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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

IT is stated that Mr. Thurman will take the
stump in Ohio and Indiana, and afterward
in the Eastern States.
BRET HARTE, the poet of the Serras, is
said to be in such social demand in England
that he rarely dimes alone.
THE son of the Queen of Servia is guarded
in WieSbaden wherever he goes by four pow
erful Servian male attendants.
j. @. TURNBULL is the Jay Gould of Aus
trala. His fortune is estimated at $50 000,
900. He is now visiting in Philadelphia.
THE full name of the Princess Regent of
Brazil is Isabella Christine LeOpoldine Au-
guStine Michelli-Gabrielle Raphelle Con
zague, Princess Imperial of Brazil and Count
ess dEu.
DUMAS, the French author, frequently has
house-cleaning mania. He is very orderly,
and is often seen, feather buster in hand,
busting his study and changing pieces of
furniture.
JOSEF HOFFMAN,. the prodigy pianist, is
under treatment at Eisenach by a celebrated
specialist lii nervous diseases, and his nerv-
business has been greatly subdued. He prac-
tees an hour each day.
WHEN the late Commodore Kittson was
member of the Minnesota legislature in 1851,
he represented the Pembina District, and in
order TO attend the sessions of the body he
was obliged to travel 500 miles on snowshoes
Or by dOg-Sled.
THE Duke of Westminster is returned in
Batemans Landowners of Great Britain
as queen Victoria richest subject; and the
Young Viscount Belgrave, if he lives to in
herlt his patrlmOny, will, it is said, be the
richest man III the world
ADMIRAL DAVID D. PORTER, the chief off
GER of the United States Navy, is seventy
four years of age Sixty-four years of h $
life have been spent on the water, beginning
with the time when, boy of nine he sailed
With his father in the expedition against
the West Indian pirates
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27

SIX men employed by the Eau Claire
(Canadal Lumber Company were drowned
while driving logs
Pope LEO XIII has addressed another en-
cyclical letter to the Irish Catholic Churches
iisapproving of the boycott and the plan Of
campaign.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
w aShIngtOn.

THE Executive Committee of the National
American party has agreed to call National
Convention, to meet in Washington City on
August II to nominate candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President.
THE President has approved the Legisla-
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill and the Diplomatic and Consular APP
preparation bill.
SENIOR ANTONIO FLORES, a former Minister
to this country who has just been elected
President of Ecuador, was given reception
in Washington by President Cleveland on his
departure to assume his office.
THE Secretary of War has decided that
general service clerks and messengers are en-
titled to medical attendance and medicines at
the expense of the government.
THE President has accepted the resignation
Of the Hon. George V. n. Lathrop, United
States Minister to Russia
THE State Department has received infor-
nation of the death of United States Consul
j. Harvey Brigham, at Kingston, Jamaica.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
REPAIRING, VANISHING and UPHOLSTER.
ING FURNITURE A SPECIALITY.

A full supply OF cheap wood Collins. fine Cases
and Caskets and Metallic Burial Cases furnished 81
short notice and at low figures
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27

AN English mechanic. residing at Pitts
burg, claims to have discovered a pneumatic
generator that viii provide motive power to
any extent without the use of fuel
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
Foreign.

HEAVY gales have prevailed on the River
Tyne and in the English Channel The
weather throughout England has been alb
normally cold. Snow fell in the suburbs of
London, and the peaks of Skiddaw and
other mountains We're covered with snow
This is the first time snow is known to have
fallen in England in July.
HAYTIAN insurgents put the torch to Port
Au Prince, destroying five hundred houses
and all the public buildings.
BECAUSE of the failure of his dissolution
reso ution to pass, General Boulanger stalked
out of the French Chamber of Deputies, and
resigned his seat after calling Prime Minister
Floquet an impudent liar. The Deputies
passed vote of censure upon him.
AN imperial ukase just issued in ST. Peters
burg, Russia fixes the number of the con-
tingent recruits at $50, 900 as against 225. 600
in 1887, and places the period of active ser
vice at five years, but at thirteen years for
the Landwehr. All able bodied men under
forty-four years of age, who have not
already been IN active service, must join the
Landwehr.
THE Debeers diamond mine at Kimberly
South Africa, was DESTROYED by fire. and
twentv-four whites and two hundred natives
persisted therein
SIR JOHN II ENRY BRAND, President of the
Orange Free State, is dead.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
KILLED BY DRINK.

