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Night clerk Can always be found at THOMAS J. WATTS' DRUG STORK. EVENING VISITOR. Line 'f Toilet Sups, l'igt ana Tobacco. h- a M ineral Witeit.. I'm-. If lb Adinbimi t igai Uki in Thi-mai- J. Wait. w ri Ik d Drutpist. Bell at Side Wisdow. VOL. XXXI. Pojirr3iEri(! Neat.irks! Acctbact! THOMAS J. WATTS, FRBrBirTixinT. RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1894. 1 Take Pi.i-.am Kb in Si.i.m.vu ihj l'l i.in Day i.k Niuht. THOMAS J. WATTS, Phakha. i-t. NO. !! DOTS AND DASHES MADE ABOUT TODAY'S HAPPENINGS. A TRIP ON THE CARS. PERSONAL POINTS. EWE - km We liara just received a opljr of NEW CROP TURMP SEEDS All varieties, wbicb we are selling at reasonable prices. ALSO CABBAGE SEED CUCUMBER SEED For late planting for fall use. CELLING & HICKS. Druggists. : am mm mm ink Tinware S 3 We have just reeeived ii lar,; and well xe lee-el linn if oil kin-U Tl-N WA It H :! (i.ilvHuiz'"! (d o Is. - - - ' Tit) Sl?p3 4fc 8l Is one of the beHt equipped in the m State. All kinds of Tin Zl2 and Iron work done by skilled m workmen. Open Saturday night until 10 o'clock. LEWIS HARDWAIE'.60. 2 Raleigh, N. C. aimmmmmmfc Tlbey Have C A NICE LINE Valise; AT OAK CITY STEAM LAUNDRY. The Oak City Steam Laundry will do your work better than any laundry in the city or state, with less wear and tear, at competition prices. Because it is the oldest and most complete plant in North Carolina, with latest improved machinery and most experi enced operatives. Efficiency and promptness guaranteed. Telephone No. 87. L. R. Wyatt, Prop. Wanted Good, quick ironer. Steady work. Oak Citt Citt Steam Laundbt. Special Notice. Mrs. Thaddens Olive will continues the business of cleaning, dyeing and repairing clothing as conducted by her late husband at 810 South Salis bury street. Careful attention will be given all work sent to her. Orders may be also left at Dughl's, on Fay ettevllle street. "Mbleosb" flour just received at Tuexu A Wibbb'b. in Travel on the street cars was good yesterday. Barnes Bros, today put in a power press at thejr office. West End bid fairtobec ome Raleigh's most attractive suburb. New tin roofs are being put on sev eral buildings at St. Mary's school. lUleigh will be well represented ou the Wrightsville excursion Thursday. Fifteen horses are now at the fair grounds, iu training for next week's races. Barlow Bros. minstrels open the amusement season at the academy of music next Monday. Saturday one cantaloupe grower had eight wagon loads on the market, averaging 200 melons each. The democratic congressional con vention day alter tomorrow will be held iu Metropolitan hall. Tile executive committee of the state alliance met here today to prepare all the reports which the state alliance W'U act on at its annual meeting this week. Mr. Keeler, the energetic superin tendent of the street railway, is arrang ing for extensions, and wants bids for hewn oak cross-ties and cypress poles. Uoad supervisor McMackin has deci ded to devote two weeks time to the niacadamization of what is known as the " Manly hill," on the Milburnie road. Raleigh council, No. 551, Royal Arcanum meets tonight at 8.30-o'clock. Every member is requested to be pres ent. Candidates are to be initiated and new applications received. In July of last year the receipts at the bathing pool at Pullen park were $115, while last month they were only '59. This was because the streetcars ran only part of last month. It is said that quite a number of the Raleigh excursionists who jo to Wrightsville Thursday will stop at 'apt. Manniug's attractive hotel, "At antic View." They will And it a de ightful place. The suit for $5,000 damages, for " mental anguish," which was to have been tried at Winston last week and in which several Releigh people are wit. nesses, has been postponed because of the absence of two of the plaintitT's witnesses. Holloway & Bro. have something important to say to people who wish their horses to be properly shod. Andrew J. Stewart, the well-known horse-shoer, is with them and would be pleased to have his friends call on him. They also repair carriages, &c. There are now, approximately, 16. 