The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-10
CITYpIN BRIEF.

There are now just exactly one dozen
prisoners in Wake county jail
Keeper of Capitol Burns is having
some of the dying. scrubby trees Ill
capitol square cut down.
Sheriff Walker. of Brunswick brought
one convict to the penitentiary-a negro
for short term for larceny.
Invitations have been received here to
the Easter reception of the Twin City
Club. at Winston, Monday evening,
April 10Th.
News comes from Chatham county of
the death Thursday of one of its best
and most respected citizenship. Benz.
Williams, of Williams township, in his
.SOth year
The directors of the Raleigh and Gas
ton Railroad will meet in Baltimore to-
day. Messrs w. r. Tucker, w. c.
-Stronach and Jas. b. Bachelor left here
yesterday to attend this meeting.
Cards have been issued by Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick c.. Roberts. of Newbern,
n. c., to the marriage of their daughter,
Annie Rouhac to Mr.. William Gibson
Boyd. Wednesday, April Dist, at
O'Clock, Christ church. Newbern, n. c.
Miss DeGraffenreid, of Washington,
was here yesterday, representing the Uni
ted States Department of Labor Statistics
under Carroll ID. Wright She was gath
ering statistics concerning the liquor
traffic especially, and other matters Incl
e1entally.
Box sheet for Polk Miller's "Old
Times Down South" is now open at
King & Cos. One hundred and fifty
seats were reserved on Friday. Secure
your seat to-day. Admission 80 cents.
No extra for reserving seat. Academy
of Music Thursday. 10Th.
The remains of that gallant Confed-
crate soldier Lieutenant Reed, will be
removed from the city cemetery, where
il was placed during the war, to the Con-
federate cemetery, where rest the ashes
OF the unreturning brave who went forth
in the COS to battle for their rights.
Thos III. Sutton, the newly appoint
ed judge of the Eastern Criminal district,
held his first court this week-at Hali=
fax Parties from there say that he
makes a pretty good officer. His health
is much better than some weeks ago
when he was so i'll that he contemplated
resigning his office.
Capt Chas. NJ. Cooke, ex-Secretary Of
State, has just returned from Alabama
and Florida. where he has been on legal
weeks in the South and he returns look
ing strong and much improved by his
rest. He reached here Thursday night and
left yesterday morning for his home in
Louisburg.
Mr.. Chas. NJ. Smith, a native North
Oarolinian, but now resident of New
York city, was married on last Tuesday,
April the 9th, to Miss May A. Beach, Of
that city. and left for Raleigh, n. c.,
TO visit the family of Mr.. II. G. Zachary.
They will leave this city via S. A. L.,
Monday for points in Tennessee, where
his people now reside.
The Confederate cemetery is now being
greatly improved and beautifed. 1t will
soon be in better condition than it has
. ever been. This is as it should be. The
last resting place of these heroes of the
Lost Cause has too long been left bare.
sunattractiye and neglected. Mr.. w. c.
sStronach, who never tires of doing some
thing for Confederates, both living and
dead is the instigatpr of this cemetery
improvement.
Capt W. Pitt Terrell, who fc: many
years was engineer of the Helper" a
cross the Blue Ridge from Old Fort to
the Swannanoa Gap, and who was blan-
ed for the accident in which Will James,
engineer of the yestibHle, westbound
from Norfolk to Chattanooga and his
fireman were killed, has been restored to
duty as switch engineer at Salisbury.
Mr. Terrell has many friends and rela-
tives in this county who will be glad to
hear of his reinstatement. He has been
on the Western North Carolina division
of the Southern road for Twenty-Five
years, and that was the first accident in
which the slightest blame could be at
tached to him.