The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-04
STATE NEWS.

II
mong the poor Of Wilmington,
A fire atSrcpsonville, Friday
burnt the Neuse cotton mills,
The Marion Record says !
Third party paper ID to be IS,
tablished in that town.
A negro girl was burned Il
death in Montgomery county
recently. Clothing caught from
the fire place,
Mr.. ]. w Goslen has pur-
chased the Greensboro North
State and will consolidate il
with his paper, the Winston
Republican.
The stores of Mauney Bros.
and b. R. Willeford, Of Kings
Mountain, were both broken in.
to Wednesday night and robbed
OF small amounts ofmoney.
The government has been re-
quested to station one officer at
Raleigh to make local forecasts
of the weather specially for
North Carolina. II should be
done.
Colonel Julian s. Carr, the
millionaire tobacco king. OF
Durham, seems to be the pop.
ular North Carolina candidate
for a seat in the Cleveland cab.
inet.-Atlanta Constitution.
With Cleveland as president
and q Democratic congress.
there is avery reason to hope
and believe that the incoming
year will show even a better
record than the one Just past
Atlanta Journal.
Speaker Crisp, is in favor of
an extra session Of Congress to
SIT for two or three weeks. But.
the length Of the sit depend up.
on the length and the number
of speeches the statesmen are
loaded with.-Wilmingten Star.
The Charlotte Observer saws
Boyne a. Badger, Of that city,
have Jay Gould clock, which
they say stopped running the
day Jay Gould died and has not
run since.
The Review says that some
days ago the nine-months old
child of Joseph Runyans, who
lives four miles west of Shelby,
WAS accidentally thrown from
= chair in which it was being
into the fire, and was
30 badly burned that it died |
Friday.
The North Carolinian saws
that Iheo. Il. Kluttz, ESQ, Of
Salisbury, received a fee of 81
BOO by the decision Of the SUI |
preme Court in the case Of Salls-
bury vs.. Wiley, Involving the |
right of an incorporated town to |
tar the shares of stock held by |
4 citizen in an incorporated
company doing business outside
the town.
The Marion Record says thcre
g . colored school at Nsbo City,
Mcdowell county, maintained
By Northern philanthropists. |
The superintendent is Miss
Grow, a dsughtsrof B. +. Grow,
Of Pittsburg, Pa. The school
teacher 10 q colorsd woman and
boards with the Crow family
Enjoying social equality to the
extent.
Statistics as to the school
fund show loss by reason Of
the fact 40 per cent Of the ne
groes fail to pay their polls.
The whites pay 1878, 204 Of the
school tax and the negroes $780,
Os1. The property Of negroes 10
assessed for taxation .. SS,0O0,-
900. There are taught 1908
schools for whites, and 1876 for
colored. The value Of public
school property white, $685.
SIS; colored, s255,s39.
The Prssident-elect il opposed
10 the election Of Mr.. Murphy,
and IL does appear that some
one might be found In the great
democratic party Of New York
upon which all democrats could
harmonize. Why should the
chiefs Of Tammany hall persist
in their advocacy Of the cleo
lion of q man specially objec-
TO Mr.. Cleveland! III
Nr. Croker is not playing the |
role of a boss, then who ISL
Raleigh Chronicle.
The Review says an 8 year
old colorsd boy of New Han.
over county, during the alb
sence Of his mother, shot his
; year.old sister in the face,
tearing of a large portion Of
The cheek, but fortunately not
breaking any bones. He then
stripped her naked and dragged
her TO q potato cellar 90 die. |
When ono Of the older members
Of the family came home and
inquired about the baby he said |
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