The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-11
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

In AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Cotton receipts on this market yester-
day, 80 bales. No change in price.
Services at the Gospel Tent" CONT
each night this week, beginning at SIS.
The funeral of Judge Spier Whitaker
will be held this afternoon at + O'Clock
at Christ church.
The Oak City Guards will meet tonight
at the armory, $50 O'Clock Every mem
Der must be present.
The grand lodge of the Good Samari
tans is in session here this week. and
many colored visitors are in the city at
tending it.
This afternoon at 4:30 at the Fair
grounds the Raleigh team and the new
Tarboro team play ball. A great crowd
Is expected.
The Conductors excursion. which left
Raleigh for Norfolk yesterday carried a
large party. There were over four peo
pie in seven coaches
1t is thought that Prof. TAFT Butler of
Kansas, will be the new State veteri-
marian. He is now president of the Ma
tional Veterinary Society.
Nash square had a military appearance
yesterday morning. The gathering of the
soldiers there on their way to Wrights-
vile drew large crowd of spectators.
Governor Aycock has appointed Prof
bred Peacock, of Greensboro, a director
of the Oxford Orphan Asylum. vice b N
Duke, recently resigned and now !. resi-
dent of New York.
There are now $50 convicts in the peni-
tertiary Only the females and the men
untitled for farm or railroad work are in
the central prison. Work in the shirt
factory ceases this week.
1t is said that the finest crops in Wake
county this year are in the Wakefield
section. The heavy rains there did lit
tie damage and for radius of ten miles
around the seasons have been fine
Work in repairing and strengthening
the walls in the offices of the Attorney
General and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction is progressing rapidly and
will soon be completed.
The special sale of dolls at the Five and
Ten Cent Store drew very large crowd
of ladies and children yesterday morning
To see the little ones deciding on the
dolls they wanted was quite a sight.
The State Board of Examiners will
meet this morning, but will transact no
business. 1t will adjourn to meet az
soon as local boards are ready to make
recommendations as to teachers in the
various colored normal schools.
The delegation from Fayetteville.
which came TO Raleigh in the interest of
the Fayetteville colored normal, left yes
terday afternoon In the delegation were
Messrs. j. d. MCNEIL, e. r. MacKethan,
E. j. Hale, A. H. Slocumb, H. l.. Cook,
A. A. MacKethan, ]. A. Mcpherson, B. g.
Hollingsworth and John Smith
Capt J. e. Hamlin, colored, late of the
Fourth infantry, has returned after two
years service in the Philippines Some
of his men returned here with him, but
the greater part of them entered the
regular army. Capt. Hamlin brought with
him a Filipino boy, aged 8, whom he has
adopted and will educate.
The News and Observer yesterday re-
ceived some very large and delicious
blackberries grown on the twenty-acre
farm of Prof. John Graham, of Warrenton, |
N. c. This farm, from which more than
z, 000 crates of these berries have been
shipped during this season, is at Ridge
way, N. c. The berries are unusually |
large and of the finest flavor.
Ex-Governor Russell, of Wilmington, is
at the Marlborough. He is here. as one |
of counsel, preparing for trial the suit |
brought by bar-keepers who have had |
saloons in this township, beyond the city |
boundary within the past twenty-five
years. These saloon keepers sue to re-
cover from the city the taxes imposed |
upon them under the claim that as it had |
police power and supervision one mile be- |
yond its boundary, and therefore the right |
to tax the saloons. The sum involved |
$4,000.