The news & observer., 1898-09-10
PERSONAL.

Mai. James w. Wilson passed here
spent yesterday in Raleigh.
Mrs. J. W. Atkinson, of Wilmington,
is visiting Mrs A. B. Andrews.
Miss Pattie Gee. of New York city,
is visiting at Mrs. r. G. Badgers.
Mr.. Charles D. Wildes has moved his
law office to the Pullen building.
Miss Mary Ashe =. benson has gone
to Opelika, Ala. on visit to relatives.
Miss NJ. e. Baxter, of Ridgeway, is
the guest of her brother at the Yarbo-
rough.
Mr.. Crawford Biggs, instructor in law
at the University, spent yesterday in
Raleigh.
Judge A. c. Avery, of Morganton, is
in the city, looking after some profes-
sional business.
Collector Duncan has gone to his home
in Beaufort to spend Sunday. He left
here quite unwell.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Wood, and Mast
er Philips Wood, of Edenton, are visit
ing relatives in Raleigh.
Mr.. Dempsy Wood. director of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad.
was in Raleigh yesterday.
DR.. d. III. Abbott yesterday left for
his home in Pamlico county. He will be
absent from the city several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Cowper, of Ports
mouth, Va, are in the city, visiting at
Mr.. Pulaski Cowper's, on Fayetteville
street.
Attorney General Walser is at the Var
boro. He is preparing his cases on the
Supreme court docket from the First
district
Mrs r. o. Burton and daughters re-
turned yesterday from the Western part
of the State, where they have been
spending the summer.
Mrs. George NJ. Crocker. of Mount
Clemens, Michigan, is visiting Mrs.
Charles M. Busbee. Mrs. Crocker is
an aunt of Mrs. Busbee.
Miss Elizabeth Taylor has returned
from Louisburg, accompanied by Miss
Lula Hawkins, who will visit Miss Tay-
lor at her home on Blount street
Maj. James w. Wilson passeh here
yesterday afternoon en- route from Wei
don, where he has large manufacturing
interests, to his home in Morganton.
Mr.. Sam Martin, son of Maj. w. Fl.
Martin, who has been living for the
past several years in Waycross, Ga. is
home on a two weeks visit to his pa
rents.
Mr.. Stanly Faison, of the First North
Carolina regiment, and Mr.. Edward
BoylSin. of the Second North Carolina
regiment, left yesterday for their re-
spective commands.
Mr.. and Mrs Alfred Williams will
lz,:,. H..
street. They moved in yesterday. This
property has for sometime been leased to
Mr. J. c. l.. Harris, who has moved into
the adjoining residence, corner Fayette.
vile and Davie streets.
Mr.. J. p Edmundson, Of Johnston
county, was in Raleigh yesterday. and
desires us to extend his own and his
family's warm thanks to the good peo-
pie of Raleigh for their thoughtful kind
ness during the recent illness Of his son.
Mr.. John Edmundson, who died at Rex
hospital two weeks ago.
President Hobgood, of Oxford Female
Seminary, who was in Raleigh yester-
day, says that ut the beginning of the
second week of the school there are al
ready present more boarding students
than were ever present at any period in
the history of the school. He is in Raj
eigh giving a large order for furniture
to fit up additional rooms to meet the
demand of the growing patronage.
Mr.. John p. Kerr, of the Asheville
Citizen, was in Raleigh yesterday, re-
turning from the eastern part of the
State, where he has been to see for him
self something of the workings and the
effect of negro rule. While in that sec
tion Mr.. Carr wrote some interesting
and valuable letters to his paper. They
lay bare the fostering rottenness of tine
Republican administration in the eastern
counties of the State.