North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. . I INO. 137. SUMMARY. t ,,unUrlVit policemen are being arrested Mt John-town. All policemen now are re ljuire.1 to r:irry a card signed by Gen. Ilas- in;,- The State Board of Health issued a bulletin yesterday stating that no epidemic ,li a-e of any kind prevails at Johnstown m.r is any anticipated. Reports from Indiana -liow that great damage was done -tl,cr'is and other property by the heavy r:,in- of la.-t week. The people of Cleve- a('().. have been excited for several days j.ver the disappearance of a little girl, Mag gie Tliornpx'ii. Sunday night her body was toiiml in the cellar of a house close by her 1(,ie. The bcxly wiis terribly mutilated, the head being entirely severed. The family .KTiijiving the house were arrested at once . ." i- ,. r i i' it. . R awl tliC police are m seaiuu ui ucws iu me nUiner An impromptu duel took place in Fauiiir-county, Virginia, Sunday, in rthich two brothers and a cousins all named Turner, took part with pistols. One of the hr.itliers was killed and the cousin shot tliroiitdi tlie breast. The dilliculty grew out of the ill treatment by the cousin of hU wife, who was a sister of the brothers. The anti Mahone llepublicans of Vir ginia have an interview with the President tirtlay.: A. lieutenant in the Mexican Armv yesterday killed the chief of police ut I'avt-del-Norte. EDITORIAL, BRIEFS. ' What i.s so rare as a day in June?'' Nothing has been so rare this June as a June day. It took; only five days to raise five hundred' thousand dollars for the Johnstown, sufferers in New York citv. The wife of Gen. T. J. Jackson is writing a life of her husband. The book will not be ready for the press for six months yet. . The (lovernor of Connecticut has followed the example of Gov. Hill, of New York, in vetoing the Austra lian ballot bill. So the parties are even on this score. ' Mk. :lexa xder Reed, just ap pointed consul to Dublin, is the ninth editor whose month the Pres ident has dosed by sticking a gov ernmental teat into it. The sanitary experts in charge in the Conetnaugh Yalley do not seem w ie at all uneasy, but we do not how it is possible to prevent a pestilence unless the dead bodies we burned. , Ihe head of one of the divisions in Agricultural department created T'rte a row the other day by inti- UiatmS that he would like to have a jore efficient person in the position hely a brother of Jim Baine. ! my ! ! A Republican has re tu an ollice tendered him bv the :"J1imstration. He does not live ln N"orth Carolina thoueb. This cu- r;ou3 and unnatural specimen of 'Tuoucanism resides in the State 01 -V York. 11 skkms' that Dudley has not W at the White House vet. We 1 Ught Harrison had concluded it p f, not rjgt to keep him out in the der. having rewarded Wana J. dna Uarkson.- It is not right. 1 15 not just. ; ' M t' )lAINK,i5 administration of -tate Department is full of op Tis now reported from ue w Jrities hn,. , Am utsen 10 arresting Irela I JetS aS "8USPects" in unrig oi lister Mr m nr- Blaine Thp n7. . 'itu.. lncs on the trust line an the ammonia manufactur sav a combination. Some people (lo -uuma is made out of dead Wu 'ats' H that be so, -we toriQiil 3 combination will ma- v anect their market value. The fifteenth annual meeting of the North Carolina Dental Associa- ation will be held in the city of Greensboro on the 20th. 2Gth and 27th insts. ! 'Aren't you going to Morehead City this summer and enjoy the sea breeze and grow fat upon the good things provided for the guests of the Atlantic Hotel ? ! A Virginia paper savs Senator A L " iddleberger spends most of his time in reading and fishing. Well, Bacon said, "reading maketh a full man," but it did riot take1 Bacon to find out that fishing was often equal to readincr in this resnecf -f A new reading of an old couplet we find copied from the; Philadel phia Inquirer .' j "Of all sad words of tongne or pen, The saddest are those ; We can't tell when." Not copyrighted. Office-seekers in expectancy may use without in fringing. Wilmington Messenger. The New York World says Har rison is going to dissolve the Solid South by the use of two j enormous bribes a $00,000,000 appropriation for the schools of this section and a fat share in the tariff bounties for its miners and manufacturers. We t will see, Mr. World, we will see. We rather expect Mr. Harrison is count ing his chickens before the eggs are hatchjed. I Alexander wept because there .were no other worlds to conquer. Harrison is worried because he has no more relations to appoint to of fice. 