The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-08
DURHAM RECORDER.
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WEDNESDAY,, June s, 1892.
LOCAL AND OTHER NEWS
Wheat is getting ripe.

Blaine will be the big Injun.
Durham Superior court con
vened Monday, Judge Whitakel
presiding
IF you keep on quarrelinl
with your neighbors, you viii
soon have no friends.
Rev. Stewart Mcqueen, the
new rectorof st. Philips church,
preached his first sermon in
that church Sunday. We are
pleased to know that this good
man has come among US.
When you come to town
drop in at Vaughn's drug store;
you will find cool drinks, polite
clerks, and everything to make
your visit pleasant. See what
he has to say elsewhere.
MIR. John r Baldwin, one Of
the oldest citizens living in Or.
ange county fell down the steps
in his barn some days ago and
hurt himself very badly. He is
one of the old landmarks; he
will be 10 years old in July.
When q fellow declines to
60 and absolutely forbids the
further mention Of his name in
the vicinity of her home, it is a
pretty sure sign that he has re
ceived the mittens, or else he
knows the strength of the fell
low who occasion hangs on
''pa's'' gate.
The Mississippi is ten miles
wide. That Is the right kind Of
an American river but it is a
little too much Of q good thing
New York Recorder. Well, Mr..
Recorder, supposed . little In
dian "fire-water" was mixed
with it, then what would you
called it?
The County Commissioners
and magistrates met Monday.
wv. q. Vickers was reelected
County Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction. The new Board
OF County Commissioners, elect
ed are: A. III. Stoke, r. @. Til
ley, X Holloway, r. III. Massey
and Hugh Green.
Five couples applied this
year for the fitch OF bacon
which Ii given at Dunmord,
Eng, 50 we learn from an ex-
change, 70 the married pair who
have lived together for a whole
year in perfect peace. Why not
introduce a feature of this kind
in this section-right here al
home? IL the pig won't work as
o symbol of peace, introduce
something elsel
lit is stated that a young
married woman of Williams
burg, N. Y, left her husband
recently and eloped with an
other fellow, informing her dis.
consulate spouce that her new
lover would but her all the can
dy she wanted. The excuse
may not be considered q very
reasonable one, but ii certainly
was one in which sweetness APP
parently played . leading part.
The Wilmington Messen-
ger says, Mr.. A. 8. Maynard,
representing the California
Fruit Transportation Company,
who has been here two weeks,
looking after the shipment Of
strawberries In the patent re-
frigorator cars of his company,
tells us that from Wilmington
and points on the Wilmington
and Weldon railroad this sea-
son he has handled ferty. five |
cars Of berries. This means
300, 900 quarts of berries and the |
receipts In money 70 the growers
aggregate the pretty sum Of
$4,000
lit ought not to be but Il |
will happen sometime; a man |
confessed in this efiice the 9TH
er day that one stout woman
with q stick will do more to.
ward bringing a man TO a sense
OF his short comings than ALL
the writing Of all the holy "a.
Their. For some cause, the once
proud hawkeye became hack.
eyed; she resorted TO the origi-
nal rapid transit system, and we
suppose, from what he said, she
must have took him home byl
the hair, and then in the back
yard, In the presence Of neigh
bors, she whipped him with q
stick until his suspicion that
Yankee Dadle had come 70 town,
accompanied by Hail Columbia.
"A citizen passing along
Morshsad Avenue q few even
ings ago, heard an old darkey
calling out 20 his wife:
"Nancyl Is YOU got dem
chickens corraled In de smoke
house like l told ycrs"
mel an | like TO know whar's
de matter wild you, dats you's
30 ticker bout dem chickens
all az oncei's aha replied.