The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-10

Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity
to O'Clock p. M: Fair, with increasing
cloudiness during the afternoon.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, So; minimum
temperature, so; mean temperature, 81;
total rainfall, % inches in twenty -four
hours.
: IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Rev. Jesse S. Page is in the city.
the guest of Mrs. A. +. Page.
Mr.. S. L. Crowder, of the State
Treasury Department, is confined to
his room by grip.
Prof. J. B. Carlyle will address the
Baptist Tabernacle Sunday School on
the 18th of April.
The Ministering Circle Of Kings
Daughters will meet Tuesday after
noon at 5 o'clock at the usual place.
The force in the Auditors office was
busy yesterday sending out his an
nual report, just issued from the
press.
The Holly Springs Enterprise thinks
the cotton acreage planted in that see
ton this year will be 25 per cent larg-
er than it was last year.
Mrs. n. ID. Foote, mother of Mrs.
w. g. Simmons, of Wake Forest, died
at that place yesterday morning at
2:30 o'clock. She was IS years old.
n crazy negro woman was brought
here yesterday from Vance county
and kept over night in Jail. She will
this morning be taken to the asylum
at Goldsboro.
DR.. E. r. Russell, formerly of Rock
ingham, who has been acting as as
sistant to the celebrated Baltimore
eye and throat specialist. DR.. Hiram
Wood, is in the city.
make it's report tonight at the reg
ular meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce. The committee has secured
options on several sites.
Ed Phillips. q negro gardener, died
at his home on Swain street Sunday
night. He retired in usual health, but
was found dead in his bed in the
morning. He was about 60 years old
The North Carolina Department OF
Agriculture will on May 1st issue a
bulletin entitled, Regulations for the
Control of Contagious Disease of Live
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State Stock Map
The Kalapaideusis Society have Sc.
cured the Handys to give an entertain
ment this evening in the lecture room
of the First Baptist church. An en-
ioyable evening is promised. Admis-
sion 25 cents, and children Il cents.
At Durham last night new lodge
4 of Elks was instituted, being the
fourth lodge of that order in the
State. Sometime ago a movement was
started for the formation of club in
Raleigh, but the effort seems not to
have succeeded.
On Wednesday there will be game
of ball here between Guilford College
Ladies will be admitted to witness the
game at Is cents. The regular price
for admission is 25 cents. The game
to be played with Guilford today has
been cancelled.
The semi-annual meeting of the
board of trustees of the Odd Fellows
Orphanage at Goldsboro was held
there yesterday, having been post
poned from last Tuesday. Messrs. C.
b. Edwards and Charles E. Lumsden
of this city, attended if. There are
now about forty children in this in
stitution.
Yesterday was the 35th anniversary
of the surrender of Gen Lee at Apo
mattox, Mr.. II. A. London, referring
to this Yesterday, said he carried the
last order before the surrender from
Gen. Grimes to Gen. Cox. He had
hardly delivered the order when the
news of the surrender was received.
Mr.. Edward Z. Teasley. one of Raj
eigh's oldest citizens, died last Sat
urday night, and was buried here
Sunday afternoon at five o'clock. The
funeral which was held at Edenton
Street church, of which the deceased
was member, was conducted by the
pastor, Rev. 6. f. Smith, assisted by
Rev. G. t. Adams, pastor of Central
church. The pall-bearers We're:
Messrs. W. j. Young, A. NJ. Powell,
W. IL. Hughes, G. NJ. Allen and VIM.