'Tis true there is a jbrother in Missouri wbo has had nothing yet, but he is a Democrat. This is very vexatious to the President, for- he cannot bear to think of a single mem ber of the family being left to the cold charity of the world jinstead of having a warm, comfortable govern ment berth. It seems Wanamaker does not hes itate to make public that; feet that he looks upon the Postoffice Depart ment as an agency of his big store. The New York Star says : "Wana maker is getting bolder and more shameless in the way in which he uses the postoffice for his own private purposes every day. In the last is sue of the Book News, an advertising pamphlet of his store, he says: 'Wherever there is a postoffice there is what is in effect a branch ot our i bookstore.'" The investigation of the postoffice at the town of Proctor, Yt., shows ud the Secretary'of War in a very bad light. The office has been run bv the marble trust, of which he is the president, the postmaster being a mere figure head. Many bundles of letters, some of them registered letters, have been found hid away in dark corners. Some of them were letters mailed at this postoffice and not forwarded. Others were letters there received and not delivered This has been going on for several years. lu -TTrmmler. of Buffalo, who is trvinff to stave off the decree which consigns him to death at tie hands of the electricians, is evidently not nnYi'nns for fame. To be the first LA a. Am w v j man legally killed by electricity would give Kemmler a place in his tory. He should be prompt to seize an opportunity such ,as this. New York World. We suppose Mr. Kemmler would naturally prefer some other kind of fame that would not from its nature necessarily be nthnmous. We cannot altogether blame bim for this. DURHAM, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1889. TOWN TALK. Wet by 70. -My ! My 1 1 My!!! ! Ir-Trinity and Wake Forest Com mencements this week. Business! will soon be on a boom the whiskev business. You can't shake vour irorv locks at,us and say we did it. That electric light in the post- office is certainlv a preat conve nience. 1 Our skirts are clear of the blood of intemperance, that is likely to be visited upon the town. ; The pulpit and the ladies were on our side. We had rather be beaten in such company than win witnout them. Remember that Durham Town ship Sunday School Convention will meet, at Tnnitv Church next Tuesday morning. The grocerv of "Whitaker. the inimitable," will -be moved to the Redmond tfc Proctor building, oppo site Jones & Lyon's. Return tickets , to the various summer resorts are now on sale at the R. & D. ticket office. The rates are somewhat lower than last year. It is said that a number of whis key sellers from Raleigh came ud yesterday for the purpose of arrang ing ior going into the business here. Excursion by the Baptist Sun day Schools to Wake Forest on Thursday. Price of tickets to per sons not members of the schools! We learn that a sociable will be given to-night, at the residence of Mr. W." A. Lea, complimentary to Misses Hattie and Bessie Walker, of Yancey ville. The negro vote is what turned the "scales in favor of bar rooms. A majority of the white voters declared against imposing this disgrace upon the town, we are proud to say. Let it be written in letters of gold upon imperishable tablets that a majority of the white voters of Durham entered their solemn pro test against the iniquitous bar-room. A crowd of negroes gave vent to their exuberance over the whiskey victory by parading Main street last night, behind horrid music (?), mak ing the welkin ring with their shouts of fiendish glee. We learn that the D. & N. rail road will make further devastation along the line of the moonshine way, by running a side track into the beautiful yard of Mrs. M. F. Green and destroying some of her shade trees. Too bad ! Too bad ! Cannot something be done to keep the electric light works from kicking up such a terrible racket at night? The noise is worse than it was some time ago, and if it con tinues to increase it is likely to be come an intolerable nuisance. Fix it. Would it not be weli for the Town Commissioners to pass an or dinance prohibiting screens in the doors and on the windows of bar rooms and requiring these places to close at 10 o'clock at night? Or would such enactments interfere with somebody's "civil liberty"? Raleigh jhas subscribed the amount required to secure the loca tion of Trinity College, but it is not certain that it will go there. Some are opposed to; a retrfoval, some favor Raleigh and others favor Greensboro. It is expected ! definite action will be taken by the Board of Trustees this week. The County Commissioners re solved some months since that they would refuse license to sell liquor to any person who had been found guilty of violating the liquor laws. Now, let them and the Town Com missioners see that the guilty fellows do not dodge this by getting license in other people's names. Begin right now to get ready for the next battle with whiskey. Two years is a long time, but well directed efforts may bring changes in that period which will enable us to down the evil in the next con test.! We believe in tackling it at every opportunity when there is a prospect of success, and two years' reign of the monster will probably work such devastation as should cause a number who voted against us yesterday to change their views. Graded School Faculty. At a meeting of the Graded School Committee, yesterday