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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
Keen Competition.

There never was a time in the
history Of New York Journal
ism when competition was 50
lsoen as at the present. The big
newspapers are spending money
with a lavish hand, and what is
known Is "circus journalism"
seems to be more in vogue than
ever. About a year ago the
Herald, which hadbeen moving
along in a conservative way,
shook out a reef or two and be-
gan printing pictures. The Sun,
once a model of condensation,
took to ten and twelve page ed.
itions, and even the conserya-
tive old Evening Post caught
the padding fever and swelled
itself to stupid proportions.
Last December the editor Of the
World formally abdicated, gave
up all control of his newspaper
and returned to his European
home. Recently the competi-
tion became SO keen that he re-
tnrned to New York and in
creased his news expenditures
and salaries something like
$3.50, 600 a year. The blanket
sheet business now goes on more
actively than ever, and the pub
lie is fairly groaning under its
load of stufing in the way of
reading matter and cheap adj
vertising. All of this is good
for the printers and the news
mongers. We know Of report
ers who were plodding along on
SIS a week less than six months
ago who are now commanding
$50 and even $75. Reporters
swing like pendulums from one
newspaper to another in search
Of gilt edged honoraiums, and
the men who have "idees" to
sell-that Is, something bizarre
in the way of pictures, voting
schemes, colored cartoons, hide
ous headlines, or catch-penny
guessing matches-are looked
upon as the apostles Of the pro-
fession. A large contingent Of
writer's has been called in from
the country, and the probabil-
tiles are that before many
months there will be an intel
lectual glut in the metropolis.
There are signs that the public
is growing weary of the ponder
Gus newspaper, and a reaction
may be looked for.
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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

THE average man is at loss to
know why his wife cannot swing
in a hammock three-quarters OF
the time, keep him posted on
what is being printed in the
daily paper and always smile
when he gets home. One man
has discoved that his helpmate
has to lay ont and prepare L.
095 meals in a year; cook 365
dinners and washes dishes 1898
times. She gets the baby to
sleep 1860 times in II months.
and gets up three nights in the
week with it. She does the
family mending, the sweeping,
the house cleaning, and is ex-
pected besides to make 800 calls,
attend allreligious meetings, do
fancy work enough TO keep up
the fashion, and To have a smile
for her husband whenever he
looks her way. This seems to
show why the hammock is
empty, and appears to indicate
that a man has more TO make
him smile than q woman has.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

The New York Journal of
Commerce regrets the recent de.
feat in the Legislature of that
State, Of a bill strongly adyo-
Gated by Gov. Hill, providing
for spending ten millions Of
dollars for the improvement Of
public roads in New York. II
saws that such ian outlay would
be the best possible investment
the people Of the Commonwealth
could make. IL would add ten
times its amount to the salable
value Of its real property. Good
roads are the sorest need in ev-
ery county. Il would pay the
people to assess themselves and
spend the money for this pur.
pose IN any locality"
The Journal Of Commerce Il
right. We are surprised to find
many people so Indifferent to
the condition Of the public high
ways, and opposed to spending
money to improve them. when
money spent for this purpose il
always a paying investment.
Bad roads are injurious to any
locality, and good roads are
highly beneficial. 'An unkept
highway Is worse than q plague
to deter investors in rural
Ihomes. =
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
Notes and Comments.

a leading English paper seri-
ously asks the question, is mar
riage decaying? On the contra
ry 1t is doubling the world over.
The motto of a new paper in
Georgia, printed in black type
on its first page, is this: "If you
don't like it pour it back in the
Jug"
President Harrison is quite a
walker and is very fond Of such
exercise. just now, however,
he's probably more interested
IN knowing whether he'll be
called on to run
A stalwart Republican jour
nal says the party in Ohio will
array itself against the farm
ers." That's what the Republi-
can party has been persistently
doing for the past thirty years,
and lying about it.
An exchange says: 1T is
painfully astonishing how the
soft yellow gold in a sweet
hearts hair gets mixed into a
peculiar red alloy in a wlfe's
hair" That fellow evidently
has a redheaded wife.
A gentleman gave a group Of
by-standers an example for them
to solve in sheep trading. He
said: II bought a lot of sheep
at 50, 80 a head, and sold them
at 81, 20! and made $54 in the
operation" After they had all
given it up he continued: 81
sheared them before ! sold
them. .''-Watauga Democrat.
j. In Halifax county on the 5th
VIM. Thomas, a colored man,
caught Harriet Carter, a colored
girl, and held her while he put
a pistol to her breast and shot
her dead. They had had no
disturbance, and Thomas's on
" excuse for the act is that he
thought he was pulling on an
chamber of the revolver.
The colored people were with
difficulty restrained from lynch
ing him He is in Jail.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
Halt a Dozen state Items.

