The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-10

DughI Sh1ppeO HIUy SdllOuS Vi ClCa
to Greensboro yesterday to be used at
lawn party.
The State Farmers Alliance is call
ed to meet at Hillsboro next Tuesday.
William A. Graham is now president.
The Atlantic Coast Line has paid its
State taxes on the 1898 assessment, as
ordered by Judge Simonton, amount
ing to $24, 449.
The tax lists for the county have
been all turned in and are now being
computed. The cost of taking the list
in this township is $3.50 In the other
townships the cost was $50 to $40.
Rev. B. w. Spillman, of this city,
who has been attending the Confer
ence at Mars Hill, was taken i'll and
at last accounts was confined to his
room. His friends here hope he will
soon be himself again.
The Bryan Grimes Camp of Confed-
crate Veterans at Washington, n. g.,
will hold a meeting Saturday to make
arrangements to send large delega-
ton to the unwilling of the Vance
monument here on August 22nd.
The Womans Exchange has moved to
Mrs Edward Fasnach's. Orders solicited
for all kinds of cake, bread and any
thing in the housekeeping line. Any
one having crockery belonging to the
Exchange will please send to Mrs. Fas-
mach.
The Seaboard Air Line attorneys
have filed exception to the report OF
Special Master Eugene Martin in the
Matthews fertilizer rate) case. These
exceptions will be argued before
Judge Simonton at some date yet to
be named.
The total cost of the last election in
this county is Sill, of this amount
1915 was paid to registrars for regis
tering voters, 1852 the salaries of the
registrars and $144 the salaries OF poll
holders. There are sc precincts i'll
the county.
A lawn party will be given this
evening at the home of Mr.. /. NJ. Proc
tor on Newbern avenue for the benefit
of the Methodist Orphanage at this
city. Conveyances will leave the east
gate of the capitol for the conven-
fence of those who will attend. Go
out and spend pleasant evening and
at the same time help worthy cause.
Wiley Harrison, colored was ar
raigned in Justice Roberts court yes
terday evening upon a charge of per-
jury. He. by his attorney, Col. L. Nj.
Argo, waived a preliminary eXamina-
ton, and was remanded to Jail in de
fault of a bail bond in the sum of one
hundred dollars, for appearance at
September term of Wake Superior
court.
Chairman w. T.. Watson, of the
county Board of Elections, yesterday
made out the certificates of election
for Senator n. b. Broughton and Rep
resentatives Beddingfield, Simms and
Pearson. If an extra session should
for any reacon be called, the body
would be composed of the members
Just elected and not those in the last
Legislature.
Lie TdNCuloyIllC ODSCINCI lCtll IiS1
that, several we'll known financiers
have now under serious consideration
the question of establishing telephone
communication between Fayetteville
and number of the surrounding
towns. The scheme includes Raleigh,
Greensboro, Goldsboro, Wilson, Dunn
Red Springs, MaXton, BennettSville,
Florence and a great number of other
towns.
The organization of a Central Labor
Union, composed of delegates from
the different trades unions in the city
which will work under charter from
the American Federation of Labor has
been perfected in this city. The cen
trail body organized here elected the
following officers: President, w. e.
Faison; Vice-President, James Lyons;
Secretary Treasurer, George 7. Nor
wood; Sergeant-at-Arms, j. l.. Cross.
1t is expected that a large number
of Confederate veterans from Chat
ham county will attend the unwilling
of the Vance statue here on the END.
The Pittsboro Record says: There
will be no reunion of Chatham's eX-
Confederates this year, as the election
was held on the day when it is annual
~ held. 1t is hoped, however, that
many of them will go to Raleigh on
the 22nd and have grand reunion on
that OCCASION
DIR. VIM. f. Dodd, who has recent
ly accepted the chair of history in
Randolph Macon College, was in the
city yesterday. DR.. Dodd graduated
at the Virginia Palytichnic Institute
in 1895, and then taught two years
in his Alma Mater. after which he
went to Germany and took the degree
of Phi d., from Leipsic. DR.. Dodd is
one of the most scholarly aud cultur-
ed of the younger men of the South,
and is admirably qualified for the po-
sition to which he has been chosen.
He will assume charge in September,