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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
THE NEWS EPIToMIzED.
r.z,s-r and Middle States

DELEGATION of sixteen business men
from various towns in the Schuylkin mining
region represented to President Cor5ln. at
the Reading Railroad Office in Philadelphia,
ON Wednesday, that continuation OF the
miners strike meant great injury 10 me
business in their part of Pennsylvania and
great suffering, and urged that the Company
submit its differences with the men to arol-
tration Mr.. Corbin declined to consent
to arbitration. He said that when the men
returned TO work ON the old basis 1t would De
time enough 10 arbitrate.
THEODORE Houston, the ex-receiver OF
the West Shore Railroad, committed suicide
In New York
FIRE destroyed the Central Fire Station in
Lowell, Mass, and the Sixth Regiment
Armory, with 20, 900 rounds Of ammunition
Loss, $lO0. 600.
THE Reading Railroad on Thursday made
fifteen seizures of household goods for rent
owned by the company.
THE number of victims by the railroad &C
cident at Bradford, Mass, has been increased
to thirteen.
HARRY JOHNSON, prominent oil operator
OF New York city, committed suicide at
Elrnira, II. Y.
A CAKE of ice, weighing 26O pounds, fell
on Moses Eckert, at Ulster, n. Y, crushing
him to death.
STEVE BOYER, Samuel Boyer and Joseph
Kollep, three rolling mill hands, were killed
while crossing the railroad at Orangeville,
Pa
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
FOREIGN.

THE English government has ordered a
gunboat to the Island of Lewis, off Scotland,
to quell an insurrection among the crofters.
a FANATICAL outbreak has occurred in the
Chinese province of Fukien. Twenty Christ
ian churches have been burned and the con-
vertS maSsacred.
A SHARP shock of earthquake was felt the
other day in Ontario. Canada.
A GANG of men, with faces painted, robbed
an express-car on the Mexican Central Rail
road.
DENSE and long continued fog in Great
Britain has caused great delay to shipping
and demoralized the railway service.
MEXICO has negotiated a loan of over
$52. 600 900 with Berlin banker
A PAINTING woman caused a panic in a
church on the South Of the Tyro Eight per
sons were crushed to death, and many more
injured.
FORTY Russian sentinels on the frontier
have been frozen to death.
A JUBILEE address of congratulation to
Queen Victoria, signed by 1, 49,, COS women
OF Great Britain, has just been published
Ex-PREsIDENT GREW, of France. has had
second stroke of apoplexy.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Bulgaria made an
address to his officers declaring his intention
TO die in arms rather than submit to Russia's
dictation.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THE retail price of coal at Pasadena, Cal.
Is $25 ton.
THE entire district of Columbia's debt is
now 20,612, 40.
SIR MoRRELI. MACKENZIE has received
$65, 900 up to date for attendance on. the
Crown Prince of Germany
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, claims to have spent
81 100000 in building last year.
MATCHES left lying around loose caused
626 fires in New York last year.
A CAN of gasoline exploded IN Xenia, Ohio,
killing John Alexander, aged thirteen
1T rs stated that the Florida orange crop
this season will not exceed 10000 boxes.
THERE are nineteen persons charged with
murder confined in the New York TombS
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

M. DE LEssEPs viii leave Paris for Pana.
ma IN March
The Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon recently preached
ms ,OOOth sermon in London
THE King of Spain is seventeen months
old and gets 81, ZOO, 600 year.
MAJoR-GENERAL ALFRED a TERRY,
United States Army, Is said to be hopelessly
sick.
CLEMENCEAU, the French political leader,
was physician, and he once lived in New
York
JOHN WANAMAKER, OF Philadelphia car
RES 500, 900 life insurance and Chauncey
Depew $50O, 900.
THE Marquis of Lorne has determined upon
literary hfe, and has serial ready for an
English magazine.
REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGR succeeds Mr.
Beecher as chaplain Of the famous Brooklyn
Thirteenth Regiment
BELvA LOCKWOOD has returned to Wash
ngton, and is riding about the avenues Of
that city on tricycle.. She is comiAg Nsrth
On a lecture tour.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
South and West