Oxford Day: There is about
forty thousand dollars worth
of houses IN course of erection
in Oxford, and there are sever
al important precincts yet to
hear from.
Washington Gazette: Mr.. II.
+. Hancock, one of the oldest
citizens and much respected
for his gentlemanly bearing,
his industry and intelligence,
died on Friday last. He was
"a years old.
Goldsboro Argus: Mr.. "Bud"
Miller, one of the employees at
the Goldsboro Furnitue Factory
and a skilled workman, had the
misfortune to get three fingers
badly cut in one Of the machines
Wednesday afternoon.
New Berne Journal: New
houses are going up in all parts
of the city and old building are
being renovated, and yet the
demand for houses is not satis-
tied.-Plans are now being
considered for the erection and
equipment of a very large and
elegant hotel With the COM
gletion of such a one as is con-
template New Berne ought to
become q popular resort.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

After the bridal party partook
of a sumptuous banquet, young
er brother of the bride got up
and said, solemnly, raising his
glass:
Ladies' and gentlemen. /
have to propose a toast, which,
however, must be drunk stand.
ing. Please take your glasses
and rise up"
The guests, although some.
what bewildered, did so.
"Now," said the young scape-
grace, ''if you will remain stand.
ing for d few minutes Ill find
out who has been sitting on my
new stovepipe hat. Rochester
Times.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
Elliennn Irillmnh.

Judge Wallace's decision rem
dered in n. Y, finds Mr.. Edi-
son the inventor OF the incan-
descent electric lamp. u.
The first form Of electric il
Elimination was the arc light,
made by the passage of a cur.
rent through carbon points.
While suited to large areas this
form was untitled to house or
desk lighting, and the problem
which Mr.. Edison solved was
the production of a smaller aud
much less powerful electric
lamp. The idea, roughly stat
ed, is that an electric current of
small force passes into a thread
of carbonized bamboo confined
in an hermetically sealed glass
bulb reduced TO a vacuum. But
for the fact that no absolutely,
perfect vacuum is producible by
art lamp would practically last
forever, but as il is has a long
duration called its ''life. " in the
course Of which ii yields a sub
tantially perfect illuminations
of much less intensity than the
arc.
The full commercial value of
his invention did not occur TO
Mr.. Edison for some years, but
in those years others saw fur
ther into the future, and their
use of his discovery, without
challenge from him, bore sew
erely against him when he wax
ed 10 the necessity Of asserting
his rights.
Justice has very clearly been
done by the decision.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

IsS'T ii somewhat presump-
tuous for individuals to assert
that the sentiment Of thepeople
in the State in which they re-
side is for this or that Presiden-
tial candidate, when they have
had no opportunity of ascer-
tainirg what the sentiment
really is: Persons frequently
imagine that the views which
they entertain are shared by
the masses of their fellow.cit-
izens. When a test is made,
however, they sometimes dis
cover their error.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
The Inter-state Exposltlon.

