The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-07
Talk of the Town.

1.-THE Santer has moved" said NJ.
James Boylan yesterday. last night
it serenaded Prof. Chamberlin at the A.
.and NJ. College He said he thought
at first the old ice factory had started
mp again and was blowing its steam
siren. Then. too. it has been heard over
near the old DeyereuN place. Henry
johnson, an engineer ON the Raleigh and
CASTOR, who lives near there has been
lying off on purpose to shoot 1T, it has
pestered him So"
People generally don't know what a.
fine line of road the Durham and Char
lotte will be when it is completed.' said
Major Guthrie recently. 1T will be
enc of the best lines in the State. 1t
has just now reached the point where il
is on paving basis. 1t has 2315 miles
in operation from Gulf ON the old G.. T.
and y. V. TO Elise, the present ternEn-
MS. 1t will run through some of the
finest virgin timber sections of the State
and its connections will be unsurpassed.
When completed it win connect with
three systems, the n. and W., S. A. H.
and Southern at Durham; strike the
Seab0ard at Pittsboro, the Southern at
Gulf. the Carthage and Western at
Hallison, the Aberdeen and AsheboTo
at Star. the Southern at Albenlal1e and
all the systems running into Charlotte
The road lis being equGnned with 81
pound steel rail- About 100 hands are
kept at work ON it. 1t MAY build ON t.
Troy next or the link from Durham
to Gulf, through the hard wood section
Of Haw River, may be built"
Greensboro can be seen to grow these
days." said Mr.. Chem G. Wright, of that
town who was here yesterday to attend
the meeting of the stockholders OF the
Raleigh and Castor Railroad. ''The
ogitiGn on the cid BenIbow site has been
closed by Messrs. Jordan Walker and
Mcdonald and steps are being taken 70
erect handsome new hotel ON ii. The
iron furnace, / have been informed, is
making $500 a day and cant catch up
with the demand for its product at that.
Ilse city has issued 100000 of bonds
and the walter works will be bought il
an agreement can be reached as to the
price. The streets will be paved AMI
the sewerage system extended. The
good roads organization of the county
has been perfected and it is pretty Ger
tain that GlTilford county will authorize
an issue of 100000 of bonds to maead-
annie its roads" Mr.. Wright is chair
man of the good roads organization and
is the pioneer Of the good reads move
ment in Guilford county.
II noticed in one issue of your paper
the other day." said prominent citizen
yesterday, these two items.
Magistrate Barbee has sent Casey
Pulley, a seyemteen-year- ODD white girl.
to the roads because she could not pay
costs in case against her.
Annie Clark, n young white girl, and
her brother Jud Clark were yesterday
sent to the roads by Magistrate Nichols
fer failure to pay costs and fine i'm
case for an affray.'
Now to me this seems not onIy a hard
ship but it is nothing short of an out
rage upon the poor. The law may per-
NIT it, but it is wrong, o,ltrageollsly
wrong to execute such a sentence upon
those who are guilty of no crime. The
State should protect and lift UP its citi-
zens amid mot degrade and humilate
them.
For costs in an ARRAY: it is quite
possible to be dragged into an ARRAY
against ones inclination, and for-sooth,
if one cannot pay costs for a thing which
could not be avoided. one must 90 TO
the workhouse, don the dress Of a Grim
inal, associate with depravity and bear
the shame of such punishment because
Of poverty Ut is a shame