On the Southern Pacific, in California, q
crowded emigrant car went off an embank-
ment eighty feet high and caught fire from
the car stove. Many people were hurt, some
fatally.
SMALLPOX is epidemic in San Francisco.
SENATOR INGALLS'S home at lAtchison,
Kan, containing his valuable library, was
destroyed by fire.
RAILROAD travel was stopped in the North
west by one of the worst billiards ever known
The thermometer registered forty below zero
at various points.
SEVERE earthquake shocks have occurred
again in the Carolinas and Georgia. The dis
turbanceS were particularly heavy at Column
bia and Summerville, s. c., and Whining
tOn n. c., and the people were much excited.
GENERAL NICHOLS was nominated by the
Democrats for Governor of Louisiana.
THE feud which exists between the Hat
field and Mccoy families in Pike county KY,
has resulted in the murder of ten persons.
MASKED men overpowered the jailer at
Macon, Ga, and taking out Henry Burney,
who had robbed j. NJ. Renehardt of So, 600,
lynched him.
FIRE at Indianapolis, Indiana, destroyed
property valued at $500, 900.
W. r. WILLIAMS, proprietor of the Parker
House, at Aniston, Ala, and a young man
named Evans shot each other to death in the
wounded by the flying bullets. Evans was
the aggressor.
FOURTEEN men engaged in the recent train
robberieS in the Southwest have been cap
tureG in six different States
FIRE in the heart of the wholesale section
of indianapolis destroyed houses and stocks
of goods valued at sos, 900.
Two young medical students of Des
Moines, Ia, were convicted of robbing the
grave of Mrs. Claflin and sentenced to six
months Imprisonment.
THE wife of James Cochran, of San
RI TO tyuin hn
exact duplicates of the famous Siamese
twins being joined at the same vital spot by
a strong ligament, which allows each child
free use of its limbs.
LATE reports place the number of victims
by the great blizzard in the Northwest at
sixty three, with many sections remote from
telegraphic communication yet to be heard
from.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27

AFTKR an existence Of six weeks the Har-
rison Government In Manitoba has res. gned,
and the Liberals triumph
THE Albion coal mine at Stellarton, \. S.,
was wrecked by an explosion, and four
miners killed
ORANGEMES attacked an Irish League
meeting IN Liverpool and wrecked the hall
In which il was held
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
About 200 Lives LOST.

The great storm which swept over the
Northwest blockading railroads in five States,
is over and the victims of its fury are being
counted. The list is an appalling one. Next
west ever experienced occurred on January
Z. and 3, 1878 In that storm seventy peO-
pie We're frozen to death. In this last
blizzard the loss of life is reckoned at
about 200 The Minneapolis Journals list of
fatalities shows 145 dead in Dakota, II in
Minnesota, q in Iowa, Il in Nebraska and
in Montana Total, 1872, besides 30 reported
missing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
knowledge and Truth.

A desire for knowledge is by no means
the same as adesire for truth. One often
studies industriously in order to acquire
facts, without being interested in the
Use to which those facts shall be put
Another seeks to know the truth in a
given line of research; and in his seek
ing he gathers facts industriously as a
means of arriving at the truth. A
truth-seeker is pretty sure to find the
truth A knowledge-seeker is often
kept from perception of the truth BY
the very knowledge which he has gath
cred aimlessly. 1t is greatly to n young
mans credit that he is truth-seeker.
1t is not always to his credit that he is
a knowledg Seekers. S. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
To AIIaY Common Garget.

