The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
JoTTINGs AND CLIPPINGS FROM OUR
STATE EXCHANGES.

Nv oA6ooAah5 - AsI Ass~ 49,
ty.
Washington county has endorsed
George III. Brown for Congress in the
First District.
The Third Party Prohibitionists of
Rowan county have nominated a
county ticket.
Rev. ID. /. Craig, Of Reidsville, has
bten called TO the Presbyterian
church of Laurinburg.
The Greensboro Workman says
Judge Gllmer's health continues to
improve. Glad to hear it.
The Landmark says that an agri
cultural fair will be held In States
vile in October.
The citizens of Wilson are making
arrangements to establish q male
school of high grade in that place.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for
q public buildlng at Statesvllle, has
passed the Senate.
Rev. Jos. B. Cheshire, of Charlotte.
is attending the annual meeting of
the Trustees Of the University of the
South, held at Sewannee, Tenn.
Cross l,oud has been made up and
will be passed upon by the clerk to-
day. The bondsmen are all in Gates
county and are 7. E. Cross, father of
the prisoner, $1,000; F. B Wiley
$1,000. r. G. B. Cooper $1,000.
Whites bond is partially made up and
he expects to be able to give it.
The Winston Tgin City DAILY has
blossomed out into neat and attrac.
tive evening paper of "a columns.
Brother Foy has the true newspaper
grit and sticking qualities and the
people of the twin cities should give
him most liberal support. !
Prof. Exum Beckwith, assistant
Professor of Mathematics at Wake
Forest College and Miss Kittie S.
Ellington, daughter of exsSherif'
Ellington, Of Clayton, n. c., were
married July 2lst.
The Fayetteville Observer says the
trucking business in that section IS
steadily growing, and that the grow.
ers found it necessary to form a 50
ciety for their mutual protection, so
they met last week and elected off.
GERS.
Wilmington criminal court has
beaten the most speedy case Of Jer.
sey Justice David Herring stole
an OK about 9 q. M, and by neon
he was sentenced to ten years hard
labor in the peaitentiary. That will
break one negro from stealing for a
while, 1t least.
Mr.. Henry Talbert, Of Cabarrus
comfy, has given the Charlotte
Chronicle q curiosity in the shape of
Q mushroom. Its growth was PEI
culiar and il is so closely resembled
o bird that ii was calculated TO de-
ceiEe any one who would not examine
1t closely.
Hickory Press and Clipper The
collision Of two freight trains near
Ashtville last week was caused by
the druhken condition of A. O. Wei.
dOn, the operator, who forgot his du
~ and caused the death Of one man
and fearful injuries to four others
One DR.. Reed ordered the whiskey
and be and Weldon were both drunk
Twenty Tears In the penitentiary is
not too much for both Of them.
The Dipaiel, of Lexington, in it,
account of the meeting Of the Press
Association, says: Measures we're
taken to exclude school papers and
similar publications, not bona fdsI
newspapers, from membership IN the
association; also owners Of papers
not engaged in publishing or editing
them. Proxy representation was
ruled out. After years of persistent
effort, the association has at last rid
den itself OF all dead weight and
hangers on" This 10 well. We hope
now 10 see ii accomplish great good
10 the fraternity.
Carthage Blade: At last The rail.
road lie about finished. BY Saturday
night next the last spike in the Car
thAge railroad will have been driven.
II will be some two or three weeks
before a schedule train IL put on.
Carthage can no longer be consider.
ed isolated from the busy world, and
ere another twelve months rolls
around she will be numbered with
the progressive towns Of the "Old
North State"
Greensboro Pariot: We hardly
realize the gratifying and substantial
development Of This part Of North
Carolina, which Is taking place
through the western extension Of Cane
Fear x Ysdkin RAlleT Railway. A
quick route 10 a choice Of markets
must benefit ell classes the farmer,
the merchant and the manufacturer-