The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-30
PERSONALS.
Mr.. John Il. Kenny is in the city.

Mr. Garland Jones returned from
Greensboro yesterday.
Mr.. Fab Brown returned from a
western trip yesterday.
Mr.. Pulaski Cowper has gone to VIII
son on insurance business.
Mrs. ". H. Caudle is very sick at her
home. No. 30 Northwest street
Mrs. 4. T. Hay and daughter, Miss
Belle. have gone to Washington
Mrs. Thos d. Knight. of Chicago, IS
visiting Mrs. Julian Il. Timberlake.
Mr.. j. Hugh parham. of Kinston, is
sick at the home of Mr.. James Jor-
dam
Mrs. II. g. Lewis, formerly of tins
city. is here. the guest OF Mrs. w y. ii.
Smith
Mr.. Alfred Jones who has been quite
i'll is better. but is still unable to leave
his room.
Attorney General Walser and family
left yesterday afternoon for their home
in Lexington.
Miss Engelman. of Kentucky. IS tjle
charming guest of Mrs. ]. NJ. Turner on
Hillsboro street.
President Mescrye. of Shaw Uniyer-
sity. yesterday returned from business
trip to the North.
Judge Il. W. Timberlakc was here
yesterday returning from Carteret ana
Jones county Superior courts.
DR.. j. l.. NJ. Curry. agent for the Pea
body Fund. is in the city. He is the
guest of DIR. Charles f. Meserve.
Rev. Thomas Dixon announces his re-
tiremnt from the ministry for five years.
lie will continue to reside in New
York
Mrs. Sarah Evans nee Wilder) of
Birmingham. Ala, is in the city stopping
with her sister, Mrs. W. II. Rogers on
West Morgan street.
Mrs. r. +. Hay and daughter went
to Washington. ID. c., yesterday TO spend
the Easter holidays with Miss Hay who
is at school in that city.
Mr. c. H. Mebane. State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction, is still con
fined to his room by sickness. He hopes
to be able to visit his Office to-day.
Mrs. w Il. Potter, who has been here
visiting her mother Mrs. Harvard, went
to Louishurg yesterday. While there
she will he the guest of Mrs. William
Bailey.
Professor Edwin Minis. of Trinity
College, will edit Romeo and Juliet for
the Arden Shakespeare, published by
Heath X Company.
Mrs David A. Boody of Brooklyn,
y. Y, is the guest of Mrs. ID. III. Abbott
at the Marlborough. Mrs. Body is re-
turning from Florida, where she spent
the winter.
Capt S. +. Alexander. of Charlotte,
is in the city. He says that Charlotte
is in the throes of a holly contested cam
paign for the Democratic nominations for
city offices.
DIR. Il. j.. Noble. Grand Master of
Masons. passed through the city YES
terday en- route to Oxford to visit the
Oxford Orphan Asylum. He Is making
a model Grand Master.
Senator Travis, one of the executive
committee of the pententiary, is in the
city, having recently returned from a
business trip to New York. He had
hoped to hear OF decision in the reni-
tertiary case upon his return.
Mr. J. G. Clifford, of Harnett county,
who returned home yesterday morning,
says the Democratic party was never
in such excellent shape i'll Harnett; that
the people understand the constitutional
amendment and will give a bigger ma
jority for it than the county has ever
given before.
DIR. j. l.. NJ. Curry, agent for the
Peabody and Slater funds. who is in the
city, has recently returned from a trip
to Egypt and the Soudan. He made a
study of government there-it is IA pc
culiar government-and it is delight 70
hear him talk about his trip to the earl
lest seat of civilization.