VOL. 76 NO. 49.
DURHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1896.
ESTABLISHED 1820
CHURCH NOTES.
Odd Fellow Samoa Sunday Other
Jtotea. '
Sunday morning Rev. D. H. Tnttle.
of Raleigh, preached to the Odd Fet
Iowa of thit city at Main Street church.
The Odd Fellowe turned out in a body
tome 80 strong:. Long before the hour
for the Jast bell the church waa packed
full and In a abort while all the atand
ine room waa taken and numbera were
forced to return home or so elsewhere
- Rev. Tuttlt selected hie leaaona from
Ifi&lah eleventh and thirtv-fifth chapters
and alM from Revelations teveoth chap
ter. The x ripture read waa that which
ahowed the ultimate effect of the atone
ment of Christ. ' After reading; the lea
aona he announced hla text from fob
33-31. "Caunt thou bind the tweet in
fluencea of Pleiades?" The sermon waa
mraterly effort and wis one of the
finest heard iu Durham for many aday.
Sunday night at 8 o'clock Dr. J. C.
Kllgo, the popular president of Trinity
College, filled the pulpit at North Dur
ham Mission church. Be preached to
the nnconvette I and used aa his subject
"the prodigal n." A large number
was pr. sent and '.much interest waa
maaifcattd.
The meeting at Main Street church
wilt continue until tomorrow night
Rev. Tuttle oreacbed laat night and will
preach tonight and tomorrow night. -Durham
Real Estate. .
The sale of the Kramer property on
' Cleveland etreet yesterday, ander the
hammer, evidences an improvement In
r,sl estate prices in Durham. It la true
the prices were not quite p to what
Mr. Kramer (aid when he purchased it
several years sgo, but they were a close
approximation, and much more than
the property would presumably have
brought aoy time within the paat three
years. Capt Barbara, who baa been
the auctioneer of moat of the real estate
aalea here the paat tea years, regards it
aa a good sale. -
The seven lots of the CiVea property
. . . t . .
sola on sainraay last, we icara irom we
same authority, brought aa much aa waa
expected, and waa additional evidence
of the fact that money waa seeking in
vestment in Durham dirtt at present
improv. prices. c
Monday Penitent. ;
Mayor Peay had nine interested visi
tors at his reception in tribulation ball
Monday morning. 1 -,
The first caae was againat Cornelius
Jordan, charged with taking mora 1 bu
ttons than his legs would support. He
failed to answer and forfeited the V be
bad deposited for his appearance.
Then came Amos Wood, for aaaaalt
and battery. Judgment suspended upon
payment of the coat, i.6o
The third caae was against seme Amo
. . m - i . - j:a .
ana lor iiav biwbh iiiim
party. Judgment same as in case No I.
The third against aatd Amos waa for a
more grave legal offense that of resiat
inr officers. In this caae he was fined
fio and cost
Tom Coley and Dick Allen were) re
spectively cbar.ed with boisterous curs
ing. The former waa let go and the
latter had judgment suspended by pav
ing ) so cost.
Bob Bredther and Sam Banklna con
tributed t each, and cost, for aaeault.
W. E. flicks for load snd boisterous
cursing wss adjudged to pay Ij for nou
appearance when called.
Children Fonnd the Body. -EaiX,
Pa., i pril s The badly tnati-
lated body of Mrs. Anna Burger, a
maimed end fccble-miaded woman, who
bad been missing five or sis days, waa
found to-1y In a tavitte on the outskirts
of the city by school children who were
gathering flowera.
The surroundings, the womsn's doth.
ing and her bruised body showed that
she bad been outraged snd had either
died from the etfects of injuries or waa
murdered outright A little dog which
bad been a faithful companion in life,
was keeping vigil over the body. The
authorities are investigating. It is
thought the crime was committed by
tramps.
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Gathered , aad Paragraphed
Baay Readers.
for
Monroe Reems baa returned his duties
as check clerk at the N. & W. depot
Mtte Annie Morris, who 8veoa Dan.
dy street, wss reported as being very ill
yesterday. '
, J.J. Lawson, who has been working
at the N. e W. depot as check clerk kft
yesterday morning for Nathalie, Va-.
where be has been appelated agent
The handsome resilience of Ma). V,
A. Guthrie, on Bast Main street, ie a
idergoiBg repairs. It is being being re
painted and fixed up in genersl.
