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Let ZFjt Wmo Ura No Wears ffoa Vma Ficmt, Bevjbt, VOL. 71 DURHAM,-NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1890. k NO. 6 PQIVDER Absolutely Pure. , Tlii tw.nlr tiivr vnruti A ti.arr.li l"rltr, itr.tilh nl liole iiu ions , Mi re rcoooimini liin lit onnnsry Kin :, ami raoii'it be i'i! in cotujwi i with the mu - utmle or iw tii, short weight alum or KuTAi. lUltia I'WDIt to , 10U Wall St. Doners w uest qutiity, iroo if htet-1 made f lo hes. Engines Tobacco ricbr nuc'.i tcr, Cotton Prtswt, s aud Gil mill. El. va lors for K iH try War boa?, -Stores and Machinery generally.' . II TAl'f EV. M'CIESOUB Tit TaitxtA lit-aitr. Fettcrstig, .... Virginia oct. 31 ly. Thaxion & Wsikins, JOIH'EKS Notions, White GOOD- FAST QOOD3, OVERALLS, tami: mtras coons &v. 14 8. Fourteenth St., Richmond, V. K. A RriUber, Saleman 'or mid dle N. a feb.37. EiLElGl mm WORK it nd .It r4jrMWvllt NmI, RALEir;:!. . . . . . N O Branch Y-Ji Lufei'i Oii M, FATETTCVILU, . C. F Mwufs'tNfvr f ll kisS f Nniinnli TuibtMv I Mrl or flfMMM. A'w V1, Irarlar lil klori f Pwll.'lot Wart.Carblf Fa-u. p, IK , Work tinrwl imtl 4M trw ot rati. Of all ArawicUoM krtt ku4 n-!jrat I U tlm if i pptirittoa. C'H AS. A. GOODWIN, rrorrijor. NOT GUILTY. . . ; Mfts, CORA MOHUIS SCALES ACQUITTED IN JCOUUT. ! The Defense Oft'crcd no Evidence unl After ISoiugr Out Five " MiniitcM the Jury Ken- : dered a Verdict of Not Guilty. r Ik-ur Cemetery WOi.e3. PcrHonsin Duih.imand nd joininp counties wishing to mark tha grave of a relative or friend with a ! Tablet. Tomb, or Head and Foot Mone, can do ho at a Ycry pmall outlay, a wc have tho largest Block of finished work of any bimilar ctabli8htncnt. In MmsLR Asn rounncft okaxiti. Best Workmanship and lowest IViecs! GADDKSS linOTIIKUS, 101) North thai !( St.,Irtl(liii)rc fttoM Hatha ail M. hatl M.' Established 60 Years Sit Chronicle, Tba rvailera of the Chronicle were shocked iu August la-.t to rel tliat !r DVE. Morris, a promineat aol wealthy ci jzen of Rei Javillo of high -tuu'lio(, and a inmubir of a Meth list Ciuwh. had been found dfftd i i i'i- bird, aid tlm. auspiclon .f t. murder rental up.ir !im wifj C ii ? Hay Morrip, a ice of Et-0 .veri;o" caUi. . Mra. Morria i '11 vea a i f of tua!l fiiire. a full bloude. regular fcaturrr, full of vivacity ao i t;race. one U l the very he.t a ivao t X ttuJhi wealthy and iaQueutia rt Ijiiives and frieuds. The following u roudcoM1! from the full account! in ilio AilanU ConiituUo,i Sin co Com was a chiidnd frolic'r J a'jouth'bitoi nt Ki 'avill-, Mr. Mr is ..u nv- i.nfr.i .i im girl g v oor, ir. itiii.tu i!:. i for tier grew iru ger. but air Morris was n t r' iJt-al of a uia i. lie a r.f a vi ry quift, eay i j-pibili.in, pioai juid rery carekts in his dress. For lon tiinu Coia r"-ried him as a frieml, but whtn hu T' p dto her, tie waigrtatiy turprue'l.aud sorned tl idea of tver bicouin e his wif. r u' he sictre I tue inflaence of r ril.ithts nn ! ciitiuind in mx i ociLQiDg : I8N3 .vr. foom t"' up . Ma auo.e at AJr. bcaltsa home, ami heaven olid earth were tn vid to Hi'n C'.ra over V tbe rich buchtl'-r. SBK DUlbES TO ACCKPT II IX. . At !a-t the eirl jielded t the prJ ure and the tunrriaee was announce! i t'x-lt place at tho biidea rrttidenoe on tbe Uiu of Uemner, 188?. and congratulation and gift ihowrej io -joD tbe suppose I happy couple 'it it wasnota ba -i'5 marriage. Cora bad told Mr. Mo ' thai she did not iotc him, and nc v r could, and the would only marry Limto satisfy hw relatives, but Mr. MorrU onlvlancii- et at this and toIJ her that he knew she w mid lore Lira aomedar. "Uu'.l d!," the rrttti youuz woman re- lie "I can't, aud I never will lov- ou." Atiet the marriage ceremouy d been performed, the bride bioke Kwn, rrrmi? bitterly. She refuted emphatically to go on a bridal tour, and tp'jke but fjw words to hernealy made husband. Whei the hour to retire for ti.e nijjht arrived, Mr. Mor ris was shown it to the bed-chamber, snd ua he enure J his wife scream for kim U g back," and a hi lie cl;neltjdothU,sUe jumped out of the bed and went to ano.her room, her.