The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-24
DURHAM RECORDER
WEDNESDAY June "a, 1891.

A.NON . - ~
cents.
BY its fruits shall We know
them. On this rule, we will es-
cape investigation thissummer.
President L. L. Polk, Of the
Farmers Alliance, is to deliver
an address at Knoxville, July 4.
We learn that several Of the
public roads in Durham county
are being put in good condition !:
This is geol news, isn't ~!
Splendid. Durham will never
be behind on anything.
When you hear a man
crying out and bemoaning par
tisan politics, you may set him
down for an independent, who
is opposed TO the Democratic
party because he can't be a ru-
Ter.
After the crops are laid by,
we want to see this whole sec
ton wheel into line-and be be-
hind none other in her efforts to
have better roads. Let the four
counties give a good account be-
fore the last of next November.
Years ago, when Phineas i.
Barnum was Mayor of Connec.
ticut, he laid down the doctrine
that "every employee of the
city should be strictly held to
perform the duty assigned, and
to earn the money paid him; we
should support no drones. 7
The Greensboro, Workman
says: That is a sad story which
comes from Person county, of
the affection and bereavement
in the family of Col. A. j. He's
err. On Sunday he lost his nine
year old boy, and one hour after
the burial Of the boy on Monday,
the motherhood, and Immediate
ly another son, aged z years,
was taken seriously ill, and was
reported TO be beyond hope.
The trouble was typhoid dysen-
terry.
The Proctor settlement,
about two-and-half miles SOUTH
west of Durham is growing into
a sort Of semi-tropical paradise.
The climate and its fitness 10
the cultivation Of fruit, will soon
bring that settlement before the
eyes Of the public. These good
old people seized ON 20 f,ne fruit
raising many years ago-some-
thing most of our people have
overlooked; but we hope time
will learn us TO raise our own
fruits, and everything else we
use. It's a sad fact; so far this
generation have lost their OPP
portunity.
How long, We often see
some Of our good people going
home with large pieces Of wess-
ern bacon on their wagons;
will our people never learn:
Will we always suffer ourselves
TO be dependent upon the West:
Will the farmers continue to
sell the very "fatness Of the
SOIL" in the shape of cotton and
tobacco, and fail to raise home
supplies, and year by year, buy
western bacon, wheat and -four,
and from the north we use al
most everything, from the hat
on our head to the shoes on oul
feet. No country or people car
prosper who do this. We want
TO see our people take a new de-
parture-diversify their indus
tries; they have the material u
operate on, the foundation ii
laid. We must have more ''gei
up and get. We must cease th,
ruinous practice Of "selling tn,
hide for a penny and buying
back the tail for a shilling.
The effects of the floods il
the West the past week seem II
correspond 10 the conclusions
reached about those last year
except in the State Of San Luii
Potosi, Mexico, there was
cloud burst last Sunday, an,
hundreds of pack animals wer
drowned and roads destroyed
In Greene county, Tenn, ;
store house and residence ant
all outbuildings were swept a
way by q small creek becoming
q raging river so quickly tina
the man did not have time h
close his store door. A numbe
of other houses were swept a
way. Considerable stock wa
drowned. While undoubte
dam age has been done TO th
standing crops in other sections
the destruction is not as grea
as ives first apprehendet
against theinjuries by the flood
may be set of the probable pre-
fit which all descriptions OF roc
crops have derived from Oh
rain, and the enriching Of pas
ures, which promise a fine viel