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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
Honor Due.

Some time ago, Major w. a..
Guthrie, Of Durham, suggested
the idea that the selection Of the
States Superintendent of school
be made on non partisan lines,
and that the Teachers assembly
be permitted to suggest the man.
How the old spawned and
swineyed political hacks will
like the idea. Like a young
puller, cack.ing over its first
egg, each Of the old parties may
c ann all the rights Of q original
patentee.
The Major ought TO file a
Caveat in the Supreme court at
once, and enjoin the vampires of
improper use Of his healthy sug
gestion.
Now, the Major has launched
another idea, or ra ther discus
sed a clearly constitutional right
which has lain dormant through
all the years, to wit: That the
states have the right to make
gold and silver coin a legal
tender in payment of all debts
within her borders, public and
private. A legislative enact
ment is all that is necessary
The authority is clearly grant
ed in the Federal Constitution
In these words:
mo state shall coin money,
emit bills of credit, make any
thing but gold and silver coin a
legal tender in payment of
debt. This authority to the
states to make gold and silver
coin legal tender is reiterated
in the 10th amendment to the
constitution in these words:
"The powers not delegated to
the United States by the con.
stitution, nor prohibited by the
states, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people. .
Whatever sovereign power in
re alton TO money which was
not surrendered TO the general
government, remains in the
states. The power to demoni-
tise silver in the States is not
reserved to the General Gov
eminent. Strange, that SO i'm
porlant a State right should
have remained unobseryed SC
long, vet the best constitutional
lawyers, and financiers, fully
agree, now that it has been call
ed to their attention, that there
is no question Of the right o
any State to make gold and sill
ytr coin legal tender in pa.
of debts.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
Last Balloon Ascension.

WINSTON, May 29.-During a
balloon ascension in Martins
vile, Va, at $50 O'Clock this
afternoon, an old coiored man
named Archie Brown was
caught in the rores and carried
up a distance of 200 feet, when
he fell. He was killed instantly.
The old man was employed to
help arrange the balloon for the
ascension. He with the other
helpers was told to get out of the
way, but the old man failed TO
get loose in time.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
To Touch You.

See here. You republican and
democratic voters. How do you
like the present condition Of af.
fairs. Are you satisfied with the
commercial and industrial ruin
that b.igbts the country, ard is
making a desert out Of a natural
Eden.
No. Well what brought it
abont2
Not providence, for nature is
more bountiful with her supplies
than ever before in the history Of
tie world. lad men and bad
laws is what is the matter, isn't il?
Bad men made the laws, and
they were elected by your votes,
We're they not? Too personal per.
haps, but il is true nevertheless.
You did all for party, didn't youY
Now quit your cursing and
grunting, put on Your thinking
cap, and swear that as long as one
good man and true remains, that
you wi never, no nsvsr, vote for
a corrupt immorol, bad man
agaiL-party or no party.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

Leslie for this week has fine
portraits Of groups of men as
they were hypnotised by Prof.
Soulinelli. 1t is a new an un.
developed science difficult of
belief, yet it is an unquestion-
able fact to those who have
tried it on. 1t is not legerde-
main but a highly scientific ant
to which more impressionable
natures Weld first.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
PhIIosophIoaI.

God honors a man by making
bad men his enemies. The high
est compliment that can be paid
d good man, is to be talked about
and sneered at, BY his mental and
moral interiors.
Men are sometimes poor be-
cause they have been too honest,
sympathetic, and liberal, to get
rich.
Conceit, ignorance, and brutali.
ty, take delight in prosecuting
such characters; either BY COW.
ardly assault or mis.representa
tion. or BY sneaking and unmanl,
inuendo, and such are prosperinl
under the shadow Of our church
steeles.
Men are measured by intrinsi,
merit--not by wealth and posi-
ton, in the scales ofinteligent ant
we'll meaning people. lis onl,
the ignoble and base who deligh
in striking the assasins blow a
the man who Is down and strugl
ing for an honest aud honorabl
living. They envy what the.
cannot emulate, and despise th
independent spirit and noble ex
ample which balks their slavisl
and inhuman propensities.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

os 4o7 and 4o3 Solid Pullman vestibuit
rains between Washington and Atlanta.
Trains So and a. have through sleepers betwee
tildon and New York.
e. IS makes close connection al Portsmouth
h Bay Line for altlmoie: Old Dominion
amers for ew York every day in the week
cept Friday. with Merchant and Miners
ne for Boston aud Providence every day in the
eek except Tuesday and Thursday, ana
orfolk and Washington $. B. Company dail'
or Washington
o. al makes closeconnection at Durham with
train going west on R. & d. railroad.
For further information in regard TO coauec
ions, ETC., apply 70 K. /. cheatham, agent, Dur
ham,.
JoH H. IDER, General Manager
T. 7. CADERSo G. P. A.
Z. ST. fOH vice Presiden
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
Revenue Receipts.

