The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-26

temperature 10; mean temperature 81;
rainfall @ inches (for "a hours)
The following table gives data for Sc
lected stations at 8 p. m. yesterday:
Washington ........,.,....... ~
New York ................. no ,
Chicago ...,........ .'..'''''.'' w
New Orleans ............... 40
st. Louis .............' '..''.'.. -
Atlanta ................... -
CITY ITEMS.
The engineers win give one of their old
fashioned basket picnics to Littleton ON
the 10Th of July They expect to carry
fifteen coaches filed.
The work of removing and reftting
the old buildings, preparatory to the
erection of the new Church of the Good
Shepherd has been commenced.
The young ladies' who will present
the Red Cross flag to the Hospital
Corps of the Second regiment, desire
to thank Mr. Sherwood Higgs for the
promptness with which he ordered it
for them.
Sheriff A. b. Suttle. of Cleveland
county, yesterday brought William
Snearr to the penitentiary, whose SEN
tence. was announced in these columns,
was commuted to life Imprisonment by
the Governor.
Chapter No. A of st. NIary's Guild
will give series of living pictures after
Charles Dana Gibson ut Metropolitan
Hall Thursday night A number of
Raleigh's best known citizens will take
part in the exercises.
r. FL. Hackney, who is getting up 4
c0lored company here to join the Third
Regiment (colored) volunteers. has 50
men on his roll who say they will go
with him. He has been elected cap
tain of the company.
Webster's Weekly says that Sergeant
Courts, who is at Raleigh getting re-
cruits for the First Regiment, has the
promise of ten or twelve men. He has
so far only reported one recruit to Lieut.
Christian at headquarters.
W. e. Jones had on exhibition in his
window yesterday miniature battleship
Maine. made by II. A. Sutton, a young
man of this city. 1t is an exact repro
duction of the i'll fated Maine, and is n
fine piece of workmanship. Young SUIT
ton was six days in making the ship
The road law was revised and re-
printed in February and the proper au-
thorities throughout the ninety-six coun-
ties of the State were asked how many
copies were needed for their county. Up
to date there are thirty counties that
have fai ed to respond. so it is pre-
sumed they need no State road law, bur
have one of their own making.
Miss Mary Pescud, who has been APP
pointed missionary to Brazil by the Wo-
mems Foreign Mission Board, will leave
Raleigh for her post of duty Wednes-
day. A reception will be given he:
Monday night by the Young Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society. in the Sun
day school room Of Edenton Street
Methodist church. The congregation
and friends are invited to attend.
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On Friday night, July 1st. a delightful
trolley ride will be given by the young
trolley of st. Mary's Guild No. q, of this
city. The ears will be filled with the
young beauty and chivalry OF our town,
and it will be moonlight night. The
young people who have u liking for hay
rides viii be specially accommodated in
one of the cars. 1t is hoped that the
officers in camp will relent and permit
the gallant soldier boys to spend an en-
joyable evening with their lovely friends
in the Capital City. Several hours of
the best riding in the best cars for a
nominal sum. Get ready for Friday
night
Adjutant David Clark of the Second
Battalion, speaks Spanish. having stud
led it for the last twelve months at Cor
nell University under a Cuban and Il
will be useful when the regiment gets
10 Cuba or Porto Rico. But he Is prob
ably the only man in the regiment who
can speak that language. And just
here, in view of the almost certain an
nexation Of Cuba. Porto Rico and the
Philippines, would it not pay our North
Carolina high schols and colleges to sub
stitute Spanish for French or German
The two latter have no practical value,
whereas with peace there will be n
rush of young men to the islands and
knowledge of Spanish will be indis-
pensable. Besides with the increased
commercial intercourse all large bust
ness houses in our cities will need clerks
who are able to write and read Spanish
and talk it fuently.
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