The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-03
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

ANU A0VO i 4A~A va -
lack Beaslev. Raleigh's big ponce
man. Yesterday tipped the scales az
293.
The Rescue Circle will meet at the
usual place Tuesday afternoon at 4:oo
o'clock.
IT is expected that the Governor Will
today make known his decision IN the
Shemwell extradition case.
A crazy negro woman, Mary Horton.
was yesterday taken from the jail iere
to the asylum at Goldsboro.
Five negro women left here for New
York Yesterday morning, where they
90 to become cooks and walters.
The OLA Podrida Club will meet at
the residences of Mrs. C. G. Latta on
Wednesday. April fourth at four
o'clock.
Rehearsals are now being held for
presentation of the opera "Powhatan
here. by local talent, Immediately al
ter Easter.
The rs Vol. n. C. Reports being
out of print the State has just issued
a reprint of it with annotations by
Judge Walter Clark.
The Board of School Directors for
Wake county will meet next Monday
in the county superintendent Office
ut the court house.
Mr.. j. s. Lancaster, of Louisburg,
has moved to the city and will open
a first-class grocery store at NO. ~
+. Hargett street. We welcome Mr..
Lancaster and family to the city.
Though there are a number OF de-
PENDANTS in the Blac<welfs Durham
Tobacco Company case. Maj. Guthrie
is the only one who has filed an an
swer. -
The street force is now grading
down the hill on Dawson street, be-
tween Martin and Cabarrus streets, to
the very great improvement OF that
part of the city.
Those who have not paid their city
Collector Lumsden is now making out
the delinquent list which will be pre-
scented to the board on Friday night
and ordered published.
Mr.. Barbour will appear al the
Academy of Music on April 9th, under
the auspices of the Woman's FIX
change for the benefit of the Carpet
fund. so cents secures a ticket and
you get your moneys worth
County Superintendent of Public
instruction Clements says it is his OBJ
seryation that women made better
teachers for public schools than men.
He SAYS he is certain that they keep
better order in the school room.
Mr.. John p. Cilley, of Catawba. is
engaged in the installation of the cleo
tive plant in the penitentiary. Mr..
Cilley was formerly employed at the
Morganton Hospital. He is assisted
here by Mr.. Lloyd Rhyme, of Burke.
Major Martin, of the State Treas
ury Department yesterday settled the
penitentiary Central PRISON. pay roll
for March. 1t took 81 ,324.41 to pay
the employees. The employees on the
farms will be paid about the middle
of the month.
Yesterday at noon, at the couct
house door, the plant of the Alcn d
Cram Machine Company was sold 81
public auction and was bid in by Mrs
Helen Allen, wife of Mr.. Mike A;le'.
for $1,000. 1t will be continued rs the
Allen g. Cram Machine COMPANY.
The pupils of the Baptist Female
University are rehearsing for pro-
duction of Shakespeare's comedy of
Midsummer Nights Dream to be pre-
scented at the Academy of Music on
April 23rd-the generally accepted
anniversary of Shakespeare birth.
Eugene Penny, the married man
who so kindly showed Miss Chamblee
the world some months ago. then re-
turned home and left again on ac-
count of the frigidity of the reception
accorded him, is back again, they say.
but declares his intention not to stay
long.
The Rev. j. William Jones delivered
an address last night at Metropoli-
tan Hall on the Boys in Gray. or the
Private Soldier as L Knew Him." Dr.
Jones was chaplain under Stonewall
jackson. The address was given for
the benefit of the Ladies' Improve
ment Society of the Baptist Taberna-
Gle. 1t was most interesting talk.
Gen. Lane, historian of the 2Sth
North Carolina Regiment, has procur-
ed twenty-eight engravings to Illus
trate his sketch of that regiment and
Col. William Lamb has about the same
number for his sketch of the 36th
Regiment besides an engraving of the
bombardment of Fort Fisher. The.
history of the 45th North Carolina. by
Sergeant Cyrus b. Watson will. it /;
said, be one of the very best in the
series.
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