The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
CITY ITEMS.

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The Hook and Ladder Fire Company
will give it's barbecue next Tuesday.
Reserve seats for Al. G. Fields Min
strels will be ON sale Friday morning
at 9 o'clock at Bobbitt Wynne drug
store.
A letter from DIR. w r. Capehart,
BERTHE county, says: The fodder in
this section is cut 20 per cent by the
storm
Letters of administration were issued
yesterday to w. l.. Bledsoe as admins
traitor on the estates of John Nj. Bled-
soc and Lacey n. Bledsoe.
Beyond all question the prettiest coll
lection of shade trees III the city is ON
the lawn in the rear of the postofhce
building They are naples, planted there
many years ago.
Lieutenant Settle, the recruiting ofh-
Ger on duty here, says he will enlist
a larger number of volunteers for ser
vice in the Philippines this month than
he did last month.
None of the convicts who escaped from
the penitentiary Monday morning have
yet been caught. They are all shrewd,
desperate fellows and their capture rs
now very improbable.
An excursion was run from here
Yesterday to Richmond over the Sea-
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Raleigh people took advantage of it to
visit Virginia's capital city.
1t is stated here that DIR. p. L. Muir
ply, superintendent of the Insane Asy
lrm at Morganton, contemplates resign
ing that position to take charge of a
private sanitarillm at AshevilIe.
1t is stated that the Dismal Swamp
Canal, extending from Portsmouth to
South Mills, n. c., is now open to navi-
CATION. The owners of the canal made
the first trip over it Monday and Tues
day.
A letter from North Carolina soldier
at Camp Meade says the plan now is
for the ten regiments of volunteers re-
Gently raised for service in the Philip
pines to be ON their way TO reinforce
Otis by the last of October.
In most of the counties of the State
there seems to be great activity by both
sides in the railroad tax Injunction
case, getting up affdavits or assessors
and others as to the valuation of prop
erty. 1t appears, however, that neither
side has done anything in Wake.
At a meeting of the spruce lumber
manufacturers, held in Boston last week,
it was agreed to make a substantial
raise in prices all along the line. 1t
was formally voted to advance 81 all
down the list, starting with SIS for 10
and 12-inch dimension, SIT for 9-inch
and under, based on lengths of not over
% feet.
Second Lieutenant Holmes Conrad,
formerly of the Second North Carolina
regiment, but now of the 29th regiment
United States volunteers, mas been or
dered back to Fort Mcpherson, from
Asheyille where he has been on recruit
ing duty. The regiment already has
surplus of men and the wedding out
process will soon begin.
Mr.. w. G. Pool, of Pasquotank coun-
ty, was here yesterday. He said the
storm last week practically destroyed
several cottages at Mays Head and that
the water driven oy tic, winds cut Il big
ravine through the sand from the ocean
across to the sound. Al those living
in cottages were compelled 10 leave them
and go to the hotel.
During the war with Spain the Gov
ernmept bought the ferry steamer Gov
erlor Russell from the city of Boston
for service in Boston Harbor. Since
the war the vessel has been at Norfolk
Recently, however, the city of Boston
has bought back the vessel and it
will be taken again to Boston The as
sessed valuation of the steamer is $685.
900.
News comes from Richmond of the
death there Monday of Mrs. Thomas
b. Floyd She died from an overdose
of morphine, which it is believed was
taken with suicidal intent. The woman's
husband was i'll when she took the
drug. Mrs. Floyd was a daughter Of
Mr. Henry, of Nashville, n. c.. and
Henry.
What's the object of the town clock,
anyway? 1t commonly supposed that it
is here TO keep time that passersby may
at glance tell the hour. But it doesn' L
do that For a long time now it hasn't
been accurate. and it seems to be by
accident if it happens to be right The
oid-time piece needs the attention of the
official whose duty it is to keep it in
order.
The many friends Of Mr.. Charlie Ben
nett are glad to see him in the city. Mr..
Bennett is an old Atlanta boy, who has
made good strides in the railroad bust
ness. He is now located ut Raleigh,
\. c., as chief clerk to the superinten-
dent of the third division of the Sea-
board Air Line. He is spending his
vacation with his parents on Crew
street.-Atlanta Journal
The answer of J. A. Haywood in tho
action brought by Chas. Root, executor
of the late Bennett Smedos, for the sale
of the NeuSp Misunderstanding Camunuy'