afternoon, the following teachers were: elected lor the next I scholastic year Prof. E. W. Kennedy, Superintendent ; Prof. T. J. Simmons Prof. J.jS. Bassett, Miss Bessie Fanning, Mrs. A. W. Jordan, Miss Sarah A. iTillinghast, Miss Jessie Lewcllin, Miss Rettie Blair, Miss-Laura B. Saunders, Miss htta rannuifr. Trinity'sjKxcursioii Postponed. Trinity .Sunday School has again been disappointed in the matter of their excursion to Oxford. The Richmond t Danville Railroad Company find it impossible to fur nisbj the train on Saturday next, owing to the unusual demand for cars for carrying home students from Trinity College, Bingham School and elsewhere. I They will furnish the train, how ever,! on Saturday, June 22d, on which day we hope the school and its friends will have a delightful ex cursion, i An 111 Wind that Blows Good to No One, Some two months ago, Mr. Byron A. Pugin, architect, and Mr. R. C. StrudwickJ attorney at law, left Dur ham for Seattle, AVashington Terri tory. From the telegrams in the newspapers, it appears that Seattle has been 'destroyed by tire. This, from one standpoint, looks quite un favorable to our lawyer ; friend, Mr. Strudwick, wiiile upon the other hand, it appears just the thing for Mr. Pugin. Certainly what is meat for one is poison for another. We indulge the hope that both the gen tlemen, in their new home, may lind both fame and fortune. The I Vote. i As indicated by The Plxt, the vote yesterday upon local option was a pretty full one. Seven hun dred jand seventy votes were cast of a registered listot eight hundred and thirty-eight. The odds were against the pros but they worked manfully and succeeded in reducing the antis expected majority of one hundred and forty or more to seventy-six. A large majority of the negroes voted with the whiskey men. The follow ing is the Vote : NORTH DURHAM License, j No License, 226 210 Majority for License, J SOUTH DURHAM. License, j No License, i; Majority for License, j - j ' ' i : TOTALS. License, No License, Total majority for License, 16 197 137 60 423 4 J- 6 A Word to the Town Commis- ; sioners. A majority of the voters having expressed themselves on yesterday in favor of re-opening bar-room3 in our town, it becomes the duty of the Commissioners to pass j upon the qualifications of those who are to be licensed to run them. They have lull power over the matter, and a li cense irom the County Commissioners without a recommendation from the town authorities is a nullity. The only qualification needed before the Board of Countv Commissioners is satisfactory evidence of the good moral character of the i applicant. Of course the Town Commissioners would not; recommend any person hot up to this legal standard, but it rests jWith them to throw other safe guards around this traffic, which is admitted by all to be evil in itself. For instance, should the Board rec ommend one who can prove a good moral character and who is but a figure 'head for some one who knows he could not in his own name obtain license. Ought not every applicant be required to state in his petition, truly, the name of the party or par ties interested in the license, and who alone will do business under the same, so that the town might have a reasonable i guarantee of the strict observance of the law? Citizen. Blank Books. , Various sizes and qualities, at the Durham lfookstore of J. B. Whitaker, Jr., & Co. Plant Photographs. Mr. T. M. Martin went up the road yesterday afternoon. Mr. M. II. Jones is on the sick list, we are sorry to hear. Mr. Sam. Dickson came down from Hillsboro to-day. Mr. C. M. Parks, of Hillsboro, came down on the noon train to-day. Col. T. M. Argo, of Raleigh, was in attendance upon court this morn ing. Mrs. John M. Moring is confined at home by sickness, we are sorry to learn. Mrs. J. W. Lathrop, of Savannah, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Eu gene Morehead. Mr. J. B. Warren, we regret to chronicle, is reported sick unto death, it is feared. Messrs. John F. Southerland and J. W. Lamb, of Goldsboro, passed up the road yesterday afternoon. Maj. Jno. C. Winder, Superin tendent of. the Raleigh & Gaston road, spent the morning in Durham. Col. W. W. Blackford, engineer in charge of the Lynchburg & Durham railroad,; we regret to learn is on the sick list.: Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Heartt moved to-day into the Puryear residence, near the northern terminus of Dil lard street. Capt. Jack Wiggins, of Danville, looks natural as he moves around shaking the hands of his legion ol Durham friends. Mr. R. B. Boone left yesterday af ternoon to represent Durham Lodge, Knights of Pythias, in the Grand Lodge at Salisbury. - Rev. N. M. Jurney, en route to Trinity commencement, is spending the day in Durham, to tlte gratifica tion of his many friend. Jlev. Dr. E. A. Yates will attend a meeting of of the Board of Trustees ot Trinity College this week. lie will return before Sunday. Mrs. Yearby moved to-day to her new home, recently erected by the Durham Sash, Door and Blind