Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-13
LATER NEWS.


In New York city last year there were
81, OBJ births, Is, $50 marriages and SS,9SS
deaths. The police arrests for the year were
arrivals, 81 ,034
Hon. JOEL PARKER, twice Governor Of
New Jersey, died suddenly OF paralysis in
Philadelphia on Monday. he was born in
1916, elected Governor Of New Jersey in 1852
and again in 1871, and was appointed Justice
of the Supreme Court by Governor Mcclellan
in 1880.
An explosion blew up the engine house on
the Equitable Gas Company's works in New
York. One man was killed and the driver
of passing horse-car had his legs broken
ALMOST all the business section Of Egg
Harbor City, n. J., has been swept away by
fire.
THERE viii probably be no international
yacht race for the Americas cup this year,
the Britishers having failed to send chal-
lenge within the prescribed time.
THE floor of a crowded colored Baptist
Church at Forgetown, Ala, gave way, and
the building collapsed. Two women and
child were killed, and be tween twenty and
thirty persons were injured.
FOURTEEN human skeletons were fonnd in
pit under the dwelling of half-breed Sioux
Indian near Pierre, Dakota The remains
were travellers who had been murdered and
robbed The Indian had disappeared.
=HosTILE Apaches are on the warpath in
Arizona, and have killed a number of trav-
elers.
a FIRE at Houma, La, burned away
twenty business houses and 100 dwellings,
causing an estimated aggregate loss of $780,,
600.
A wEAK-MINDED white man named Wal
drop was lynched at Central, S. c., by
crowd of colored men, for an atrocious as
sault upon thirteen year-old colored girl.
DURING a political row in New Orleans
saloon Police Commissioner Patrick Mealey
and Mike Welsh were fatally wounded, Dan
Markey was shot in the mouth, William
Delaney was cut in the hand and Louis Glare
was badly beaten.
STEPHEN CONRoY, of Baltimore, while
drunk killed his aged mother with an ak and
inflicted fatal injuries upon Patrick O'Don-
nell.
THREE members of the notorious Kelly
family who had been numbering and robbing
travellers at their house q the Texas Dor
der, have been caught by vigilantes and
hanged They were William Kelly, aged
ffty-four; his son Gill; aged twenty, and
daughter Kate, aged eighteen. The old
man confessed his family had murdered nine
men and two women.
SENATOR HEARST, of California, wants to
increase the pensions of the few remaining
veterans of the war of 1872
THE total amount of national bank notes
outstanding at the beginning of the present
| csHe:C
FIVE thousand persons, including the
Diplomatic CORPS Army and Navy officers
Supreme Court Justices, ETC., shook hands
with the President and Mrs. Cleveland at
the White House reception on New Years.
Mrs Cleveland was assisted in receiving by
Miss Bayard Mrs Fairchild and Mrs.
Whitney.
THE German bark Johanna was destroyed
by fire off Cape Horn, and eight of the crew
were lost.
POPE LEO XIII. has been celebrating the
| fftieth year of his entrance into the Catholic
| priesthood at Rome. The city was filed
with pilgrims from all parts of Europe, and
! the presents received by the Pope are worth
millions of dollars. At a pontifical mass,
! celebrated in st. Peters, 10000 people were
present, and the Pope was so overcome that
! he tainted twice.
! A HORRIBLE disaster is reported from the
seaport city Of Annoy, China A powder
magazine blew up, destroying one-fourth Of
the buildings in the place Fifty soldiers
were blown to atoms and several hundred
| civilians killed.
THE New York Legislature is in session
Fremont Cole has been elected Speaker of the
Assembly. Governor Hills message was
| shorter than usual. It's chief novelty was a
recommendation in favor of the passage OF
an act abolishing the Senate's power of con
! firming or rejecting Executive nominations,
except in the few cases where the Constitu-
ton specifically requires confirmation by the
! Senate
! AN old couple named Woodham, who had
been confined in an insane asylum at Con
cord, n. H., thirteen years, charged with
crimes they never committed, have just been
released.
R. S. HICKS, the defaulting cashier of the
Stafford Conn National Bank, has been
sent to the State prison for four years.
TwENTY-oNE business houses were burned
at Salida, Col, involving loss estimated at
5000, 900.
COUNT DE SPoNNECK, Secretary OF the
Danish Legation at st. Petersburg, has been
appointed DANISH Minister to the United
States. He will enter upon the duties of the
post in February.
GOVERNMENT receipts in December were