The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-14
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Called 10 Eeet in Raleigh August S-RaI-
eigh News and Notes.


eigh News and Notes.
Special Cores pondencc to THE GLOBE
RALEIGH. y. c June 13.-Thc unfor-
tunate wraDgle over the body of our be
loved dead, L B. Vance, is causing
The greatest stir here. The people as q
rule will sustain Charlie Vance in the
matter. 1t is to be hoped something
OF an understanding will be effected be-
tween the members of the family very
soon. Ii is feared this will affect the
monument movement.
Governor Carr has been unable TO at.
tend TO his duties at the executive office
for two days, but il is hoped he will be
out again sCOn.
Mrs. W. &. U~pchurch, one OF Raleigh's
old citizen, has teen stricken with pa
ralysis She is the mother Of Mr.. W
G. Upchurch, Mrs. W. II Dodd, Mr.
CHARLES D. Upchurch, besides several
| other children. Her condition is critical
Raleigh now has a regular pawn
brokers shop The three golden balls,
the sign for such shops, can be seen on
West Martin street.
Chief Justice and Mrs Shepherd have
gone TO Morehead.
A reporter called at the Raleigh cotton
mill yesterday and had quite a chat with
superintendent Wynne. The mill of
course felt the hard times, bat is running
smoothly and is ahead on orders. This
mill has not shut down all during the
past twelve months Of hard times. The
| directors of the MelrOse cotton mill made
a personal canvass Of the city yesterday
and were very successful in securing
stock subscriptions.
Friday evening Capt. ". B. kendrick
will deliver here his lecture or the Ups
and Downs of Wife Hunting The pro
ceeds will 90 to the Governors Guards
The largest mass Of cOrundum ever
known is shown on one table in the state
museum. 1t weighs 500 pounds. There
is also quite a rich mass of tin ore from
Kings Mountain, and a large quartz eX-
~ceedingly rich in gold.
The body of Mr.. Rufus Uzzle was
brought here yesterday from Richmond,
where he died Monday night at 8 o'clock
The Ladies Memorial association held
it's annual meeting yesterday afternoon
The principal object Of the meeting was
to select a subject for the next 10Th Of
= Nav Grafton. The life of General W. II.
C. Whiting was chosen.
; Mr.. j. II. Cutler the representative of
, the General Electric company, writes he
will be in Raleigh the first of next week
and begin work Of ~remodeling and re
fitting the street railway here.
e The democratic state committee me,
here last night at s o'clock and was il
session about two and a half hours. L
called the convention at Raleigh Angus
IS. Thirty-one of the fOrty-nire member.
of the committee were present and there
= was plenty of enthusiasm. Resolution:
thanking Chairman Simmons for his ad
mirable work in 1892 were adopted, a
was a resolution directing Chairman Sim
mons to open democratic ~headquarter
}, here at once, and begin the preliminar,
work Of the campaign. A letter was rea'
from senator Jarvis in which he suggeste'
o that the best way to get at the choice o
the people for L. s. senators was by pri
maries. The matter was discussed TO
! quite a while, and the committee decide
that it had no power to order such pr
- maries.
The judicial convention of this distrit
'r is called to meet at Smithtield, July Il
TT The congressional convention is Gale
to meet at Raleigh August -.