The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-12
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

st. Luke's Circle will meet at st. Luke's
Home, Thursday, the 18th at 4:30 O'Clock.
Judge Purnell has. gone to Lynchburg
to hold the term of Federal court for
Judge Paul, who is sick.
Collector E. c. Duncan announces the
seizure of the Cypress Distilling Com
pany's plant near Wilmington on ac-
count of alleged irregularities.
A large party of deaf and dumb child
rem passed here yesterday on their way
to Morganton from the east. There were
number who joined them here.
call has been issued for the forty
seventh annual meeting of the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad Company,
to be held at Newbern on the Goth day
of September.
A telegram from Baltimore last night
announced the marriage there yesterday
of Mr.. Frank Tisdale, of Greenburg, N.
c., and Florence NJ. Schafer, of Balti-
more.
There is movement on foot for the
erection of new dormitory building at
Peace Institute. 1t is to be memorial
building. in memory of the first president
of the institution, Rev. Dr. Robert Bur-
we'll.
The weather is delightful, and the farm
ers are busy. In some sections, late apples
a. oh, HILL &c
good and the pea crop is such as is
rarely seen. OF course the cotton crop is
far from what it ought to be, and low
land corn is a failure.
The following additional delegates to
the International Good-Roads Congress
at Buffalo September 1921, were yester-
day appointed by the Governor: d. P.
Hutchinson, Charlotte; w. l.. Spoon,
Winston; S. L. Patterson, Raleigh.
The public schools of Raleigh will open
September 23d. The teachers to be at
the various schools next Monday morn
ing to issue tickets for the entrance of
students. This will continue for four
days, thus allowing two days for the
grading and other work incidental to be-
ginning the session.
The horse epidemic that has been
killing animals in eastern North Caro-
lima has reached Virginia. The Norfolk
Landmark says; "A disease, the syrnp-
toms of which are similar to the blind
staggers, is prevalent in this section. In
four days two fine Shetland ponies be-
longing to Mr.. Lindsay Sylvester have
Succumbed to the disease"
Atlanta is Strutting around like lit
tie boy in red shoes because a negro
who once lived in that city struck CZol-
gosz just as he shot the President; Bal
timore is equally proud that it has in it
a man who once knew CzolgosZ in the
West and considered him an inoffensive
sort of fellow; Norfolk comes third with
a man who once met DR.. Wasdin, one
of President McKinleys doctors. Raj
eigh might boast that one of two of it's
citizens were at the Exposition some
days before the shooting took place and
some have gone there since, but it is
too modest to do SO.
The imperfection of the Academy OF
Music, as a show house, was never more
glaringly brought out than last night,
when the Field minstrels were so handi-
capped for lack of stage room that they
could put on none of their special scene
, ry including a reproduction of the Pan
American Exposition, which has in it
400 electric lights and has been pronounc-
ed by Norfolk and Richmond papers the
most elaborate and gorgeous scenic en-
bellishment ever produced by any min
strel show In short, the opera house
here is such that the management of the
Ministries had to present their most ex-
cellent show under the greatest disad-
yantageS.