The news & observer., 1897-06-25
CITY IN BRIEF.

Va. ba seball game tomorrow afternoon
1t will be "a good game, well worth see
ing.
The Paige Players were at durham
last night and Wednesday night. They
seem to have met with better luck there
than here.
DR.. McGeachey has rented the resi-
dence of the late DR.. Dunn on Hiilsboro
street. and will move his office there
about the list of July.
The annual contract for furnishing
Shaw University with anthracite coal
was awarded to B. w. Baker yesterday.
at 5000 per ton, delivered at the instltd-
ton.
sesA A corps of surveyors will begin the
survey of the Durham and Charlotte
Railroad, between Gulf and Durham,
next week. They will begin the survey
at Gulf.
Farmers say that, although good rain
was needed. the rain storm of Wednes-
day night washed their lands very bad
ly and thus injured growing crops in
some places.
1t is probable that DIR. III. B. Battle,
whose term as director of the expert
ment station soon expires, will go to
are not yet fully perfected.
Albert Cook and Amelia Jones, ne
groes. were yesterday brought here on a
capias from Johnston county, whittier
they had fled, and were placed in Jail to
await the next term of court to answer
charge of living together in adultery.
The Haywood Minstrels are said to
have gone to pieces at Henderson. They
have played at three places since leav-
ing here-Durham, Oxford and Hender-
son. Business seems not TO have been
good
The w. C. T. U. will hold their regular
meeting Friday 2oth, promptly at
o'clock. 1t is desired to have all the mem
bers present whose names are on the
books. A report of the late convention
will be of interest, and it is requested
that the members will assemble promptly.
The attorneys who went to Durham to
argue the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad injunction case before Judge
Timberlake Wednesday night returned
yesterday. Among them were Messrs.
C. B. Aycock, of Goldsboro; f. nj. Sim
mons, of Raleigh; A. d. Ward, of New
bern, and Judge Boykin, of Raleigh.
Preparations are now being made for
the school tax election which is to be
held in every township in North Carolina,
on the 10th of next August. The Sec
retary of State was busy yesterday send
ing out the new election law, the oaths,
notices and return blanks 10000 of
each), to every county in the State.
At the meeting of Wake County Ad-
visory BOARD of Pensions-A. b. Stron-
ach, W. p Dowd and G. Nj. Allen-Mon
day, June 21st, five applications were
filed. one for increased pension, two for
widows pension, and two new applica-
tions. This is the smallest number ap-
plying any year since the establishment
of the Advisory Board of Pensions.
Gov Russell has gone to Wilmington
and will not return before Tuesday.
Mrs. Russell is there spending the sum-
mer at Wrightsville, where the Governor
has cottage. She will be there until
September. The Governor will go back
and forth during the summer, spending
only so much of his time in Raleigh
as a proper attention to his official du-
ties requires.
1t has been decided to begin as soon
as possible the work of rearing on the
square at Asheville monument to the
late Senator Vance. 1t is proposed to
erect a granite shaft modelled after the
Washington monument to rest upon a
suitable pedestal. Bids for this work will
be received up to August i. What has
become of the movement for a monument
to Vance in Raleigh?
There will be big excursion here to-
morrow. 1t will be from Burlington
and will be under the management of
the Methodist and Baptist Sunday schools
there. The use of the Baptist Taberna-
Gle school rooms and the city park has
been rendered the excursionists for the
day. The train reaches here at 10
o'clock and leaves at 8.
Hon. Theo. Joseph, of Sante Fe, New
Mexico, sends us a copy of the New
Mexican, containing an account of how
the National cemetery has been made a
garden by Mr.. Joseph, who lived in
Raleigh a short while after the close of
the war. Among those buried in that
cemetery are Capt. Alex. McRae, of
North Carolina, who commanded Com
pany K, Third Z. S. Cavalry.
Between 800 and 400 people went to
Chapel Hill yesterday on the First Bap-
fist Sunday School excursion. The train
left here at 7:30 and returned at s o'clock
Every DOuy udu IL SOOu tllllt anu dil were
loud in their praises of Chapel Hill and
its hcspitable people. A feature of the
occasion was a game of baseball between
Chapel Hill and Raleigh teams. 1t re.
suited in a victory for the Chapel Hill.
lians by score of IL to 4.
All who know the accomplished lady
agree with the following in the Oxford
correspondence of the Charlotte Obser.
yer: ''The removal of Miss Eva Minor, vi
Oxford from the position of music teach
er in the Deaf and Dumb Institution al
Raleigh without any other cause except
to give the place to another, is the cause
of deep regret among her many friend
in Oxford. Miss Minor is fine musician
and one of the most estimable young In
dies in the State and her removal wal
unexpected"
RESCUED BY PARSON LEAK.
Six negroes-one man and five girls
came very near being drowned Wednes
day at Cooks pond, some six miles
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