The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-01-07
DURHAM RECORDER.
wEDNEsD ~, january I, 1891
-A protracted meeting is i

is manifested.
All the reading matter on
the first page Of this paper is
fresh and carefully selected. 1t
will prove interesting to city
readers as well as country sub
scribers.
Talk about it being cold
here. Itisnothing to the wealth
er they are having in Maine,
where the thermometer went
down to sixty degrees below
zero one day last week.
The free delivery Of mail is
constantly increasing in popu-
larity. The number of pieces
delivered last month was in the
neighborhood of ten thousand,
being about twice as many as
were delivered the previous
month.
1T is almost universal ex-
perience that medium size
houses, that rent at moderate
prices, pay the best kind Of re-
turns on the amount invested in
them. What an opening there
is on this line for a dozen or SO
Of Durham capitalists!
The president has approved
the bill appropriating S25, 200
for a public building at Reids-
vile. And still the Durham
bill is hung up somewhere. al
favorable committee report was
obtained a long time ago, but |
a report is no good if the bill
never comes to a vote.
They say that a festive
youth connected with oneof the
public institutions Of Durham
hit the floor three times on d re-
cent occasion while going
through the may figures of the
Virginia reel; and there wasn't
the slightest suggestion Of arti-
fetal tangle-foot about the per-
Torrance either.
1T is very gratifying to re-
fleet that Durham is such a de-
sirable place TO livein that there
are not houses enough to sup
ply the demand. The editor Of
thispaper is houseless and home
less, though he has been more
or less industriously trying, |,
during the past two weeks, TO
find dwelling place.
Everybody agrees that Dur
ham made fine progress last
year, but everybody knows that
Durham was just pulling herr
self together in 1890 for a grand
forward movement in 1891. The
signs Of the times are propitous,
the conditions favorable. and
all things ready for the big
gest year in Durham's history.
The big factory Of W. Duke,
Sons a. Co., Branch Of the Am
erican Tobacco Company is just
a little smaller than all out
doors. The reporter walked
around il the other day and
tried to take in the size of it; but
found the latter a difficult UNI
dertaking. The factory is some
thing immense; but in that res
pect it is like Durham, which Is
the biggest town Of its size in
all the wide world.
Some idea Of the magnitude
of the tobacco business Of Dur
ham may be gathered from the
fact that rs, 900 pounds Of smok-
ing tobacco were shipped from
the Blackwell Cooperative To-
bacco Company on the last day ,
of the year. This represents
something over a tenth Of the ,
amount shipped during the last
two weeks in December. The
Bull whistle celebrated the last
shipment by making a big ,
racket.
Rev. 4. II. Law, agent of
the American Bible Society for
North and South Carolina, will !
meet the citizensaf Durham at
the Presbyterian church next /
Sunday night. The society has ,
done a wonderful work in dis !
seminating the scriptures all !
over the world. II il now per- ,
fecting plans for an undertake
ing no smaller than placing a
copy Of the scriptures in the /
hands Of every child in the ,
United States that can read.
Talking about newspaper |
circulation, THE RECORDER can
boast somewhat. IL has large Z
lists Of bona fide subscribers IN ,
all the country around Dnrham. 6
Why! Because, il is truthful {
clean and decent, and has sus- /
tanned q good character through | I
successive generations, while I
mushroom papers have had q Z
brief existence and gone the |
way Of all things unsubstantial. Il
The proof Of the pudding Is in Z
the lists. II
The new preacher and the I
new organ Of Trinity church !
form a strong combination. To- :
gether they keep the seats well s