The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-26
CITY ITEMS.

CITY ITEMS.
The little girl of Mr. ]. II. Harris,
who lives on Martin straer, between
Salisbury and Mcdowell streets, has
diptheria.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
received letters complaining of a small
bug that is destroying the fodder in
some sections.
The body of Mrs. Phrone Moore, wife
of Mr.. Henry Moore, was brought here
yesterday from Newbern for burial
She died Thursday.
On September 18th there will be an
excursion to Warrenton and return.
Fare for the round trip will be $1.00
for adults and 80 cents for children.
Jim Beckwith, who was sometime ago
sent to the roads for thirty days for
assault, yesterday finished his term.
He was taken before the mayor and
given another thirty days FOR resisting
the officers.
Mr.. C. d. Crouch, of Salem, is visit
ing in the city. Mr.. Crouch is a young
minister of the Moravian church, and
has consented to fill the pulpit of the
Christian church tomorrow at IL a. m.
and s p. m.
Edward Lassiter, negro who was
sentenced to be hanged in Granville
county for burglary, was yesterday
brought here to the penitentiary, the
Governor having committed his sentence
to life Imprisonment.
The Secretary of State yesterday re-
ceived the first installment of the l..4th
volume Supreme Court Reports. They
will be distributed among the judges
and solicitors 1T will BE- several days
yet before any will be put on sale.
The transcript of the record n the
HYGIENE Plate Ice Company damage
suit was yesterday made out by the
clerk of court and sent up on appeal TO
the Supreme court.
Postmaster Bailey has given every one
of the employees in his office fifteen days
each vacation. This he accomplished
without interference with the service in
his office by doing their work him
self.
Next Thursday there will be rail
road celebration at Angler, terminus of
the Cape Fear and Northern Railway.
An excursion train will be run from
here, leaving Union depot at S:45 and
returning at O'clock.
A special communication of the Grand
Lodge of Masons will be held at States
vile on next Tuesday Goth for the
purpose of laying the corner stone OF the
new court house of Iredell county. Sew
eral Raleigh Masons will attend.
There is company of people in Davie
county, it is said, who make their home
in covered wagons and live by trading
horses. There is quite a number of
men, women and children in the COM
pany. They are thought to be gypsies.
Mr.. James d. Cottrell, of billiard, Mo-,
writes to Secretary of State Thompson
for information concerning one Edward
Cottrell. who is supposed to be in this
State and who has fallen heir to a
legacy in Missouri. Dr. Thompson was
uAdDlt W lufulSu lup ut-
sired.
A big farmers institute will be held
ut Tarboro on Thursday and Friday,
September IA and 18th under the aus
pieces of the Progressive Association of
Edgecombe. Commissioner Patterson
and others will address the meetings.
Those who attend the institute will be
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Mr.. n. w. Newman has returned from
a visit to Hyde county. During the
storm he was on the steamer ''Tar
River in Pamlico sound. He had to
stay on the steamer three days. 1t was
pretty rough. but he suffered little dis
comfort. Mr.. Newman says that rice
is good but the fodder is stripped off
the corn and the corn crop will be less
than half.
The mayor yesterday introduced
new method of trying cases. He al
lowed two negro women of bad char
acter, Rosa Belle Gotten and Mary
Lee Bremby, who were charged with
cursing and disorder ON the street in
East Raleigh to appear by proxy and
submit. Their proxy was Jim Hamlin
No special investigation or the case
was made.
Mr.. Frank Thompson and family, of
Onslow county, are in the city. the
guests of his brother. DR.. Cyrus
Thompson. They will be here 70. some
time. Mr.. Thompson expects an I'M
healthy season in his section. The
storm there was very severe, he says,
and the whole face of the earth was
covered with water. He expects much
malaria and fever to result from it.
CAPTURED.
A living Tape Worm or Parasite, "A
feet in length, was removed from the
11-yeaf-old daughter of Mr.. l.. A.