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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06

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Durham PaDlic Sch, o. OILS.
THE GRADES OF THE school,.

j THE GRADES OF THE SCHOOL.
are as follows: LIST, or Primary; I'd,
or Advanced Primary; Sd, two sec-
tions,) or intermediate; 4th, and
9th. These grades constitute the So
called graded school" next comes
the High School, divided into such
general classes as Freshman, Sophie
more, Junior and Senior. The curri.
culum of studies in all the depart.
ments of the school is admirable, and
the effects flowing from the system
a,e apparent to all who have famil-
iarized themselves with the school and
its work.
During our visit last week we we're
especially interested in the Primary,
or LIST grade. The teacher is Miss
Bessie Tanning, and she certainly has
a rare faculty of interesting the little
folk.
The I'd grade is in charge of Miss
Eva Cox the two sections of the Sd
are taught by Mrs. S. T. Morgan and
Miss Marion Fuller; the 4th is pre-
sided over by Miss l.. E. Freeland
and the 9th by Miss Dora flaming.
In the High School the senior and
junior classes are in charge of Prof.
[. j. Simmons. and the freshman and
sophomore of Prof. E. d. Monroe. I'm
the High School are taught Latin,
higher mathematics, and the advanced
English branches, including geology,
physiology, philosophy, etc.
In the Fifth grade we were especi-
ally interested in the map drawing of
the students and in their proficiency
in all their studies.
GALL WORK AND NO PLAY
makes Jack dull boy" We noticed
how diversified were the exercises.
Music is freely resorted to; calls
themes are INDUCED in; marching and
counter. marching from study rooms
to and from play grounds-all these
exercises tend to interest large and
small scholars and impart zest to
study; it is, in other words, a part Of
that system which has made Dur
hams public schools so popular with
parents and children, and which has
resulted in the accomplishment ofso
much good in so short time. :
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06
DURHAM's CHURCHES.
Brief Items of Interest Rela'
tive 20 Them.

We have not the space in which to
give detailed histories of the various
churches of Durham, but we are ena.
bled to present a few facts that serve
to show, somewhat, their present
status.
Trinity" NJ. Z. church, of which
Rev. w. S. Davis is pastor, is a very
superior brick structure, completed
in 1881, at a cost of $4,000. The
edifice has seating capacity for 500.
The membership is 800; the member
ship of the Sabbath School is 293.
The church stewards are: N. nj.
Wahab, chairman Il. j. Parrish,
John b. Walker, John S. Lockhart,
ID. N. Duke, 5. 4. Perry, James III
Southgate, ]. r. Gattis. j. Ed. Lyon,
and j. s. Carr. The trustees are
Alexander Walker, chairman; j. T.
Driver, w. Duke, r.. L. Lyon, VIM.
Halliburton, James Southgate, J.
Ed. Lyon. j. w. Gattis and J. s.
Carr. The Superintendent of the
Sabbath School Is E. J. Parrish; re.
cording steward, ]. III. Southgate.-
Rev. MIR. Davis took charge of the
church on the ID Sabbath in April,
coming here from the Warren
ton District, where he had been a To-
cal preacher on the Warrenton cir
cult.
ST. PHILLIPS (EPIscoPAL)
has about IS communicates. The
vestrymen are w. L. Wall, senior
warden; John j. Mackay, junior
warden; Geo. f. Tinker, secretary
p. A. Wiley. treasurer w. f. Eos
ter, r. T. Jones, j. N. Cannon, C
NJ. Herndon, Samuel Kramer. The
church sittings are about 800. The
Sunday School membership is about
80. The parish was organized in
May, 1884; Rev. John Husk had Ia
ken charge of the church in January
1883, and became resident rector II
July, 1884. The church edifice is Q
neatly appointed frame.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
has a membership of ISL, and Sunday
school membership of 397. The
church edifice is next to the most ex
pensive here. costing something -
than $4,000. 1t has seating q ~
city of 700, and both its exterior an6
interior are highly creditable. WI
are not in possession ssfthc names Of
the officers; the pastor is Rev. G Dur
ham, who came here from Goldsbort
in January, 1876.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
has membership of So. The house
of worship occupied is a very credi'
table frame structure, affording seat
ing capacity of about 800. The SUN
day school membership is about so
The Elders of the church are: VIM
Ell. Hanks, Eugene Morehead. jacob
A. Long, Rudolph G. Lea. The Dea
cons are: r. Fl. j. Blount, r. ID.
Blacknall, Geo. w. Watts, Robt. T
Faucet. Rev. III. T. Darnall, tint
pastor, came to this church in Sep
TENDER, 1880, from. Milton, Caswel
county, N. c., and since then has beer
laboring earnestly and acceptably to
ward its advancement.
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OUR TOBACCO MANUFACTUR,.
ERS.
Il. HI. POgue & Son are Among
the Number.
THE "REcoRDER" FINDS SOMETHING
TO SAY ABOUT THEM.

