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i e i VOL. XXXI. RALEIGH, SATURDAY, MAY 5. 1894. NO. 12 FOR YOU CITY INiBRICF. THE BOARD OP ALDEBXIX. PERSONAL KENTION Hardware, &c. FOR US. Oar elegant new WRITING PAPERS which we have just received were manufac tured EXPRESSLY FOR US AND FOR YOU by the leading maker of fine and fashionable society stationery. You cannot afford to nse in your corres pondence any but the very latest and best paper. ..we want to show it to yon. Alfred Williams k Co Society Stationers, RALEIGH, N 0. Me .Your Pictures Fried A A We have a large lot of Moulding to seleot from and are prapared to frame in any stile desired for half the regular price. We also have a Larger Stock of FURNITURE than we have ever had before, which we are selling at greatly reduced prices. BABY CARRIAGES are a specialty. Thomas & Maxwell, 1 Leading Furniture Dealers, 9 and 18 Martin Street, RALEIGH, JT. C. febl AUCTION SALE for TUB WEEK Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Ilia these sales you will find anything and everything mostly. Sales will commence promptly at S o'clock each day. FRANK STRONAUH, 819, 321 and 823 Wilmington street. 1 Ball war Accident This afternoon about 4:80, as the S A Jj passenger train was DacKing irom tViMnlnn at.nHnn t,r t,h.Tohnson street station, a shifting engine ran fnto it and partially wreoaea air moncure a nui Want-. JnnflH street crossing. Two colored train hands on the car were hurt. One, Allen Hintln, was mahui ahnnt. t.hn Vims and badlv iai jnred. The other was not hart so badly. Weather. Looal forecast: Fair, followed by light showers bunday night. Local data, for 24 hours ending 8 am. todav: Maximum temperature, 84; Minimum temperature, oa; raimaii, trace. Synopsis: There has been a general fall in pressure, xne storm wnion mam nnntrdl in the northwest Tester a. hna advanced eastward, increas log in intensity. Bain is reported from a number of stations west of the Mississippi The pressure is still high along the Atlantic coast, but has decreased since yesterday. No decided changes in temperature have occurred. New AdTertlsements. Mann has strawberries. , T. .1 l Ihannnll ill HfillinflT ice. Watch Dodd, Nichols & Go's space. Wnsttt) 'raoser at jo are seuiug AND Tlois & Maxwell's furniture at ww prices. Items Picked Op and Boiled Down. The supreme court's term ended this afternoon. The foundation of the monument was completed today. Work is to begin at once on the new telephone saystr m. Three convicts arrived from Samp son couuty this afternoon. A remarkably heavy rain fell in the Auburn section this afternoon. Fine rains fell between Morris ville and Durham last night and also north of here. Raleigh is in the dry belt this season. If the city is as slow in widening south Fayetteville street as it is in opening West Morgan, it will be years before anytmng Is done. A mad dog created quite a sensa tion in south Raleigh yesterday. He bit the dog of a man named San derson and it is said bit another dog also. Thousands of people will be here on the 231. They must be well en tertained. It Is an occasion when Raleigh must "put its best foot fore most." This afternoon a freight train ran over a white man at Wake Forest. The accident occurred just before the mail train arrived there. 11 is inju ries were tnen tnought to be fatal. On the 22d instant salutes will be fired each half hour iu the capital square. Une of the Howitzers of the Newbern division of the naval re serve will be used for this purpose. Rev A D Hunter will preach at Caraleigh mills at 3:30 tomorrow af ternoon. He will also hold the first communion services at the West End Baptist church tomorrow morning afn ter tne regular service. Tuesday evening the ladies of the congregation of the church of - the Good Shepherd will give a musieale at the borne of Mrs J A Hlggs, the proceeds to be applied to tne pay ment of the church debt. A large number of persons assem- bled in the superior court room this morning, to hear the trial of the dl vorce suit of W D Upchuroh, Jr., against Maggie Upchurch. They were disappoiuted, for the case goes over to the October term. Mrs Up church appeared in person and by counsel and answered the complaint on which the suit is based, charging her with adultery. 6 he charges her husband with offences of the same, kind, with numerous persons, ana with condonation of her own offence, and asks the court to require herhus band to pay $100 for her counsel fees and $14 a month alimony. MEMORIAL DAT. Th Fill Programme of Exercises. Under the direction of the ladies' memorial association the following order of formation of the procession, and of the exercises at the ball and cemetery will be observed on "Memo rial Day," May 10th, under the direc tion of W H Hughes, chief marshal, aids and ushers: The exercises will begin at Metro politan hall promptly at 3:30 o'clock, where W A Montgomery, Esq, will deliver an address on the life and character of i-ten W D Pander. The following is the order of exercises at the hall: Music by the Pytbian band; prayer by Rev Dr M M Marshal mu sic; "Asleep in Jesus," sung by Mr W S Primrose, Mr Eveard Baker, Mrs J J Thomas and Miss Alice Dugger; or atlon by Mr Montgomery; chorus, "Nearer my God to Thee." The chief marshal designates the order Jofj; procession, music by Py tbian band. The procession will form in front of Metropolitan ball, the right resting at the intersection of Fayetteville and Hargett streets, and will proceed up Fayetteville, thence to East Mor gan, thence to the city cemetery, where a salute will be fired over the graves of the Confederate