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VOL, II NO, 117. SUMMARY. 'Collector of Internal Revenue Col. F. C. (ierker of Philadelphia, died suddenly of appoplexy yesterday morning. Hugh lrK:iv, of t!'e Norfolk Internal Kevenue (jtjir(, " Wa- arrested in Baltimore yester r.,v charged with embezzling $2,300 of ()Vernn)eiit funds. -heventeen-year locusts lave made their appearance in middle Ten- .. ., rn I l i ti i ,e so tis saiu. liie coioreu ixecoruer ,,f the land oflioe at Washington was sworn in vestenlay. He was shown around his di vision, but was not introduced to the lady clerks who will he under him. : A postal ,-lerk on a Mississippi railroad was yesterday arrested for rifling registered r letter mail l,.1(,s. A Quebec suburb had a $100,000 fire yesterday. A thousand persons burned ut of their homes, and are camping out in the fields. A large number of arrests of i ! , I... l.o Vncclan a lit li Arlt aa a ro rc IlllllUSUS I'V lilt J HIOIl n . i. . . i i V. -. . 1 A......" Potoi-clmror IncnAWT av-irl ronstalt. The situation of the strikes in 1 1 TM. TT dernianv remain um uaiigeu. aiic xwiiperur vesteruav rcccivcu x ucuiuuuu jl tuc tunic nwners whose . employes are out on a strike. - Yesterday an Ohio man in a drunken utiiy shoots his father and his divorced uife Patrie O'Brien, M. P, has brought Miit for libel against the London Times. The liquor men of the big Western city have been swindled out of immense sums of 'money by a young fellow pretending to "age" new whiskey by chemical process. The swindler has left his would be swindlers with the hag to hold, and gone for parts un- EDITORIAL BRIEFS. Xkarly one-fifth of the professors in the Universities of Germany are Jews. . , ; It is reported that the hail storm of last Tuesday damaged the truck ing interest around Norfolk nearly a million dollars. Some of the office-seekers have withdrawn their papers in disgust They must be deeply disappointed to Jo such an unusual act. I Tis said the earnings of the Rich mond t Danville Syndicate for the first week in May exceeded last year fur the same week by $20,000. The cruiser Charleston is said to he the fastest war ship in the world. She is a legacy left the Republican administration by Cleveland. Office-seekers at Washington complain that while the President js fond of using the cruiser Dispatch, lie does not employ dispatch in mak ig appointments. N. Y. World. Dr. Woodrow is a candidate for tta position of Moderator of the general Assembly of the Presbyte rian church, which met in Chatta nooga yesterday. . hile unloading a car loaded with iron in Detroit the other day tour men were covered up under the Mass of iron weighing many tons.. Grange to say only one of them wa killed and the other three were funded only. The high spirited Emperor of rmany,not being able to get up a ght witr any foreign power, is talk lng about turning his soldiers loose "battle and shoot" German riot lns striker?. He must have ex Utement of some sort, you know. fcoME of the Republican press are locating Calvin Brice for Mr. Bar- a successor as chairman of the "ocratic National Committee. lank 'ou, gentlemen, we prefer to Wh age 8UC ings mr ourselves. r we want your advice we will tallnyou for it 1 "taction of the board of Town pOQlaussioner8 iQ regard to the mseur street matter will hardly in Jtertnined in time for this even- s paper The board should ember that it is very important e town that this railroad con nectln should be made. Ox Wednesday, in Charleston, S C, a monument was dedicated to the dead soldiers of four German com panies that belonged to the Hamp ton Legion. Senator Hampton de livered the dedicatory oration. The Britishers are not pleased with the course of events in the set tlement ofthe Samoan question by the Berlin Conference, They speak of a decision made by the sub-committee as the Phelps compromise. . . If half the new postmasters and route agents John AVanamaker is appointing buy a suit of clothes from him, as all are no doubt ex pected to do, that gentleman's cloth ing business will receive quite a boom. Montana held an election for del egates to her constitutional conven tion on Tuesday. The returns: in dicate a