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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
THE MAID ON THE BEACH.

Ginning dream by the way
With oceans rapture and roar,
met maiden to-day
Walking alone on the shore;
Walking in maiden wise,
Modest and kind and fair
The freshness Of spring in her eyes
And the fullneSs of spring in her hair
Cloud-shadow and scudding sunburst
Were swift on the floor Of the spa,
And mad wind was romping its worst,
But what was their magic to me-
What the charm of the midsummer skiesl
/ only saw she was there.
A dream of the sea IN her eyes
And the kiss of the sea in her hair.
watched her vanish in space:
She came where | walked no more:
But something had passed of her grace
To the spell of the wave and the shore
And now, as the glad stars rise,
She comes to me rosy and rare,
The delight Of the wind in her eyes
And the hand of the wind in her hair.
London Spectator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States

D.; a DISASTROUS hailstorm passed over South
fIchford, East Berkshire, and Montgomery,
In Vermont Hail fell to a depth of five
lAches In some places, completely DESTROYING
growing crops and gardens. Drifts one foot
In depth were seen firmly frozen together
The fall Of a gallery in a New York
printers shop caused the death of a girl
named Maria Bagnell, who was employed
there, and the serious injury of five others
= IHE Senate has passed bill granting TO all
ex-Speakers Of the House the freedom of the
Senatorial floor The benefciares of this
courtesy now living are ex-Speakers Banks
OF Massachusetts, Grow of Pennsylvania
" lnthrop of Massachusetts, Blaine of Maine,
randall of Pennsylvania, and Keifer OF
COLONEL JAMES STEVENSON, the ethnolo-
glst, connected with the United States Geo
logical Survey for many years, died sud.
denly or heart disease in New York City
CHARLES MCCLoUD, under sentence of five
years IN State prison, committed suicide in
his cell at Concord, n. H, by hanging.
GOVERNOR HILL has committed the sen.
tence of the Italian woman, Chiara Cigna,
rale, who was to have been hung in New
Y ork on August 18th, to imprisonment for
CHIEF ENGINEER A. J. KENYON, of the
United States Navy, has died at Oswego, n.
Y, Of heart disease.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10

THE four sons of Mr.. Vaudeville. of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts,. aged six, eight ten and
twelve, were playing on some logs in Las
sompton River, Canada, when the chains
holding the logs gave way, and all four were
thrown in the water. In another moment
all the logs were damned together over the
heads OF tina boys, making roof, and they
all persisted
THE nine hundredth anniversary Of the in
PRODUCTION of Christianity into Russia was
celebrated at Kief with great pomp.
A DESPERATE fight took place at Hong
Kong, China, between two factions Of Chi
nese miners. in which thirty coolies were
killed. The rioters ran amuck and DESTROYED
about thirty plantations
a VOLCANIC eruption at Bandaisan, fifty
leagues from Yokohama, Japan. has de
strOyed several villages and killed one thou
sand persons, including one hundred visitors
at the thermal springs
The Empress of Germany was safely de-
ivered of a son at so o'clock Friday morn
ing in the royal palace at Potsdam. EN-
perOr William. who was at Stockholm has
asked King Oscar, of Sweden, to be god
father of his last born.
THE coroner's jury in the case Of Mande-
vile, the Irish agitator who died in prison,
declared his death to be due to treatment
received at TullamOre Jail
EIGHT THOUSAND laborers have gone on
strike at Paris. France.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and a party of
friends have been on trip after bluefish,
off Fire Island, as guests of Joseph Stickney
on his steam yacht. Mrs. Cleveland went to
Marion, Mass.
THE State Department has been inforsned
of the establishment of Geographic commu-
nication between the Dutch colony of Cura-
Goa and North America. Complimentary
cabiegrams were received and sent by the
Governor of Curacao and Secretary Bayard
for President Cleveland.
THE President has vetoed the Senate bill
Paris and Dardanelle Railway Company
through the Indian Territory from Fort
Smith, Ark, to or near Baxter SIP rings,
Kansas, on the general ground that it vlO-
lates the treaty of 1866 with the Cherokee
nation.
DURING the first six months Of the present
year 3I6, 81 immigrants arrived at the ports
of the United States from the principal for
eign countries, except the Dominion of Cana
da and Mexico. In the same period last year
the arrivals numbered 2S6, 40.
Ex-SPEAKER SAMUEL J. RANDALL has
SO far recovered from his recent illness that
he has been removed to Wayne Station, near
Philadelphia, where he will pass the period
of his cOnvalescence.
Is THE first certificate of election to the Fifty
first Congress has just been received by Gen
eral Clark, Clerk of the House. 1t certified
that Binger Hermann, of Oregon, had been
elected to the House of Representatives by 4
vote of 81, $50 over John M. Gearin, who re-
ceived %, 413. The certificate is handsomely
engrossed upon sheepskin.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
VA has ). OOO.O 900 sheep.

