The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-19
CITY lIEMS.

There will he meeting Of st. limo
thy's Guild on Thursday tomorrow
afternoon at : o'clock. ut Mrs Annie
Parkers'.
Il man convicted Of horse stealing was
Yesterday brought to the penitentiary.
He is from MeckIenburg county and gets
five years.
This evening a bal poudre will he
given by the young ladies of Raleigh, 10
the young men. in the dance hall in The
Henry building.
The Blind Band will furnish mgsic
for the reception to be given at the
parish rooms of the Church of the Good
Shepherd church tonight.
Good days for farm work these. and
the farmers are in fine spirits. even
though they are much behind on ac-
count of the earlier bad weather.
The store on Fayetteville street. be-
tween the Baptist Mission rooms anG
the Mechanics Dime Savings Bank is
being remodelled and much improved
State Treasurer Worth says he VIII
lend the $4,000 needed for the criminal
insane if the oGvernor's Council and the
Attorney General will recommend It.
Governor Russell yestc rday commits
stoned Col. A. b. Andrews, Col. J. s.
Carr. Capt. J. A. Ramsay. w. C. Stron-
ach directors for the North Carolina Sol
tiers' Home.
The executive committee of the Teach
ers Assembly has opened negotiations
with DR.. Talmage with view 70 get
ting him to preach at the Assembly It
AIorehead this summer.
just exactly one hundred insurance
companies have been licensed under the
new insurance law. Fifty more have
applied for license. No company has
entered any protest against the law.
Mr.. Emory. who is the contractor for
the new Church of the Good Shepherd.
has been called to Vermont by the Sc
rious illness of his mother, hence the
work OH the foundation for the new
church is delayed.
The infant class of the Church of the
Good Shepherd will give a reception in
the parish rooms this evening from to
10 O'clock. Admission. adults, Is cents;
children, 10 cents. Admission price enti-
ties to ice cream and cake.
The delegation appointed to represent
this city at the Bankers and Prospectors'
Inf lnct
Pines to he present at the opening of
the session. Governor Russell will go
tomorrow afternoon and deliver an
address on Thursday
DIR. A. O. Jones has broken the vac
chatting record. On Monday from 10
10 o'clock he vaccinated and took the
names and addresses of 226 persons, by
going from house to house. The largest
number vaccinated in any one day up
to that time was 125.
Another large crowd filled the Tabcr-
macle Baptist church last night TO hear
Rev. Mr.. Vann. He preached strong
and eloquent sermon from the text.
Christ Jesus came into the world to
seek and to save that which was lost
The Auditor yesterday received from
Mr.. Frank L. Osborne small reminder
of very unpleasant episode in the
last Legislature. 1t was Il package Of
81 Notwithstanding from so cents to
S37.50-expenses for the Wilson inves-
tigation.
There was a rumor here Monday that
Mrs. Shaw. wife of Mr.. Robert a.
Shaw. who was killed in Portsmouth
Sunday. had died from the shock This
was an error Yesterdays Virginian said :.
Mrs. Shaw, the wife Of the deceased,
is in a very serious condition, owing to
the severe shock of the sudden death
of her husband"
The State Treasurer rules that the
privilege tax imposed on dispensaries
should go to the school fund of the
county in which the dispensary is located
and not into the State Treasury Mr..
Worth Says he is certain this was :hc
disposition the Legislature intended 10
make of the tax.