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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are over 200 600 foreigners in Paris
ALASKA ships craDberries to Eastern mar
zets.
OVER 5OO.O 900 acres of southern timber land
have been sold since January lst
THIS country imports not much less than
2,OOU,O00 bushels of potatoes year.
THERE are $50. 900 LIQUOR saloons in Eng
land, &c, 600 of which are in London.
Mrs. MCELMORE, of Texarkana, Texas,
has had nine children in three years.
THE Germans have imprisoned Malietoa,
the deposed Samoan King, at Camercons.
Paris was never so dull in the way of bust
ness now. Over 20, 900 fat apartments are
for rent.
LARGE flow of petroleum has been
struck at Leavenworth, Kan, at depth of
1900 feet
A DENVER firm has closed a contract to
furnish a French army with 5000 head Of cat
tie weekly.
THE Sultan of Turkey has prohibited the
expectation Of Arab horses from any part Of
his dominiOns.
JOHN B. Fry, Henry Clay's private secre-
tary, is living at Sidney, n. Y, nearly sew
enty years old.
The Chicago police have abandoned the
search for Tascott the supposed murderer of
Millionaire Smell.
THE Swedish Minister at Washington has
sold to Speaker Carlisle his residence on K
street for S24, 900.
IT is claimed that 500 tons Of coal were
stolen the past winter from the railroad sheds
at Fond du Lac, Wis.
SARATOGA, Kan, had population of 1000
a year ago. At present only 80 sad-faced
persons remain in the deserted town.
IT is estimated that 100000 gallons of
cotton-s seed oil were used in this country last
year in manufacturing ''refined lard"
THE sealer Neptune has arrived at st.
Johns, New FOundland, with f.. 900 seals the
largest cargo ever brought into that port.
LAMATE. the artist whose carricature of
the funeral of Emperor William, of Germany,
was suppressed, has committed suicide in
Paris.
presented to that CITY art gallery, with
pictures worth $4,000, and an endowment
of $780, 900.
A PEER Of England, who is somewhat hard
up financially, has accepted an engagement
as travelling man to well known firm OF
piano makers
HENRY ROSENBERG, of Galveston. Texas.
has Just given $4,000 to the public schools Of
that city, regardless of race, color or pre-
vious condition of servitude.
A number of claims on the mud fats in the
harbor of Seattle, Washington Territory.
have been staked OFF, and test Is about 10 be
made in transplanting oysters
QUEEN VICTORIA's personal servant" q
prlre bred Highlander. who was raised on
Deeside ALWAYS stands, aTraye6 in Celtic
parb. behind her Majesty's chair when she
dimes in company in the Oak Room at Wind
sor.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
Foreign.

SENIOR GALINDEz the wealthy merchant
who was recently kidnapped at his estate in
Santa Rita, Cuba, by bandits, has been re-
leased on the payment of ransom Of ST., 600
in gold
CAPTAIN CANPERIo. the African explorer
has sent messages from the interior an
nouncing the safety OF Emin Bey He saws
he was taken prisoner by King Traxiore,
whom he finally persuaded to become friend
" to Emin Bey. Eventually Traxiore
charged him with mission to negotiate an
alliance with Emin Bey. The letters state
that Stanley had not arrived at Wadelai up
TO the time the despatch was sent
AN ex-convict who murdered six persons
at Temesvar. Hungary, recently, has been
captured and lynched.
THE first execution in Madrid Spain for
five years took place a few DAYS ago, when
girl her lover and an accomplice were gar
rOted for murder.
SEVEN men were killed and a large num-
Der injured by an explosion in the Govern
ment Powder Factory at ST. Petersburg,
Russia
WILLIAM f. OBRIEN the Home Rule agi-
tatOr AMI Irish member of Parliament, has
been again arrested charged with attending
illegal meetings. He was sent to Dublin jail
and bail was refused him
THERE is a serious peasantry revolt in
Roumania, and the Government has taken
measures to repreSS it.
NOBEL, the inventor of dynamite, died re
Gently at Cannes, France.
GENERAL BOULANGER has been elected to a
seat in the French Chamber of Deputies by
majority of sc, 627 votes.
BILLY" Cook, the confidential clerk of
Boss Tweed, who defrauded New York City
out of such enormous sums of money, has
just died in Paris. He was indicted along
with his employer, but escaped impriSOn-
ment by fleeing with $4,000
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
PLENTY OF ICEBERGS,
Reports of Great Ice Fields off the
Newfoundland Coast

