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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
Peacock Feather Fan.

Take a small Chinese fan, round or
slightly oval in shape, cover it with
dark green paper muslin OF any dark
green thin material; cut the feathers
about four inches long, measured from
the top of the tibers. Have a bottle of
mucilage ready; begin by clipping the
tibers remaining on the quill, from
which has been cut the tops, takes these
tibers and glue them all around the edge
OF the fan, SO they will extend about two
inches over the top of the fan. Take
the largest size of the feathers and glue
in the center # the top aud have them
about one inch longer than top of tibcrs.
Keep on glueing one feather after an
other, arranging so the smallest will
come to he bottom. When The first
layer has been placed all around the out
side edge OF the fan begin the second
layer. Keep on until one side is all
finished; let it dry then begin on the
other side; when all is finished and dry,
take a curling knife or any other blunt
knife or shears and begin curling the
long fibers into nice large and soft
curls. Those on the edge curl closely
down to the edge. Next wind the han
die with peacock blue ribbon. finish with
a full bow with long ends of the same
and you will have beautiful fan.-De-
tr0it Free Press.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL PHIL SHERIDAN will turn sixty
seven this year.
SENATORS SHERMAN, EvartS and Hoar are
related to each other.
THE senior Admiral of the British navy
Sir Provo Wallis, is 100 years old.
ATTORNEY-GENERALG CARL AND says he has
been wearing the same hat for twelve years,
A SUBSCRIPTION fund is being raised tt
erect statue of Horace Greeley in City Hal
Park, New York.
LAWN TENNIS bats made from trees felIed
by Mr.. Gladstone are becoming fashionable
and popular in England.
JAMES G.. BLAINE will accompany Andrew
Carnegie in fourth hand tour through Eng
land and Scotland in June.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is said to be
meditating a journey to England to call on
the Empress of India this summer.
JEAN INGELow, the poetess, gives dinner
three times a week to the sick poor and dis
charged oOnvaleScents from hospitals
Mrs. CLEVELAND planted a sapiing at
Mount Vernon the other day in great secrecy
lest relic hunters should destroy the plant.
SECRETARY ENDICOTT's coat-of arms is a
silver shield, with a dragon on a blue band
running across it, and three red diamonds on
the shield.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, the eminent author
has been offered the editorial management of
the Dublin Freenla11S Journal at a salary of
$4,000 year.
GENERAL bOULANGER was lately accused
of wearing a wig, whereupOn a correspond
ent called upon MIN, and he submitted to
having his hair pulled to show that the story
was a SANDER.
GOVERNOR JOHN B. GORDON, of GEORGIA,
is one of the finest looking men in the State.
He is six feet two inches in height and stands
perfectly erect, his military life having had
much to do with his manly bearing.
DIR. THOMAS EVANS, of Paris, the eminent
American dentist who was recently sum-
moned to Charottenburg by the Empress
Victoria of Germany, has been to Sandring-
ham, on a visit to the Prince and Princess Of
Wales.
MILE. NJ. RAMIREZ CORTEZ, of Paris, who
is at present in San Francisco, is lineal de-
scendant of Hernando Cortez, the famous
conqueror of Mexico. She is about twenty
eight years of age, slender and small of
stature, with jet black hair and regular
features
A SON of Sir Stafford Northcote, the emil
nent English statesman, is employed as a
clerk in the Chicago office of the auditor Of
the Illinois Central Railroad. He is punctual
at his desk and a hard worker. He is quite
attable and popular in the Office and a favor
LIE IN Chicago society.
MAJOR E. A. BURKE, proprietor of the
New Orleans Times Democrat, expects, it is
SAID, to realize something like $4,000, 900
from IS land speculations in BeSsemer, Ala
LII ne does, it will represent enormous
prom Cd an Investment he made there hardly
Two years ago, when a small frame hut was
tne cnleI building in the town. Ma JOr Burke
Is ABOUT ntty years old, and was employed on
a Texas railroad at small salary when the
war broke out
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
THE LABOR WORLD.