Anthrax and tuberculosis are both
contagious. The first is very sudden
in its action. but rarely attacks cows,
and is not SO dangerous to the human
family. tuberculosis does not strike
an animal down suddenly and is often
y hidden foe in the milk-pail Garget
is often, though not always, the result
of this disease. When it is difficult to
get rid of. and one-fourth or more Of
the uddcr is hard, it may be considered
dangerous to those using the milk |
am not sure that the meat of such cows
is unfit for food if they are not other
wise affected. To allay common gargct,
ten drops of inter or teaspoonful of
saltpcter, two or three times per day is
good. Garget is too often the result OF
abuse, though it may be constitutional.
DR.. Noah CresSy. in Farm and Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Many broadcloth husband owes
his prosperity to the fact that he mar
RED bingham girl. Francisco
Bulletin.
The men who have walked bare
footed over the burning sand of the
desert always know all about the times
that tried mems soles."
Nothing is more pernicious than
the habit of contracting debts" re-
marked a father to his spendthrift son.
Don't you think expanding them is a
little worse?" asked the latter-Pitts-
bargh Chronicle.
Some people are SO sanguine in
this world that they think they can
plant handful of seed in q snow-drift
and gather carload of strawberries
the day after the first thaw. baltimore
american.
Ma, did that comedy you saw last
night make all the folks cry?" "Why,
no, my dear, never laughed so much
in all my life" "Well, pa told Mr..
Jones everybody in the theater sat in
tiersn
In the valley of Taos, in New
Mexico, there is field of alfalfa that
is reliably credited with having pro-
duced three crops year for more than
~ consecutive years. The present
owner claims to have cut the grass
from the field for sixty years, and he be-
lieves the present crop the largest he
has ever seen.
-Teacher--"Jo Johnny, doyou remem-
Der the proverb l gave you Yesterday"
Johnny-"No'm." speech is silver
and what is it?" "Idunno, num-" Il
know" spoke up Il little boy at the
foot of the class. VERY well, you
may rccite it." Speech is silver, but
money talks. ~ Y. Sun"
How are you and your wife COM
ing onP" asked an Austin gentleman
of a colored man. ''She has run me
off, boss" whats the matter?" Il
is to blame. boss. Igave her n splen =
did white silk dress, and den she got 80
proud she had no use for me. She aid
l was 200 dark to match dc dress. -
Te1as SytingS.
You have mentioned several times
during the evening"" observed one Of
the audience TO lecturer, 'thc word
periphrasis, Would you kindly inform
me of it's precise meaningo" Ger
tainly," said he, sit is simply cir
cumlocutory and pleonastic circle of
orator;cal sonorosity circumscribing an
atom of idcality lost in verbal pro-
fundity."
Anxious Father-"Iwi you would
tell me what to do with my boy. He
is willful, disobedicnt and surly.
dress him down with a horsewhip ;
dozen times week, and sometime:
lock him in the coal-house for half ;
day to discipline him, but it does NJ
good; he comes out as defiant as ever
What does such boy need?" Rev
Mr.. Surplice (decidedly)-"He needs ;
change of fathers"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
LIFE IN HINDOSTAN.
Buffalo IN. W Lady Writes of Hor Homs
in the Jungle.

Miss Mary Graybiel. one of the mis-
sionaries sustained in India by the sect
known as Disciples, writes very inter-
esting letters to her family in this city.
1t is now over four years since she went
to Hindostan, in company with the Rev.
Mr.. Wharton, formerly pastor of the
Church of Christ, and his WIFE The
place ut which Miss Graybiel is now
located is in the heart OF India, on the
line of the railroad which is to be built
from Bombay directly across to Cal
cutta. The children of the Sunday
schools of the denomination in the
United States contributed fund of
some four thousand dollars with which
to erect house for this mission, and in
her last letter she modestly tells how
the work was done.
1t appears that she had to serve as
architect, master, builder and general
boss mechanic. First, she bought four
yoke of buffalos to do the teaming; then
q few big trees-they are very scarce in
that part of the country. She employed
a hundred natives, or nearly that num-
Der, whom she taught to quarry stone,
which had to be hauled several miles,
and to make brick. first trampling the
clay, fashioning it into bricks, and then
burning them, using the spare portions
of the trees for fuel. The trunks of the
trees were laboriously by hand sawed
to boards for the floors. roof, etc. A
stone foundation three feet thick was
laid three feet below ground and rs
much above, this solid base wall being
deemed necessary to keep out the white
ants, which are great pest of the
country. Evidently good job was
made of the wall, for Miss Graybiel in
genuously relates that an Englishman
visitor inquired who had been the en-
gineer. and expressed much surprise
when she told that she had directed the
work herself.
1t takes Buffalo girl to mold her own
among the henthon, or any where else.
incidentally Miss Graybiel states that
the son of German missionary living
some forty miles distant was killed by
tiger. She attended the funeral, max
ing the journey through the solid jun
gle in cart drawn by n pair of tho
buffalOs, with the chance of being
sprung upon by that or some other
tiger at any moment. Such is lite III
the wiids of Hindostan.-BGfa!o CoHr-
Ter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
STORIES OF ELEPHANTS.
The Esteem in Which the Huge Animals
Were Held by the Ancients.

