The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-09
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The Euchre Club will meet Saturday
afternoon at O'Clock with Miss Nella
Grimes.
1T is said that several Raleigh men
have made a good thing" out of the
recent advance in cotton.
On next Tuesday Mr.. James HI. Pou,
of this city, will speak at Pittsboro on
the Constitutional amendment.
The regular meeting of the w. c. L.
IT, will be held at the Executive Man
sion this afternoon at O'Clock.
The referees report i'm matter of the
shortage of ex-Sheriff Ham Jones was
completed yesterday. 1T viii now go
back to Wake Superior court.
Dock Blake. the negro convict VINO
escaped from the railroad gang at Aber-
deem some weeks ago, was yesterday
brought back here to the penitennary
: He was caught in Danville Va
Travelling freight agents for the north
ern and northwestern lines are now
floclling into Southern territory in search
of business from the emigrant travel
which usually begins about this time of
the year.
Mr.. Will Robbins has bought from Mr..
T. K Bruner the lot on the corner of
Hillsboro and West streets, ON which
Mr.. John G.. Drewry started to build
year or so ago, Mr.. Robbins will build
on it.
At the Governors Mansion, on Thurs
day, February 10th, Il musicale Will be
given under the auspices of st. Mary $
School Guild, No. Z. No admission will
be charged but voluntary contributions
will be taken.
''Solaret." who gave the fre-dance at
the Academy of Music Wednesday night
has been with Hermann only a short
while and when he reaches Florida she
will leave him to play an engagement in
Havana. Hermann was at Wilmington
last might.
Both the Seaboard and Southern agents
here are endeavOring to secure from their
roads reduced rates for the Bryan speak
ing here. They will probably hear from
Headquarters today, and they are conf
dent that nefare-round-trip rate will
be given.
Forty cOnvictS were yesterday taken to
Castle Hayne to work in the phosphate
mines. There were already sixteen men
there at work. They are now supplied
with water from artesian wells and it is
believed their health will be better than
heretofore.
The papers are lavish in their praise
of the INTERNATIONAL Operate Com
pany, which is booked to appear here to-
might at the Academy of Music, and the
reports, indicate that they have drawn
large audiences and aroused the pubhc
to enthusiasm.
Some changes are being made in the
Citizens National Bank preparatory 10
the installation of the big Corliss safe
neXe week This safe is as round as
ball-fre-proof burglar-proof, bomb
proof and several other proofs 1t will
be the only safe of the kind in the State.
The vaccination of Mr. Jackson, one of
Tile inmates OF the pest uouSc' II CdheI.
Mr.. Phifer, the other man in the house.
has been vaccinated, but it has not yet
taken. Both men We're vaccinated at
Selma and then again when they got
here. If both vaccinations take they will
be likely to have arms two or thrSe
times the size they ought to be-
Mr.. Robert L. Gray. attorney for the
Raleigh Electric Company. yesterday
received notice that at Iredell court this
weels a judgment of abatement was en-
tered in the case of A. ID. Cowes vs..
The Electric Company This was a
suit for $4,000 damages brought by
Capt. Cowles for injuries sustained in a
runaway during the encampment of the
Second regiment here. Since the insti-
tuition of the suit Capt. Cowles has
died, hence the judgment Of abatement.