The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-30
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

The penitentiary management will be
changed April End. The new chairman,
E. l.. Travis, will be the superintendent,
by another name.
The sheriFs of New Hanover and Dare
counties settled their taxes yesterday,
paying respectively $23,451 and 1913 into
the State Treasury
Fruit trees are now in full bloom and
everybody is hoping there may be no Sc
we're cold weather to kill them and cut
off the fruit crop next summer.
Seventy-six bales of cotton were sold
here yesterday, the prices remaining as
follows: Middling, 7a; good middling,
8, and strict good middling, 81.
The Secretary of State has sent out
to the clerks of the Superior courts a
list of the magistrates in each county.
There are several thousand magistrates
in the State.
Application in bankruptcy was filed
with Clerk Grant yesterday by Mr.. w. H.
Arlington, of Castalia, Nash county. His
assets at $4,000.
A force of convicts is now at work
on the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad
Strengthening the road and filling in a
ravine between Asheboro and Biscoe. This
ravine has hitherto been trestled.
The Legislature made no appropriation
for an exhibit at the Buffalo Exposition
but the State Board of Agriculture will
probably appropriate sufficient funds to
make an exhibit of forestry and minerals
alone, in proper style.
Atlas Robbins who lives near Riley s
Crossing, was yesterday bound over to
court by United States Commissioner
John Nichols for running an Illicit dis
tillery The still was located near the
dividing line of Wake and Franklin
counties.
Mr. Sam S. Croker, of Cary, was badly
injured last Tuesday in the lumber mill
at Cary He accidentally became caught
in one of the machines and his leg was
crushed and several ribs broken. The
bones have been set. His injuries are
very serious, but he will recover.
The Victor Chair Works of High Point
was chartered yesterday. The incorpora-
tors are S. L. Davis, E. M. Armfeld w
HI. Ragan and Harvey l.. Davis The
company proposes to do general furni-
ture manufacturing business, The capital
stock shall be $4,000. The company is tt
last thirty years.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jas. S. Manning, of Dur
ham, and little daughter, Julia, went t.
Chapel Hill last Monday to have one o
her knees which was hurt some time agt
examined with the Xray. She has beer
suffering very much since the accident
and the examination was to see if thu
bone was affected.
News reached here yesterday of thu
death of Hinton Cooley, an aged either
of Wake county, who passed away at hi
home near Rogers Store, late Wednes
day afternoon. Mr. Cooley was about 4
years Of age and had been in feeble
health for some time. Heart dropsy wa
the cause of his death. He left VIII
but no children.
saws: Captain T. H. Leayitt, the we'll
known evangelist, and family, OF Blaine
N c.. have arrived in the city and vii
make this their home Capt. LeaVitt !
the Rev. It. H. Leavitt is the Rev. T. II
Leavitt, who made his home IN Ralels
a year or more and finally bloomed GU
into a full-fiedged 'divine healer.
fIn CYtnn n
Of Public instruction of Iredell county
writes General Toon that six schools il
his county have raised the $40 necessar,
for the library provided for in the recen
library act. These schools are No.
Chambers township; No. 8, Concord town
shin: No. 2, Statesville township; No.
Shipman township; No. 4, Bethany town
ship.