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st. Elizabeths Asylum, and in all her long
years of connection she has never missed
a meeting Of the board. In the congratuIa-
tons poured upon the happy couple there
would be spared to celebrate their diamond
MIR. J. W. Thompson gave dinner last even
ing of sixteen covers. the appointments and
decorations of which were unusually elaborate
and handsome. Tho guests were Senators
sherman and Mcmillan, Secretary Noble, Rep
resentative Hemphill, Hon. Hugh McCulloch,
ex- senator Davis of West Virginia, Hon. Jere-
miah N. Wilson, Rev. Dr.. Bartlett, and Messrs.
Gardiner @. Hubbard, A. T. Britton, John
Csssels. & H. Kaufman, u. II. Parker, C. II.
Ffouike and A. E. BAteman Of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs J. b Montgomery and family
sailed for Europe today.
Dr.. and Mrs.. James Dudley Norman sxpsct
to move into their new home on 18th street
very shortly.
Mrs. Don Cameron gave luncheon last
Tuesday in honor Of her guest Mrs. chris.
MaRee Of Pittsburs. All the table decors tions
Dalzel, Mrs. Outhvaits, 4rp ]. b Robinson.
Mira Hough, Ars Stone. Mrs.. Shonk and Ma
Sherman.
Mrs. Emily Thorutou Charles, the poet VIM
has returned from viat 70 New YORK, was the
recipient vhsle there Of . large steel snsravins
from Bierstsdt ths artist Of his famous paint
ing. 9TH. Last = ne Buhalosa"
Miss Anna Astsrman Of Indianapolis d
spending some wseks in tse city q the guest
Tuesday evening ~ vasar studsnts' Ala
Society ssye ~ second sntsrainneut for tn
benefit Of thssehelasuhip fund at Nrs Ffoulke's
On 2assaehusette svohuA. Niss 0ereude
Chem Of PA1aas'phss .savs . dnmatis recital
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
Roads.

A 'ssoft Christmas" charac
terized about three-quarters oi
the surface of the Unltec
States in 1891. Hundreds oi
persons missed the fun they
would have had because tht
roads were so bad they could
not get away from home. Hun
dreds of merchants had a mosi
disastrous Christmas trade be-
cause farmers and their fami.
lies were fast mud bound al
home, and could not get to town
even for a bottle of brandy
wherewith to flavor mince pies.
Thousands of hearts were sad,
thousands Of pairs Of pretty
eyes looked out upon a dull,
gray, wretched, mean and vile
world. Why? just because
the United States has the worst
roads Of any country in'civiliza-
tion; roads that would make
even a wild buffalo of the
plains blush for his kind if he
had to travel by such trails.
While most other improve
rnents, even to opera singers
and race horses, have advanced
in America with great bounds,
our public highways have re-
mained the same as they were
when farmers kept six horses
to do the hauling that two can
do on a decent track, and vii
lagos ten miles apart were shut
off from one another three
months in the year as complete
" as if they were on opposite
sides Of the continent because
the roads were impassable. 1t
is a disgrace to an enlightened
The road laws are as antiquat-
ed in many parts of the
country as the old laws
against witch burning. With
all the meney at command III
this country agriculturists and
men ought at once to
take measures to improve our
highways. There is no spot
where a fine road cannot be
built, and such a raod will i'm
prove the value of property as
nothing else can. Americans
ought to emerge from the mud
and go TO ad-building, letting
no dunderhsad old bunker no.
tions stand in the way.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
DURHAMs NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY FEBRUAY IL 1892.