Large quantities of ice are reported off the
coast of Newfoundland and said to be
rapidly drifting down into the routes of
ocean steamers Captain Dawson, of the
steamer Portia, which has arrived at New
York, says that he was blocked in the ice
at Newfoundland. with other vessels for
three weeks. Continual strong east
erly winds packed the ice so close
to the shore that from the signal hill at the
entrance to the harbor, a height of 5000 feet
above the sea level, giving range of view of
over sixty miles, no open water could be seen,
and during that time the ice was so solid that
he walked over four miles to another vessel
that was also blocked in. Finally a westerly
breeze sent the ice a little off shore, and his
vessel was able too creep out. The following
day the steamer passed thirty icebergs within
distance of thirty miles along the coast.
The steamer Austrian. which has arrived
at Boston, was caught in the ice Just as the
Portia got clear. The Captain reported hav-
ing passed forty icebergs in one day between
St Johns and Cape Race.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
A REVIVALIST HANGED.
A Salvation Army Member on
the ScaffOld.
Executed for the Murder of His
SWeetheart's Brother.

Robert Van Brunt was hanged in the War
saw N. " Jail yard Friday morning for the
murder of VIII Roy, at CASTLE, October Z,
1856 Eva Roy, who had pleaded ineffect-
ually for his life before the Governor, called
10 see Van BrI1nt at an early hour, but was
refused admittance.
Robert Van Brunt the second person
hanged for murder in Wyoming county, was
born in England, twenty-five years ago; HIS
father was a member of the Queens ScOtS
Guards. His mother died when ne was ten
years old. In his fifteenth year his grand
mother took him to Canada, where he was
apprenticed to tailor. While in Toronto
revivalist named Hammond held series
of meetings there, IN winch van
Brunt became interested and was con
verified After Hammond went away Van
Brunt fell out of work, became discouraged,
and attempted suicide. When the Salvation
Army arrived in Toronto, Van Brunt Joined
it and received the sOubrlquet OF HAPPY
Bob" Disappointed in a love affair, ' an
Brunt left the Salvation Army and attempted
suicide by shooting.
He next appeared as revjvalist in towns
in Canada and New York. In May, 1886, at
CASTLE, n. Y, he Joined the Salvation Army
again as a lieutenant, and was sent TO war
saw Wyoming, LIE Roy and Batavia. At
Warsaw he met Eva Roy and correspondent
with her. Finding work at CASTLE, where the
Rows lived, ne became engaged to Eva. her
half brother Wits frequent visits annoyed
him, and an unfriendly feeling sprang up
between the young men. Eva's mother OBJ
jected to the attentions of Van Brunt.
On the evening OF October e, 1886, Van
Brunt while sitting in his room in the Roy
house, to which he had retired after family
jar, heard the sound of voices in the parlor.
He suspected that the girl Eva and VIII
Roy. were in each others company, and in
fit of jealousy descended to the parlOr The
girl was talking with young Roy. The tone
of their remarks stung Van Brunt to mad
ness, and with a sudden impulse he
nStOl from pocket
shot Roy Van Brunt gave himself up. At
his trial in February, 1887 Eva Roy testified
that she had become engaged to him through
fear that he would kill her. Van Brunt was
convicted and was sentenced to be hanged on
April ID, 1887. The case was appealed to the
highest court on the ground that premedita-
ton had not been shown, but the conviction
was affirmed.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
Washington

THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
Of j. L. Rathbone. to be Consul-General at
Paris, by vote of "A to s.
THE President has nominated Thomas T.
Tunstall, of Mobile, Ala, to be United States
Consul at San Salvador. and has appointed
Frederic r. COudert, of New York, Franklin
MacVeagh, of Illinois, Alexander c. Haskell,
of South Carolina NJ. A. Hanna, of Ohio,
and James W. Savage. of Nebraska, as Gov
eminent Directors of the Union Pacific Rail
way Company.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of j. L. Logan. of New y DIRK, to be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho.
THE bill for the eleventh census calls for an
appropriation of S6,0O0,0Ou.
THE President has approved the joint res
Olut on apprOpriating 50 90 for the Inter
national Exposition IN B lrcelOna Spain: the
act providing for holding terms of the
United States Courts at NickSburg, NJ SIS. :;
the act for public building at Helena, Ark.
THE daughter of Judge Curtis Hillyer. of
Washington, whose elopement with young
man beneath her socially caused such a sen
SatiOn q few weeks ago, has committed SUI
eide She had separated from her husband
and returned to 1--we with her parents
THE Legislative, Judicial and Executive
Appropriation bin, as agreed upon in the
House Committee, makes a total appropria-
ton of $50, 412, ST. which Is 1887. 800 less
than the estimates and 500, .346 less than the
current appropriations for the same services.
UNITED STATES MINISTER to England
Phelps, has returned to this country on
leave of absence of sixty days TO look after
his private interests.
SENATOR STEWART has given notice of
a bill granting pension OF 5000 year 20
the widow of the late Chief Justice Waite
BY unanimous vote the House Commit
tee on Elections has decided that, in the
Nathan-Glover contested e lection case. John
NJ Glover, the sitting member from the
Ninth Missouri District. is entitled to his seat
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
SELF-MURDER IN JAIL.
The Determined Suicide of Aston
Who Murdered His Child.

J. n. Aston hanged himself in the county
Jail at Weatherford, Texas, last Saturday
night. Aston murdered his daughter, Mrs. G.
w. Turpin, near Poolville, Texas, recently
stabbing her forty-th times with a huge
butcher knife. Aston tore his mattress up
and made a rope, with which he com
mitted suicide. He took a water bucket
and stuffed a blanket in it, SO if
it should fall over it would make
no noise. Before kicking the bucket from
under his feet he tied his hands together with
a string, and ran his right knee through them,
so to keep his hands down in MS last
struggles His death was not discovered I'M
Ill the next morning.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
Hanged in Texas.

Chillers Banks. colored was hanged at ten
minutes past one o'clock Friday at Wallis
vile, Texas. The execution was public and
was witnessed by hundreds of people. Banks
was unmoved to the last meeting his doom
with stolid Indifference, his last word being
an OATH The crime for which he was exc
cuted was the murder of a colored woman
named Martha Henderson on June 10, 1887.
Banks claimed that the woman had slandered
him, and on hearing this he went direct to
her home, called her out and shot her with
out saying a word.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
Left a Substantial Bank Account.

Charles Porter, aged thirty-five years, be-
longing in Boston, died at the Jefferson
Hospital, Philadelphia. from the effects of
laudanum, which he took at a lodging house
on Morgan street. On the table of his room
was a farewell letter to some friends and a
bank book showing a substantial balance in
his favor
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
Two Traeedies i'm One Street.

Della Keenan,, aged sixteen years, and Amos
Hurley both of whom resided on James
street, Kansas City, Mo-, within two blocks
of each other, took carbolic acid and died
within a few hours. The cause of Hurleys
suicide was family trouble, but the motive
for the girls rash act has not been brought
to light.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
A Man Weary of Life.

W. A Overmier, of Templeton, Iowa,
while in company with his wife, brother and
two friends, drew pOcket1nife and tried to
cut his throat The three men attempted TO pre-
vent him, but during the struggle, in the course
of which he managed to leap into the kitchen,
he managed to cut his throat with butcher
knife, the men still clinging to him. He died
in a few minutes. Overnier a leading
citizen of Carroll County. He had been
brooding over business troubles for some
time.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27

W. E. FARLowE. Chicago commission
merchant, had 220 Angora goats on his hands
recently, and finding purchasers backward
he caused five of them to be slaughtered. and
give goats meat banquet " at which sew
eral butchers were present The guests de-
clared the meat better and sweeter than NUT
ton and bought the whole consignment of
goats to retail in their markets.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
A LIFE-DESTROYING COW.
She Wrecks a Train, Causing the
Deaths of Four Men.

A construction train on the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham Railroad was
wrecked sixty miles west of Birmingham,
Ala, at 80 o'clock Friday evening. Four
workmen were killed, one injured fatally
and nine others seriously hurt. The train
was backing at a high rate Of speed and
struck a cow and was ditched.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
An Ex-Confederate Officers Suicide

Major John S. Rudd, who officer
on the staff of General Longstreat in the
Confederate army committe / suicide in his
W. Va, about five O'c.ock Sunday night.
He had taken an overdose of laudanum and
died twenty minutes a fter he was found.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
The Fifth i'm Two Months.

