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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
The Great Hermann Tonight.

Herrmann-'tiS a name that Is insep-
arably linked with the mystifying the
magical and the supernatural Mag-'.
clans may come, and magicians may go,
but the Hermann name sticks to fame
and the top notch like the links of Il
chain. No more mystifying parsonage
has ever appeared before the public
than this same Herrmann-the Great
Her11fann-who has astOumded the
whole civilized world with his marvellous
feat of legerdemain. The Great Herr
mann will appear at the Academy OF
Music tonight and present number OF
new and interesting experiments IN
sleight of hand and occult phenomena.
Hermann is remarkably adept III
sleight of hand, the supreme test of the
magicians skill. The palming of billiard
balls, coins, cards, in fact all sorts OF
things is positive delight to the be
holder when performed by this most
marvellous of men. Several sensational
illusions are also included on the pro
gram to be presented i'll this city, illus
ions so astounding as to create a bellef
in the weird and the supernatural ami
10 confound the performer with the
Prince of Darkness himself. Sale Of
seats for the performance now on sale III
Bobbitt- Wynne's.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
DEATH OF MRS. w. Nh. SMITH.
Funeral at the Presbyterian Church
This Afternoon.

On the morning of February 9th, 1900,
about Z O'clock. Mrs. Mary Olivia
Smith, relict of the late Chief Justice W.
n. II. Smith, aged about seventy eight
years. Mrs. Smith was born in the
town of Murfreesboro, n. c., and was
the only daughter Of the late William i.
Wise, of that town. She leaves a broth
er, NJ. w. Wise, of MurfreeSboro. and
two sons, VIM. Wise Smith nd Ed.
Chambers Smith, of this city
Mrs. Smith was a woman of much
culture and reading, and her manner and
social qualities were pleasant and agree
able. Her nature from childhood was
sympathetic, and she at all times found
pleasure in administering to the needs
and suffe1ings Of others. She was kind
to the poor. and always ready to help
the sick and the needy-and her chart
ties were so mOdestly and silently be-
slowed, that her left hand hardly knew
what the right hand had done. Her
disposition was kind and gentle and her
impulses ever generous and responsive,
and her sympathies tender and warm
hearted
Her married life was happy and con-
tented, and she discharged the duties and
requirements of wife and mother strictly,
conscientiously and in conformity to the
obligation that rested upon her Her
heart and soul were wrapped up in her
children, and her chief aim in life was
to promote and to secure their interest
and welfare.
In her early married life she lost her
eldest son, James, about ten years of
age, a boy Of much promise and fine
character-and the effects of this Attic
ton followed her to the grave, though
She bore the loss with Christian grace
and fortitude. The death of her husband
a few years since, a calamity which She
soreiy felt, and life made more irk-
some by declining health, which she bore
with Christian resignation, doubtless TO
some extent FASTENED her passage to the
tomb
A good woman has passed from life
unto death. Her earthly walk and con-
yersation give assurance of eternal life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
VETERANS TO WRITE HISTORY.
Members of the L. OBJ Branch Camp
Will Prepare Papers.

The IL. OBJ. Branch camp of Confeder-
ate Veterans held its regular monthly
meeting last night. Though it was a
short meeting and not very well attend
ed one, several important things We're
done:
l. Steps We're taken to contribute to
the history of the war, as far as the camp
Is able to do so, by having a member
write and read at each meeting a sketch
of some battle or movement i'll which the
command of which he was Il member
participated.
Mr.. o. II. Smith was appointed t0 pre-
pare such a paper for the next meeting.
and at the meeting after that the paper
will be prepared by Mr.. r. II. Bradley.
2 A committee was appointed. consist
ing of Messrs. A. b. Suonach, j. C..
Birdsong and r. II. BRADLEY, to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of changing the camp
headquarters from the present room
third story of the city hall building to
the second story of the old Williams
bank building.
1t is proposed there to rent and fit up
rooms to be used not only by the veter-
ans, but also by the other patriotic or
ders, such as Daughters of the COnfed-
eracy, Daughters of the Revolution,
Ladies' Memorial Association and Sons of
the Revolution. The present room of the
veterans is too small and there are too
many steps to cfimb for these men, who
are not as young as they once were.
The camp expressed the hope that
the unwilling of the Vance monument
here in May would be made a sort of
veterans reunion for North Carolina and
announced their readiness to lend their
assistance to the local committee i'll this
effort.
The opinion was expressed that tnS
could be done, and the sentiment was
that the camp and its friends would pro
vide at least one meal for all veterans
who might come. The camp, however,
could take no formal action touching the
matter until it has some definite infor-
NATION in regard to the arrangements
and railroad rates from the local COM
mittee.
In addition to the above resolution
of thanks to the following ladies was
adopted, for their assistance in the Con-
federate concert recently given for the
benefit of the drum corps: Mrs. Ihos. a.
Ashe, Mrs. c. NJ Busbee,, Miss Susan
Clark, Mrs c. G.. Latta, Miss Minnie
Fitch Tucker, Miss Rhetta Daniel and
Miss Fannie McPheeters.
The following were elected members of
the camp: w. f. Foster, Baylus Cade and
W. S. Barnes.
The camp adjourned to meet again the
first Tuesday might in March.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
IRREGULARITIES FOUND
IN THE OFFICES OF THE CLERK
AND REGISTER.
ONE A REPUBLICAN, THE OTHER A POP,
A Number of Bridges Ordered Built by the
Commissioners. Road at Tucker Place
to be Worked. Jury For March
Term of Court Drawn.

