The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-10
rNAYD ABOUT THE CITY.


Inland ABOUT THE CITY.
Mr.. T. B. Moseley is confed to his
home by sickness.
Regular meeting of st. Luke's Circle
at 116 Mcdowell street at 4:30 o'clock
But for an appeal to the Supreme court
Tom jones would have been hanged in
this city tomorrow.
The Fortnightly Review Club will meet
with Mrs. Robert p. Strong this after
noon at O'Clock.
The Educational Committee for this
township met yesterday and fixed Fri
day June LIST, as the date for Closing the
schools of this township.
Tomorrow, Friday May 18th, is the
second anniversary of the Naval Engage
ment off Cardenas, Cuba, in the Spanish
American War, when Ensign Worth Bag 8
ley. of this city, was killed.
The Southern railway has stopped the
sale of secondclass tickets to points out
side the State. Second-class tickets can
still be bought to local points. but not to
places outside the State.-Reidsviile Re
view.
Marshal Henry Dockery left yesterday
fer Cheltonham. Md. with a nine-year-
cid negro boy who had been sentenced to
twelve months in the reformatory at that
place for stealing from the postofice at
Newborn.
Memorial Day services will take place
at The cemetery beginning at 1870 this
afternoon. The address will be delivered
in The chapel OF lakewood cemetery should
tho weather be unfavorable for out door
exercises.
Persons able and willing to give flowers
fer decorating the graves of Confederate
soldiers today are requested to send them
10 the cemetery during the afternoon, or
to the Supreme court room not later than
8 o'clock p. m.
Rev. w. d. Hubbard, the newly called
pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle Churcn,
will arrive in Raleigh this morning al
11:20 o'clock with his wife and daughter
They will be the guests of Mr. ana MRS.
Il. b. Il
Today being legal holiday the c.hres
at the capitol will be closed. rhe Demo
cratic Executive Committee will meet in
the Senate chamber, and on this account
the western entrance. fronting the Coz
federate monument will be opened.
Yesterday President George T. Win
ston. OF the A. & M. and Messrs. W. II.
Williams and A. A. Thompson. represent
ing the Raleigh. Pilot and Caraleigh cot
ion mills. left for Charlotte where they
will attend the Spinners Convention
The Ladies Foreign Missionary 20
ciety of the Presbyterian Church viii
meet on Friday afternoon at octock
instead of Thursday. This meeting IS
nostponed on account of the Memorial
exercises on Thursday afternoon, ana
members are requested to note the
change.
President Hobgood, of Oxford Seminary,
writes that the railroads will give the
usual reduced rates to the Commence
meut Exercises beginning on next Sunday.
The exercises commemmoratlng the
fftieth anniversary of the founding OF
the school will take place on Monday
evening at $50 o'clock. Addresses will
be delivered by Drs. Skinner and Hufham
The reunion of old students will take
place on Wednesday. The occasion prom
ises to be full of interest. Col. Waddell
is 10 address the Calliopean Society en-
Tuesday evening.
christian Reid" Mrs. ]. M. Tiernan)
the most noted Of North Carolina novel
lists has written a play with the tltie
Under the Southern Cross" and present
ed it to the Salisbury Daughters OF the
Confederacy. 1t is understood that the
dramatic club Of that town will tour the
State with the play, the proceeds Delng
for the benefit of the Davis monument
fund. correspondent who has seen the
play writes that the plot IS lald IN the
South. ct is intensely Southern IN all
its features, and deals with the SOUTH
the Southern soldier and Southern women
as they existed"
Mrs. Bagley, mother of Worth Bagley.
who was Ensign of the torpedo boat Wins
low, and killed off Cardenas, Cuba. during
the Spanish war, has sent to the Bath
Iron Works plans for a handsome memo
rial tablet, which will be- placed on the
torpedo boat now under construction at
the Bath Iron Works in his honor. The
tablet will be of bronze in the shape
of a shield. The border will represent
cannon balls, and on it will be the name
Worth Bagley. On the lower part Will
be an eagle surrounding shield and
sword, while in the center will be the
dates of his birth and death. 1t will be
placed on the coming tower of the boat.
| consider it not only pleasure but
duty ! owe to my neighbors to tell about
the wonderful cure effected in my case
nv the timely use of Chamberlains Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. l was