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

Local uaIa Tor Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, 33; minimum
temperature, 20; mean, 26; rainfall, .05
inches (for "a hours)
CITY ITEMS.
The county commissioners meet next
Monday.
On next Tuesday at the Blind Institu-
ton an entertainment will be given
complimentary to the General Assembly.
Prayer and Christian Endeavor meet
ing at the Christian church tonight at
1880 p. m. The public cordially invited.
st. Luke's Circle of Kings Daughters
will meet this afternoon at $3.50 at the
Home and not at the home of Mrs.
Rogers. as heretofore stated.
Remember the mass meeting of Demo
Gratis tonight at Metropolitan Hall, to
discuss the bill to amend the charter of
the city of Raleigh.
Unclaimed articles of glassware,
crockery, ETC., can be found at A. B.
Stronach's dry goods store.
Parties who may have carried out
crockery or silverware with lunches, are
requested to send to A. b. Stronach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. S. Dunn, of Neuse,
announce the marriage, February I'D,
of their daughter, Annie Elise, to DR..
j. l.. Moore, of Apex.
There will be a meeting of the Ladies'
Foreign Missionary Society this after
noon at O'Clock in the Sunday school
room of the Presbyterian church.
Curator Brimley is trying to get some
wolves for the State Museum. Wolves
are becoming extinct in this State, and
it is some trouble to get them.
The mass meeting of Democratic citi-
Zens to pass on the city charter as an
nounced by Mayor Powell, will be held
in Metropolitan Hall tonight at 8
o'clock.
Mayor Powell had only one small
case to engage his attention yesterday.
NJ NJ. Braswell, col, was fined S6.25 for
an assault committed on the person of
Wash Shepard, colored.
Col. John S. Cunningham, president
Of The North Carolina Agricultural So
ciety, who is in the city, is getting in
some good work for the next State Fair.
He is thoroughly determined that it
must be the greatest of them all.
Parties who have seen the perform
ances of the Renfrow Company at other
points. say it is one of the best popular
price shows on the road. The company
carries both brass band and an or
chestra.
No manager or head of department in
the Confederate Bazaar, discharged her
duties more thoroughly or conscientious
" than did Mrs. G. G. Thomas, the man.
ager of the Crockery and Glassware
Department.
The Committee on Methodist Orphan
age and gentlemen from various parts
of the State. will meet to-day at noon
in the Edenton Street Sunday school.
At night at the same place there will be
a mass meeting to consider the same
matter.
The case of Mates, county supervisor
of public education of Vance county,
which was set for a re-hearing by the
State Board of Education for last night,
did not take place. 1t was settled by
the resignation of Mates, intelligence
of which reached the Governors office
yesterday.
At a meeting of the North Carolina
Society of the District Of Columbia,
held Monday night at Washington, ID.
c., DIR. w. G. Murphy was elected presi-
den: J. 3. Lloyd, vice-president; f. Nj.
Little. secretary, and David Anderson,
treasurer. Mr. David Anderson is an
old citizen of Raleigh.
The little colony of North Carolinians
In Walla Walla, State of Washington,
have ordered half dozen copies of he
Lives of Distinguished North Caro-
linians" Their hearts swell with glad
ness wherever they name her in spite
of the four thousand miles between
her and them.
The proceeds of the performance to-
morrow night Of Mr.. Lee, the nypnotlst,
will be given for the benefit of ST.
Luke's Home for Incurables. This is
a generous act on the part of Mr.. Lee,
and should insure large attendance
Mr.. Rivers has generously offered to
make an arrangement for benefit matt
nee for the same worthy cause by the
Renfrow Company, which appears here
next week.
About half of the new grain exhibit
has been secured by the State Museum.
This is to replace the present exhibit,
which is getting in bad shape. The
present exhibit was gotten up for the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, and secured
SO of the premiums there.
PERSONALS.
Mr.. d. II. Long, of Clayton, returned
home yesterday morning.