. Rev. George J. D ell is still confined
to bis room with Illness. He wss re.
ported yesterday morning aa being some
worn but waa better last Bight and
retting quietly.
Rtv.J. L. Koha, Jewish rabbi ol
Newbern, waa here Monday and held
memorial services in the synagogue in
honor of the lata Baron Mavrtce A.
Ilirscfa, of Preesburg, Bo aria, who died
not long since, lie also delivered a
lecture on the Ufa of Illrsch. Rev.
Koha left yesterday for his home.
The democratic executive committee
of Durham county held a meeting last
Saturday about noon and decided to
hold the county convention on June so.
It was also decided that the primaries
would be held on June 13. .
Albert Calhoun, who has been in jail
since the 8tb of last March, waa released
yesterday upon his own recognizance.
He ia charged with selling whiskey
without license.
'. PERSONAL MENTION.
People Who Come and Go and Stay
at Homo.
W. B. Cuthrie returned from Raleigh
yesterday.: ,'.'. -
T. F. Lloyd, of Chapel Bill,, was here
yesterday, . .; . -
Ex-Tudge R. W. Winston spent yes
terday in Oxford.? ',
B. F, Parliatn, of Green viile, ia here
on a visit to friends.
Miss Ivy Lyon la back home from
pleasant visit to Chapel Bill
Cot J. S. Carr went up to Occonee-
chee Farm yesterday morning.
R. B. Rigsbee and C. W. Lea, of Ral
eigh, spent Sunday in Durham.
Mrs. T. B. Gooch, who lives in the
eastern part of town, is quite sick.
Early Bugbes spent Snndsy in Ral-
Raleigh and returned home yesterday.
Mrs. J. A. White went down to Ral
eigh yesterday on a visit to friends.
Dr. J. L. Watkinsof Milton, ia here
on a few days vist to his many friends.
W. P. Wbitaker of the News and Ob
server rpent Sunday here with bia peo
ple. -.. - - ..-
6. T. Carver left yesterday for Naah-
ville, where he will remain three weeks
on business.
Dr. G. T. Winston, of the University,
was a passenger on the east bound train
yesterday, .-.
A. B. Michaels left yesterday on a
business trip to Golds bo ro and Wil
mington. Maj Leo D. Beartt, who haa been on
a abort visit to relatives in Raleigh, re
turned home yesterday.
Father Pendergraat, of Rtlelgh, con
ducted service hers Sunday and return
ed to his home yesterday. .
W. J. Fitch, of Alamance county,
father of Dr. W E. Fitch, of this city,
was here yesterday. v
Mr. and Mrs. C, F. Sowers, of Ral.
sigh, spent Sunday in Durham and re
turned home yesterdsy afternoon.
f. G. Boney, of Wilson, who has been
here on a short visit to relatives, re-
taraed home yesterday morniae .
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Green, of Mount
Airy, who has been a visit to relatives
ia Durham, returned home yesterdsy.
The editor of the Raleigh Christian
Sun, E L. Moffitt passed through here
yesterday on the 10:29 east bound train.
Emsley Donnell, who lives about six
miles from Dnrbam, was here yesterday
and went up to Greensboro on the 9:90
train. ,
Elder L. B. Bardy left yesterday for
Newbern aad other points in the eastern
part of the state. Be will be gone
about a week.
Mr. Bannibal A. Williams, the
Shakespearian reader, who has beea
here for several days, reft yesterdsy for
Oxford.
J. O. Brock, who waa confined to bis
room laat week with erysipelas, has re
covered and left yesterday on a business
tri to Wilson. , v
Miss Belle Beartt, of Raleigh, who
has beea on a visit to the family of her
ancle, Maj. Leo D. Beartt, returned to
her home in Raleigh yestcrdey.
Jesse A. Jones, of Raleigh, was pas
senger on the west bound trsin last
evening. Be was on his way to Bur
lington and will be ia Durham today.
Tudga A. W. Crahata passed through,
here 6unday on bis way to Windsor
Bertie county to hold the regular term
of court for that county. Next week he
will be at Newbern.
