North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. HINO. 8. SUMMARY. Mill'iva" -ay lie will never again enter the r:,v unk-r any ircu instances. - -Kilrain is Gover- vrr"iblv fliafjrine! at his defeat n.,r Lowry, nf Mississippi, says he is deter ,,,,1 to have the prize fighters punished. jwill have them extradited;- The ex- .-itement over the prize fight has pretty nearly .filled in New Orleans. The commit- ve :ij,mueil to investigate the accounts of V T. t 'ak', ex -county treasurer at Mar--!iu!I; HI., lin-1 a shortage of $21,000. A -Vd.-'lit train on-tire Pennsylvania Railroad va, wrecked Monday night. The wreck ciiiglit fire and 'tis said nine or ten persons , re burned up.,- The first and second sec-vtarii-s. of. the Interior, and Commissioner huner held a conference yesterday which !,,(..,! over three hours. -W. V. Evans, elit,,r of the Lance!, the colored Mahone p;,,t r of Petersburg, Va., was arrested yester day on a charge of criminal libel. A one armed man choked a no armed man to death in a saloon in Buiialo, N. Y. Monday night. The Massachusetts Kifle Team have been granted permission to enter France as an armed hody.- Mr. C. T. Grandy, recently ,,a the -Yt'lf.s (i l Ohserrer of Ralegh, has re turned to his former position on the "Wash ington i D. C.) l'ost. EDITORIAL BRIEFS. The third trial of ex-Alderman Mc- uiuule,. of New York, began at Al bany to dav. U this isn't hot weather we would like for somebody to tell us what hot weather is. Even our devil complains of the temperature to-day. Tin: weather-makers have been cry ing tor seasonable weather. They should be satisfied with yesterday and to-day, but 'of course they are not. Wf.n. Josi:i'ii E. Johnson has sept in lii.s resignation as Government In jector of Railroads. If Harrison had any manliness about bini he would request the General to with draw his resignation and to continue to occupy the position. The twenty-four hundred men who have recently left Mr. Carne gie s employment because he wished to till reduce their starvation wages have a plenty of leasure now in which to discuss the advantages to 'e derived, by the laboring men from the high tariff system. Ykstekday's New York World contains a two and a half column article, giving the experience of a reporter who made the rounds of the city the day before Sunday visiting the open bar-rooms in the Clt owned and run bv members of l State ..Legislature and city alder wen. e wish Cousin Johnnie would give no ... MJ Ul" mans regularly. What we ant is certainty ; we have given up a:i hopes of dispatch. If he would -narantee us our New York mail in I'-'n.v eight hours it would be better J'iai1 the present uncertainty. No '!le kuo"s when or by what route to :'"ik fV mail. lIE Secretary of the Navy not long ordered four more stars to be to the Hags to be used. in the v.v after July -ith, of this year. -We JJugU he was rather previous. We 0e gla(l to know that the Secretary av Trorasur.v agrees with us and Ms Mr- Tracy is just twelve months ohime. a tHK ?ervice pension" advocates 'mo P.ension of eight dollars a thra to every man wuo serve( rt;e months in the Federal army rinS the late war. This will add 4, iwel lve hundred and fifty vj names to ine peu roll- x,,u- i .. .. . more riA. . 1 1 liimi V Uicn nw contain tnree Wl V UiCU nw contain tnree now i and fift thousand men U(JW rlrr, J fro rawing $80,000,000 a year TOWN TALK. Keep the town clean. The D. L. I. safe in camp. A warm wave, sure enough. Oh, for the invifrnrntino- -prili vru of Morehead. ' i " Raleigh is to be conirratnlntpd upon securing Trinity College. Oak Grove townshin Sun.l.iv fechool Convention on to-morrow at Fletcher's Chapel. What about the. wnfrnn nnr plow factory? We have hp.nrrl nnth. ing from it. recentlv. nnwht nave it. . Letter from Mr. II. N. S now in to-day's Plant. Horace fails to tell us wnich description of sea-sickness fits his case. I A pair of immense Texas steer horns have been received bv Mr. .1. A. Gresham from his brother, who lives in Texas. Our citizens are reauested to as sist the town authorities in keeping tne town clean. If you know of fil thy places renort them to the sani tary policeman, Mr. P. B. Cheek. . The great need of Durham is more factories. Shall we have them ? Let us move among ourselves in this direction. It mav be done bv the co-operative plan. Many littles put together make a big much. Grasp the idea and utilize it to the un- building ot Durham. - x Don't Forget. We would impress upon the farm ers of Durham county, and upon our citizens generally ,the importance of having Durham's agricultural and other resources fully and cred itably represented at the Industrial Display in Raleigh this fall. Greatly Needed. 