The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-15
CITY IN BRIEF.

Tho 81 Iukes Circle will assemble
st the Home, as usual, this AFTERNOON a.
an ny A full attendance is requested py
the leader. :,
There are now sixteen prisoners III
Wake county jail-four white and twelve
colored. OF these four are Federal prs
oners-three white and one colored.
Invitations have been received mere
from the Wah Rec German Club, OF
Tarboro, to dances on Tuesday evening
xnril 9th. and the Tuesday evening
following, May 4th. -,
The Easter edition of Fashions, the
magazine sent out by Mr.. A. b. Stronacn
ho his patrons, is now being distributed
II is an interesting and valuable book &c
the ladies. :.
After the regular prayer service IL
Central Methodist church yesterday even
ing, Mr.. f. Z. Turner State Secretary oil
tbe Y. NJ. G.. A., delivered an address on
GLOW to- Teach Sunday School Class.
There will be grand stereoptlcan
exhibition for the benefit of the west
Raleigh Baptist church Friday evening
Anil o3rd. at the Academy of Music
Reautiful views will be shown and the
entertainment will be in every way d
high class and instructive one
Seven young men are now here study
ing pharmacy under Mr.. William Simp-
son They are: Messrs. John B. Manly
and L. B. Isenhour, of Salisbury; j, u.
Groom, of Maxton; NJ. ID. Hlggs, OF
Dunn; Moody Mintz, of Southport; H.
f. Graham, China Grove, and Mr.. John
son, of Garner.
Agents are in Charlotte for the purpose
of getting that city in the Carolina y II
ginia Horse Circuit. Greensboro, Ashe-
yNe. Richmond, Danville and Columbia,
have all entered. Why cannot the horse
men Of Raleigh look after this matter
and get this city in. We have the pest
track in the State, and one of the best
in the South, and no people in the World
like horse race any better.
Polk Miller, the new genius OF the
South, who will give an entertainment
with his famous readings, songs and reci-
tations this evening at the Academy OF
Music, arrived in the city Tuesday night
and is at the Marlborough. The best com
mentary that can be made on has novel
entertainment is to say that NOBODY
should neglect to attend tins recitai TINS
afternoon.
Mr.. C. II. Mebane, State Superlntend-
emit of Public Instruction. has gone 10
Concord on private business. On ms
way back he will stop at Salisbury TO visit
the Colored Normal School there. Inls
school is in some embarrassment over the
fact that it did not get as much of the
Peabody fund as it was led to expect
and i'm order to keep it running to the end
of the term it has been allowed to draw
5000 of it's next years appropriation
from the State. =,
The Buckler Stock Company will be
seen at Metropolitan Opera House next
week in a repertoire Of popular plays at
popular prices. There are fourteen peo-
Die in the company. This company mas
played in the larger cities in the South.
and is now on it's way North. LADIES
will be admitted free on Monday night
when accompanied by an escort with one
paid 80 cent ticket.
Superintendent n. NJ. Lawrence, OF the
Oxford Orphan Asylum, was here yes
terday. He gives most encouraging re-
ports of the work that is being done at
that institution. There are now over
200 orphans there, being fed, clothed ana
taught The FIVE new cottages have
b,en completed, and will be occupied by
Aay 1st The dormitory formerly oc-
cupied by the boys Will then De TORN
down.
Mr.. Hill Il. King, Principal Clerk OF
the Senate, is in the city. He arrived yes
terday from his home in Onslow county,
bringing with him the index of the Sen
ate journal. 1t was Immediately sent
by the Secretary of State to the public
printer In Winston. The Senate and
House journals are both completed now
with the exception of the indexes. They
will probably be ready for distribution
by the last of next week.
For some time past negro boys nave
been amusing themselves by throwing
rocks at the old Watson residence on Lee
noir street and breaking out the windows.
This il fun for the boys, but expensive
10 the city, which owns the property ana
nronoses to convert it into negro school.
Yesterday very young negro boy-Wih
Snow-was taken out TO the roads LOT
thirty days for rock throwing, ana the
police are looking for his companion
Pud Turner-who was with him when
caught damaging the property