VOL, II NO, 133.
SUMMARY,
t;IV in . Jacksonville consumed all the
i.uil.lin un live blocks yesterday mornkig.
. j i-jiin.n (. Maj- Isaac Arnold, of the
S Armv lia- ln-en ordered to Wrights
ville'Ti buMiit ss connected with the erection
(, the Ma ca-t battery for the State Guard.
Thrcc t'oiirth-class postmasters were av
jointed for this State yesterday. The
I'n-i.Knt wav -overrun with visitors yester
,l:,v : inaiiv of them were from this State,.
;tm,, im tht-ni were Messrs. Dockery, Kwart,
(lieatliaiii and Mussel. John R. Smith
w;t, ve-terdav appointed postmaster at Golds
,ru and Charles Price was appointed At
torney i'r the" Western district of North
, ;ir,,iiIi;,. Fifty bodies were taken from
-he ilehri- in front of the Catholic church at
.Johnstown yesterday, forty of them were
women Six.days 1 ve passed since the
Johnstown disaster, and all of them have
Irt-n n"l and overcast, much to the aid of
I In- workers.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
Thk report, now is that very rich
iron mines have been discovered near
liuthrie, Oklahoma.
On Junk 1st quite a distinct earth
quake shock was experienced in
some portions of Texas.
Thk many sudden changes ol
weather of late have caused quite a
run on our druggists' stock of pare
tnric and such like.
. j lis feared that Jack the Hipper
lias again been at work in London.
The mutilated body of a woman has
been found floating on the Thames.
Thk Ohio Democrats say they are
"oing to elect both the Governor and
Legislature this year. It's to be
hoped they are correct in their cal
culations. Mir. Bi.rxK says: "I took my
present place to continue the work I
Vganio 1S81." That is, trying to
get this country into a rumpus with
.'ome foreign nation.
The colored people of Wilmington
are making a move toward forming
a building and loan association.
I'lii isa move in the right direction.
No hope they will make a success of
it.
Thk law prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes to minors went into effect
m the State of New York on June
kt- it is now a misdemeanor to
11 them to any one under age in
that State. - '
L-vrue subscriptions have been
"ude "m Kngland for the Pennsyl
vania sufferers: Can't Durham give
miething ? She should not let Eng
1,slimn surpass her in charity for
"lir own people.-
t"k Cincinnati Enquirer consoles
on. lieverly Tucker, on the with
drawal of his name as a corn in is
sjonerto Hayti, with the suggestion
ti,at he is relieved of all anxiety
abut catching yellow fever.
hkavy wind storm with cy
cJnic tendencies swept New York
from tne UtteTy to Madison
-quare la&t Friday just a few hours
orethe rain storm that caused
.UcHavoc in Southern Pennsylva
nia. -
h ,0THER Atnrican fishing vessel
asbeen seized hv a Canadian cruiser
near
v i,y aanauiau cruisei
CaPe Breton Island, charged
1; . "-ulug within the three miles
with e seemtoe in hot water
, . n Canada at both ends of the
"''DP.
JUe nioonshinerailroad is about
rea! tflCr The track wiU soon be
Dnii 1,10 tra" -P as far as
We a ctory. Before very long
tPndo?CCt t0 sce this track ex"
town fmuch further-evcn unto the
Atlant nr and on to th0 city f
j ii . . .
The local option elections seem to
have gotten intoa muddle in some
towns or the State. Lumberton held
hers too soon by a week, and we un
derstand only twenty-six persons in
Goldsboro registered under the new
election law. I
The Philadelphia Record says:
"George W. Boyd, of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Passenger Department,
has been dining with President Har
rison. It is rumored that he is to be
made superintendent of Baby Mc
Kee's toy engines.''
Mr. W. .1. Crokswell, Superinten
dent of the Atlantic Division of the
Southern Express Company, has sent
instructions to the officers in his
district directing agents to forward
free of charge all money and supplies
for the relief of the sufferers. Wil
mington Star.
