Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-06
Press Comments

work Of the farmers with bounteous
crops; good prices have prevailed,
and 1887 will long be noted as debt
paying year. Southern farmers are,
we believe, less in debt to day than
at any time since 1865.-Commerce.
We do not believe the people of
this immediate section are SO much
interested about the tariff as they are
the internal revenue. The tax on
tobacco and distilled spirits-fruit
brandy especially-concerns them
in mere than anything else. On
this question we doubt if they are
accord with the views expressed by
the President through his message to
Congress, which we lay before our
readers to-day.-Gold Leaf.
We are glad to note that the inter-
state cooking main in Columbia
between North Carolina and South
Carolina birds was the last fight OF
the sort which is likely to take place
IN our sister State, as a more stringent
law against the cruelty is to 60 into
effect this week, and we hope there
will never be another main of the sort
in North Carolina. The sport, So
called, is but pandering to the more
brutal nature. 1t is out of place in
this age of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
Observer.
Santa Claus seems generally to
have been in better condition this
year than for many years before. His
pack has been larger, his deer have
been sleeker and fatter, his sleigh
has been brighter, and he himself has
been even cheerier than of yore. The |
fact speaks well for the prosperity OF
the country and is therefore to be
recorded with pleasure. Long live
Santa Claus, say we, as say the hun
dreds Of thousands of good children |
all over the land-the merry saints
most loyal subjects.-News and OBJ
server.
The fight of Currituck farmers
against the Norfolk Southern railroad
ia as useless as it is senselesS. While
we do not claim the railroad company
to be infallible. and while we realize
the fact that commission merchants
are not all saints, yet there are two
sides to every question. Tilling the
soil doesn't give man a passport to
heaven; farmer may be as easily
mistaken in the calculation of figures
IS anybody else. We have known
farmers to ship their corn by meas
measure at that-and
'fter wasting in transportation, it fell
short By weight, curse the commits
ion merchant and say that he robbed
hem. Farmers, as class, are the
nost suspicious, discontinued, fault {
hiding set of people in tho world;
re say it with much humility, but it \
3 nevertheless true.-Elizabeth City L
Jews. t
The Adjutant General Of North q
'arolina reports the entire State +
uard force at eleven hundred and !,
yelve members, consisting Of twenty s
lree white companies of infantry, a
70 colored infantry companies and Y
ne white cavalry. Five companies 6
ave been fo-med and equipped dur #
g the past year.-The Atlanta at
onstitution is opposed to the whis re
y tax, because it requires the she'd
ng Of blood to collect it. And the K
artford Post thinks that is not bad
ason. And our costoms duties
AXE thieving smugglers of many
lerwise respectable travellers, and sta
ey get punished for it. So there ,
u are.--If the new license law of he
lanta is stringently enforced, even {
prohibitiOnists may have occasion gle