Three tea sd to Kill Hla Wife.
Yesterday morning J. S. Carter was
arrested upon peace warrant sworn
out by his wife, lie was given a hear
ing before 'Squire J. 0. Wilkersoa and
0. A. Barbee aad was committed to jail
ia default of the required security. In
the trial it waa learned that Carter had
threatened to kill hla wife and she aaid
she was afraid of bia and swore out the
wan ant for bis arrest ,
I.x the Observer and the News,
Charlotte has at once the strong.
est advocates of the gold standard
and free silver repcctiyely of any
papers published in North Caro
lina under the democratic flag.
Tiib Alabama democratic con
vention thanked G rover Clevelan
for recognition of southern men in
appointments to positions, but felt
impelled to set down on his finan
cial policy.
, Who are the anarchists? Are
they not the people who set al
law at defiance? Think who it is
that utterly disregards all law to
day, and why they are permitted
to do so.
The coolest news out is that en
ice trust has been formed in. New
York City and that some of the
Wall Etreet people have exhibited
bad taste in kicking against it.
They should be disciplined.
Our esteemed : contemoraryjr
the Salisbury Evening World, ha
expanded from a five to a six col
umn evening daily, in which pro-
gre8?Tnii Hkjuld wishesit great
success. F i '
A showman announces that he
has taught a bear to dance tht
Couchee- Couchee. We . trust
this dance will hereafter be con
fined to the brutes, and that it
performance by anything wear
ing human form will be made n
penitentiary offense. , - S4
If there ever was a "penny
wise and pound foolish'' adminis
tration in this country,' it is now.
Our duck-eyed executive keeps a
squint on the small leaking from
the treasury spigot, and utterly
neglects the pouring out of out
boney and prosperity from tht
open bung hole.
What a fellow writes setting
on the rough edge of an invert
ed goods box may be expected
to contain some bard sayings
but they are none the less real
istic truths.
The republican coharts ol
Guilford, Person, Rowan and
other counties have added t
the McEinley delegation, and
it appears that he is largely the
choice of North Carolina repub-
icans for president.
Ths Kentucky silverites bavt
made arrangements with Sena
tor Vest of Missouri to canvasf
thfstate in the interest of fret
coinage. The gold bugs willbt
yelling at Joe Blackburn "pull
down your Vest.'
There is a new name foi
those gentlemen of elegant leis
are who hang around and both
er the business of others. , It i
out of good taste to call them
oarers. iney are - anoDeo
"resterJ," atd as such should
give others a rest from their
continued worry. -
Toebi is much discussion go
ing about the possibility of fu
sion between the silver demo
crats and the populists in North
Carolina. If the silver men
here are to accomplish anything
ia national aflairs it appears the
logical conclusion would be foi
thorn to do so, and it seems this
might be done without the
sligbest surrender of principle
by either party. .
swaMSWawwelPSMia awaaan :
Dockebt and Russell still
keep tip the fight for governor
aa though it . was a foregone
conclusion one or the thei
would get it. Both are most
probably, figuring from
false view of tbe situation. A
republican governor of North
Carolina is a remote possibility
while the free silver democrats
and the populists keep up their
fight If this we're not so. and
the republicans were in the rec
ognised ascendency, other aspi
rants would appear, before
whom both of theso would be
fcrced to retire.
U. 8. Official Postal Guide 'OS
Tbe post office department at
Washlnhton issues in January
of each year, a complete rostal
Guide containing 1000 pages,
bjixi In., and complete lists of
post offices in U. 8., arranged
alphabetically, ail rules and
regulations, money order offices
and rulings of the department
on costal matters, t.me of am
val and departure of foreign
mails, and much valuable in for.
matlcn for the public on posta
subjocts. '
The book is exceedingly val
uib'.e to those using the mails.
It is the guide for every post
master in t) e . country end is
sold to business meo by the
publisher, Oeo. F. Lasher, 147
N. 10th St., Philadelphia, Pa,
in clotn cover, $2.50 or paper
cover, $2. Can ba ordered
through our post office from O,
B. Fou8hee, agent. ,
Greenville, Miss., April
21 4 A telegram was received
here yesterday from Congress
man Thomas C. Caterings, an-
nouncing that he will vote for
the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of J fi to 1,
if the democratic1 convention
which meets here on May 18,
renominates him. '- . ,
Virginia Free Silver Delegates.