soldiers buried there thence to the Confeder ate cemetery. The order of proces sion is as follows: Band; Governor's Guards, and visiting military; orator and chaplain; family of general Pender; governor and staff; president, vice presidents, secretary and treasurer of the ladles' memorial association; justices of the supreme court and state officers; Ju. nius Daniel camp and all ex-Confed-erates; A & M College cadets; the clergy; the mayor and city officials; county officials and fire department; visitors and citizens. . . At the cemetery the exercises will be as follows: Chorus; prayer and benediction by the chaplain; decora ration of graves; military salute. An Electric Light Franchise A New Ordinance The Hospital Beady. At a regular meeting of the board of aldermen last evening the street committee reported in regard to the property of Mr Simeon Smith, on low er Fayetteville street, which is to be widened, and asked for appraisers to fix the amount of damages. The building committee reported that re pairs were in progress on the roof of Metropolitan hall. X be committee wnicn was appoint ed to confer with the representative of the Old Dominion electric and tel ephone company made a report in favor of granting It tne right to put up its poles and wires, subject to reg ulation. The school committee of the town ship proposed to sttle the amount of 15,483. now due tne sinking fund, by giving new notes for $5,000 in instal ments of $500 a year and a school warrant for 1183. This debt is due on the Washington school building for money borrowed from the sinking fund with which to build the school house. Authority was Riven the committee to take the action. A petition was presented, signed by about 50 bicyclists, asking permission to use bicycles without lights on moonligbt nights. Tne petition was not granted. A letter was received from Mr Wil liam Moncure in regard to the ordi nance limiting the speed of passen ger trains within the city limits to 8 miles an hour, asking that the rate of of speed be made 10 miles an hour. No action was taken. Aldermen Stronacu read a petition from the Confederate monument as sociation, staging that on May 22 the corner-stone of the monument would be laid; that the attendance of people would be great trom all parts of the state; that it was important to make the ocsasion memorable; that an ap propriation of $50!) ought to be made by the city. Mr T P Devereux urged the board to make the appropriation, saying there would be incidental ex penses, many vice presidents of the association and the Fayetteville Inde pendent Light Infantry will be here and H Is expected that tbese will be en tertained. There will also be the cost of a platform, &e. Dr Hines warmly supported the requestof theladies.say ing that the city ought to aid in mak ing the occasion one of the grandest in its history. Mr. Primrose urged the appropriation, saying the people of the whole state had given their mon ey to place a monument here which will beautify the city. The city has a duty and a right to participate in the matter. Mr R T Gray said the purpose was to make the occasion worthy of the city. The state has given $10,000 to the monument. Al derman Stronach endorsed what had been said, and thought this was "an occasion of occasions." He moved that the $300 be appropriated. The appropriation was unanimously made Mr. W P Batchelor, by leave, spoke In behalf of a number of property owners southeast of the city, complaining about the se iverage on Walnut creek, which he said was producing much malaria and causing much sickness. He said that last year be found 27 families, members of which were suffering from typhoid and typho malarial fever. These dis eases were not known there before. During all the winter people had chills in that section. He asserted that the city was maintaining a nui. sance. The remedy was simple the clearing of Walnut creek. The bot tom of the creek is now on a level with the sewer. People had been driven from their plantations by sickness. Mr W T Howie said that a few years ago his farm was healthy, but in three years had had 9 cases of typhoid fever. Mr. Batchelor asked for an appropriation of $250 for the purpose of cleaning out the creek. Alderman Stronach moved that the matter be referred to the board of health and the sewer committee. He demanded that this board and this committee act. Mr. Batchelor said he bad been trying for 18 months to get these reports and yet nothing was done. A request was made by the monu ment committee and by Prof. Gruber, asking the free nse of Metropolitan hall next Monday evening for the purpose of giving a performance in aid of the Vance monument fund. The petition was granted. Official notice was given by the trustees of the completion of the Rex public hospital and its readiness to receive patients. The Raleigh academy of medicine submitted a full and excellent set of rules looking to gratuitous service of the medical staff of tbe hospital. The physicians are to serve in groups of four and visit the hospital daily. Certain rooms will be. used for paying pa tients. The number of beds for free patients this year to be twenty, with the means at hand; 10 for white, 10 for colored. The rules of manage ment of the hospital as made by the concluded on 4th page. Of People Who Came and Went Today. Rev L W Crawford is here, guest of Mr C H Belvln. the Mr O B Clifton and wife, of Evans ville, Indiana, are visiting relatives here. Mrs Butt, who has been visiting Rev Dr Mershall, her father, returned to rortsmoutn today. Mr J O Scarborough delivered an addresd at ReidsviUe last