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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
w ASKING Butter.

A lady correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer who keeps small dairy of
COWS and does not believe in washing
butter, relates her experience. AS to
washing butter the correspondent says
This is not necessary in cold weather,
and [ cannot see why people practice
this plan. When the butter comes hard
it is much better without any water
about it; has a better color; tastes bet
ter; will keep much better, and will sell
a good deal better than it will to be al
streaked through with water, and all its
sweet good taste washed out of it. |
dislike to see streaked butter. | would
like to give a little of my experience,
and | wish some one would for an eX-
pertinent try it a few times. 1t seems
to me she could not help saying that it
is a good way.
The manner of making butter and
working it is as follows:
l scald my churn; wait till the hot
steam passes of, and then put in my
cream, sweet do not stop to sour it as
some do; that spoils it sometimes), and
at this season of the year 1 put in
couple of quarts of milk, as
the cream is so very thick that
we could not churn it without. Then
we churn a little till it swells almost to
the top, then if it is slow going down
know 1t is too cold, and put in some milk
about as warm as new milk. Then the
butter will soon come, nice and solid. |
draw the dash up and down with some
butter on it to take it all down, then,
having my bowl ready, take it out, and
if it is too hard work it with my hands
till get most of the milk out, then
salt it and work it, then with a cloth and
some water wipe out the milk that can't
pour out of the bowl. When 1 get the
cloth full put it into the water and
wiring 1t cut dry, and keep wiping my
bowl and putting the butter to one side
till I have it as dry as possible. Then 1
take out what want to use, and work
the rest of it more if necessary, and put
it away for market. If it should come
soft l set it one side then work it again,
but try to have it little cold, as it is
so much better to work it into rolls and
put it away. 1t will not be full of
streaks. If Iput it away to work the
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
Farm and Garden Notes.

Salt counteracts the i'll effects of wet
pasture and food on sheep, and prevents
foot root.
If we breed or feed the best the pur-
chaser Will come to us. If not, we must
hunt up the buyer.
Keep Goth for each mixer hanging
in the barn to wipe the dust and dirt from
the udders before milking.
Putrid flesh has communicated a faint
to tie milk in the udder by simply faint
ing the air breathed by the cow.
Lay out the seasons work so that no
available force will go to waste, and so
that there shall be no expense for main
tenance without it's direct result in labor.
In determining the amount of profit,
the cost must always be considered, and
no matter how cheap we can keep a hog
it costs something every day in one way
or another.
Of course you have good clover pas
ture for your pigs. Do not, however,
depend on clover alone. Push them
right along. 1t is the early maturing hog
that brings the most profit.
At the Ontario (Canada) Agricultural
College a recent experiment with peas
showed that it took thirty-fve pounds
more of cooked than of uncooked peas
to make 100 pounds of pork, live
weight.
Variety of live stock on the farm,
quite as much as variety Of cropping, is
a source of wealth accumulation in the
holding. With variety greater numbers
can be kept, and the best use can be
made of all food by giving the quality
suitable 90 each description of animal.
Dishorning stock is becoming a ques-
ton Of great interest to dairymen and
ranchmen. 1t will settle itself in time
like that of ensilage and all other two
sided ones Many think the loss of
horns effects the value of a stock bull,
while it nquestionably adds to individ-
ual safety.
Cabbage and caulifiower want rich
soil The first crop may be planted after
