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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18
South and West

| THE Illinois Republican State Convention
met at Springfield and Mayor Joseph w.
Flfer, of Bloomington, was nominated for
Governor. Resolutions indorsing Judge
Gresham a candidate for the presidential
nomination were passed.
THE Democrats of Iowa held their State
Convention at Dubuque, and elected district
delegates to the st Louis Presidential Con-
vention. The delegation goes thither I'M
pledged.
THE California Republican Convention
| convened at Sacramento and chose all I'M
pledged delegation to the Chicago Presiden-
tlal Convention.
GEORGE MORTON, a miner killed Deputy
Marshal Kelly at Warrior, Ala, and was
lynched by citizens, vino dragged the hOmi-
eide from a freight train on which he was
being carried to Birmingham for safety. He
was hanged and then riddled with bullets
trust in Kansas and the Mississippi Valley
effected a permanent organization at To-
peka, Kan, by electing Ex-Governor David
Butler, of Nebraska, President.
FRED HAAR and Frank Kruger, brothers
in-law, quarreled at Sandusky, Mich Haar
shot Kruger killing him, and fatally
wounded his own young son.
THE State Convention of the Nebraska
Democrats was held at Omaha. Resolutions
were adopted indOrsing the present Admins
tTation and the delegates to the National Con-
vention were instructed to support Cleveland
for denomination.
THE Republicans of Indiana assembled in
State Convention at Indianapolis and elected
a solid Harrison delegation to the Chicago
National Convention, both from the State at
large and by districts
Two unknown men were killed and several
badly injured at Sorrento, Mo-, in a railway
collision.
THE Town Hall, church, with several
stores and numerous dwellings in Melon,
Ohio, were burned causing a loss of over
1926, 600.
A CHARTER has been filed at Topeka, Kan,
for a company called 1.-The Farmers Fede-
ration os yhe Mississippi Valley" The cap
ital stock is S20,000,000, with 100000 of
shares at $40 each The charter is signed by
citizens Of fourteen States and three Terri
tories.
THE Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
road has absorbed the 1000 miles of road of
the st. Louis and San Francisco Railway,
this giving it the longest and greatest rail
road system in the world.
THE Kentucky Republican Convention
has elected an uninstructed delegation to the
National Presidential Convention. The
delegates were instructed for W. O. Bradley,
of Kentucky, for Vice-President.
SEVEN persons were burned to death in
barn on a farm near Arlington, Nebraska.
They were Mrs. Freeze who was widow,
Fred Grateluschen, his wife and three chill
dren, and his brother, Louis Grateluschen.
THE Union Labor Convention assembled
at Sedalia, No, and nominated full State
ticket headed by A. B. Mandring for Cover
nor. Thirteen presidential electors were
chosen.
Two Mexican brothers attacked John
Reagan, wealthy stOckman, at Del Rio,
Texas, and he killed them both.
A LARGE portion of Saundersville Ga. has
been destroyed by fire, causing loss of over
100000.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18
A DOUBLE HANGING,
Robert Hall and David Vincent
Executed at Philadelphia.

Robert @. Hall and David Vincent were
hanged Tuesday on the same gallows in Moy-
amensing Prison, Philadelphia
Both men were pronounced dead after
seventeen minutes
The crime for which Hall was executed
was killing Mrs Lillian Rivers. the wife of
James w. Rivers, an actor, on June 8. 1857.
Hall made some pretensions of being an
actor, and when on the boards was known as
Frank Burton, a low comedian He was
tried and convicted October 25 and sentenced
to hang.
Vincent, or Italian" Dave, as he was
known, was executed for killing George
Carlifatti, Greek seaman, on September
IA: 1887, who boarded at the same house with
Vincent
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18
a GREAT TUNNEL.
A Notable Feat of Engineering in
Washington Territory.


