The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-26


allure, 46; mean temperature, IS; total
rainfall, Trace.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Bishop Cheshire will preach at Concord
next Sunday.
Cotton receipts yesterday Sc bales. No
change in price on the local MARKET
The oldest inhabitant' candidly con-
fesses that he did not remember that Raj
eigh was ever before visited by as cold
an April as this has been.
The Atlanta Journal has a good pic
ture of Mr. r. B. Raney, of Raleigh, who
is attending the meeting of the Penn
Mutual agents in Atlanta.
Many people are of the opinion that
fruit, though apparently uninjured by the
recent cold snap, will in some sections
shrivel up an fall off before it natures.
Large congregations are listening with
great interest to the sermons of Bishop
Haid at the Catholic church. Tonight
will close his services here for the
crescent.
Chairman E. L. Travis and Mr.. Nathan
O'Berry, members of the Pententiary
Board, are in the city, preparing for the
next meeting of the board which occurs
early in May.
President Vann, of the Baptist Female
University will preach the annual ser
mon at the Blue Ridge Institute COM
mencement, June goth. Governor Aycock
will deliver the annual address.
Mrs Margaret B. Ship reached New
York Yesterday on her return from Cuba,
where she visited Manzanillo as the guest
of friends of her husband the late Lieu
tentant Shipp. in the Tenth Cavalry.
Mr.. r. c. Rivers left yesterday for
Wilson and other points. He is arrang-
ing for an Inter-City Entertainment
course for next fall, so as to bring some
excellent attractions to the State.
Gen. Toon, Superintendent of Public
Instruction. left yesterday for Hen
rietta, in Rutherford county, where he is
Teachers Association and to deliver an
address.
Visitors to Raleigh report that Gull
ford College now has 1886 students en-
rolled and that it has Increased its
course in chemistry and physics, besides
raising the course in Latin and in scien-
titic york
taea4.s-
Messrs. John T. Ward and VIM. Grimes,
who went to Greensboro to attend the
meeting of the Grand Lodge Knights of
Pythias. have returned and report a most
successful meeting and the continued
growth of the order.
Raleigh is little slow on the audito-
rum question but she'll get there all the
same, and she'll give the next State con-
vention such a reception as will make
all previous ones but dim and fading
memories in comparison with it.
Rev. r. S. Stephenson, the city Baptist
missionary. has changed his residence
from West Raleigh to northeast corner
of Jones and Saunders streets He will
conduct a meeting at West Raleigh
church next week. DR.. A. A. Marshall
will aid in this meeting.
Mr.. R. w Turner, of Elizabeth City,
and Mr. Geo. S. Bell, of Portsmouth, Va,
who have been attending the Grand
Lodge of Knights of Pythias, were in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Turner says that
Elizabeth City is growing more rapidly
than any town in the State.
A fight by two rooters and the threat
ened lynching of the umpire in the game
on Wednesday afternoon are said to have
been drawing cards, yesterday, causing
quite an increase TO the number of peo
pie attendant upon the game. What folks
demand these days is something warm
and exciting.
The ball team from Guilford College
came in late yesterday afternoon on the
freight from Wake Forest having had
to leave that place at the end of the
seventh inning to catch the train, the
score with Wake Forest being to 8.
The team goes to Mebane this morning
for game with Bingham School.
The people living along Dawson street,
between Jones and Lane streets, are
bowling advocates for more street bonds
because they are in the mud and want
to get out "Our street now" said
resident on it yesterday, lis like some
one has said of New York, full of
trenches and stenches-a shame to the
city"
Wilkesboro Chronicle: I'VE understand
that our friend C. c. Wright who is at
Raleigh as member of the commission
to select school books, was given three
days of grace in which to celebrate the
arrival of a new son at his home on
Hunting Creek, last week. Here's our
compliments to the young assistant coun-
ty superintendent.
The Southern tourist season, just clos
ing has been the best that ever was.
More tourists have visited the South than
in any previous year, and they have had
better service both from the railroads
and from the hotels. The weather has
been splendid nearly the entire season
through and there have beeen very few
days when outdoor sports could not be
INDUCED in.