THE RECORDER" FINDS SOMETHING
TO SAY ABOUT THEM.
That Durham is the best advertised
town of any in the South "goes with
out saying" Our manufacturers,
merchants and citizens generally
have taken pains to spread broad cast
over the country information relative
to Durham, but that has been but one
method out of the many resorted to.
The manufacturers of tobacco have
especially advertised the town bv
supplying the country at large with the
choicest, most reliable goods, and in
this matter a spirit of emulation
commenable in the highest degree has
been shown. Nor has the firm of E.
FL. Pogue & Son been behind its fel,
lows in this work. The house has not
been so pretentious in its claims as
some, but none the less has it done
real, serviceable work, for which the
RECORDER issposed to pay a word
or two of meited praise.
The co-partners are e. III. Pogue
and w. j. Pogue, father and SON,
respectively. The former is Ten.
nesseean by birth, but he has lived in
North Carolina ever since 1853, and
Durham has been his business head |
quarters since 1879. We say "busi- |
ness headquarters" for Mr.. Pogue's
home is at Hillsboro, and his frequent
trips between here and there have
almost made him familiar with every
cross-tie between the two places-and
yet he doesn't walk over the route.
At Hillsboro he is landlord of the
Occoneechee Hotel, but we are as
sured by those competent to judge
that the house is heap better than
its name. To the hotel, however, Mr..
Pogue gives little personal attention
he is tobacco manufacturer and
has been for number of years. He
has been connected with the tobacco
industry ever since 1866, first as a
dealer, handling it extensively in
with the wholesale tin
ware trade and general merchandiz.
ng, but he did not begin manufac-
uring until 1872 or 1873. His fac.
'ory. located at Hillsboro, was devo-
q r. the production of "plug,. but !
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06
TOBACCO BUYERS OF DUR
HAM

THEY ARE PLENTIFUL As LEAVES IN
THIS VALE OF vALAMBRosA.
There are not less than forty or fifty
leaf buyers located more or less per-
manently in Durham, and it is mani
testify beyond our ability TO refer to
them individually and we are unable
to even publish full list of their
names. In this connection, however,
We especially wish to refer to the OPP
erations of
THOMAS ID. JONES,
one of our so called tobacco men.
II is true that he is scarcely typical
buyer for he confines his purchases
to fancy leaf; still outside from that,
he is representative buyer in many
ways. Let any one attend the sales,
and nearly all the buyers will be
found to be keen, self.possessed men,
quick to arrive ut values, prompt in
action, and yet occasionally loving a
bit of fun as thoroughly as brokers or
produce exchange men in the large
cities.
Mr.. Jones has been buying on this
market for some time-this is his
fifth year. He has been identified
with the tobacco interest, though, ev;
er since boyhood-his father was a
manufacturer, and Mr.. L. ID. Jones
carried on manufacturing for some
years, or until 1877, atiDanville. As
a buyer he makes an exclusive spe
cialty Of fine wrappers, and year be.
fore last he purchased 600 hogsheads
at cost OF about $500 each-an
average price of fifty cents per pound
or total of two hundred and forty
thousand dollars. 1t is a matter of fact
We believe, that while by no mean:
the largest purchaser of tobacco in
Durham. he does buy more strictly
line wrappers than any other man OF
firm in the State of North Carolina.
In times past he has also bought on
the Asheville, Henderson and Ok.
ford markets, but now he confines
himself wholly to Durham.
Ills purchases of wrappers all go to
the house of w. III. Jones, of Rich.
mond, whose Office is at No. los
South 18th street, near Carey, and
from Richmond these choice wrap
pers 60 to manufacturers in every
part of the country; the Richmond
house is in position to meet either
ordinary or extraordinary demands
for tue noted grades of leaf which
have made Durham fam Gus,
and Mr.. Thomas ID. Jones allows very
few opportunities for securing sups
plies to escape him. He has not missed
sale since he came to Durham; that
is, either in person or by representa-.
tive, he has been constantly upon the
market. carefully selecting and care
fully buying, as can be inferred from
the statements already made by us.
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A. III. RIGuSBEE.