- he rem iueJduiiigthe nig it, and at the break'ast tabm the u xt moriiing, Mio demanded that they oe rvpy cnliie'y s pirate atiartmenU, and in that manner they lived up to the time i-f her husband's death. Mr And Mrs. Moni were lever seen to gather on the aireet or at any srt of gather nss, and although twice every .Sabbath Mr. Morria occupied his scat in the Mtthcdlst tfhurch his wife was never ncn by hU aide. UK MAKCi I31S WILL. On Angusl 9, 1889, Mrs. MorrU V.H her h vbaod Itat if be would make bin will an I lsce all his pro pettv in her iavor, aud insure his life lot $10,000, that, beginniog with ptenihrr 1, 1885, abe would begiu a ni w li e, and be to Liu a Roving and faithful if in every . rup cU Mr. Morris at once made hie will a rrrjuesled. ai.d took out the required pol ey wl h the Mutual lienctit In ur.o ce Companv of Newark, N J., and on Friday. August 1(1 h, he do livere l to her the policy. Tbrredays lati r, Monday tnortiog, AngoH 19 It, Mr. Morris ai found dead in bis bed with s handkerchief thoroughly ta' orated with chloroform over bis face. Llddy Wiilismp, the cook, was tbe find I discover that Mr. Morris wa deal and when slie told Mrs, Morria, she told her to ho on about her bust ' otea. LidJj, however, told Sam Wall and be went and spread the ne around town. Several atm friende of Mr. Morris went to ir.qo.ire about the report, but his wife told them it was fa se and bcr biuband was only testing. The coroner returned a vcr diet that deceased came to Lis death from chlorofoiia aJinlnUton-d by his w.fe, she wss (ben placed, under ar S, .: ' TII TRIAL. 1 ha trial commenced at Wentworlh ou Friday, Judge J. II 'Morrimon presiding. Sh was ibfndl bv Mers. W.N Mobaie.'Hii Ji R, Scott and H'Ij. Glenn , i hi prosecution was conducted by t o mcitor Si'tle, and Kei l & Kewl, ami is yd oil J John sou. i he ilef suto oflere J n evident and the pro-ecuuou eximined only fi 7e witn esea. The defenau held that the evitcnce was wholly circumstan tial and of too weak a nat jre t con vict,. I'i tha op uion tin Chronic'e baars Judj-j Dill tr l oncirs. TIU TI-J.TIMOXY. r .i iimi. . aianni w un x u on, tnn co ore co )K, ws tua lirst witness ex mime I ojc lesoinea mat on me n'orninsrof Auiiist 19, 1889, she went to Mr. Morris's i O' ru. and that ho wa !vin? tu. t n o.'ij witti hi hndi f-.ldfld aur us hm breMt a if dea l. A band kerchief was sp eaj. ever h!s face, and an empty chloroform bott e w,u near tho be l. bhe told Mis. Morris that her husband was dead, and she told her to goon ab mt bt r bji-iue. Said she was a f nd. ' Ch irleJ F. izer aB.'idsvilla drue gist, te?tifid that he relieved a note on Suu iy i.iht, liio 18th of August, law, gaying: ; "Send two u ces of chli-oform aud charge t Mr. Morris." . Mr. Fet ir lent the c!i'oroforui a reqm-sted. CM. Oojde, who was the. first white person to go int. Mr. Morris's riiom aft?r hi i death, was put oi. the witness staod. He taid Mrs. Morris did not want bi n to go into Mr. Mor- ru s room, saying he was not dead, nut sleeping. Twenty witnesses who had been fuiamoned were not examined. Mrs. .u .ins uitl not make any s'ateineut as it W41 i Xj!cte.I would do. Court adjourned at a late hour Sat tiMsy nignt.and the cae wag 6 .ished Monday, - Mi. Morris spent Nun lav r i st - - . ai uer mmo in uai.umiio aui it sat i weni w me cerarerj w.iere u r husband is luried and wept over his grave, hue was carried to tbe Court Mouse in a phaeton urawu bv two black horses. Shs was accompanied by some of her relat.yes and her att'ir- u.y. cue loons uxe sue eijoyi ro bust health, and appirently was com po.