The Interstate Exposition at
Raleigh, from October 1st to
November LIST, 1891, promises to
be a complete success.
All the States, of the South
will be represented.
We trust that Virginia will
bring to it her finest tobacco,
South Carolina her best rice,
Kentucky, her finest horses,
Alabama, her richest ores, and
the South at large, her fairest
women all to be eclipsed by
North Carolina. Wishing good
to all, it is no evil to wish the
best for the Old North State.
The exposition will attract
thousands Of people from all
parts Of the United States, and
we need not be surprised if Eu-
rope and South America are re-
presented.
The very able and most ex-
cellent State Chronicle says:
1.-THE chief need Of the Exposi-
tion is to learn the world some
thing about North Carolina.
That is all. 4
Is not our distinguished con-
temporary mistaken in saying
"that is all?"
We would have the world
know us as we are, but we would
much prefer for our own people
to know the marvellous resources
of our God given South, and
feel the inspiration of conscious
power. We will be glac to see
that the Exposition attracts inn
migration but, we had a thous-
and times rather see it stimulate
our own young men to high re-
solves and noble deeds.
The idea has become too COM
mon that there are other places
more attractive to our young
men than our blessed South
land. 1t has been said that
North Carolina is no place for
a North Carolina boy to acquire
fortune and fame. Away with
the delusion! Let the EXposi-
ton teach our own people the
priceless value of their inher-
itance.
This lesson learned, and the
work of education goes on to
the development Of higher APP
probation Of life, and a grander
conception of its possibilities
We advocate no stinting of
North Carolina generosity and
hospitality, but we want our
people to awake to an appreci-
alton of their country and them
selves. Newbern Journal.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
KILLED BY A AWoMAN'sBITE
Singular Fate ofa Yourg Dem
list Who Touched a Moiar,

NEW YORK, July IA dem
tist killed by a woman's bite
has presented a case unique at
No. l64 East Eighty third street.
Francis NJ. Baab was the man,
and he died at his home there
yesterday. He was 2l years
old, and on April ~, in his ia
ther's absence, he set out to re-
heve from pain a lady who came
into the office with her face
swollen and infamed from an
aching tooth.
To locate the tooth he asked
her 10 open her mouth wide.
She did so. He touched it with
his finger In the agony of the
touch the woman shrieked and
snapped her jaws together, Bit
ing Baab's finger.
He went ON and pulled the
tooth, and thought little of the
accident until the blood poison
ing set in, of which he died.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
JERRY SIMPSON IN GEOR-
GIA.
Extract from his Speech at Ho-
gansvIlle.

Extractfrom his Speech ut Ho-
gansyilIe.
Taken from Atlanta Constitution.
Mr.. Simpson was handed a
note asking him to touch on
the force bill.
Son that force BILL" said he,
1--WE felt in Kansas that we
could not afford to have a Unit
ed States marshal at the polls to
dictate to your people. We feel
that the intelligent people Of
the south know how to manage
their own local affairs, and if
you don't it is time you were
learning, and there is no way
to learn but by experience.
"No man takes an interest in
his government who has no
property or no home to defend.
Bob Ingersoll said that no man
will take up arms in defense of
his boarding house. We have,
a mass of voters who 60 to the
polls and vote like cattle, and
have as much voice in the gov
ernment as if they paid taxes.
The alliance legislature in Kan
sas instructed their representa-
tives in congress to vote against
thatinfamous force bill. There
was a law on the statute books
that declared that a rebel SOL
dier should not vote. 1t was a
disgrace to the state, aud the
alliance legislature repealed it.
Too long we have travelled that
road, and we will move with
you people until we bury this
old feeling so deep it never will
be resurrected. sa .
"We are determined to fill up
the bloody chasm and to begin
with Ingalls,. He filled a large
space in that chasm. This fall,
with your help, with a little
contribution of campaign funds,
President Polk thinks will cap
ture this last stronghold. That
will be glory enough for one
day."
Mr.. Simpson then told the sto-
ry. "They are moving hi and
the first load has just gone by"
ingalls, was the first load, and
Mckinley and Sherman, in Ohio,
would make a good second.
81 want to finish that chasm
business. You people in the
south may have a few carcass
es you can spare. Throw them
in and it will help fill up" said
he.
81 want to say to you, ladies
and gentlemen, that you have
captured Kansas. / believe
you are better alliancemen than
in Kansas. ! know your posi-
ton here and / appreciate it.
This movement will do good to
everybody, and let everybody
join and help it along"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

A sTR0LLING surveyor hap
pened along 10 a certain farm
house in Illinois and offered To
run the farm lines for 50. He
was put to work, and he found
the lines all wrong and got seven
farmers into fights and law
suits before the county survey
or came along and discovered
that the stroller couldn't run a
straight line for twenty rods to
save his neck. Then he stroIled
again. Ii Is always best TO
patronize your home people and
those you are well acquainted
with.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
Roe! q! Bsslss Bsx'ss'
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

THE New Orleans Times
Democrat is anxious that the
United States should acquire
possession Of Cuba, bypurchase
from the Spanish government.
1t thinks that under American
ownership the island would pro-
duce ten times as much as it
now does.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
ProllbItion In Northampton.