No resident of Durham has more
intimately been identified with the
town, its development OF its business
than has the gentleman whose name
we have just written, and we are glad
of the opportunity presented in this
double sheet of the RECORDER to
make somewhat detailed mention of
him. Mr.. Riggsbee is a native of
this vicinity, and was born and
raised farmers boy. Twenty years
ago he came to Durham, to engage in
trade. The town wassuch scarcely more
than in name, and there were neces-
sarily but limited opportunities for
doing business, and if we remember
rightly, Mr.. Riggsbec was the first
storekeeper here after the war. He
secured the stand where he has since
done business, and in a small way
opened grocery, confectionery and
liquor store, and for the following
seven years those lines of trade oc,
cupied his time. In 1871, he tore
down the small frame building he
had been occupying and built a lar
ger one, and in 1872 he embarked in
the general merchandise trade upon
quite an extensive scale. He has been
q general merchant ever since and his
business mas expanded to a wonder
full extent-to such an extent, indeed,
that any comparison between his
house and trade now and as 1t was
thirteen years ago would be simply
The store built in II answered its
purpose very well for half doz-
EN- years, but in 1878 Mr.. Riggsbee
opnd it necessary to still further in.
,reas his facilities by tearing down
he b uilding and erecting brick
lock 32x110 feet, two floors, in its
cad It was thought that the
ew i remises would be amply large !
+ at1 time to come, but at certain !
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06
ROBERTSON, LLOYD & co.

In a community like this, the gen
erality of business men to follow in
the path already macadamized by theil
predecessors, and it Is to those who
have originality of thought or action
that the public must look for bene.
fits and improvements upon the Older
and more inconvenient way. Not only
this, but occasionally it is found that
prejudices must be overcome, thai
almost inherited trade must be at.
tracted from old ruts into new and
"live" channels, and so the problem
of business existence for a new house
becomes complex one.
Such a problem the firm of Robert.
son, Lloyd & Co., were called upon
to solve. October LIST, 1883, the firm
began business here, and dire were
the predictions as to their future.
Few thought that so extensive an
establishment of its kind could pos
sibly maintain an existence in Dur
ham, and it was prophecied that a
few months business would wind up
its career.
Singularly enough the CO partners
thought otherwise, and they had rea.
SON instead of prejudice back of them,
and to treason" may be added "cap.
ital" and trade resources of more
than ordinary character. The CO.
partners in. the firm were Watkins,
Cottrell & Co., one of Richmond's
staunchest firms, and Mr.. A. E.
Lloyd, formerly an employee in that
house. This Richmond firm, by the
way, has q wholesale house at No.
1909, East Main street and whole
sale and retail house at 1907, same
street, and it was with this house that
Mr.. Lloyd learned the hardware trade,
nor could he have had better oppor-
tunities. His ten years experience in
Richmond as salesman fitted him
thoroughly to open the house of
Robertson, Lloyd & Co. here, and
we fancy that neither he nor his CO.
partners have had any occasion 10
regret the action taken in October,
'S3. The house is now really the
only representative of the hardware
trade of town, and it so fully antici-
pates and supplies the public wants
that there is no room for competition.
Mr.. Lloyd opened the house on
Mangum street, but On the LIST of
November, 1884, he secured the hand
some premises now occupied on Main |
street. Here he has salesroom |
.3x120 feet Gas we'll as a portion of
he second fioor.) The visitor to the |
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06
THE CENTRAL IRON Works.

There is but one iron working es.
Establishment in Durham or rather
we should say there is but one foun-
dry and machine shop,-the Central
Iron Works, established by VIM. III.
Hanks about the year 1871, and now
owned and operated by
LEWIS BLouNT.
The Central Iron Works manufac.
ture and repair engines, boilers, saw
mills, grist mills, agricultural im pie
ments, architectural castings, ETC.,
the whole list embracing diversified
lines of machinery, and we are glad
to be able to chronicle the fact that
the enterprise is in a fiourishing con.
dition.
Mr.. Blount, who is a young man
and q native Of Washington, this
State, learned the trade of q machin-
ist in this factory, and afterwards he
and r. s. Hanks formed partnership
and purchased the business. They
added the foundry and otherwise in
creased the working efficiency of the
shops, and since MIR. Blount became
sole proprietor last August he has
added new and expensive tools so that
the Works were never in as good con-
dition as now to fill orders.
Mr.. Blount enters into competition
with Greensboro, Raleigh, Peters
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06
C. z. POS7LEY.

