The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-26


Maximum temperature, 80; minimum
temperature, Sc; mean temperature, 50;
rainfall, 0.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The street force is at work at the cor
ner of Halifax and Edenton streets.
The ladies are invited to the club rally
tonight. There will be good music and
splendid speeches.
Marriage license was yesterday issued
to Mr.. l.. L. Pierce and Miss Lizzie
Smith, both of this county.
A special meeting of the Rescue Circle
will be held this afternoon at the resi-
dence of Mrs. c. c. Mcdonald.
The entertainment by the little peo-
pie at Central Church last night was
very much enjoyed by those who were
present
A brochure on "Railroading and It's
Relation to Other Business" has just
been issued by the Seaboard Air Line
Railway.
The marriage of DR.. Della Dixon and
DR.. Norwood Carroll will take place this
morning at $50 o'clock at the Baptist
Female University.
Governor Russell has offered a reward
of 5000 for the arrest of Boot Brown,
the negro who killed a negro woman here
about two weeks ago.
Remember the club rally at the Acad-
envy of Music tonight. There will be
some fine speeches delivered and every
body is invited to hear them.
There are now 800 State convicts in the
penitentiary, whereas three or four years
ago there were 1900. OF the 800 about
500 are picking cotton on the Roanoke
farms.
There will be business meeting of the
Fortnightly Review Club at Mrs. Julian
B. Undertakes, Thursday afternoon,
September 9th. at 4:30 p. M All mem
bers urged to attend
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The force OF the treasurer's office are
casing in permanent form the warrants
issued each month since the present adj
ministration came in. The warrants for
1900 have not yet been inspected.
1t is remarkable that while such ma
terial progress is going on along all in
dustrial lines, no new cotton mills are
being organized. There has been only
one cotton mill chartered within the last
four months
All the members of this club are re-
quested to meet at the rectory of the
Church of the Good Shepherd Thursday
afternoon promptly at 430 o'clock, instead
of at Mrs. A. B. Andrews as provided on
the program.
No steps have been taken in the audi
forum matter since the decision of tho
stockholders to purchase the Traue
Building A meeting of the directors is
to be held this week to consider the
further steps necessary.
Treasurer Worth has received so many
letters asking for information with re-
gard to the various sewing machine
agencies of the State that he has issued
a circular letter showing when the
license of each expires and what kinds
of machines are covered by each license.
The Seaboard Air Line is arranging to
ballast all the new parts of its system
with granite, which it will take from the
quarries at Greystone. 1t has put in a
$50 ton crusher there and has a large
force quarrying stone. 1t will continue
the work of ballasting until the whole
line is fixed
The Wilson Livery Company was incor-
porated yesterday. The incorporators are
NJ. G. Wilson. w. P. White and John
Burns, all of Spray, NJ c. The capital
stock is $4,000; and the company is in
corporated for thirty years. The business
proposed is the conducting of livery,
feed and sale stable.
The oath Of office administered to Jose
Eugenio Mary an administrator of oaths
in Havana. for North Carolina. was yes
terday filed in the Secretary of States
office. 1t is signed by Felipe Saneheur,
of Havana and the seal contains these
words: "Juzcardo de la instancia del
Dist del Oeste Havana"
Mr.. j. C. Lashley, who has been in
Edgecombe county, managing the con-
victs that were building the railroad from
Tarboro to Snow HILL in the city
yesterday on the way to his home in
Cary Mr.. Lashley expects to return to
Edgecombe in about thirty days to re-
sumo work on the railroad. His con-
victs will be employed for month in
gathering crops on the State farms.
Further particulars were received here
yesterday in regard to the tragedy at
Williamson on last Saturday night.
Young Bennett who did the shooting, was
the son of ex-Register of Deeds Bennett
of the county. Young Bennett and Miss
Moore had been engaged to marry for
about three years. Bennett went to Nor
folk month ago and returned to Will
liamston Saturday morning. He went
around to see Miss Moore and during their
interview they had falling out and Ben
nett left. In the afternoon Miss Moore
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