Democratic majority.thougb the labor delegates elected from Jef ferson county may hold the balance of power. ' A meeting of the Executive Com mittee of the North Carolina Press Association will be held in Raleigh next Tuesday for determining the time and place for holding the next Press Convention. Give us the sea shore, gentlemen. , ! ; If Brother Kingsbury is not proud he receives compliments enough to make him so. The litest is from the Norfolk Virginian, which says: "The Wilmington (N. C.) Star is first-rate authority on any question of politics or literature.1' ' ' Somebody had better look out. Our brother of the Weldon News is get ting his blood up. He says : "Per haps we know now to run a newspa per, and then again perhaps we don't, but all the same we're going to run the Roanoke News as it pleases lis, if wc run it in the ground." Although the Court has decided the controversy between the two rail roads in favor of the Durham & Northern, we suppose it will be some time before the matter will be finally settled, as the Richmond & Danville road will most probably take j the case to the Supreme Court. TOWN TALK. 'The umbrella mender is in town. Reading Circle to-night, at Mr. W E. Foster's. i The State Pharmaceutical Asso ciation will meet here next Tuesday, See the list of zood things that maybe obtained at'Whitaker's fancy grocery. ! Twice within a week the Raleigh News & Observer has failed to reach us until the afternoon. Read the new advertisement of Mpssrs W. H. & R. S. Tucker & Co.. of Raleigh, in this issue of The Plant. T.pt thprft be a biff attendance nnnn the Firemen's Festival on Mon day and Tuesday nights of next week. A mn n to ith a natent whistle. with which he imitated various kinds of birds, etc., was an attraction of Main street this alternoon. ; Kennebec ice may be procured frrtm Mr V. T. Saunders, opposite the First Baptist Church. See ! ad- veitisement in to-uay s i laat. ; The Durham School of Music will orivp. an entertainment to-n.gnt, at Burlington, for the benefit of the Episcopal church at that place, j The township Sunday School 11 he. held at Trinity VA)UYCUl"u - o I fr, . Saturday. June 8th. I be programme will be published in a day or two. just before closing our columns we' learn that the commissioners in the right of way matter between the Durham & Northern and Richmond &. Danville roads, awaraea one inou- sand dollars damages to me ivicu mond & Danville. DURHAM, N. C.j FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1889. -Attention is directed to the re port of the popular and reliable First National Bank of Durham, which ap pears in the advertising columns of The Plant this afternoon. -Are you willing to assume the terrible responsibility of re-nnenincr i, J - " V . ... the infamous barrooms in Durham ? This is the solemn question thatcon- ironls every voter ot the town. -The R. cv D. road will sell round trip tickets to the Musical Festival at Petersburg, Va., at SG.45. Tickets on sale from the i lSth to the 24th, ood returning until the 27th, inclu sive..- . Annual meeting of the stock holders of the Lynchburg Sz Dur ham KaiJroad Co., at Lynchbur June 18th. See! official notice of President Otey in this issue of The lant. . Children's Day at Trinity Church next Sunday. An interesting pro gramme has been prepared for the occasion. Services at 11 o'clock, a. m., and at 4 o'clock, p. rn. The pub ic is invited. We would suggest that a com mittee be appointed to solicit sub scriptions to the capital stock of the proposed canning and broom factory. The necessary amount can. probably, be secured sooner this way than by waiting for parties to go to the Sec retary's office. Try it. The factory should be started pretty soon. The Board of Town Commis sioners met last! night to consider the question of permitting the Lynchburg cy Durham authorities to make a six feet 'cutting across Ramseur street, at the intersection of Rowland. No conclusion was reached and the Board adiourned to meet on the preminous this after noon. Orphan Asylum Collection. We are requested to announce that the collection at Trinity Sunday School for the Oxford Orphan Asylum will be taken up on Sunday week, in stead