WHEN ex-P President Cleveland
comes here on Washington's
Birthday, says a Detroit special
to the New York Press, there
will be held a secret political
conference on the question Of
his remaining in the field for
the President nomination. The
chief figures in it will be the
ex-President, Don M. .Dickin-
son, ex-Sscretary Villas, Dan
Lamont, and Ex-Governor
Campbell. The presence of
Campbell is believed TO indicate
that rather than see the nomin-
alton go to Hill, or any other
member of the Gornan-Hill-
Brice combination. Mr.. Cleve-
land intends to throw all his
strength for some outside man,
and has picked on Ohio's ex-
governor.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
A REMEDY PROPOSED.
To Wipe Out Part of the Poverty
of the PeoDle. -

L ~OHlSs
APEX, N. g., Feb. 11.-TSpeci-
al to the State Chronicle =
While the subject of our power
ty and the many causes that
have led to 1t are yet fresh in
the minds of your readers and
with good wishes to the result
OF these investigations, 1 wish
to present some figures for
wake county which may apply
to many others proportionateiy:
| believe the tobacco bill of
Wake county in all the various
forms ia' which it is used a.
mounts to no less than four
hundred thousand dollars Der
annum. Our population in
round numbers is fifty thou
sand Ten thousand of this
number are children under
twelve years of age-are sup
posed not to use tobacco in ;lny
form yet many of them do. Half
OF the remaining forty thousand
use the weed in some form,
many of them both smoke and
chew. 1t would be a moderate
estimate to say that the twenty
thousand average twenty dol
lars each per annum. If so. the
sum total is four hundred thou
sand.
The liquor bill of our county
In all its various forms is no
less. 1t is hoped that at least
forty thousand of eur people, in
cluding women and children,
do not drink ardent spirits. AT.
least ten thousand Of our citi-
zens do drink.
Five thousand moderate
drinkers will average twenty
dollars per annum, or one hum
dred thousand. Four thousand
every day drinkers will average
fifty dollars per annum or two
hundred thousand total. One
thousand drunkards will aver
age one hundred dollars per
year or a total of one hundred
thousand dollars Thus our
population in Wake county con-
sumo annually of the two items
not less than eight hundred
thousaed dollars, and this too at
a time when cotton our leading
crop is selling at two cents per
pound below the cost of pro.
duction. Who will begin a.
reduction of expenses here:
The above is an average ofsix.
teen dollars per head for each
man, woman and child in our
county. l knew a man who.
drank up tract of land in one
year valued at two hundred and
seventy dollars and he weuld
have resented it if you had call
ed him "a drunkard.
II. G. OLIVE.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

OFFICE or YoRK ENTERPRISE
YoRKvILLE, s. G., Aug. IA, '9l
ATLANTIC ELgCrRororsE Gentle
men: For the past five years my
wife has been a sufferer from dys-
pepsia. So completely did the d.
sease make a wreck Of her former
self that life was almost despaired
.of. Her nervous system was al
most entirely destroyed, and the
slightest noise would throw her into
a nervous spasm, which would last
for hours. Medical skill failed to
bring any relief.
Through the recommendation Of
an eminent divine We were induced
10 try the Electropoise. After per-
sistent use OF the instrument, the
effect has been wonderful. Her
nervous system has been restored to
its almost normal condition: her
digestion is wonderfully improved:
she Is rapidly gaining in flesh; and,
upon the whole, is making a rapid
recovery, which speaks volumes for
the wonderful curative powers Of
the ElectropoIse, as her case was
considered hoi yless. II any are
skeptical on the subject, let them
try the EIectropoise, and its won
defful powers will quickly dlspel all
doubt. Yours truly.
w. M. PRoPsT.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
She Rushed Down Town PeIl-
mall

She Rushed Down Town Peil-
MEL.
She had suffered with the
phthisic, and had taken tons
of physic,
And whole barrelfuls of Bit
ters, and whole loads of
nauseous pills;
She'd been troubled with mias-
ma, and all choked up with
the asthma,
And been shaken for a month
or two with ague and the
chills;
She had had the yellow-feyer.
of which nothing could
relieve her,
And the rheumatism famed
herso she could not go about;
And she groaned with tonsili-
tbs, and the most acute
bronchitis,
And she suffered endless tor
lures from the twinges of
the gout.
She had tried old-school-physi.
clans, Christian scientists,
magicians,
And they got the undertaken tc
prepare her pail.
When great auction sales OF
laces advertised in various
places,
Caught her feverish eye one
morning, and she leapt uf
sound and we'll:
She shook deaths stitfening rig
or, and with most emphatic
vigor,
She grabbed her husband.
pocket book and rushed
downtown pell-mell.
Exchange.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
STATE JOTTINGs.
Short Items of Interest for Busy
READERS,

