The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-17
CITY IN BRIEF.

Brunswick stew served from twelve to
two o'clock, Saturday at Woman's Ex-
change.
Hon. T. r. Jernigan, of North Caro-
lima, Consul General at Shanghai, has an
able article in the current North Amerl-
can Review on American trade with
China and the East.
Misses Brown, of LittletOn, daughters
of Mr.. J. G. Brown, proprietor of the
Park Hotel, are in the city and will re-
side in Raleigh in the future.
The negro school committeeman have
done the work. The white Democrats
are indignant and the Populists in many
sections, if reports be true, are kicking
like Texas steers.
People from the eastern part of the
State say that Crumpler, the sanctihca-
ton evangelist, has begun great meet
ing in Brunswick county this week.
Great crowds are Hocking to his tent to
hear him.
A picture in the Literary Digest OF
Stewart l.. Woodford, of New York, the
new minister to Spain, shows that he
is not unlike Hon. Thos. c. Fuller, OF
this city, Judge of the United States
Court of Private Land Claims.
The Central Hotel will probably soon
be turned into a huge furniture store.
The Royal and Borden Furniture Com
pany is negotiating for its lease for that
purpose. They will occupy the entire
building, and greatly enlarge their busi-
ness here.
The dog tax, due July /, is not being
paid very rapidly and the Chief of Police
has ordered Col. lobe Marshall to pre-
mare for a wholesale slaughter of CANNES
il their owners don't pay the tax before
August 1. The execution will positively
begin on that date and not stop as long
as there is an untagged dog in the city.
Thursday the Doth of this month there
will be an eclipse of the sun. Shortly
before 8 o'clock in the morning, the
earth will enter the moons shadow. 1t
will be 1920 before the eclipse is finally
over. Three-fourths of the suns disc
will be obscured-a larger obscured seq
ment than has been observed in any
eclipse for many years.
The negro who fell from the top of
the new residence of Mr.. Joseph Ii.
Pogue the other day is rapidly recovering
from his injuries. In reply to a query
as to how the fellow was getting on one
of his colored friends yesterday replied:
"Oh he's bout alright, boss. Yer see
he didn't hurt nothin' but is head"
The Mayor yesterday had two thieves
Lewis Young and John Hays, negroes
and one drunk-Tom Jones, white
man-before him when he opened court.
The negroes were sent to jail for trlal
in the Superior court and the white man
was sent to the roads for thirty days.
Mr.. Westmoreland. the janitor of the
Supreme court building, was taken to
his home in Davidson county yesterday,
paralyzed. He has completely lost the
use of his left leg and his right one -
also badly affected. 1t il not peheSeu
That he will ever recover.
DR.. G. w. Blacknall, who is this
season managing the Atlantic Hotel at
Morehead. but who came up to Ralelgh
to spend a few days during the extreme
~ hot weather, returned to tine seasios
Yesterday, the weather having turheu
considerably cooler.
Two of the Norfolk excursionlsts-
Mr.. A. D. X. Wallace and Mr.. ). N.
McRary-brought back a souvenir on
their trip. 1t is a small hammer-nean
shark-about two feet in length-whlch
they captured ON the beach while tney
were in bathing. They win present IL
to the State Museum
Capt. Fuller, manager of the Soldier
Home, sustained painful injury 10 ms
wounded leg Thursday night. WINE
coming out of the Read Memorial chapei
he missed step and fell. 1t was thougn1
at first that the leg was broken. Inns
proved not to be true, but his injuries
were such as to be exceedingly PAINFUL
One by one the heads Of the employees
at the State capitol and public buildings
go off. The last to be dismissed IL MT
L. r. Huddleston, the gardener. he IL II
succeeded by Mr.. w. d. Terry III VIII
be remembered that at the last eiecton
Mr. Terry was ON both the Democrau.
and Fusion tickets for magistrate ano
was unanimously elected. Ihere arr
only one or two of the old employees now
left. 1t is said that they are to go soon