The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-17
CITY IIEMS.

ClII lIEWS.
A runaway match is on tap for today.
Six prisoners convicted at this court
were sent out to the roads yesterday
evening.
Several handsome laboratory desks
We're put in at the A. and Nj. College
yesterday.
Inc gallows on which Booker will be
executed Thursday, was erected ester
day. 1t is on the west side of the jail.
The city steam roller tried to resume
work yesterday on North Blount street,
but the rain knocked it out early in the
game.
The Register of Deeds yesterday is
sued marriage licenses to Alonzo Il.
Johnson and Katie Banks, and Haywood
Bunch and Rhoda Hinton.
The new firm of Boylan, Pearce & Co.
will begin to receive their stock on the
18th prox They will occupy the store
now occupied by Mr.. W. q. Jones.
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Quite ~ number of parties from
neighboring towns are sending in
money to Manager Rivers for reserv-
ed seat tickets to Sousa's band, which
plays here at the Academy of Music on
the 10Th.
The dead body of Bette West was
sent down to Louisburg yesterday. 1t
was from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bal
timore, where the patient had gone for
treatment.
The Isaac Pitman Shorthand Club will
meet this evening at 7:30 O'clock i'm the
office of Misses Ellington and Robson.
1t is requested that every member be
present. Election of officers.
Grand Secretary B. I'll. Woodell has
received a petition from parties in Shell
by who want to establish a lodge of
Odd Fellows. The petition will be con-
sidered and the lodge instituted at an
early date.
The accounts of the Cold STORAGE Com
pany which failed sveral months ago.
were sold at public auction by r. G.
Rivers, trustee. The accounts amounted
Mr.. Pearce Howell for $50.
Major Davis, acting adjutant general,
has received the flag of the Second North
Carolina regiment which was taken at
Richmond. The flag is in a splendid
state of preservation and will be kept in
the office of the adjutant general.
The concert which was to have been
given by Peace Institute. complimentary
to the General Assembly, last Friday,
and which was postponed on account of
the inclement weather, will be given
next Friday night.
There will be a meeting of the Con-
federate Bazaar Association this morn
ing at IL o'clock in the Supreme court
building. 1t is earnestly desired that
there be full attendance. Chairmen
of committees are requested to either be
present or send in their reports.
A party from Norfolk, Va, yesterday
stated that while there were a number
of cases of small pox in that city. yet
it was of a mild type, and did not leave
the patients who recovered marked as is
usual in small pox cases. The peo-
ever, very rapidly.
The Governors communication to the
Legislature, setting forth his reasons for
removing Maj. J. w. and s. Ohio Will
son as Railroad Commissioners, was not
transmitted to that body yesterday, as
intended, owing to the early adjournment
of the Senate. 1t will be sent to the
General Assembly today.
Plans and specifications for a footway
from the court room to the second story
of the jail are now in the possession of
Mr.. w. G. McMackin. The structure
Will be of iron and will be built at once
under the supervision of Mr.. McMackin.
1t will be an enclosed structure and will
cost between $500 and $500.
The J. c. Stevenson Company, of Will
mington, was yesterday Incorporated by
the Secretary of State. The capital
stock is placed at $4,000 and the bust
ness proposed is the carrying on of
wholesale grocery and export business.
The incorporators are J. G. Stevenson,
Elizabeth Stevenson and j. M. Steven
son.
A piece of the Spanish flag which
foated over Moro Castle until noon of
January LIST was placed in the State mu-
scum yesterday, through the courtesy of
Col. +. A. ODDS. This was sent to the
Colonel by Mr. r. III. Cowan, of this
State. A Cuban machete is also on its
way from the same gentleman and will
be placed in the museum upon its ar
rival.
Company yesterday elected the foI~
lowing directors: A. #. Page, A. Al
Thompson. J. A. Mills, d. f. Everitt.
J. r. Chamberlain, c.. j. Hunter. w.