Short Items OfIntcrest for Busy
READERS,
The new $1,000 pipe organ
for Oxford's new Presbyterian
church has arrived and the
Ledger says it is a beauty.
Greensboro ought to be hap
py for one day. A hand organ
on wheels and a balloon man
were on her streets Thursday:
yet the Record wants the street
sprinkler brought out.
Rev. J. w. Lee, the Irish
evangelist, is conducting a
meeting in Raleigh at Fayette-
vile street Baptist church.
The Visitor says much interest is
felt.
Mr.. Horace West, who has
been in the employ Of the rail-
road here for some time, has
given up his position and goes
to Durham to work for Mr.. ].
w. Webb, says the Salisbury
Herald.
II seems now to be under.
stood, that the honors Of the en-
campment Of the State Guard
arc to be divided this year be-
tween Asheville and Wrights-
vile, the first and second regi-
ments going into camp at the
latter place and the third and
fourth at Asheville.
The Milton Enterprise SAYS
that on Saturday last at a froiic
near HsSter's Store, Person
county, some colored men be-
came engaged in a game of cards
and soon after two Of them,
Flick Hester and Gus Moore,
got into a dispute over twenty
five cents, when Moore drew a
pistol and shot Hester, killing
him almost instantly. The
murdered man was about 45
years of age; the assassin 26
years old. Moore is still at
large.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

A CITIZENS organizations is
in process of formation in New
Orleans to crush out the prac-
tice of carrying concealed
weapons. The sentiment which
has been aroused against the
practice by the fearful revolt
ing tragedies that have occurr-
ed within the past year, is
about crystalizing in an organ
lied effort to suppress it. When
public sentiment takes this
shape, it more effectually BAN
ishes that against which it is
directed, than any number of
legislative enactments. The
Raleigh Visitor trusts that this
crystalizing of public sentiment
in New Orleans may gather
volume as it flows and ere long
reach North Carolina in the
shape of a great tidal wave
which shall wash away the last
vestage of this murderous habit.
We hope so, too.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
Atinrfer ,Pnnne. Nnw.

An ingenious little instru-
ment called the garter phone
has recently been invented,
which, attached to my lady's
garter, registers the distance
she walks each day. The phys
ical culture craze has put an
end to the languid belle. Wo-
men 90 in for all sorts of out
door sports, and just now walk
ing is the fad. The heroine of
the hour is the woman who has
walked tke greatest number of
mile a day. Hitherto il has
been impossible TO determine to
a nicely the distance covered in
a given time, as when a day is
spent in the deyiating pere-
grination of a shopping tour.
Now the young woman proudly
exhibits her garter phone to
admiring friends, and it is not
unusual for the little machine
to register five or six miles,
and even ten occasionally. The
young woman who was toe
lazy to walk and yet did not
wish to be entirely out Of the
race, sat in the hammock ali
day enjoying o novel, while
she swung her pretty foot back
and forth, thereby attaining
the result on her gartorphone Al
her more energetic sister.-Sar
Francisco Examiner.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
The Gotten Report.

The cotton report sent out
from Washington last week il
as follows: The February cot
ton report of the statistician Of
the Department of Agriculture
relates to the proportion Of
marked quality; yield of lint
the close Of the picking season;
losses by insects, and the price
| of seed.
The proportion sent from
plantations as estimated by re,
porters and accurately consoli-
dated, is as follows:
Virginia, 80.
North Carolina, 80.
South Carolina, 80.
Georgia, 90.
Florida, 80.
Alabama, 81.
Mississippi, Ss.
Texas, 36.
Arkansas, So.
Tennessee, SO.
Missouri, 88.
General average, SS. per cent.
Returns of comparisons with
crops of last year are:
Virginia, rs.
North Carolina, 70.
South Carolina, 49,.
Georgia, IS.
Florida, "a.
Alabama, 92.
Mississippi, 80.
Louisiana, 80.
Texas, 107.
Arkansas, 96.
Tennessee, 81.
Missouri, ETC., 80; general av-
erage 94.3 per cent.
The returns are remarkably
consistent, as thsir indicated
results vary by less than one
per cent, indicating a crop a
bout half a million bales short
of that of 1890. The October
reports of the two years makes
almost Identical difference.
These results are submitted
without comment. The estimat-
ed average time of close Of pick
ing is by States.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
Highest Of all In Leavenng u S. Govt Report
@!a!'!!! g! Bssiss Bsxasss
PURE
The State Of Maine has had