The Board of County Commissioners
yesterday completed the business of the
February meeting and adjourned.
| A committee consisting of Commits
sioner Mail and Attorney Jones was ap-
pointed to investigate the accounts of
Daniel H. Young, ex-clerk of the Su-
perior court, and of Joseph J. Rogers,
| ex-register of deeds of Wake county.
1t is stated that 4 number of irregu-
larities have been found in the accounts
of these two men and hence this investi-
CATION was asked
The following bridges were ordered
built: Across Shad Island Greek, in
New Light township; at w. X. Philips
mill, on Franklin county line.
Superintendent w. G.. Allen was or
dered to repair the bridge near Collins
| Cross Roads and to look into the matter
of building bridge across Tom Jack
creek, near E. a. Hollis, and report to
the next meeting of the board.
Supervisor McMackin was directed to
| have the road between the Tucker place
and Green Blake's put in good travelling
condition at once.
The following jury was drawn for the
March term Of Wake Superior court:
First Week-W. Z. Turner. Panther
Branch; Thomas Burns, Swift Creek;
c. f. Jones, Panther Branch; L. w.
Dobbin. Raleigh; A. L. Medlin, Mark 8
Creek: Abram Hester St. Matthews: j.
NJ. Baucom St Mary's; ". s. Holding,
Wake Forest; J.. d. Badcom, White
Oak; d. l.. Barnes, Middle Creek;
Henry Utley, Holly Springs; NJ. G..
Nichols, Holly Springs: d. E. Gill, Wake
Forest; r. r. Wilson. Holly Springs;
John 7. Jones Panther Branch; j. A.
Adams, Panther Branch; NJ. b.
Stephens, Holly Springs; S. B. Penning-
ton. Raleigh; NJ. J. Perry House Greek;
J. G.. Strickland, ST. Mary's; j. S. Kelly,
House Greek: j. l.. O,Quinn, Raleigh;
w. A. Pulley, Marks Creek; Nelson
Battle (Col), Holly Springs; Henry j.
Young, Raleigh G. b. Gunter, Middle
Creek; G.. L. Maroon, Wake Forest;
Sexton Lawrence, White Oak; 6. w.
Wadell Raleigh; l.. l.. Allen, Wake
Forest: f. G. Allen Wake Forest; {.
Il. Edwards, Raleigh; Avis Maynard
Cary; Reuben Parker (cel), Raleigh; j.,
f. Rhodes, Panther Branch; s. v. lfor-
ton, Little River.
Second Week-Nelson Bridgers (col.l,
Wake Forest; f. G. Glenn, Barton's
Creek; j. r. Bledsoe. Bartons Creek;
II. II. Hicks, Raleigh; j. S. Patrick
Swift Creek; A. l.. Garner, White Oak;
C. A. Maynard, Raleigh; NJ. c. Jones
Oak Grove; C.. w. Newcomb, Raleigh;
o. j. Upchurch, Buckhorn; w. F. Cross,
Holly Springs; o. p. Hay, Raleigh; A.
c. Carroll, ST. Mary's; Henry Ivey COLI
St. Matthews; Ben NJ. Moore, Raleigh;
Thos. Pescud, Raleigh Daniel Jones
(col.), Raleigh; Henry Perry. Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
AN IMPORTANT
RAILROAD DEAL
Southern Invades Seaboard' S
Territory.
GOES OVER PAGE ROAD
4 NEW FAST TRAIN RUN To
SOUTHERN PINES.
THE FREIGHT TRAFFIC is BEING DIVIDED
A Lively Fight For the Possession Of the Road
viii Now Probably Begin. The Pages
Sell Their Lumber Interests
IN Mr.. Mills,