We learn that the Board Of
Commissioners of Northampton
has officially refused to grant
any license to retail liquor in
the county. After the expira-
tion Of license now in force pro-
hibition Will prevail unless the
board reconsiders its action.
This law says the commission
ers shall grant licenses upon
compliance with the proper re-
quirements, but the Supreme
Court, we believe, has con-
structed the law to give COM
missioners larger discretion
than the bare language of the
act would imply. Roanoke
News.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
THE Charlotte News says the

THE Charlotte News says the
excitement over the Motz trag-
edy at Lincolnton "has died
down somewhat, but feuds are
being formed that may yet give
trouble" Feud-forming is a.
bout the lowest business man
can engage in. 4 feud is hate,
bitter and lasting, transmitted
from father to son, with the
idea of keeping all the UNDER
takers in the county busy. liz
any such develishness is con-
templated in Lincolton there is
an opportunity for the strong
arm Of the law. .-Asheville Cit.
iZen.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
A Floating Rock.

A floating rock is one of the
wonders of Corea. 1t stands,
or seems to stand, in front of
palace erected in its honor. 1t
appears to be resting on the
ground, free from support on
all sides, but strange to say,
two men on opposite ends of a
rope may passit under the stone
without encountering any OBJ
stacles.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

The Census Office has issued
a bulletin on paupers in aims
houses in 1890. Tables are Civ.
en- showing the number Of pau
pers by race and nativity and
by States and Territories. the
distribution of male and female
paupers in almshouses i'm 1880
by ratio with the relative in
crease or decrease. The num-
Der Of inmates i'm 1890 was 49,
Oi5. an increase Of 3,Sl2 over
the past decade. OF this num-
ber, 37.3S7 were white males
and 1854 colored males, the TO-.
tai number Of males being 49,
7il. The number Of females is
given as 81, ,3Ol, Of which 29, l91
were white and 3,113 colored.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

The World building, New
York. is one Of the finest and
costliest structures Of its char.
acter IN the world. II was erect.
ed by Joseph Pulitzer, owner Of
the World newspaper, and
stands upon the site of the "Old
French Hotel" so-ealled, from
which. it is said, Mr.. Pulitzer
was once elected for lack of
money TO pay his bill.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
A Good Move.

In speakingof the move made
by Asheville the Wilmington
Star says: The board of alder
men Of the city of Asheville had
an eve to business when a few
weeks ago they appointed a COM
mittee to visit st. Paul, Mimi, !,
and invite the National Press
Association 20 hold its next an
nual meeting in the capital city
Of Skyland. The committee ap-
pointed, for certain reasons did
not go. but other citizens who
had business in tue Northwest
volunteered TO be the bearers of
the city's invitation. Il is not
vet known whether the invita-
tion has been accepted or not,
but If il should be it will prove
one of the best advertisements
Asheville has ever had. The
members of this Association re-
presents most of the leading
papers of the country, North
and South, and through the re
ports of its proceedings and the
letters that many OF the men,
bers would write TO their papers,
Asheville would be brought
prominently to the front before
thousands Of readers and thus
would become better known than
ever. Il was a capital idea and
we hope the invitation will be,
If it has not already been ac-
cepted.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
knights Of PythIas.

Grand Chancellor Jn0. NJ. Sher.
wood. Of Raleigh. came up Friday
and installed the following ofii.
GERS Of Durham Lodge, No. 80, X. Of
r., for the ensuing term:
Sam'l Kramer, G. G.
J. Scutt Burch, We.
E.S. Thomson, Pplatc.
w. II. Bolyn, NJ. Of r.
JnO. G. Burch. NJ. Of T..
l.. q. Cole, X. Of X. and s. -
Y. i. Bishop, NJ. at Al.
A. E. Lloyd, District Deputy.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
HERnERr srENcER spoke thl

HERBERT SPENCER spoke the
truth. Logical demonstrations
and deductions are wasted upon
a5 per cent of allegedly en-
lightened humanity. Asa rule,
men will cling to their preiu-
dices and believe only what
they wish to, despite all oppos-
ing forms Of ratiocination. They
are but built that way. 'Tis
true, tits pity, and pity 'tis It's
true"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
FIorida.s ,rnhacco Cnitnre.

