The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-14
WANTS BETTER
R. R. FACILITIES
Durham Business Men Work
ing to that End.
ABOUT 200 AT TRINITY
- ENTRANCE THIS YEAR
VERY RIGID.
WAKES CONVICT sTocKADE EXAMINED
New Improvements in The Durham Post Office.
Funeral of Mrs. Rem. Col. Cunning
ham has 8, 100000 Hills
in Tobacco,

Durham. n. c., Sept. 13.-(Special) -
The remains of Mrs. Henrietta A. Rem.
who died at the residence of her son,
Capt. j. II. Rem, in this city, Tuesday
morning, were carried to Raleigh this
morning for interment. Capt. J. Il.
Rem and family, of this city; DR.. G. A.
Rem, of Raleigh; Capt L. w. REM CT
Portsmouth, and Others, accompanied
the remains. The pall-bearers who ac-
companied the hearse to the Southern
train were Messrs. w. III. McCabc, w.
l.. Wall, J. Ed Lyon, c. NJ. Herndon,
S. III. Reams. w. NJ. Yearly, L. J.
I4ambe and NJ. w. Reed.
Road Supervisor A. II. Stokes, Roa
Foreman Joseph S. Durham and Con
tractor L. s. Christian, a committee APP
pointed for the purpose, visited the con-
vict stockade of Wake county, on Tues
day. They were on tour of inspection
The Board of County Commissioners or
dered that these gentlemen do so, as IL
is proposed to build a s.ockaie in this
county. We understand that the stock
ade system in vogue in Wake cornty is
not exactly what is desired III this coull-
ty. What our county very much desires
is a house built in sections, so that when
necessary it can be taken dawn ard
moved at any time and To amy place oc-
casion may require and put up.
The business men OF this city are
working to secure better railroad faoli-
ties On the North Carolina Division
of the Southern road the facilities are as
good as could be desired, but on The Y.
and W., the O.. and {. and -. and NJ.
railroads, they have not neen 50 good.
Their efforts are about TO bear fruit. for
a telegram received by Capt. j. A.
White, agent of the Southern Ioad.
states that the schedule of the o. and G.
mixed train, which arrived here at 40
a. M, will be changed on the 18th of
this month to arrive here at !! a. IN. Mr..
Albert Kramer, vice president of the
Durham Tobacco ASST .Iation, tells me
today that he has received news that
the Norfolk and Western road will put
on an additional train in few days,
leaving Durham in the afternoon and
returning in the morning. Attention of
our business men is now heing turned TO
the ID. and II. road 10 induce a change
of schedule by which their morning train
from Henderson may get in earlier.
There are about two hundred students
at Trinity college now, and new ones
are continually coming in. This number
is in excess of that of last year. En-
trance examinations this year have been
exceedingly rigid, and on this account
a number have been sent to the high
school or turned away. The freshman
class this year is one of marked ability,
and bids fair to be the best that the col
lege has ever had
G. NJ. Hutchings left last evening for
Danville, Va, having been called there
on account of the death of the wife of
his brother, j. II. Hutchings. No parti-
culars were given in the dispatch.
New improvements are being made in
the Durham postoffice, and quite num-
Der of new back boxes are being put
in.
Rev. r. ". Miller is conducting a series
of Bible services at the Gospel Taberna-
Gle, in this city. Services are held
nightly.
County Attorney Charles e, Turner,
who has been quite sick, is much better
today
G. W. McGhee, who lives at Orange
Factory, in this county, went out
'possum hunting a few nights ago and
caught twenty-seven in about three
hours
j. L. Eubanks, who has been sick at
the Watts Hospital, has sufficiently
recovered as to be able to go to his home
at Chapel HILL
A special to the Sun from Roxboro
states that Col. John S. Cunningham, of
Person county, the largest tobacco
planter in the world had three million
hills in tobacco this year.