a $4,000 silk factory is to be built at
Jacksonville, Fla.
PULLMAN, Ill, is to have an electric belt
railroad five miles long.
THERE are thirty-six societies Of the various
crafts in Minneapolis, Mimi.
In Massachusetts, II, 900 children under II
years of age are working in shops
EXTENSIVE potteries for working up the fine
native clay are now in course of building at
Memphis, Tenn.
INDUSTRIAL establishments are springing
up in the South faster than an account OF
them can be kept.
THE Boston Herald, in furtherance of its
prott-sharing agreement ot a year ago, mas
divided $40, 900 among its employees
SECTION men along the line of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad have gone on strike because
Of reduction from $50 to 81. per day.
TWELVE hundred Hebrews engaged in
tailoring at Leeds. England, have struck
against more than fifty-eight hours week.
Two Presidential Labor party tickets have
been paced in the field, one by the I mon La
Dor party and another by the United Labor
party
THE industries in the United States are
cow carried on by ,0OO, 900 persons, in round
LumberS, representing a population OF w.
u 900.
THE Loughlin Coke Works at Bradford,
Penn, have shut down its 24O ovens lndeh-
nltely, throwing large number OF men OUT
Oh employment.
RETURNS from $50 labor organizations in
New Jersey give a membership of %, 692-
40, 172 being Knights of Labor and l','9O
Trade Unionists
THERE were over 100 delegates, represent
ing 500 butchers, at the annual session IN
Philadelphia of the Butchers Union Thomas
Armour, of Chicago. presided.
THE number of men employed at iron min
ing in the Lake Superior basin is estimated
at 80, 600. Wages have been reduced from D
to 10 per cent. Miners get SIT day.
IT is reported that the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad of New Jersey
has issued notice that hereafter the train
hands on passenger trains will be held re-
sponsible for damage to seat arms and backs
SKILLED laborers in China, such as car
oenters maSons, blacksmiths and the like,
earn from ten to thirty cents day, while I'M
skilled laborers, men who, in the expressive
term in their language, sell their strength"
earn from eight to ten cents day.
THE Union Steel Works of Chicago con
sumo daily 1000 barrels of oil as fuel in place
of 500 tons of coal For every IS barrels they
save S., or $27S per day. They dispense also
with the labor of 65 men, or $50. In the BIC
working days there is saved in these works
alone the enormous sum of S126, $50.
WoRKMEN in the vicinity of Hackettstown,
y. j., are exuberant over the tidlngS that the
Warren Foundries, owned by Cooper 6
Hewitt, will be put in blast, employing sew
aral hundred hands. These works have been
idle during the last five years, owing to the
depressed condition of the iron trade, during
which time the business interests Of the town
have been paralyzed-
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08

OF Germany, and Princess Irene, his cousin
have been married IN the Charlottenburg
Castle Chapel The Emperor, who was
much improved in health. was present. as
were also the Prince OF Wales. the Grand
Duke Serglus, Crown Prince Oscar and
Count Won Moitke
ELEVEN persons were killed and twenty
one injured by fireworks explosion at Paris,
France.
THE village of Harlan in Roumania has
been destroyed by fire. Four hundred fami-
lies are homeless.
FOUR men were killed and thirty seriously
injured at Montreal, Canada, by the eIp lo-
sion OF the city gas reservoir.
LARGE and demonstrative Nationalist
meetings were held throughout Ireland. and
speeches against the Papal rescript and de-
nOuncing the Irish bishops were made by
Messrs. OBrien, Healy and Dillon.
The camp of Osman Digna, the leader of
the Egyptian rebels. has been burned by in
cendiar- es in order to compel him TO retreat
Two thousand Of his followers are said to
have persisted.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
SOuth and West.