At 1890 P NJ, Pacific time. on Thursday,
the great Stampede Tunnel through the Cas-
cade Mountains, on the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, in Washington Territory,
became an accomplished fact. The workmen
from each end met in the heart of the Cas-
cade range. and the last borings were com
pleted. AS soon as a hole large enough for
passage was made, Mrs. \. b. Turner,
wife of the foreman of the west
drift, who had been waiting. stepped
through the breach, and was thus the first to
pass from west to east through the bowels
of the mountains.
The formal opening of this great work will
be about the first of June, after which 1t IS
expected that trains will run through regu
larIy, and the temporary road over the noun
tains via the Swiuchback will be forever
abandoned. The work has been accomplished
in less time and with fewer accidents than
that Of any other tunnel of its kind in the
world, and nearly every accident has been
due to the peculiar nature of the strata
The contract for building this tunnel was
let to Wilson Bennett, and work was begun
in the middle of April, 1886. The material
and machinery had to be hauled III wagons
distance of ninety miles, over a rough coun-
try with hardly a road, and some of the
heavy machinery was moved by block and
tackle the whole distance, and S125, 900 had
been expended before the actual work began.
Men were scarce, but the contractor pro-
cured them from all parts of the Union and
from Europe, but until the Cascade Division
was finished he had difficulty in keeping the
work moving.
The tunnel is $3.50 feet long and 16 feet wide
by 2O13 feet high in the clear, and is Intended
for single track road. The west end ap-
proach consisted Of open cut through trap
rock, while the east end enters the tunnel
by crossing a creek Immediately I'M
ier a cataract, which has a fall Of
100 feet. Before crossing this creek the
10 NV a haa 6cynO ar
slide of earth and loose rock. These two
approaches contained in the aggregate
upward of 10000 cubic yards of material,
most of which was solid rock, which had to
be blasted.
The work has been carried on by electric
light, power for which is supplied by small
mountain stream which flows down the
mountain and falls directly over the mouth
of the tunnel. 1t is estimated that the tun-
mel cost over $2,000.00O. Trains will be run
nilNo tAsOngh it within two weeks.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18
THE NATIONAL GAME,

Utica, n. Y, has a female baseball nine.
KANSAS CITY has developed unexpected
strength.
FOSTER, of the New Yorks, is an estab-
hShed favorite
WHITNEY has been exchanged by Pitts
burg for Pitcher Gruber, of Detroit.
INDIANAPOLIS is said to have offered the
Bostons 5000 for Pitcher Radbourn.
Hoy, the deaf mute centre fielder of Wash
lngton, is keeping up his record as a fine
fielder.
THE score cards at the Polo Grounds, New
ork, are said to turn in about $1,000 a year
TO the management.
NOBoDY need be surprised to see Herman,
OF the New Yorks, pretty near the top in
batting this season.
HE three-strike rule has worked very well
SO far IN the association. Comparatively few
men have failed to hit the ball
MELAECHoLY DARBY is the nickname be-
slowed on O'Brien, Brooklyn's left fielder
lie has the saddest smile in the business.
IHE white stockings and blue uniforms of
Ihe chicago club have been discarded for
neat suit OF blush gray, with black hose and
caps.
KELLY, of the Bostons. is playing a much
stronger game tins year than last, when he
was handicapped by the empty honor of
captain.
GRANT is now the only colored baseball
payer professionally engaged. He is a valu-
aoIe second baseman, and covers a vast
amount of territory.
LITTLE RADFoRD, of the Brooklyns is as
cieVer a centre fielder can be found in the
ASSOCIATION He is always on deck whether
at the bat or in the field.
EZRA SUTTON, of the Bostons, has played
IN the League for twelve seasons. In that
Time ne has taken part in 979 games, and has
a batting average of .2J1.
CATCHER BENNETT. of the Detroits thinks
Inat Dunlap is the king of in-field PLAYERS
6here is no pinch so tight, he SAYS, that
Dummy cannot squeeze out Of
UMFIRE GAFFNEY takes position in the
GenIre OF the diamond when men are on bases
seems to be the nearest approach vet reached
20 perfection with one umnira
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18
WaShin gton

THE Senate, near the end of its session
Wednesday, proceeded to the consideration
of individual pension bills on the calendar,
and in 60 minutes passed 105 of them, AZ being
House bills.
THE public debt statement shows reduc-
ton during April of 50, 235, 800. Total cash
IN the Treasury, $3.50, Sos, 5194S.
THE value of the coinage of the United
States minis during April was s., 32l ,2OS, of
which &, So, 001 silver.
i. E. NASH. the General Superintendent of
the Railway Mail Service, has resigned.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18
REPAIRING. VANISHING and UPHoLSTER-
ING FURNITURE A SPECIALITY.

