The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-09
CITY IN BRIEF.

OFFICE CLEANING.-Secretary OF
State Thompson is subjecting his offic.
to a thorough overhauling and cleaning
He is making the dust fly.
MAYORS COURT.-Two dnsky dam
sells. Sue Price and Lilly Burse, We're be-
fore the Mayor for being drank and
fighting. The former was sent to the
work-house for Is days and the latter
deposited $4.75 with the city.
MELON AND A NEGRO.-A negro
Jim Floyd by name, attracted much at
tention yesterday by parading up and
down Fayetteville street with twenty
Eve pound watermelon gracefully poised
on his head.
WANTS JANITOR.-Jerry Smith, $
colored man of this county, is candi-
date for Janitor Roberson's place at the
postoffice building here. Judge Purnell, it
is said, makes this appointment. Jerry
has q good farm, but he says that he
wants job with Uncle Sam.
ANOTHER WITNESSING. Roberts,
who was formerly the bookkeeper at the
Tribune Office, was summoned by a tele-
gram from Mr.. Averitt yesterday to
Salisbury as a witness before Special
Master Craige He was requested to
bring the file of that paper, which he did.
TOTAL VALUATION.--Leay out
Watauga county, the report from which
has not yet been received, the total valu-
alton of property in the State, inclusive
Of telegraph railway, and steamboat
property, is reported by the board of
equalization to be $232, 996.243, against
$3.50, S61 ,531 last year.
REMARKABLE CASE.-County Su-
perintendent of Education Norris says
that Mr.. W. G. Clements informs him
of remarkable case at Garner. a
woman has given birth to four children
in eight months She conceived and gave
premature birth to twins twice. None
of them lived.
CIGARETTES.-Se Of the drug
stores Of the city are no longer handling
Dukes cigarettes since the price has
been advanced and at several other
places they are now being sold for ten
cents per pack. This is causing much
gossip among those who indulge in the
weed, The American Tobacco Company
advanced the price of their goods imme-
diately after the new tariff bill passed.
FRED DIRT.-An immense amount
of dirt has been taken from the walks in
the Capitol where the paving is being
put down. A large quantity is piled up III
the street near the south gate and any
parties who want it are allowed to haul
it away. Keeper Burns says that he in
tends to make some very decided inn
provements in the walks which have
been left unpaved. Gravel will be spread
over them and then packed.
zEnDCA N-rr(N SsOIInnT r,bo eobool
for the deaf and dumb children of the
State will open at Morganton today.
Among the number who went from Raj
eigh yesterday were Misses Gennie Welsh
end Mamie Fleming, who are teachers
in the institution; Matte Simms and
Daisy Young, who will study to become
instructors of the deaf, and Susie Tilling-
hast, who intends to spend ten days there
before going to Florida.
N-HENSZEY CASE.-Dep-
ositions are now being taken from those
having claims against the company and
+bav WI, ne . s.,hns..ccal to Mr.. Ed.
Chambers Smith, who was appointed
special master by Judge Purnell, at an
early date. The many and intricate legal
questions will be unraveled before the
sale Of the property in October. Judge
Purnell will hear the counsel OF both
PARTIES on one Of the motions again this
afternoon.
STATE UNIvERSITY.-The Uni
yeristy of North Carolina will begin it's
fall term next Monday. Raleigh will be
well represented both in number and IN
quality. Raleigh never falls back. in the
latter. These are the young men VINO
went up yesterday: Messrs. William II.
IA. Smith, Kemp Lewis, John Hinsdale,
William Battle and Albert Root. 1t
would be difficult to find five finer young
men anywhere; they will reflect credit
on the University and their native city.
MISUNDERSTANDING Arabs
were on board the S. A. l.. train going
south yesterday. This reporter interview
cd them for few moments. They could
sneak English well enough to carry on a
broken conversation. They left Arabia
nearly three years ago and have been
living in New York for the past two years
and are traders or merchants. Ihey
were bound for Galveston, Texas, where
thew will open business. Their com
nlex;on was exceedingly dark, indeed al
most black, and their neatly trimmed
boards were of a soft, silky black. Inc!
,yera rather small, neater in their ap
nearance than most foreigners, and theil
ewes showed that they were men of intel
ligence. All three of them were Moham
medans.