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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
Open it as

cit is fathers writing. Open'it as
quick as ever you can"
He complied The first thing he saw
was a letter. It was written on coarse
paper, unsealed, directed to his wife, and
read: '.All for my daughter Jane, wife
of John Austin, forever and ever. James
Selfridge.
Sounds like a WILL" said the hus-
band, land Well see what the old man
has left"
Little packages tied up in buckskin
were taken out, and each, when opened,
disclosed gold, coined, dust and mug
gets, evidently the savings of a miser
miner, and explained why he had so
much haunted the woods.
Overcome by their unexpected fortune
husband, wife and children gathered
around the table upon which it had been
piled. and laughed and cried together.
The millions of merchant prince or rail-
way king was nothing compared to the
few hundreds to them. Then came the
natural fear of being robbed, and the
wealth was hastily hidden away. They
were too much excited to even discuss
what they would do with it and were
frightened nearly into commissions when
loud rap was heard on the door and
with it a command to open.
1t was only their neighbor Sampson
with more good things, and as he sat
warming his numbed hands and feet he
told how good John had been as to the
afflicted family.
"And, John," he said, 81 saw and
heard you when talking about my tur-
keys, and a man who could be thus
honest under so great temptation will
ever find friend in Job Sampson"
Then Austin and his wife unbosomed
themselves, showed the gold, the letter
and asked advice. 1t was judiciously
given and with congratulation the farmer
hurried away, happy at having done
good action.
At late hour for Country folks their
dinner was eaten with hearts overlooking
with thankfulness, and when the stuffed
children were dreaming the wife stole
behind her husband, put her arms around
his neck and kissed him more warmly
than since the days of her courtship as
she whispered:
''To think 1 should accuse you of be-
ing drunk! And you giving up all hope
of your own Thanksgiving dinner to
help others! You dear old John"
n. B.-That will was never probated.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

team. gun and game started homeward
on run. Bursting into the honse he
dropped breathlessly into chair, flung
the satchel into the middle of the floor
and gasped Que the single word:
"ThereI"
"John Austin" exclaimed his wife in
the loudest key possible for her voice to
reach and with the muscles of her face
gathering for a storm, ''arent ~
ashamed of yourself to come home
drunk, and on Thanksgiving? Take
that nasty old thing out of doors. It's
burning shame and a disgrace, and
you husband and father of family, I"
and her apron was brought into requi-
sition to wipe away her tears.
''It's marked for you, Jane, and
where in heaven did you get that great
turkey?"
"Farmer Sampson brought it, and
your gnn, which you lost, and if the
neighbors didn't take pity on us we'd
starve, was replied in very short sem
fences and broken by sobs.
''But Jane"
Don't Jane me. Take that misera-
BILE, dirty thing out and crawl off some
where and GO to sleep. To think I
should have lived to see the day-and-
and we become objects of charity-and
-and-having to be fed by the neigh
bors," and up went the apron again.
"Mother," broke in the eldest of the
hopefuls, whose curiosity had caused an
investigation of the satchel, and who
had spelled out the address, its your
name, and such queer writing''
Thus reinforced ohm Austin explained
that he had found it in hollow log and
suggested that it be opened The wife
looked obviously at it for an instant
and then, forgetful of anger and tears,
exclaimed:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
A FINANCIAL CRASH.
A Durham IN. Co. Bank and Six
Firms Fail for $1,OOO,OOO.

The largest failure ever recorded in the
State of North Carolina, has just occurred at
Durham, and it threw the whole town into
the widest kind of excitement. 1t was
the failure of the Bank of Dur
ham, a State bank, owned by w. L.
Blackwell People were standing In groups
at all parts of the town discussing the
financial situation and the widest kind or
reports could be heard Business for the
day among merchants was paralyzed.
The failing bank has made an assignment
to Messrs W. S. Halliburton, cashier and
v Ballard, business agent of W. I. Black
we'll. The liabilities are estimated at about
$500, ZOO.
The banker is the founder of the famous
Blackwell's Durham bull smoking tobacco,
and has always been very liberal and enter
prising.
On account of the Bank Of Durham max
ing an assignment six firms had to suspend,
and all made assignments, excepting one.
They are as follows: w. F. Ellis, drygoods;
amount Of liabilities estimated, S25, 200; pre-
ferred, SIS, 900; Robbins & Stone, gem
eral merchandise; estimated Liabilities,
$4,000; Muse & Shaw, dry goods;
estimated liabilities $4,000; James w:
Blackwell and wife, real estate dealers and
manufacturers, estimated liabilities, $3.50, 900;
J. Parrish, leaf tobacco dealer, estimated
liabilities, 5000, 900; Mr.. j. S. Lockhart.
leaf tobacco dealer, has made deed of trust
to Mr.. J. S. Carr, securing him for SIS, 600.
Mr. W. W. Fuller, attorney for some OF
the largest failures, estimates the liabilities
at from $3.50, 900 to 81, 900, 00O
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
AN AWFUL SMASH.
Six Men Killed by a Stupid Brake
mans Error.