CALIFORNIA has ; 900, 900 sheep.
GOLD is discovered at Ishpeming, Mich.
CHOLERA is epidemic at Hong Kong,
China.
SIX Kentucky counties are without
churches.
THE shabby plague in Chicago is becom-
ing unendurabe.
BUENos AYREs is shipping wheat to the
north of Scotland.
THERE are 500 men engaged in hunting for
diamonds i'll Australia
THE annual consu ?tion Of coffee is 65O,VOO
tons throughout the world
THE Egyptian Government expended 500
900 boring for oil and got none.
DELAWARE has this year the largest peach
crop ever grown in its history.
New YORK CITY real estate is increasing
at the rate of 81, 900, 00) a week
THE Florida orange crop Is expected 10
reach :. OOO. 90 boxes this season
The deficit in the POstoffice department.
this year VIII be only about E5,UOO,oJu
SIXTEEN postoffices have been named
Cleveland and six Thurman, while there are
seventeen towns called Harrison and eight
Morton.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
A GREAT CROP.
An Estimated Yield This Year
of 1900, OOO,G GOO Bushels.
An Increase of $40, 100000 Bush
els Over Last Year.

The Importance of the corn crop in its
effect upon the prosperity of the country is
often lost sight of in considering the value of
our wheat crop. The fact is, says a New
York paper, that the latter cuts but small
figure as compared with the former The
relative value of corn or wheat per bushel is
now about 80 to 90 cents. The wheat
yield this year may be roughly esti-
mated at 40, 0OO, 900 bushels, worth, say,
1913, 900, 0O0 The yield of corn will prob
ably approximate 9, 900, 600 600 bushels, worth
saw 81 OCO 900 000 These figures show the
relative Importance of the two crops Again,
it should be remembered that the average
Weld of corn per acre is from twenty two to
twenty-five bushels, while wheat averages
about twelve bushels. At the prices which
have been ruling recently the value of corn
per acre will average about 81, while wheat
will barely average 81 per acre.
Corn is therefore by far a more important
crop than wheat, and the excellent prospect
of big corn crop this year is one of the most
favorable features Of the crop situation. Dur
ing the past week there has been the same
favorable conditions affecting corn that have
been noticed for several weeks. The Cincin-
natl Price Current says:
with sufficiency of moisture and season.
able conditions otherwise for a few weeks,
the crop may be confidently expected to equal
the production in 1885, or to exceed it, in that
year the area was about 2,3OOO 900 acres less
than planted this season, according to lndi-
average of 2615 bushels per acre for the en-
tire country. This seasons gain in area,
compared with 1855, is greater in the South
than in the Western group OF contrasting
States-the latter representing about 100000
acres or about l y per cent, and the former
1900, 90 acres, or ~ per cent. The present
outlook appears to be for a crop of about
1850, 900, 900 bushels, on continuance of favor
able conditions.
Taking the area of the corn crop har-
vested in 1885, an application Of the estimates
of the different States reported by the
Department of Agriculture in July, 1887, re-
suited in about n, $50, coo acres, as represent
Ing last years planting. The returns of area
harvested are stated as u, 1872, 720 acres, or
5.592, 900 acres less than were planted. APP
plying the estimates of this years planting
to harvested area in 1887, the indicated
Planting this season is -, 400, 900 acres, gain
of 3,O31, COO acres compared with last years
crop harvested, but a decrease of 2,555, 900
acres compared with last years planting"
With view of showing the indicated area
of corn planted and harvested last year,
compared with this years estimated plant
ing, ia leading States and for other portions
Of the country, the Price Current submits
the following compilation:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Report of the Bureau of Statistics
on Our Foreign Commerce.

