The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-15
CITY ITEMS.

CITY ITEMS.
The State Library trustees have re-
Gently sold 500 worth of Colonial Rec
ords.
Harry Debnam, the negro driver mere
who went crazy on the streets last Week.
was Sunday morning taken to the Goids-
boro asylum.
The contract for the dining room and
he'd room furniture for the Baptist Wo-
mans College has been awarded TO the
Rnvall and Borden Furniture Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert G. Strong and
children returned yesterday from Oxford,
where Mrs. Strong and children nave
been spending the summer.
The city street improvement bonds
and township school bonds We're sold 4
month ago but the purchaser has net
vet taken them and paid In the money.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo S. Baker, Of
Iouisburg. are in the city visiting at
Mr.. Telfair Halls on Fayetteville street.
Mr.. Baker reports fine crops in Franklin
and that the Lousburg tobacco ~ flour
fishing.
There will be something novel at 81.
panls "A. NJ. X. church tonight. 1T will
he an old folks concert-real old folks,
not young folks made up to look old. Inc
entertainment is given for the purpose
of raising money for church purposes
and should be literally patrondzed.
Yesterday G.. w. Grady, the old Con-
federate veteran who peddles pencils,
etc. on the streets here, was sent to the
roads by Magistrate Watts for failure to
nay costs. Grady spent the night IN
jail and will be taken to the roads this
morning.
Two new convicts-John Boyette and
John Perry-were received yesterday at
the penitentiary from New Hanover
county. Both. are negroes, and both
have served terms in the penitentlary De-
fore. One gets ten years for larceny
and the other was sentenced for lie ior
burglary.
There was almost a cloud burst about
four miles north of here late yesterday
afternoon. The rain CAME down IN
such torrents as to flood fields and roads
and people in private conveyance had 10
stop their vehicles in the road to wait
for the storm to abate in its fury. There
was no rain here.
An excursion train will this morning
take the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday
School TO Occoneechee for a days out
ing and a basket picnic. The train
leaves Union depot at 7:30 o'clock, and
returning leaves Occoneechee at 6:3O.
The fare round trip, for grown persons
not members Of the school is Is cents,
children 30 cents.
The Central Manufacturing Company
was yesterday incorporated by the Sec
rotary OF State, with a capital stock Of
$4,000 to $4,000. It's principal office
shall be in Lexington, Davidson county,
and its business shall be the manufac
ture of any and all articles made OF
wood with privilege of buying and sell
ing real estate The incorporators are
G. w. Montcastle, w. G. Perry and
j. f. Ward.
An inquisition of lunacy was held
Sunday and VIM. r. Chambers, of this
city, was adjudged insane, and yester
day he was sent to the asylum. He has
no memory whatever and is afflicted
with melancholia in its most dangerous
form. Chambers is from the western
part of the State, though he has been
at work in Raleigh for the past two
years. Until recently he was an attend
ant at the asylum.
Thomas Skinner LeTIew, age three
months and eleven days, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Il. LeHew, died at o'clock
Saturday evening at their home on
Johnson street. The funeral was held
from the house Sunday afternoon at $50
o'clock. The interment was in lakewood
cemetery. Service was conducted by
DR. Thomas e. Skinner, for whom the
little boy was named The pall-bearers
were Messrs Cad Scarlet, w. H.
Smith, Hunter Lawrence and Frank
Moore.
Mr.. Judson Peele, principal of Raj
eigh's Commercial University has just
ISSUED a neat little pamphlet concerning
the work of the University. Besides Civ
ing facts about business education, the
cost of tuition, board, ETC.. it prints some
very fattering testimonials from stu
dents who have taken the course and are
now reaping the benefit in the commer-
cial world. Students are coming in from
all parts of the State, and Mr.. Peele is