Tarboro News Reports Holden’s Disabilities Vote Failure
In Raleigh a convention fell 58 to 56 on removing Gov Holden’s disabilities. The debate featured Turner Durham and Tourgee with broad party decorum. Cyclone devastation on Texas coast, five houses left, four hundred lives estimated, and grave posthumous acts by marauding robbers added stark detail. A New Hanover delegate Smythe defends “colored” designation amid color terminology scrutiny, prompting editorial reflections on race language.
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Holden
High Court
Messrs
Durham
Turner
Tourgee
North Carolina
Barringer
Gov. Holden
Stallings
Raleigh
Texas
Indianola
Smythe
New Hanover
Raleigh News
Madison
O’hara
Wilmington
Smythe Fraser
Smith
Smyth
Still Harping on My Daughter in Political Debate
A fragmentary editorial voice criticizes Republicans at a convention for delaying sessions to profit from time. It cites Barringer Buxton and Badger as cooperating to push reforms toward a better constitution, urging them to forsake delay and focus on substantive work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Holden
High Court
Suca
Barringer
Buxton
Badger
Gammon
Buncombe
Tarboro Southerner changes hands editor Dossey Battle
News notes Dossey Battle buys half interest in the Tarboro Southerner from Walter P. Williamson and takes charge of the editorial page. Multiple Northern Carolina papers laud Battle as a witty, fearless writer and predict the Southerner’s strong future under his editorship.
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Rocky Mount Mail
Tarboro Southerner
Dossey Battle
Walter P. Williamson
Battle
Petersburg Index-Appeal
Tarboro’ Southerner
North Carolinia
North Carolina
Wilmington Star
Rocky Mount
Southerner
Charles and Battle
Petersburg Index
Petersburg
Dossey
Wilmington Daily Journal
Tarboro
Williamson
Democratic Party
Goldsboro Messenger
Taiboro Southerner
Batle
State Fair exhibits urged to NC ladies and fairgoers
A Southerner notice to the matrons of Pitt Edgecombe Beaufort and Martin counties urges sending textile and farm entries to Tarboro by Oct 10 for State Agricultural Society events in Raleigh. The piece endorses Col. Holt Maj Winder Lee and urges husbands to prepare specimens, notes special car transport, and praises NC hospitality. It also mentions a quarry accident in Rowan and invites Jefferson Davis to speak at the fair starting the 12th.
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O. C. Farrar & Co
Tarboro
Pitt
Edgecombe
Beaufort
Mara
Hamilton N. C
Col. Holt
Maj
Winder Lee
State Agricultural Society
Raleigh
Sec
Winder
J. R. Tuteren
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Sotherner
Charles & Battle, Publishers and Proprietors
Tarboro’, N.C. Ee
United States
House of Representatives
Senate of the
Charlotte Observer
Rowan County
Jefferson Davis
Davis
Barters Wilkins & Sons
High St
Carrollton Hotel
Baltimore
Sadeley
A. Whitlock
Tarboro’, N. C
Whitlock
Whitlock’s
Merina
Boston
Philadelphia
E. Cail
T. H. Gatlin
L. Coker
Pender & Jenkins
Wiesenfeld, Stern & Co., Cotton Factors and
J. B. Coffield
N. C
Segars
America
Tarboro Female Academy
Maer
M. F. Pender
J. W. Atkinson
J. B. Cheshire
D. D
Geo. Howard
W.M. Pippen
W. H. Johnston
D. Pender
N.C
NEW Southern House
John W. Hinson
James D. Cumming
Sprunt
Bank of Hinson
New Pienavers
Hinson & Cumming
Chestnut St
I. B. Grainger
E. Burress
Pees First National Bank
James Dawson
Dawson Bank
E. B. Borden
Goldsboro
George Howard
M. Weddell
TAR River Mills
Mae
N. O’berry
Prop
ROBT
Lawson & CO
Baltimore Street
Louis Hinztarp
Mancellos Moor
Greenville
N. C. Hilliard & Moore
Cotton Factors General Commission
McPhail’s Wharf
Norfolk
Boosey & CO
Smeer
N.Y. Mall
Mal
Roserr J. Congeanet
M. D
Fountain Bros
Rocky Mount, No
Emporio
Ashion
H. Thomas
Thomas
T J. Hackney & CO
Ward's Bar & Restaurant
TAE
John F. Ward
Rene Oo
Rocky Mount Hotel
G. W. Hammond
Emily G. Mehegan
R. B. “Alsop, Grocer
Main Street
J. L. Myrick
Newsom's
Town Creek
Henry Winborne
Lazarus & Morris
James H. Bell
T. E. Lewis
J. M
Bath House
R. M. Johnson
Taly
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