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

to Mr.. II. q. Ferguson anu MISS
Martin, both of Wake county.
A special train of three cars was run
from Wake Forest yesterday for the
benefit of those wishing to attend the
ball game.
Music Thursday, April 10, for the beneht
of the primary department OF the Lap
ernacle Sunday School.
Sheriff Buffaloe, vi northampton
comfy. Yesterday brought five new con-
yicts' to the penitentiary white ana
one black-all for short terms.
Roy Father Price, of this city, will
This afternoon begin in Durham a Sc
RIGS of lectures in explanation of the
catholic church and its doctrines.
Prof. j. O. Atkinson, of Ellen College,
will occupy the pulpit at the Christian
church tonight at 7:3O O'clock The
public is cordially invited to hear hlm.
Prof. ]. 0. Atkinson, of Elon College,
is in the city and will preach tonight at
the Christian church. Prof. Atkinson
is one of the foremost young educators
in the State, and pulpit orator OF unus-
ual ability.
The w. c. T. Z. of Raleigh ask that
all grocers and druggists who do not sell
the city papers. (The druggists who do
mot sell it as beverage) they VIII, as
Union, give you helping hand.
Passenger Agent Leard announces that
through sleepers from Washington to
Nashville. Tennessee, and from Ports
mouth. will be attached to the Atlanta
Special commencing May 1. Exposition
travellers will find this popular route.
NJ ~ L. ind
friends, the w. G. Il. e. returns many
thanks for liberal donations to fit up its
headquarters. Those articles have Civ
en- to the room home-like appearance,
and it is all due to these gentlemen, who
will accept the thanks again, from the
Union.
State Auditor Aver does not think he
will appoint Pension clerk in his Of
Gee for some months yet. There will
be no pension work in his Office until
September, when the State Board of
Pensions meets to pass upon applica-
lions for pensions.
The show windows on Fayetteville
street yesterday were radiant with the
colors of the two rival ball teams-Wake
Forest and the University. The windows
of Sherwood Higgs Il Co. and w. Fl. &
r. S. Tucker Il Co. were especially beau
stiful. And the boys appreciated it too.
Rev, Howard T.. Rondthaler, of Salem,
N. c., viii preach at Edenton Street
Methodist church to-day at II a. m. At
night the pulpit will be occupied by the
faastor, Rev. w. c.. Norman. Mr.. Rond-
7tl1aier is son of Bishop Rondthaler, Of
the MOravian church, a young man of
z parts and fine promise.
Polk Miller, the Virginia humorist, is
to, be here April Is. He comes for the
benefit of the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday
School. He is well worth hearing. His
use of the negro dialect is perfect, his
anecdotes and plantation melodies are
splendid. Remember the date and don't
fail to secure a reserved seat in advance.
In spite of the downpour of rain there
was q good crowd of people at Athletic
Park yesterday to witness the Wake
Forest University baseball game Had
at not rained there would very probably
have been more than thousand rooters.
there. 1t is to be hoped that the weather
) will be fair Wednesday, when Wake For
,agt and Philadelphia play here.
The next annual encampment of the
G. A. r., will be held at the Soldiers
Home at Hampton, Va, probably the last
week in April or the first week in May.
tCoi. w. III. Martin is just back from
Richmond, where he went to attend a
meeting of the council to fix the time and
place, and he says the above decision was
the one reached in the matter.
Capt. II. w. Whisnant, superintendent
of the Seaboard Air Line, was here yes
,terday. He is very much interested in
the development of the resources along
the line of his road-especially the water
power. He says a company of Fall River
cotton manufacturers have recently been
down to Lockville, in Chatham county
making a survey Of the water power
there, with a view to locating a large cot
dOn factory on it.
Bishop Cheshire is very much encour-
aged in his efforts to raise the 100000
endowment for ST. Mary's School. He
says he has met with remarkable success
at every place he has yet visited. Yes
terday he went down to Newbern. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Iredell, who
goes with the Bishop to lay before the
alumnae the Importance of raising the
$4,000 of the endowment assigned tc
them.
"The Star OF the South" for March
has just been issued and may be had
upon application to agents of the Sea-
board Airline 1t is a handsome maya
zine Of fifty pages, published monthly
under the direction of the General Pas
-senger Department of the Seaboard Air
Line. In addition to official timetables
and information for shipper and traveller
the publication contains tales Of adyen-
ture, love and herOism, by standard au-
fhors, legends of the South and current
topics of interest to the Southern States.
Maj. A. NJ. McPheeters has four coins
that he has carried in his pocket ever
since the war-indeed three of them he
carried in his pocket all during that
eventful period when silver was so scarce.
Since then they have never been out
Of his immediate possession. He was
chloroformed and robbed once IN a hotel
in Norfolk, but strange to say the thieves
failed to get his pocket pieces, though
they took from him every other valuable
he had. The coins are three half dol
lars bearing dates of 1S42'5S and '63.
The fourth coin is a copper one-cent
piece minted in 1859. They are all worn
smooth.
On a recent visit to Morehead DIR.
Blacknan had three wild-geese that had
been tanned presented to him by
AFR. Thomas Evans. The Doctor came
home proud of his new acquisitions. He
s1rned them loose in his back yard and
they went quietly enough around the
premises hunting for a mud hole. But it
seems they didn't find one to suit them,