The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-06-04
LOCAL ITEMS.
DURHAMNEW PICKED UP
HERE AND THERE.
commencement week.


No doubt about it Durham will
have Public Building.
Trinity Sunday school went to
Littleton to picnic Yesterday.
On last Monday w. Duke Sons
( Co., shipped 5.710000 cigarettes
to thirteen different States.
Stamp collections amounted to
SSO.890.S3 at the revenue office IN
Durham, for the month OF May.
Tomorrow will be big day at
Chapel Hill. Special trains will run
to-day and TO morrow 70 and from
the Hill.
-Our efficient postmaster, Col.
w. "A. Albright and MIR. W. Duke
came back from Washington City
last Friday.
REV. Robert Strange, Of vii.
mington preached the baccalaureate
sermon at Chapel Hill last Sunday
He will preach in the neighborhood
Of Stagyille next Sunday.
--Ex-speaker Webster, Of the
Reidsyille Dollar Weekly was in the
city on the 26th alt, but he give
our citizens generally wide birth!
It's no use to hump yourself old
fellow, nobody il fool enough to
be caught in your old trickey web.
Goodness. gracionsl A young
man living on South street says he
wrote his best girl letter aud it
came back through the dead letter
Office, We never felt 50 bad for
afeIlow in our life; if we didn't We
would nothaye the elements Of man
hood in us.
Williams. who was accused of
killing Lemuel Bryan, i short time
ago and placed in Make county Jail
last week, vas taken ont under a
writ DC HABEAs CORPUS, and after
hearing before Judge Davis was
discharged.
Bro. Caldwell, Of the States
vile Landmark got out handsome
special trade and industrial edition
on the 22nd Of last month He
gives sketches Of Iredell county in
grand style. The edition is not
only credit to the county, but To
the whole State.
Our young men are the hope
OF our nation; we want to see them
do well; but there IS one living in
Durham that has too many notions
to prosper; he falls in love with
every young LADY he sees. Well,
there'sno objection to thft even,
but his best friend says lie changes
every time the moon does! Strange
things will happen.
The annual closing exhibition
and concert of the colored Graded
School at Stokes Hall Monday night
was very creditable affair, and
shows that the Principal, Jas. A
Whitfield and his assistants are doinl
their duty and DONG it we'll. Tie
rpcitations, declamations, dialogues
solos, duets, songs, fan and flas
drills tableaux. etc, were well rem
dered.
"A large crowd attended th,
commencement exercises at Stoke
Hall last Saturday evening. TIL
graduating class. composed Of iiy,
young ladies Misses Addie Ramsey
Bessie Moring. DAISY Adams, RIOS
Holloway and Ada Hanks. Mr.. J
s. Manning presented certificates 0
distinction to fourteen girls an
one boy, and in presenting them, b
made a few appropriate remark
which were we'll received.
Coal and different specimens o
ore heretofore little dreamed Of u
this section, is becoming more an
more talk Of and realized. II is
grand sight to step into Ma
Guthries Office and behold III
specimens on exhibition Their
which be intends to have analyzpt
What We need Is more men Ink
Maj. Guthrie TO work up the mine
in this section III country. Whe
we get a few more such the snccei
Of Durham and the adjacent cour
ties as q mining section viii be a
sured.
Can people expect 10 be an
thing but poor III long as they II
pend upon The North for every thin
they c0nsumg Our people pay te
and twelve aud half cents p,
pound for Kansas bacon when The
should raise their own bacon. Mort
Carolina homemade bacon i II
best meat IN tile world. Fellow
Countrymen, stop cursing ar
charging about hard times, ills o.
misiortuncs, bad We not better loo
closer 10 home for causes and r
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