The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-18
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
There are now enrolled at the
tuition tor the Blind in this city 81 20
pills.
The primary on Monday not being a
regular legal election the saloons will
not be closed, the Mayor says.
Mr.. e. Bakody, of New York, has ac-
cepted position in Mahler's jewelry
store here as jeweler and engraver.
DR.. r. ]. Noble, of Selma, was here yes.
terday and announced that the smallpox
had at last been stamped out in his
town.
Messrs. J. +. Broughton and A. II. Du-
pree, two large farmers near here, are
their cotton fields into stock
farms.
At the evening service of the First
Baptist church Mrs. Charles Mckimmor.
and Miss Minnie Fitch Tucker will sing
the offectory.
Lady members of the Raleigh Choral
Symphony Club are requested TO meet
Monday afternoon at o'clock at the
Baptist Female University.
Pearson & Ashe will have a branch Of
fee at Mobile, Ala. Mr.. John E. Ram
sey, who was educated at the A. and NJ
College, will have charge of it.
The Ottumwa Wall quartette and Miss
Jesse Klineman. reciter, will close the
Popular Entertainment Course, March
24th. The box sheet opens Marca :ls..
DR.. J. A. Sexton has established a plan
ing mill in the buildings formerly occu-
pied by the North Carolina Car Coln>
pany. and is turning out some fine work
The Mt. Olive Advertiser says that
Raleigh should provide a suitable audi
forum or relinquish the convention bust
ness to some town with enterprise enough
to NEE the demand"
Passengers on yesterdays trains from
the west reported snow on the ground
as far down as Greensboro. In tho
mountainous section the snow is said to
be several inches deep.
Rev. l.. T. Christmas, colored, asks the
News and Observer to announce that he
will deliver an address at the Academy
of Music next Thursday night. Subject:
Crossing the Red Seas"
The Sanitary Tax is now due and if not
paid by April list fine will be collected
from delinquents. Health Officer Sal.
says those who owe the tax are coming
forward to pay it very slowly.
DR.. p. l.. Murphy, who lectured at the
A. and NJ. College Friday evening, left
yesterday for Goldsboro to spend a day
with DR.. Miller, superintendent of the
asylum for the colored insane.
The mayor yesterday fined Sam S,ot-
erts, white man, s5.25 for being drunk
and disorderly. The only other case on
the docket was against Lucy Norwood, a
negro woman charged with an atfray.
She was fined 1926.
Mr.. John c. Angler, of Cary. has pur-
chased the vacant lot corner Of Person
and Pace streets, next TO Mrs. Folks,
and will build on it a handsome resi-
dence. 1t Is said that Mr.. Angler contem-
plates moving to Raleigh TO live.
The International Association of
Ticket Agents spent yesterday at AShe-
Vile. The party took breakfast at the
Battery Park Hotel and went for drive
over the Biltmore estate and left in the
afternoon for Hot Springs. Va.
Manager Arendell says it will take from
three to four months to get the peniteD
tiary electric light plant in operation,
though the machinery has already been
ordered. Lights now cost from SO 900 to
$500 year. The plant being put IN VIII
cost about $500
Yesterday was st. Patrick's DAY. 1t
was observed as a holy day by the Cath
olics everywhere in honor of the saint
and all Irish-Americans in the city
observed it by wearing a bit of green
There was no parade or other special
observance of the day here.
President Blasingame has received d
letter from a gentleman in Shanghai,
China, stating that he would send his
three daughters to the Baptist Female
University next session. There are now
14o boarders enrolled since the Univer-
sity opened. The total enrolment ex-
ceeds zoe.
The committee appointed for the pur
pose of drafting a constitution and by.
laws for the Wake county branch of the
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany met here yesterday. They formu
lated constitution and bylaws that will
be submitted for adoption at a meeting
to be held here next Saturday
The regular monthly literary meet
ing of the Epworth League OF Edenton
Street church will be held promptly at
o'clock Monday evening. Besides the
catechism lesson interesting papers on