One-fifth of the Coroner's Cases in a Lon
don District Due to Liquor.
The following testimony from w.
Wynn Westcott, M. D., deputy coroner
for Central Middlesex, lately appeared
in the Lancet:
Prompted by my friend, DR.. Norman
Kerr, have made an analysis of 1920
consecutive inquests held by me in
London, and l can not refrain from
making the results public. | am not,
and never have been, total abstain
er, or an advocate of that cause, so
there need be no fear that the figures
are exaggerated. OF 1900 cases of
deaths, including deaths from VIC
lence, sudden deaths, persons found
dead, and deaths with regard to which
no medical certificate is forthcoming,
40 were infants, children and persons
below the age of 16 years. These may
be presumably removed from the list
of deaths from alcoholic excess.
OF the remaining $50 deaths, no less
than 143 are recorded as being the re-
suit OF chronic alcoholic disease, acute
alcoholism, delirium tremens, suicide
caused by drink or of accidental death
while drunk, or of accidents arising
because of incapability when intoxi-
Gated; that is, one death in every 5. "a.
OF these 143 cases, q were suicidal,
% accidental, and 80 the result, more
or less sudden, of syncope, apopleXy,
etc, due to disease of the heart,
liver and kidneys, stated in sworn evil
dence as due to alcoholic excess. Of
the 143 cases, 8 died suffocated during
the stupor of alcohol, 3 died of syn
cope due to degenerative cardiac mus
cular tissue, and 3 were run over by
vehicles in the streets. Only of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
From An Old Newspaper.

Here is a newspaper clipping, a
quarter of a century old;
Hon. Edward Everett: What ardent
spirits have done in ten years in the
United States:
l. 1t has cost the Nation a direct ex-
pense of six hundred millions of dollars.
2. 1t has cost the Nation an indirect
expense of six hundred millions of dol
lars.
3. 1t has destroyed three hundred
thousand lives.
4. 1t has sent one hundred thousand
children to the poor-house.
5. 1t has consigned at least one
hundred and fifty thousand persons to
the jails and penitentiaries.
6. 1t has made at least one thousand
maniacs.
Z. 1t has instigated to the commits
sion of one thousand five hundred MUIR
ders.
8. 1t has caused two thousand per-
sons to commit suicide.
9. 1t has burned or otherwise de-
stroyed property to the amount of ten
millions of dollars.
10. 1t has made two hundred thou
sand widows and one million of
orphan children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
CURIOUS VEGETATION.
One of the Most Interesting Botanical
Phenomena Ever Recorded.