000 specimens in the state museum. Four thousand specimens of minerals are in the cellar, there not being space for their display. A request is made for additional space for them, and cases will probably be pat in between all the windows. The tobacco grown in Wake is al most entirely in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the county. It is said to be a flue crop. The sales next season on this market are expec ted to be larger than they have been during the present season. No state ment of the amounts sold is ever pub lished. In yesterday's News an d Observer mention was made of the old Metho dist college here. Not many persons remember it. Conductor Timberlake spoke about it at the depot this morn ing and said it was a big wooden building which stood on Hillsboro street and which during the wr waB the Exchanee hotel. Just after the war the building was burned. Lumber is being delivered in Pullen park for use in building a tramway from a granite quarry on the south side of Rocky branch to the Hillsboro road in front of the fair grounds The tramway will cross the branch. On it Btone will be hauled for-use in maocadamizing the Hillsboro road The quarry will furnish an abundance of stone. Moore will take photos In any part of the city. jyl8 m Intrestlng Items Gathered and Around the City. Pleasant Way to Pass an Hour. It is a pleasure to see the street ears beginning to be patronized. A trip over all tin- li.ies, if taken for pleasure merely, is sure to please. Brookside p.n I. is ifw IL-hl.d. Still more lamps will be put up Picnic and shipper parties will liml ii pleas ant there. Tl.'T are s. : and swings. The lake U neailv lull and in a few days the (mats will be paint ed and ready. Several huu dreupeople were at this park yesterday. It was the first crowd of the season there. A good walkway ought to belaid on the dam, and the latter is not quite strong enough. There is most travel over the Hillsboro street line. The track has been much improved, particularly beyond St. Mary's. Pullen park is much more attractive than ever before. The spring is a favorite resort, and so is the big pavilion. At the spring is a banana plant on which is. a large bunch of bananas which will ripen Many people who visit the park do not know what a delightful walk it is to the upper lake and spring, which are on the property lately parked by Mr. Pullen. These can be reached by the road which passes through Pullen yark. The Funeral of Mrs. John C Drewry. Saturday, after a brief illness of bronchitis, Mrs. John C. Drewry died at Blowing Rock where she had gone for the benefit of her health which had for sometime been feeble. Her remains were brought here early " this morning, accompanied by her devoted husband and lovely little daughter and several friends. The funeral ser vices were held from Christ church this morning. Mrs. Drewry was a member of this church. Rev. Dr. M. M. Marshall officiated. The pall bearers were C. B. Root, Charles Me- Kimnion, Thomas Pescud, John Ward, V. E. Turner, Frank P. Haywood, Jr., James I. Johnson and B. G. Cowper Mrs. Drewry was a native of Atlanta and was a charming woman and a de voted wife and mother. She will be missed by a large circle of sincere friends. Y. M.C. A. Work. Some time ago a well dressed man, who appeared to be a gentleman, ap plied at the Y, M. C. A. rooms here for help. He proved that he had given up a good paying position be cause he had to work Snndays. As he appeared to be sincere, secretary Cooper arranged to assist him. Yes terday Mr. Cooper received a letter from him from Fall River, Mass. In this letter he expressed his gratitude and said that if help had not been given he would have probably com mitted suicide. This is only one of the many cases in which the Y. M. C A. has been of great service to nnfor tunate but deserving men. The Weather Report. For North Carolina: Fair Tuesday preceded by showers in eastern portion today and tonight. Local forecast Tuesday occasional showers. ..; Local data for 24 hours ending 8 ft. m: Max imum temperature 87; Minmuin tem perature 72; rainfall 0-00. The conditions are not very decided He highest pressure is over Texas It is also comparatively high over the Mississippi valley, except over Missis sippi, where a small depression is ob served. The pressure is low over the northeast and northwest, but no de cided storm center appears. