The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-03-10
no POSTMASTER YET.
RALEIGH WAITS IN VAIN FOR DEM
OCRATIc POSTMASTER.
Trinity College Students Are Preparing
Papers on Municipal Taxation-The Case
of Turner VS.. Rosenthal.

has added to the commission to aid in
locating positions of n. C. troops at the
battle of Antietam, General r. T. Hoke,
K. t. Bennett and John c. Scarborough
The governor left to-day for a short
visit to his farm in Edgecombe.
The case of William S. Barnes, secre-
tary of the state alliance, against Con
gresham w T. Crawford, OF the Ninth
district, for slander, came up in the
superior court here to day at demurrer
| The demurrer was sustained and the
action dismissed. Mr. Barnes appeals to
the supreme court.
Kehoe's company will play the Still
Alarm" at the academy Of music on the
Goth instant.
| The "University Press" is now regu-
lsrly established, Prof. Collier Cobb tells
me, and will get out the University liter
ature hereafter.
The executive committee of the State
Farmers Alliance, composed of Marion
Butler, J. ]. Long and A. T. Heitman,
was in session here last night and this
morning. Marion Butler went home at
noon.
The tax collector of Duplin county
has completed his settlement of state
taxes, amounting to $4,679.30.
Over fifty new buildings are in course
of construction or contracted for In this
city. The suburbs are being quite rap.
idly developed. There is a decided i'm
provement in the character Of buildings.
1t. Allen G. Rogers, of the Navy, Is
looked for soon. He has sailed from
Yokohama on quite long leave. He
was born and raised in Raleigh.
D. II. McDuffie, Of Cumberland county,
is appointed storekeeper and gauger by
Collector Simmons.
Mr.. Albert Johnson, the oldest locomo-
tive engineer now alive in the United
States is seriously sick at his home here,
having had a hemmorhage Yesterday.
1t is extremely gratifying to see how
hard the farmers, certainly in this sec
ton, are working this year, and how
much attention they are giving the pre-
paratory tillage of their lands.
All this week the ong-looked-ford demo
cratic postmaster has been positively ex-
pected here but he does not materialize.
Maybe Mr. Bissell is willing for dem
ocrat to hold the position.
Brevet-Colouel Carrie A. Woodruff, U.
5. A well known and greatly esteemed
in this state as an officer and gentle
man. is promoted major of artillery aud
au.ferreI from Ft Leayenworth, K an
sas, to Ft Schuyler, New York harbor.
Ills wife is daughter Of the late DR.. R.
B Hay" ODD Of this city.
Some of the leading cotton dealers in
this city estimate that the reduction in
the cotton acreage in Wake county the
coming season will be 10 to Is per cent
They are well pleased with this.
In the case Of Josiah Turner vs.. G.
Rosenthal, now in Orange superior
court, the Wake county judgment OF
last week in the case Of Turner vs. Mrs
Holden will be filed as an estOppel
Major Graham Of counsel so tells me.
The trustees Of the Oxford orphan
asylum are called to meet at the Hotel
Carolina, Durham, al p. m on the goth
instant, TO elect a successor TO Rev. DR..
DR.. Black as superintendent There are
, six applicants for the position.
The Baptsts of Raleigh not long ago
put city missionary in the field here
; This evening the Methodist laymen OF
Raleigh met to take the same step.
The students of Trinity college have
prepared series OF articles for the press
on municipal taxation in North Carolina
The first Of these appears this week
The work is done by members of the
: class in political economy.
The local cotton receipts this season
are % 961 bales, against 10, 1e3 up TO thii
date last yesr.
Mrs. Armistead Jones, president OF th'
|, North Carolina confederate monument
: assoc iation calls on its members 10 meet
at the state library on the 18th instant,
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