The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-05
CITY ITEMS.

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The board Of county commissioners
meet tomorrow.
The funeral of Mr.. William Boylan
will be held this afternoon from Christ
Church at $3.50 o'clock.
Mack Rouk was sent to the roads yes
terday for 30 days by Mayor Powell
for disorderly conduct.
4 large party Of excursionists came
in yesterday on the John Mills road
They left in the afternoon.
This afternoon at 3 O'Clock Rev. j. w
Lee will preach in the Academy OF
Music. Subject, Conscience"
See in this issue notice by Mrs. Ger
trude Winder Tucker as administrators
of William r. Tucker, deceased.
j. W. Perkins. Deputy Collector, and
posse returned to the city yesterday
from near Pilot, \. c., where they de-
stroyed an S0-gallon Illicit whiskey still
The sheriff of Mcdowell county yes
terday brought one prisoner to the pen
itentiary. He was committed for at
tempted rape and is sentenced for ten
years.
Grand Secretary Woodell will insti-
tute new lodge of Odd Fellows at
Shelby on the 18th inst. Another lodge
will be instituted at McAdensville at an
early date.
Tarboro. were yesterday declared bank
rupts, on their voluntary petition, by
Judge Thomas X. Purnell. Visible as
sets, about $500.
Clerk of the Court Russ yesterday re-
ceived letter stating that the condi-
ton of County Commissioner Brewer,
who has been very ill for some time,
was somewhat improved.
John Allen Parish. who recently beat
his wife so numerically with Il light
wood-knot, was apprehended and brought
down from Durham yesterday and com
mitted to Jail, in default of bail.
A white convict was brought to the
penitentiary from the Arson farm yes
terday. He was paralyzed and had to
use crutches; nevertheless the regulation
chains We're on his ankles.
The silver jubilee of the Good Shop
1,o.I oI,upo1, will hauio ,,oNt INrido ioht
at 80 with sermon by the Rev. e.
r. Rich, first rector of the parish, now
Dean of the Cathedral of Easton, Mary
land.
The Supreme court meets tomorrow.
Applicants to practice law will be ex-
amined. The examination will be writ
ten. About a dozen applications have
been filed. Many more are expected to
be filed tomorrow.
Patent medicine manufacturers and
druggists in this State are very much
exercised over the bill introduced in the
Legislature requiring patent medicines
offered for sale in this State to have
their ingredients printed on the label.
The Mexican and Civil War pension
ers were busy yesterday making out their
pension warrants before Clerk of Court
Russ. These are forwarded to the
pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn, to
be examined and forwarded to the De-
rartment at Washington.
Bills were introduced in the House
nj .yncfap1aN IN arnnrtI
the charter of the Raleigh
and CASTOR Railroad Company,
the effect of which is to consolidate the
railroad companies in this State which
belong to the Seaboard Air Line system
A unique sight was witnessed on Hills
boro street at the intersection of HaF-
rington street, last Friday night. One
of the aldermen struck matches to light
pedestrians through the mud on the
crossing while the electric light hung
concealed in midair.
Calvin Rogers. colored, of Barton's
Creek township, who was charged with
shooting Hubert Glenn. colored, was
tried before Magistrate Honeycutt Fri
day and acquitted. He was bound over
to court. however, on the charge of
carrying a concealed weapon.
Mr.. Armistead Jones was yesterday
nominated by caucus of the Democrats
of the Senate and House of the Fourth
Congressional district, as the member
of the State Board Of Internal Improve
ments from this district The selection
of Mr.. Jones is most excellent one.
A fusion county supervisor of educa-
ton wrote Superintendent Mebane if he
thought he had better get his house
in nrdcr" looking forward to prospective