-el throughout. TQK CLOSING eFEECII. Mr R. B. Glenn's appeals in bi! half f his client were pathetic in tho extreme, and tears trlckhd down the cheeks of three jurors besides many in the court bouse. Air. Uknn de clare I that the State bad failed in its effort to make out any cose at all, tayiiizthtt evn the cridi.jca tuit wi intrtxl ie -l was onlr clr im Un. tial, which never should einvict any worn in. He a; pealed to the man hood of the jury, and pic'uKd to them ine liideousness or convicting a por d unte'ess g rl on s' weak evidence, which might, aiiio too late, prove no evidence at all. JJr. Glenn closed his s,H'ecb at twenty miuut cs to four, and Judge Mernmro at once began his charge to the jury. At ten mm ut s to f ur the jui j letired. TUB rKlSOSF.B SMtlES. Mrs. Morris dui log trie entire even nx occupied a set by her counsel, rod when the jury retired ahe kept her seat. I lie Judge, lawyers and therscbalttd away, and until it was announced that the jury bad agreed, the court-room wa in a considerable roar. Several friends went across and ,poke encouraging words to Mrs. Morris, who seemed inclined to grew nervous. Mio was seen to fliuue nope- f o'ly once or twice. It was pud. twenty minutes past four by tho court h uie el ck when the luty intend the curt-room. Till VERDltr, SOT Ol-ILTY." There ai a ehath like stillness as the voicei f the chrkrai gout: "Gtn tiemen of the Jury, have you agreed oa s vetdieir " Ve have, answered Foreman Sani'its Addretuz Mrs. MortK, the clerk said t "Prisoner, look unon the Jurv. snd then turuinit,aiitleraen of the jurj, look upon the prisoner." Mrs. Morris cast a ba'l bi peful and half despairing look at the men who held her hie in their nsnus. "What saf you, gcnUeraen, guilty or not guilty?" , "Not guilty answered Foremtn tnJ rs, and the others nodded their hads inasnt . billVKX TO UER IIOUE. lira. Morris at otoe left the C urt- room, accompanied bjrber father and dher reiavivrs sua irieuu. iaar rushed up and extended ter Co grat uutions. At tbe court houe door stood a two'horae phaeton - She was assistej int thK and at once driven to her hom in Ueidsville, whore she will enpv a i night's reat, perhaps ine nroi in rainy months. ; W-urr ovsa tbe psopEaTfi ; A Special from Ke'dsville to the Atlanta Constitution dated Jan. 28th, soys.,- ; , . : As was well known, thore was more at stake in the trial of Mrs. Cora Morris, charged with causing the death of her husband bv chloroform. i.t . . . . just ci-msii, than the rare conviction or acqoittal of the prisoner. There is the large estati of Mr. Morris, be queathed in his will to his wif. ud a ten thousand dollar insurance policy on n-s lite, also iiavab a to Mrs. Morris. Yh acquittal of the prisoner.