Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-13
NEWS BY MAIL.


1t is reported that Jim Blain's
health is very bad.
Already fairs are being talked of
all over the State.
Ashville has a new military com.
pany, with 80 men.
On April 1st the trout season
opened in. New York.
On Elk river, Md, behring's are
being caught quite freely.
The erection of new cotton mill
at Fayetteville will begin this month.
The city of Fayetteville is moving
to establish a fruit and vegetable
fair.
The largest deposit by any indi-
vidual in the broken Raleigh bank
was $4,000.
The organization of a permanent
Oyster Fish and Game Fair Associ-
alton was effected in New Berne last
week.
Geo. IL. Small, Esq, Of Washing
ton. y. c., Will deliver an address
at the commencement exercises OF
tie Elizabeth City Academy ia June.
Since the first Of December More
head City and Beaufort have export.
ed nearly 1000 barrels of clans.
oysters and escallops, principally the
former
The town commissioners, of Eliza
beth City, will soon purchase a steam
fire engine. 1t will be named ''Inez,'
for the little daughter of Mr.. @
Scott Bell.
The President has approved the
act to reward the Esquimau natives
OF the Asiatic coast of the Arctic
ocean for acts Of humanity to ship.
wrecked seamen.
Mr.. j. f. Harrel of Gates county
says, he lost last year during the
term of 10 months two horses and |
that in the mean time his wife gave |
birth to twins.-Mouitor.
Burke county has held her conven
ton and instructed her delegates to
vote for Judge A. G.. Avery for q
place on the State Supreme Court
Decentralization Advertiser.
The hotel st Aveca will be compile
ted by the lst proX. The sanitary
arrangements of the entire village
will cOnduce no less to the comfort,
than to the health OF visitors.
Mr.. G. II. Davenport. of sunny.
IyrrelI county. has sculpernong
grape vine over 100 years old The
trnnk IS two feet thick and the arbof
Is about forty feet square-Nfonitor
Rivers and smaller streams through
out North Carolina are reported 10 be ;
very high and IN many places over,
flowing the hanks, in fact there has
been a general treshet over the coun-
try, especially in the South
On Friday last all the prisoners. 4
in number, escaped from the Winton
Jail The Jail is brick with steel cells
and is considered the best in Eastern {
Carolina. Some one had given files .
to the prisoners with which they I
made their escape.
Opeclal cTOrtS are being made to q
capture Deputy Sheriff Ruff, Of Hay
wood county, who killed Gather
REESE few days since Men are
securing the section of country in
which it is Thought Ruff has con
cealed himself.
This cheap excursion inaugurated
ny The Southern railroads are bring
ing thousands of prospecting visiting
from the North and Northwest. (,
men estimate that fully five
thousand were brought South on the
asst excursiOn.-New Berne Journal. II
Miss Ernestine Hornthal. of Ply Ell
mouth, and Ed. Alexander. Esq, OF q, d.
Columbia, were married in Grace q,
church at Plymouth by Rev Luther al
>torn on Wednesday April 4th m
besides many other presents from
1ends the brides father presented
ier with a $4,000 check T
he Goldshoro furniture factory -
las been given the contract for fur
fishing the large new addition to the
Atlantic Hotel at Morehead CITY with
The contract covers the l.
OmDIe furniShinU of 6ftv Il