people,