One of the Most Interesting Botanical
Phenomena Ever Recorded.
DR.. Treub, the director of the Botan-
ical Garden at Buitenzvig, Java, has
published his experience with regard
to the temperance of vegetation upon
the Island of Kraketan, which partly
sank and was wholly overwhelmed by
the ashes and pumice-stone from its
volcano during the violent outbreak Of
1888. Three years after this date DR..
Treub Con the 26th of June, 1866,
visited the island, and as he approached
it he found that it was covered with
vegetation to the very summit of the
mountain. The plants could not have
grown from the roots or seeds of those
existing before the great eruption, for
the toughest organism must have been
destroyed by the excessive volcanic
heat The whole island was covered
with layer of ashes and pumice-stone
from three feet to 240 feet thick. Nor
could the vegetation, DR.. Treub thinks,
have been introduced by man, for the
island is uninhabited and difficult of
access. 1t must have been by means
Of seeds carried thither by birds, the
wind, or the currents of the sea that
the new vegetation arose. 1t consists
for the most part of ferns, of which
eleven different varieties were found,
and of single specimens of blossoming
herbs, such us are found on coral reefs
that have lately risen above the level
Of the sea. DR.. Treub has, however,
found that the ferns were not the first
living plants that had found nourish-
ment on the destroyed island. Almost
everywhere there were signs that the
ashes and pumice-stone had been COW
cred by a thin layer of algn, which
rendered the surface of the soil soft
and capable of absorbing water. These
microscopic algH prepared the way for
the ferns, and the latter, in their turn,
for the poisoning herbs.-LondoW
Standard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
THE MODEST PRIESTHOOD.
Wearing the Robe of True Manhood, Vir-
tue and Righteousness.

Wearing the Robe of True Manhood, Vir-
tue and Righteousness.
To Shammai a heather once came,
saying: Promise me that may some
day be invested with the High Priest S
robes, ami | will become a jew. "
away with you, heather mocker"
angrily rejoined the rigorous master,
and drove him off.
He next applied to Hillel, and the
liberal minded teacher said: "My son,
do you expect to become High Priest in
Israel without being familiar with the
law? First study, and | will instruct
YOU.
4A2Egly in fun, partly from curiosity,
The Roman sat down at the masters
feet and began studying, and as he pro-
ceeded his interest grew. He learned
to admire the religion he had made a
laughing-stock of.
After some time he came across the
words of the law: "No one who is not
from the house of Aaron may enter the
holy of holes, or he must die" lis this
the law?n he asked, with quivcring
lips. ''Not even King David, with all his
power, would have been exempt from
the rule" sharply answered Hillel.
Then how could you at the start hold
out the promise to me of once wearing
the High Priests vestments for which |
stipulated when first addressing you?"
the Roman said, reproachfully,
''To be sure. | could not offer you
what was forever denied to myself"
was the masters mild reply. But
there is High Priests robe accessible
to you and to me, more precious than
the costly apparel which adorns the
chosen descendant of Aaron. 1t is the
prlestly robe of noble manhood, of
virtue and righteousness. This | did
not want to withhold from you should
you aspire to it,"
The heather was satisfied, and he be-
come a loyal Jew.--Dr, Kohicr, ns
american Hebrew.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
An Effective Auxiliary of temperance.

The cause of Temperance is greatly
helped by other appliances than those
that are political and legislative, i'm
portant, in their due measure, as these
are. No doubt there may be, as there
is, the immoderate use of coffee as a
beverage. Yet, rightly used, coffee
may become an effective auxiliary of
Temperance. can important adjunct
to Temperance reform is the coffee
house movement, which has now at
tanned a good degree of success on
both sides of the Atlantic. A repre-
sentative of the New York committee
on coffee-houses was recently invited
by the supporters of similar establish
ments in London, Liverpool and Bir-
mingham. to inspect their working,
and he has spent some time in En-
gland gathering suggestions which
will operate to the advantage of the
enterprise here in America. Lock-
hart's cocOa-roOms are well-knOwn
throughout Great Britain, not only for
their effective opposition to the saloon,
but as financially successful, even
though very high rents are in some
cases paid. That the nobility take an
interest in the success of such meas
ures is shown by the fact that, in the
city of Chester, the Duke of West
minister, one of the wealthiest men in
the realm, supports several coffee
rooms in the interests of the working
men. Elsewhere in England cafes of
a higher grade are drawing in the up
per classes. - Watchnean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
TWO GALLANT MARINERS.
An Incident Whose Heroes Deserve q
Place in the Temple of Fame.

