The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-01
General News Itens,

L
Ayoung woman died at Leigh
England, last week from th,
effect Of being struck in the ey,
by a snowbsll, thrown in fur
by o boz.
/ a woman died iii .no peer
house ut Sheernsss who was
born in the institution ninety
two years age, and has lived
| there all her life.
| The most expensive legisla-
ture in the world il that 81
| France, which costs annually
I$3, 100000. The Italian Parlia
ment costs $43o, 900 q year.
! Henry Ferguson is enc Of the
largest celored land owners and
planters in Fort Bend, Tex. He
has in cultivation about 1000
acres. He is quite rich, and
raises all his home supplies. He
realises more rnensy on his cot.
ton than any farmer in thatsec.
tion.
Edward Gibson, son of q far
nler living near Cascade, Va,
received a slight wound in the
knee several days ago with an
axe. Tho wound was not re-
gardsd as at all dangerous, but
the boy soon developed . gem
uine case Of lockjaw and died
frem the effects.
Krs. Yates, the wife of a
teamster at Springfield, Ohio,
has just made hertwenty-fourth
contribution to the native pop
ulation of the country. She
was married when only IA years
of age, and her oldest child is
25 years cid. Her offsprings in
Guide i've sets of twins.
II cost Brooks county, Ca,
$3.50 the other day to try a case
in wkich tha amount involved
was f75, and then the jury dis
agreed and q mistrial was de-
clared. This means that the
case will have to be tried again,
and the county put to the ex-
penss of another $3.50. If the
county had paid the claim of
$75, it would still be about 1925
ahead by the transaction.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
The meansst man has been
feund-but we will not say in
Georgia. He gave a load Of
wood to = poor widow, then
hired q negro to stsalit. and re-
turn il to him, and then. had the
negro arrested for theft and
sent to the chaingsng for two
years.
A typewriter trust is tks la
test combine on tapis. Trusts
are bad things anywhere, but if
they will confine themselves to
type-writcrs, gold pens and the
like, and let up on food and raj
ment, the country will try to
wag along on lead pencils for
awhile yet. At least that's the
way We feel about it.-Hender-
son Herald.
In demanding the defeat OF
the Anti Option bill the Nation.
al Beard Of Trade has merely
voicsd current sentiment in all
commercial circles. The more
this singular attempt to inter
fere with existing busines;
methods is subjected to the light
of criticism, tho moro unjust
and dangerous does it appear
Philadelphia Record.
| Col. Cody proposes to have a.
many as $50 Indians in the inau
gural parade. Col. Dick Croke
says he will have 1900 Taman,
braves in the column. Wash
ingten will thus be afforded al
opportunity to compare the fero
ciOus red man from New Yorl
with the tame imitation tha
satisfies the Wsst.-Washing
ton Star.
We have enough laws now
and unless better and NOR
beneficial measures can be pass
ell. better not pass any at all
Wo expect 20 zee some measure
framed this winter that will b
Of general benefit to the Stat
in every way. Let the work b
well aud carefully done. Bur
lingtsn News.
4 II 10 consoling amid all th
pains and perils, discomfor;
and Inconvenience of this rigol
lous winter-that no editor ha
vet been found SO lost to q
sense Of what is due 10 his couE
try, his readers and himself q
, to "publish by request 'Beaut
i full Snow charlotte 0bssr
4 yer.
. A Republican organ ssrcast
: cally remarks that "Democra'
d think with their feet" Psrhal
!, that explains why, after Il
d vigorous and properly appli,
. thinking done by the Denocra
last November, the Republica
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