The Esteem in Which the Huge Animals
Were Held by the Ancients.
The ancients, who are sparing in their
praises of the dog, (by far the larger
part of the world has always abhorred
him as the very type of uncleanness),
could not speak too highly of the ele.
plant. The elder Pliny, who was a
diligent collector of anecdotes rather
than an observer, surpasses himself
when he treats of this animal. He
places him as unquestionably next to
man. Intelligence, obedience, memory.
ambition, affection. honesty, prudence
and justice are among the catalogue Of
virtues which he ascribes to these crea-
lures. He even declares that they are
religious, worshiping the stars, the sun
and the moon. an assertion in which
he is followed by Plutarch and Elian.
The stories which he tells of their sa-
gacity and aptitude for acquiring ac-
complishments are marvellous. That
they should 90 through the motions of
dance or gladiatorial combatis cred
ible. Busbecq tells of one which he
himself saw in Turkey that danced and
played at ball. But our faith is taxed
when we read of four elephants
walking on tight ropes, carrying
another in litter. Yet the testimony
of the ancicnts as to this particular ac-
complishment is very strong. Possibly
the funambulism of elephants is one of
the lost arts of antiquity. Writing
also is an accomplishment which we
fear the animal no longer acquires.
Mucianus, the friend OF Vespasian.
knew of an animal which could write u
Greek hexametcr, not, however, ont of
its own head; and we have pathetic
story of one which. having been beaten
for being somewhat backward in its
reading-for the elephants own the
human trait of having ounces among
them-was found diligently coming its
task by night. 1t was, however, in
sterner character than that of dancer
or scholar that antiquity best knew the
elephant He was most formidable
implement of war. The Carthaginians
were the first so to utilize him in Euro
pean warfare, and it is remarkable
fact that they, and they only, have
been able to educate the African
species of the race for human uses. 1t
may be doubted, indeed, whether the
military utility of the animal compen-
stated for the enormous expense and
trouble which he must have caused. II
Hannibal had not lost all his elephants
but one almost before he began his cam
paign he would certainly have found it
impossible to feed thea. Their use, in
deed, in Western warfare has not been
frequent One of the latest occasions
of their employment seems to have
been by the Emperor C!audus when he
invaded Britain in the third year of his
reign. They are still found, but for
show ratacr than use, in the military
establishments of the East. But it is
clear that they could not exist in the
face of the arms of precision. London
Spectator.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A machine of one-horse power
would keep 100000 watches going.
La Mature.
Type made from paper is the
latest novelty. A process has been
patented in England by which large
type can be made from pulp.
In a paper on injurious insects,
Prof. j. A. Lintner placed the total
number of insect species in the world
at 6O,O0O OF these found in the United
States 1000 or 5000 are fruit pests, and
and at least 210 attack the apple.
Scientists claim that tide mill
located at the Bay of Fundy would
generate 100000 horsepower twelve
hours day. This distributed electri-
cally and sold to every State in the
Union would save the coal supply.
The Electrical ReUteU says that the
uselessness of the lightning-rod is be-
coming so generally understood that
the agents find their vocation a trying
one. Fewer and fewer rods are manu-
featured each year. and "lhe day will
come when a lightning-rod on house
will be regarded in the same light as q
horseshoe over a mans door"
1t is said that the big cattle ranches
of the far West and Southwest arc
breaking up. A year ago the Niobrara
Land and and Cattle Company, which
has become bankrupt, refused $1,000,
900 for its property. Instead of the big
companies swallowing the little ones,
it is thought that the tendency IS
toward the breaking up of the big
ranches into smaller ones.
An infant loses from three to six
ounces in weight during the first four
to six days; by the seventh day it should
have gained its birth-weight; from that
to the fifth month it ought to gain
about five ounces per week, or about
six drachms day; after the fifth month,
about four drachms day; at the fifth
month it ought to have doubled its
birth-weight, and in sixteen months
quadrupled it.
"A chemical explanation of Ire
exclusive subsistence upon potatoes.
Though healthful luxury, this food
alone supplies too little nutrition to
support people other than in a half
starved and dissatisfied condition. 1t
is probable, therefore, that Ireland
woes would be greatly reduced if the
productive soil and climate were APP
piled to the growth of nutritive cereals
instead of the tubers.
The latest idea in the direction of
waterproof footwear is q shoe made
with stout calfskin vamp, seamless,
underlying which is a vamp of thin
rubber, and between it and the lining,
which is of stout canvas. The bottom
of the shoe has rubber intcrlining be-
tween the outer and the inner soles, and
thus the shoe is about as near water
proof as leather shoe can be. Il is
said to wear well and preserve its
Waterproof qualities for an indefinite
period.
"A sound issuing from % fog gives
no trustworthy indication of the direc-
ton of its source. A recent writer
gives two cases in his own experience
near Newport when the sound from a
fog-horn at Beaver Tail seemed to come
from several directions, each ten or
fifteen degrees apart, and there is we'll
known case where transatlantic
steamer, bound to New York, going di-
rect but slow. and sounding her whistle,
finally picked up pilot who declared
he had heard the blast for half an hour
and that the steamer had been sailing
around him in circle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
"a Word to tho wise is snnicient."