SOUTH CAROLINA PrOhlbltlOnlStS have
formed State Alliance.
THE North Carolina Republicans have
placed a full ticket in the field headed by
Oliver H. Dockery for Governor.
TELLER BRALEY, of the Chicago Union
National Bank has absconded with a large
amount of trust funds.
THE Texas Democratic State Convention
at Fort Worth Endorsed Cleveland and the
Mills Tariff bill and favored Roger q. Mills
for Fice-President.
THE Democrats of Illinois, in convention
assembled nominated a State ticket headed
by General John NJ. Palmer for Governor.
The delegation to the National Convention
is for Cleveland, and will be lead by ex-COn-
gresham w. r. IorrisOn. The Presidents
administration was indorsed, together with
his tariff message.
THE Democracy of Mississippi convened at
Jackson and elected delegates to the ST.
Louis Convention who are instructed to sup
port Cleveland for denomination. A reSOlu-
ton was adopted strongly indorsing the
Mills Tariff bill.
DAVID MORE and Willard Hall, both col
Ored, and a white man named Graham, have
been hanged at Bolivia, for three murders.
A FIFTY-FOOT bridge over a deep ravine
five miles from Kansas City gave way under
a Rock Island freight train, and five railroad
men were instantly killed.
Mrs. F. G. KRUGER, of Elgin, Ill, while
attempting, to rescue her eighteen-months-
old baby from an approaching train, was
struck and killed with the child
THE ProhibitiOnists Of Wisconsin held
their State Convention at Madison. They
placed State ticket in the field headed by
Z. G.. Durant for Governor and elected dele
gates to the National Convention who are
Instructed for General Clinton B. Fisk for
President.
THE Colorado Democracy assembled in Con-
vention at Denver and elected an unin-
structed delegation to the Presidential Con-
ventiOn.
THE Sheriff of White County, Ind, was
fatally injured by three prisoners, who
fractured his skull and escaped from the
County Jail.
THE Ohio Prohibition Convention met at
The platform adopted favors woman suf-
frage and denounces trusts and contract
labor Importation.
AN immense crowd assembled at Jackson,
Miss, to participate in the military demon
cornerstone of a monument erected to the
memory of Mississippians who persisted in
the Confederate Army
JOSEPH JAMES has been arrested at Tim
monsville S. c., charged with hiring a col
Ored farm hand with $500 to assassinate his
father.
MR.. AND MRS. DRAKE, an old couple and
their two infant grandchildren were muir
dered at Kickapoo, Wis, by burglars who
escaped with a large quantity of valuables.
The Democratic Convention of Louisiana
met at New Orleans and elected Cleveland
delegation to the National Convention,
headed by Ex-Governor S. d. McEnery.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
NEWSY GEEANINGS.

TRENTON, n. J., will grant liquor
licenses to foreigners.
IT is probable that mackerel fishing will be
failure in the South.
TOBACCO and other vegetation in western
North Carolina has been injured by frost.
THE fruit crop of Georgia is a failure,
cepting blackberries, wild haws and persim-
mons.
A FLEET of cruisers will guard the Cana
dian coast against American fishermen this
season.
In fight at Lincoln, Neb, one Burlington
brakeman killed another by biting off his
tongue.
THE Emperor Frederick medical staff will
be reduced and there will be but one bulle-
tin weekly
PROFESSOR VIRCHow's formal report says
there is nothing cancerous about the German
Emperor's malady.
EUGENE CHALFAULT, a laborer in the
glass works at New Albany, Ind, died re-
Gently of hydrophobia-
LOUIS NEEBE. the Anarchist convict in
Joliet, ILL.,, penitenitary, Is breaking down
physically and mentally.
THE total number of saloons permitted TO
sell liquor in Philadelphia after June /, are
1910, against $40 the past year.
AN Oregon boy recently killed a companion
for answering in Sunday-school a question
on which he himself had failed
Two St. Joseph MOI girls were struck ny
lightning, which tore off all their clothing,
but left them otherwise unframed
WILLIAM PATTERSON, a condemned muir
derer in the Louisville prison, turns evan
gelist and has converted seven fellow pris-
OnerS.
THE King of Portugal has ordered thirty
tons of fireworks and fifty tons of mortars
for use at Lisbon IN the royal reception TO
the King of Sweden
Mrs. SALLIE Y. HENDERSON, widow Of a
contractor, has recovered SIS, 90 in suit
against the city of Louisville, KY, after thir-
teen years of litigation.
JAMES W. SCHOOLER was recently adj
mitted to practise in the Kentucky Court OF
Appeals the first colOred man to whom the
privilege has been accorded.
NJ JovIs, a French aeronaut, is making
balloon nearly two hundred feet in height,
in which he proposes TO sail through the air
across the Atlantic next autumn
THE Chinese Government is resorting TO the
courts in the Australian colonies to compel
the reception of the Asiatic laborers held on
board the Hong Kong steamers.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
WORK OF A CYCLONE.
Two Towns Partly Destroyed In
Kansas and Texas.
A Large Number of Persons Killed
or Badly Injured.