1 Again we urge the town commis sioners to place an electric light on the corner of Corcoran and Pea body streets. It will prove a pub lic convenience and may save some body a dangerous fall from the heights in that vicinity. . ' ' j We urge the railroad authorities, also, to establish gates at the dan gerous crossings upon Peabody street. There are such gates in other places. Why not in Durham? Are not the lives of our citizens of as much importance as the lives of citizens of other places ? Give us the sates and let us have them be fore somebody is killed on account of failure-to provide warning. fliiitv Collesre to': be Moved to ltaleig-li. The Trustees of Trinity College met at-Greensboro yesterday for the purpose of taking definite action upon the question of moving the College. The result of the meeting is furnished us by a friend, who was present, as follows : After a long discussion, touching the question on every side, the Board last night adjourned at 1 o'clock, hav ing adopted the following resolutions by a vote of 18 to 11. j Resolved 1, That when the provis ions in the resolutions passed by this board May Uh, 1889, are fully met by the citizens of Raleigh, that we TrinHv f!olleere to that city. Resolved 2, That a committee of five be elected to negotiate w nil an authorized committee of the citizens of .Raleigh as to the exact terms on which the removal will take place, that such agreements be committed both sides, together with plans and specifications ot the proposed buildings, to he submitted fi.a T?Anni nf 'iViistees at the next UIVJ " v. session of the North Carolina Annual Conference, at Greensboro, for appro val. 1 The committee elected under the second resolution is: rresiueni r Crowell, J. S. Carr, J. T. Harris, W v TTAvnoo-nv and W. R. Odell. The discussion was spirited but fair. Messrs. KoDoins, ieacn uuu Crowell did most oi tne taiKiug. iv. fir-txv nnrl .Tmlere Mansum paired, as they had to leave before a vote was taken. The friends of the oppo sition fell in like true men when omi snv thev are lor UCrtLCH J w . .. (1 forever. I believe m:: norr saw a bnerhter day President Crowell tendered the board &z nnn rffproncfi library and build ing from some unknown party for the DURHAM, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY lO, 1889. I DC?" x mm ti .-; HOWARD A. One of the most progressive and energetic young newspaper men in tile South is Edward A. Oldha'm, a portrait and sketch of whom is here with given. The subject 6f our sketch was born at: Wilmington, North Carolina, Jan uary 13, i860. His early mental training was received in the schools of his native place up to 1874, when he attended the famous Horner School," then located at Hillsboro, c. Portions of the years 1877-7$ and 79 were spent in Bethel, the well- known military academy of Vir- ginia. Here ne estanjisned a college paper called the Bethel Cadet, which still exists. While here he was awarded the Corcoran Essayist Medal, given by the distinguished Washington philanthropist, which was considered the highest literary honor of the school. A brother journalist once said of him : "Before he had attained the age of nineteen, he could probably lay claim to more really creditable dis tinctions than most American boys; he had contributed a series of Amerr ican letters to a British quarterly and had been liberally paid by the New York Herald tor an article. For an afternoon Wilmington pa per he did reportorial work and acted as news correspondent for several papers in North Carolina and at the North. In 1879 he was Washington cor respondent for several North Caro lina papers, and while there held a position for a short time on the re potorial staff of the Washington iW. The summer of 1SS0 he was con nected with the Washington Capital, furnishing it with correspondence from different points in his native State, and represented the same pa per at the World's Cotton Fair at Atlanta, in 1881. During the Hancock campaign of 1880 he organized in w iimingion the Young Men's Progressive Dem ocratic Club, and was elected its first president. A campaign sheet, the Young Democrat, was issued, he beinsr one of its editors. A warm admirer of the genius of Edgar Allan Poe, he took an active interest in the movement to erect a national memorial, and in a copy of the New York Herald, of February 10, 1881, his name is iounu as one oi uie Honorary Committee, under whose auspices a grand ente hpld !at Booth's Th tertainment was at Booth's Theatre, in .New Y citv. Among the names on this committee were those of Ed- mntJ Glarence Stedman. Edar liiUUVA w Fawcett. Joaquin Miller, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, Mary Anderson, Janau-. scheK. Jtienry auuc, Augusuu Daly, Lawrence Barrett, Salvini, Jos. Jefferson, Lester Waliack and many others. In the winter of 1881 he accepted the position of managing editor oi the Daily Commercial Xeu, of New Berne, N. C, afterward merged into the Daily Journal, which still exists. Withdrawing from the Neics early in 1882, he began preparations for the publication of an industrial jour nal, which was meant to be a reflex of the "new order of things" in the South. This journal elicited extra if 5 - OLDHAM, ordinary commendation from not only the press of his native State, but attracted the editorial attention of the leading papers in the