The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-16

the B0bbltt- WY nne Drug Company is
being torn up and handsome blue and
white thing will be substituted.
The students of Peace Institute con-
tinue to come in on every train. The
opening has been a splendid one and NJ.
Dinwiddie expects to have the house
full.
An excursion from Charlotte to Nor
folk was run Tuesday. Several from
Raleigh went One gentleman COM
plains that negroes and white people
We're crowded into the same cars.
DIR. Scruggs says the roof of the
hospital building for women at the
Pigford Sanitarium, Southern Pines, is
being constructed. This is the third
building which has been erected at the
sanitarium.
The work of putting new scenery in
the Academy of Music was finished yes
terday. The appearance of the stage
is greatly improved. Hypnotist Lee,
who comes ON the 10Th instant, will be
the next attraction.
The Primitive Baptists will hold SER
vices at the Soldiers Home today and
Sunday at eleven o'clock. Services con-
Quoted by the pastor, Elder Z. ID. Gold,
of Wilson. will conduct the services
Sunday night, beginning at eight o'clock.
Judge Womack went down to Pitts
boro yesterday to attend Chatham court,
which begins next week. Judge Wo-
mack represents the Democratic school
commissioners of the county in the suit
to obtain possession of their offices from
the Fusionists, who refuse to yield. The
case will be called at this term.
Prof. J. B. Carlyle, of Wake Forest,
passed through yesterday to Buie's
Creek, where he made an educational
address last night. From there he goes
to Fayetteville, where he speaks today.
He reports 237 boys at Wake Forest
College, the largest number in its history
at like period of the school year.
A young son of DR.. J. I. Gibbs had
the misfortune one day last week. while
playing, to wound himself severely with
nail The accident came near being
a serious one as the nail penetrated al
most to the heart. We are glad to learn
that no serious consequences are appre-
hended.- Raleigh Christian Advocate.
Superintendent Mebane yesterday re-
ceived a letter from Senior Solano Lopez,
of Asuncion, Paraguay. Senior Lopez
explains that he has been commissioned
by his Government to study the Ameri-
can school system, particularly in refer
ence to primary and normal work, and
wants school publications throwing light
upon the matter. They will be sent him
as recommended by the American con-
sui. The letter was mailed on June 20,
and has just arrived.
President II. p. Hobgood, Of Oxford
Female Seminary, came in yesterday af
ternoon. He reports that the seminary is
having the most prosperous year in its
history. there being 20 boarders in the
building at present-an increase of 20
per cert over last year. Prof. Hobgood
is here to buy an entire new outfit of
furniture for the building. 1t is also
his intention to put in a new equipment
Of apparatus in the scientific department
of the school.
Yesterday afternoon Durham Smith,
an aged white man, fell dead while
working at the turpentine still of Mr..
J. ID. Ballentine near Varina on Mr..
Mills railroad. Smith was about sew
enty years old and leaves wife and
ten or twelve children. Less than two
years ago Smith became a convert TO
Mormonism and since that time his
house has. been headquarters in that
section. There are some fifteen or
eighteen Mormons in that section of thu
county. The funeral of Smith viii
doubtless be the first Mormon funeral
held in the county.