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

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much warmer.
Justice Lamar was one OF
the finest scholars the South has
ever produced. He will DO nadl j
missed.
"A Maryland woman enter
tanned three guests some time
ago, strangers TO her and to one
another, named Mrs. Sprinkle,
Mrs. Shower and Mrs. Storm.
Work has been resumed on
the new Bank building, and il
the weather continues good il
will assume its full height in a
few days.
There will be nothing half
so important before the next
Congress TO our people a. that
Of . public building. The room
now used is not sufficient and
public building is a necessity
Cor Durham.
Bob Ingersoll is about to
take to the platform once more
for the purpose Of ridiculing re-.
ligion. He would confer a
greater boon on humanity If he
would only take to the woods. !"
His friends and enemies would
second the motion.
-Ons OF the prettiest calen-
dars wa have seen is that gotten
up by the Pope manufacturing
company Of Boston, Mass. Il
Is circular in shape -ths border
representing the rubber,tirs. Tho
calendar is not only useful but
orn amental.
The Galveston News is
preaching TO the farmers Of the
South the doctrine that they
should not put all their eggs in
one basket. II tells them they
cultivate cotton too exclusively.
Diversity Of crops is the far
msr's pathway 20 prosperity, 40
the News thinks. That sounds
like sensible advice.
We do not mean that every
farmer should turn his farm in
TO a stock farm, but we mean
that stock raising should be a
part Of the business of every
farm, says the Wsrrsnton Rec
ord. Ii is something which has
TO be gone int gradually, and
profits do not begin 20 come in
under two or three years, ex-
cept in the ease Of sheep, but a
start must be made and there
never will be . better time than
the present. One Of the great
est profits growing out Of stock
raising is the manure il enables
the farmer 10 make.
The keen edge is off the at
mcsphers now, but we can't
say how lon! 1t will stay of.
Some Of our citizens have seen a
vast wilderness OF bursted wat
or pipes since Christmas. The
plumbers and roofers reaped q
harvest as bountiful as that gar.
nsrsd by soma coal companies
while the cold weather was on.
Frozen water pipes will burst
and snow-laden roofs leak; and
msnding the roof after the cell.
ing has been ruined and turning
of the water after the cellar
has bses flooded are very near.
~ akin 10 locking the stable sf-
Ter the horse has been stolen,
but q great many seem 70 be
afflicted with this sort of hind.
sight, and they are paying for
this sort Of nsgligencs just now.
--Ephrian Capps, colored,
came near being killed Monday
morning by q ID. Il N. freight.
Ephrian had reached his three
score and ten years without
SICK an accident, and IL seems
= little strange that he, at this
late hour, should so forget him.
self az 10 endanger bis life
There are two versions Of the
matter. Ono Is that he ranted
10 see his sen, who was on the
opposite side Of the road and he
did not know there was an en-
CINE near. The other version II
that he was under the ear pick.
ing up bits Of coal that had bser
scattered slosg the road. The
car wheels passed over one o.
bis legs between the knee anC
ankle and severed IL.
lis Il no wonder that III,
silver dollars wsro hard TO 70
hsld Of last yearl Out In Neva
da the ballots used by Oh,
Weaver and Field electors wsr'
OF solid silver, which MAS sen
70 the Populist Candidates as
token Of the esteem Of the pso
pie Of that State. The Nctsdl
Lancaster Inquirer says, that !
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