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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1888
Page
4
Brooklyn speech highlights Secretary Fairchild denouncing tariffs while praising frank candor. Arkansas notes on Reconstruction and Black suffrage spark Republican tensions. Michigan seen as a key swing state as Alger favored by Tribune. Local items include a cyclone near Argonia and theft of a church piano.
The remains of Mr. R. T. D. Sears, who died at his brother’s in Texas last Tuesday, were brought home this morning and laid to rest at his old home in Chatham County. He was in his 72nd year and father of A. A. Sears and Mrs. Geo. Jones of the locality. The obituary notes his standing as a respected Chatham County citizen.
In Wasiixoron on May 28 a senate committee reported a bill favorably that makes unlawful intercourse with a woman under a specified age a felony punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. The measure aims to deter predatory acts by enforcing strict penalties.
Arrangements in Columbus Georgia were made for a new cotton mill to manufacture fine seersuckers and ginghams. Col T Swift and Mr John Burkhard of Atlanta join a local millman to erect the plant for Southern production.
Fashion observers declare the bustle will not survive the season as top women discard it and walk Fifth Avenue with straight spines. They favor a straight silhouette, deeming bustles ungainly and lacking elegance.
A Durham editorial urges the importance of a grand tobacco exposition in Durham. The Madison Leader notes the cordial invitation to attend the exposition and railroad jubilee, highlighting local interest and civic spirit.
Durham North Carolina residents plan a grand tobacco fair and railroad Jubilee on the Oxford and Durham road. They aim to surpass Oxford's jubilee with a running train for easy in and out travel. The event may last a week or more and run regularly during the exposition.
Licensed administrator B D Blacknall notifies all indebted to A K Tenney to settle immediately and all creditors to present claims for payment by November 11th 1889. May 11th 1888 Adwr emt 1.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to trustee M A Angier the 300 acre tract on the north side of Little River near Durham will be sold at the It House door on June 4 1888 at 12 o clock M for cash. The auction adjoins Marion Terry Mrs Basan Dowd and others and is described in Book 11 150 161 and 152 1.
By power in a deed from John Brandon and wife to C M Herndon and transferred to J T Cates the Cates will sell at public auction at the Court House door in Durham on Wednesday June 20 184% at 17M house and lot in East Durham outside corner limits described in Book 11 pages 407 408 and 400 cash terms May 21 1888.
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