The Wilmington Star says : "Aside
from getting out of the clutches of
the late Bagging Trust it was a good
move of the planters of the South to
decide to use cotton bagging. The
6,000,000 of yards which they will
use this year adds just that much to
the demand for cotton."
TOWN TALK.
Help the sufferers !
Whortleberries on the market
to-day.
The tax listers are now ready to
serve you.
Are you going with Main Street
Sunday School to Oxford to-morrow?
The train from the West w
over two and a half hours late to
day. Do what you can to save the
boys of Durham; from the evil of
bar-rooms.
The street sprinkler was needed
this afternoon, but it failed to come
forth. Why? j
Let not Durham turn a deaf ear
to the appeals from the desolate Cone
maugh valley.
The R. & D. road will sell return
tickets from Durham to Morehead
City, to members of the Teaphers'
Assembly, at the low price of 65.10.
Tickets on sale from June 15th to
June 30th, good returning until July
31st. '
Mr. V. H. Hester shows heads
of wheat, taken from his field in Or
ange county, witli six grains to the
1 'mash." This is an unusually pro
lific yield. Mr. j Hester says the
wheat crops generally are good in
his neighborhood. !
Go to the public meeting to
night, at the courthouse, and give
tangible expression to your sympa
thy for the survivors of the terrible,
death-dealing flood at Johnstown.
Don't stay away because you are
able to give only a small amount.
Go and give something.
Whose counsel is the better and
who has more at heart the best in
terests of the community, the ladies,
the ministers and a large majority of
the church members, or the whiskey
selleis and their friends? The for
mer say, for the sake of everything
good, don't vote to open the infa
mous bar rooms in our town. The
latter say, vote to open them. Which
will you heed doubtful friend ?
Sunday Afternoon.
We are informed that Rev. J. L.
White, pastor of the First' Baptist
church, will preach a sermon on
prohibition next Sunday afternoon,
at 4 o'clock, at the church. A very
large congregation will doubtless at
tend the services.
Let the Anti Logicians Answer.
Editors Tobacco Plant: There
are quite a number of chicken
thieves in and around Durham and
it is impossible to ! prevent chicken
stealing by law. Why not license
some of the more respectable chicken
thieves and thereby legalize the
traffic and at the same time create a
revenue to help support the govern
ment ? If not, why not ? It is not
a question of stealing, but how shall
stealing be done.
Eco Parsimo.nv.
DURHAM, N. C.5 TH U RS DAY, JUNE 6, 1889.
HELP THE NEEDY.
Meeting To-Nilit in the Interest
jot" the Johnstown Sutterers.
The following circular was issued
to day :
There will be a meeting of the cit
izens of Durham, at the Courthouse,
to-night, at 8:30 o'clock, for the pur
pose of giving expression to our sym
pathy for the sutlerers of Johnstown;
Pa. i
Will not all our people respond to
this call ?
No appeal to Durham people
needed. Come to the meeting and take ac
tion. I
Excursion to Wake Forest.
The Sunday School of the First
Baptist church have made arrange
ments for an excursion to Wake
Forest on Thursday of next week.
The commencement exercises of
Wake Forest College will be in prog
ress at that time and this fact will
probably increase the attendance
upon the excursion. We have not
learned the price of tickets, but pre
sume it will be announced soon.
To-Morrow's Excursion.
Excursion! of Main Street Sunday
School to Oxford to-morrow. The
train will leave the Richmond &
Danville railroad depot at 7:30
o'clock, a. m. ; returning will leave
Oxford at 5:30 o'clock, p.m. The
Durham Cornet Band will accom
pany the excursion. A pleasant time
for all who may go. The school will
pic-nic at the grounds of the Orphan
Asylum. Plenty of shade and good
water. Fare, round trip, to persons
not members of the school, $1.00 ;
children under 12 years of age, 50
cents. Tickets may be procured at
the bookstore of J B. Whitaker, Jr.,
& Co., or at the depot.
From a Pecuniary Standpoint.
