The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-04
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the City and Vicinity.

The St. Cecilia society is getting
ready for another concert.
"A Shelby firm is making 3,OOO,OOO
yitrifed bricks, to be used at Asheville in
street paving.
Tine date Of the Cumberland fair has
been changed from November to ., in
elusive. to November u to 10.
Work on Aston avenue still goes on
and Colonel Walker is proving himself
a road artist as well as a Gammlst.
The Granville Institute closing ex-
ercises come next Wednesday, Jnne 8.
A novel entertainment is in preparation.
Reuben Rink is doing a fine piece of
work on Col. j. S. Cars Durham resi-
dence, the appearance Of which is
already greatly improved.
Colonel Cupid will fill an engage
ment in this city Monday, and those de-
string his future services can then have
a hearing.
"A great China silk sale at Ellis, Stone
81 Co.'S, consisting of 40 yards, stylish
figures in dark grounds, goods you ordi-
narily see at 70 cents. Our price next
week 80 cents.
In the marriage Of Miss Mamie
Walker to Norfleet, of Winston on the
9th, Durham will lose one of her leading
and most popular young ladies and the
Twin-City will gain a charming and use
full member of society. The Twin-City
Is to be congratulated.
Durham is being we'll represented
across the pond this summer, and others
still will 20 later. Professor Vernon
Darnell will make one Of the party and
will remain some time in Germany,
where he will devote himself to the study
of music, perfecting himself in his
f~avOrite art.
Colonel Bun Whitfield, who COM
planned yesterday of that tired feeling,
says that when Colonel T%ennysOn wrote
about spring, a young mans fancy and
other things, he failed to solve the prob
lem of a disordered liver or to state how
much patent medicine a man must con-
sumo to the square inch in order to raise
a fancy.
Judy Burris, a young woman, was
placed in jail in Stanly county Thursday.
Sometime ago she and Alex. Whitley left
that countytogether for the west. Whit
ley was accused of the murder of D.. b.
Tucker, and the return Of Judy Burris
gave rise to suspicion, and the charges
made against her, the News says, place
her in peculiarly close circumstances.
The Raleigh Visitor springs this
chestnut cannot some friend put us on
the right track concerning the proposed
Baptist Female college to be located in
Raleigh? We are frequently asked about
it, and are compelled to decline answer
ing, because we don't know. Our col
umns are open, and we are confident the
theme would be an interesting one.
The Seaboard Airline has pur-
chased fourteen acres of land at Hamlet,
a correspondent of the Wilmington Star
reports, on which it will build a cotton
compress. superintendent MonCure and
Smith AVE made a survey of the prem
Uses and selected a suitable spot to place
the plant. Their intentions are to have
the plant in operation by the fall. The
plant is now at Norfolk awaiting ship
ment.
The jury at Greensboro has found
Charles Blackman guilty Of wife muir
der. The Record says that while the
jury was out Blackman showed for the
first time slight nervousness, or rather
anxious expectancy, striving hard to
conceal it and appear unconCerned. The
verdict gives universal satisfaction, and
shows that a Guilford jury is able to
mete out justice to her criminals without
resort to judge Lynch, which was at one
time threatened, causing Sheriff Cook to
remove the prisoner to Davidson county
for safe keeping. There will be no APP
peal in this case.
Judge Golf, Of the United States cir
cult court, is at Wilmington holding court
for the disposal of some important cases.
One of these is the application for an in
junction by w. s. OBJ. Robinson, re
ceiver OF the First National bank of Will
min-tou, to restrain that city from the
collection OF taxes on 5 ock Of the said
hm auu another is the seed law case,
VIE. n Ferry X Co seed dealers, of De
troI', Nich contest the conetitutionality
of the law passed by the last legislature,
requiring all packages of seeds sold in the
state to be marked or labelled with the
year of growth of said seed.
WITHIN OUR GATES.