The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-26
CITY IN BRIEF.

The Seaboard Air Line is selling tick
cts to the Summer School at Wake For
est and return for one fare, round trip.
One Raleigh taxpayer yesterday gave
in $4,000 salary. On Wednesday an
other taxpayer gave in S21 900 money on
hand, So, 900 solvent credits.
The Seaboard Air Line has reduced
freight rates twenty-five cents on each
bale of cotton. and the prospects are
good for further reductions to be made
in the rates on other raw materials.
In this mornings News and Observer
Mr.. S. D. Holmes, of Goldsboro. adver-
tises for information of two youths, one
white and one colored, and also for a
mule and buggy stolen by them from
him June 10th.
The next Agricultural Department Bull
letin will be issued next week-probabiy
Tuesday or Wednesday. 1t is the first
one gotten out by the new officials. and
will comprise twelve pages. The normal
size is eight pages.
The license tax on lawyers, doctors and
dentists was due June /. Only about
half of them have paid. Under the new
Revenue Act the sheriff will be COM
PEELED to hand the delinquent list to the
Judge at the next term of court, July l..
The Secretary of State is now certain
that he will be able to put some Of the
laws of 1897 on sale. The counties con-
tue to send back books that they do not
need. Already there are about enough
to supply the four counties that failed TO
get their share.
The Secretary of State yesterday in
corporated the Claude Vernet Company
Ca farming land and fruit company, for
a term of thirty years, to do business IN
Wake county. The incorporators are
Edwin T. Bartram, Geo. c. Lyon and
r. G. S. McNeille.
The Mayor, like everybody else, is
finding it awful dull these days. One
little case was all that he had on the
docket esterday-Cornelius Parham, for
watering and washing a horse at a pub
lie pump. He plead ignorance of the
ordinance and was let go with warning
not to repeat the offence.
News reached here yesterday of the
death of Mrs. Edwards, wife of Col. l..
G.. Edwards, of Oxford She was about
65 years old. an admirable Christian wo-
man. loved by all who knew her. Her
maiden name was Cooper and she was a
native of Oxford. She passed away yes
terday morning.
The third quarterly meeting for this
year will be held at Edenton Stree Meth
odist church tomorrow. Rev. DIR. Yates,
presiding elder, will be present and
preach at both morning and evening SER
vices. At the conclusion of the morn
ing service the Holy Communion will
be administered.
Touching the loss of Maj. Burrage $
sword during the late war and his efforts
now to find who has it and get it back,
Mr.. w. G. Stronach, superintendent OF
the Soldiers Home, says he thinks Mr.
league, who Maj. Burrage thinks has the
sword, lives in Alamance county, and not
Alexander. league is an Alamance
name, and no doubt Mr.. Stronach is cor
rect.
President Alderman, of the University
of North Carolina, will go to Columbia,
s. c., June 80, to deliver the annual ad-
dress before the University of South
Carolina graduating class. The South
Carolinians are to be congratulated on
their good luck in securing DIR. Alderman
for this occasion. There is not a better
speaker, deeper thinker, or more polished
gentleman in North Carolina.