1t is learned here that the Pages have
sold their lumber interests to Mr.. w. w.
Mills, of Carthage. The consideration
was $4,000 and the property sold con-
sisted of two large finishing mills-one
at Biseoe and one at Aberdeen.
The Biscoe plant is the larger of the
two, having a capacity of 10000 feet
u day. They will be run in connection
with large number of other mills
operated by Mr.. Mills III this section.
The Pages-sOns of the late A. +.
Page, of this city--will now, it is under
stood, devote their entire time TO the
management of their railroad property
the Aberdeen and Asheboro.
This consists of about SO miles Of
track extending from Aberdeen to
Asheboro, with an s mile branch from
Biscoe to Troy. in Montgomery county.
1t was originally built as lumber road,
and was then called the Aberdeen and
West End. Two years ago it was ex-
tended to Asheboro where it connects
with the Southern Railway from High
Point.
Recently the Southern has made traffic
fast train has been put on for the Pine
hurst and Southern Pines travel. This
connects at High Point with the South
ern's fast Florida trains.
This invasion of the Seaboards terri
tory by the Southern has made this
road already one of the best paying
short roads in the United States. most
desirable property for either one of these
great railway systems. 1t has taken
from the Seaboard Il monopoly Of
Southern Pines and Pinehurst business
that it once enjoyed and is more than di-
viding with it the immense freight traffic
of that section-including humber. naval
stores. fruits and agricultural products.
In fact the traffic arrangement made
by the Southern with the Pages is one
of the most important railroad deals
that has been made in this State IN re-
cent years The ultimate result of 1T
must be a fight between the Seaboard
and Southern for possession of the road
Owning it, either can invade the terri
tory of the other.
Just at present, however, the Pages
say they do not care to sell ait any price.
The road was chartered by act of the
Legislature in 1889, and was organized
several months later. The Legislatures
of 1893 and 1895 amended the charter
so as to allow extensions and increase
of capital stock.
Its gross earnings from operation last
wear were $4,000. Its operating ex-
penses were 1000. The road as now
equipped cost q quarter of a million. In
1890 mortgage bonds to the amount of
$4,000 were issued on ito rug 20
years at 6 per cent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
HAD TO
Call in a Physician for
Sick Headache.

There is a lady living in Raleigh who
is great sufferer from Sick Headache
and until recently was compelled to call
a physician when she had an attack and
even he could do little to relieve her.
Finally she CHANGED to try Hicks Capu-
dine and it afforded the desired relief
Now she only needs to take it when the
attack is coming on to prevent trouble
altogether. Is, % and 80 cents at Drug
stores
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
Bachelors Notice !!

Old Maids Convention next Tuesday
evening, we the committee ON arrange
ments, have selected the safest and most
desirable seats for timid and unprotected
bachelors. All those wishing seats in
the bachelors circle can obtain them by
applying to the undersigned
PATIENCE DESIRE MAN,
CALAMITY JAMES HIGGINS,
CHARITY LONGFACE.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
Ages of College Students.

Sunerintendent Mebane is sending out
to the presidents of all the colleges IN
the State, male and female requests that
they send him the numbers OF students
in their institutions who are ~ years
Of age and less than 20 and the num-
Der who are p years of age and over
THE answer will be used in his forth
coming report.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07

y
and washes, and differ
ent inhaling remedies
in fact, | could feel tina
each winter / was WORSE
than the year previous
IF | Il lily it W =
brought to my II OF / e.
that Catarrh was q bloot
disease, and after think
ing over the matter, J
saw it was unreasonab BIZ
to expect to be cured bJ
remedies viii C h on ! !
reached the surface. J
then daoi de6 tn trt
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
TWO HURT IN A RUNAWAY.
Sheriff Mcleod Arms Broken. His
Father Dangerously Injured.

