The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-20

probable Saturday.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, S65; minimum
temperature, 70.5 mean temperature
$50; total rainfall, LIS inches in twenty
four hours.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The various companies OF the Third
Regiment returned yesterday from
Wrightsyille
Or. b. F. Dixon will be the orator at
the Confederate Veterans Rally at Wind
sor on Thursday, August 1st
Ihere is to be game of ball in aid of
the striking machinists at the Fair
Grounds at 4:45 this afternoon.
SheriH Harrington of Pitt county,
was here yesterday to bring a patient
from his county to the insane asylum.
The cotton seed oil mill on Harrington
street is having a new warehouse built
opposite the mill. The building is 112x45
feet.
Mr.. Walter Whitehead, well known
Raleigh carpenter, will soon move to
Texas. He will work at his trade in
Galveston.
The Gattis-Kilgo case will, the Oxford
Ledger says, come up at the next term
Of Granville Superior court, which begins
next Monday week.
The Seaboard Air Line yesterday paid
its proportionate part of the cost in the
railroad tax cases to the State Treasurer
The amount was s52964.
Teachers Institute for Swain and
Jackson counties will be held at Whit
tier for a week, beginning next Monday,
by Prof. E. p. Mangum
Burke Rogers. the s weeks old son of
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Agers, died Thurs
day evening at their home at Rogers
Mill The funeral was at 8 o'clock yes
terday.
Mr.. Chas. " Albright, of Burlington
has acceted a position as stenographer
He graduated at Smithdeal Business Col
lege in Richmond Va.
No new tobacco has been sold on the
Raleigh market. Durham received its
first load of new this week. 1t was
what is known as "primings," but
brought a good price.
cnrn1, plnly &c
his friends his candidacy for the office
of County Treasurer. He's the early
bird in the field of local politics.
Whether or not he'll get the worm re-
mains to be seen.
Mr.. H. E. Avent, prosperous and en-
terprising farmer of Chatham county,
died last Thursday and was buried yes
terday. His son, Mr. N. G. Avent, passed
through this city yesterday on his way
to attend the funeral.
1t is expected that the trustees of
the Methodist Orphanage here will
meet next Tuesday to award the con-
tracts for building the $4,000 main
building. 1t is the purpose to have this
under roof by the end of the year.
Two excursions left Raleigh yesterday
One was Capt Michie's to Richmond at
$3.50, and it carried about fifty people
from Raleigh. The other was a colored
excursion from Cary to Wake Forest,
s~nnder the auspices of the Daughters of
the Tent, and it carried q big crowd.
Deputy Sheriff w. H. Cox, of New
Hanover county, yesterday brought a
negro convict, Jim Hawkins, to the
penitentiary to serve term of twen-
ty-one years. Hawkins was charged
with the murder of another negro and
submitted to charge of murder in
the second degree.
The force at work on the long dis
lance line of the Bell Telephone Com
pany from Raleigh to Winston now have
all the wires strung except for short
distance between Greensboro and Po-
mona When this is completed Raj
eigh people will be in telephone con-
nection with points in Virginia, with
Washington City, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, New York and intermediate
points.
Wake county is noted for the large
number of old people. due to the healthy
climate. The Troy Examiner of this
week has this item: "Mr. c. H. Beck
with went to Raleigh last week While
there he visited his mother, who Ives
20 miles from that city. She is going ON
90 years old and is still enjoying good
health. But Mr.. Beckwith tells us of
another woman older than his mother
that is Mrs. Ransom Byrum, who lives
in Buckhorn township, Wake county, who
is 100 years old and can get about al
right"