The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-03
CITY IN BRIEF.

FOR tnreS nl&uts uVW tpe 0i's ""s w.
in darkness.
You're certainly "off your trolley" if
YOU don't join that trolley party tonight.
A revival is now in progress at Apex
1t is being held by Rev. NJ. A. Adams
Of Asheville.
The railroads of the State will give
reduced rates to the meeting of the State
Farmers Alliance at Hillsboro, Au-
gust 10.
Rev. w. A. Pegues, superintendent OF
the colored Deaf, Dumb and Blind lnstl-
tute here, has resigned to accept bet
Ger position elsewhere.
The Governor has been invited by
Governor G. A. Culberson to attend the
Prison Congress. which meets october
10th to Goth in Austin, Texas.
Don't forget the trolley party tonight.
If you haven't a wife take your sweet
heart and if you haven't sweetheart
you'd better go and try to get one.
The Southern Railway will run ar
excursion to Asheville, leaving Raleigh
at a. M August 10th, and returning
on the 18th. The fare from Raleigh will
be 81.
Mayor Russ yesterday was called upon
to marry a colOred couple-Wayland
Jones and Margaret Jones, Of this coun-
ty. He used the Episcopal ceremony, |
am told.
Deputy Collector F. 7. Harper, the
man who was shot by moonshiners in
Lenoir county last Tuesday night, is bet
ter. 1t is very probable that he will en-
tirely recover.
Senator Butler takes the most extreme
view yet on the government owner
Ship question. He is now said to favor
the governments owning the tobacco
trade, as in France.
Several hundred negroes from the
western part of the State spent yester
day here. They came on an excursion
from Lexington. They were a well be
haved crowd Of darkeys.
The citizens committee of the city OF
Buffalo has invited Governor Russell t.
attend the thirty-first annual encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub
lie, to be held August 23rd to 2Sth.
1.-THE examination for the Bingham
free scholarship will take place in thu
office of the Railroad Commission or
Wednesday, August II, at 2 o'clock p
H." so writes Congressman Strowd, Of
This district.
The Bulletin of the Agricultural De
partment will be issued to-day. 1t will
this month be mailed at pound rates, al
heretofore, and after that it's status az
mail matter will be definitely passed
upon by the postoffice authorities a
Washington.
The Governor has issued a requisitior
for D. D. Durham, the man who passed
q forged check here month ago on the
Royal and Borden Furniture Company
He is in Indianapolis, having compromis-
ed all his Tennessee troubles. An off.
Ger has gone to Indiana to bring him
here
The Kivett brothers. who were killed
at Waco, Tex, last week, used to live
here. it is said. They were clerks. One
left suddenly. There was a rumor thai
he was concerned in putting fire in g
store. Afterwards they were in business
IN Henderson. They were natives OF
Harnett county.
Health Officer Sale has the license
blanks for fish dealers ready. Accord
ing to the new ordinance every fish dealer
has to register with the health officer
and comply with the law in his business
The license costs nothing, but the dealers
who do not register will not be allowed
to sell fresh fish.
Governor Russell will go to Ocear
View, Va, August 14th to spend severa
days. While there he will be the CUES
of Mr.. Chas. e. ST. John, manager O.
the Ocean View Hotel and of the Pine!
Woods Inn, at Southern Pines. Tn,
Governor will be escorted to Ocean View
by the Governors Guard. They will g
down on the 14th and return the 18th.
A letter was received by COMMISSIONS
Mewborne yesterday from Col. John
Cunningham, saying that the secretar.
Of the National Farmers Congress ask
that the Governor of North Carolin,
appoint two delegates for the State a
large and one from each Congressional
district, to represent the farming interes
of the State at the next meeting of tn
Congress.
A white tramp-George Stanton, o
Plymouth, and two negroes-Will Whit
aker and Jesse Beal-were yesterda.
bound over to court by the Mayor fo
fighting ON Wilmington street Saturda,
night Stanton was beating Beale whe1
Whitaker ran up and struck him wit
a stick. Beale seems, from the evidence
to have been the aggressor in the trou
BILE between him and Stanton.
A four-legged duck-with both tn
duck and the legs well formed-is
great curiosity. But this particula
duck has another claim to public after
ton. 1t was once the property-prt
served in alcohol-of DR.. II. G. Herring
of Concord. Now it belongs to Mr..
C. l.. Harris, who is known to hol
something more than score Of Offices
: And these many offices are the caus
of his now having a four-legged duel
DIR. Herring sent it to him yesterda
with the message that he hoped it woul
'help him paddle some of his canoes"
The Masons will have a celebration ,
Mooresville August 9th, and at night
class Of Orphans from the Oxford o
phan Asylum will give concert for IL
benefit of the asylum. Col. Julian
Carr, DIR. B. F. Dixon and Grandmast'