Mr.. Postley has ar elegant line o
jewelry and the thousand and onl
things that belong to his trade, bnI
our article upon his business is crowd
ed out.
Sharp County record., 1885-04-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Southworth S numerous grand
children call her Grandma Emma"
DIR. Bickersteth, author Of the poem,
yesterday, To-day and Forever, " has
been created Bishop of Exeter, Eng.
The late Mrs. Shillaber, sister-in-
law of "Mrs. Partington," left an es-
tate in San Francisco valued at $780,
600.
Judge Poland after ten years ser
vice in Congress, has retired to his Yer
mont home, it is said, never to enter
politics again.
Tx Lieutenant Governor R. II.
Gleaves, formerly of South Carolina, is
now waiting man in restaurant IN
Washington, D. C.-CharSest0n Is. ~
NeUS.
In New York there has been organ.
lied bureau of ''useful information, "
composed of literary and scientific men,
who propose to answer any question
pronounced for moderate sum.
Five out of the twenty-one Presi
dents of the United States were oi
Scotch Irish lineagc-JaGksOn, Polk,
Buchanan, johnson and Arthur; two OF
Scotch-Grant and Hayes; one OF Welsh
Jefferson, and one of Dutch-Van
Buren; the remaining twelve being Of
English descent. - Chicago Herald.
The late I. S. Arthur, the story
writer, was a man without vice, and
was strictly domestic in his tastes and
habits. His writings were voluminous,
and day or two before his death ne
said: Il have never written a line ex-
cept with the earnest desire to do good,
and never line which | would wish
expunged. ."-ChtcagO Journal.
DIR Holmes and Mr.. Howells were
invited to dine with Mr.. Aldrich, the ed
itor of the atlantic, the other evening.
and met Charles Egbert Craddock, tho
author of ''In the Tennessee Mount
aims" "Where the Battle Was Fought" "
and the novel now running in the Az
lanhc. The gentlemen were greatly
surprised to find that Charles Egber'
Craddock is but the pseudonym
which has for six years yelled the iden'
t.ty of brilliant woman-Mlss Mary N.
Murfree, of St. Louis.-B0Ston Jou17'al'
james Edward Warnock, the son
of q retired and wealthy physician OF
Atlanta, Ga, and who is a student in
the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
College, has been arrested and is in jail
in New Haven Conn, on the charge OF
having stolen watches and other prop
erty from his fellow students. His
father has been sending him two hun
dred dollars a month regularly for
spending money, besides twelve dollars
a week for his board. He squandered
his money in drinking and gambling
and was continually in debt and contin-
ually in trouble. The remarkable part
of the matter is that the college author
tiles kept his father in ignorance of the
boys evil courses Hartford Post.
Sharp County record., 1885-04-23

or of Kharkoff. The Governor sent
down a Commissioner with plenary
powers. accompanie by the chief doc
tor of the province, who tried to force
food into the prisoners mouths, and
sought by other means to defeat their
designs; but all was in vain, and alter
fight of ten days the authorities gave
in to their demands. None but mem.
bers of the Sclav race are capable OF
self-sacrifce so supernatural OF endur-
ance so heroic, as was displayed by
these prisoners. Men of English blood
would have made a combined attack on
their iailers at all hazards, and died
fighting rather than perish OF hunger
LONDON Cor. San Francisco Cbron-
icLe.
Sharp County record., 1885-04-23
BOUND FOR SIBERIA.
Prison Wrecks at the Moscow Rail-
way Station.
Horrors of Russian Prisons-Inmates Driy-
en- Mad by Solitude-A Strike Against
Tyranny by Starvation--An Or
ganiZed Fact.