A most disastrous wreck has occurred at
Valley Falls, W. Va, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad A heavy freight train
had been sidetracked to let the lightning
express from New York to Chicago pass, but
by the mistake of an inexperienced brake
man the switch was left open. The Chicago
express, consisting of an engine and baggage
and express car, two parlor coaches,a dining
car and two sleepers, going ffty-fve miles an
hour to make up for lost time, dashed into
the open switch and colided with the stand
ing freight train.
On the engine of the freight train were the
engineer and fireman, ready to pull out when
the train passed. In a minute fifteen cars
and two immense engines were piled up In a
confused mass.
Six men we're instantly killed and their
bodies horribly mangled. They were: Engl-
neer Edward De Were, of Wheeling: Engl-
neer William Clinton, Of Wheeling; postal
clerk. two tramps, unknown, and when
found unrecognizable; John Shay, fire.
man, and a brakeman named Jones, was
terribly cut about the head and face
the passenger train was full vestIouled
one, but no passengers were killed, though
every one of them was badly shaken up and
bruised.
Twelve freight cars, both engines and a
DO 3tal aud baggage car were completely
wrecked. Engineer Clinton had just been
married. His head was cut of as though
done by knife. The loss 70 the company
was $780, 600.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
OUR POSTAL BUSINESS.
Annual Cost Of the United States
Postal Service.
Three Thousand Million Pieces
Mailed Last Year.

The annual report OF the Third Assistant
Postmaster General of the United States
shows that the total cost Of the Postal Ser
vice for the last fiscal yerr, inclusive Of
amount earned by the subsidized railroad
companies for mail transportation was $751;
1860
The postal and money order re-
ceipts amounted to $50, $50, 176, leav-
ing deficiency Of IS, $50, S2S
said, to the great extension of the free de-
livery service under g modification OF the
old law and the increase of the railway mail
transportation ira The special delivery system
report of the previous year.
So has the registry business. The
total number of pieces of registered
matter transmitted during the year was 49,
677, 1853: OF special delivery matter the number
of pieces transmitted was l, 424, 400. The
total number of articles Of the various kinds
OF stamped paper emitted was :, zoe, 635, 10,
representing $50 636, 331. Statistics are given
showing that in the cheapness of postage, the
number Of Post Offices, extent of mail
routes, miles of service performed, postal
revenue and postal expenditure, and number
or letters and other pieces of mail matter
transmitted in the mails the United States is
now conspicuousy ahead of every other ma
ton in the world. The statistics OF letters,
etc transmitted during the year, which are
the first accurate statistics Of the character
ever published by the department, are as
follows:
Letters mailed. =. /, 769, sOO, 900
Postal cards mailed. ............ 372, 2OO, 900
Newspapers and periodicals
mailed. -: 1,06S, 1oO, 900
matter. ..................... S72, 600. 900
AOI0l.'. .o,otc,OOO,OVo
The number of pieces mailed per capita
upon the basis of population shown by tho
last census is seventy-one. The Third Assist
ant makes, among others, the following
recommendations: That in some of the larger
cities the pneumatic tube or some equivalent
underground system of transporting tho
mails be adopted that the present contract
for letter-sheet envelopes be- rescinded; that
all postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and
other stamped paper issued by the depart
ment be manufactured by the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing; that, a substitute
for the Thanking privilege, members of
Congress have annual allowance of
money for the purchase of postage
stamps with which to pay post
age on speeches and other official matter sent
by mai, and that if the rate of postage on let
tiers be reduced to one cent, as has already been
proposed in Congress, there be only two
classes of mail matter recognized, namely,
letters and all other matter now compre-
hended in the third and fourth classes, pos
tage on which shall be uniform at one cent
for every two ounces and newspapers and
periodicals at the rate now fixed-one cent a
pound.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