of on next Sunday as was at first announced. Shoes at Cost. In this issue of The Plant, Mr. C. W. Stanford, assignee, announces that he will offer French's' stock of boots, shoes and slippers at cost, for two days only to-morrow and Mon day. Any quantity will be sold, from a single pair up. A favorable opportunity to lay in a supply of shoes at rock bottom prices. Dollars vs. Virtue! A "Drominent" citizen tickles the very sensitive and sedate editor of the ..Recorder in the short-ribs, and, serpent like, whispers in his ear: You just tell the! people of Durham that I will build a fine "block of brick stores" if they will just let my friends and tenants sell whisky to their fathers, brothers and sons. And the Recorder. evidently being well tickled. j v -J ' hastens' to his sanctum, dips his pen .1 1 1 1 C 1 I 1 L 1 in toe uiooa oi oroKen nearis auu wasted lives and desolated homes, mingled with the bitter tears of de voted wives, mothers and sisters, and gives publicity to the following igno ble proposition : "Brick blocks" for license to rum-sellers to ply their diabolical avocation of debauching, our sons and daughters. The peo ple of Durham may love money much, but I believe they love their Saviour, their homes and their dear ones infinitely more. The Recorder's price for the virtue of our city is not quite high enough. Our people have not yet beeu debased into avaricious Shy locks. ! The Recorder also says there are more bar-rooms in Durham now than when the town was "wet" an open confession that the local authorities are; derelict in duty. There is also more stealing in Durham now than when the law was first administered in pur city. I suppose, therefore, that it itecorrfer-ologically follows that the law in j regard to larceny should not only I be rescinded, but that the depraved and vicious should be 4 licensed to steal. Such license would also bring in a revenue and the "revenue" consideration seems to be the highest pinnacle of the Re corder's glorious (?) ambition. The question is not as to the number of broken hearts, wasted lives and des olated homes, but the damnable dol lars that may fall into the destroyer's till. Zed. THE GREAT PREACHER. From -i,000 to .,000 People Hear Him Three Times a lay Interest Increasing Grand Results, From The Plant's CorrfesiKiiKlent. '..Danville, May 16. Mr. Jones has about captured the town. Nearly all the business houses close during the hours for service, so as to give everybody a chance to hear the great preacher.. It is estimated that from four to live thousand people hear him three times a day, and the crowd seems to increase each! sermon he preaches. Great interest is being manifested and already a good many of our old hardened sinnershava come forward and decided to change their mode of living and be better men. Messrs. W. Duke, B. IN. Duke, T. J. Walker, W. L. Walker, J. C. Angier and R. E. Lyon are with us, drinking in every word that falls from Mr. Jones' lips. Compiled from the Register. People don't wait for the clock, but as soon as they finish breakfast they, may be seen making for the tabernacle from every direction. Wednesday morning, over a hun dred, among them many we'll known young business men and well known young ladies, came forward. There were a dozen or more converts. Wednesday night aj very large number of penitents presented them selves at the altar and fifty or sixty, possibly more, made a profession of religion. Mr. Jones invited all who had made a profession last night or previously and who intended to join the church of their choice at the first opportunity to cdme ! forward and make that promise public by presenting the hand. Not less than a hundred people wTentforward and fhereby made that promise. , I'n one of his sermons Mr. Janes said: "I 'am told that the good people of Danviile are afraid to bring on a prohibition election afraid the thirty odd little hell holes in your city will clean you up. What are you afraid of? Afraid you will get your head cracked at the polls. Why such christians as that would let a bull-necked barkeeper take an old horse pistol that hasn't been loaded since the war and run the whole church out of town." The speaker went on