The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-02

Matinee this afternoon ait o'clock.
Price. % cents for any seat.
The Georgia Minstrels will appear
at the Academy of Music Monday nighr
December 4th. Reserved seats now OH
sale.
One route for the Raleigh and Eastern
Railway has been surveyed. 1t is %
miles long. Another route is now being
surveyed.
Work ON the museum annex has been,
for some reason, suspended. 1t is prob
able that it will not be finished in the
time expected.
A telegram received here yesterday
from Washington, N c., announced that
Mrs. Bryan Grimes was thought to be
dying. Father Price and Father O'Brien,
of the Catholic church, went down on
the morning train to attend her bedside.
The last presentation of Chimes of
Normandy will be at the Academy of
Music this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Re
member, the proceeds go to the Hospital
and the opera is conducted under the
auspices of the Ladies Hospital Aid So
ciety. Give them good house.
The Texas correspondent of the Insur
ance Herald urges that Texas pass a
law modelled after the new insurance
act of North Carolina. He attributes
the reduction i'm rates i'll this State to
the passage of the law and the cutting
off of underground insurance.
Died, in Richmond, Va, at o'clock
on Sunday morning the 26th, instant,
at the home of her brother-in-law, Gen
eraI f. III. Cameron, No. 80 West
Franklin street, Miss Natelie Il. Wea-
yer, daughter of the late Captain Leroy
G. and Mrs Marguerite LIE Grand Wea-
yer, Of Selma, Ala.
The decision of the judges in the
Wake Forest-Trinity Thanksgiving de-
bate is generally endorsed. Everybody
who heard the debate was delighted
with the effort of both sides, but it
seems to be the general opinion that
Wake Forest got rather the best of it
and should have received the cup, as it
did.
Samples of the various brands of fer
tilizers to be shipped into the State for
the spring sales are being received at
the Department of Agriculture. These
samples are labelled and FLED away, so
that in case of complaint as to any par
ticIlar brand the sample can be am
alyzed to compare with the article on the
market.
Work ON the Corporation Commission
room was finished yesterday, and it is
now one of the handsomest of the public
offices. The room has been doubled in
size, a new carpet put down, a platform
constructed for the Commissioners and
some handsome furniture added. Clerk
Brown supervised the work, and it was
well done accordingly.
Keeper of the Market McRary yester-
day condemned another COW and had it
carried off by the city garbage wagons.
as unfit for use. The COW was the prop
erty of w. H. Morris. 1t had been bad
" beaten up before it was killed and the
meat was unfit for use after being slaugh-
tered The COW was driven here from
Franklin county and was beaten ON the
way by the driver.
Mr.. Frank p Williamson is now AT
Manila. He arrived there October 2Ist.
He has gone to the Philippines to deye1-
op the cocoanut oil business. The
method of getting out this oil is now
very crude and Mr.. Williamson, with |
another young man, has taken machin-
cry to Manila which he will put in |
factory and operate. He expects to make |
a fortune in this business.
There was perhaps never before such /
a crowd in the Academy of Music as
gathered there Thanksgiving evening 10
hear the Wake Forest-Trinity debate. /
Every inch of space in the building was
filed with people and still hundreds had |
to go away without so much even
as getting a peep in at the door. If /
these debates are to be continued there |
should be a larger auditorium provided |