SUICIDE is increasing in England
TIE Louisiana rice crop will be short.
THE Constitution Of Servis Is 70 be re-
Sised-
THERE are Il, OOo, 900 voters in the United
States.
NEW York CITY has 42T miles Of street
sewers.
ONE of the Burgess yachts has won @ racs
In Japan
The visible supply of oats is notably the
IT costs l. BIC, 900 per annum to keep the
streets Of Paris clean
CANAL will soon be cut between the
Black and Caspian Seas
THERE are SIS, 500 pensioners in Illinois who
receive annually "a, PA, l64.
WOLVES are doing great damage to the
live stock IN Northern Montana
THE tobacco crop Of Missouri il not only
large but the finest raised in years
AN epidemic of royal betrothals seems TO
be sweeping all over Europe just now.
FOURTEEN vessels hailing from Gloucester,
Mass, have been lost during the year.
NEARLY twenty thousand men have been
naturalized in New York City this year.
LEPRosY is said to have been transmitted
to the Indians OF British Columbia by this
Chinese.
THE area sown to winter wheat IN the
Middle and Western States is fully equal 70
last year.
MoNTANA's population is estimated by the
Governor at 10000, an increase OF 10 ooe
over last year.
TIE City of Louisville. KY, has purchased
a park OF 800 acres within five miles of the
City Hall for $500.
TIE British Government will shortly ash
Parliament for ST., 900, 600 for the purpose Of
increasing the navy.
AN American syndicate is forming in St
Petersburg, Russia, for the purpose Of build
ing railroads in Siberia
MRS. HANNAH STARKEY, of Youngstown,
Ohio, aged Ill, has just died. She was born
in County Cork, Ireland, in 1777.
OVER two hundred and fifty gold and silver
mines have been registered lately in the de-
partment OF Antoquia, Colombia
THE exports Of Chill for the first seven
months Of this year were 81 o00, 900 in excess
Of those for the same period in 1887.
THE German military budget contains an
item of $11, 700 for the breeding, training
and maintenance of carrier pigeons
IT il estimated that the sum of %, 900, 900
was locked up by election bots in Now York
city alone during the recent national contest.
GOVERNOR SEMPLE, of Washington Terri
tory, estimates the population OF the Terri
tory at 167, 9S2, a gain OF $4,000 the past
year.
PROFESSOR NAUsEER has succeeded In OK
ploring the interior of Greenland and has
arrived at Godthaab with his four Norwegian
athletes.
The dismissal of Mr.. Denny, the American
adviser of the King of Corea, has been de-
manded by EHung Chang, the Viceroy at
Shanghai, China.
THE consumption Of cotton by the South
ern mills for the year ending August 81 was
456, 900 bales, against 40l, 452 bales during the
previous twelve months
PROSPECTS are that the trade in Florida
oranges VIII be large this season. Reduced
freights and rapid transit will benefit trade
GENERAL HARRISON has nlaoe his first ap-
continent by selecting E. F. Tibbotts as his
official stenographer. During the campaign
Mr.. Tibbotts has been assisting Mr.. Hedges,
the agent of the Associated Press in Indian
apolis.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

Of where he had been during his long
absence he never talked; what he had
done was never known. His reappear-
ance was as sudden and unexplained as
his departure. He came on foot and
alone, and the only thing certain about
him was his poverty.
The expense of his "keeping' had
been a serious drawback to the prosperity
of the daughter and her husband; those
connected with his last sickness and
death heavy. A single dollar added to
the outlay of any man whose only cap
ital is his hands and only income is from
daily toll is no light affair.
But week previous to Thanksgiving
the funeral had taken place-used up
the last dollar of ready money and left a
of the fire husband and wife sat sadly
discussing the outlook, and gloomy in
deed it was. The last of the little brood
had been tucked into bed, the fierce wind
of the Northern Winter was bowling
without, the stars shone brightly but
coldly, and the low, heavy banks of
clouds gave notice of fierce snowstorm,
and the poor know but too bitterly what
that means for them.
"John," said his wife, after long ST.
lence and with heavy sigh, ''to-mor-
row will be Thanksgiving. and the chill
dren are reckoning upon good dinner"
"Yes," he replied, with his head
bowed and tears in his eyes, ''but the
good Lord only knows where it is to
come from. The care and death of your
father don't say it complaining, wife,
for you have repaid it a thousand times
has not only taken the last cent, but
left US debt it will take months to pay.
However, the darlings shan't be disap-
pointed if 1 can help it, and if you can
manage the pies and little things I'll see
what can be done about getting some
thing in the shape of meat. Heigh no!
what miserable thing it is to be poor
and never have any money when you need
it most"
eyes, dear, it is hard; but we have
health, strength, and the little ones, and
that is very much to be thankful tor"
"And many a rich man would give
more than the sum necessary to make us
comfortable for our appetites and the
sound sleep we enjoy"
Little knew they of the storm that
rocked their little cottage and drifted
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