Catarrh is not simply an inconvenience,
unpleasant to the sufferer and disgusting to
others-it is an advanced outpost of APP
preaching disease OF worse type. DO not
neglect It's warning; it brings deadly evils
in its train. Before it is too late, use DR..
seat of the ailment, and is the only thing
that will You may dose yourself with
quack medicines till it is too late-'till the
streamlet becomes a resis tless torrent. Ii
is the matured invention of scientific ply
siclan. "a word to the wise is sufficient.
NEcK-AND-SEcz race-giraTes -Bosto'
R,,3J
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
1t is said to be a common thing f,

1t is said to be Il common thing for
Chinese merchant, when importing
diamonds from Cuba to San Francisco,
to place the precious stones in his
mouth when the custom house officials
search him. If the examination chance
to be rigid, he quietly swallows the
stones and when released follows then
up with an emetic, which speedily
brings them to light again. ..sa
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
VALUABLE ADVICE.
An Experienced Detective Offers n Sug-
Gestion to Housekeepers.

an F-APeFlcHCtu DSIcCJlVe oEerS SuS~
gestion to Housekeepers.
There are only ten persons in a
thousand who, when they hear strange
noises in their house, do not immedi-
ately make a light to find out the cause"
said one of the detectives of a private
agency. This is the most absolute
piece Of folly a sane person can COM
nit. and yet it only seems natural. But
let me tell you that when you hear any
noise that indicates the presence in
your house of u person who has no
business there, first take the precaution
to put out the light. Then, if you want
to search do so in the dark. OF course
you know the house better than any
intruder, and the chances are that if
you keep quiet the intruder will expose
himself either by showing a light or
stumbling over something. Then you
have the advantage of knowing his po-
sition without his knowing yours.
There is many murdered man in
in his grave to-day who would have
been alive had this advice been fol-
lowed. What can be more preposter-
Gus than the idea of man in his right
mind (knowing that if n burglar is in
his house and is discovered he will take
desperate means) actually Offering HIM
self as target by appearing with
light in his hand, which does no more
good than to betray his presence. as it
is only natural that he can not see three
feet beyond the rays of the light. Take
the record of murders committed where
only burglary was intended, and you
will find that three-quarters of them
are dne to the folly of searching for tho
burglar with light. ~ Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18

But for mild effective, vs1ctable purg,
tive, you had better get DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Purgatlve Pellets. They cure sick head
ache, bilious headache, dizziness, constipa-
ton, indigestion, and bilious attacks; %
cents a vial, by druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18
The Boots Gave Him Away.

Omaha Dame-Do you know what
time it was when you got in last night?
Husband-Nearly one o'clock, 1
guess. 1t was after midnight when
got through balancing my books. Well,
well! This is curious; here's my hat
under the bed. | must have hung it
on this chair and it fell down.
"Probably."
"Where are my boots?"
"On the hat rack. t. Omaha World.
Pulling weeds is not so unpleasant
work, particularly when they grow on
pretty little widows bonnet. -Pack.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18

As CHUCK" steak is to beef, so is con-
science to mantle toughest part-7Sd-
Bis
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18

Caller to Ms. H.): Your daugh-
ter's husband is an A. NJ, is he not.
Mrs. II. Pr Mrs. II. Ga trle sourly)
Yes, he is about two o'clock 4. M.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18

THE THRoAr-"B yo,cu's bronchial Troches"
act directly on the organs Of tho voice.
They have an extraordinary effect il all dis
orders of the throat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18

IT is the man who will get in front of bars
Who eventually gets behind them-Ae1s
Hdven NelpS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18

SPoT cash-that won on an ace-high
bluff. -Biaghamton Republican
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-18

MANY hotel that has opened with eclat
has been subsequently closed by the sheriff
--Hotel Mail