An Incident Whose Heroes Deserve q
Place in the Temple of Fame.
Captain George w. Pendleton,
American fishing schooner Cleopatra.
of Gloucester, Mass.
Captain Edmund Miller Hughes,
American Line Steamer Lord Cough.
Date of rescue, December 27, 1885"
The Lord Cough, though of the
American Line of steamers liverpool
to Philadelphia), is q British vessel;
her captain is, | think, Scotchman.
On the 9th of December the Lord
Cough, on her way to Philadelphia,
saw the flag of distress on the mast of
the Cleopatra The wind was blowing
a gale, making it a matter of serious
risk for the Lord Cough to send boat
to the rescue, but Captain Hughes
thought it his duty to do this, and he
called for volunteers. The second Of
ticer q think) and u crew volunteered,
and a boat was lowered. Suddenly,
however, the signal of distress was
lowered from the mast of the Cleopatra.
Captain Hughes was much perplexed;
it seemed almost certain that the vessel
was in extremity. On the whole he
thought it his duty to send the boat.
The brave fellows made their way
over the perilous waters and the
schooner was reached. There they
found the master and eleven men, but
for the Lord Cough, utterly without
hope. Three others of the crow had
been washed away and the body of
fourth lay on the deck. In two trips
the survivors were conveyed to the
Lord Cough. The master of the
schooner went in the second trip of the
boat, but before doing so he read with
such solomnity as he could in the awful
storm, the burial service over the re-
mains of his comrade and then the
body was committed to the deep. OF
course the first inquiry made by Cap
tain Hughes of the American captain
was why did he haul down his signal?
The reply was: "Sir, we saw that you
were preparing to mako an effort to
save us, but we saw, also, that it was q
sea in which it was very doubtful
whether boat would live. | said then
to my men: Shall we let those brave
fellows risk their lives to save ours?'
and they said Not Then | hauled
down the flag. ~ C0THhH Magazinc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
CANDIED ROSE LEAVES.
Fashionable Sweets Retailing at Three
Dollars IA Pound.

Dollars a Pound.
"Have you candied rose leaves, you
know?" asked a young man about town
of the pretty girl in a fashionable candy
store.
Eyes, sir; how much would you
like?"
Gone pound, AVN nice box, you
know"
80, certainly, sir. We put them up
in French bon-bon boxes. Here it is,
sir; four dollars, please"
"What? Four dollars for one pound
of candy. Impossible!'
The young man was frightened into
speaking good English. The pretty
girl smiled
''The candy is only three dollars %
pound. The bon-bon box is one dollar
that makes four"
"I-I-don't think L IL take it. You can
give me pound of mixed candies at
the regular price, if you don't mind"
"Certainly, sir" and the obliging
clerk changed the order, and the young
man escaped solvent.
There are plenty of young men who
do buy them" said the girl. Some
take sweet violets, some like the can
died rose leaves, and others prefer
pinks done in sugar"
"What is the object of eating candied
flowers?o
ITO perfume the breath. All young
society ladies carry perfumed sweets
with them to the theater and to parties,
everywhere they go indeed. Some of
these are tiny lozenges put up in fancy
walls like these.
They looked like homeopathic medi-
cines-small sugar pills in all colors.
There were violet bilious of lovely
lavender color. Musk bijous, pink and
pretty, and a lot of other sweets for
the breath.
"And the price?'
80, those are cheap enough; only ten
cents a bottle. Then there are the
mixed havOrs for the bonbonnieres, the
little round boxes fastened to the cor
sage. Even the gentlemen are begin
ing to use them instead of cloves and
coffee to sweeten the breath. '-DetrOit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
An Inherited Curse.