Man ufacturing Co., on Morris street. Mr. R. C. Strudwick, who recently went from Durham to Seattle, is the senior member or the firm, Strud wick, Peters & Collins, attorneys at law. Maj. E. G. Harrell, of Raleigh, vas on the west-bound train yester day afternoon, en route for theses sion of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias at Salisbury. Messrs. W. T. Hollowell, Richard MacDonald and E. G. Porter passed up the road yesterday afternoon for Salisbury, to attend the Grand Lodge of j Knights of Pythias. In Memory of lion. Thomas Uul ii n. I At the meeting of the Durham Bar yesterdav afternoon. Judge J. G. Bynum was called to the chair and Mr. J. S Manning was requested to act as secretarv. The committee on resolutions made the following renort. "which was adopted and ordered to be spread upon the record ot the Court The members of the Bar of the county of Durham, assembled for the purpose of giving suitable expression of the loss sustained by our profes sion, and by the whole people of Durham county, on account of the death of our late friend and asso ciate, Thomas Ruflin, who was for a long ; period of his life a resident of the adjoining county of Orange, feel that words cannot adequately express our sentiments of friendship and re spect for bur deceased brother and the estimation in which he was so justly held by the people of this county. . His life and public services are now a part of the history of the middle section of our State and his name and fame as a lawyer and Judge will be for all time inseparably connected; with the judicial history of our State of the last quarter of a century, j He was a man of fine natural abilities, and scholarly attainments, and served his clients with the ut most zeal; and painstaking, faithful and unceasing care for their inter ests. He had the courage of his con victions as one of hi3 loadiog per sonal characteristics and in a cause commending itself to his judgment, $5.00 PER ANNUM. there was no temnorizino- nor hnlf handed leral service rendorml nml thej client who employed him might rely with perlect confidence in ob taining the full measure of his leani ng and ability, and whatever con sideration his side of the controversv deserved. - As a Supreme Court Judge his opinions sneak for themselves and will always command with our pro fession the respect to his memory as a jurist the just tribute of praise which the mind ol a discriminating lawyer knows so well how to give. As an humble tribute to the mem ory of our departed brother : Jiesolced, That bv the death of r f . Hon. Thomas Ruffin, the Bar of Durham has lost its most distin guished member, and one for whom we, as a protession, together with the people of this county, entertained the highest respect and esteem. hesolved. lhat his Honor, the nre- ' 7 J sidinsr Judcre. be reouested to cause this expression of our sentiments to be recorded on the minutes of the Court, and the Clerk be directed to transmit a copy of the same to the lamiiy oi tne deceased brother, in to- ken ol our sympathy lor them in their sad bereavement. Wm. A.Guthuik, Jno. M. Mokinc, . W. J. Exum, Committee. Appropriate remarks were made by Judge Bynum, Col. T. C. Fuller, of Raleigh, Maj. Jno. W. Graham, of Hillsboro, and Maj. W. A Guthrie, W. W. Fuller, Esq., and R. B. Boone, Esq., of Durham. The Water Works Suit. We learn that Mr. J. S. Manning, referee in the case of the McNeill Pipe and Foundry Co. vs. A. H. How land and the Durham Water Works Company, has decided in favor of the plaintiff and given judgment for about 25,000. The defendants file exceptions to this decision and the matter will be heard at the next term of the court. j Is Lile Worth Living? Not if you go through the world a dyspep tic. Acker's Dyspeptic Tablets are a posi tive cure for the worst forms of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Flau-tulency and Constipation. Guaranteed and sold by R. lilacknall & Son. BUSINESS NOTICES. Kubher Stamps. Orders taken for Rubber Starajw, of all kinds. Seal Presses, Ribbon and Heal .Stanqw, etc., at the Durham bookstore of J. B. Whitaker, Jr., A Co- That Frenchman, An intensely interesting novel, by Archi bald Clavering Gunter, author of the famous "Mr. Barnes, of New York." Price, 50 cents. At the Durham bookstore of J. B. Whitaker, Jr., & Co. To Teachers. ' 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 f 1.00 J. B. Whitake, Jr., & Co,. At Durham Bookstore. jSTORE ROOM WITH ELEVATOR T The store room at present occupied dj Messrs. t. r . Cheek & fcJon, iurniture dealers, (perhaps the best stand in town) is for rent after Jan uary 1st. I . The first, second and third floors will be rented en suit, or the first and third floors. The building is fitted with a first-class elevator connecting the 3 floors, ana to parties representing a desirable business, I am prapared to offer most satisfactory arrangements. Private rooms or rooms for offices for rent upon the 4s2omd floor of this building to parties giving good ref erences A HEARTT, AGEHT.