The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-27
CITY ITEMS.

total rainfall, 1.26.
CITY ITEMS.
Rose & Barrett have moved into their
handsome offices in the Tucker building.
The cold wave predicted by the wealth
err man came on schedule time yester-
day.
Mr.. Fl. H. McLendon, of the Wades-
boro bar, is visiting Mr.. Allen, assistant
State Chemist.
The hotels at Wrightsville have closed
for the season and most all the cottagers
have moved away.
Mr.. Guy l.. Bunch has accepted posi-
ton in the Portsmouth Navy Yard
and will shortly move there to live.
Mr.. Everard II. Baker has accepted
a position as book-keeper and collector
for the Standard Gas and Electric Com
pany.
The Seaboard's appeal in the Hygienic
in the Supreme court next Saturday,
at 10 o'clock.
The opening exercises of the Baptist
female University will begin this morn
ing at 10 o'clock. The public is cor
dially invited.
Mrs. Ship viii begin this week re-
hearsing a new opera which she will
present III the new opera house when it
is completed Virginian.
The military stores in the State arse
nal are being packed preparatory 20
moving the building from the Capital
Square, as directed by the last Legisla-
ture.
Railroad men say that the travel
North for the past week has been. very
heavy The cheap rates given for the
Dewey celebration is, they think, the
cause of it.
Deputy Sheriff Charles Reade yester
day brought a man named Holly to the
penitentiary here. Holly is from New
Jersey but he was convicted in paSquo-
tank county of forgery.
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Walter George Newman, Jr., first and
only son of Walter George Newman and
Leila Moore NewIman, aged s years and
9 months, died ait Edgemont, Somerset,
Va, September 10, 1899.
Mr.. G. b. Patterson, member of the
committee appointed to investigate the
penitentiary, was unable to be present
at the last session because of the Sc
rious illness of his sister.
Miss Bessie Sims has gone TO Raleigh
to spend few days with her brother
Mr.. Chalmers Sims, and from there she
goes to Kinston to teach in the graded
school. Concord Standard.
Mr.. John Howard, of Tarboro, has ac-
cepted position with Dobbin Il Fer
rail-. He is popular young man and
will prove valuable addition to the
clever employees of that popular house.
The Fish Commission case was argued
yesterday in the Supreme court. The
old commission was represented by Mac
Rae and Day and the new commission
by Simmons, Pou and Ward and W. b.
Rodman.
The storm here Monday night was
quite a severe one-much more severe.
in fact, than many supposed. The
velocity of the wind was thirty-six miles
an hour and one and a quarter inches
of rain fell.
Mr.. Percy Albright. manager of the
his Greensboro residence to Judge john
Gray Bynum Mr.. Albmght's family
will nave to Raleigh to live. A warm
welcome TO the capital awaits them.
An exciting fox chase was engaged in
by Mr.. s. A. Campbell and Il PARTY Of
friends yesterday morning near Mr..
Campbell's farm, about three miles from
the city. A fine gray fox eel: victim
to Mr.. CampbelPs splendid pack of
hounds.
A Charlottesville (Va) paper an
nounces that Mr.. Samuel b. McPhee-
tiers, of this city, has been elected presi
dent of the law school at the University
of Virginia. This is a great honor com
ferred on Mr.. McPheeters and his
AiiNhho htat hNslihy toiS dibistlI
upon it.
Rev. DIR. Mabry, of Chadbourn, Co
lumbus county, comes here to take Rev.
Davis place as pastor of the colored
Presbyterian church. Davis goes to
Lumberton. DIR. Mabry is very highly
spoken of by those who know him. He
was for some time a professor at Biddle
University.
Captain James e. Lawton, superinten-
dent of the iron mines at Chapel Hill
and Ore HILL has found in the Chapel
Hill mine the sword of line officer in
the Confederate army. 1t is well pre-
served and he will present it to the State
Museum. This mine was worked dur
ing the war and it is supposed that
the sword was lost there then.
Alderman Brown Pegram, Of the Park
committee, says the public parks of the
city will be improved before the Fair.
The walks will be put in good condition
and covered with fine crushed gravel.
He will also have more rustics put
in Nash square to accommodate the
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