Lumberton. " c.. Feb. 6.-(Special.)- y
Sheriff G.. E. NIcLeods horse ran away
with him and his father, a. III. Mcleod,
this afternoon. Beth of the sheriff $
arms are broken. and his father is dam
gerousIy injured. The extent of his in-
julies, however, are not yet ascertained.
All OF the doctors in town are with them
at this time.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07

The Citizens National Bank is pre-
pairing to put in big Corliss safe. As
il weighs 10000 pounds it will he ne
ccAsary to build up Il foundation for it.,
through the basement. This founda
ticm is now being prepared.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
Views and Interviews,

Mr.. 0. L. Shell manager of the Cash
Racket store Of Dunn, who was in RIA
leigh Yesterday. SAYS that Harnett coun-
ty is already "red-hot and still a-heatlng
for the Constitutional amendment. He
is q member of the famous Dunn Cornet
band. and says the band will go all over
Harnett with the candidates during the
campaign, helping to roll mp big ma
jority for White Supremacy.
Ex-Judge Spencer B. Adams was in
the city yesterday.
Are you candidate for the RepubH-
can nomination for GOVERNOR he was
asked.
Il most positively am not" he replied.
"ShaH say that in the paper!'
Eyes | wish you would"
Suppose your party insists ON your
making the race"
I'm not candidate"
Il see" said Postmaster Bailey that
DIR. Winston says he's succeeded i'll get
ting some civil service examinations
that we've never had before. That's Il
mistake. We've had those very eX-
aminations. for just those positions, for
the past % years. That's all.
Dir. PittengerS sermon OH card play
ing was much discussed yesterday and
generally endorsed. One man said:
Not long ago young fellow said he
didn't have TO go to a gambling den to
play cards, that he could gamble all he
wanted to in good society. This" add
ded the speaker. ''shows the extent to
which social card playing is going, and
the construction some people are putting
on it,"
Mr.. G. Edgar Leach. who remembers
many important events in the early his
tory of Raleigh. says that the market
house once stood in the centre of Har-
gett street and the people were then as
much opposed to moving it as they are
now. In fact more so, for the PROPOSE
ton to move it caused a riot
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07

g. S. S., and after few bottles were used, no
ticed a percep.ible improvement. CONTINUING
the remedy, the disease was forced out OF ny
system, and n complete cure was the result
Iadvise all who have this dreadful disease
abandon their local treatment which has new
done them any good. and take S. s. D., rel
edy that can reach the disease and cure It,"
To continue the wrong treatment iol
Catarrh is to continue to suffer. Swift'ss
Specific is real blood remedy, ano
cures obstinate, deep-seated diseases
which other remedies have no et1ec'
whatever upon. 1t promptly reaches
Catarrh, and never fails to cure even the
oaf onrroyStoH oncao
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
Foul Smelling,
Catarrh.

Catarrh is one OF the most obstinate
diseases, and hence the most difficult
to get rid of.
There is but one way to cure it.
The disease is in the blood, and all the
sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures
in the world can have no permanent
effect whatever upon it. Swift's Spe
citic cures Catarrh permanently, for it i!
the only remedy which can reach the
disease and force it from the blood.
Mr.. E. P. McAllister, of Harrodsburg
KY, had Catarrh for years. He writes
~ could see no Improvement whatever
though J was constantly treated with spray
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-23

that the British ambassador at 81.
Peters burg has been communicated
with. The report declares that Rus
sian troops will soon advance 70 4
point nearer than Herat, the occupa-
ton of which it is declared hangs on
the movement of the British troops in
India.
The situation, taken into considera-
ton with the war in South Africa, is
decidedly complex and still more dan
gerous. Fully 100000 Russian soldiers
are now gathered close to the British
Indian frontier. News reached here
yes erday that General YonOff has ar
rived at KOnschtka, and it is known
that the Russian squadrons at Port Ar
thur and the Persian gulf are being
strengthened every day. There Is also
a well-defined report that France has
sent rush orders to have troops gath
cred on the frontier, which report
seems verified by the fact that the
French ambassador to the Vatican has
notified Pope Leo of the existence of a
Franco-Russian agreement by which
the exclusive influence of Russia in
European Turkey and that of France
in Asiatic Turkey are to be recognized.
1t is understood that this agreement
was reached during the visit to Paris
of Count Muravieff, the Russian Min
lister of Foreign Affairs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-23
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.
Condensation of the News of the Day
to the Latest Hour.