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. This distinguished divine and lec turerer has been secured for Tuesday evening, Aug. 21st, by the young peo ple's union of the Baptist tabernacle, and will deliver his new and popular lecture "The gates of Heaven and hell in modern Babylon," at the acad emy of music. Admission 50 cents. Exective Department Notes. Governor Carr offers a reward of $100 for the arrest of Andrew Oxen dine, wanted in Robeson county for robbing and burning the warehouse at Buie station on the A. C. L. The governor makes requisition on the governor of Tennessee for Eli Ramsey, charged with obtaining mon ey under false pretenses in Madison oouuty, - ABOUT PROMINENT NORTH CAROLINIANS. People Who Come, People Who go and People You Know. Mr. W. D. Smith is quite sick on East Lenoir street. Rev. W. R. Gwaltney of Wake For est was here today. Dr. A. B. Hawkins has returned from Blowing Rick. Mrs. Charles McMillan, of Fayette- ville, is visiting relatives here. Col. A. Holladay has returned from a visit to the western part of the state. Shei iff Kenan, of Duplin county. brought one convict to the peniten tiary today. Deputy sheriff Brooks yesterday had a severe chill and has been quite ill ever since. Mrs. A. B. Andrews and Miss Janie Andrews returned from Cleveland springs today. Mrs. John W. Thompson and Misses Lilian and Daisy Thompson returned today from Jackson Springs. Rev. A. M. Sitnms, pastor of the Baptist tabernaele, went to Garner to day, to assist in conducting a revival. Messrs. Marion Butler, J. M. Mew- borne and J. J. Long, of the executive committee of the state alliance, are here. Dr. Charles Baskerville, assistant in chemistry at the university, who has been visiting Mr. Michael Hoke, left for Boston yesterday. Capt. C. B, Denson will deliver the address here next memorial day, on Gen. W. H. C. Whiting. He will per form that duty.admirably. Rev. J. N. Cole, pastor of Edenton street Methodist church, left today for Vance county to assist in a pro tracted meeting now in progress there. Mr. James II. Pou, chairman of the democratic executive committee, ar rived here this afternoon and will make arrangements for active cam paign work. . Mr. Augustus Bradley, clerk iu Mr. Hal. Bobbit's drug store, left Satur day for a visit to Tarboro. During his absence his position will be tilled by Mr. W. A. McClenaham. Mr. Theodore Bartlett and sister, Miss Bartlett, who for many months have been at the Park hotel, left to day for Mt. Airy, to remain a month. They have made many warm friends here. Mr. Jabez Myers, who is now in the hospital at Charlotte, continues to improve, and unless the unexpected happens he will in the course of time be up and about again. He is both mentally and physically better. OBSERVATIONS. Regular communication of Win. G. Hill lodge, A. F. and A. M., this eve ning. All Masons invited to attend. George Sims, a colored man, was put in jail today and will probably be sent to the roads in default of costs. Mrs. Nancy Booth died Saturday at her home on East Lenoir street, aged 83. Her funeral was held from the First Baptist church yesterday after noon. . The bd boys have been riding horses belonging to Tucker & Co. and the express company, which are turn ed out to graze in the northwestern part of the city. - The horse owners have found out who the riders are. Mr. Will. Rogers today exhibited open bolls of cotton taken from his farm near here, He says quite a number are open. It is early for cot ton in this section. The grape crop in this section is nearly all marketed. One grower, who last year sold 8,500 pounds of choice grapes, this year marketed 7,500. Prices ranged from 20 cents a pound to 9 cents. :, Berwanger Bros, tell a plain truth when they say they are comfort-makers. They make a specialty of light weight clothing. An extra pair of trousers is also something much in de mand now. ' " Mblbose" flour in barrels, halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths, at Tcehbb & Wtnnk's. VERY FINE CROPS. The Report Issued Today is In terest lng The reports of correspondents of the weekly weallier crop bulletin, is sued bv the North Carolina stat. service, for the week ending today in dicate that as the season advances the condition of crops is becoming more diversilied. Yet the prospects continue very fine. In the southern and eastern part of the state wheie there has been too much rain the laud is drying out nicely. The week was generally very warm, with one of the hottest days of lliesummer on the !lth. Scattered showers occurred, chietly in the east. Since the beginning of the publication of the crop bulletin in the spring of 1885 there have never been so few reports of shedding cotton bolls. Special reports concerning the hay crop from all over the state indi cate iu general, 1st, that the early crop was inferior iu yield to the sen sonofl8!13. The late frost and sub sequent drought cut the clover crop short in the northern parts of the western and central districts of the state. The crop was saved in better condition than in 1893. 