The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
OF THE TAR HEEL STATE F.!
The Condensed News Of q Week In
North Carolina.
WHATHaS OR WILL HAPPEN

EAciiaiiScs anu lisheu Up III
the Wing by Correspondents of
the Recorder. @@+E@ !
Cumberland county sent
seven convicts to the peniten
tiary last week. y
The Seaboard Air Line has
received lumber OF new first
class engines recently.
The State Farmers Alliance
meets at Cary this week, Thurs
day 18th, in large force.
The Lincoln Courier is now
edited by Misses Virgie Turby-
hill and Mamie Mclean.
The Charlotte cenvocation Of
the Episcopal church is in SEES
sion at ] enoir this week.
A recent census gives the town
of Lenolr l046. The corporate
. limits are a mile in diameter.
Rev. DR.. Boyd, of Charlotte.
goes to Chicago to take charge
of a Presbyterian church in that
city. e-@4z
Tel phone service in Winston
has been reduced from $40 to $2s
for business houses and $40 to
SIS for residences
The Clyde clubs. If Charlotte
and " ilming'on, will pit their
best rIdeis-six on a side in a
championship race at an early
day.
The Western North Carolina
Confederate veterans will go
into encampment for three days
at Asheville. commencing Au.
gust 30.
r. L. Powell, of Wake county,
last week gotta judgment against
the Caraleigh mills for failure
TO tag guano sacks. The mills
will appeal they say.
Newbern takes the prize for
big watermelons. A Mr.. Bray
and several Others. down there
raise them to weigh an where
from sixty TO ninety pounds.
Secretary John Nichols. of
the State fair, has sent out the
premium list for the coming
exhibit. IL does not contain the
racing purses, which will be
published this week.
There was some trouble at
Southport last week when Mr..
Albert Wescott was arrested for
assault" ETC., on Miss Louise
Swami. Owing to the absence
of a witness the hearing was
postponed. &
Tie report published in some
Of the state papers that the
colony OF Waldenses in Burke
county would leave that place,
turns out TO have been an error.
The latest news is that they
will remain where they are.
The North Carolina naval re.
serves had their annual cruise
last week from Southport on
board the United States wal
ship Amphitrite, Wise com.
mander. Commander +. Wins.
low of the reserves was in
charge.
Uncle Sans naval force of the
warship Amphritrite set the North
Carolina reserves a salty example
Of discipline and gentlemanly con
duct when they came ashore al
Southport last week-got drunk,
painted the town, resisted arrest
but landed in the county Jail.
John q. Davis, who robbed
the church, the widows and or.
phans Of Wilmington a few
years ago and escaped the peni.
Tertiary through the plea Of in,
sanity, escaped from the asylum
at Raleigh on the 9Th and the
authorities were telegraphed II
arrest him IL found.
The Kinston Free Press says
that place will spen a tobacco
market there August Is. The
warehouse will be run by Mr.. l.
= Tapp, late Of Roxboro. Prem
iums are offered farmers for the
10, 10 and IL, the three opening
days, and a corps of buyers from
the established markets Is ex
pected
The furniture, fixtures, house
etc Of the holtel Phoenix. Win
ston, sold last week for sj,U2s
Ehrd * Bro. bought for th.
owners, who held q mortgage
for a. 500. This will leave very
little to liquidate the 1900 in
debtedness Of the lac proprie
tor, Kittrelle.
The GreensiIle r. Hector tell
the following Mrs. Laucretis
Hodges was born in Chicoc
township, Pitt county, July I2
1879. sbr IL now living In Beau
fort county, near the line a
Pitt, aud IL In good health. Sh,