The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-29
CITY IN BRIEF.


Don't fail to get your seats for 'PrIn-
.cess Bonnie" at once, otherwise you may
not be able to get them at all. Over
200 were sold yesterday.
Mr.. w. G. Allen is prominently spoken
of for the office of Street Commissioner
in this city. Mr.. Allen is IN every way
.s.ou,pctent and If elected will do his duty.
Among the interested spectators at the
Wake forest-Trinity baseball game yes
terday were the presidents of the two
.colleges-Dr Chas. f. Taylor and DR..
John c. Kilgo.
The revival services at Edenton Street
Methodist church continue with increas-
ing interest. Pastor Norman rs preach
ing with great power and zeal and eff
fectiyeness. Services are held daily at
1870 a. IN. and s O'clock p. an
The morning passenger train on the
Southern. from the West. arrived here
yesterday two hours late, having been
delayed by a freight wreck on the West
ern road The afternoon train was an
hour behind because of wait for the
boat AT Primers Point.
Pat Stewart, Of the Fourt. announces
that he has decided not to run as an in
dependent candidate for alderman. Pat
says the reason he was beaten in the
primaries IS that all his friends were
drunk and didn't know how they were
voting.
The Sheriff of Stokes county. yesterday
brought four new convicts. all negroes.
10 the penitentiary. Their combined
terms aggregate thirty years. One for
c1a,, tor
house burning got six years, and the
other two We're sent up for stealing
for 3 years and the other for one year.
At the request of Mrs. Russell. the
News and Observer desires to correct the
statement that there was punch at the
reception at the Mansion Tuesday even
ing. Only sherbets were served, and no
liquors or wines of any kind were used.
Mrs. Russell is very strong temperance
advocate and will not permit the use of
any kind Of intoXicant in her home.
An important rumor comes from Muir
ply, in Cherokee county. this State. to
the effect that the Southern Railway Off
Gals have recently been riding over the
route from Ducktown and Cleveland.
Tenn, to Murphy. \. c., the story going
that a line is to be built from Cleveland
TO Murphy, by which all trains from
q Chattanooga and the east will run.
There is much complaint by citizens liv-
ing in the vicinity of the Raleigh Cot
ton Mills of the prolonged and repeated
blowing of whistles early every morning.
Three very prolonged whistles are blown
at 6 O'Clock and then again at $50.
= This causes very great annoyance, es-
peGa1ly to sick and nervous people and
seems to be entirely useless.
There was but one thing to mar the
Wake Forest-Trinity ball game yester-
day and that was the attempt of John
ston, Trinity's captain, to "sneak" in
some of his best batters at a critical mo-
ment in place fweaker men. But the
Wake Foresters were on to his little
game and made the man put down his
bat and let the right man take his turn.
Rev. DIR. Eugene Daniel left yesterday
afternoon for Statesville, where he mas
been specially invited to deliver an ad-
dress at their celebration at the 2o0th
anniversary of the issuing of the west
minister Standard. The following subject
has been assigned him, for this evening
sf 7.3O: "The Theological Writers Whose
Works Predetermined the Westminster
assembly to Calvinism as Taught in the
Confession of Faith"
The Richmond Locomotive Works have
been awarded by the Southern Railway
Company an order for twelve locomotives.
Rev. f. G.. eileen, pastor of Central
Methodist church, was taken violently I'LL
Tuesday night after the Governors re-
0,ention. and for while his condition was
unite critical. 1t is thought that the zee
cream which he ate at the Mansion pro-
xluced choleric attack.
Referring to the Easter music in the
Catholic church at Asheville, the Gazette
pays a compliment to lady whose sing
ing has often delighted the people OF Raj
~aigh. The Gazette says: Mrs. Claude
smith. for eight years the soprano SOLO
sst of st. Matthew's Church in Washing.
TON. D. c., which is noted for it's quar-
tette choir, sang with great pathos and
noticeable brlliancy; her "Regnia Coeli
Aleluia." being exceedingly fine"
Tn the opinion of Judge Montgomery
in tho ASYLUM case published yesterday
morning. the word until in the frs
Sentence should be unless" The sen
@ence will then read: ''The defendant
Kirlv. at the time Of his election, ant
the other defendants, at the time Of thei
appointment, were public officers, am
they are entitled to hold their Offices
4heir terms not having yet expired, unles
their right to the same has been diveste'
~ an act of the last General Assembly
~e+if;ed on the 9Th day of March, 1897
etc.
RaAey Brothers ''OLD BOB" tt
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