The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-12
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
State Treasurer Worth is attending the
Yearly Meeting at High Point.
The third edition of Clark's Annotated
Code is being sent out by the publishers.
Mr.. John Pullen will preach at the
Tabernacle church this morning. There
is no service tonight
Justice John r. Upchurch yesterday
fined Henry Short q negro one dollar
and costs, for Shaping the face OF
negro woman who cursed him.
Mr.. r. L. Sapp, formerly employed by
the Raleigh Electric Company, has gone
TO Wilson, N. c.. where he takes charge
Of the electric light and power plant
Mamie Mann, colored, was arraigned
before Mayor A. M. Powell yesterday
morning charged with disorderly conduct
She was given 80 days at the workhouse.
The Atlantic and North Carolina Rail-
road will build a new storage warehouse
at Goldsboro 1t already has the ma
terial for the building on the ground.
Miss Espy Vance, the daughter of Mr.
David Vance. and the granddaughter of
Senator Vance, will pull the cord that
unveils the Vance monument on the 22nd.
Messrs. w. f. Faison, Chas. F. Smedes,
MiHUoIu Ghoc Wildnr n
Neuse yesterday to take part in a Ma
sonic barbecue and picnic.
Last Tuesday afternoon Miss Willis
Dabney Foster celebrated her 9Th birth
day by giving a party to forty of her
little friends. Ices, cake and melons were
served She received several handsome
presents.
Masonic lodges have been recently or
ganized at Gibson, in Scotland county and
Cherryville in CASTOR. The lodge at Rae
ford in Cumberland county has been re-
stored.
Rev. A. A. Pruden, who is travelling for
ST. Mary's School, is in Hillsboro today.
He has been at this work just six months,
and in that time he has secured $4,000.
This is indeed a good showing.
Two hundred and twenty-five opera
chairs have just been placed in the au-
ditorium in the new museum building.
This room is now about completed and
the Commissioners of Agriculture will
hold their convention there this month.
Mr.. F. H. Hunnicutt went to Wake
Forest yesterday, where he has charge
of the brick work on the Royal Cotton
Mills. The brick work is progressing vers
rapidly, and is almost complete. Thirty
cottages are being built for the homes
of the Operatives.
A private letter from Greensboro says
Maj. Chas. M. Stedman is quite unwell.
His many friends throughout the State
will join the News and Observer in hep
ing that his illness is not serious and
that he may speedily recover his usual
good health.
The Lenoir Oil and Ice Company was
yesterday incorporated with a capital
stock of 100000 1t will manufacture cot
ton seed oil and ice The incorporators
are: j. e. Hood, f. c. Dunn, S. l..
Slaugh, C. T. Meacham, S. H. Abbott, j.
F. Taylor and j. W. Black.
petition has been circulated to have
President Mckinley pardon the negro
postmaster Hargett whom Judge Pur-
nell sent to the penitentiary year for
embezzlement. Hargett is one of the
negro George Whites pets There is nc
probability that the President will par
don him.
Rev. C. w. Blanchard, pastor of the
Baptist church at Kinston passed
through Raleigh yesterday on his way
home. He has just been near Sippahaw
in this county to attend the funeral OF
his mother law, Mrs. Johnson. who
died there last Wednesday. Mrs Blanch-
ard will remain in this county for several
days before joining her husband in Kin