THE State Of Maine has had
prohibition laws on its statute
books for the past thirty odd
years, yet a dispatch from Ban
gor states that tive hundred
liquor sellers were indicted in
that city Monday, for violating
the law. This fact shows, not
only that prohibition laws have
failed to prohibit the sale of
liquor, but that they have bsen
equally as Intellectual in con-
trolling the desires Of the mass
es for stimulants, otherwise
there would not have been so
many violators Of law in a town
the size of Bangor.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

THE congressional eulogy is
not appreciated outside Of Con-
gress, but the intensity of its
appreciation there makes up
amply for the lack elsewhere,
In the adoption of the new
House rules opportunity was
presented for reform in the
eulogy business, but as the
eulsgists and the expectants Of
eulogy could not be made to see
any necessity for reform it is
not surprising that no reform
was made.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

The Sun keeps warning its
readers against these "green
goods" men of New York, who
otferto give so many thousands
of dollars-counterfeit-for so
many hundreds of good money.
1t is the biggest kind of a swim
die, yet there are fools enough
to bite at it. An Alabama far
mer went to New York and
came way with a valise in ex-
chage for his 5000. 1t contain
ed six packages, each with a
bright new genuine 81 bill on
top of ninety-nine pieces OF
green'paper. A North Carolina
man bit and came away with a
brick in his valise in exchange
for his good money. All goes
to show that a fool and his
money soon part company. Be-
ware of the "green goods" men.
All sorts of swindles of this
kind are practicsd. You don't
get good, honest money in this
way.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

The Raleigh News and OBJ
server says the new. Judge in
the 9th District is named-Hon.
George A. Shuford, who has
recently been a member of the
we'll known firm of Jones &
Shuford, a gentleman of high
character, courteous manners
and fine legal ability. Judge
Shuford, we feel every assur-
ance, will wear the ermine with
honor to himself and credit to
the State.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17
rhn Morka Senafor I,oes.

A year before his death Ssna.
tor Plnmb.s physician tried TO
induce him to drop his official
labors awhile and take a rest.
He refused to do so, but went
on till that Sunday morning
when he was found in bed
breathing with difficulty, and
in a few hours all was over.
With him departed one of the
noblest champions the interests
of our great western country
ever had.
Since one must die, perhaps
this is tho easiest way 10 go,
without the distress and worry
of a long illness. 1t is better, far
better, to work en- as long as
one lives and drop like a high
spirited horse IN harness at tbs
end Of il. But Senator Plumt
was not an old man--only fifty,
four. He had a fine, strong
physique and ought 10 have
Lived at least twenty-five years
yet. He died of ovsrwcrk, tn,
doctors say, and there is no rea
son to doubt it. The fact ma,
dispel 10 some extent the pop
ular idea that q United Statei
senator's life is enc of idleness
luxury and champagne drink
ling.
The truth is that no life cal
be much harder. The constan
committee meeting, the inces
SAINT seeing Of constituents ant
attending 10 bills, the awfu
correspondence from Office seek
Iers and those with axes 10 grind
lare a grievous load to carry
Worst Of all perhaps are tn
interminable, hopelessly dul
speeches q senator must listel
TO. These speeches in som
cases require three and fou
days for delivery. II woull xii
ahorse. Then, too, a senate
must always mix more or less il
that feverish, incessant drive o
social life in Washington. i
he does not, then his constitu
ents lay il up against him an,
think he is not upholding tn
dignity Of their state as h
should. No matter how q sena
tor works, either; no matte
how useful and well beloved h
is, If he dies in Office he vii
not be placed in his coffin befor
the public begins to spoculat
on who his successor will be.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