old man had left her mother and her
self to battle with the world. No one
knew why or whittier he had gone.
For twenty-five years nothing had
been heard of or from him. In the mean
time the mother had died, the daughter
married, and several little olive branches
had come to Irvine around the hearts Of
the father and mother and make the
struggle for bread still more imperative.
For half a dozen years the old man
fingered rather than lived, apparently
purpcseless save to wander in the woods
around the little inland village in sum-
mer, SILVER over the ire in winter and
constantly mutter to himself. Then he
quietly faded out from among the living
and was laid to rest in the desolate
graveyard.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
A POOR MANS THANKSGIVING.

Let him who eats not, think he eats,
IT'S one to him who last year said,
"My neighbor dimes on dainty sweets
And on coarser bread
He who on sugar angels fares
Hath pangs beneath his silken vest;
The rougher life hath fewer cares
Who fasts hath sounder rest
If lean the body, light the wings;
His fancy hath more verge and room
Who feasts upon the wind that brings
The flowers OF hope to bloom
So, if 10 smoking turkey grace
This day my clean but humble board,
If rich, and thank the Lord.
No govt awaits my coming age,
No dubious nose like lobster red,
To vexmy temper into rage,
Or fill my days with dread.
Leave to the rich his roast and wine;
Death waits on MIN who waits for all;
The doctor will be there by nine,
By twelve the priest will call.
Lord, in all wholesome, moderate ways
Keep me, lest it should hap be worse;
Teach one to fill his mouth with praise
Who never filled his purse.
F. B. Plynlpton.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

MIR. GLADsToNE recently wrote to a
correspondent who had asked him his
opinion of the power of the press foI
good and evil: II rate the value of the
free press high, but the sentiment you
inclose could not have been mine. ]
am wholly unable to make the com.
parison. If asked by foreign visitor
I should tell him that, in my opinion,
the balance of good done by the press
in home affairs is enormous (and es-
pecialiy that to public men its criti-
cisms are invaioable); but that have
not so favorable an opinion of its aver.
age action in foreign affairs"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

A PIrTsBURG lady, Miss Fleeson,
who is now a missionary in Siam, re-
Gently had the honor of al invitation
to dine with the king and queen of
that country in their new summer
palace. The dinner was served in true
Siamese fashion, but Miss Fleeson says
she was spared the pleasure of eating
some of the delicacies, among them
angle worm croquettes and chopped
chew-tobacco.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
The First Thanksgiving.

It IS only about $50 years ago that
Thanksgiving day was observed in this
country. CID Massasoit and his ninety
braves sat down to dinner with the Puri-
tans. The Indians brought deer from
the woods and the pale faces supplied
fish, CLANS and corn. Ten years later
when the last batch of bread in the col
ony was in Gov. Bradford's oven and
starvation was staring our New England
ancestors in the face, good ship from
Ireland appeared with provisions, and
the day appointed for fasting was
changed INTO day of thanksgiving.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

THE Birmingham Age tells of a
s2adding man who has had his conf
Aence in bloodhounds cruelty betrayed.
A negro stole a pair of trousers from
him, and he let loose three bloodhounds
and started in pursuit. The negro
backtracked, the dogs lost his trail
and took after the pursuing white man,
whom they finally freed, and kept him
in that predicament from 5 o'clock LIN
the afternoon TIL 10 o'clock the follow
ing day.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

CAPTAIN SAMUEL BROOKS, command
ing the steamer Arizona, has completed
600 round trips of the Atlantic. Cap
tain Brooks, who is hale and hearty,
iovial mariner, is 81 years of age. He
began his sea-faring life as a cabin-boy
In a small sailing vessel when only 10
years old. His life since then has been
full of stirring incidents
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
THE UNPROBATED WILL
A THANKSGIVING STORY.

