The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-17
TO Mr.. COLE
THROWN FROM HIS BICYCLE AND SER
IOUSLY INJURED.
Will Enter Suit For Damages Against Mr..
Fitzgerald Trial in ChathamFor Using
Cancelled Stamps.


Mr.. j. l.. Cole happened to quite a pain
full accident yesterday evening on Chapel
Hill street. He was on his bicycle and
without any warning whatever, his
wheel was struck by horse, knocked
| from under him and he was thrown VIC
lently to the ground. The horse that did
the damage was hitched to buggy and
was driven by a son of X. IL. Fitzgerald
Mr. Cole was seen this morning and was
suffering much from the wounds. Mr.
Cole thinks it was not an accident, but
was done with the deliberate intention of
| injuring him. He feels very indignant,
and a suit for damages will most likely
follow.
Rev George J. DOwen is conducting
series of meetings at Yates church,
three miles in the country. Owing to
this there were no morning services at
the Second Baptist church yesterday.
Miss Matte Kirkland. who has been
quite sick at her home on Morris street,
is conyalescent.
A number of Durhamites will attend
Person court this week.
Another excursion goes to Richmond,
Va, from here on the Goth of this month.
The fare has been placed at $3.50. This
has been a year fruitful of excursions
and if the amount Of money paid out by
Durham people for this purpose could
be accurately stated, ii would astonish
the natives. People cry hard times, but
always manage to go when the excursion
comes along.
Durham was visited last night by a
| light shower of rain. In some sections in
the adjacent country the season is a
good one and farmers are much encour-
aged
The police docket this morning was a
rather large one and from the way the
money was shelled ont it looked like a
wave of prosperity had struck us. The
docket was made up of DRINKS, plain and
Sunday, fights. etc.
Mr.. G. NJ. Mofftt, I believe. takes the
lead among Durham merchants, for go
ing North for fall goods. He left here
yesterday and goes to New York by
the Old Dominion Line. He proposes
to take his time and Till spend a month
in making his purchases,
Miss Ella Barbee is here from Raleigh
on a visit to Mrs c. D. Holland.
Col. w. A. Bobbitt was here short
while Saturday.
The Morning Herald gives an account
of the binding over to the Federal Court
of Mr.. J. J. Martindale in Chatham
county, for the refusing of eight postage
stamps. Martindale is said to be man
in good circumstances, so far as this
worlds goods are concerned. The
amount involved is the pitiful sum of
sixteen cents. I know nothing of the
parties or the circumstances, but it does
look like a small business. The govern
ment ought to be slow TO entertain such
prosecutions. for nine times out of ten,
they are gotten up not to maintain the
dignity of the law, but to enable some
miscreant to vent his spleen. This
prosecution ought to be carefully sifted.
Mrs. J. II. Halliburton is in Char
lotte, attending her father, DR.. Alexan-
der, who was a few days since stricken
with paralysis.
Mrs S. NJ. Halstead is here from
Portsmouth, Va. on visit to the family
of Mr. John S. Mesley.
DIR. A. J. Thompson has been here
from Liberty, N. c., on visit to the
family of Rev. George J. Dowell.
Mrs. J. A. Holloway spent Sunday
with friends in Hillsboro.
Col. John Watson Dowd is spending
week in the county of Chatham, and
living over again the days of a happy
childhood. 1t was there he first saw the
light of day, and there, when a boy four
teen years old, he enlisted as a Confed-
crate soldier, and went forth to battle
for a cause near and dear to his young
heart. When the battle was on this
brave young soldier could always be
found in the thickest of the fight, and he
loves to-day to dwell upon the time when
he was under the command of that
greatest of North Carolinians, living or
dead, the immortal Zebulon B. Vance.
Mr.. M. Fl. Jones is now we'll on the
road to recovery. The improvement in
his condition seems to be permanent and
his friends hope to see him on the streets
again in a few days.
Prof. Joseph H. Seford is evidently
fond of his alma mater, Trinity College,
as his visits are quite frequent. He was
here Saturday shaking hands with
friends.
Miss Mary Whitaker is here from
Louisburg visiting relatives.
Mr.. Jordan f. Thomas. a Charlotte
insurance man, was here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Grissom were here
from Wilmington ON a visit to relatives.
1t is learned with regret that Mrs. Girls
som is in feeble health, and the attend
ance of a physician has been necessary
since her arrival.
Mr. J. J. Brooks, a successful and
prominent farmer from Woodsdale,
Person county, has been here on a visit
to relatives.
Miss Alice Holman is visiting friends
at Bahama.
Miss Cora Ramsay is visiting friends
at Roxboro.
Miss Jennie Watts is here from Ports
mouth, Va, on a visit to her friend, Miss
Mary Rem.
Mr.. G. w. Holland, superintendent of
the Golden Belt Company, was called to
his home in Massachusetts on account
of the death of his little two-year-old
child. On this account he will be absent
several days.
| Mr. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro.