The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-07-25
NORTH Carol INA NEWS.
JoTrINCs AND CLIPPINGS FROM oUR
STATE EXCHANGES.

lJoTTINGs AND CLIPPINGS FROM OUR
STATE EXCHANGES.
Wilmington Is elated over the start.
ing OF her street cars lines.
Raleigh has colored infant six
weeks old with twenty .teeth,
Charlotte will ratify Monday night,
The Hornets Nest will do IL as II
ought to be done.
Reidsyille had the electric lights
turned on Monday night. Citizens ap-
planded where il flashed forth.
Several hundred citizens we're in
Shelby yesterday to hear Mr.. Walker.
From some cause or other be failed
par.
Messrs. z. III. Hanes Il Co, Of VIM
ston, shipped 81, 900 pounds Of manu-
iactured tobacco during the month Of
June.
At Morehehead yesterday j. L.
Borden, Of Goldsboro, and III. @.
Thomas, Of Raleigh. caught So fish in
70 minutes. Pretty good.
Salisbury has a fountain. Ii is on
the public square. Durham is to have
fur. They have come but are laying
about town.
Ii is stated that an Elizabeth City
lawyer has produced q cabbage that
weighs eighteen pounds and measures
four feet across. A large cabbage or
. large lie.
The Kinston Free Press says there
Is Law suit 10 Lenoir county over
about Fifty cents worth Of land--a diff.
ference about Is inches in the length
Of Q boundary line.
The Davidson Dispatch says that
recently q Lexington merchant re-
ceiyed Q letter from gentleman in
Randolph who wanted to know the
price OF frine shicens. iii
Beaufort Record. It il astonish-
ing how few families in this county
take o paper Of any kind. They are
raising their children in Ignorance.
A newspaper in the family circle is a
great educator.
Fire at Rockingham Wednesday
night destroyed the courthouse, seven
stores and one dwelling, al west of
the courthouse. The loss is estimated
At $40. 900; insurance $4,000.
According to the StatesyilIe Laaa.
marx: Mr.. w. M. Green, of Iur-
nersburg township, has a pig about
ten months old which has six feet.
The extra feet come vut at the knee
Joints on the forelegs and reach to the
ground, 30 that the pig walks on four
feet 10 front and two behind.
The Winsoon Republican says that
. daughter, Of Mr.. j. 4. Foster, Of
Ready Branch, Wilkes county, ate 4
wild parsnip, mIstakipg it for some
other growth and was soon taken VIC
Iently i'll. Medical assistance was
speedily summoned and the poisonous
effects were fortunately counteracted,
The contract Tor q handsome hotel
building az Piedmont Springs has
been awarded. From the Winston
we learn that the struc.
lure will cost some $4,000 or $I2,-
BOO, in itself, and will be surrounded
BY cottages built b. persons who have
already and will in future purchase
sites in close proximity 70 the
Springs.
Married. 10 Henderson, Thursday
evening, In the Presbyterian church,
Mr. Dayid H. Mangum and Mics
Nina Manning, Rev, Alex Sprunt per.
orming the ceremony. The bride ID |
! sister Of the e.litor Of the Gold Lea. |
Nay the fates lead them through the |
,leasantest Of paths and crown their |
Ives with the richest and happiest Of |
,lesings.
Oxford is on healthy, Substantial |
'oom. Fourteen commodlous brick
torres are 10 process of construction. 1
correspondent Of the Raleigh /
9escs Observer says the Oxford and i
durham road will be built within the
ext twenty days. The engine has
rossed Tar river and il nov 1t
tein's, IL miles from Oxford. The
on bridge over Tar river was iin.