Winter frOsts are over; a second, for
early Fall or late Summer use, month
later, and the late Winter cabbage in
July and August. Early cabbage have
room enough at two feet apart; the late
drumheads require three.
1t is risky business taking small pota-
toes for planting, if they are the leavings
from a bin. They may make good seed,
if we'll ripened and from strong, thrifty
plants; but potatoes that grow small,
because their growth was checked by
blight or other destruction of their
leaves, are worthless as seed.
Much valuable manure may be saved
by carefully deodorizing and composing
the refuse and night soil. A mixture of
five bushels of dry dirt and one pound
of carbolate of lime, added to the SINK
RI q
whole into valuable manure, that can
be handled as easily as that made in the
barnyard-
There is no plant that enjoys plenty of
good manure more than the rose, and a
lack OF this will always result in scraggy
plants and miserable blooms. Cow man
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Rice is the emblem of fruitfulneSs.
The average age of a parrot is thirty
years.
England raises the greatest hogs in the
world.
A ray of light travels II, 100, 900 miles
in a minute.
Californians boast of strawberries nine
inches in circumference.
Daniel Webster's old hair trunk is now
on exhibition at Concord, n. II.
Juan Choc died last month in Guate-
mala, South America, at the age of 1910
years.
In the United States the telephone is
used 595 times, the telegraph 1876 times
in a minute.
A tornado that left bugs an inch deep
all over the face of the earth is the latest
wonder in the South.
4 young fellow named Miller has been
sentenced to two months of imprisOn-
ment at Harrisburg, Penn, for kissing
his best girl in the street.
Tea cultivation, it is said, is to be
tried by a rancher at Elko, New, who
proposes employing Indian women and
children to gather the leaves.
croft Me, is now serving his fortieth
term, and at each of the forty elections
he has had a walk-over, no one running
against him.
A Carbon Township PENN hen laid
an egg upon the shell Of which was clearly
and plainly raised the figure of a snake
about three inches long, with head
poised for blow.
Bananas have become so cheap in
Queensland, Australia, that their cult
walton is no longer profitable. Only
shilling per bunch Of twenty dozen Is
paid for the fruit.
Captain Benjamin Baker, of Key
West Fla, has brought from Key Largo
quite curiosity in the shape of sweet
potato, which has the almost complete
form of coiled snake.
A new fruit called the blood plum, of
California, is about to be introduced
into Florida. 1t is said to be much
superior to the kelsey both in size and
flavor, smallness Of pit and color.
John J. Carman, of Bay Shore, Long
Island, is the proud possestor of hen
which, it is alleged, has laid an egg nine
inches long. Half the width was well
proportional, while the rest tapered to
a point like handle.
Surprising are the antics of lightning
at times. In Murphysboro, Ill, 1t
wrested knife from the hand Of
cook working in hotel, whose chimney
the lightning wrecked, and knocked
down a newspaper reporter. Neither of
the persons were injured.
Thomas Eggleston has died at Spur
lockville, w. Va, at the advanced age
of one hundred and twelve years. There
was never day since he was sixteen
years old that he was without his pipe,
and he said he fully believed that his life
was prolonged by the use of tobacco.
A turtle has been discovered in New
Haven, Conn, that has two distinct
heads and perfectly formed necks. At
will the reptile can elongate one neck
and retain the other between its shells.
If fly is placed in the mouth Of one
head the other Immediately tries TO seize
the fly. At times 1t walks about with
ease, but generally struggles, making
little progress. This is probably owing
to the fact that one head is possessed
with an idea to go forward, while the
other has a desire to travel in the oppo-
site direction.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27