WASHINGTON, May 21-Inter-
nal revenue receipts for the past
ten months have aggregated S12l,.
66O,370, an increase over the like
period Of 1895, Of $1,008, 196.
AS compared with the ten months
Of 1895, receipts from spirits show
a decrease Of $1,051, ZIG: fer
mented liquors an increase Of
50, 2,207, 2s7 oleomargerine a de-
crease ofS194, ,0S4; and miscellan-
eous a decrease Of $1S5,919.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

Sr. LOUIS, Mo May 29.-To
night, forty. eight hours after
the tornado of Wednesday tore
its way through the city, there
exists about as much uncertain
ty as to the actual uumber of
persons killed and the amount
of property damaged as on the
first morning Of the disaster,
Scores of dead have been
identified but no one is willing
to venture a guess as to how
many bodies may be in the
ruins of the hundreds of the
buildings as yet unexplored.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
The Third Regiment.

The Recorder desires to call the
attention Of the North Carolina
Estate Guards, mostly composed Of
1.-The sons Of Confederate Veterans,
reared in the belief Of the justice
|ofthe cause for which their fathers
fought, and whose heroifm and
|chivalric valor the nations Of the
|earth admit has never been equal
led since the Spartans inundated
land immortalized themselves at
The opportune occasion is about to
occur in which they can reader
|fetting recognition both to the
memory Of their dead soldier
fathers, and the cause fee which
|they sacrificed their property and
their lives.
In Richmond Virginia, the last
|etrong hold Of the Confederate
hope from which Lee and his
|chivalric paladins were forced by
Overwhelming numbers, it is pro-
posed to lay the corner stone Of q
monument in memory q its
|chieftain, jefferson Davis.
Survivors Of those dark days
| from the Potomac, which washes
| the shores Of my maryland" TO
| the sinuous course and sluggish
waters Of the Rio Grarde flowing
at leasure through far off Texas
--all will be there, TO honor them
selves and the cause they loved
well, but not wisely.
But we digress. Our purpose
is simple TO suggest to the gallant
and handsome colonel ofthe third
Regiment Of North Carolina State
Guard, whose contemplated
change Of residence will
soon deprive :he command q
|his services, that possibly il would
| be a graceful act in the last Of bis
official capacity 10 take his Regi'
ment to Richmond on this occa'
sion. We feel assured there is mol
a member Of il would not be glad
70 20, and who not willingly pay
|his proporbate share Of the small
cost attendant.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

EACH and every pledge made
the people BY the two old parties
during the last twenty years, have
been ruthlessly and wantonly
violated. 1t is possible these old
Leopards will change their spots?
A reward is offered for the man
who believes they will.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

The announcement from the
chairman Of the republican ma
tional party, that the recent visi-
tation Of Devine Wrath which
visited st. Louis on Saturday
night, would not at all interfc.e
with the convention they propose
to hold there, is 50 disregardful Of
the ''hand writing on the wall" il
reminds the writer of a toast
drunk at a 9Th of July celebra-
ton by an old wing;
Here's to death and Damnation.
Marlin Van Buren and his administra
ton
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
Mortgage Sale.

ship, Durham county, y. c., containing - acres,
more or less adjoining the lands OF Anderson
Couch Jr., on the east; Third Fork creek and
g. A. Rhodes on the north: and on the west and
south the lands of @. W. Nickers' heirs. VIII lie
Sold at public auction for cash at the court house
door in Durham. n. c., on Friday, May %, 1896.
said sale will be had by g. c. Farthing and J,
w, Markham by virtue Of deed Of mortgage
registered in book IA at pages I94 and is5, etc,
executed May 6. iss9, by S. r, GoOch and wife 10
said Markham and assignee and transferred 70
said Farthing, J;w, MARKHAM,
Mortgage,
G, C, FARTHIsG,
Assignee Of Mortgage.
Sale takes pace at u O'Clock, noon.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
Notice.