Some of our people are complain
ing of dull times. The stagnation i3
not confined to Durham, but is
pretty general. Indeed, people wrho
have traveled around say business is
better here than it is in many, places.
We may expect matters to grow
worse here j if the bar-rooms are
opened and a portion of the money
now spent for dry goods, groceries
and other comforts and necessities is
turned into the coffers of these vile
institutions. ! The whiskey sellers
would not be so anxious to get
into business if they did not ex
pect to make money out of it. Dur
ham has no money to spare to sup
port this awful traffic. Then it is to
our pecuniary interest, as well as to
our moral interest, to vote against
opening these dens of vice that will
catch money that is now being spent
to make many homes happier and
more comfortable.
The "Veritas" Logic.
The rum hells of Tom, Dick and
Harry were closed. The Bank of
Durham failed. Therefore the clos
ing of the rum-hells "busted" the
Bank of Durham. The financial
interests especially the credit of
the Bank of Durham were so tena
ciously and inseperably interwoven
with the character, work and inter
ests of '-Tom's" bar-room, that when
the law closed Tom's door, it neces
sarily, "and, as a logical sequence,
closed ''.'Buck's" door also! And
the monetary interests of Messrs.
Parrish, Ellis, Muse, J, W. Black
well and others, who were forced
into consignments-on account of the
failure of the Bank of Durham, re
ceived their death blow when "Dick
and Harry" closed their bar-room
doors. It would be really quite in
teresting to learn about how much
stock the Bank of Durham, or any
of the recent consignors, had in
Tom, Dick and Harry's rum busi
ness. There was a prodigious religious
revival in Durham, after which there
was also a mighty financial smash
up. Therefore, Sam Jones, being at
the head of said revival, has "busted"
the town. Hence, it veritas-ological-ly
follows, that the religious interests
of Durham are so inseparably twisted
up in the business of rum selling and
drunkard-making, that when a
"frenzy" comes along and deals the
rum power a whack, it also murders
the highest religious interests of the
people, and sends our "moral Utopia"
to the sombre shades, where "the
whangdoodle mourneth." Zed.
DIC. HANS YON BULOW.
The great German 'pianist, who is
now on a;visit to our country, conies
of one of Germany's j oldest and
proudest families, that has given
many famous soldiers arid statesmen
to the fatherland. Hans von Bulow
was born in Dresden on the 8th of
January, 1830, and received the ordi
nary education of a nobleman's son.
When 'eighteen years old he was sent
to Lepzic University for the purpose
of studying la w A year later he re
moved to Berlin, still pursuing his
.studies, although taking a great in
terest in ; music. It was not until
1850, that, on hearing a performance
of Lohengrin at Weimar, conducted
by Liszt, von Bulow found out that
the Study of music was more conge
nial to him than the study of law.
He left for Zurich, in Switzerland,
where Wagner was then living and
commenced to study hard under him ;
in 1852 he returned to- Weimar to
perfect himself on the I piano under
the guidance of Liszt, wh6se daughter,
Casima, he married in j 1857. Yon
Bulow had in the meantime made his
mark as a great pianist, having given
concerts in all the principal cities of
Germany, where he was received with
enthusiasm. He became an ardent
disciple of Wagner and the new school
of music. ; Mr. von Bulow has been
conductor; of several royal opera
houses in Germany, but he never re
mained long at any place ; he is far
too independent to suit the Royal In
tendarits and innumerable are the
stories told about the rows he has had
with ihem. He is unquestionably
one of the greatest pianists and
learned musicians the world has ever
seen and he has no equal in the field
he occupies. He has made it the
mission of his life to interpret Wag
ner, and especially Beethoven, to this
generation. His editions of this com
poser's works and his reading of the
symphonies and sonatas are accepted
by the world as final. When listen
ing -to his rendering of Beethoven one
feels that one is in the presence of
the greatest musical historian that
ever lived.! He is endowed with the
i most colossal memory in the annals
of music, going through the most
prodigious programmes without a
note before him. By his wonderful
intelligence he seems to read straight
through the mighty brain of Beetho
ven and to give the music as the great
composer intended it should be given,
that and nothing more. I Nothing is
neglected, every phase, every note is
given its full meaning. Dr. von
Bulow's literary labors are consider
able and important, and he also com
posed several overtures, besides a
number of other writings for piano
as well as for orchestra, i
Of Interest to Sunday School
Workers.
