The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-31
CITY IN BRIEF.

Mr.. Harden, of Alamance, is to be
the clerk of the Penitentiary Board.
The Goldsboro Rifles go into camp at
Morehead City August Sth for ten days.
Brunswick stew will be served at the
Woman's Exchange from II O'Clock till
2 o'clock today.
There will be Brunswick stew at the
Woman's Exchange to-day made by one
of the best house-keepers in Raleigh
Joseph Terry, charged with perjury
in the Hester Robertson case, is to be
tried before Justice FL. III. Roberts next
Saturday, August 7th.
An excursion from Raleigh to Ashe
vile will leave here August 10. 1t will
be run by the Triple Link Lodge of Odd
Fellows. and return Aug. 18th.
The Sanford and Carbonton baseball
clubs played at Athletic Park yesterday
afternoon The game resulted victory
for Sanford by score of 20 to 8.
Many old veterans are already plan
ming to go to the reunion at Benton
vile August 4th. Were it not for the fact
that the battlefield is ten miles from the
railroad a very large number of people
would go from here.
The members of the Southern passen-
Turk, the general passenger agent, some
choice cigars which have been named
for the road. They are said to be very
fine retailing three for nickel
Warrants have been sworn out against
a number of young negroes in Oberlin,
charging them with gambling. 1t is
said that they have become very bold
in their games of poker and seven-up
and the attention of the authorities be-
ing called to it they have set to work
to suppress it.
A letter was received yesterday at
the Agriculture department from st.
Louis capitalist and lumberman, who
wants to purchase 100000 acres of tim
bered land in North Carolina. He wants
the land principally for the timber and
prefers that it be located in the eastern
part of the State.
Four new convicts were yesterday
brought in from New Hanover county.
They were Ben Smith, colored, thirty
years for the murder of Chas Jones;
Fred Rowland, white, eight years for
the larceny of a horse and buggy;
Robert Williams, colored, eighteen
months for stealing harness, and Jack
Simmons, colored, one year for larceny.
The month of July is at an end and the
tax on only fifty dogs has been paid.
There is something less than 1000 dogs
in the city, though there are people who
doubt it, and usually the tax is paid on
about $50 Of them. Unless there is some
pretty lively tax paying in the next few
days there's soon going to be a mighty
killing and a-slaying of the canine fam
lily.
The Southern Railway is reported to
have purchased an outfit of coal barges
Mt Pittsburg to be used on the Mississippi
between Greenville, Miss, and New Or
leans. The purpose of the management is
to put Birmingham coal into New Or
leans for less rate than the all rail
lines handle it. The all-rail routes have
often lost coal contracts to Pittsburg
because the latter has all-water trans
portation to New orleans.
The examination papers for the Pea
body scholarships-four in number-to be
awarded by competitive examination this
year, are now being received by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
from the various county supervisors. The
age required is from II to 80 years;
these papers show that some of those
who stood the examination are under
IL. OF course they will not be awarded
a scholarship, no matter how good their
examination.