The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-05
OF THE TAR HEEL STATE !!
The Condensed News Of Week In
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HITATHIS OR WILL HAPPEN

Some Interesting Items About Gu
Neighbors Gathered from Gu
Exchanges and Picked Up oil
the Wing by Correspondents 0
the Recorder.
The President has appointed
Joseph S. Hunt, Post Master a
Oxford, N. G.
4 Buffalo Bits Wild West show
is booked for Charlotte on Sep
tember 14th. s ..-..>s..
Hon. Chas. M. Coo Ike, of Louis
burg, succeeds the late Octavious
Coke as secretary of state.
The Orange Presbytery is in
tession at Cross Roads church,
Alamance county. this week.
I The two banks at Oxford, n.
c., have consolidated under the
name of the Bank of Granville.
DR.. r. I. White is president.
Sam Jones will begin a gen
eral stirring up of the saints at
Winston-Salem on the 18th.
The sinners will proceed to
stir Sam. .
Mrs. w. w. Vass, who has
long been numbered among the
most prominent women of
Raleigh, died at her home in
that city Monday. ~
Newbern, Greensboro and
Winston fire companies will
enter the contest for the one
thousand dollar belt at the At.
lanta Exposition.
1t is stated that several far
mers from Nebraska will make
their homes in North Carolina,
and that many Others are likely
to follow their example.
The receipts of cotton at the
platform in Charlotte for the
year ending August 81, were "a
300 bales. This is against 20,S77
bales in 1894 and 1o.76s bales
in 1898.
Quinton ID. Busbee, formerly
of Raleigh, but who had been
for some time in the employ of
the Ocean View Railroad Com
pany, was drowned while bath
ing at Ocean View Sunday.
The Charlotte News of Sep. q
says: The first bale of new crop
of North Carolina cotton was re-
ceived in the city today. 1t was
shipped here from Moryen, An.
SON county, and was bought by
Capt. ]. H. Sloan. The bale
weighed $50 pounds and brought
s and one fourth cents.
Hon. A. II. A. Williams, died
at Chase City Wednesday, Of
Bright's disease, from which he |
has long been a sufferer. He
had long been prominent in
North Carolina politics and had
many warm personal friends.
One hundred and fortyfive |
thousand pounds of tobacco
was sold here last Thursday |
and Friday, for which nearly |
fifteen thou sand dollars was
paid out. This was almost ex-
clusiyely distributed among the
small farmers of Wilson county. |
says the Wilson Advance.
The Goldsboro Cotton Mills
Company was organized at
Goldsboro this week with sixty
thousand dollars paid.up capital
and power to increase it to q
half a million. IL buys the old
cotton mill there, and will put
in new spinning machinery
and enlarge the mill. We'll
was elected president.
The Washington Gazette tells
Of a theft of nine hundred and
fourteen dollars from Mr.. Aaron
near the Beaufort coun-t
j line. He had saved up that
uount, placed il in a tin buck |
Vt, wrapped the bucket in tow
sacks and hid il in his smoke
house, and from there some one
stole. There is not even a susp.
icion at to who the thief was.
The Southern Tobacco Jour
nal says: The Richmond Tol
acconist tells q story Of a Vir
giniu student, who is preparing
a thesis on tobacco for his col.
lcgs degree and who wrote to a
number Of leading planters for
information he wanted. Thet
planters ..gaye little light to
him, as It was evident from
their answers aud non.answers
that they had suspicious that
lie was q Tobacco Trust agent
and was about to slyly do them
some damage" This shows how