As several of the delegates ap
pointed to attend the World's Sun
day School Convention, j to be held
at London July 2d, 3d, 4th and .5th,
have found it impossible for them
to go, any person identified with the
Sunday School work and known or
properly endorsed to Col. E. J. Par
rish (Durham), chairman of the
State executive committee, wiil re
ceive appointment by him.
The Cunard steamer carrying the
delegates fiom the United States,
will sail from New York Wednesday,
June 19th, at 10 a. m.
State papers please copy.
That Frencluuau, ' :
An intensely interesting novel, by Archi
bald Clavering Gunter, author of the famous
"Mr. Barnes, of New York," Price, 50
cents. ; At the Ihirham bookstore of
J. Ii. Whitaker, Jr., & Co.
A CENT UK V OLD.
Centennial Exercises at the Uni
versity of North Carolina on
Yesterday.
New & Observer, i
Yesterday was a great day in the
history of the I'niversity. It was a
day preeminently of the reunion of
former students. The day previous
was given over to the class (lay exer
cises of the seniors and representa
tive speaking, but yesterday, as was
intended, was monopolized by those
whose immediate connection with
the University had ceased. Old
students, alumni and matriculates,
including State ollicers, Congress
men, representatives of the bench,
the bar, the medical and clerical
profession, farmers, manufacturers
and every other vocation, many of
whom had not revisited the scene of
their college days since they left the
University at the final commence
ment, in which they took an active
part, renewed their old associations,
shook hands with their classmates
and engaged in the exercises in
tended to show in part what has
been performed by the University
in the past. Distinguished educa
tors representing other colleges, and
including such men as Crawford H
Toy, of Harvard Univcsity; Presi
dent Venable, of the University ol
Virginia; Prof. Browne, of Wash
ington and Lee University ; Prof.
Shepherd, of the Charleston. South
Carolina, College, and Dr. J. L. M.
Curry, who has taken such a prom
inent part in Southern education,
were present and had an opportu
nity of seeing what the University
is doing, and made speeches of con
gratulation and good wishes.
The weather though cloudy and
slightly rainy in the morning, was
all that could have been asked later
in the day. The campus and village
presented the scene it always pre
sents on commencements, of peace
ful, quiet and classic repose, broken
only by the bustle of the more than
ordinary number of visitors present.
The crowd in attendance was not as
large as it ought to have been on so
important an occasion, but those
there represented the best thought
of the State and those who take the
deepest interest in the University
and its growth and prosperity.
The morning exercises in Memo
rial Hall were mainly reminiscent
Senator Ransom, who was to have
delivered the alumni address, broke
his arm a day or two ago, it is un
derstood, and was consequently con
fined to his home. The roll call of
classes extending back over fifty
years, however, was called and grey
haired and youthful men made
pleasant speeches about the Univer
sity, the work it had done, what it
was hoped it would yet do, and
their connection with the institution.
The alumni banqvjet was the feature
of the afternoon. The old students
and their guests, to the number of
several hundreds, assembled in Gen
eral Hall about 2:30 o'clock, and
after partaking of the college menu
made speeches and listened to others
until after 7 o'clock. In the early
evening, girls in white dresses, ac
companied by their friends and
sweethearts, strolled through the
shady walks and leafy bowers, for
which the University is famous, and
many equipages laden with fair oc
cupants could be seen driving
through the principal streets of the
village. Later in the evening Me
morial Hall was again lighted, and
the class exercises continued in the
presence of still larger audiences,
the crowd in attendance continuing
to increase with each incoming train.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
To Teachers.
We have just leceived a supplv of "Page'd
Theory and Practice of Teaching," recently
recommended by the State Board of Educa
tion. The regular price of the book i $1.2o,
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.
