The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-18
CITY IN BRIEF.

The members of the w. c. L. L. will
please send one or more articles of cloth
ing to DIR. Carriers house, as a box is to
be prepared next week to be sent to the
orphanage at High Point for the children
that the union here has sent.
The directors of the Institution for the
Deaf. Dumb and Blind here will meet
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock in the
law office of Mr.. B. +. Montague.
A Winston firm has shipped car load
of galvanized iron here to be used on
the Baptist female university.
The framework of DR.. Capehart's
handsome new residence, corner Will
mington and North streets, is rapidly go
ing up.
Tom Perry, the negro messenger IN the
State Treasurer's office, had an attack
of vertigo yesterday morning, causing
him to fall on the tile flooring with such
violence as to render him unconscious
for some time His head struck the hard
floor with great force and 1T was at hrst
feared that his skull had been fractured.
Perry is new man in the office, having
succeeded Lewis Young, the former mes
senger, only last Friday.
The news comes from the western part
of the State that the tobacco crop of the
entire western section of the State Will
be unusually short this year. In some
counties the crop will be only about one
tenth as large as usual. This shortage is
due to the fact that the farmers were
not satisfied with the prices last season
and hence curtailed the acreage.
The Mayor yesterday had five cases OF
disorderly conduct before him. one of
them he fined So. %, one he released, one
had to pay costs and two others were
dismissed on promise to leave the city.
Visitors to the State Library say that
it is now in the most filthy condition they
have ever known it. They recommend
that the Rev. Righteous Altogether
Cobb. who has charge of it, might add
much to the general appearance OF
things by having the carpets occasionally
swept. the cob-webs now and then re-
moved from the walls and the windows
and doors of the book cases occasionally
washed.
DIR. Peter Arlund, president of the
Richmond, Blackstone and Southern
Railroad. which was chartered by the
Secretary Of State here about two weeks
ago. has just recovered from a spell of
sickness. He says that the, work of lay
ing the rails on this road will be COM
menced at Blackstone, Va, in the course
Of two or three weeks. His engineers
have been at work some time. This line
il to run from Richmond to or near
Ridgeway, N. O. When completed it will
put Raleigh about two hours nearer New
York and Washington than it now is.
The railroads have given the fremeI
q rate Of one fare for round trip to the
Annual Tournament to be held in Fay
etteville August 3. 4 and 5.
The Ninistering Circle will meet or
Monday evening, July 10Th, at 6 O'Clock
at the residence of Mrs. Chas. Busbee.
A letter received here from Mrs. Stone
wall Jackson states that she is steadil!
improving in health. and will probabl.
soon be well again. She is spendini
sometime at the sanatarius at Walter
Park, Pennsylvania.-Oha News.
Miss Janet Pool, after two months
visit to relatives in Clayton, returne
home yesterday. Miss Pearl Robertson
accompanied her and is stopping Wit
her relatives, the family of Mr.. s. &
Pool, on Hillsboro street.