The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-14
THE WEATHER TODAY.

THE WEATHER TODAY.
For North Carolina: Fair Saturday
and Sunday; fresh east to northeast
winds.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vicin-
ity to D. m.: Fair: warmer.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, a; minimum
temperature. 55; mean temperature, &c;
total rainfall, 0.
CITY ITEMS.
The Baptist Female University now
has ITO students. Several others are
expected.
The State Board of Agriculture will
hold a meeting here ON Tuesday OF
nxet week.
Gentry's Dog and Pony Show will be
here this season. Its advance agent
was in the city yesterday.
Judge Purnell will so to Elizabeth
City today. He holds the October term
of the Federal court at that place next
week.
Mrs. Joe Person has made an offer
of $40 to the person who will write and
send her the best 5-inch advertisement
on the merits of her Remedy.
s~l,A 1,n sNf AIr+
Frank Page showed no Improvement
His physicians fear the worst and all his
children are in the city, attending his
bedside.
The mayor had only one case yester-
day. Dexter Bobbitt, young negro,
slapped his steady Lilly Pratt, and
Lilly preferred charge of assault
against him. He was fined S4.25.
Mr.. J. G. Marcom yesterday qualified
as administrator of the estate of Z. X.
Uzzle, of this city; and Mr.. l.. l.. Dowd
qualified as administrator of the estate
of James c. MacFarland, of this coun-
ty.
The Supreme court this week has had
IL Iuu uOCk6l-Olle IudL IL Will
be able to finish. The Third is known
as the fighting court district" and all
cases have to come to the Supreme
court for settlement.
A successful and very largely attend
ed revival is in progress at New Hope
Baptist church, some five miles north
east of the city. 1t began Sunday and
about twelve conversions. are reported.
Rev. A. A. Pippin is doing the preach
ing.
There will be three dances at the
Capital Club during Fair week-two of
them regular club germans and one the
marshal's ball. The club germans are
on Tuesday and Thursday nights. On
Friday night the marshals ball will be
given.
There are now 102 names on the roll
at the Soldiers Home. As a rule there
are about 50 men there regularly to be
cared for. AT some seasons of the year,
though, the number is very much small
Ter, owing to the fact that many of the
veterans visit their friends and spend
some time at their old homes.
The committee in charge of the Vance
monument to be erected here in Capitol
Square are expecting any time now TO
be called to Washington to inspect the
plaster model from which the bronze
statue is to be made. The contract calls
for the completion and delivery of the
statue by March 1st.
F,,.x1 Al.
of Rev. DIR. w. s. Lacy, will hear with
regret that he is in very poor health.
He is in Raleigh at his brothers, Mr..
Ben Lacy's, and is very feeble. His
sister, Mrs. b. l.. Dewey, of this city.
expects to go to Raleigh next week to
see him.-Charlotte Observer.
Reserve seats for paul Jones' are
now selling at the Bobbitt- Wynne Drug
store. Paul Jones" is the opera for
Monday night at the Academy of Music.
Manager Rivers has received a telegram
from the Olympia Opera Company that
they left st. Joseph, Mo. Friday morning
at . o'clock. They viii arrive in Raleigh
sunday night.
Last might at the Presbyterian SUN
day school there was given a stereoptican
exhibition that was a great treat to all,
especially the children. The scenes were
from the life of Christ and were inter-
spersed with music. A delightful even
ing was spent by all who attend. An
admission price of ten cents was charged
and some SIS was thus realized.
Justice Douglas expects to be in
Raleigh next week. Yesterdays Greens
boro Record says, Justice Douglas
comes back from Philadelphia much inn