The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-06
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Twenty bales of cotton were sold here
yesterday-prices, ga. 9%, 912.
Prof w. F. Massey has contracted to
raise $1,000 roses for Henderson. the
florist.
Mr. John WILDER Jenkins, editor of the
Times, is recovering from severe attack
of the grip.
The Book Club will meet with Miss
Nella rimes on Saturday morning at
eleven o'clock.
The Ladies' Aid Society and the Young
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Presbyterian
church will meet today at IL o'clock at
Mrs. Mof1tt's.
The Seaboard Air Line has announced
a rate of $3.50 from Raleigh to Wash
ington and return on account of the
inauguration.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the North Carolina Home In
surance Company takes place at the
home office today.
Final discharges in bankruptcy was
yesterday granted ID. ID. Mcintyre and H.
S. Terrell, merchants of Wilmington. The
amount of liabilities and assets in each
case being small.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
- L.
ance Company will be held in the new
office of the company on Fayetteville
street today at noon.
The Raleigh First Baptist church has
engaged Miss Blackstone, of Kansas, to
act as missionary for the church. She
has already entered upon her work and
made good impression
Mr.. and Mrs John SomervilIe Cum
ingham have issued invitations to the
marriage of their sister, Sue Somerville
TO Mr.. Lewis Walker, Thursday after
noon, February 18th, 1901 at O'Clock,
Cunningham chapel North Carolina.
Among the lawyers from the First
district here attending Supreme Court
this week are: Messrs. Charles f. War
rem and w. Is. Rodman, of Washington;
W. NJ. Bond. of Edenton: f. F. Aydlett
of Elizabeth City, and A. Q. Gaylord,
of Plymouth.
The Gate City Manufacturing Company
of Greensboro was chartered yesterday.
The incorporators are: W. Z. Harrison
and others. The capital stock is $4,000,
which may be increased to $50 900. The
object of the corporation is TO manufac
ture furniture.
In the bankruptcy case of t. w. Smith,
of Warsaw, before Judge Purnell yester-
day, the sheet of referee McRae was con-
frmed, and Mr.. McRae was designated
to countersign checks. 1t was in this case
that Judge Purnell wrote his opinion in
regard to lawyers fees.
In the office of the Clerk of the Superior
court Mr.. w. F, Jones qualified as admin
istrator of the estate of Mr.. Kenyon
Jones. who was asphyxiated in the court
house last December. Also Mr.. w. ].
Tyson qualified as administrator of the
estate of his wife, Mrs Virginia Tyson.
Prof Charles Lee Smith, of William
Jewell College. will deliver the Gay lee
lures at the Southern Baptist Theolo-
gical Seminary on THE Preacher and
the Study of General History" He is
one of the ablest of the young men
North Carolina has sent to bless other
States.
Several convicts were brought to the
penitentiary yesterday. Sheriff j. X.
Cline, of Lincoln county, brought Marion
Williams. an escaped convict, who has
two years work more to serve for horse
stealing, and Sheriff Fleming brought a
negro from Granville county, convicted
of murder
Mr. Frank Fuller, of Durham, was in
the city yesterday and he brought the
very welcome news that his father,
Judge Thomas c. Fuller, who is now
in Durham, had almost entirely re-
covered from his recent illness at
Charlotte. His sickness was due to
heart trouble and for several days it
was feared that he could not live. His
many friends all over the State will re-
joce to hear of his recovery.
During the past month (January) the
average temperature at Raleigh was
4115. the highest being 70 on the 11th
and the lowest 90 on the 10th. The
greatest change in the temperature oc-
Cured on he 18th, when the thermome-
ter dropped from IS to 50. The mean
temperature for January in this city
for the past fifteen years has been Al.
During the past month % inches Of
rain fell, and on one day there was a
slight fall of snow.