The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-11


inches for twentyfour hours.
CITY INNS.
There will be services at Christ church
today tAscension Day ut II O'Clock.
Sheriff Page has commenced the col
lection of license taxes, which are now
due.
The regular monthly german of the
CAPITAL Club for May will be given to-
night
During the month of April there were
Is deaths in Raleigh-S white and 10
colored. There were 10 births-3 white
and IL colored.
AN the postal clerks have been given
fifteen days vacation this summer. with
ray. They are permitted to choose the
time for this vacation.
The Great Council of North Carolina,
lndependent Order of Red Men, VIII
meet in annual session here today. Many
delegates have already arrived.
The board of trustees of the Baptist
Female University are seeking to pur-
shade Miss Fannie e. Heck to become
Lady Principal Of the institution.
Next week there will begin a series of
meetings at the Baptist church in An
derson. S. c., under the management of
DIR. l.. G. Broughton, of Atlanta.
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: The annual convention of the Episco-
apl Diocese of North Carolina will con-
yenp at Tarboro on the 18th instant.
The Raleigh churches viii be represen-
ted. III E.G
The Raleigh Cotton mills has added
1890 spindles to its equipment. 1t is
one of the best paying mills i'll the
State and its stock now brings nearly
$1.20. a9sa
The Board of Agriculture is expected
to meet at an early date. though the
time has not yet been fxel. The ad-
journment was subject to the call Of the
chairman.
Twenty thousand dollars a spark is
pretty high rate for cinders.' says
the Charlotte News, commenting on
the verdict for the ice company iif
Wake court.
1.-THE Negro in the Spanish-American
War;" is the title of a book written by
f.. A. johnson. colored lawyer of this
city. He is author of the best history
Of the negro race ever written.
The meeting of st. Mary's Guild Of
the Church of the Good Shepherd has
been changed. and viii be held imme-
d;ately after service this morning in
the church instead of the afternoon.
Yesterdays Goldsboro Argus had this
item: "Mr. NJ. W. Croker of Raleigh.
representing the now renowned headache
and neuralgia cure. "Capudine," was in
the city to-day, on his rounds of the
wholesale trade"
Mr.. Thomas II. Briggs. of Raleigh. at
present a student in the Chicago Univer-
sity. has been offered a permanent APP
pointment of very desirable character in
the Princeton Yale school in connection
with that institution.
The Memorial Day orator at Whining
ton was Captain W. r. r. Bell. who
commanded company( Rutherfordton)
in the Second North Carolina regiment,
during the recent, war. He was also
a soldier in the Civil War.
JnffA
delivered at Wake Forest college by DR..
Walter A. Montgomery, Jr., has been
very highly complimented by those who
heard it, DIR. Montgomery returned
from Wake Forest yesterday.
1t is learned that the solicitors in some
sections of the State are getting after
delinquent tax-listers at lively rate.
They are finding that there are many
persons in the counties of their districts
who have not made returns of their
property for taxes.
News has been received here of the
death of Captain X. l.. Kirkland, at his
home at Lake Waccamaw, near Will
mington. Captain Kirkland was a broth
err of Admiral Kirkland He married
Mrs. Duncan Cameron, and was well
known in this city.
1ne new Chief of Police, ]. HI. Null
len. is making UP his bond and will this
week enter upon the discharge of his
duties. The retiring chief, Mr.. J. Nj.
Norwood. will return to the cigar bust
ness, in which he was engaged before
his election as chief of police.
The decision of the Supreme court
in the printing case is a high compli
ment to air. j. n. Holding, who was
the attorney of the printing commit