The Chief of the Bureau Of Statistics for the
United States reports that for the year ended
June 80, 1888, our foreign commerce shows
an increase of 81, 1886, 80 in the total values
Of the imports and exports Of merchandise
decrease OF so, 2JS, 5s2 in exports, but an
increase of S31, 5i5,57S in imports. I'm
ports exceeded exports by So, $50. 527; the
former being ST23, sos, las. and the latter
1896, ga, 619. a comparison of the domestic
exports of the last fiscal year with those of
the fiscal year 1SS6-'S1 shows that the decline
was principally in exports of wheat, corn,
refined sugar, and leaf tobacco; but
there was an increase in ex-
ports of cotton, wheat -four beef products
and animals The imported articles which
exhibit the largest increase during the last
fiscal year are coffee, vegetables, tin lin bars,
blocks and pigs wool manufactures, hemp,
barley, silk manufactures, wool and railway
bars of steel
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
AMERICAN AssOCIATI0N RECORD.

TIE Bee Journal figures that the annual
honey product of North America is about
100, O0O, 900 pounds, and its value is nearly
So, OOO 900. The annual wax product Is
about 20 900 pounds, and its value IS more
than $4,000 There are about SOC, 900 per-
sons keeping bees in North America
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
COMING FAIRS.
Leading Fairs To Be Held in the
United States This Fall.

The american AgricmLturist publishes the
following list of prominent fairs that will be
held throughout the United States this fall,
The cities in which the fairs are to be held
and the time of holding them are given
below:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
Foreign.

Mr. GLADSTONE has just celebrated his
golden wedding.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, was re
ceived at Stockholm Sweden, by King Oscar
and Crown Prince Gustaf and given an oVa-
tim
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17

of Venezuela in an effort to rob her of her
rich gold fields and to secure the mouths OF
the Orinoco. .
But the greatest of her tentacles was
fastened on the North American continent.
Its grip was loosened by the American
revolution. Yet it retains its hold upon
nearly half of the continent. 1t has slimed
and is still shining the American nation.
-Four times in this century have its poison
GUS fingers touched the heart OF the
American people. The first tentacle was
Topped off in the war OF 1912. The second
tore away a part of our northeastern
boundary, and the third ripped an empire
and an inland sea from our boundary
on the northwest. The fourth is fastened
upon us in an attempt to rob us of
our natural rights on the ocean. Rights
are claimed for Canadians in American
waters which they are not willing to grant
Americans in Canadian waters. Meantime
every artery of our foreign trade is being
drained by this colossal devil fish. On the
Atlantic and on the Pacific its supremacy is
unquestioned. Within thirty years it has
robbed us of nearly the last vestige of our
foreign commerce. We are chilled by con-
tact with the body of this monstrosity, and
we are environed by its network of tenta-
Giles and suction cups. [Applause.l
Sir, the time has come for the United
States to again declare itself free and indie
penueub Oh England. we are dependent
upon no nation on the face of the earth
The assumption that either England or her
colonies have maritime rights superior to
those of any other nation is not to be based
on the treaty of 1918 or upon any other
treaty. 1t is based upon the cheek of
national bunco thief and upon the nerve of
rapacious robber. Laughter and ap-
plause.]
Let us act promptly. Let party politics
no longer pollute the patriotic fervor
aroused by the retaliatory message of the
President plague on both your houses
The people are up in their might. Let both
political parties unite in strengthening the
hands Of a patriotic executive and in filing
the demands of great and justly indig-
nant nation. Give the President power to
lop off an.arm of this devil fish Let him
seize this opportunity to tamstrng the
British lion, and as the measlg skinned
beast drags It's hind legs over the hot sand
in weary retreat, all the nations of the
earth will clap their hands and roar with
applause. daughter and applause.l
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17
A SPEECH WORTH READING.
Representative Amos j. Cummings
and the British Lion.
From the Congressional Record.