A full supply OF cheap wood Collins. ane Cases
and Caskeis and Metallic Burlal Cases furnished ~
short notice and ~ low figures
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18

THERE are two hundred men in Cincinnati
who carry an aggregate life insurance of
$l0,000,000 One well known railroad man
has policies on his life amounting to s2S5, 900,
and Mr.. Stewart ShillitS, the dry goods me-
chant is insured for $3.50, 600.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18

For saving the life of c. w Davidson at
the Battle of the Wilderness, W. II. Daniels,
of Bath, Steuben county, Montana has Just
received a fortune of $50, 900, willed to him
by his grateful friend.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01
Broken Rails in Winter.

A practical railroad engineer of ex-
tensive observation and experience
writes in answer to the question
whether frost weakens rails that, con-
trary to what is commonly held in re-
gard to this point, 4 low temperature
does not decrease the strength of rails,
though accidents are more likely to
occur from broken rails in cold wealth
er. The reason given for this latter
fact is that the ground, when frozen
solid, is rigid, losing the elasticity
which acts as safeguard in fine
weather, and thus, when train runs
on such a road-bed, something must
yield, and rs the rail is the weakest
point, it gives way. Extended expert
ments, says this writer, have been
made with testing machines on steel
and iron rails. the results of which
show that the cold does not weaken
the metal at all; the frost is also likely
to diminish the safety of bridges by
causing the metal to contract and pro-
duce an unequal strain on the trusses.
N ]. Sun
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01
TREATMENT OF BABIES,
Why the Nerves and Faculties Of Little
Ones should Not lie Aroused.


Little children beginning to notice,
and to babble out their monoysyllabic
utterahces. are 50 engaging that the
temptation all the time is to wake up
their faculties; they are always on ex-
hibition, always being reused up to
show their pretty ways to admiring
friends. constantly on the alert, tossed
and handled and played with, when
they had far better be left lying quietly
in the crib.
A very great deal in the direction of
training can be accomplished by accus-
tomin e the baby to lie still in its cradle
when awake. Anxious mothers, on the
watch for every movement, are far too
apt to take the child up the moment it
moves or awakens; it looks so pretty
and engaging. too, with the pink color
in its little cheeks, and the bright eyes
opening with awakening interest. 1t
is very tempting to take it up and toss
it around, sing to it, make all those
many uncanny noises which some
mothers think essential to its develop
ment; and baby is so bri ght and Win
some. so smart, as it is the fashion to
say. or so cunning, that few reflect how
bad all this excitement and turmoil is
for the nerves, or trace 4 connection
between the noisy chirping and tossing
of the play-hom and the restless, I'M
easy sleep in the evening. 1t is not
welcome fact, but it is very pregnant
one. that the less babies are talked ts
and noticed the first year. the better.
All success in training them, indeed,
depends upon this calm letting them
alone. leaving the nerves unwrought
upon, and allowing the little frame
time to become accustomed to the Strain
upon it of acquaintance with this rest
less, rioting world of ours.
The children of the working poor are
in this respect far better off than those
of the well-to-dO; if later they miss
much in the culture of good habits, they
are. as babies, left so much alone, that,
take them all in all. they are peaceable
and quiet. One rarely hears the char
woman or seamstress talk of walking
up and down all night with fretful,
excitable baby. One of the compensa-
tons of poverty is that its children are
left in peace, for the reason that no one
has the time TO spend on exciting them
1t may be a negative training that they
get. but it is the very best sort of train
ing for the baby under twelvemonth,
and one that may be very advantageous
ly copied by mothers and nurses
Janet E. RuBtz-Ress, in Dsmorest' &
N0atsly.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01
Cremste Your Love Letters.