21. The fall crop of meadow hay will be housed early in September. Owing to gener ous rains in August the condition of meadows is now on the average very good, and the prospects for the fall crop are that it will be larger than for the preceding year. The clop of corn and fodder will be large, and a very large crop of field peas have been sown for cutting in fall. May is not one of the principal crops of North Carolina, but it is probable that less than usual will be brought in from other states this year. Total number of reports received, 200. A Week of Interest in Wilming ton. The cruise of the naval reserves be gan at Wilmington' today. The fin cruiser "Montgomery," one of the modern meuof war, is expected to ar rive at Southport today, the 13th The niouitor "Nantucket" went down the river to Southport yesterday to meet her. The maneuvers will con tinue ten days, and the Masonic ex cursion leaving here on the Kith (next Thursday) will arrive iu Wilmington about the middle of the cruise, and will give all who go an'opportunity to visit the ships of war and witness th exercise. So get ready and let's all go. You will never have an oppor tunity to see so much for so small an outlay again. It is a chance of a life time. Fare to Wilmington and return $2.25.' There will be an oflicial re view the last of the week. Among the Moonshiners. Deputy collector Gibson reports the seizure, at Lumberton of a two 'horse wagon and team, a one horse wagon and team, a barrel of brandy and one of whiskey. The owners of these con traband articles are H. M. Skinner and C, Meadows. Both were jailed at Lumberton. He also reports the seiz ure at Clarendon, of one 70-gallon copper distillery and outfit, the prop erty of M. B. Deaton. It was a govern ment distillery but had been running in violation of the revenue laws.: When the United States constitution was under debate more than 100 years ago George Mason, of Virginia, op posed the proposision to have a senate. The senators, he urged,'wonld be citizens of the capital rather than of their states. "Will it not be then in the power of the senate," he asked, "to worry the house of representatives into anything ? I hey will be a con tinually existing body. They will ex ercise those machinations and, con trivances which the many have always to fear from the few." Mr. Mason's remarks are as pointed now as ever, perhaps more so, in the light of recent experience. ' . Tickets for the Masonic Excur "','.;.'.' sion. Tickets for the excursion to Wil mington next Thursday are on sale at Snelling & Hicks, Charles Bretsch; Barbee & Pope, A, Williams & Co., J. R. Terrell and John Y; MaclUe's. W. C. H. S. There will be a meeting of the Wake county humane society this evening at 8:30 o'clock at the mayor's office. This meeting is called for the transaction of some very important matters. Let all members attend. W. C. Stronach, President. Torbell's cream cheese at TcRHita & Wynne's. . A ' ' ' -':'"',.-'. A Th.-v aie not t.st-1 in Q I I hall. JL The -21 lb Wheel ha b Ml tested oil the roughest n.ads and have If you want the best you should buy this wheel. k Geneially Conceded Fact. Our regular stock consists of staples of a high grade, durable, worthy and meritorious, having a tendency to counteract the craze for cheapnessand degradation of qiiali'y We can pacify the incoherent and submit tlm follow iiiiC an! idoie: A Eclipsing Competition Totally: Challies; former price 5e, now 3c Lawns, " " fc, " 3c A A Domestics, " " tic. "4 3-4c Ginghams. " " 7 1-2. "4 3-4c Standard Prints, " 7c, " 5c Irish and Persian Lawns, 12c " 7c. Black Ribbed Hose. 15c " 10c The above are samples of our reduced reductions. BAD WHO rs l.ali, tli.IIMl.-i 'i'ord Ties, pati-nt leather if only .")()o.,75c, and ?1.(K). Ladies' White Canvas Oxlord Ties, kid trimmed, at 'only 85c. Ladies' White ' Canvas 'Oxford Ties, kid trimmed, at -only $1.00. Ladies' Tan Oxford Ties, at only $1. 'Ladies' Tan Oxford Ties, at only 75c. Misses' White Canvas Oxford Ties, it only $1.(K). Misses' Tan Oxford Ties, at only $1. Misses' Black Oxford Ties, at only $1. Men's Patent Leather Oxfords, at. only $1.50. Men's Patent Leather Shoes, razor toes, very stylish, at only $2.25. Boys' Tan Shoes at only $1.50. ,( These are not common Shoes, but good Shoes cheaper than you have ever seen. JOHN B. KEXNEY, HOT- Room No. 17 Commercial and Farmers' . Bank Building, RALEIGH, N. 0. Represents First-Class Foreign and Ameri can Companies. Solicits a share of your patronage. Prompt attention given to business, jy 31 tf Finest New York State cremery but-- ter at Tuaxsn St Wirx-ia'd, ' OTMIJ 1A LEIGH, N. C. JL raw kit PKES 4 - ff ' - .J
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