Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
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meet in Raleigh on the 14th Of Au.
gust.-Ex.
The North Carolina Board of
Pharmacy met at Goldsboro on the
9Th of August.
The New York. Pa, Ice Machine
company is erecting an ice factory
at Durham.-News.
1t is thought that Congress will
not adjourn before September and it
may remain in session until October.
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The Craven County Democrats
have nominated H. ). Num-. editor
Of the New Berne Journal, for the
State Senate.
The Supreme Court Of Nebraska
has decided that a woman may sue
and recover money her husband has
squandered for Hquor-Ex
4 cotton factory company has
been Incorporated at Tarboro with a
capital stock OF 100000. The
building will begin at once.
Hot weather! Don't talk about
it. 1t makes a linen collar just like
lazy man-rather lie down than
stand up.-Durham Recorder.
The first bale Of cotton Of the crop
of 1888 was sold in New York Tues
day week, at 12& cents per pound.
I he cotton was raised in Georgia.
index.
Judge Thurman has promised to
pay a visit to EdentOn. this summer,
if possibly he can contrive to get the
time from other engagements and
demands Roanoke News.
The largest peach we have seen
this season was grown by J. J. Brad
shaw, of Piney Grove Township. 1t
was more than 10 inches in circum-
ference.-ClintOn Caucasian.
John j. Nahoney, of New York. 2
retired boOkmaker, has bet $4,000 to
$4,000 that Grover Cleveland will
be re elected President Of the United
States.-Murfrees Index.
Col. Dockery hankered after a
joint canvass with Judge Fowle-all
in my eve, Betty Martin-and now he
has one. He will be made sick OF it |
before it ends-News ana Observer.
The Goldsboro Argus says: A |
large piece OF very well preserved |
wood-apparently pine-was dug up |
~ feet below the surface in one OF
the wells OF the ice factory yesterday. |
Revelation and not Geology must
answer
The Board of Trustees Of Wake
Forest College met at Wake on July
18tL and elected Prof 4. L. Purin- !
ton of Parkesboro, West Va, Pro |
fessor of Chemistry and W. J. B. |
Carlysle of st. Paul, n. c., adjunct |
Professor Of Latin and Greek.
Already seventy-two babies have
been named after Thurman since the |
campaign opened, remarks the Bos-
ton Herald, which shows that admir-
ers OF the Old Roman intend to make |
q bic noise for their candidate. But |
these campaign issues prefer para
goric to politics as yet.-Ex.
AS soon as the Durham and Clarks |
vile Railroad is completed and in
running order, the managers will put
a fast train to run from Raleigh via
Durham, Oxford, GAINESVILLE to
Richmond. It is expected that the
road will be finished by the middle
of August.-Durham Recorder.
a Raleigh writer says: The
shipment Of grapes from the young
vineyards around this city has
amounted to about 10000 ten pound |
baskets so far this season. The total
shipments will reach about 10000 ten |
pound baskets. Grape growing in
this immediate section was common
ced about five years ago.
The Carolina Farmers Encamp |
ment and Fair Association, that is to !
be held at Mount Holly, August 10th |
and 18th, promises to excel anything |
in this line, and also to far surpass |
the one held last year. Farmers
from all parts of North and South .
Carolina are expected to be in attend
ance-Tarboro Southerner.
The Madison Leader says: There
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