The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-12
CITY ITEMS.

CITY ITEMS.
Unless all appearances are deceltful
there win be an immense crowd III
Raleigh next week.
The reprint of the 34th N. C. report
is now ready for sale and may be had OF
tle Secretary of State.
The Raleigh Electric Light Company s
incandescent lights are so weak these
nights that you can hear Them breathe.
Referee Thos. d. Devereux yesterday
granted to G. G. Wood, of Cemreville
Halifax county, his final discharge IN
bankruptcy.
A long piece of canvass was yesterday
stretched across Fayetteville street, at
the intersection of Martin street bear
ing the words: ''Welcome to the Great
North Carolina State Fair, October 10
to 81
Dozens of postal cards and letters are
received at the Department of Agrlcll-
ture every day from farmers of the State
praising the Bulletin and sending names
of other farmers to whom they ask that
it be sent.
There was only one case on the may
Or's docket yesterday morning. That was
against VIM. Brown, a negro Who was
disorderly i'm the Academy of Music at
the minstrel Wednesday night. lie was
fined 1926.
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Danial have is
sued invitations to the marriage of their
daughter, Mary Rainey, to Rev. James
Thomas, on Wednesday morning. Oct.
18th, at half aften ten o'clock, ut the
First Presbyterian church. No cards in
the city.
The funeral of the late Mrs. G. w.
Morris will be held from Central Meth
odist church at o'clock this afternoon,
instead of 10 a. M, as was announced
yesterday. The hour was postponed
in order to give friends at distance OPP
portunity to attend. 4
COL f. A. Olds has received from the
Washington Post "a number of designs
for handsome and original floats. These
he has placed in one of Sherwood Higgs
& Co.'s show windows. Those who are
preparing floats for the State Fair will
find these designs interesting.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Minor, notice
of whose marriage was printed yester-
day, will be for the immediate future at
the home of Mrs. Devereux. Mrs. Minor
lis the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. u.
Breckenridge and a niece of Mr.. A. j..
King and Mrs. G. M. Spence, of this
city.
The term of the white institution for
the blind and of the institution for negro
deaf-mutes and blind began yesterday,
and all day long pupils were coming in
Every train had from one 20 two special
cars attached to it filled with blind and
deaf children.
Justice Montgomery has signed the
New York Worlds petition to the Pres
ident to ask arbitration of the differ
ences between the Beers and the Eng
lish, Congressman Kitchln will be one
of the speakers at the New York mass
meeting in sympathy with the Beers,
to be held in Carnegie Hall.
City Clerk Ham Smith has been all
the week trying to catch q carpenter
that he may make some changes in
his office, as recently authorized by the
board of aldermen. But all the carpen-
tiers and contractors are so busy that
up to this writing he has been unable
to secure but one bid, and that was so
outrageously high it will not be con-
sidered.
Capt. w. III. Rand, steward of the
Deaf and Dumb Institution, returned
from Monroe yesterday where he went
to bring from that section pupils to the
institution. He informs us that the
school viii open up with Is or so more
in ATTENDANCE than it did one year ago.
He thinks the Accommodations now are so
much superior to those of the past that
within a few years more the magnifi-
cent buildings will be crowded to their
utmost capacity.