The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-18
General News Items.
About 10000 gross Of pens are
produced from q ton Of steel.

About 10000 gross Of pens are
produced from Q ton Of steel.
The electoral vote stands
Cleveland 276, Harrison 144 and
Weaver "a.
Emetics hsya no effect on
horses. which have no gall blad-
ders to be acted upon,
Every President If the United
States So far has either been a
lawyer, q soliGicr or both.
Mexic.n gBld pro.pectors
think the, sayr discovered the
lost Aztec mi. j i'r Sonora, and
$4,000 men are there,
Annie Rooney has swung
round to Michigan. whore she
has just becn appointed to i
clerkship in the Office Of the
Secretary of State.
The indications are that the
Hudson river harvest of ice,
which is NOW 10 inches thick at
Poukeepsie, nil be the largest
and finest for many years -esti
mated at 1000, 900 tons.
For kissing q young lady
passenger against her will the
conductor of a railway train in
Germany was bounced IN dis
grace and locked up for four
weeks in prisoi. That Wiscon
sin girl who was kissed BY Il
railroad conductor against her
will got more ealid satisfaction.
than that. Shs got 81 900 dam
ages out of the railroad, married
her sweetheart aud set him VI
in business. + lnlington Star.
1t is said thu nearly all Of
the plantations orange groves
and vineyards in Florida are
passing into the hands Of Eng
lishmen and northerners.
A Maryland woman entertain
ed three guests some time ago,
strangers to her and TO each
other, named Mrs. Sprinkle,
Mrs. Shower and Mrs. Storm.
Senator Stockbridge is trying
to get . pension for a deceased
soldiers step-mother. Now is
the timo for statesmen having
bills of that kind on hand to
hustle. Cleveland's coming!
The women Of the Kansas
City Equal Suffrage Association
believe in dres; rsform. They
deneunce tie prieSiceSof wear
ing 'street-sHeepers, and here
after will not wear dresses com
ing nearer to tho ground than
three inches.
An excellent suggestion is
| made by the DURHAM Sun that
the Legislature amend the law
and direct that all capital felons
be executed in the penItcntiary.
Such a Law, no doubt, would
save . great deal Of unnecessary
expense. -Goldsboro Headlight.
Senator Villas is right in oppo-
sing the snti-option bill on
broad constitutional grounds.
is one of tho most violent sx-
amples Of the paternal theory
yet proposed and ought to be
defeated for the defense Of pop
Rlar liberty. In the Senate es-
pecially thisarEumento ought not
to be futile, even il the practi
cal arguments were not so over
whslming against the whole
idea of this mischieyous meas
ure. Philadelphia Times.
One effect of increase Of the
internal revenue tax on whisky
would be an increase output Of
"moonshine" liquor in the
mountain districts of this and
other States. And that would
mean more work for the United
States marshals, probably neces-
stating an increase Of force.
Tbs higher the tax placed on
whisky, the more Illicit whisky
will be made and sold.--Sayan-
nah News.
It's a newspapers business to
print the news "when news ii
news" but we are Of an opinion
| thatif UId Man Cleveland would
take a gun and go over tc
Brooklyn and perforaie the hide
of the editor of the Standard
| Union, who gave currency 10 9
report about the Cleveland fam.
| lily that is now gong the round,
Of the press, he would be honor
ably discharged by any jury II
this country. Statesville Land
mark.
There was . proposition be.
fore the Legislature of Georgis
TO appropriate $4,000 as = pen
sion 70 Mrs. Jefferson DAVIS
but II was found that the Legis
laturs had no constitutional
power 70 do il. Gov. Northei
and other gentlemen Of tina
State then undertook to rails,
that amount by popular sub
scription, but when Mrs. Davi
, learned Of this she prompts