A destructive cyclone has swept through
Kansas and on into Texas, causing wide
spread disaster In Kansas the severest eff
fects Of the whirlwind were felt at Argonia,
which is presided over by the first woman
Mayor ever elected in this country, Mrs.
Susan Saiter.
It cut a wide swath through the thickest
settled portion of the place.
The largest residence, that OF Mr.. camp
bell, was literally picked up and carried
quarter of a mile. OF three churches only
the foundations remain. The school building
was torn to pieces, and there was not house
that was not damaged. All the houses were
shaken UP and the greater part of them car
ried away from their foundations. Seven
ty-fve people are reported as seriously IN
Jured, and two, a young lady teacher, Miss
Monroe. and a railroad hand have since died.
A great many had their legs and arms
broken by flying timbers. Two men had
both eyes put out, and a child had It's skull
crushed.
The cyclone swept on to Brownton, Texas,
destroying the Methodist, Baptist and Con-
gregationaI churches and eight dwelling
houses Nine persons, including the Sheriff
and County Recorder, were killed. The
damage will exceed So, 900. The path of
the storm was 800 yards wide, and every
thing within those limits was swept away.
The damage to business and residence
property at CorSicana, Texas will exceed
S25, 900. The damage to crops cannot be
estimated, but is very great. Over a dozen
buildings were unrOOfed The dry-gOOds
store of a. Fox &c Bro sustains loss of
$4,000. About a dozen small houses were
demolished.
Great damage was done at Sulphur
Springs, Texas, to growing crops and fruit
trees. The storm covered belt three miles
wide. The cotton plants were completely
destroyed, and must be replanted. The hail
stones were 50 large that they broke shingles
on the roofs of houses, and tore limbs from
trees.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle statea

Rev. ISAAC w. JOYCE, of Cincinnati, was
the third of the five Bishops chosen at the
Methodist General Conference.
JAMES BURNS, a sixty-year- old resident Of
Bridgeport, Conn, tried to kick dog down
the cellar stairs, but missed his aim, fell
down stairs himself and broke his neck.
The Democratic State Convention of Penn
sylvania assembled at Harrisburg and
elected Cleveland delegation to the Ma
tional Convention headed by Congressman
Scott of Erie. The administration OF Presi-
dent Cleveland and the Mills bill were both
indorsed The plat fOrm rs adopted declares
that revision OF the tariff laws is necessary,
with a view TO their simplification, the cor
rectlon of their incongruities and inequali-
ties, the regulation of duties in such manner
as will put American industry on a firm and
permanent basis etc. James B. McCullum
was nominated for Supreme Court Judge.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and wife visited
the Presbyterian General Assembly while in
session at Philadelphia, and were accorded
an enthusiastic reception.
ALBERT MUTH, the fourteen-vear-old son
of a rich farmer of Stouchsburg, Penn,
killed himself rather than submit to expected
punishment.
DR.. LYMAN ABBOTT, the editor of the
Christian Union, has been elected by Brook
lyn Plymouth Church to fill the pulpit made
vacant by the death of Henry Ward Beecher.
THE Rev. DR.. Thoburn was elected Mis-
slonary Bishop for India and Malaysia by
the Methodist Conference while in session at
New York.
AUSTIN CORBIN has negotiated in London
a loan of $50, 900, 900, secured by a four per
cent. mortgage on the Reading Railroad.
Mrs. CLEVELAND spent Friday in Phila-
delphia as the guest of George w. Childs.
She paid an informal visit to a female college,
attended missionary meeting and then de-
parted for Princeton College, n. j., to at
tend the Commencement Exercises.
WILLIAM NICKERMAN, a young boy, fell
Infn fI1h Of hot of PriH
and was boiled to death.
FRANK MILLS, of San Francisco, Cal, a
student at Harvard College, died from excer-
sive indulgence in opium smoking.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS
instruction for Lavinq C,rno


Carpets are often badly laid down
either from ignorance or carelessness
The carpet, neatly folded. should Ia
brought In and laid down as it is folded.
the way the widths are to run. Ii must
then be unfolded by degrees. not dragged
open any way. When the Garnet il
thoroughly opened out. let the centre
width be laid perfectly straight from one
end TO the other, a timed tack put At
each end TO keep it in his place and all
the other widths laid straight according
10 the first. When one end of the
widths Is straight and thoroughly
stretched, let it be tackled down with
timed tacks AZ regular intervals. begin
ming at one end and working towards
the other. When this first cni has been
firmly fastened down. let one side. at
right engles TO the end nailed already,
be tackled, taking care to pull il out
'taut, as the sailors say. When the
side and end at right angles have been
fastened down, the corresponding side
and end are easily managed. and the
thing Is done.-Ner Y0rL World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
WaShin @tou.

