The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-07-04
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Colonel Fairbrother Discourses Upon
the Facts and Fancles Of His Case.
FROM Mornlng HeraId 81 July I.

LDiIOk OF HE In
asmuch as | have announced
that | would print a paper in
this town-The Recorder am
now forced to admit that I did
not tell the truth about it-so
Tar, at least, as the date of APP
pearance was concerned.
\ ] presumed that pious George
Watts, the gentleman who re.
peatedly told me that he could
not sleep without my paper,
when ! conducted the Daily
Globe, had grown SO tired Of his
loss of sleep---his insomnia
which troubled him, according
to his statement, when he did
not receive my then album of
song, that he would be more
than willing to get again a copy
Of my household guide, which,
as Colonel Shakespeare gravely
remarked, would be as sweet by
by any other name, and that he
would be the last man in the
world (knowing him to be a
thorough clean cut christian
gentleman) to object to my
printing my poesy and my song.
BUTT seems:
First That Jenkins, a well |
known journalist, bought my
paper one day, and the next, as
it was claimed, sold it to Watts!
OF course it Unjust have occurred |
TO Watts after Jenkins assumed
to have bonghtit, il not before,
that he needed a neryine-a
sort of an affair that would not
cause him, as Shakespeare said
Of Col. McBeth, to murder sleep,
and presume he wanted it. II
was, | imagine. a sort of a one
Aisht corn cure to him.
Anyhow, he claims TO have
bought the paper, and after few
months he claims to have sold one
halt Of it to Benjamin Duke.
They have been partners in several
things-ahy not in the newspaper
businessl
The question comes now, at this
juncture: Did Watts go to sleep
with the newspaper Was he like
Rip Van Winklel II seems so.
That is, he sells to cowan July i,
the Daily and Weekly Globe,
which papers busted and suspend.
ed six months before. Did he
still think them running and in
existences II seems so. Were
they both asleep all that time and
where has he been sleeping with
the Globc.s Jim. Manning seems
to have become awakened but we
have not heard yet from Norton,
Linebnry and a Mr.. Erwin. Are
they still in the arms Of Morpheusl
! see BY the records Of the court
house that Mr.. Linebury has gone
on Mr.. Cowan's bond for costs,
along with Watts, who is on in ,
the sum of a thousand dollars for
damages, which is evidence that
he, too, is awake.
The paper stopped, and | drifted
around. as We newspaper men call ]
changing. and after year and a !
hall Of absence | returned, assumed
control Of the Recorder, the oldest /,
paper 10 the state, and was Just /
about to print, and ] found that ,
the sheriff wanted to form a CO. (
partnership with me--that | was
summoned into court before Hon. ]
Gus Graham, Of Oxford, and he las :
judge. restrained me.
lie orders me, upon Mr.. cowan's
solicitude, to show cause the 2oth
Of July Al Oxford, N. G., why I
can or cannot RIM . paper, and !
that ends me for the next 40 days,
and my brief and brilliant Il know
IL was brilliantly connection with
the Recorder up TO that date. i,
The laws, like the mills Of the
Gods, grind slowly, 80 We will
all wait until the 2oth Of July, to
show cause about the case and
about the Recorder, and in the
meantime what will be done will ,
be indicated as we do Il. I shall
Of course, heed the courts order,
and hope that Mr.. cowan, who is
gong 10 run the Weekly Globe,
will make, as I know he will, a
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