The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-07-19
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/ Duke, was in Raleigh yesterday.
/ lanes Hancock, a prominent farmer
Of Chatham county, was in Durham to-
day.
Farmers from the country report hat
crops have been much improved 10y the
recent rains
Very fe~ passengers were on the noon
train today. Travel has been "off for
the past two days.
r L Burkhead, clerk of the state
treasurer's office, passed through today
on his way to Raleigh.
Misses Ida and Lallah Carr and Miss
| Madge Morehead returned from More
head this afternoon.
Mrs. Morehead, Miss Lizzie Morehead
and Master Lathrop Morehead returned
| from Morehead City yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. FaisCn, of Raleigh, representing
the state bureau Of labor statistics, is in
the city. He will be here for several
days.
On the noon r.. & D. train Capt. I. L.
Peay, Mrs. Peay and Miss Annie Peay
left for Pittsboro to spend a month with
relatives.
The Knights of Pythias will hold their
regular meeting tonight beginning at
$50 o'clock. There will be work in the
third rank.
Master Staples Fuller and Miss Marga.
ret Fuller left on the Don train for
Faison, where they go to visit the family
of J. F. Hill.
President Hobgood is in the city today,
returning to Oxford from the annual
meeting of the board of trustees of the
Baptist orphanage at Thomasville.
The ordinance requiring that dogs be
muzzled or killed goes into effect this
afternoon. If you do not wish to see
YOU Fido go up the spout via the pistol
route you had best muzzle him.
No police court was held this morning.
Two cases were thought to be worked
up but one of the parties could not be
found and the other was not wanted
when they got him.
In front of the Bull factory the street
improvement is completed and now pre-
sents a neat appearance. What was be-
fore a decidedly disagreable place has
been transformed in a good looking spot.
The street car is only a memory now
and ever the track is we'll nigh obliter-
ated. The crushed stone that was
packed beside the rails has been effectu-
ally worked down and in some places
the rail is hardly visible.
An unusual mistake was made by the
trainmen on the Southern road this
morning. They brought the loon train
into Durham on time. No reason for
this occurrence could be given by the
local railroad men.
An excursion will be run from Colds
borO to Asheville next Tuesday. One
will be run from Durham to Norfolk
and Washington on the 25th, and an
other on the Goth. One is promoted by
l.. T. Christian & Co, and the other by
Freeland & Terrell
The handsome new residence of DR.. J.
G. Brown, on billiard street, is almost
completed. 1t is of unusually handsome
design and is thoroughly modern in all
its appointments. All the outside work
has been done and the interior is now
being finished.
Asked about political prospects in this
county a we'll informed democrat said
that things were in a nebulous state
nothing had yet been settled and no
candidates for county offices had been
mentioned yet. A populist expressed
the belief that his party would sweep
the country, saying that the entire farm
ing class now belonged to that party.
Rev" James Cook, the boy preacher,
has been preaching in Raleigh. He
preached in Metropolitan Hall yesterday
morning and stated at the close of the
sermon that, if the amoun of the cOllec-
ton was sufficient, he would preach
again that night. The collection was
found too small and so the Raleigh peo-
pie missed a superb pulpit effort.
On Main street this morning a small
brown dog was noticed trotting along
shot. His head was badly torn, as if he
been worsted in a fight. This dog
may have been bitten by the mad dog
scattered his presence 80 widely day