The census office has made
public the tobacco statistics of
Florida. The total number of
planters in the State during the
census year was 500; total area
devoted to tobacco 1859 acres;
t'tal product 1928 pounds,
and value Of crop to producers,
estimated on a basis of actual
sales, sos, ,63l.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

Sleeplessness, nervous prostration
fits, ST. Vitus dance, nervousness,
hysteria, headache, hot flushes. nery-
ons dyspepsia, confusion, are cures
~ DR. Miles Neryine. Trial bot
tells and fine books free at Year,y's
drugstore or address Dr. Miles Ned
a5ical Co, Elkhhart Ind.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

DISPATCHES from North Texas
and the southern part Of the
Indian Territory state that the
prospects for crops, especially
corn and cotton, have never
been better. Corn is in fact
made, and the yield will be from
40 to 30 bushels per acre. Wheat
is yielding 80 bushels to the
acre.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

The smallest child ever born
in Greensbary, Pa, is now liv-
ing and Is as lively as q cricket.
She Is eight months old and
weights six and one-half pounds.
An ordinary finger-ring would
go on either of her legs.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

FROM the opinion very gen
orally entertained in the medical
progressive, the Examiner, ot
Bellefortaine Ohio, has assert
ed a very signiti amt fact when
il states that Pretty nearly
nine out Of ever ten women are
suffering some bodily ailment,
and nine out of every ten have
brought ON ailliction by tight
lacing."
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

The city of Jacksonville, Fla,
protects catfish in the river as
scavengers. 1t is a five dollar
lind to catch one of them, and
the fish seem to know it. The
|river is full Of them, and they
vary in size from a baby to a
|200-pound man. Monroe En-
|quirer.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

A B1a London bank has failed
the English Bank of River
Plade. is capital stock was
seven and a half million dol.
lars. The difficulty was due to
locking up Of South American
securities.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22
A RnonE island paper has lad

ARHopE Island paper has had
to pay q man 900 for stating
that he was fired from a po-
sition, when he was simply told
that owing to lack of business
his services were no longer
needed. The jury held that
fired meant % bounce-t0
kick o1t-to get rid'of a suspi.
cious unsatisfactory employee.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

The executive committee Of Trim
10y College met in Raleigh Friday.
Drs. Yates and Crdwell, Of this place,
were present. 10 was decided TO
open the college. at its new home
Durhain--Un the LIST Of October.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-22

The series of meeting that were
begun at the Second Baptist church
several nights agoare still carried on
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-22
State News,

The Cumberland Co. Grand Jury has
indicted Chas. Keighley IL large Vine
land manufacturer of intimidating IL
voter by discharging him. 1t is the
first case tiIed under the law.
Work is to be resumed on the new
Philadelphia and SeasiIore railroad
through Tuckahoe and Sea Isle City,
aud have the line completed by July list.
DIR. j. W. Hawk, State Veterinarian
Surgeon, of Newark has stamped ont
pleurO-pneumonia among cattle in this
state in the last nineteen months at Il
cost to the Government for cattle killed
of SIS, 0G0. 1t vas most prevalent in
Hudson county.
jonathan Sheppard, IA well-knnwn
South JerseymaiI, dropped dead at his
home in Cedarvllle on Sunday.
David Neighbor. said to be the oldest
ex. Assemblyman in the State, is still
bright at the age of 81. He lives near
LambeTtyille.
The first reunion Of the Third Regi-
ment, New Jersey Cavalry, was held at
Bridget0n on Monday. About % of
the survivors were present.
J. Ward Richardson has become tie
sole wner of the Bridgeton Eveniny
NeiCs and the Dollar Weekly NeloS, hay
ing purchased the interest Of d. G. APP
plegate in those journals.
Superintendent Young, of litman
Grove, gives the number of cottages
there st $50, and about 100 outside tn,
grove proper. There are about 100
families residing at PItman permanent
ly, with ii population of about 800. The
residents population during the camp
season will number between 1000 and
5000,