The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-17
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

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IN AND ABOUT TIE CITY.
Cotton-ordinary, every day cotton-is
now selling here at 10 cents.
Today and tomorrow and then the vote
on the market house question.
The Kenntniss Book Club will meet this
afternoon with Miss Sadie Root at 4
o'clock.
Mr.. Tunis Ferdinand Dean, business
manager of 1.-The Christian which will
appear at the Academy of Music here
the 18th, is in the city.
The Helvetia- Swiss Fire Insurance
Company, which was last week licensed
to do business in this State, has appoint
ed Mr.. 6. S. Bachelor as special agent
Those who expect to go to the Paris
Exposition this summer would do well
10 see Mr.. A. P. Bryan, of this city He
is agent for the American Line of steam"
erS.
Almost every day now brings out some
new candidate for the office of register
of deeds. The latest name that is being
suggested for the place is that OF MI
.. J. Fort.
Morgan street has been macadamized
from the capitol to the cemetery and 1t
is now one of the prettiest streets in the
city. Property along it has been in
creased, nearly one-fourth in value
President Meserve, of Shaw University,
has gone North to spend month In the
interest of his institution. All the stu
dents of Shaw University in the profess
sional schools left for their homes yes
terday.
1t is very likely that Evangelist Pear
son will hold q meeting here in the Pres
byterian church as soon as the new
church building is finished. He has been
invited to do so, but his reply has not yet
been received
Mr.. p. II. Cooke, of the law firm OF
G. Nj. Cooke & Son. has decided to move
10 Gastonia, II. c., TO practice his pre-
fession. He left one day this week for
his new home, but will return il few
days for his famiy.-Louisburg Times.
The mayor had only one case yester-
day. He sent Chas Jetton to the roads
for thirty days for being drunk and dis
orderly. Jetton is a white man and
skilled machinst, but he has been before
the mayor for drunkenness very often.
telegram from New York yesterday
I, h..N, Yrvt,f fr1tn
sight this week 123, 900 bales of cotton as
against 1i5, 600 bales last year and 9S,-
900 in 1897. This weeks receipts are
slightly more than was expected.
Sheriif Ellington of Johnston, came up
Yesterday with seven prisoners, five col
ored and two white. Among them was
Alfred Brown who killed c. w. Ballard
at Jerome. He submitted for manslaught-
er and was sentenced TO the penitentiary
for one year. A negro comes up for hve
years for arson.
There was quite fall of snow in the
western part of the State Thursday night
At Greensboro ''the beautiful was about
an inch deep, and even as far down as
Durham there was a slight sprinkling OF
flakes. All the railroad cars coming in
yesterday morning from the West were
covered with snow.
Prof Herman Horne, formerly or
Clayton but now a professor in Dart
mouth College, has been invited to de-
liver an address on Transcendentallsm IN
Psychology at Greenacre, Mass, IN
August. The occasion is convention OF
the Transcendentalists and Prof. Horne
selection is a great honor TO him.
Half of the material for the sketch OF
North Carolina" to be distributed at the
Paris Exposition as an advertisement for
the State, has been translated into Ger
man. The other half will be completed
within the next week or two. The trans
lation is being made by DR.. W. L. Dodd-
The book will be printed in Germany.
President Hobgood, of Oxford Female
Seminary is in the city. He has ar
ranged for great commencement this
year, May 18th to 18th, to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the founding OF
Oxford Female Seminary. oxford is
going forward" he says within the
past month companies have been organ
ICED to build 500 600 furniture factory,
$4,000 wagon factory, and a $4,000 cot
ton mill"