The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-07

News : Observer.
TUESDAY, August Z, 1900.
THE WEATHER TODAY.
For North Carolina-Generally fair
Tuesday and Wednesday; light to
fresh southerly winds.
Local forecast for Raleigh and Vi
cinity to s p. M: Tuesday, fair, be-
coming slowly warmer.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday
Maximum temperature, 81; minimum
temperature, IS; mean temperature,
rs; total rainfall, O..
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The Hollowbush Orchestra has just
received seven new instruments cost
ing 5000.
Rev. JOS f. Bivens, headmaster of
Trinity High School, preached yester-
day morning at Edenton Street
Church. He preached an excellent
sermon and there was large congre-
CATION.
Mr.. j. r. Young, the chairman of
the Executive Committee for this Con-
gressional district, says that the Con-
gressional Convention will be called
ON the last week in August or the
first of September.
DR.. M. NJ. Marshall who has just
returned from an extended visit North
preached to his congregation Sunday
for the first time in several weeks.
His health seems very much strength
ened by his vacation.
Three cases were for trial before
Mayor Powell yesterday but in two
of the cases the defendants sent, word
they were sick and. in the other case
the defendant didn't send any word,
and didn't come either.
The Corporation Commission met
yesterday. They took up the docket
and went over it, but there were no
posed of and beside the other routine
work, nothing was done.
Young ladies of the Baptist Taber-
nacle Church will give a lawn party
at the residence of Mr.. j. M. Brough-
ton, corner of Edenton and Person
streets, on Tuesday evening next, to
which they invite their friends.
James Lee Church, the infant child
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. III. Church, died
Sunday at Pilot Hill. The funeral
sedvice was held at Pilot Church yes
terday afternoon at o'clock by Rev.
]. o. Alderman. The burial was at
the City Cemetery.
The Building Committee of the Ag-
ricultural Department meets today to
accept the annex to the Agricultural
Department. 1nis is the third time
this committee has met, the two for
mer meetings having been failures on
account of the lack of a quorum.
The cotton crop in this section was
never better. The plant is small, but
it is heavily fruited from top to bot
tom. If the fall is a late one the
yield per acre will be as large as has
ever been known. Very little, if any,
injury seems to have been done cotton
by the drought.
The Seaboard Air Line through
trains are now run in two sections,
the latter section following in twenty
minutes of the first. Owing to the
heaviness of the trains before they
were divided, they were very rarely
on time, but the service is much
more prompt since then.
Tomorrow will be great day in
Louisburg. The occasion is a great
basket picnic and reunion of Confed-
crate Veterans of Franklin and sur
delivered by Gen. NJ w. Ransom and
Capt. w. B. Shaw. and it is expected
that great number of people will
be present to hear them.
The tax list which has just been
completed shows an aggregate value of
real and personal property in Raleigh
township of $6,31S.711. This amount
is exclusive of the property the taxa
ton of which is in the jurisdiction Of
the Corporation Commission, and the
value of which approximates a mill
lion and quarter of dollars more.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Corps of L.
OBJ. Branch Camp (this includes all
who aided and assisted in the Confed-
crate Bazaar), Ladies' Memorial Asso-
citation, Daughters of the Confederacy
and Daughters of the Revolution are
requested to meet at Metropolitan
Hall Tuesday afternoon, august 18th,
at o'clock. 1t is desired that as
many of the young ladies as possible
will attend this meeting.
Poul Pavesich, Esq. Of Atlanta, Ga,
is registered at the Marlboro House.
being the most talented fresco artist
in the South. His work may be seen
in nearly all of the public buildings in
Georgia, and in many of the handsom-
est private residences. He has the
contract to decorate the rooms of the
Olivia Raney Library, in which work
no and HE, re will no pOOaOp, i