country. The Neio South had the double fea ture of a fine typographical appear ance and abundant illustration more than any Southern journal had ever given to its readers up to that time. . The name of the paper was unpopular with the old fogies, who did not share the enthusiasm of its young editor who struck ;out from the shoulder for "a new deal" in in dustrial and political leadership. Its advocacy of "Young Men in Politics" caused a widespread discussion in the btate press and acknowledge!' created a sentiment more favoraWe to young men in North Carolina public life. 5 The Xew SoutJi was ever full of suggestions for the welfare of North Carolina and of the South. That of a State Tobacco Fair, to have been held at Durham, struck so respon sive a chord that within three days after the issue was printed, a public meeting was held in Durham and a company organized to put the sug gestion into practical shape. Owing to the failure of the tobaccorcrop that year, the proposed undertaking was postponed until the following year, when the idea was brought out by Mr. Oldham in the Slate Chroni cle, And enlarged upon, in that, in stead of the fair being exclusively devoted to tobacco, it be devoted to the combined industries of the State. This idea grew until the State Ex position of 1883 was evolved, and to the Chronicle and to Mr. Oldham be long the credit for the original sug gestion of, and much of the work to ward, the carrying out of the enter prise. ' j ueh literary work was accom plished by him during ISSO-'Sl and '82. An historical sketch of the "Life arfd Services of Gov. Caswell," which appeared in a North Carolina maga zine, and an essav on "Edgar Poe not an Habitual Drinker," in a Washington journal, were well re ceived. He was during this period a contributor to Harpers Weekly, 1- rank: Ledte $ 2ewpaper, Chicago Cur rent, Arkanau: Traveler, Boston Folio, Norristown (Pa.) Herald j Yonkers (X. Y.) Gazette, Whitehall (N. Y.) Times, Chicago Cheek, Detroit Chaff, and many other periodicals of this class, besides continuing hews cor respondence with Northern dailies The same writer, previously quot ed, thus writes: "He is a scion of the 'Xew &juth in its most literal sense, having been the first to give this term general currency by estab lishing in lbb2, at nmington, N C, a weekly industral journal bear ing that title, and to whose initial pages Hon. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, paid him the high compli ment ot contributing. Industrial journalism was a new departure for the bouth at that time, and, after Struggling along about a year, his journalistic first love passed away, but not until it had indelibly left its name impressed upon the phraseol ogy of the times, and had set in mo tion a great wave oi popular enthu siasm for, and confidence in, the CONCLUDED OX THIRD PAGK.J THE I). L. I, Sate Arrival at the Kiicampiiieiit. Spechil to The I'lant. Hammocks, N. C, July 10. The Durham Light Infantry is safe in camp.! borne of the Reidsville boys had a difficulty with negroes inGoldsboro. Une negro shot. Nothinsr serious. ! J. P. W. Plant Photographs. Mr. Sam Dickson went to Wrirhts ville to-day. Mr. Tom Farthing left for Wridits- ville to-day. : Mr. D. C. Mangum went down to Raleigh to-day. j Dr. J. B. Gunter, of Mebane, is in town this afternoon!. J i Revj. L Branson,! of Raleiirh, was in town this morning. Mr. John C. Angier returned to day from a trip up the road. Mr.! John M. Green left on the noon train for Wrightsville. Mr. A. M Rigsbee went to Ral eigh on the noon train to-day. Miss Sallie Brandon left yesterday afternoon on a visit to Danville. : M. A. Angier, Esq., went up to Greensboro vesterdav afternoon. Mrjand Mis. Hack Markham left to-day on a visit to j Wrightsville. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Carrin-iton left to-day-on a visit to Wrightsville. Mr. W. F. Korncgay, of Goldsboro, passei noon. up the road yesterday after- Miss Lilian Greer left to-day on a visit to Wilmineftbn and W rights ville. .Rev. C. Durham, . --' n of Raleigh, was train vesterdav on the west-bound afternoon. Mr. ! J. J. Mackay went over to Uxtord on a business trip yesterday atternpon. Mrs! Dr. Carr and Masters Johnnie and Willie left for ! Wilmington on the noon train. Mr. I and Mrs. S. R. Carrington were among Durham's visitors to Wrightsville to-day, Dr. and Mrs. J. fant son, David, is D. Roberts' in- reported quite sick, we are sorry to know Mrs. John Manning and Miss Tama Manning, of Chapel Hill, are on a visit to Mr. Jas. b. Manning. Major W. A. Guthrie returned to Durham on the 5 o'clock freight and left for Raleigh on the noon train. uncle bammie rurrentine, who has been reported ill for some days, we are glad to report easier this morning. Mr. J. L. Blackwell and Mr. Thos. D. Jones, we are gratified to state, are both reported more comfortable this morning. Mrs. Heartt, of Raleigh, arrived this morning on a visit to her sons. She is the guest of Mr. E. A. Heartt, at uranville! Heights Jack Cobb, voted! by