y y X as John
Austin was, he
was made more
desperate by the
return of the ia
ther of his wife
believed to be
dead who came
home to them
broken in health
a silent, "queer"
man, as the peo-
pie of Beachton
called him.
When Jane
Austin was a lit
tie girl the now
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

GEORGE HOLMAN, the veteran singer,
manager, and actor, proprietor OF the
once weIl-known Holman English OPP
era Company, died recently at his
home in London, Ontario, aged sew
entv-four. He first went on the stage
in 1886.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30

THE statement that famine in Egypt Is
feared because of the failure of the crops Is
officially declared to be untrue. The Nile Is
rising slowly, and the crops will be equal to
those of 1884.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-10-18
LOG CARIN SUCCESS.
What ais Tie YOUNG menl

Nuut ullo tuo yOuNB inSh'
Robert Garrotts father left him q
fortune OF twenty millions, He was
from childhood reared in luxury no
received splendid education with
an especial training into n thorough
knowledge of railroad management
and was expected to succeed his faith
or as railroad King,
Within three years after the ro'
sponsibilitios which his fathers death
threw upon him were assumed, he is
reported u broken down man, with
mind and health permanently shat
tered.
George Law is another young man
left with millions of money, who is
reported among the "wrecks.' His
father, bred stone mason, was OF
gigantic size and strength, with COM
mensurate brain power, so be became
II great contractor, then railroad
king and left half dozen million for
his son to dissipate. The young man
is success MS II dissiptor.
The founders Of both these great
estates were born in the most humble
walks of life, grew strong mentally,
and physically, by simple living and
honest labor and developed into fl.
nancial giants. Their sons were rear-
cd in tho lap Of luxury and developed
into intellectual pigmies.
The great men of our country have
not, as u rule, come from the elegant
mansions of the cities, but from the
log cabins of the rural districts. Sim
pie ways of living, freedom from dis
sipation and enervating pleasures,
simple remedies for disease, effective
and which leave no poison in the sys
TEN, develop brawny, brainy men
who compel the world to recognize
their strength and power.
The wholesome, old-fashioned Log
Cabin remedies are the safest and
surest for family use.. Our grand
mothers knew how to prepare the
teas and syrups OF roots, herbs ana
balsams which drive disease out OF
the system by natural methods and
leave no after i'll effects. The most
potent OF these old time remedies
were, after long and searching inves-
tigation, secured by H. Fl. Warner,
of safe cure fame, and are now put
out for the "healing of the nations"
in the Warmers Log Cabin remedies.
Regulate the regulator with War
nor's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla and
with pure blood giving health,
strength, mental and bodily vigor,
You may hope to cope successfully
with the most gigantic tnuncialprob
lens OF the ago without wreckiag
hoalth and manhood,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-10-18
BIT. Vernon, Ind.
An Unjust Tax.

The tax on salt is certainly an in
famous outrage. 1t is n burden on
all tho people, for everybody us es
salt, which is absolutely necessary to
the maintenance of human life. Farm
ers have to feed it to their stock, and
the tax makes considerable item in
their expense account. Salt is large
ly used in the great meat packing in
dustry of tho country-which by the
way,is one tho leading interests of In
dianapollis. The tax on salt is kept
up for the benefit of n handful OF
monopolsts in New York and Mich.
gan. Labor derives not single pen
ny OF benefit. from it. The govern
ment has no use for the revenue il
Yields. The salt manufacturers Of
the country are almost all OF them
millionaires--made 30 by this shock
ing abuse OF the taxing power OF tho
government. The salt duty is abso-
lutely indefensible from any point OF
yiew, and its repeal would be bene-
fit to NIL tho people.-ln dianapolis
Sen inel.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-10-18

HAMBURG FIGS (Nedieated) are crystal
lied fruit Ca thartiC.
HAMBURG FIGS are a discovery OF tho
greatest interest to the medical profession.
HAMBURG FIGS are boon to every
household
HAMBURG FIGS arc a most delicious lax
alive, or purgstive, prepared from fruit aud vege-
tables.
HAMBURG FIGS are 80 perfectly harmless
that they may be administered with entire safety TO
al infant.
HAMBURG FIGS arc so eGicacious TO
adults that a single dose will prove their value.
HAMBURG FIGS are so elegantly pre-
pared that they need only to he presented TO the
public TO become a necessity in every household
thr ghout the land.
HAMBURG FIGS, % cents box. Dose,
one Fig. scpt2O-ml