In the International Congress OF
Anthropology, held in New York City
lately, among the papers real was one
contribution by DR.. Norman Kerr, of
London, president of the Society for
the Study of lnebriety. The paper,
which was read by Dr. Lewis d. Ma
son, of Brooklyn, awakened much in
terest. Heredity, it was affirmed, was
the most potent cause Of those leading
to inebriety. Fully one-half of in
ebriates," says DR.. Kerr. 'have had
this fatal inheritance handed to them. "
Again he says: "a morbid state of
organ or tissue may descend. Thus,
the first child of inebriate parents may
be an idiot, the second an epileptic, a
third a neurotic, and a fourth an in
ebriate. The heredities are so power
full that the health history of inebriates
should be carefully traced, so that the
proper allowance could be made for
the physical inability under which
many suffer" The lessons of this pa
per emphasizes very strongly the wis
dom and duty of total abstinence, es-
pecially for all those who would as
sumo parental possibilities W.T.
ness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03
A Fearful Legacy.

The evil of strong drink would be of
comparatively small magnitude if only
those addicted to its use were involved
in the deplorable consequences. The
editor of the Northwestern Lancet, in
a suggestive article on "The Medical
Aspect of lnebriety," says: 1.-The close
relationship of insanity, epilepsy and
inebriety is strongly shown by the re-
markable manner in which, through
heredity, one form of disease may pass
into another, as where drunkenness in
one generation is followed by epilepsy
or insanity in the succeeding genera
tions." 1t is this inevitable nerve or
brain deterioration on the part of those
of a previous generation who INDUCED
in alcoholic beverages, and became pa
rents, which undoubtedly would, if
careful investigation should he made,
account for the presence therein OF
many at the present time of those by
whom our insane asylums and hos
pitfalls are Over-crOwded. The drink
evil involves not only those Immediate
ly connected with the drinker here and
now, but leaves a fearful legacy OF
suffering and incompetency to future
generations. Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03

The Long Island Railroad Company
recently discharged eight employees,
conductors, baggage-masters and
brakemen, for drinking Intoxicating
liquors while on duty, thus violating
one of the most stringent rules of the
company.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-03

THE report of the Commissioners Of
1nland-Revenue for Great Britain,
states that the total income of the
liquor traffic for the year ending
March 81, 1888, was $275, 900, 900, being
a decrease of 81, 100000 on the proceed
ing year.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1888-07-29
La JUSTICIA Sc IMPONR.

Late en- 10 mas hondo dc Ia
opinion p6blica un sentimiento
perenne de asiicia, que, por mas
que en- los eombates dc Ia passion
que domino 4 los hombres sc OTIS
cureEca 4 veces 8 80 amortig Ii >,
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por imponerse sobre Ia coneisn,
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el6cuico, como hermosA es.relIa
en medic dc negra noehe.
81 AL no fasse Ay de aqaello.
que con e.forLado eorAIoa y han
radA vo!untad !uehsp, contra to
ID sutrte dc obstAeulos, pot Ias
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ellos no hAbtlA sspeFAnEa Dc tssan
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1888-07-29

Comparandose este resultado
con ell obtenido por los mismos
productos en- Junio del afio ante
rior, Sc advierten las siguientes
diferencias:
As1car.-Bsjs en- los valores,
1884 40 So; id. en- los derechos,
$27,18017.
Cafe. - Ala en- los valores.
$2S2,965.48; i'd. en- los derechoe,
$5,457.16.
Cueros. B ia en- los va!ores,
$6,467.74
Ganado.-A'zs en- los valores,
So $50.
Aaderas.-Alza en- los valores.
$64l "a; idem en- los derechos,
$929l.
Mis'ss.-Baja en- los valores.
$64 639.68; Id. en- los derec hos,
$2,l22 So.
Ta6Gco.-Alza en- los valores,
$35 060.32; id. en- los derechos,
$2S6.61.
E total de los valorss de los
prineipales productos del pals, ex
portados en- JUNO de 1887, as.
cendio d $l.0S4 .945.14.
FL de los derechos por los mis-
mos rendidos al Erario, d $3l,S50
50 cents.
BAja en- los valores de los prin
cipales productos del pals expor.
tados en- JUNO lltimo de 1888,
$l2T 1901.
Ia en- los deEechos, $23,S5s.5l.