The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1883-06-27

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And so, on other Of our streets are TO
be seen new and handsome dwellings |
and business places, with others in.
process of construction.
Shelby Aurora This week we saw
a farmer age seventy-two blowing in
the field as easily and we'll as a youth
oftwenty by his side. The farmer has
plowed every spring AMI summer for
over half century. Mr.. Will
r. Wellmoi, Jr. has twice visited our
office to narrate the marvellous freak
of a little spot of land, twenty six feet
square. This land, he says, jumped
so feet from its former location, car
rying the shrubs and grass unbroken
with it in its eastward march. He
says this was not due to the river or
rain. IF this is true it appears the
age of miracles has not ceased. He
says this occurs every fourteen years
and the earth is now as elevated as it
was before the freak. The editor has
not seen the loculity.
Raleigh Visitor Mr.. W. G. Petty,
of Moore county, was in the city yes
terday with his little son, who was
bitten early yesterday morning ON the
left little finger of his left hand, by a
small terrier dog. The dog died in
five minutes after he. bit the child.
Mr.. Petty was not sure whether the
dog was mad or poisoned, hence he
brought bis son here TO consult physi.
clans. He is very much distressed
over the matter, and we understand
he is going to send the entrails of the
dog on to Philadelphia for analysis.
Morganton Mouataineer Messrs
Parkinson d Britain are building a
factory near the depot where they
will manufacture doors, sash, blinds
N&c.
! A negro named Jake Hawkins who
was ploughing in field near town
last week turned up Il pretty little
nugget ofpure gold that weighed be-
tween six and seven penny'weights.
Newton Enterprise Mr.. John Pres.
ley, Young man who was very popu'
lar at our last Normal, has fallen a
victim to mental arrangement, and
was taken up to the Morganton Asy.
lum Tuesday.
Statesville Landmark: The wheat
harvest in this county will very near
ly close with this week. The re
ports concerning it grow better ant
better. 1t is doubtful if early whea
was ever so good. Late wheat is ;
little light but is still better thar
usual. The wheather for saving tn,
! crops has been all that could have
been desired.
Statesville Landmark: A SUDDEN
at Davidson College, a youth iron
Sumter, S. c., whose name we haven
learned, was playing baseball las
Friday, when he fell with great fore,
on his stomach. He suffered grea
deal, as matter of course, bu; moth
ing serious was thought of the oc
currence at the time, aud last Satur
day morning he died. He is the Sc
cond victim of baseball among tn
students of Davidson College. Som
. years ago Mr.. Watson Rumple, Sol
of Rev. Jethro Rumple, of Salisbury
was struck over the ear by bal
! while engaged in a game at Davidson
> and sustained injuries which after
:, wards proved fatal.
Charlotte Journal Observer: Sui
phurets have long been a source o
trouble tothe gold miners of this sec
I ton, and perhaps the ouly mine j
D the country where the presence ofthi
Y mineral Is not unwelcome is at til
e Rudisill mine, near this city. At I'll
:, $50 foot level an immense vein {
" sulphuret, pure and unadulterated,
y now being worked, and the mineral
being taken out in great quantitie
-. The vein is four feet thick, and Il
sulphuret is as rich as any sulphur,
!" can be. 1t is shipped in car loads
the furnaces at Newark, New Jersc
Q the only place in the country wheI
Il it can be treated. On account of i
o rich quality high prices are paid for
D. and owners are making about
d much out of their trade in sulphurc
e as they are out of their gold ore
h These works at Newark, and simiIi
e establishment in England, are II
Y. only two places in the world wheI
the sulphurct can be treated. II
worked up into sulphuric acid an
J blue vitrol, and the gold and copp,
~ which il extracted from it makes il
s. very valuable mineral to handle.
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