The grip is epidemic in England.
tilipinos are scattering into small
bands.
Admiral Dewey may visit California
in the fall.
AL, Atlantic lines have increased
their rates.
The rod mill workers at Pittsburg
are on a strike.
Leut.-Com. Greene, L. S. N, has
committed suicide.
The Wild Bros. Jewelry Company OF
st. Louis has failed.
The Duke of Argyll is seriously I'll
at Inveray, Scotland.
Italy has demanded that the Louisi-
ana lynchers be punished.
Reel B. Terry, the well-known San
Francisco attorney, is dead
Potter Palmer's son is now a bank
messenger at So per week.
Fear is expressed that American au-
tOmobiles will invade Germany.
p. ID. Armour is to retire from bust
ness and live in Pasadena, Cal.
The contest boards are still at work
on the Kentucky election returns.
General Wood is taking steps in Cuba
to make civil authority supreme.
The British battleship Montague will
have engines OF $4,000 horsepower.
A large colony of Russian DOukho-
bers is likely to settle in California.
Malietoa Tanu has made an official
protest against the Samoan settlement.
Lieut.. Howard, U. S. N, pilot of the
monitor during the Merrimac battle IS
dead.
Robert VI. McWade of Pennsylvania
will succeed Z. 5. Bedloe as Consul to
Canton.
An unknown steamer has gone
ashore on Newfoundland. Many lives
are lost.
The Galveston, Houston and North
ern road will soon become Huntington
property.
Ex-Premier Crispi's son has been
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-23
BRITISH TROOPS CROSS
THE TUGELA RIVER
CONTINUED from Page u

munications and find themselves at or
near Ladysmith and Newcastle Rail-
way"
The attacks on the War Oaice and
the information bureau have Deeh re-
newed in several quarters. II is de-
clared here that when Winston
Churchill first arrived in Natal he had
maps of the northern portion of the
colony, procured from foreign sources.
which were better than any possess I'd
by the generals there, and he loaned
them TO the commanders. The news
papers now say that experts in the War
Office have been operating with a
large scale map of Northern Natal
printed upon seventy sheets, which
was borrowed from the German War
Department after the situation about
Glencoe and Ladysmith became criti-
cal
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-23
TRANs-PAcIFIc CABLE.
Strong Movement Toward Achiev.
ing That Enterprise.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Lieuten-
ant Commander Hedges OF the steam
ship Nero has presented official reports
to the Bureau of Equipment, which
prove the feasibility of a cable from
San Francisco to Manila by way Of Ha-
wall, Midway Island and Guam. The
Nero worked from Guam TO Manila
and then zigzagged back over the same
course. Next she did the same work
between Guam and Yokohama and
back, and will next work to Midway
Island and Hawaii and return. Beyond
Guam no greater depth than 5000 faith
oms was found, so that no obstacle in
the matter of depth stands In the way
of laying the cable. Making allow
arce for avoiding the great submarine
mountain near Midway and a deep cav
ern near Guam, the length of the cable
from Honolulu to LuZon is placed at
1872 knots.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Secretary
Long and Rear Admiral Bradford APP
peared before the Senate Committee on
Naval Affairs today I'm advocacy OF
the construction of a Pacific cable by
the Government. The Secretary's
statement was general and related en-
tirely to the feasibility OF the plan and
its advantage over doing the work by
private enterprise. Rear Admiral
Bradford detailed the operations of the
collier Nero, which is now engaged in
making a preliminary survey of the
proposed line west of honolulu. He
said that the survey had been complet-
ed and that the Nero was now on its
return, making a "zigZag" survey. Ac-
cording to the reports made of the pre-
liminary work, the proposed cable was
entirely practicable. IL is to be run
from San Francisco to Honolulu, thence
via the Midway Islands and Guam to
Dirgala bay, Island of Luzon, with
spur for commercial purposes to Yo-
kohama. The average depth between
Honolulu and Midway is 2,007 fathoms.
between Midway and Guam, 1900, and
between Guam and Luzon. $500. He
estimated the cost at 81 $50 per knot.
which, with the amount necessary for
steamers, officers, etc, would bring
the cost up to $10,OOO,0O0. He esti-
mated the entire length OF the cable at
1924 knots, which allows 20 per cent
for slack and detours.
In connection with his statement.
Admiral Bradford said that he under
stood the average expenses OF the War
Department for messages to Manila TO
be about $1,000 per day, and that the
total OF the expenditures OF the Navy
Department had amounted to $4,000.