The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-07

temperature, 81; mean temperature, SO;
total rainfall OF inch.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Miss Redfre will sing at the Baptist
Tabernacle today at the morning ger
vice.
Rev. G. t. Adams will preach at the
Soldiers Home this afternoon at
o'clock. ~ ktsA
Judge Francis d. Winston will bold
his first court in Halifax county next
August.
The penitentiary folks are not riding
about so much just now. The horses and
carriage are for sale.
1t is said that there are now some
where between 4,500 and 5000 saw mills
in this State.
The advance farmers premium list
for the next State Fair will probably be
issued this week.
The Neuse river was so high the past
week that it was impossible it was
higher than since 1894.
Services at ST. Luke's Home this az
ternoon at A o'clock under the auspices
of the Edenton Street Methodist church
congregations
Mrs. McKimmon and Miss Tucker will
render the duet Awake up My Soul" at
the Children,s Festival in Christ church
this afternoon.
Today is Parents Day" at the Sun
day school of the First Baptist church.
A large attendance of the parents Of the
pupils is expected. The hour Is S:SO
this morning.
Sheriff Cline, of Lincoln county. was in
the city yesterday. He brought two con-
victs to the penitentiary-a white man
for year and negro for years. Both
were, convicted of larceny.
1t is said that one OF the States most
prominent farmers has within the past
few weeks made 900 specializing in
Seaboard Air Line, Southern preferred
and Virginia Carolina Chemical stocks.
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You will miss a hearty laugh if you
fail to hear Mr. Henry Blount's humorous
lecture on Chow Chow" next Tuesday
night in the Academy of Music. Adnis-
sion: Adults. % cents; children, 70 cents.
Subscriptions and communications TO
the "North Carolina Booklet" proposed
to be published by the North Carolina Sc
ciety Of the Daughters of the Revolution,
should be addressed to 1.-THE North
Carolina Booklet" Box 125 Raleigh, n.
G.
Yesterday was a typical April-rain
and fair. sunshine and cloud, wind and
calm and all in rapid and alternating
succession; altogether a day more
changeable than the most tickle womaL's
moods.
Mrs Albert Whitehouse, of Trinity
Park, Durham, will sing at the Central
Methodist church today. At the morn
ing service she will sing as the offer
tory 1.-THE Holy City," and Calvary at
the evening service.
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The calendar committee requests men,
bers of the Wake county bar to meet IN
the clerks office Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock to arrange calendar for the
April term of Wake Superior court, be-
gining April 22nd
The stenographers have finished their
part OF the copy for the impeachment
proceedings, which are to be printed IN
book form Mr.. Maxwell, principal clerk
Of the Senate, has the publication OF the
book in charge, and thinks it can ne
issued from the press in about month.
mo Admittance" are the words pia-
carded on the door of the room in the
Capitol used by the sub-commission on
text books for the public schools In
side the members were busy at work all
last week and are making good Roadway
i'm examining the books submitted. The
end of the work is not yet in sight.
Mr.. B. C.. Brickman returned yester-
day from Durham, where he has been
for some weeks getting up charter mem
hers to Tribe of the Order of Red
Men. He has already on his list enc
hundred and twenty-nine signatures. The
tribe will be organized on the 10th by Mr..
Rrickman and a degree team from the
Raleigh tribe. After the mystic rites
there will be a big banquet
Tho Seaboard, Air Line has paid into
the state Treasury $6,613, the amount OF
overcharges collected on shipments OF
fertilizers. This is a result of the suit
brought by the Commission against the
Seahoard. The Commission won its suit,
and the Seaboard was compelled to re-
fund the amount charged above the Com
missions rate. The money belongs to the
shippers who paid the oveTcharges and
thew can now file bills for the amocrt
to be refunded.
Scrofula is bad thing to inherit or
acquire. put there is this about it
,Hood,s Sarsaparilla completely cures
even the worst cases.
WANTED YOUNG MEN TO
engage in Money making business at
home For particulars address, New
idea Manufacturing Co, Box 62S, New
v,oy+ Nous Va