From the Congressional Record.
Mr.. Cummings-Mr. Speaker, / ask this
House to assume that the clerk has just read
Victor Hugo's description of the devil fish
in the "Toilers of the Sea-" Assuming that
this has been done, sir, and that the House
has the matter now IN mind, let me say that
England is tho gigantic devil fish of the
nineteenth century. Laughter and ap-
plauScl It's body rests in the bed of the
North sea, its tentacles reach over the face
OF the earth. and the monster is sucking the
blood Of al nations. One of its numerous
arms extends along the Mediterranean, with
suction cups at Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus.
II holds the commercial supremacy of that
immense inland sea.
A second tentacle runs down the Red sea,
with suction stations at Alexandria, Sua-
kim, the Straits of Babel Mandeb, and
SCcotra, thus controlling that greatest of
commercial arteries, the Suez email and its
approaches. The life-blood OF India has been
drained, and Burmah is gasping under the
suction of this rapacious octopus. The
Malay and tire Yellow seas are virtually
British waters. Tho monster has fastened
lis fingers upon every continent. 1t has in
its grasp Cape Colony, in Africa; Guiana,
in South America. and the whole Australia
sian continent New Zealand and other
islands of the Pacific, are in its power.
Ireland is struggling manfully to free
herself from ITS tentaclcs, and the Boeis of
tine Trnnsvaal have torn themselves from
the grip. st Helena, the Bermudas. and
other islands Of the Atloutlc still feeds It's
body nest Of blistering cups in the West
Indies dominates the commerce of the Car
ribe n Sea. A cup at Belizle is a sucker on
the commercial life of the Gulf of Mexico.
The tentacleS OF the monster are even now
gliding over the face Of our sister republic
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17

exquisite music and accompanied himself
when he sang in rich tenor voice. He
was lofty and distant in his manners, and
kept at a distance from the female help,
who tried to win lis attention.
Last fall Won Stark told Mr.. Alvord that
he must return to Germany, as he had
fallen heir to 300. 900 marks by the death of
his father. According to the laws of that
country this fortune must be forfeited to
the government unless he returned and con-
sented to perform military duty. He re-
turned to claim bis inheritance, but refused
compromise was arranged by which he re-
ceived some Central American mining
stocks, while the balance of the estate
escheated to the crown. Won Stark pock-
eted the stocks and left for the mines
He had little faith in the value of the
stocks, but having no home ties, he
determined to go to Central America.
Matters turned out better than he
expected and his stock secured him the
position of superintendent of gold mine in
Costa Rica He has sent to MIR. and Mrs
Alvord many valuable presents in tire shape
OF gold nuggets and uncut diamonds. He
spoke Spanish, and learned from the
natives where there were deposits of gold
and where the rough diamonds could be
found. Count Won Stark writes that he
Will be immensely rich in a few years, and
tnat when his fortune is made he will re-
turn to this city and hunt up young Ger
man girl who was kind TO him when he
was mental in Mr.. Alvord's employ. He
refers to those times in humorous way as
a bit OF romance in his life of adventure
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17
THE COMING OF THE swEDEs.
Celebrating Their First Settlement in
America at Minneapolis.

FROM the Nec 4 OFh IIHtSS.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Sept. 16-The
250th anniversary OF the first settlement of
Swedes in America was celebrated here to-
day with imposing ceremonies. Many dis
tinguished guests from all over the country
were present at the exercises in the EXPOSE
ton building. Owing to the rain, the street
parade was abandoned. but fully 10000
people crowded the building, where the
Hon. w. w. Thomas, Jr., of Maine, de-
livered an grafton, and j. Enander, editor
of the Hen,Iondet, of Chicago, read a
historical sketch of Swedish-American
PROCESS. The multitude was welcomed by
the Hon. Hans Mattson, secretary of state
of Minnesota. Among the guests We're the
members of the Lutheran General council,
which adjourned in body to attend the
celebration. This event has awakened the
interest of the Scandinavians everywhere,
and many we're the responses to the letters
OF invitation sent out by the committees in
charge One of the most notable regrets"
came from Secretary Bayard, who claims
to have Swedish blood in his veins, and
whose mother is buried in the churcbyard
of the first Swedish church in America
that at w ilpington, Del.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS.
Recalling Oid-Time Residenters of
Capitol Hill.
From the Cincinnati Enquire


WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept Building
continues in the Capital City so uniformly
that it has reached into nearly every quar-
ter, and the most grateful sight to an old
resident here is to see the Capitol building
itself becoming surrounded by private
dwellings nearly worthy of its extent and
Of its elaborate grounds. About twenty
years ago, when | commenced to keep
house as young husband in this capital,
| took a little brick dwelling near
the seat Of legislation, and can
still see one of the trees which was IN its
back yard preserved in the capitol square
for they, in time, bought that square, and
the one opposite, SO as to extend the view
OF the great building In that period few
persons of note lived III the vicinity.
Samuel j. Randall and the librarian, Spof-
ford, inhabited houses in a quarter where
Gov. Sheppard had commenced his enter
prise which ultimately led to an investment
Of the District of Columbia. Justice
flclf, who has just missed being
shot by Sarah Althea Hull, had freshly
moved into the old capital prison, which
mad been recently the place Of incarceration
Tor Mrs. Greenhough, Mrs. Su raft a d no
end OF hy-Detweens. That queer building
vas hastily run up by the people of WASH.
lngton atter the British bur Oh the CAPITAL
III ordef 10 accommodate congress, and it is
perhaps tho Oldest building ever built
quickly for temporary pubic purpo q
that we have IN the country. Subseaueu,iv
buildings were run up for the acc1nlmod r.
ton Of political conventions like the CHI
cago wigwaIn, and for exhibitors The
old capitol was built in 1914, or there
about, to forestall the proposition that the
district o. Columbia has no enterprise and
could not provide place for the public
legislature. For several years congrcs, met
there, and ! have understood that tn, two
chambers "ere to be SEGA down to the
period OF our civil war. One OF ths persons
who aftsrw9rd sent Booth across the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17
SOME OF THE SENATE TIPPLERs.
Democrats Who Take Drink When
They Want 1t.

FROM Ue filttiLetDJtu fTeSS.
WASHINGTON, Sept, 1.-Senator Frye is
said to be the only genuine consistent
total abstinence man in the upper house of
congress. Senator Colquitt breaches pro-
hibition, and no doubt believes in it, but he
enjoys an occasional toddy. Senator Hale
talks on temperance on all occasions,
but does not practice it. There
is not man in congress who better
enjoys the flowing bowl. Even Blair, with
all his wordy pretence, is said TO indulge In
taste now and then. Senator Plumb,
whose political acumen prompts him to
make a show of keeping in line with Kansas
prohibition, takes his straight every day.
Spooner, who feels it incumbent upon him
to court the good will of Wisconsin prohi-
bitionists. enjoys his dram behind the door.
On the democratic side, with the exception
of Colquitt there is no liberation for pro-
hibitiOn.
Democratic senator's usually take their
drinks openly and above board. Nearly
every day Senators Pugh, George, GRAY
and Coke walk up Pennsylvania avenue
together when the Senate adjOurns as far
as Hagerty's, and there, around table,
they enjoy mint juleps and smashes. They
make no attempt at concealment, and don't
care who secs them. Sometimes Stewart of
Nevada joins them Secretary Bayard's
IaVorlCe place When ne was IN the Senate
was Hancocks 'Oid Curiosity Shop" and
his tipple was a punch, though he could
then, and can now, take it straight He
had fine sldeboard III his committee room,
and it was always supplied abundantly with
liquors for Bayard's friends.
some years ago deputy sergeant-at-arms
kept miniature barroom in coy retreat
under the east fight of stairs of the senate
chamber. Senators were accommodated at
all times there with plain, mixed or fancy
drinks at public expense. But the news
paper correspondents wrote up the soma
torlai bar and it was abandoned
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17
Danish Dairy Farming.
From. the London DaiIy News.

Denmark appears to be the great dairy
farming country, the number of cows on
Danish soil being, according to the statis-
tics cited by Consul Inglis, about 900 900, or
not much short of one COW for every two
heads of the population. That the number
is still rapidly increasing may be inferred
from the fact. that, whereas in the five
years ending 1882 the annual export of
butter averaged only 100000 pounds, it
reached last year As, 000, 900 poulds Most
of the diaries are stated to be furnished
with cream separators and organized on
the new system; but the most striking
feature Of the case is the great extension of
the cooperative system in Denmark to this
particular industry. There are now
in this little country 200 COOP
erative diaries. They have been
established by the aid of loans. for which
the members one and all are responsible in
proportion to the number Of COWS they sign
for Arrangements are made under which
these loans are repaid in twelve years, after
which each deliverer of milk will possess a
share. A system introduced only two years
ago, under which paying for the milk is
regulated by the quantity of cream con-
tanned in 10, is said to have been found in
practice to be an excellent means of awak-
ening interest in the quality, ami thus in
making farmers careful. Even in this
country of diaries, however, there is often
a practical difficulty in getting first-raue
hands. Many of the younger hands, we
learn, endeavor to improve themselves by
attending the five months course of instruc-
ton at Ladalund farm, where they are
taught writing, bookkeeping, mechanics.
physics, chemistry and anatomy of domestic
animals, together with the practical testing
of milk