The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20
NO 33.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.



Gen. Boulanger is afraid that an
: attempt will be made to poison him.
, tie has gone to Rogat for q rest and
) has taken his own cook with him
". Y. World.
The absorption by the Pullman
Company Of all the parlor and sleeps
ing-car business in the United States
except that portion retained by the
Vanderbilt roads is announced.
Isaac Holden is the richest British
M. T. He has an income of 81 ,OOO,-
900 year, made out of a machine
that revoIutionized the system of a
woolcardipg.--Ihitadslphia Record.
In so doing Mr.. Cleveland will
simply vindicate his American citi-
zensbip. The most valuable part of
John Quincy Adams life was after
he left the White House.-M Y.
World.
OF three women living in one house
in Walker county. Ga, there are two
wives, two mothers~in-law, two
daughters in>law, three mothers, two
grandmothers and one greatgrand.
mother.
Mrs. Morley, the wife Of an Engs
Iigh army officer, and q former Am.
erican heiress, has been creating a
sensation at Monte Carlo this season
by her reckless play. Two weeks ago
she lost $4,000 at a single sitting
PHILADELPHIA Tines.
surely neither the State of Iowa
nor the Republican party is so barren
of creditable material for Cabinet
officers that the President elect must
be forced to official association with
the men who did the dirty work" of
the party.-CalcagO News, Ind.
| In Switzerland cars are run up to
a hotel 1900 feet above the lake level
by rope traction, the drum being
worked by electric motors which are
driven by dynamos two and a half
miles distaut, where there is sufficient
waite! power to turn turbine wheels.
JOHNNY get yeur gun, get your gun,
get your gun.
And load it up with dynamite,
And then let US have the fun, have
the fun, have the fun,
And see how the Dutch will fight.
Richmond Times.
| Mrs. Frederick I. Frelinghuysen.
widow Of the late ex..Secretary of
State Frelingliuysen, died OF her
home in Newark early Sunday morn.
ing She was Il daughter of Mr.
George GrIswold, q wealthy New
York Philadelphia Times.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Bar.
rett are among the principal stock
holders Of the Emmensite Explosives,
Guns and Ammunition Company.
capitalized at s5,000,000. The com.
pauy Is about to erect a factory at
PIttsburg, Pa..-Nsw Orleans Times
Democrdf
The man who doesn't take his
home papers Is the man who gets the
madicst when he thinks we should
put his name in the paper, and we
don't. But when We do put bis name
In be is sure to send around and ask
us to give him several copies. Gin.
ton Caucasian.
The war between the Kansas towns.
Ingalls, and Cimarron, RACES and
roars, and the militia are on the
tented field. II names count, ingalls,
should be winner. A place of that
name should be fall of fight and full
uf fun. N. T. Sun.
! II il reported thst wolves are
trampiug through tie future State of
Montana, tearing up calves. colts and
steers. Life in the inexhaustible
real Western West Is full of excite.
ments Now 1t is the tiger 10 buck
against, and now the wolf ~ Y.
San.
| The entire Samoan export trade.
which consists of coc % meal, used in
soapmakiug. is only 100000, Of
which The Germans handle s27O.OO0
II is hardly worth while 10 go to war
about the other s30,0O0.-Pailadsl.
phia Times. Ind.
| Does Samoa come within the pur.
view Of Tue Monroe doctrine! Ifn
Ioes, where does the application of
the Monroe doctrine stop? lit does
uot, what are We bothering about?
Brother editors, consult your aliases.
Phil Times, IHd.
,, Baltimore il the Jerusalem Of
American Methodism. In addition
to the hundred or more churches
for it, native population, there are
now four German Methodist :ongre-
cations, with property valued at
IS10.Nn -~ Zinn's Herald.