The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-27
CITY IN BRIEF.

One new convict was yesterday proush
TO the penitentiary from lancey couh.!
The graduating class at the Uhlversi's
of North Carolina this year is the larges'
since the war. ...,,,
The Y. NJ C. A. Wheel Club, fourteen
s+ro,o took their first club run OF ten
miles last evening. ,, g..
Tbo I,eazar Literary Society holds It's
,ndororoduate medal contest tomorrow
r;rh+ ,t the 4. * NJ. College at o:oo
o'clock. A.,
Mrs. ]. p. X. Neathery. mother oil MI
IA Neotbery. of this city, died at her
home in Columbia Tuesday morning at
o'clock.
SUPERINTENDENT 9icMackin has large
force at work widening ana improNihs
tho road leading from Hillsboro street by
Pulen Park.
The stomach OF the late Fred Keel, OF
Edgecombe county, has been sent TO trol.
w A. Withers. of the a. and Nj. College.
to be tested for strychnine.
The Governor yesterday commissioned
Judge Timberlake Ito hold the spec1ai
term of Buncombe court, July lltl' anu
Judge Norwood to hold the speclal term
of Pennsylvania court, May 10Th.
COMPLAINTS were filed with the Rail
road Commission yesterday against the
Wilmington and Seacoast Railroad.
which runs from Wilmington to Wrlghts
vile. The compliments charge that
proper accommodations are not furnlsheu
passengers on the cars.
The front of the McGhee pharmacy,
corner Fayetteville and Martin streets,
is being very much improved. An obllque
entrance Will be fitted in at the corner ana
large plate glass will be put III on each
side. The floor will also be tiled ana the
store otherwise much improved.
For the accommodation of those des.r-
ing to attend the commencement eXer-
cises at Wake Forest today the Seaboard
Air Line will run special passenger car
on the freight train leaving Johnston
street at s o'clock this morning. and re-
turning at ) o'clock this evening.
The April Bulletin of the North Caro-
lima Department of Agriculture will be
issued next week. 1t will be the last is
sued by the officers now in charge. The
terms of office of the present officials
expire June 14th. The Board of Com
missioners will meet again on the 10th.
There is a notorman now running on
one of the street cars here who has been
in the employ of the company ever since
the days when the cars were pulled BY
mules. He is on the Hillsboro and
Blount street lines and says he knows
exactly at what streets to stop and let
young men off when they are going cali
ing. 6agu
fo Some thirty Raleigh people went out to
Wake Forest yesterday morning on the
Seaboard train to attend the commence
ment exercises now in progress there
Among them were Misses Matte Pace,
Eula Upchureh, Gertrude Johnson. Mat
tie Simms, Miss Wallace, Miss Hudson,
Mr.. w. J.~Peele, Prof. Vernon Howell,
Mr.. J. ID. ,Boushall, DR.. Jas. Il. Rogers.
The Auditor is u In receipt Of Il large
number iof letters from county. com1llss-
sioners, and registers of deeds complain
ing of failure to get their tax abstracts
in time. The delay is due TO the mistake
in; the constitutional equation Of taxa.
ton made, by the last Legislature and
the, subsequent necessity of the supreme
courts passing upon the question. The
Auditor says, however, that the abstracts
viii be out in plenty of time and will be
sent to the various counties at once.