evening at the closing of the public school. Tha ranicnatinn nf R.v TJr .Tnhn IP Crowell as president of Trinity col. lege win not De acted on at once. Mayor Ellyeon, of Richmond, will be a candidate for the democratic nomination for governot of Virginia in 1897. Rev Dr L W Crawford, of Trinity college, Durham, N O. will preach at Edenton street Methodist church tomorrow. Mr Colin Hawkins, president of the Raleigh gas company says that neither that company nor any person representing it has raised the bid on the street railway. Next Monday there will be a muni cipal election at Wake Forest. The contest is a lively one. Thre are two candidates for the mayoralty, W O Brewer and George W Davis. Mr Logan Bizzell died at Richmond, Va, yesterday, of typho-bilious fever, and was buried there today. For three years he was employed at the shops of Allen & Cram. He leaves two brothers, whose whereabouts is not known. Mr E M Wilson has won the prize of $100 offered by Dr Charles G Hill, of Baltimore, for the best thesis by an alumnus of the university on North Carolina history; his subject being the "Congressional Career of Na thaniel Macon." The Charlotte Observer says: "Capt A J Beall has arrived from Raleigh, where he went as a representative of Charlotte council to the grand coun cil Royal Arcanum. He is enthusias tic over his trip and the courtesy ex tended by the local council. The banquet at the Tarboro was an en joyable affair. Capt. Beall was par ticularly pleased with the toastmas ter, Mr. Joseph G Brown." The Gruber family. This well known musical organiza tion, composed of nine persons, will give a concert next Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock at Metropolitan hall, in aid of the Vance monument fund. Reserved seats on sale at MacRae's drug store. Prof. Gruber Is a devoted admirer of senator Vance, and the concert Is given with the sanction of the Vance monument association T MCA. There will be a meeting for men only at Metropolitan hall tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev P G El som, of Fincastle. Va., will speak. His subject will be "Two Bidders for a Soul." He is an earnest Y M C A. man, and all men should hear him. There will be good music by the male quartet and orchestra. Annual May Day Reunion. Tbe members of Edenton street M E church are arranging for a very in teresting service at their annual re union tomorrow morning at 9.30 o'clock. As customary on these occa sions, the usual school exercises, les sons, Shs, will be suspended and the hour occupied entirely by the reunion programme which will doubtless be a very pleasant tone. Not only the present members of the school are expected to be present, but all who have ever been members are cordial ly invited to come and renew the pleasant associations of former days. The public will be heartily welcomed. The Revival at the First Baptist Church, Conducted by Rev Mr Elsom, is In. creasing in interest as is shown by the large congregations. Last eve ning the large audience room was filled, and close attention given to the simple, plain, earnest and practical presentation of the gospel. The subject of the sermon was " Evi dences of regeneration, or what right have I to be a Christian," from the test " These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God;" 1st John 5-! 3. Services this evening at 8 o'clock. Services to mors row at 11 o'clock. Special services at 4pm and sermon on the Holy Spirit, CRESCENT IBicycIles. ) ( Crescents are the highest grade.light est weight, medium price wheels made, They are handsome In design and finish, light and easy running and per fect In every detail. crescents are cheap in price only. We give an honest wheel at a low price, and CRESCENT buyers get the full worth of their money, PRICE, -$75.00. Wheels at a lower price for ladies, girls and boys . I Ul . RALEIGH, N. O. Dry Goods, Notions, &c- 'r&de Attractions. IWe offer new, clean, fresh, reliable and carefully selected merchandise, and expsrt shopoers appreciate the difference between this and bankrupt stocks of antiquated, old style and shop worn goods. This is the greatest Wash Goods and Lace season ever known, and many pleasant encomiums have ben passed upon our selections. Our prices are the lowest known for such elegant goods. Cheap Prints, Gingta,Cli3llies and Washable Lawns a specialty: We offer the choice of 500 pea at only 5 cents per yard. Ladies' Summer Underwear, Gauze, Lisle, Silk and Swiss Ribbed Cotton, High or Low Neck, V Square or Round Out. Latest Novelties in Neck Dressings, in innumerable shades and colorings. Our stock of HOSE is conspicuous fcr good value and low price. C.A. Selling Furniture We did a spendid Furniture business dur. ing April. The cause was such loW prices. The same low prices stand for May. These prices are made to sell this furni ture before fall We had rather lose money now than to carry the goods through summer. Here ar i some of the prices, but the fur niture department tells the whole story. Book : Cases; No 541. Oak Book Case, price $27, former price $35. No 2220. Oak Book Case, price $10, former price $60. FOLDING BEDS. No 63. Antique Oak Folding Bed at $35, former price $50. No 50. Antique Oak Folding Bed at $45, former price $60. Parlor Suits. No 520. Parlor Suit, 5 pes, at $42 50, for mer price oo. No 136. Parlor Suit, 8 pes. over staffed and upholsi ered in silk tapestry at $75, worth $1 25 Furniture cepartment easy of access; take, elevator. W. H. & R. S. TUCKER & CO, EBb&w 1UUM SHRIOIto Daring Hay. C i - V if A. 1 -cv ITMTfc TTT TIP V
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