Richmond, April 25. Many
of the counties in Virginia will
hold democratic conventions in
the next two weeks " to" elect
delegates to the state conven
tion and much interest ia mani
fested in their probable action
on the financial question. Green.
ville today elected uninBtructed
free silver delegates.
Church and State- '
If preachers, those who pro
fess to have consecrated them
sevles to God and the saving of
sou's, would stick to their call
ing not get down from the
high penestal of Christianity to
wallow in tbe slum and slime
ot corrupt politics,, tbe world
would have more respect for
them and their calling. . It is
true that few do so, but even
these few bring disrepute upon
the cause they profess to help
In 1894, the West Chowan Bap
tist Cnion passed the following:
Resolved, That in the sense
of this Union Meeting, that in
view of the coming excitement
in politics, and of the vast harm
done to our churches by politi
cal prejudice and the bitterness
resulting from it during the last
political campaign, it becomes
us as 'ministers and as laymen
to see to it that as christians we
vil know no political differ
ences, that we will do all in our
power to banish from our con
versationn and from our conduct
all bitterness and predjudice,
and strive to impress our breth-
eren and the world that we are,
and desire to be first of all, ser
vants of Jesus Christ."
Our Congress.
It is now given out that con
gress will edjouru about tho 18th
of May without doing anything
save the drawing of their nay.
They do not profess to be attempt
ing to do any thing else, their
brazen effrontery having for once
made liypocracy subservient
Openly and boldly their ao
lions announce, to a heretofore
credulous constituency, that while
the people are stlOering the agony
and travail of the birth of new
political condition., they are look
ing only to their individual flesh
pots -like Nero fuddling while
the glory and grand icur- of old
Rome was being consumed by
flame kindled by the spontanUt
neous heat engendered by the cor
ruption of its rulers.
Those who would sell, and
those who would buy the liberties
of this people should read anew
the paralel caae history gives of
this same Reman Empire, and
mark with what swift retribution
justice overtook both seller and
purchaser. . ,
The utter disregard of the suf
fering among all classes of Amer
ican citizen, save the few who, un
dcr sanction of law, have been
enabled to rob tho balance, is sure
to hoi4 these traitors on their own
rtctard in the not far distant fa
ture, and the mourners at their
political innucst will be few and
tearless. The tale of their broken
tiledgf and utter faithlessness wil
be written on history's nngc id
roming generations among those
who have died "unwept, mi hon
ored and unsung ' by the country
upon' which they have inflicted
almost unbearable woo and misery.
Recent political conventions
emphasize the fact that they are
rather the expressions of the bosses'
will, than the wishes of the peo
plo. This is nothing new : it has
always been, and always will be
this way. They are simply the
machinery by which designing
politicians attain the coveted end.
No politician will admit that
he belongs to the machine, or that
his people do not have a fair rep
resentation of their opinion, but
when the boss sends out to the
small conventions' week before
they meet thenames- and certifi
cates already made out for those
to be sent up "to the larger con
vention, it looks very much like
the Mdear "people" have very, very
little to do with it.
Yesterday was "divorce day"
in the Wake county superior court.
Only nine cases were on the docket,
and these consumed as little time
as the Oklahoma courts would
have given them. For North Car
olina this is a pretty good county
batch of those who have "married
in haste and repented at leisure,"
but they can console themselves
with Lord Byron who believed it
was "better to have loved and
ost, than never to have loved at
all." '
The Northern Settlers' conven
tion at Southern Tines on May 5
will, it is hoped, result in much
good to the state at large, We
notice among the delegates ap
pointed by Governor Carr some of
North Carolina's best business and
social talent northern men who
have come here with benefit to
themselves and the sta'e. The
Raleigh chamber, of commerce
sends a delegation of representa
tive natives o help make the oc
casion pleasant and profitable by
inducing more of the same class to
pitch their tents on our camp
ground. .
Now that that the shooting
season is over, the duck hunter
of Quantico has been over in
West Virginia fishing for suckers.
