The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-08
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

AN 6NV AOVU4 d 0G O44 L.
The weather yesterday gave a hint that
Spring is not so very far away.
The cotton receipts in Raleigh yes
terday were ~ bales. The price paid
for the best grade was 91a cents.
The Legislature has passed the mile
post of the first half of it's session and is
well on the home stretch of the last half.
Yesterday Mayor Powell imposed
fine upon Will Woodall, colored of $425.
He was charged with assault and bat
terry on Matte Moore.
The box sheet for The Bostonians was
opened yesterday morning at Bobbitt-
Wynne's drug store and before noon more
than two hundred seats had been sold
A workman named Hamilton was
overcome by gas while working on the
broken gas pipe near Davie street yes
terday. He recovered in few minutes
Capt Roberts of Gates county, is in
Raleigh. 1t is said that he is a candi-
date for the position of keeper of the
capitol He held this office for num-
Der of years.
Mr.. Clarence Sheriff., son of the State
Librarian, will be a member of the class
that will graduate at West Point on the
18th of February. He graduates second
in a class Of %
There will be a carnival at Southern
Fines the week beginning Monday Febru-
airy 18th. On the 14th, there will be re-
ception to the Governor, at Piney Woods
Inn. Special rates will be granted by the
Seaboard Air Line Railway.
The will of Capt. Hood. the former
Register of Deeds of this county. was
probated Yesterday in the office of the
Clerk of the Superior court. The will
leaves the entire estate, personal and
real to Mrs. Sarah Hood. The estate
is valued at about $4,000.
There seems to be little decrease in
the number of cases of grip. People
are suffering from it in all parts of the
city The most serious cases are those
complicated with pneumonia. 1t is
said that about dozen inmates of the
Soldiers Home are now sick with grip.
The Wilmington Messenger suggests
hat monument be erected in Raleigh to
he memory of General Robert E. Lee. We
re heartily in accord with our esteemed
lntemporary in a move so patriotic, and
ne which appeals to all true and loyal
tizens of North Carolina.-Roanoke
News.
The legislative committee left yes
terday to Nisit the Western Hospital at
Morganton. The committee is compos-
ed of the following members: Senators
Speight, Miller, Stikeleather and Wood,
Representatives Spainhour, Robson,
Isbell McIver. Ross, Shelton, owen
and Bradsher.
Mr.. J. B. Whitaker. member OF the
House from Forsyth, and Clement Manly.
Esq, of Winston, have personally urged
Governor Aycock to accept the invitation
rendered through them by President Gle
we'll to deliver the commencement Grafton
at Salem Female Academy. He gave a
promise to accept if possible.
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Rev. w. G. Clements, the County SUI
perintendent of Public Schools, has just
completed a visit to the public schools in
White Oak and Swift Greek townships. He
says he finds most of them in excellent
condition, and with excellent attendance.
He has visited seventy-five schools since
the beginning of the school year.
Parties in Davidson county have been
urging Governor Aycock to offer reward
Tor the apprehension of Arthur Basinger,
who killed Chas. Bullaboy in Boone
township, Davidson county. The Governor
has thus far refused to do so, it appear
ing from the accounts given Of the kill
ing that it was Done in self-defense.
e. H. johnson, Vice President of the
Coleman Cotton Mill exhibited a letter
Yesterday from the superintendent of
the Vista cotton mill, which recently
failed at Charleston with colored labor,
stating as follows: Il am decidedly of
the opinion that the location had more
to do with the failure of the mill than
the inefficiency of the help. In cotton
mills located in the county like most
mills in this section are, the company
owning all the land and houses, it is my
opinion colored labor can be worked
successfully if properly managed.
In the Supreme Court.