The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
CITY IN BRIEF.

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The proiectoscope will be at Metropoli.
tan Hall next week for the entire week
The Governor yesterday appointed
Edward J.. Best. of Goldsboro, notary
public
Gentry's dog and pony show, which
WIS here some two weeks ago, is now III
Knoxville. Tenn. :.
The IVY. r. of st. Agnes Guild will
meet this Friday) evening. with Miss
Annie Root. at her home on Hillsboro
street. at 4 80 o'clock
Marriage license was yesterday issued
IN Willie Leyister and Ann Eliza Hun
ter. Il t,olorcd couple. Both of them are
from this county.
Joseph jefferson will be at inning
sou Saturday night. He will play KIP
Van Wrinkle 4 number of Raleigh peo-
ple are talking of going down to see
him.
MeH- Freeman, a popular colored bar
her of this city, formerly employed in the
Yarboro has resigned his position to ac-
cept another as messenger in the Audi
tors Office.
John Manly and ]. B. Isenhour went
fo Raleigh Monday to enter VIM. Simp-
sons school of Pharmacy. They will
amply for Incense DeIore returHlHS.-
Salisbury Truth.
Sheriff f. w Hargett. of Onslow
comfy. was here yesterday. He came
70 bring two conyicts to the penitentiary.
He is n brOther-in-law of Secretary Of
State Thompson.
Can't. John X. Smith. superintendent
OF the penitentiary, says that work on the
annex for criminal insane will begin
next week. 1t will be built of brick and
will adjoin the prison hospital.
The Board of Aldermen meets to-
night in special session to hear the an
snual reports of the various committees
and officers, and transact such other
business as may come before the Board.
The Phi Beta Literary Society will
meet at the colored Institution for the
deaf, dumb and blind tonight at 7:3O.
The topic for discussion will be Car
lyle's work on Heroes and Hero Wor-
ship
The Governor yesterday issued COM
mission to General John w. Gotten, as
Captain of the Edgecombe Guards
COMPANY A, First RegimenD, to which
Office he was elected ON March 81. His
commission dates from that time.
Mayor Russ yesterday sent Chas. Hop
kins. a negro, to Jail for carrying con-
caaIed weapons. Charles got risorderly
@on the street Wednesday night, the police
,uabbed him and found gun on him. He
Claims that his home is in Oxford.
The trial of J. G. l.. Harris for as
sanlt and battery on Prof. l.. ID. Howell
has been set for next Monday, at 10
O'Clock, before Justice Maroon. Mr..
Harris yesterday returned from Morgan
ton and agreed to this date for the trial.
The Supreme court having refused to
grant him a new trial, James "A. Moore,
OF Franklin county, was yesterday tax
EN- from Wake county Jail to the penl-
tertiary to serve his fifteen years SEN
fence for the killing of a negro at a
barbecue near Franklinton last sum-
smer.
State Printer Ste wart WIS yesterday
paid $3,246.S2 for printing and binding
for the State. This included printing
of reports of the various institutions,
binding volume xiv of the State Records
and printing volume 10 of the Supreme
;: Court Reports. 1t does not, however. in
cludea itfie other printing for the insti-
: TONS
News reaches here from Norfolk that
Rev. E. Mack. a son-in-law of DR.. Kirby,
has been called as pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Norfolk. Mr..
Mack is now pastor of the Central Meth
odist Presbyterian church, of St Louis.
THE people of Raleigh will remember
sfllat he was here for some time last sum
emer, and preached on several OCCASIONS
in this city. Previous to going = -.
Louis Mr.. Mack had charge of the t'rs'
Presbyterian church in Charlotte.
Cards have been issued by Mrs Ruth
fDonoI,ty Clark, of Augusta, Ga, to the
!. roarriage of her daughter, Frank Crowell,
ia Mr.. John Walter Inman, of Atlanta.
to take. place "Wednesday evening, April
.-21st. AT IS O'Clock. st. Pauls church, Au-
x<-nsta. Ga. Miss Clark will be remem-
bered by Raleigh people as daughter
ovf the late L. w. Clark, who was Cen
.erai Freight and Passenger Agent or the
sSeaboard Airline, and whose family
resided in Raleigh for several years
There ought to be railing arounc
the letter box at the Union depot. Iht
box is put there for the ACCOMMODATION
of the general public, but at every tran
a motley crowd of curious people gather
around it and stand there to watch thu
mail clerk cancel the letters. Some o.
these people never mailed letter in thei
lives and they seem to be doing all II
their power to keep others from dolnt
it. They do not think about it probably
but it is impossible for ladies to get t.
the mail box when such crowd il
there.