Having this day qualified ss executrix Of the
last will and testament Of james r. Gaitis, de.
ceased, this Is 70 notify ali persons indebted 70
the estate Of said deceased TO come forward and
make Immediate payment. and ali peTsoua hay.
ing claim against said dec .ased will exhibit
them, properly authenticated. 10 the under.
signed o. her attorney her before the 2gth day
Of April, 1877 or this notice will be Plead in bar
Of the recovery.
This the 2g,h day Of April Iss6,
lSignsdl Mary r. Gattis.
Executrix Durham, n, c
(sigued)s N. Gattis, Attorney, Hiilsborc. N. G.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
THE HFRALD would be worse

The HERALD would be worse
than an migrate on record if
failed to acknowledge the numer-
GUS and unmerited compliments
it has received the past few days.
We shall endeayor in the fu-
ture conduct of the paper to show
a proper appreciation of the ap-
plause accorded US by generous
public.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

The French cabinet has re-
signed at request Of the nation.
It's a Gods pity, and this is a fact,
that the same rule does not apply
in this country. But our ad-
ministration is not as sensitive to
chivalric honor as the French
statesman.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

THE Democratic Machine poll
ticians favor free silver in the
same proportion of the Wilson
tariff bill (the average of which
was 40 per cent ad valorem),
favored free trade. They think
it is a good thing to get in on,
but maybe they wont-this
time.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

T. +. Stroud, who has had charge Of
the Singer Sew.=s machine business in
Durham for the last two years, has re.
eeiyed a notice that he had been given
the management Of the Singer Com
pauiy's Office In Columbia, S. c, which
Is one Of the best and largest District
Offices in the Southern states. Mr..
Stroud will start for his new field
Of labor at once, so Il Is understood.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

Having qualified a. administrator ofRobert Z
Carr. deceased, late Of Durham IN the county o
Durhnm IN The state Of North Carolina, this Is
estate Of aid deceased % exhibit them 20 the un.
dersigned on OF before the 22nd day Of April is7,
OF this notice will be pleaded IN bar Of their &c:
eOyeTy. All persons indebted 70 said estate Will
please make Immediate payment
] his the 2lnd day Of April 1895.
Mitiiam u. Guthrie,
Administrator
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

CLEVELAND has vetoed the river
and harbor appropriation bill.
There is no one without some re-
deeming trait.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

PERHAPS the smallest politica
persimmons in the state today,
and Of the greenest puckering
variety, are Dave Gill and jim
Amos of Vance county.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

SENATOR BUTLER has succeeded
in getting an agreement BY The
senate to vote on his bond bill
Tuesday. II Is earnestly hoped
Il will pass both the sepate and
house.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
S. j A.. I J.! |,
kazif {H7<6f

Ietpt.n rham and Hendeison' oriolk
X richmond, ashington, Baltimore, hiladel
phia and New York, and Boston; also Raleigh
Charlotte. enilmington, Monroe, chester, Green
wood, Ans, Atlanta and all points South aud
West.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
Administrators Notice,

Having qualified as administrator OF Joseph
Dunagbn deceased. this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate Of said deceased
to exhibit them 10 the undersigned on or before
the is'h day Of May 1897, or this notice will be
plead in bar Of their recovery. All persons in
d5bted to said estate will please make immediate
payment
This May 18th 1896.
KNcHES HOLLOWAY.
Administrator.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

THE Treasury defect for the
year is only S25, 100000, but,
it's all "sound money Of the
Cleveland stamp.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
ONE THIRD OF YOUR Time
Is Spent on Your Bed
Then Why Not Get the Best You Can
Obtain For the Least Money!

The best all wire Springs in Stock only $3.50 An excel
lent skuck and cotton mattress just 1926, OR good
straw and cotton mattress only $1S6 and number one
Oak Bedstead it high only $3.50, Mosquito nets keep
off flies either only $3.50 100 piece dinner set plain only
SO 90 100 piece dinner decorated only ST. 112 piece
dinner set plain embossed only $3.50. 1Opiece chamber
sets decorated coors SO so. 10 piece chamber SETS
decorated prints $3.50 6pece chamber sets plain $780,
Wooven wire cots job lot, only 81 30
Yours to save you money ard keep your trade.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31
NO SHOW FOR SILVER MEN.

The extreme silver Republicans are get
ting very little consolation out of the Re-
publican conventions. Not single state
has yet adopted a resolution upon the
currency that suits them OF comes very
near suiting them. Ohio's platform has
come nearer to their views than any
other, but that is a long way off and it
would have been even less satisfactory if
the people had had more to do with MAX
ing it and the managers of Mr.. Mckinley
less, for 1t is perfectly certain that there
is very little silver sentiment among the
Republicans of the Buckeye state. To be
sure the distinotively silver states, like
Colorado and Montana. have not yet
held their conventions, but states in close
proximity like South Dakota, which was
supposed to be thoroughly impregnated
with free silver. have held theirs and de-
clared explicitly against free coinage.
The South too is giving the silver men
little to rejoice over. OF the states in
that section that have held conventions
we do not recall single one that has
not passed resolution for sound money,
as the phrase is understood In the East
OF course the silver states will favor the
free coinage of silver. but the number of
their delegates, all told, will constitute
but small and insignificant fraction of
the whole representation in the conven-
ton. Itsis already as certain as anything
can be in the future that any attempt to
get through resolution in favor Of free
coinage or anything approximating it.
will ingloriously fail.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31