Lovers letters are usually treasured
up as something too precious and sa.
cred to cast into the fire. But into the
fire they ought to 60, every one of them.
They arc proverbialIy sweet sickenine
sweet, and silly to every body but the
twain interested. They have no earthly
value for others. And when true love
does not run smooth. as so often hap
pens, and the letters are read in the
divorce court, or as the foundation for
damages for wasted affections. in what
depths of mortified vanity, impotent
rage and helpless ridicule are poor low.
ers plunged. When the adored one
writes to his angel. if she be gifted with
mortal prudence. and if she really and
truly love her Charles she will destroy
his letter after reading it twice and
kissing it three times. So also will
Charles treat the missive of Angelina
if he be worldly-wise. But lovers sell
dom or never are worldly-wise. and be-
hold how the world is continually laugh
ing at their unburned folly.-PalEGdeL-
Dl.i1 Record.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01
THE KETTLES HoME-soNG.

In the dusk of winter evenings, when the snow
lies white
On the highways and byways across the path
OF night,
Then 1 sit within my kitchen, with Helen on
my knee,
And listen to the song that the kettle sings to
me.
Outside it's cold and cherries, but all within
iswarm,
What care for wailing of the wind above the
storm?
4 am sitting watching Don, and Helen crows in
glee
AS she hears the cheerful songs that the kettle
sings TO me.
You can talk about your nightingale, in the
month OF June,
But he couldn't hold a candle TO kettle all in
tune;
Though the music Of composers is good enough
for art
1t takes a kettle singing TO electrify the heart
Timber timber. joggle ioggle, the kettles keep
ing time,
To the music of its ditty, like the tinkle OF a
rhyme,
And sui sibi sibi and sui sibi Sc"
Is ] sort OF Latin jingle the kettle sings TO me-
Tho frost is on the windows see the summers
CLEAN
And the flash OF running waters in the kettles
voice o: steam,
And robins in the sunshine are warbling in the
grove
As the kettle sings its solo upon the kitchen
stove.
And Helen winks and wrigGles, as fast the fire
CLOVIS,
While I count the many dimples in her chubby
little toes,
And Don and and Helen-we all OF US agree
That there's nothing like the song which the
kettle sings to me.
-Ernest 4HcGGFey, in Inter ocean.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01

To clean marble. brush off the
dust with piece of chamois then ap
ply with a brush good coat of gum
arabic of about the consistency Of
thick ruucilage; expose it 10 the sun OF
wind to dry. In shor: time it will
peel off; if ali the gum should not peel
of, wash it with clean water and a cloth.
If the first application does not have
the desired effect, it should be tried
again.-BostoR Budget
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01

How is that feud between Colonel
Blood and Major Bluegrass getting on?
Are they as bitter az ever?" 20. no;
the whole thing is happily ended. "
I'm glad 20 hear thai" Yes, they
killed each other. Life.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01

Venus. the morning star, is
brighter than it ever appeared to any
man now living. and nearer to the
earth than it will be again for $40
years.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01

An engagement ring on the finger
of a young lady is apt to be made con-
spicuous by the wearer. 1t is the same
way with scalp worn by All Indian in
his belt.-M. O. Picayune.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-06-28
FOR THE LADIES.

