The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-28
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
State Treasurer says the State debt is
now Sc, sol 40.
A gun club, of twenty-five members,
has been formed here.
The board of aldermen will hold their
next meeting on next Friday night week
Nearly all the seats for 1.-THE Chris
tian,' to be presented here tomorro"
night have been sold.
The new church building of the First
Presbyterian church will hardly be ready
for occupancy before the middle of May.
No more farmers Institutes will be
held during the spring. The farmers have
been delayed in their work by the bad
weather.
The Southern Railways train from the
West yesterday afternoon was nearly
three hours late, owing to a wait on
connection at Greensboro.
A telegram received here yesterday
afternoon announced the death OF the
father of Mr.. +. B. Renalds. of this city,
at his home in Luray, Va.
A railroad official says that within the
next sixty days two hundred negro women
will go to New York and Boston to take
places as cooks and house servants.
The millinery opening at the big estab-
lshment of Woollcott e Son takes place
today and tomorrow. An invitation is
extended to all to be present.
1t is learned here that Messrs. c. c.
McAlister and o. l.. Sapp, of Asheboro.
have just concluded the purchase of 25,-
Geo acres of timber lands in Florida
Three new convictS were yesterday
brought to the penitentiary from Pasquo>
tank county. They are all negroes and
are sent up for short terms for larceny.
The new link in the s. A. L. from Rich
mOnd to Ridgeway is now completed ex-
cept one span in the James river bridge
at Richmond. 1t will be completed by Sat
urday.
The State Auditors report for 1899 will
be issued within the present week. The
last proofs for ii were read Yesterday
Only the work of binding now remains to
be done.
number of Raleigh Pythians will at
tend the district meeting at Henderson
tomorrow night. They will leave here at
Ills Thursday morning and return that
night on the Atlanta Special.
Clerk Henry c. Brown, of the Corpora
tion Commission, has completed his new
railroad map and sent it on to the prin-
tiers. 1t will probably be ready for dis
tribution within the next thirty days.
The 125th North Carolina Supreme Court
Report has just been issued The Secre-
tary of State is now making the distribu-
tion of it among the judges and clerks
of court. By Friday or Saturday it wiz
be on sale
Bishop Cheshire has received a check
of 81 900 for st. Mary's from prominent
citizen of Charlotte. A few days before
liberal hearted gentleman of Burling-
ton contributed a similar amount for the
same purpose
At the primaries in Wake county on
Saturday, and in Raleigh on Saturday
night, a vote will be taken for State
Treasurer, and the delegates to the State
convention will cast the vote of Wake
county in accordance with the vote cast
in the primary.
At last the fish pond in front of Dughi's,
on Fayetteville street, has been filled up
and fine granolithic pavement is being
put down. Also the same sort of i'm
provement is being made in front of
Jolleys jewelry store and Bakers coal
store, on the west side of Fayetteville
street.
The body of Walter Cotton, the negro
lynched at Emporia. Va, was Monday
taken to Portsmouth for Identification
that the man who arrested him might get
the reward. gentleman who was there
at the time says there was upwards of
a thousand people who went to see .he
body.
Already two handsome memorial win
dows have been put in the new Presby
terrain church-one to the memory of
Prof Baumann and one to Dr. Burwell.
Last week four others arrived and will
soon be put in. They are in memory of
Chief Justice w. n. H. Smith, Mrs. w. n.
H. Smith, Judge Reid and Mrs. Reid.