The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-31
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.


Sheriff Burns, of Cumberland coun-
ty, yesterday brought six convicts to
the penitentiary.
Judge Purnell will go to Richmond
on November sth to sit on the Circuit
Court of Appeals bench.
There will be subscription dance
at the Olivia Raney Library tonight.
Dancing begins at $50.
George Aubrey, a white man was
yesterday fined 1925 by Mayor Powell
for throwing rocks in Pullen Park.
Sheriff Phelps, of Washington,
brought two negro convicts to the pen
itentiary to serve out short sentences.
The Weldon Fair opened yesterday
and the Seaboard Air Line will run
two special trains from Henderson to
Weldon.
The reserved seat coupon contest
will close tomorrow at 4 o'clock. The
count vii take place at 4:3O in the
Auditors office.
The Presbyterian Synod, of North
Carolina, will meet in this city on the
25th of November. This will be one
of the largest religious gatherings in
the South.
"Just as sure as the sun rises and
is New York is going for Bryan
hid Mr.. Eugene p. Albea, who has
Recently returned from New York and
Baltimore. q
The Berzelius society met in the
State Chemists office at 5 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. Prof. w. A. With
ers read paper on 1.-The Chemists of
North Carolina"
A number of Raleigh people are
planning TO go to the Newbern Fair,
which begins on November 18th. Sew
eral Raleighites are this week in Win
ston attending the Piedmont Fair.
The Agricultural Department has
issued the following statement of the
crop condition for October: Cotton
yield 6s, quality Of; tobacco yield II,
quality rs; corn 20; peanuts rs; sweet
potatoes "A.
Speaking of Mr.. Beckwith's speech
at Leesville yesterday, Mr.. r. W. Pou
said last night: 81 have heard no
more thoughtful and logical discus
sion of imperialism by anybody dur
ing the campaign
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will conduct a Bazaar, the
proceeds of which are for the bene-
fit of the Presbyterian church. This
will continue during the second week
of November and will be conducted by
the Ladies' Aid Society.
Rev. r. T. Vann. President of the Bap-
fist Female University, yesterday
stated that while that school made no
exhibit at the State Fair, yet num-
Der of the individual students had art
exhibits. and that each exhibit took
premium, two of them being first
prizes.
Sheriff Burns, of Fayetteville, who
was in the city yesterday, said that 1T
was understood at Fayetteville that
Mr.. J. f. Fowler, the Populist nomi-
nee for Congress in the Third district,
had refused to come down in favor of
A special from Newport to the New
York World says: 'Mr. and Mrs.
Pembroke Jones, of New York ar
rived today ON their steam yacht
Narada They came here to look for
a cottage, and after going about in
tEa rain to look at several, weighed
anchor for New York at shutdown.
The Weather Bureau promises con-
tinued fair weather. There was heavy
rainfall in parts of the United States,
the heaviest occurring at Detroit and
Bismark, the average at each being
about an inch and half. The lowest
temperature reported yesterday, was
twenty degrees at Cedar City, Nevada.
The case of Hunter VS.. Leach, from
this county, was affirmed in the SUI
preme court yesterday. The case was
one in which Mr.. Carey Hunter sued
Mr. Jno. Leach, who went on the bond
of Mr. Cannon Brown, one of Mr.. Hun
ter's agents. The plaintiff won in the
court below. and the decision was af-
frmed in the Supreme court.
Mr.. z. w. Pou spoke yesterday at
I,eesyille. Today he speaks at Eagle
Rock. and tonight at Wakefield. This
win complete his appointments in
this county. and from tomorrow until
the election he will be speaking ID
his own county, Johnston. Mr.. b. =.
Beckwith, Democratic elector, spoke
with him yesterday at LeesVIlle.
The correspondents of the Agrlcul-
tural DEPARTMENT. were asked about
the scarcity of farm labor One hun
bred and seventy-nine report deticien-
cy and 213 report no lack of farm
labor. In only few counties did the
report indicate that farm work was
seriously impeded. The correspon-
dents do not report that the future
supply of farm labor is threatened.
WHAT A DREADFUL THING 1t is to
wake up in the night suffering from
cholera morbus and yet cases of this