-of course, inrows ftli tins inn her hands, whereas if she hid leen convicted Ihe will of her husband wmld have beu tr II an I void. Tin's is tho him of MM Morris nd it its in this thrm mg town where u located mrt of the property mantioied in tha will of Mr. Morn, It is. learned to niht that there will be vet more lawsuit over tbe matter, and there is moio uuret in store for orettv Mrs. Mortis. Tha relatives ef the de.id man will contest bis will on the charee of the infidelity of Mrs. Morris and overper suasioj on her put in inducing he husband to mike its provisions in her favo,-. Ths Mutual Benefit Life In suraace Company, of Newark, N. J., announce that thev will fieht the cae till judgment day before they will! pny over tbe ten thouuml dollars policy. . . - v Mr. Jay ou Blair's Educational .A'roject. , Hew lerk 8tA. Jo. U, 18 0. loafttronarest argument in favor of tho Blair E lucatio ial bill that has ever been made is embodied in the More Than Fifty Years Ago. We are thankf 1 to the friend who wrote the following for the Mebans "Item" last week There are a num., berofcood old citizens livino in' Orange and the adjoining counties lott.ai" t f M Jnhn T.i . Tk. Ot-- I .L - .t.-ii .?. ... . vUU lv utoi, i woo aim, possess, ana win possess ; Our correspondent reasons with while they live a kind feeling toward iuucu uisouuuy, ai wen as great rorce, inis paper; tney never will forget its and from a Republican or Federa- founder, Mr. Dennis ITeartt, who listio sttndpoiut his plea is convin- never wronged, and never unfaith- cing. Indeed, if wewero to admit fully acted; history like this is sa the soundne of the premises tha'. cred to us: underlie hu disoassion of tbe subject. "It was with pleasure that 1 looked wvMi.u cuuipeueu y, accept nis over the columns of the Durham vVuv.u.ou uecauw iue otar Kecokdeb of December 18th. This ttZu aKth fT-m th.e ot.her cPy f the Recobdkb is a model of S .ITuf Auraerl?ai? ,n?u: enterprise, neatness and good taste. Tnior. t f t8 0,kU,",fcM More than fifty years ago I readths Union Leaguer that his masterly ore- ,u u LL - .3 l m, 7 . .. . ' lure its weekly visits t my fathers Vu w.nvu wr uy i tiniato in whicn it waa hnlrl h oil ASA M.t i ! . t 1 . I "7 " " " ' MIA taf 11 " the people of the neighbored in ii'Jimuociuccnu main r&onev nun mi,:..u r i: ru r ?t. i . . infn h Tin c..,. t ... ru ""ltu 1 "earn ana Cu7i. h13 tW0 8on' ia Heartt, be distributed . in State, on . nwnT raen.of 'orruphble integrity, fixed soil, any State will decline to a,n.d w,ere hontred and. respected by " receive its shire. To do so wonld be ' o Tariff This Year. LNew York Herald rnvatf reports. . which come to ns f roun Vashington and from Ne Kugland". lad us to believe that serious disappointment is in store for the brethren who are -now ap pealing to the Republican Cougress or their reward. It begins to be whispered ' in the inner liepublican circle that no tanH bill mnst by passed by this Congress. Mr. McKinler means honestly, without doubt; but the pressure from flew .England Ke- pubhcais for free wool, free iron m a . ore, tree coat ana iojv duties on pig iron is so strong ana so pertinacious that tbe Itepublican leaders begin to think it imprudent to insist on a bill such as the party is committed to and as Mr. MchTinley and his committee will report. ine reports wincu coma to us rom thoroughly well informad per sons are to the effect that if the pro- . , r . .'lit ... a posea Aicmnicy dhi should oepush eu in tue uouse it would be pain- fully embarasing to several New r.ngiana memoers, who have re ceived notice from their most im portant constituents that in that case they cannot support them for renommatien next full, and that if they should defeat would be certain. A Great Tobacco Company. At Trenton, N. J., last week Ar ticle of incorporation were filed in the sect elary of State's office by the American Tobacco Company, which