to show that the church is j i NOT A PEACE SOCIETY, and said God's people had always been fighting bv God's command Said he : 'Joshua was fighting and when he saw he was! getting the best of it he looked and noticed that the sun was about to go down. Then he appealed to the Lord and Uod told the sun, now aon t you mofe an inch until Joshua cleans them fellows up and it Ididn't." Still contending for a drawing of the line, Mr. Jones, counting on his fingers, said : "I will show you five men one makes whiskey, one sells it, one (a member of the church) rents the seller a house to sell it in ; one votes the seller his license and one buys the whiskey, gets drunk on it and dies drunk, and the last fellow is the only one in the lot who is a gentleman. Now how are you going to separate that crowd to send some to heaven und some to hell ? It can't be done. God being a just God is going to send the whole lot to hell together.'7 j Yesterday was a but a repetition of Wednesday and the early morn ing hour after breakfast found peo ple flocking to the tabernacle. The Richmond tfc Danville and Virginia Midland roads, as well as the New River road, brought in crowds of people, private vehicles! from all the region round about poured. iff all the morning and by 10 o'clock there were very few vacant seats in the tabernacle. The crowds attending the taber nacle are increasing and it is becom ing evident that sitting room will be scarcer from now on. j To Teachers. J We have just leceived a supply of "Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching," recently recommended by the State Board of Educa tion. The regular price of the book is $1.25, but all who call before the present stock is exhausted will be supplied with a copy at the reduced price of $1.00 J. B. Whitaker, Jr., & Co., At Durham Bookstore. Blank Books. j j Various sizes and qualities, at the Durham bookstore of J. B. Whitaker, JrM A Co. Plant Photographs. Mr. T. B. Fuller got "back from Danville to-day. Mr. C. E. Parrish, of Hillsboro, was in town this afternoon. Misses Sudie and Annie Cain left to-day on a visit to Raleigh. Mr. John C. Angier returned on the noon train froin Danville. Col. E. J. Parrish left yesterday afternoon on a visit to Danville. Messrs. W. Duke and B. N. Duke returned from a visit to Danville to day, j '..-.. Mrs. ;T. M. Kirkland is confined at home bv sickness, we are sorrv to iearn. ; Mrs. W. W. Fuller is confined at home by sickness, we are sorry to hear.. Mr. W. L. Walker got back this morning from the Sam Jones meet ing, at Danville, Miss Janet Fuller, of Raleigh, is on a visit to the family of her brother. Mr. W. W. Fuller. , Mr. T. E. Whitaker, oi The Plant force, is on the sick list, we are sorry to know. Rev. C. C. Newton returned to-day from the Southern Baptist Conven tion, at Mem phis,' Ten n. Mr. R. E. Lyon returns I t'ii morning from I) mville, where lie attended the Sam Jones, meeting.' Rev. W M. Robey, of ''CWdsbom. was on the, east-bound train to day. returning from a visit up the coun try. Governor Fowle passed up the road yesterday alternoon, going to Bingham School to attend the com mencement exercises'. Mr. Geo. Mercer, of the R. t D. service at Washington City, is on a visit to Durham relatives and friends, who are alwaj's glad of an opportu nity to meet him. Mr. J. J; Stowe, General Secretary of our Y; M. C. A., has returned from a visit to Philadelphia, where he attended the International Con vention. He reports a very pleas ant trip. , Fire Alarm This Morning. " The alarm of fire at 9:30 o'clock, this morning, was caused by the burning of a chimney in the vicinity of Robbins -& Stone's store. The Dick Blacknali Hose Reel was on the way in twenty seconds. Pretty quick work, but we are, told ii could have been done in shorter time if the proper harness was provided for the horses. I We hope that our authori ties will see that the needed harness is secured at once. Every possible facility should be afforded our faith ful firemen for reaching fires speedily and for effective service after they get there. Pearson Meeting at Greensboro. We are informed that Rev. Mr. Pearson will begin a series of meet ings in Greensboro on