Here is the Columbus Despatch, Re-
publican paper published in Columbus,
Ohio, saying in plain blunt fashion that
1t is libel on Reed, fAllison, Morton and
Cullom to claim that the cause of protec-
tion to American labor and manufacturers
Is identical with the candidacy of
William Mckinley; that protection will
not have been repudiated with the nomi-
nation of any of.these. And this is not
the worst Of it for the Despatch proceeds
to make severe attack upon the Ohio
candidate, charging him with permitting
his managers to put up "sign boards
pointing in all directions. The De-
spatch is Foraker organ. Apparently
the Majors boomers" might proftably
employ some of the time they are putting
in the cast. in promoting harmony in
tho candidates own state.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31

Gen. Weyler now claims that he has the
rebel General Maceo penned up in Pinar
tion Of his command is only question of
time. This IS lot the first time that
Weyler has announced that the rebels
were surrounded and their capture sure.
But heretofore they have always succeed
cd in breaking through the Spanish lines
and escaping, and the probability, judg-
ing from past experience, is that they
will escape now. One trouble with Weyler
seems to be that he announces victories
before. he wins them.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31
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taking stand in favor of remaining in
the party. A year ago, it is said, he
made speech Fin favor of leaving the
party. The only daily paper in the state
which has supported Senator Tillman and
his faction is now against him, but it is
said that.the large majority Of the party
IN the state is with the Senator, and that
delegation will be selected in the COM
ing state convention which will bolt at
the least sign that the gold standard men
have control of the national convention.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31
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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31

Senator Tillman is having a red-hot
light in South Carolina over his public
declaration that he will bolt the Chicago
convention should it not declare for sill
YER The men who have always opposed
him IN that state now manifest stronger
opposition, and the Senator is also op-
posed by some of his own faction, led by
Senator lrby, who is chairman of the
state Democratic executive committee.
Senator lrby is a candidate for reelection
and having lost the support of the ''re-
formers" hopes to regain lost ground by
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31

have come to any understanding about
South Africa the German newspapers,
evidently, have not been let into the
secret. They are all up in arms over the
rumored purchase of Delagoa bay by
Great Britain and they very broadly init
mate that before England gobbles up the
whole of South Africa, Germany will
have to be reckoned with.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31

The insurance commissioner is sending
out from Augusta to those interested in
insurance matters in the State the laws
of Maine including those made during
the Legislative session of 1895. This is
done in accordance with resolve passed
by the last Legislature which says ''that
the insurance commissioner be authorized
to compile the insurance and fraternal
beneficiary laws of the State, including
those enacted during the session of the
Legislature, and cause 1000 copies Of the
same to be printed and bound for the use
of his departm ent."
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31

A resident of Parkhurst says that he
and his companion were ohopping wood
in Eft. Fairfield, years ago and they had
a long bottle of whiskey. They had drunk
about third of the contents of the bot
tie, which they put away in a hollow
stump, when a thunder shower came up
SO suddenly they forgot their bottle in
their hurry to leave. Twelve years after
ward he was crossing this very field, and
seeing n man pulling stumps, reminded
him of the bottle he placed in the stump.
After little surveying he was able to
locate the very stump. After digging out
the rotten wood and moss that had 40
cumulated in twelve years, the bottle
was found with the cork cemented in
with old age. But imagine his surprise
and chagrin on holding tho bottle to the
light to see that every drop of whiskey
was gone and in it's place was huge
toad that nearly filed the bottle. On
breaking the bottle the toad hoped away
through the grass as lively as cricket
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MARCH 81.

DR.. Playfair, celebrated London ply
stefan, has just been muloted by Jury
to the extent of $50. 900 for using knowl-
edge obtained in confidence as physician
to the detriment of his patients charao-
ter-and thesyerdiot of the people and
press of England comedies with that of
the jury.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Engineer Gowell, of the big Maine Cen
trail ferry steamer, Hercules, at Bath, is
an enthusiast upon matchmaking. He
has made SO of the instruments and uses
all the varieties of wood that the country
affords. All the tools that he uses are
of his own manufacture and experts have
valued some Of the instruments which he
has turned out very highly. Incidental
Iy Mr.. Gowell has made Is banios, and
rattling good ones, like the fiddles.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-31

William Fl. H. Esty of Houlton has
sold out his entire wooden plant, known
as the Houlton Wooden mill with all the
machinery, fixtures, stock in trade and
the laundry buildings to James c. Dill
of Abbott and j. Wesley Maxwell of Web
ster, for 81, $50.