The suicide of Charles Lorenz, a saloon
keeper of Coshocton, Ohio, twenty eight
years DID, who shot himself in the head Sun
day night, was the fifth tragedy of this kind
in that vicinity within two months.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
Sixty Years All He Wanted.

AbsalOm Davis, aged about sixty years, a
respectable farmer of Bremen, Ohio, com
mitted suicide about five O'clock Monday
morning by firing thirty-two calibre pistol
shot in his RIGHT temple
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27

full supply OF cheap wood Coins. hue Cases
and Caskeis and Metallic BnuAl Cases furnished =.
short noIlce and ~ low figures
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-06-15
WANTED A THUMPER.
An Old Man in Search OF Science Fin
What He Sought.

What He Sought.
A farmer about fifty years old yes
terday stopped number of people on
Monroe avenue to inquire his way to
gymn asium, and he was finally
asked if he was going to take lessons
in boxing.
mo, not exactly" he replied. "bl
want to see a thumper."
H. was directed to the right place.
and after looking the establishment
over he said to the proprietor.
II live out here about fourteen
miles. I've got hired man who has
got so sassy that l can hardly live
with him. He's too big to lick with a
CAD. and I've got to cuff him up to
peak. l want to take lesson with
the gloves, and when l go home L
astonish John Henry with a bit of
science"
One of the boxers about the place
said he'd give lesson for dollar
and the old man peeled down to his
undershirt and put on the gloves. He
was shown how to pose and how to
hold his guard. and then warned to
look out for himself
You play you are John H enry, the
hired man," he said.
'All right"
you've been fooling your time
away. and I've called you a lazy
coyote"
Exactly"
you have sassed rue back, and
GO for you like this-and this!"
And the old man struck right and
left and followed the boxer around the
ring. He was doing noble work when
something shot over his guard and hit
his chin, and he went over like log
and laid there until they threw water
on him. Then he sat up. looked
about in daz,d way. and feebly i'm
CURED:
What was ftp"
John Henry hit YOU"
He did. ehp Then that settles it.
Here s your dollar young man. and
here's the gloves. If I'm liable to get
such lick as that I'm going home to
tell the hired man he can boss the whole
ranch and be-hanged to himr' De.
trott Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-06-15
THE FREE PRESS.
GRANGEv1LLE, IDAHO.
PITH AND POINT.

Tact is not talent, but 1t is oftcn
the best substitute for it.
1t Is far better to find out one of
your own weaknesses than ten of your
neighbours.
Fine manners are like personal
beauty-a letter of credit everywhere.
DR. Bdrtoi.
No one thoroughly and lovingly
acquainted with the literature of his
language can regard proprety in its
us, with contempt.
MN slow to do you favor are
quick enough when they have favors
to ask. 1t is n way they have OF maxi
ing up time. N. O. Picayune.
Take care always to form your
establishment so much within your
income as to leave suf1i cient sum for
unexpected contingencies. - Chester
field.
Sometimes it is hard to tell wheth-
err man is firm in principle or simply
obstinate, but the man himself never
expresses any doubt Journal of Ed
Ucdt,on.
You see, the trouble with sue
cess" that is too dearly bought is that
you have got to 60 on associating with
yourself after you have attained it.
Rochester Union
From an old bachelors album:
'1ts too soon to marry when one is
young. and too late when one Is old.
The interval may profitably be de-
voted to reflection"
STRANGE" said r ochefoucauld,
shat we can always remember the
smallest thing that has happened to
ourselves. and yet not recollect how
often we have repeated it to the same
person."
In peace patriotism really consists
only in this. that every one sweeps
before his own door. minds his own
business. also learns his own lesson,
that 1t may be we'll with him in his
own house. - Goethe
1t seems to be pretty lonely trav-
cling on the road to wealth nowadays,
that is, beyond the third and fourth
milestones. The start is a crowded
one. but few prove stayers. and the
ranks rapidly thin out
That which lays man open to an
enemy. and that which strips him of
a friend. equally attacks him in all
those interests that are capable of
being weakened by the one and sup
ported bv the other. South
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-06-15

