The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-01

Local data for Raleigh yesterday
Maximum temperature, AS; minimum
temperature, 40; mean temperature, 44'
total rainfall, .06 inches in tWenty-four
hours.
I'M AND ABOUT THE CITY.
State Chairman F. M. Simmons at
tended the Johnston county Demo
cratic convention at Smithfield yester-
day.
Mr.. C. Fl. Mebane, State Superinten-
dent of Public instruction, has moved
his family back to Newton and ne IS
now there.
Mr.. f. Dewitt Smith, for three
wears manager for w. +. Jones, takes
position with Boplan, Pearce 81 Co,
next Monday.
Everybody in Raleigh is rejoicing
to know that an auditorium is at last
assured. Everybody in the State VIII
rejoice when it is built.
The young ladies of the Presbyte-
rian church will have Flower
Show" at the residence of Capt. Al
derman. on Halifax street Saturday
before Easter.
Presiding Elder Leak will hold quar-
terly conference today at st. Pauls a.
M. Z. church. Preaching at II, at
and at S o'clock. The Lords supper
will be administered at the 3 o'clock
service.
Sometime during the month Of
AprilEthe date is not yet tixed-the
students of the Baptist Female Uni
versity here will present one OF
Shakespeare comedies-"A Mid-Sum-
mer Night Dream"
News was received here yesterday
of the death of Miss Mary Jane Hick-
man, an aged lady well known IN
Warren county where she resided all
her life. She was sister of the
famous Beau Hickman.
The Seaboard Air Line is now oper-
ating through freight trains between
Portsmouth, Va, and Columbia, S. c.,
but not on regular schedule. This
branch of the service will begin on
regular schedule next Wednesday.
The will of Sarah Snead, n colored
woman, was admitted to probate yes
terday by the Clerk of Court Her
estate, consisting of some land at
Apex and about $500 worth of per-
sonal property, is left to her daugh-
ter.
The first Weekly Weather Crop Bull
letin for this season will be issued by
the Weather Bureau here on April
9th-tomorrow week. Over 375 CORE
spondents for it have been secured
and the bulletins will be of greater
value this season than ever before.
In court yesterday ex-Lieut. Claude
Broughton, who misappropriated
funds belonging to the military COM
pany here, was released on payment
of the cost, having proved a previous
good character and made arrange
ments for replacing the money en-
beZZled.
1t is announced that the Western
railroads have about decided to raise
the eastbound grain rate from 1872
to Is cents hundred. conference
is to be held by the railroad officials
at Hot Springs, Ark, about the middle
of April to take definite action in
regard to the matter.
City and county officials say that
the discussion of the proposition that
the city purchase the present city
lott will result in at least doubling
of the tax valuation of that property.
The owners of the Lot refuse to take
less than $4,000 for it, but it is on the
tax books for only $4,000
Mr.. Fl. A. London, candidate for State
Treasurer, was in Raleigh Friday and
friend of his said last night: when Mr..
London was here he requested his friends
in Wake to send out no tickets for him.
He believes that a candidate ought not
TO go into the county of an opponent, and
he carries out his belief
Tom Jones will hardly hang on May
18th, the day fixed by the court. 1t
is certain that an appeal will be talk
en-. In fact it has already been start
ed, an order being made in court yes
terday to allow the appeal to be
brought in forma pauperis. This APP
. pSoi Will OCicy CAcCullOHs
In some sections the farmers are
said to be buying very little CONNER
cial fertilizer. This seems to indicate
that there will be no material increase
in the cotton acreage, especially as
the planters are selling their cotton
seed, which they usually convert into
fertilizering material. The seed are
now bringing from SIS to $40 a ton.
Weather Forecaster Won Hermann.
of this city, yesterday received from
Washington official notice of an in
crease in his salary. His promotion is
richly deserved. No man could have
worked harder and few could have
done it better than he has since his
appointment here some ten years ago.
He has made the Weather Bureau a
thing of genuine worth, not only to
the inhabitants of Raleigh, but to the
people of the entire State; and they
will rejoice in his promotion.