Mrs Gen. Ben Harrison is the daughter of the
Rev. }. w. Scott, one of the pioneer professors at
Oxford University and with u all its best years.
She is a highly educated aud accomplished woman,
devoted TO the interests of her family and warm
In her friendships. She would honor place in
the White House II tue General should be the for
tunate man.
Miss Alice Louise Pond, the first young lady
to take the degree Of Bachelor Of Arts at Columbia
College, is a daughter Of Maj. Pond, of New York.
Mrs. Amanda EwIambs of Atlanta. whose for
tune Is estimated at S40J is perhaps the richest
eolOTed woman in the South. Mrs. H. White, OF
Mobile, colored woman. is worth $40 900, and
there are several other rich cOiored women IN the
South.
1t is a curious fact that while Queen Victoria
speaks German In her own home circle, the pres
ent German Empress disregards il In hers and uses
English much possible. English is the fire.
side tongue of the Greek, Danish and Russian
royal families.
With a hairpin woman opens envelopes
fastens her dress, suspends calendar picture on
the wall picks her teeth and cuts apart the leaves
Of her magazine or book. 1t becomes on occasion
impToyised ut-pick shoe and glove but
toner, or as quickly transformed into q hook
SCOOP or crank. Nor IS this complete eatalog oi
the manifold uses OF the modest ha1Fpn Necessity Is
the mother OfinyentiOn, and the hairpin becomes
the tool Of the moment for whatever the fair me-
chanic wills.
- Elderly ladies who used to charm their beauz
by singing '' DO They Miss Ne at Homer" Will be
interested to know that Miss Caroline A Briggs
who composed the verses, Is now airs. Chas. Mason
OF Fitehburg, Mass. The song was first published
40 years ago.
- Germany now has more Expresses probably
than any other cOuntTy. They are Augusta
Dowager Empress widow of William / /; Victoria
Dowager Empress widow of Frederick III; ; and
Victoria, Empress, wife of Emperor William IL
The new Empress is the daughter of the Duke Of
Schleswlg- -HOlsteln, and was born IN 1860. She Il
said to be rather dull. of the phlegmatic German
type. Her distinctive Teutonism is u recommends
ton to the present Emperor, as ne is anxious tha
his English blood" shall disappear from the
family.
- Miss Tosa Jones. of Argonia, aged Is years
daughter of ]. W. Jones, has this Spring broker
- OF land and planted 1t IN corn, and she IN
tends to cultivate it herself. She can husk anC
crib go bushels of per day She also attends tC
the feeding OF large number of cattle every Win
ter.
- Mrs Garfield has an income of SIS OGO, So, COO o
which comes from the Government in the shape o
pension. Gen Garfeds estate uetted the widow
about $4,000 and in addition she received S25 OOl
insurance on his life. Congress gave her $4,000
and the popular subscription raised just after Gar
fields death amounted to S3l2O0O.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-06-28
From Ererrrhere.


Music which compels people to applaud with
their feet might be styled sole-stiFTing.-Y Y0n-
EerS Statesman.
1t is the unoccupied, idle people who most
feel the heat. The idle man has not only the
actual heat, but all that is in his miud.-L0uis-
rifle Courier Journal.
Wellesley College has conferred the title Of
Bachelor of Arts on some more charming
young spinsters And now they are all candi-
dates for the attention Of artlul bachelOrs.-
Boston Herald.
Having got the organ out Of the church at
Winfield, agitation viii begin to remove the
stove next Winter, and thus return to Puritan
simplicity and gailoping Topeka
tKan.) Journal
A New York lawyer wants to see Johnny
Barnes, who ran away with circus 10 years
ago Some one has left the boy so, ,000 which
ought to help him turn a double somersault.-
Detroit Free Press.
boy at Thunder Bay, while planting pota-
toes the other day, saw sea serpent crossing
the field and fed in alarm. But it
doesn't take much of a snake to frighten boy
from work on farm.-ChicGgO Globe.
Young Housekeeper tto butcher)-Haye you
roast beef? ButcheT-Yes ma'am. Do you
keep it On the ice? Oh, yes, ma'am. Then
you may send me some. My husband told me
only this morning that he is very fond Of cold
roast beef.-Ieras Sftiags.
man was arrested in Waterbury the other
day for insulting a lady passing in the street.
In court, after he was convicted, he protested
that he merely said "Ah, there-stay there" "
The Judges reply was: a. Well, you will get
SO fine for 'Ah, there and 10 days in Jail for
| stay there "-HaTtford Tines.
Codger-You wouldn't think that swell
looking fellow has to scrape for living would
| you?
| Dodger-No, indeed
Codger-Yes; he lives from hand to mouth
| He's dentist.-T0WH Topics