The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-27

leIL yesterday ulOIul1lS lOA 1ACIoS0S OA1 w
hold Vance Superior court.
The second $50, 900 of bond money will
be available next week March 1sp and
street work will be resumed.
One new convict was yesterday
brought to the penitentiary. He was
from Harnett county.
The March Bulletin of the Agricultural
Department, soon to be issued, will be
devoted entirely to the registration and
analysis of fertilizers.
The board of aldermen will meet Fri
day night and the auditorium committee
will make its report, including such rec
concentrations as may to 1T seem proper.
At the meeting of the school committee
tomorrow afternoon the architects wall
submit plans for the new Wiley schooi
to be built ON Morgan street.
Ladies' of the First Presbyterian
church are requested to meet at the
church Friday afternoon at O'Clock 10
decide about buying a carpet for the
church.
Those who have not paid their taxes
would do we'll to do so before tomorrow
night. Thursday morning another one
per cent. penalty goes on-making per
cent that will then have to be paid.
The Ministering Circle Of Kings
Daughters will meet at the homo OF me
president, Mrs. A. A. Thompson, mt ! 30
Thursday afternoon instead of this after
noon.
General John 3. Gordon passed here
Yesterday afternoon over the Southern
railway en- route to Chapel Hill to de-
liver an address before the students OF
the University of North Carolina.
Mrs. Julia Winston, mother Of Mr..
Moses Winston, ded Sunday at her homie
in Selma, of paralysis. Her body was
yesterday taken to her old home at
Youngsville for burial. She was Is years
old.
The academy at Wake Forest was
burned about s o'clock Saturday night.
The burning is believed to have been in
eendlary, as there had been no fire III
school was taught by Prof. Parker.
The stock of goods of Jacob S. Allen,
] r., q hardware merchant on East Har-
yett street, was yesterday morning taken
possession Of, and the store closed up, by
the sheriff, on claim and delivery pro-
ceedings instituted by Perrin Busbee.
The amount involved is $4,000, and the
case lis set for hearing at the April term
OF court.
The attention OF cur many readers IS
called to te advertisement of the Polk
Miller Drug Co, which appears in an
other column Their Victory Poultry
Food" fer the cure of Cholera and Gapes
and for Making Hens Lay is unexcelled
and familiar to every farmer in this
and other States. 1t is not food as
it's name implies, hut medicine scien-
tifically compounded. You would do
well to give it trial.
The handsomest and most complete
catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees
of roses and other flowers, issued this
season., is that of Ellwanger Il Barry,
propyietors of the Mt Hope Nurseries,
Rochester. y. Y The simple and sys
tematc arrangement which has been
adopted, combined with complex index.
renders the publication very convenient
for reference. and of great assistance in
making up orders. The present edition
will serve, not merely as a catalogue or
descriptive price list, but as useful
handbook and manual, containing valua-
BILE cultural directions. and other import
ant hints, indispensable to planters.
Write for a copy.