The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-13

The next term of Federal Court will
be held here the third week in Octo-
Der.
Marriage license was issued yesterday
to Mr.. j. Hunter Lawrence and Miss EVE
S. Ellis, both of Raleigh.
The State convention of the Daughters
of the Confederacy meets here October
10th. Miss Aida Rodman, of Washing
ton, is it's president.
1t is learned that so far the chief as
pirants for the speakership of the House
are Walter E. Moore, of Jackson county,
and Samuel NJ. Gattjs, of Orange.
Miss Mary Rem, daughter of Capt. j.
]. Rem, who has been elected teacher
of the Durham graded school, graduated
at st. Mary's last year with high honors.
The next term of Wake Superior Court
will convene on September oath Judge
Robinson will preside. The docket so
far is light one and all the cases are
unimportant.
The Governor is receiving letters by
each mail for and against the commu-
i tation of Kinsaus death sentence. One
letter says Kinsaul is deliberately
starving himself to death.
Though the election will not be held
till next May, there is alreay considera-
BILE talk of city politics and probable
candidates. Half a dozen good names
are mentioned in connection with the
mayoralty.
At the Presbyterian, church last night
DR.. Eugene Daniel conducted prayer
and praise service, the first of the dedi-
catory exercises of that church. Tonight
a sermon will be preached by Rev. A. r.
Shaw, of Henderson.
On the oath of next month, which will
be during the State Fair, meeting of
the North Carolina Tobacco Growers
Association will be held here. 1t is called
by j. Bryan Grimes, the president of the
association.
Tomorrow is the day appointed for the
organization of Bryan and Stevenson
clubs. The White Supremacy clubs did
valiant service during the last campaign,
and there is no reason why the Bryan
and Stevenson clubs should not be equally
as effective.
The Southern Grocery Company was in
corporated here yesterday. The company
is to do business at Henderson, N. c.,
and has a capital stock of $4,000. The
incorporators are James A. Kelly, c. j.
Burton and John M. Coleman. The cor
poration is to last thirty years.
Judge Purnell yesterday issued an or
der in the case of Georgiana Wilson
against the Tunis Lumber Company, ap
pointing Theophilus Tunis and II. B.
Nichols as auxiliary receivers of the
property involved. They are directed to
give bond in the sum of $4,000.
Clerk Of Court Russ and Deputy Clerk
Register have been busy for several days
arranging the county court records in the
new vault recently built for that pur-
pose. This is tedious but most i'm
portant work, and one that should have
been attended to long before it was.
An effort was made today to have Gov
ernor Russell commute the sentence of
CLANCY Davis, a negro from Edgecombe
county sentenced to be hanged
at Tarboro next Friday. for burn
ing the home of Mrs Lavinia Battle, of
that county. The Governor would take
no action.
On account of the meeting of the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge of the World, l. o.
o. f., at Richmond, September 1922, the
Seaboard System will sell tickets to
Richmond and return at one fare Tick
cts will be put on sale September 18th
and be god returning until September
18th, inclusive.
Mr. NJ B. Barbee, secretary of the
Catholic Orphanage and Industrial School,
has written letter thanking the julius
Lewis Hardware Company for securing
for the Orphanage a McShane bell, as
present from the McShane Foundry, of
Baltimore. 1t was a much-needed pres
ent. and the Orphanage's friends are
grateful for the fine gift
A local meeting of those interested in
the movement looking to the formation
of State Literary and Historical Asso-
citation, will be held in the hall in the
new Agricultural building in this city
Tuesday, September 18th, at p. m. This
preliminary meeting is called to consider
arrangements for the first general meet
ing for the State at large to be held
during the State Fair.
Mr.. Paul Jones. of the Tarboro bar,
says that the North Carolina Law Jour
nal, organ of the Bar Association, is
naaptiner with rnuah cunnacc M Ionac
has recently visited the lawyers of the
west and he reports most successful
trip. The Journal is first-class in every
respect. and richly deserves the support
of every lawyer in North Carolina. The