In my last letter described the con-
dition of the political prisoners in the
fortress of St. Peter and st. Paul. l
shall now describe from the evidence of
an eyewitness, as given in late num-
Der of the Ndrodnaia V0la VeStntk, a
revolutionary journal printed at Geneva
fer clandestine circulation in Russia,
the arrival Of some of the unfortunatcs
in question at Moscow, on their way to
the wilds OF Siberia, there to spend the
rest of their lives, for not one convict
in ten thousand is allowed to return
from that remote and inhospitable land.
Probably this is too high a proportion.
Only the few who have powerful friends
at court and the sincerity of whose pen
itence is attcsted by the police are
called back. TO win the favor of the
police prisoner or an exile must be-
tray friends and several secrets, and to
obtain remission of sentence the case
must be brought personally before the
Czar-conditions which can rarely be
fulfilled.
AT THE MOSCOW RAILWAY STATION.
The time is early morning, July 26,
of the year 1888. A train from st.
Petersburg has just entered the Moscow
station, and the whisper passes from
mouth to mouth that it brings a convoy
of prisoners bound for Siberia, for news
of its coming had by some means got
bruited abroad, and several of the on
lockers have gone thither in the hope
of getting one last glimpse of friend
or kinSman before he is lost to them
forever The officials do their utmost
to transfer the convicts from the st.
Petersburg train to the north train
without attracting attention. But the
attempt fails. TO, several of them are
in such state that they walk with diff
ticulty, and have to be supported on
either side; Others are utterly helpless
they can not walk at all. StretcherS
are sent for, but these proving too large
to enter the cars, the invalids have to
be carried from one train to another on
mems backs. First among them is
lguenat VOloschenkO, sentenced to ten
years hard labor for the part he took
in the Arsinsky affair, and fifteen in ad-
dition for attempting to escape. He
has passed a year in the fortress of St.
Peter and St. Paul, and is now only
- iinst-aliXe.- His aspects that OF a corpse,
his body is almost putrid with scuryy,
and he writhes in continued convul-
sions. Next comes Alexander Pubileh.
Although he does. not suffer from
scurvy, bad food and the nervous pros
tration begotten Of solitary confinement
have reduced him to such a condition
that he has lost the use of his limbs and
he faints at the slightest movement.
Sharp County record., 1885-04-23
HUMOROUS.

A dude on the weather: 81 never
thaw thaw thaw ath thith thaw
thawth. "-bouiSUiLIe Courier-Jourmat.
During the mania for roller skating
a rink'll attract many young lady, al
though, as a rule, young ladies never
find wrinkle attractive. - lonke9
Gazette.
-"Come along with me and have a
fine time" remarked a policeman to
man he had arrested Il am afraid
you are trying to cell me-" replied the
prisoner. Y Herald.
Henry returns in triumph from the
Junior examination. "How did you get
along, my son?" his doting parent in.
quires. First rate" says Henry, 81
answered all the questions. " ''Good.
How did YOU answer them?" Il said ]
didn't know. "-Broohlyn Eagle.
-Overset from the Omnibus; "See,
dear husband, here have just upon an
auction an album bought for only eight
marks. That costs everywhere fifteen
marks. Thus have / seven marks
saved" "But was then the album
necessary beenp'' "That not; but if l
it not bought had, so had l nothing
saved!'
prisoner, said Prosecutor Buxton,
YOU are charged with gambling. Cam
bling. What is gamblingP" playing
cards for money" "But l did not play
cards for money; 1 played for chips"
"Well, you got money for your chips at
the end of the game, didn't you?' mo;
l didn't have any chips at the end OF
the game. Cleveland Herald.
Barry Sullivan, the Irish tragedian,
was playing Richard Ill" some years
ago at Shrewsbury in England. When
the actor came to the line: "a horse!
a horse! my kingdom for hOrse!' some
one in.the pit called out: Wouldn't an
ASS do you, Mr.. Sullivan?" yes, re.
ponded the tragedian, turning quickly
on the interrupter, "please come round
to the stage door
Now" said the bridegroom t.
The bride when they returned from the
honeymoon trip, ''let us have clear
understanding before we settle down to
married life; are you to be President or
Vice-President of this concern?" 81
want to be neither President nor Vice
President" she answered; 81 will be
content with a subordinate position. "
"What is that?" "Comptrollcr OF the
Currency. "-B0StOn Courier.
A solemn moment. After the mar
riage of Miss Lillian Sniggs, Of Dallas,
the bridal party partook OF sumptu-
Gus banquet, toward the end OF which
Younger brother of the bride gotup and
said solemnly, raising his glass: Ladies'
and gentlemen, | have to propose
toast, which, however, must be drunk
standing Please take your glasses and
rise ND. Inc gucot5 .55
what bewildered, did SO. Now" said
the Young scapegrace, ''if you will re.
main standing for few minutes I'll
find out who has been sitting on my
new stove-pipe hat. n-1eras 5utsnqS-
Sharp County record., 1885-04-23
NeWmarkets.

The long Newmarket coats are made
with loose fronts and closely fitted
backs, they have pointed hood 'lined
with changeable silk, and are without
trimming other than the stitching on
their edges. They are made of serge Or
of CheyiOt, diagonal cloths, or the oat-
meal or monte cloths with tiny specks
ia sed on the surface. Large buttons OF
metals cut in fanciful figures are used
on THESE f01rs coats IS and and an the shorter
cloth jackets. Olive, brown, garnet
and bronze-colored Newmarkets are
shown in Cheviot and other cloths. foI
midsummer travel are similar garments
made of gray, ecru or brown mohalr'
and also of pongee. e.-Harper'S BGzar'