The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-20
CITY IN BRIEF.


Mr.. Samuel McPheeters has returned
from the University of Virginia to spend
his vacation.
The regular services will be held at
the Christian church today, the pastor
having returned to the city.
There will be a Peace Institute rally
at the residence of Mrs. ]. NJ. Heck
Tuesday afternoon at $50 o'clock All
"Peace'' girls are invited to be present.
The Railroad Commission is called to
meet June 80 and will take up the assess
ment of railroad, steamboat, canal, tele-
graph. telephone and Pullman car prop
erty.
The county commissioners will meet
again next Friday to complete the re-
vision of the jury list and elect member
of the county school board in place of
Mr.. Thos. H. Briggs, who has resigned.
The insane asylum board meets again
July eth. 1t is said that they will at
that time make several changes in Off
GERS. Mr.. Robert J. Lewis, of Halifax,
who is said to be the Governors candi-
date for steward, was here yesterday.
Mr.. Will Linehan and Miss Mamie
Besson will be married Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Besson, on Edenton street 1t will be a
very quiet wedding, only limited num-
Der of invitations having been sent out.
Since Collector Simmons took charge of
the revenue office here, four years ago,
nearly $5,000,0O0 has passed through his
hands. The collections for the present
fiscal year, which ends June 80, will be
the largest in any year and will reach
more than a million dollars.
All tho old waist hQltS and oartri6gQ
boxes in the State arsenal, together with
the old pattern of knapsack Tor blanket
bags) are being shipped to the United
States Quartermaster's depot at Philadef-
phia. The government is taking them
back They are Of obsolete patterns.
The six-foot specimen of oats display
ed at Higgs' was inaccurately credited
to Panther Branch. They were raised
on w. c. Stronach's little sixteen-acre
farm in "Geranium Valley" Raleigh
Township, managed by Ned Shepherd,
colored, who will pit the net results of
his sixteen acres against any farm of
sixty acres in Panther Branch or any
other township in Wake county.
Rev. A. NJ. Simms, pastor of the
Tabernacle Baptist church is fifty years
old to-day. He will at IL o'clock preach
a sermon on "A view of Life from the
Half Century Milestone" Persons
about that age are given an invitation to
be present and participate in the services.
At night the services will be conducted
by Rev. A. X. Love, who has recently
returned from the Louisville Seminary.
Owing to the ill health of his wife, DIR.
McGeachy has decided to leave Atlanta,
where he went to locate for the practice
of his profession. They have returned to
Raleigh and will make it their home.
They have many warm friends here who
will learn of their return with pleasure,
and will be glad to know that they are
to become permanent residents of the
city.
Labor Commissioner Hamrick is back
from a tour of inspection in the western
part of the State. On this trip he visited
Alexander, Iredell, Rowan, Randolph,
Guilford, Burke and Mcdowell, inspect
ing both mines and factories. He says
the mica industry of the west is some
thing enormous. The best of it is selling
at 81 pound and great quantities Of it
are being mined in Mitchell, Cleveland,
Burke and Mcdowell counties.
The entertainment given by the young
ladies at the residence of Mrs. p. G..
Enniss, on lakewood avenue, last Thurs
day night, for the benefit of the Reid
Chapel fund of the Soldiers Home, will
by urgent request be repeated on next
Tuesday night at $50 o'clock. In ad-
dition to the programme of songs, char
acter tableaux and dialogues, refresh
ments will be served. Admission 10
cents, children 5 cents. Let all go and
assist the young ladies in the neighbor
hood in this worthy cause.