The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-21

THE WEATHER TODAY.
North Carolina: Fair Thursday and
Friday: fresh north to east winds be-
coming variable.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vicin-
fly to p. M: Fair; fresh north WINDS.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, 81; minimum
temperature, 81; mean temperature, A
total rainfall, 90.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The tobacco growers convention will
be held here on January 18th.
A subscription dance VIII be given
at Henry Hall Friday night.
The Wilbur Opera Company will be
Z here for a week during January.
Mr.. Eugene Barbee. has come to Raj
eigh to take position as telegraph oper-
ator with the Seaboard Air Line.
There has been remarkably little hog
cholera in the State this year. The re-
ports to the Board of Agriculture show
this.
A reception will be given this evening
at the Governors Mansion to the stu
dents in the various schools and colleges
of the city.
The advance agent of the Woodland
Warren Company, which will be at the
Academy of Music next week, is now
in the city billing his show.
1t is announced that two new engines
and several new passenger cars have
recently been bought for the A. & n. e..
Railroad, which is owned by the State.
Other improvements will be made.
The approaching marriage of Presi-
dent Charles f. Meserve of Shaw Uni
versity at Raleigh, and Miss Fanny j.
Philbrick, Of Wateryille, Maine, is an
nounced.
Mr.. G. G. Mcdonald says the report
that he is candidate for mayor is I'M
true. He says he is not only not now a
candidate, but he will not be one so long
as Mayor Powell is in the field for re
election.
at the Treasurers office yesterday
S5.536 was paid out as pensions to Cnn-
federate soldiers. Payment of pens ens
began on the 18th instant and about
half this amount has been paid out on
preceding days.
Peace Institute will close today at
o'clock for the holidays. The session
viii begin again on January 18th. All
the boarding pupils except two viii eth
er go home or visit those who do go
home.
The walters of the Carrollton Hotel
will give swell cake walk at the hotel
on Friday night at nine o'clock. Every
body invited. No admission. Ernest
Jones, who won the prize at the cake
walk at Morehead last summer, viii
lead.
Because of Monroe's quarantine against
Portsmouth, on account of small pox
the Seaboard's train crews from Ports
mouth now stop here and return on thf
next train. Those from Monroe do like
wise. Hereafter the run of each crew
has been from Portsmouth to Monroe
and return.
At a recent meeting of the L. OBJ
Branch Camp of Confederate veterans
request was made by the camp for por
traits of its two past-comnanders, Mr.
3. F. Park and DR. p. t. Hines. anC
OF Major General Julian S. Carr ant
Brigadier General W. L. London, of th'
North Carolina Veterans Association
These were desired for the purpose o.
hanging them in the camps new hall
The picture Of Mr.. Park has already beer
furnished DR.. Hines Will be ready in {
few days; and Gen. Carr and Gen. Lon
don have promised theirs in the near fu
tupe.
a number of students from North ant
South Carolina attending the Woman!
College at Baltimore have organized
themselves into the carolina Club
with Miss Nell Orc McColl, 1901. Ben
nettsviIle, S. c., as president, and Mis-
Lena James Hawks, 1900, formerly o.
North Carolina, but now of Baltimore
as secretary and treasurer. The Other
members are: Misses Lillia Lynn Nor
ton, 1900, Tarboro, n. c.; Nettie Olivif
johnston, l3U%, llCtleIOn, N. VI, Duulc'
Hin, 1903, Anderson, S. c.; Josie Mac
Swain, 1908, Gross Hill, n. c., and Ger
trude Jones, 1908, South Carolina.
I'm the Supreme court here this week
the appeal of J. j. Jefferson, white man
convicted of numbering Capt. Calvin
Barnes, near Wilson last fall, was argued
jefferson anlbnshed Barnes and shot him
as he sat in his buggy with his two little
sons. As he was dying Barnes said to
one Of his sons: Ned, have Jefferson
arrested" The lower court promptly
convicted Jefferson and sentenced hsm to
death, but he asked for new trial
There is a new point in this case, the
Attorney General says. this being wheth
er a proof of this dying declaration Of
the father to the son is competent. The
Attorney General argued that it was
direct evidence of Jefferson's guilt ano
put it upon the ground of motive. fol
Jefferson and Barnes had had words OF
the morning Of the day of the murder.