is supposed is to consolidate a number of companies. Thecipital slock is fixed at f 23,000.000. The number of shares is 40-MXX). Of ltd stock $15,000,000 is dividi-d in to 300 shares of f 50,000 each, which shall be the general or common xtock and $10,000,000 is divided in to 100.000 shares of $100 each which shall be preferred stock. Said preferred stock entitle the holder to receive each year a dividend of eight per cent, parable half yearly, be fore any dividend is set apart for the common stock, or stock so much of the eight per cent, as the profits justify. The amount with which the company will begin business is f 10,000,000, divided into 200 shares. Lexington Ladger: Mr. J. It. Bulla killed two eleven months' old pigs last week, and they pulled the beam at 457 and 484 pounds each, Ibkis the best for- their age we havo yet heard of. . Who can beat it? -Lexington is soon to have a coupon ticket office This is in ad dition to the local ticket oOice, and will be a great convenience to par tics desiring to travel a long dis tance. The railroad company are to bo cninmendcd for supplying this long-felt waut. all who knew them. We know for I he r tate in effect to impose double lD,a. "f example which they hor.tona nnnn ?f. lv..i. i. set to their fellow men. and the nure. efls of those of other commonwealths. fnasr ,PaPe.r 7hlCD ft?J published, The o iettion at iswe is not whether uas hAi aa anaence which has lived the acceptance of Federal educational aflf r th,eai' gratuities shall be optional or force, Aa '1 postmaster once remarked but wh ther they shall be given at all 8 family Jiving among rather The cry of "no dictation to the South'" abandoned neighbors, that this must not close our ears to the chims family was better than the relatives of those wh pav Federal taxes in and neighbors of that family for the every sectiou nor to the voices of ihe reason that they took the Hillshoro Farthors of the Rep ibiic that warn Recorder, and it had a moral and us against the fatal tendencies of en- restraining influence on this familv. ervating paternalism in central ad I At one time a farmer living on ministration. . the waters of B ck creek, sen b The precedent of the establishment i the stage to the editor a rerr larcre. of tie United States Deposit Fund fine pumpkin, with a note, "I send a . r. lit? .. I aa is not appo3ir.e to ine present situation. 1 1018 pumpitin, grown on tne waters In so far at it bears npon it at all. it of Back creek, the man in Ilillahorn tells ag time the Blair scheme, not for who edits a paper next to the New iv That deposition ot Treasury eur- Testament." The note was publisn plus was f r relief to the Federal ed. and ever afir Ihe friena nt f Via Government fre-n the dauger involy. I Recorder delighted to call it the ed in carrying an accumulation of J New Testament. unneeded funds. The transaction I Mav th ,.ne 1nni Mn.'nn. was a temporary exped!ent to dolnroonpr." away with a surplus, not the laying . ofafouudaUonfor anew system in- SomethlngAboiifllardTInies." voiving great outlay and long contin. Tt . . r, .. , . , . ned taxauon. Nor is there parallel- 11 13 tr?8' the me are tar15 bu ism to the proposed educational ays- are we $01D8 , .hav times tern nd tax iu the jrrants of nublic ? mplj sounding it in one a ears lands owned by the Government om day to day? Ao, for it is writ through other title than thatacquir- ln"by the sweat ef thy brow thou nl by levying contributions! on pro 8baI1 ha?e bread." And again, those perty in 'ustries or commerce. The wl10 wor!t (an there's plenty to do la ids or their pr c eds have not been this wide world for all who will taken froai one srciion to be given work) do not care for a repetition to the p.