A DISPATCH has been sent
out from Winston-Salsm on
railroad building in Nsrth Caro-
lima, during 1891, and gives
the points from which they
were built and number of miles
"a fetal Of about 1870 miles
constructed; yet it does not say
a word about Brodie Duke s
Belt line-four miles in length.
The writer is not thoroughly
posted orrrailroad building.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

Mr.. S. D. Pool, night editor
Of the New Orleans Times.Dem-
ocrat, whose death is reported
as having occurred in the Cres-
cent City Monday night, was
a native of North Carolina,
having removed from Newbern
to Louisiana about eighteen or
twenty years ago. He was a
well-known member Of the
Southern Press Association, and
had been a constant attendant
upon the session Of that body
from its organization at Allan
Ia in 1881 down to the last
meeting in Birmingham. a
couple Of weeks ago.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

THE Raleigh Chronicle learns
that some Wake farmers have a
sufficient supply Of homegrown
corn on hand to last them two
seasons. This is the way to
farm.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

HERE is a poser for you. II
is from the Pittsboro Record,
which always comes forward
with something novel from the
state of Chatham: A few days
ago a man in this county mar
ried his step mother, his fathers
widow, whose five children are
his own half brothers and sis
ters, and also now his step
children. The idea of a man
being the husband of his moth
er and the father of his brothers
and sisters!
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

The news comes from Lon
don that the deacons of the Tab
ernacle, who have in there pow
er the choice of a successor to
the late Mr.. Spurgeon, have de-
cided to select Mr.. Charles
Spurgeon, now at Greenwich, a
fluent speaker and sound the
ologian.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

THE America Tobacco Com
pany makes a change in its
methods. Allowances and do
nations are to bo abolished.
The Company finds that their
system benefited only a part OF
the trade instead of the whole,
and the equivalent in the future
will be spent in advertising.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

Iris too cold now to talk about
an ice factory in Durham, but
it is coming, and we will need it
next summer, The arrange.
ments have been made with
Mr.. B. l.. Duke, who has induced
Mr.. Arnold to establish this in-
dustry in our city. Now for the
next new enterprise. Let us
keep moving up the line. Brodie
Duke is moving along his Belt
Line,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17


JAMES DoNNELLY, of Bridge
ton, n. j., aged sixteen years,
was one of these smart young
chaps who assume to be men
before they are hardly out of
their knee breeches. Saturday
evening he wagered that he
could eat twenty-four raw eggs
within fifteen minutes, and
then drink twenty glasses OF
beer. He won the amount OF
the wager, 81, but was taken
with convulsions two hours
later, and died. 1t doesn't pay
TO be over smart in some direc'
tions.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

REPRESENTATIVE Wilke, of
Illinois, has introduced in the
House a series Of resolutions,
which have secured the approx
al Of a number Of his Democrat
ic colleagues, declaring that
the tariff is a tax and calling
upon the Ways and Means
Committee to report as speedily
as possible bills enlarging the
free list and reducing compen-
satbry duties in accordance
with the pledges of the party to
the people. TO meet any def
cheney In revenue caused by
this action. the resolutions pro.
pose that the committee shall
also report a bill providing for
a graduated income tax.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

WE are not unmindful Of the
appreciation Of the North Wilks-
boro News, and the kind express
sions that paper has seen fit to
accord the Sun. We hope the
SuN deserves all the News and
the Southern Tobacconist says
Of II.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

wHEx the Norfolk 4 West
ern railroad takes charge of the
l.. & D., they will have the ep.
portunity Of doing some very
fine development in one Of the
best towns on their system.
Durham will help them to de.
velop. They might see a chance
here for a fine hotel, If they wish
to work up travel.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

The subject Of reforms at
funerals which has received
more or less attention through.
out the country during the past
several years, was discussed BY
the Baptist ministers of this
vicinity at their meeting yes.
terday and various suggestions
made, which, IL generally
adopted, will have the effect oi
accomplishing the purpose
sought 10 be attained. The
suggestions are published in the
local columns,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

IT seems that it is getting
absut time for Representative
Bum to shoot Durham's Fed
oral building bill into the House
Our people are getting anxious
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-17

Two physicians at Crawford
vile, Ind, refused to attend a
man suffering with earache.
He died in convulsions, and the
doctors have been sued for
neglect,