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Blank Books.
Various sizes and qualities, at the Durham
bookstore of J. B. Whitaker, JrM & Co.
Triumphant Songs
Just received. Sold at publishers' prices :
35 cents each; $3.60 per -dozen. At the
Durham bookstore of
J. B. Whitaker, Jr., & Co.
$5.00 PER ANNUM.
Plant Photographs.
Judge J. A. Gilmer passed Hown '
the road to-day. j
Mrs. J. A.McMannen is quite sick,
we are sorry to hear.
Mrs; K. I. Rogers went over to
Chapel J I ill this morning.
Mr. G. H. Glass, of the Telephone
Exchange, was in town this morn
ing. Miss Mamie Heartt got home yes
terday afternoon from Peace Insti
tute. Miss Zoa Rigsbee returned yester
day from Peace Institute for vaca
tion. Capt. and Mrs. J. ,S. Ixckhart
went 'down to Kaleigh this after
noon. Mr. A. M. Rigsbee is confined at
home by sickness, we arc sorrv to
learn.
Miss Ida Compton is visiting the
family of Mr. J. W. Brooks, on Cas
well Hill. -
Mrs. John R.V Walker has been
very sick for several davs. we re
gret to learn. j
Mr. G. C. Worth! of the Univer
sity, passed through to-day, en route
tor his home in ; llmington. -
Miss Jessie Lcweilin.of our Graded
School Faculty, went over to Oxford
tins morning to spend vacation witli
her parents, Mr. -and Mrs. C. H. Lew-
ellm.
Prof W. H. Hand, principal of
the Fremont Institute, spent last
night and this morning in Durham,
returning from the University Com
mencement, j
M. A. Angier, Esq., went up to
Burlington yesterday afternoon to
attend a meeting of the Finance
Committee of the North Carolina
Railroad Co.
Mr. W. F. Kornegay, of Goldsboro,
went up to Burlington yesterday
afternoon to attend a meeting of the
Finance Committee of '-the?' North'
Carolina Railroad Co.
Rev. C. C. Newton expected to
leave this week for his mission field
in Africa, but found it impossible to
secure steamer accommodations ear
lier than thelotbjnstant.
Magnetic Pole.
Messrs Koitors: I have, with
much pleasure, read the reasons
given by Mr. D. G.McDuffie for the
variations of the magnetic needle.
His argument, if I understand it,
is very plausible ; and as I have
never been satisfied with some of the
phenomena necessarily resultant, if
the theory of precession be true, I
would like a little further light from
this very able mathematician. He
says : j ' '
''The earth is making a slow revo
lution on its axis from west to east,
and in 85G years it makes a com
plete revolution." j
I do not comprehend his meaning
here : 'Slow revolution on ilk axis
from u-esl to east." It makes a rapid
revolution on its axis from west to
east every twenty-four hours. Will
he kindly explain this other revolu
tion, and give the scientific cause for
it ? Again he says the magnetic
pole is fixed, by which I understand
him to mean that it does not really
move. This being so, the magnetic
sphere and the earth sphere are not,
in form and opposition, coincident;
and this being so, the probability is
that one of these j poles really re
volves around the other, but he does
not in his too brief article make this
plain. Now, if the earth pole re
volves around the magnetic pole,
this' would satisfactorily f explain,
without resort to ; the precessional
theory, the apparent movement of the
star-sphere. But, I do not see how
the revolution of the magnetic pole,
not producing any, real change in
the relative position of the earth,
could produce any apparent change
in the position of the star-sphere.
Undoubtedly the revolution of
either pole around the other would
account for any variation of the mag
netic needle. His I great discovery
seems to be two-fold : 1st, the lack
of coincidence between the magnetic
and the earth spheres, and 2d, the
"slow revolution" of which he speaks.
Upon this last will he explain a
little further? Durham.
Pencils, j j .
Rubber head pencils, onlj one cent each
at the Durham bookstore of
J. K Whitaker,.Jr & Co.
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