The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-22


imum temperature, 46; minimum temper
allure, 80; mean temperature, 80; total
rainfall, o.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The Corporation Commission will hold
it's next meeting on April 4th.
Annual reports of the city officers will
be submitted at the next meeting of the
board of aldermen.
The United States Senate has confirmed
the nomination of A. A. McGaskill as
postmaster at Fayetteville.
Presiding Elder ]. T. Gibbs will preach
at Edenton Street Methodist church next
Sunday morning and night.
There will be a meeting of ST. Luke's
Circle this Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock, at the residence of Miss Lucie
Brown, on Hargett street.
Chairman Simmons will address the
Democratic clubs of Craven county at
the court house in Newborn at o'clock,
Friday evening, March 23rd.
Mr.. B. r. Lacy will speak at Charlotte
on Friday night, with Mr.. W. E. Aber-
nethy, who is candidate for State Su-
perintendent of Public instruction.
OF the $500 to be raised for the
Baptist Female University here, $4,000
has been raised by Rev. Q. l.. Struggled
and those who are assisting him in the
work.
ngro named Jim Walters was yes
terday sent to Jail by Justice of the
Peace Roberts for stealing corn from
Rev. o. l.. Struggled, who lives in the
country near here.
Mr.. Bedford Brown, formerly messen-
ger to the United States Weather Blu
reau in this city, now holds similar
position at Elkins, West Virginia. This
is a promotion for Mr.. Brown.
Entered into rest at her home in Gin
ton, La, on the afternoon of March 18TH
Imogen McVea Stone, daughter of the
late Judge John McVea, and beloved wife
of the late Judge John H. Stone.
On next Sunday night Rev. j. e. White,
of this city, will lecture at Wake Forest
on the Southern Mountain Region" He
is preparing a tract on this subject which
he expects to have printed by April i.
Mrs. NJ. V D. Cooke, who is living with
her daughter, Mrs. Geo. H. Wainwright,
at Wilson, is critically i'll, and a letter
from her daughter, Mrs. r. B. Stronach,
who is at her bedside. brings US hope OF
her recovery.
The directors Of the Merose Knitting
Mill will hold an important meeting this
afternoon at o'clock. The destruction
of the Pogue warehouse by the recent
fire forces the directors to look else
where for a mill site.
The building committee of the State
Board of Agriculture is called to meet
here today at 1880 o'clock, for the
purpose of examining the annex to the
State Museum, now being erected and to
decide what must be done to remedy the
defects in it.
Yesterday afternoon 5 o'clock in the
mayors office there was a meeting of
the anti market-house-s elles, for the
purpose of arranging a settlement of the
expenses incurred in Mondays election.
They reported having spent $685. in car
rying the election.
Mr.. Henry T. King, editor of Kings
Weekly, Greenville, announces in this
weeks issue of his paper that ''in day
or two he will leave (Greenville) to be-
gin work as a State fertilizer inspector.
He will, however, continue to manage
the editorial department of his paper.
DR.. Hunter Mcguire. of Richmond has
many friends and acquaintance in this
city and elsewhere in the State, and the
news of his affliction was received here
yesterday with genuine sorrow. While
out driving Monday afternoon he was
stricken with paralysis and it is feared
that he cannot recover.
A letter from Reidsville says, touch
ing the smallpox epidemic, that the
danger is now probably passed Although
there are still upwards of a hundred
cases under treatment. it is believed
that the spread of the disease has been
checked. DR.. MCGUIRE Newton, of Rich
mond, is rendering valuable professional
services In stamping out the epidemic.
The patrons of the market house and
some of the butcher stalls are making
complaint of a lack of cleanliness on the
part of the meat men and their places
of business In these days of cheap
soap and plenty of water every butcher
or meat dealer ought to be able TO at
least wear a clean white apron when
waiting on his customers.
Many requests for copies of the pure
food law passed by the last Legislature
are being received at the Department of
Agriculture from dealers, who say they
desire to learn its provisions in order
that they may comply with them. With
the possible exception of New York North
Carolina has the most stringent law in
regard TO food authorizations of any State
in the Union.
The total eclipse of the sun in May
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