The report is that he caught thirty
io Goose Creek, which from this
incident, we presume is appro
priately named.
VICE-PRESIDENT A DEL A I StE.
vensok is comming down to the
Chapel il ill commencement and
bring his daughters. We risk
nothing Jn saying he, or they,
will capture the student body
with slight effort
Havana. April 23. Gen. Wey-
k-r today issued a proclamation
offering pardon to all insurgent
leaders and followers in 1'inar del
Rio who lay down their arms and
surrender within twenty days.
Havana, April 22. Rev. Al
bert DUz, the American Baptist
missionary, and his brother, A'
fredwho were arrested lost week,
have been bet at liberty but Lave
been ordered to leave the country
before the expiration of six days
from tho time of their release.
Wilkesboro, N, C, Ayril 24.
Tho sudden death of Capt
Ance Foster, of Jefferson, N. C,
will be a great shock to his many
fricbdsin Western North Caro
lina. He was a witness in a will
case and within ten minutes after
he had testified dropped dead.
In his testimony in the action
against tho American Tobacco Co.,
Mr. Jus. B. Duke testified that m
the organization of tho trut his
own company, tho W. Duke, Sons
& Co., received $7,487,00013,
000,000 preferred and $4,487,000
common. -
M. H. P. CLARK,
D231TTIGT.
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Crtmrat al Draimry. WOKS eist V iiihti
tare, li baas Ml.
GO TO THE RACKET
tfeVM iMiamMay.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
LOW CASH PRICES.
BuVVOUr Dixlfi-Plnwa
Farming Tools from a man
lerience. naving served nis apprenticeship Tn the farm,
ie knows what suits the farmers.
A dollar saved is a dollar mndA 9 Oflft hnariola Wlii to
and Black Seed Oats at rock
iuu carrels eed Irish Potatoes going low down.
700 barrels Flour bought before the advance.
Come tO See me beforfl VOll hliv vnnr trnnAa Vnnr
, -
Friend,
W.
"I Can't See"
Said a blind man in our store yesterday "how you
can sell such a suit as that for f 7.50." "I hear"
said a deaf man who came in with him "that
your $7.50 suits are even better than you adver
tise them to be." "I walked in" said a man on
crutches "to see one of those $ 7.50 suits that my
neighbor got here this morning" "Fde like to get
my hand on one of those f 7 50 suits you are ad
vertising" said a man who had lost both arms in
the war. "I've got to be economical now" said an
ice man, "so I thought Fd run in and see one of
those $7.50 suits. "Will they hold water" said a
milk man? "Fll need a new suit myself soon." All
sorts of men a,re buying these suitf , for every man
who looks at them from a blind man, to an ice
man, whose eyts magnify a 10 pound chunk of ice
into a twenty pound bill. Say they're the best
tLing for the money or anything like the money
they ever saw. These suits are great value.
They're all wool cheviot and caselmere with solid
wear woven clean thro' from face to back, and if
you buy one of them, you'll be our friend forever
afterwards. We want to double last years busi
ness, and we're taking a short cut to that end by
selling such bargains as these.
W. A. SLATER CO.
The Acknowledged Cheapest Clothiers in Durham.
Carrington's New Building.
Xew York,
Baltimore,
Durham, N. C.
WHEN
GO TO DURHAM
AND WISH TO, BUY THE
BEST GOODS AT RIGHT PRICES
no to
"m: .a. ir, k h: nun's
He wits Shoes for men, women and children,
of thebe8t makes, in n variety of styles.
Shoes to suit all at right prices. Dry Goods,
Hats, Uardware,(Jla8sware,Crockery, Heavy
and Fancy Groceries, Syracuse chilled plows,
Dixie plows, Hoe8, Rakes, Shovels and Spades,
genuine Nisson wagons, Spading Harrows,
Walter A. Wood Mowers and Reapers, Hand
and Horse Tower Ross feed cutters. Call and
ice vlb when in town and get a Turner's N. C.
Almanac free. Yours Truly,
R R MARKHAM.
,r,x,J?w.'l1.jL.-s-C-m il.,, ' L r
nnrl PIaw fWniTa TTrua unA
who knows cood tools by ex-
bottom prices.
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