-ople of another, but they of the same old story, "hard times.' have been devoted to the general good This is not a strange delusion amoii bv facilitating the development of street loafers and lazy men; they tcrrito y hy its residents. Neither are all the time saying, there's not Il ls illustration f this dUcuuion to be ing good can come out of this or deduced from the history of great ed that. Such people would find fault ueati .nal fund don itcd bv private with the Virm'n far Innlrinv old and individual inasmuch as tbe money worn out It is a question whether devoted io those foundations was the r not, in these days with some is unrestricted property of the donors to work hoiorable; if it bill stand dispose of as they saw fit ; while the around and wait for something to point now In eontroversy is precisely tora up-and talk about hard the alleged leznl and moral rieht oi General (Jovernincnttotriveitsmonev I Ti,Li,i- i to State sch -ola, and bevond that the c, .fi hnt - i Inclination or disinclination of the !?fc5ln!S" lal0? f&F TheUaXtsThatPe Tbe citations of Southern opinions .rwmr if ; 1.- . TZ.. EtL2i' hl K l? 'h01na;Vbe;.'ble1To;prrwiTh that the Blur scheme has made some Uw-nart. t,. ,iV iZ. lu heaiiway among representative men, "B " ZT I ft vapjvov UO greatest artist the world ever tiro. bnt they do not prove that the South- v. .... . i. r. . i. S' "o w or that Northern oblcction to the ??(Aad P!.en UA: wholesale appropriation of naUonal f l ? I?"1 ,gn2i,al Wl resources to Iwalbencfll is Northern a'd,,.t. renounced a failure, dictatioa to Ihe South, li might at I ,Tdltp,v!,,uP ,B?.J ul ltwa well be said ihtt the objection of one baJ l af aam tunes, and so stockholder to the proposed employ- 4n',ut he still spent years in the iti.nl nfunrnnnl. nM.Urf r.. ,1. Study Of 0n6 Picture! Still ttaifltl advabta2e of another stockholder anJ re-pa"led, worked with a plod- was jictation io ot rescnieu. vwukuhuibowi wmcn By far the strongest feature in Mr. th0"8". no V?1? or-labor wo great Jay's paper is the argument draws "P."1 obtained what he con from the obligation of the United wred was in store for htm. But Sutes to the element of Southern aIaa! times have changed with some; population It enfranchised. We must ,ul "0J"""n people are the salt of raserva for other occasion our oriti. I tne eartn, tney are honored and re. icism on Ide claim that such duty can Pfcted every where; the King upon properly be discharged in the way his throne looks upon werking men Setator Blair proposes; and, indeed, M 1,16 masters of the age. Go to it is impracticable in this article to work and yeu wilt get out of these do more than merely to indicate the depressed surroundings and not im positions uereaiter to do assumed In I ui men. discussing the propositions to adroitly i . i. . i ana lorcioi auvancea oy Aia. way. No wonder 3peaker Reed didn't aut any new rules. He makes his own rulings, and it doesn't matter how unprecedented these rulinzt msv be, he is supported by the Re-lnntinn via. rot hia ritrhi hand ..,.k. i'uw "" v 'A. . t I a the gin last eatoraay, and it was oies MiiuABn. vvnbvru awnuaru. j terribly uceraicd Monroe Register: Mr. Michael Osborne, one ot tbe oldest citizens of Union county, died at bis residence near town hut Tuesday mornimr. a zed nearly eighty-one years. Mr. Sam Jones, a young white man who was working in Mr. John C Austin's
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