The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
MAYOR M. A. Angler.

AL the warehouses are crowded
with tobacco to-day.
: BE sure and read Jones & Lyoh's
advertisement IN this issue.
Bethany Sunday School had a
grand celebration last Sunday. Id
was the occasion of its 4th anniyer-
sary.
"A Chinaman's Verdict on a ne
gro ball which he attended the other
night: 100 muchee hoppee round.
like hell"
"A seat in Congress %! "thou
art so near, and yet so far is the
song of theimpatient ex-speakerand
edition Of the Dollar Weekly.
1T gets gear to rs but we cant
help it, You know. 1t is SAID there's
no prosperity for those who don't
mind their own business.
Thank you. A friend writing
from Caldwell, Orange county says:
I'VE are all drumming for The Re-
coRDER in this section"
The Lynchburg Advance says,
it is now thought that the Lynch
burg 4 Durham Railroad will be
completed to Durham, its Southern
terminus, by July 4th.
The pastor Of the First Baptist
church, Rey. j. L. White, left for
Fort Worth. Texas, last Monday to
attend the Southern Baptist Con-
yention.
The D. & n. are making tracks
around the electric light house, in
order to connect with the road
ON Peabody street. The restraining
order against the road has been dis
pensed with.
1T is SOL The man who stops
his paper because it has published
something that oifen Is him, Is sure
to borrow a copy of the next issue
Of some one TO see If ii survives, and
he always finds it does.
Give the boys a good send-off.
The Independent Hose Co, will have
an entertainment at Stokes Hall to-
morrow night. The Dick Black
nall Hose Co, will also hold fair
at Stokes Hall Friday and Saturday
nights. Everybody 90 to both enter
tainments, it is for a noble purpose.
To the Hon. ex-speaker and
editor of the ReidsvIlle Dollar
Weekly, we people and farmers
down this way are getting on all
right. Let's talk a little French,
brother, the ex-speaker has the first
say. Ex-speaker to Durhamite-
"How do you dO?"-Dmhamite-
do at?"-Ex-speaker-"I mean
how do you find yourself?"-Dur-
hamite-"Saire, | never losses nv.
self. "-Ex-speaker-"But how do
you northumberland.
you just feel me"
The County Commissioners met
Monday. DIR. Lowe, Chairman.
Messrs. J. q. Latta, Sidney Scott.
X. G. TiIleY and w. II. Perry. were
present. After transacting the usua!
routine of business. they directed
Superintendent Evans to repair "A
soon rs possible the Rock Bridge on
Flat River. Also that the LYNCH
burg 4 Durham Railroad authorities
bridge the cut on the cOnaty road.
leading from urange Factory to
Raleigh and Roxboro, near Lee
Umstead's. The petition sent from
Oak Grove township, asking the re-
moval Of the voting precinct in that
township from Evans store to Suits
store, was granted.
Elegant invitations are being
sent out by the Lee Monument As
sociation Of Riehmonn, Va, to the
Confederate Veterans everywhere TO
participate in the celebration of the
unyelling OF a monument to General
Robert J.. Lee at Richmond ON
Thursday, the Goth inst. IL will
draw thousands from our State no
doubt, and among them hundreds.
who shoulder 10 shoulder with Vir-
ginia troops, learned 10 trust TO the
inspiration Of Lees genus, and we're
fired by his courage to the same de-
gree Of enthusiasm a. his own men.
North Carolina feels that the fame
OF Lee aud the memory Of his vir-
tues is as dear TO her as 10 Virginia.
Mrs Gov. w. A. Graham. died
at the residence Of her son-in.law
Judge Walter Clark in Raleigh last
Saturday night, in the 10Th year Of
her age. She was the admired aud
beloved wife Of the lamented Gov
ernor William A. Graham Of Orange.
She was the mother OF several chill
dren;a more exemplary woman in
all the relations Of life never lived
As mother, friend, neighbor, rela.
tive, her example and life will long
remain n lpUann unI N ,,nIl.... =