The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

There is more gold in circulation here
now than has been known in many years.
A Christmas tree was gwen the boys
at the Catholic Orphanage yesterday af-
ternoon.
The penitentiary convicts gave min
strel performance the afternoon Of
Christmas Day.
The school committee of Raleigh town
ship is called to meet this afternoon at
4 O'Clock in the Mayors office.
The Police committee of the board OF
aldermen meets today at Il o'clock to
pass on applications for liquor license.
AT 6 o'clock the full board meets to take
action ON the committees report.
An illicit distillery, said to be the prop
erty of Levy Creech, was captured Sat
urday morning, four miles from Selma.
lit was a 20 gallon juicery. Three hun
dred gallons of beer were destroyed.
The roof is being put on the Olivia
Raney Library building. As the work
ton of this building has progressed slow
Iy When completed it will be a fine
structure.
At a meeting of the trustees of the
State Normal School of Georgia, held at
Athens on Tuesday, DR.. Eugene G..
Branson, formerly of this city, was re-
elected to the chair of pedagogy with
salary of $4,000.
A refusal to pay 81 sanitary license.
yesterday cost Willis Dunn and Weldon
Sledge, two negroes, S5.25 each. They
We're arraigned before the mayor and
made to pay the 81 license and fined
S4.23 for having refused to pay it before.
A Christmas entertainment will be
given tomorrow evening in the First Bap-
fist Sunday school room. All members
of the Sunday school and their parents
are invited. The size of the room will
not permit an invitation to the general
public.
A marriage took place in the office OF
the register of deeds yesterday, Deputy
Clerk Fort officiating. The contracting
parties We're William Hinton and Emma
Williams, two negroes from Shotwell,
this county. The bride was 36 years old
and the groom y.
A negro woman, whose son was in tbs
guard house ON a charge of larceny, the
other day sent the mayor a message by
another son, asking that the culpsit be
sent to the penitentiary for hye years
The boy, she said, was a very bad fel-
low, and she was anxious to re. rid Of
him.
Federal court meets here again next
Tuesday. The trial of Hargett, Rocky
! Mounts negro postmaster, who is charg-
ed with embezzlement of funds. is set
for Tuesday, and on Thursday, Marshall,
the lawyer from Wilmington charged
with counterfeiting, will be tried.
The City Council of Columbia. S. c..
has passed an ordinance requiring tele-
phone poles to be removed from Main
street. This is done because they are
disfguring and dangerous. What q
blessing it would be if Raleigh had such
a city council! Here the poles are not
even painted, much less ordered removed
Why lis the ordinance in regard to
down-drains from buildings not enforced
1t was passed more than two months
ago. Take, for instance Martin street
from Wilmington to Blount street. 1t is
jlst one block. In this short distance
there are more than dozen down
drains spouting their water upon thu
sidewalk, so that a pedestrian can hard
ly pass along there during a rain.
Wednesday afternoon in Durham Miss
Helen V. Harp, of Durham, was unitet
in marriage to Mr.. A. M. Sorrell, OF
Flint, Wake county, Rey. w. Fl. Chappe
officiating. Among the friends of The
bride and groomtwho Were present We're
Dr. t. r. Sorrell, Miss Hattie Lynn, Mr.
Luther Sorrel and Miss Pearl Sorrcll
Immediately after the ceremony the hap
by couple left for the home of Mr.
Adolplms Sorrefi, father of the groom
where a reception was given them by
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