Sunday! The R. & D. road will sell return tickets to-day and to-morrow, and on next Friday and Saturday, good until and including the following Monday, at $2 20 from Durham. Any of our citizens desiring to spend Sunday at the Sam Jones meeting at Dan ville'might avail themselves of this reduced rate. Round trip tickets from Greensboro to Danville are about . $2.00, which makes entire railroad fare from Durham about $4.20, a saving of $3.00 over regular fare. BUSINESS NOTICES. Call a doctor at once if Whitaker can't satisfy you in something to eat. Just received, a beautful line of Cheviot Shirts, at Jones. & Lyon's. Garden Peas, Tomatoes, Cabbage, Squash, New Irish Potatoes, Onions, at IxiMITABLEfs. The newest thing in Flannel Shirts can be seen at Jones & Lyon's. The epicures supply dejiot is next door to the Morehead Banking Co., at Whitaker, the Inimitable. Jones & Lyon will open to-morrow silk, linen and flannel negligee sbirts,the nobbiest and laiesi sivies- Just received this list of good things: Fresh mackerel in tomato sauce : fresh makerel in mustard sauce ; fresh brook trout (3 lb. cans), delicious: roast chicken, (z lb. cans.); dev iled crabs ; lamb's tongue, in glass jars ; plum padding; lunch tongue; lunch beef; olives; olive oil; celery sauce; chili sauce; de licious relish. mtaker keeps the finest line of goods in the city. $5.00 PER ANNUM. 'S SilE OF- Boots, Shoes t Slippers. The Grandest Opportunity Durham Has Ever Known. ' -.YOUR CHOICE FROM 's Mm I AT COST, For the Next Two Days, Saturday and Monday. Positively This Is All, FOB NEXT WEEK HE LEAVES YOU. C. W. STANFORD, Assignee for John T. Flench. -Main street, next to Postoflice. Report of the Condition OF !b First National-Sank cf Durham, At Durham, in the State of North Carolina, at tli close of busiuens, May l.'J, !Hh.. No. 3811. -: ! ' RESOURCES. LoauR and discounts, -i $229,U51.:M Overdrafts, secured and unsecured, 19H.70 U S. Bonds to secure circulation, 25.000.uu Due from approved reserve agenta, 4,2!7.1'i Due from other National Banks, ' 2,034.4 Due Irom State Banks and bankers. a5.9l Real estate, furniture, and fixtures. 4.007.70 Current expenses and taxes paid, ,770.1! Premiums paid. 0.600.00 Checks and other cash items, 4'28.fi9 Bills of other Banks, yuo.oo Fractional paper, currency, nickels, anJ cents, : ii h; Specie, 1.W9.00 Legal-tender notes, 13,.r00.oo Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 percent, of circulation) 1,125.00 Total, ti91,3ir.W LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in, $100,000.00 Surplus fund, ; 727.61 Undivided profits; 8.122. 22,.'i00.U 117,218.70 9,084.70 National Bank notes outstanding, - individual deposits subject to check, 100.JH7.C'2 ! Time certificates of deposit. - 15,6'.)1. .in i : 6il.H6 f 03'..22H Cashier s checks outstanding. 03' Due to other National Banks. Due to State Banks and hankers. Bills re-discounted. 30,000.00 $291,313.02 Total, State ok North Caeousa, County of Durham. ss: I, Leo. D. Heartt, Caihier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. ' Leo. D. Heartt, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of May. 18h9. C. A. Jobdas, Notary Public. Cokre t Attest : A. H. STOKES, I .1. T. MALLOKY, Directors. J. W. WALKER, ) ff. E. k l S. Tllta k CO., EALEIGH, N. C, Importers and Retailerskof DRY GOODS Tbe Great North Carolina Dry Goods House I Thirty-nine Departments Carrying. assortment 8 excelled by few house in the larger cities, and none in the South ; bought from importers, manufacturers and selling agents first hands in every Instance for the cash, and guaranteed to be correct as to style, quality and price. Why should the people of North Carolina send money North when they hare such a bouse in their own State ? No good reason exists. Complete Hail Order Depart ment With all tbe machinery for filling orders, by Com petent men. N. B. On all orders amounting to $5.00, or more, we will deliver goods by mail or to tbe nearest ex press office FREE OF CHABOE. W. II. & R. S. TUCKER & CO. Pencils. Rubber head pencils, only one cent each at the Durham bookstore of J. B. Whitakkb, Jb & Co. ASSIGNEE French tack
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