everybody to be about the cleverest man in town, smiles every time vou ask him, be cause the madam shows such decided improvement at the springs Durham on a ISoom. We are sure for the past ten days there has been more drunken men, more yelling, cursing and swearing, and more disorder than we have seen for twelve months, if not more than we have seen for two vears. This is liberty, when it is not safe for ladies to go on some of the streets ot our town in broad open day time, and not safe at home after dark. The shoot ing of guns, the whistling of bullets. Who are absolutely safe on the streets or in their houses, when drunken men are carousing and shooting off guns in every direction ? j Where are the sworn officers of the law ? Is it pos sible that the good citizens of the town are to quietly submit to such an outrage upon decency, by having their homes disturbed by such bias phemy ? Who is responsible for al this ? I need not call your names. lou are not so ignorant a3 not to know the fruits of your own labor, lor your works do follow you. Then, let me say to you ni the language o song: "There is a great day coming ; Are you ready lor that day to come" A. halker. $5.00 PER ANNUM. i:x KOUTK fou eukopi:. Incidents of the Trip Sunday services on the Ocean The Bothnia a Slow Boat. Steamer "Bothnia" at Sea, -Wednesday Night, June 26, 1S80. Dear Plant: I am aware that what I shall write will be of little nterest to those who have made a sea voyage, or to those who have read of many voyages, as very 1 it- le that is new can be said, lhe Sfl m f Sl frli te nro cenn i ml avnorionnoc iad by all Atlantic travellers. How ever, my letter may interest a few of our readers and as my promise has been given, it must be fulfilled. boon alter closing my last letter he steamer passed into rough waters and rolled considerably, making at east two thirds of the passengers sea-sick. Jokes about paying trib ute to Aeptune and of "joining the editorial profession" by "furnishing contributions to the Atlantic'' were in order. The weather was delight- ml ; cool, but not uncomfortably so : a good breeze,, but not too much for all to enjoy being on deck, j I mean those who are in a condition to en joy anything. To many, the delight ful breeze, the sight of an occasional sail or steamer, the sailing bv of thf Little .Nautilus, the sporting ot the , n j dolphin, or even the back of a whale, which we saw Wednesday evening, lurnished no attractions. fliey were "wrapped in the solitude of their own miserable existence." One old lady, looking as though she needed consolation, was ap proached bv our lolly chairman of the Introduction Committee, Boston W. bmith, of Minneapolis, who asked if he could assist her in any way.! She replied : "No, unless it is to eat for me I have thrown up all I have eaten for two days, and the last time my set of teeth went over board." vjiic pueueaiiv lucuneu i suueier "i., U 4 11.J 1 i went; down to the dining-room, but suddenly left it exclaiming, "Man wants but little here below," and the next minute, leaning over the rail,-. hnished the couplet by adding, "Nor wants that little lonjr." One of the Introduction Commit tee approached a gentleman who sat rather retired and looked lonesome, introduced to some of the people. lie replied with a wave ot the hand and curl of lip indicative of profound disgust, "G'way, introduce nothing!" lhe Committeeman subsided. The record made by the steamer thus far has been, first day out, 280 miles ; 2d, 282 ; 3d, 275 ; 4th, 308 ; 5th, Oil ; Gth, 300 ; 7th 290. The Bothnia proves to be a slow boat, and it will require eleven days for the passage, instead of nine as -advertised. We do not expect to reach Liverpool before Saturday, the 29th, possibly not before Sunday. This is a disappointment to many of us who hoped to have two or three days to visit places of interest in London before the opening of the Convention. We have thus far had an unusu ally fair voyage, with a good breeze some days in our favor when sail could be spread ; and on other days it was against us. To this is attrib uted the variations in our speed. Wf pntered thf flnlf Sfronm ia first day after leaving New York, and the weather for two days was warm enough for summer clothing. Sunday morning, however, found us out of that "River in the Atlantic," and since then many have not been without their overcoats and wrapg. The steamers of the Cunard Line, from New York to Liverpool, go about one hundred miles out of the usual course to avoid ice-bergs, which are most numerous at this season. We are now about 2,300 miles from New York. Have trav elled nearly a due easterly course. There are very few people on concluded on fourth page. I BUSINESS NOTICES. Bottom Dropped Out. The remainder of my stock of I less cele brated Shoes is offered at the exceedingly low price of $4.00. Call soon if you want a pair, at Sam Lehman, , I Durham Clothing Hall. Pencils. , Rubber head pencils, only one cent each at the Durham bookstore of J. li. Wiiitaker, Jr., & Co. College.