Rod. Yet again, II we wish house
and clothing and food, we must work
for them, but for d zen there is moth
ing to pay. 1t is free to all, and lies
around US in such abundance that IL
never runs short. Here, then, we see
every means taken to insure that all
our demands for oxygen shall be freely
and fully met, and yet we are assured
by medical authorities that very large
proportion-some say one-fourth-of
all the deaths that take place is caused,
directly or indirectly, by oxygen starv-
alton. Now, what unfortun' tie circum-
stances prevent so many persons hay
ing sufficiency of this ali important
gasp The chief one undoubtedly is
congregating in towns. Instead of liv-
ing in the country, where every house.
hold might have large free space of
air around it, we draw together, for
the convenience of business, 10 great
centers. There the houses are crowded
closely together, often piled one on the
top OF the other, so that, instead of an
overabundance, there is only limited
quantity OF air for each. This is made
unfit for the support of life by the
very act of breathing; the impurities
are increased by the waste prod
ucts of manufactures; and oxy-
gen is destroyed by every fire
and lamp and gas light. Tho winds
and certain properties of the atmos-
phere constantly remove much of the
impure air and bring in pure sup
ply; but the crowding togetherin many
parts of town is so great. and the
production of poisonous matter goes on
so continuously, that instead of each
breath containing its full proportion of
oxygen. the place of that gas is taken
up to some extent by what is actually
hurtful to life. When this is the condition
of the atmosphere outside the dwelling,
tits necessarily much worse within it, for
there the displacement of impure air
by pure can not take place so rapidly.
The consequences are as already stated.
Large parts of our town populations
never have sufficient oxygen; their
lives are feeble and full of suffering,
and numbers die before their time.
Such facts are painful to contemplate,
but knowledge of them puts the wise
man on his guard. and he may do
much for himself. In the choice of
house he will remember the advan-
tages Of great air space around it,
and of plenty of space within it, so
that bedrooms may not be over
crowded. Or, if large house is be-
You'd his means, he will take care that
the rooms are not crowded with furn-
ture, for every piece of furniture ex-
cludes an equal bulk of air. When he
enters the house he will see that att
times rs much fresh air from the
side is admitted, by means of OPT
doors and windows, rs can be allowed
without inconvenience from cold; and
as often as possible he will have blow
through, to clear out all odd corners
where foul air may linger Pure air
and good food make pure blood, and
only pure blood will give good health
Chambers journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-06-15
GOOD FOR SOMETHING.
How n Smart Dog Saved Himself from
Being Executed.

How n Smart Dog Saved Himself from
Being Executed.
A Georgia man started out one
morning 10 kill his dog. He had given
the animal every opportunity to show
his worth, but as he ha failod to take
advantage of any of them, the disap-
pointed man decided. after holding
con sultation with his wife. that Rip.
as he was called. should be deprived
OF his life. The man took down his
gun and led the dog away. intending
10 take him to the top of distant
hill
RI p" said the man. II hate ter
shoot you. but you amt no manner
account. You WON'T tree 'possum.
won't fight coon, an won't even run
II rabbit, so you've got ter die"
just then. having reach d the road.
the dog broke away. dashed at man
who was walking along the roal. and
81 ringing upon him. bit h III severely.
You've got 10 kill that Internal
dog!' exclaimed the victim when he
h:d been rescued.
wv all. u u start out ter XIII him. y
Go on then and do it.
"But wait mint. Amt you the
cou ~ j ,dgeP'
Yes"
Air you bit bad?'
Yes l am"
"Wall. ~ l said. l had started ter
kill him 'cnz, he ANT no count but
say, air you sartin you air the coun.
ty j"dgeP'
OF C ,urse am.
Wall R., Cafe ctionately siroking
the dog) l won't take you over yonder
on the hill. fur have diskiv red tn at
you air COOL fur suthin' af err all.
Come on an wen go home. Bit err
county jedge. Wy. Rippy. that'll
tickle my wife putty nigh to death. -
AckdlsdW 7rIv eier.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-06-15
Why Women Are Nervous.

Prof Redom, the eminent German
hygienist. declared in a recent lecture
that the nervousness of women is gem
orally owing to two defects-an@ IN ia,
caused by the silly notion that hear, y
appetite is unfeminine. and fresh air
starvation. accompanied by lack of
exercise. To their fondness for fresh
air, their open windows at night, aud
their constant cx rcise, he attributes
the greater beauty of the English
women. The beauty Of the German
women" he says, ''lics in their face.
with its changing and amiable ex-
preston. The beauty of the English
lies in the whole body and in their
health. German women" he adds
''are martyrs to an unnatural state Of
civilization. and if they would only
initiate the English. hysteria would
diminish in frequency. "-Philadslphia
Call