THE Secretary of the Treasury has sent to
Congress an estimate urging the appropria-
ton of $4,000 to complete the Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
GENERAL PHILIP H. SHERIDAN had a
stroke of apoplexy at his home in Washing
ton which threatened TO prove fatal, but he
passed the crisis safely.
THE Senate has confirmed the nominations
of John Engel, to be Postmaster of Hacken-
sack, y. J., and James S. Mellick, to be Post
master of Dover. n. j.
THE Senate Select Committee to examine
into all questions touching the meat product
of the United States will consist of Senators
Vest, Plumb, Henderson, Cullom and Coke.
SENATOR HAwLEY has accepted the official
invitation of the city of Philadelphia to de
liver the grafton in Independence Square on
the Fourth of July.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
Foreign.

ENGLISH Liberals defeated the ConServa-
tive candidate for Parliament, this being
very substantial victory for Gladstone and
the Home Rulers.
THREE thousand Thibetans recently at
tackled Gratong, in Northern India, which
is defended by a small British force and
after several hours fighting the Thibetans
retreated, leaving one hundred dead The
British loss was three killed and seven
wounded.
QUEEN VICToRIA's birthday was celebrated
in a loyal manner throughout Canada and
the British Possessions.
IT is estimated that 103 persons belonging
to the fishing fleet lost their lives IN the re-
cent gale off Ireland
PRINCE HENRY, second son Of the Emperor
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY,
Cardinal Gibbons Lays the Corner
Stone in Washington.

The corner stone of the Catholic University
was laid in Washington, D. c., Thursday
afternoon by Cardinal Gibbons, aided by
Archbishops Williams, Ireland and Ryan,
Bishops Spaulding and Kane, and others.
The steady rain which fell during the day
caused the abandonment of the parade of the
societies President Cleveland drove out to
the grounds, which are two miles and half
from the city, and was given a seat on the
platform between Cardinal Gibbons and
Bishop Spauldng.
The choir was supported by the Marine
Band. The blessing of the site of the uni
versity and stone laying followed. The SER
sentation of gold medal sent by the Pope to
Miss Caldwell, whose gift of $500, 90 was the
nucleus of the fund by which the university
has been founded A large number of promi-
nent officials, Congressman, Cabinet officers
and diplomats were in attendance.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08

LAWYERS from all over the country met
in convention at Washington recently to Sc
cure uniform laws throughout the country
On divorce and commercial paper. About
fifty were from New York, thirty from the
Pacific aloDe. and 200 from the Middle States
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08

Flossie aged four)-"Bobby, why
do they call ministers Doctors" Bobby
"a lad of considerable informatlon)-
soCos they make folks better. "-EP01a-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-12-23

HE College narr'ase-rer'o"a'.

HE college darrtage-torTonn
Correspondence Of tho Richmond Dspl,cn.l
VItIANsrUaG. Va, Dee 3D., 1855.
William and Mary closed yesterday FOR Che
holidays and the students aye leaving uy
every train Tor their homes. President
Tyler Will sp.nd the holiday, in Washing.
ton, Professor io.l Foo one " tle eastern
counties, Professor Bird in Petersburg, Pro-
fe,sor aud Mr,. Wharton ~ Redmond, and
Professor stub1s In Gloucester with ms
family. who are guests OF Hon. Joseph ~.
Suubs.
A catalogue OF the college library is about
to be- m1Ge. The library contains about
seven thousand volumes, many OF which are
Old aud very valuable.
The Blghlm-yi'ie church, IN New Kent
county, Nl. last "Wednesday crowded with
the friends ~ the contracting paitie. % Wit
uess the marriage OF Miss Lucy Boswell to
Mn. Taylor Farming. The marriage cerc-
mOuv was performed by Rev Wlllnm
Barnes. rhe couple left FOR the North on q
bridal tour, followed by the best wishes OF
hosts OF friends.
I'm the York County Count, which closed
Yesterday, Levin :. Smith, a leadIag mer-
chant. vs. acquitted Of the charge OF selling
whi,bcy without license ia "a lOcal.0Dtl0u
district
SIR. James Bce'ow, u New York, large
landowner in Orll county. offered coupons
in payment OF taxes, which we're refused. lie
afterwards offered 10 settle 10 money. SO
ir no coupons have been presented 10 the
Treasurer here for taxes.
Str. B.W. Bowery. y ho has been spending
some time To Biltimore. is home again, aud
during the absence Of Nr. T.. n. Cloves in
Fredei icksburg will on that gentcmln's pO.
siliou as travelling agent OF the Eastern
Asylum.
on Christmas day the Episcopal church,
which has been closed for some time. will be-
opened, and the Rev. Everett Meade will
conduct services. ".