OTTo LUEGER, the Minnesota Entomol-
ogist. has returned from the scene Of the
grasshopper invasion in the northern part OF
that State and says the efforts at destroying
the insects have been so successful that at
least half yield may be expected. The fact
has been revealed that each insect is attacked
by SO many parasites that their future in
vasion is quite improbable.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27

Matches made IN Japan-there are
thirteen factories in Tokio-are sup
planting English and Swedish matches
in China, Siam and the Straits Islands.
They are sold for fifteen dollars the
one thousand dozen boxes. The con-
sumption is large.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27


the previous ten years makes a total OF S3O,-
753, 472. II in 126 months, or at the rate OF
$4O2, ISL. % per month. 100
The leading enlightenment Tor 1888 SO lar
was that committed by Charles H. Pitcher,
Celler of the Union Bank Of Providence H.
l., who carried off SS1S,G44 IN cash ana Sc,
curities. He was arrested IN Canada ana
1mpudently PROPOSED to compromise Tor
$3.50, ZOO. The following is a list OF the De
falcations and embellishments during the IlrSU
half Of the year 1888:
Circlevile, Ohio, January 3
Jacob H. Delaplaine, clerk IN ooo ~
paper factory ....-..... o,oOO "
Milford. Mass, January 6,
Arthur H. Ball. clerk in Hope -
dale Machine Company. 2,OOO w
Troy, n Y, January Asa
National aba Bank oae'.i'i 5000 90
Birmingham Ala, January IS.
City Court IT,. .... "in' 10000 co
Auburn, y. Y, January 3D.
Charles O'Brien, cashier, and
Elmer Moore bOokkeeper, of
the First National Bank, car
rIed Oft all the cash and aValIa-
Canada l'.e9, h.''a .p...... 10000 90
Philadelphia, Penn. February /.
Isaac Henry Roberts, cashier o,o m
of Whitehall, Tatum & Co... 1O,OJO W
-MiddletOwn. Y. Y, February 2.
Charles S. Starr. County
missing , noo.9 otO 29,o28 63
Philadelphia, Penn, February ,.
Henry +. Reese. cashier for
j. E. Kingsley q Co. On 1919
embeZzled 500 600 from an.
other firm and compromised
for S17 ,OOO) Plead guilty to
last offence February 20 Sen
prisonmen{t o''i' '.-i. " 5000 90
Philadelphia, Penn, February
27.-Oram n. Ingram, clerk
for johnson, Higgins & Cur
tin Said he intended to COM -
NIT suicide Observation-Disclosures. 3,OOO w
Harrisburg, Penn, March .
Of Dau ~ G county nGGty. ...... $4,000 90
Battle Greek, Mich, March 20.
Joseph H. Whipple, alias S. 7.
Mather, president Pembroke
New York -.i .,'.' 49,. 5000 90
Davies county, Ind, March 20.
Richard II. Greenwood, COun-
Frankfort Ky, March Ell
James w. Tate, State Treas 80
urer of kentucky. ........ 4O4,O65 %
New Orleans, La, March o.
Fernand POnpart clerk in Cot
Wichita Wi Kan '.'............ 10000 90
Willimantic, Conn, March p
savings bank 80 ......... ~. 10000 %
President Charles E Gross and
Cashier Samuel c.. White, of
State National Bank: arrested
in Canada and now under bail
money. -. $1,000 90
Newburg, n. Y, April Ar
thur V WiItsie and John NJ.
Pollock, bankers. ............. 100000 90
New Albany, Ind, April 10
seconded. ................'.... 10000 90
Seneca Falls, N. Y. April 23-
n P B. Wells, secretary Saw
ings Bank; excused himself be-
hi cola
per eer,3 ann I'D 49,, ................. 10000 90
Philadelphia, Penn, April 25.-
Dr. Daniel Bray y i:.. Is $4,000 90
Columbus, Ohio, April 21.-P.
End Bank ...............,,... 5000 90
R. P. Grant. Treasurer. $500 90
De Baum, cashier Park Bank. $4,000 90
Paterson. n. j., June John
Firemen mems Association ....... 5000 90
Lambertville y. J., June 30
c oeitSe ~ 5000 90
Providence, r. l., June IL
Union Bank. ................ 618,64 90
Jersey City, N J., June %
in Second National Bank -. 10000 90
New York city, June 30.-Albert
& .................... 1000 90
Total for six months of 1883. 81, 240, OO5 Is
REHABILITATION FOR TEN YEARS AND A
HALE
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27

In 1876 months-from the 1st of January,
1878. to date-the total of all discovered de-
falcations above $2l0J is $50, 753, 472 IL. OF
equal to S4O2. 7SI 53 per month
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27

second time, it would be sure to have
streaks in it
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
STOLEN MONEY.
Over Two Millions EmbeZZled in
Six Months.
Array of Defalcations by Trusted
Employees In Ten Years.

The New York Herald says that during
the half year of 1888 there were twenty nine
cases. the aggregate amount embezzled or
appropriated being 81, 24OOOj.63. This sum
added to the S4S, 513, 466. 81 involved during
the previous ten years makes total of 800,
1913, 472 II in 126 months, or at the rate Oh
$4O2, ISL 53 per month.
The leading embezzlement for 1888 so far
was that committed by Charles II. Pitcher,
teller of the Union Bank Of Providence, r.
l., who carried off SS18,644 in cash and Sc
curities. He was arrested in Canada and
lmpudently PROPOSED to compromise" for
$4,000. The following is a list of the de
falcations and embellishments during the first
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
Total for six months of 1888. 50, PIC, OO5 Is
REHABILITATION FOR TEN YEARS AND
HALF.

Grand total. $50, $50, 412 A
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-04

lad saw two men break the paddock on the
door leading TO the boot and shoe sales
room of Charles @. Hollingshead, on the
third floor of the same building. he
watched the burglars enter the room and
steal thirty pairs Of shoes, valued at $40.
He was afraid TO raise the alarm, but he
kept his eye upon the thieves, and when
they went away with the plumber he
quietly followed them.
The men proceeded directly to the CO.
lumbia lodging-house, No. 25 Bowery,
and went up stairs. The lad then turned
and ran back towards the store as fast as
his legs would carry him. He had kept
his eyes open for policeman, but fail
ing to meet one he fastened TO the Leo
nard Street police station, and Detectives
Handy and Dunn raced with him all the
way back to the Bowery lodging-house.
The officers arrested both thieves in the
house, and found the stolen property In
their possession.
In the Tombs Police Court yesterday
the burglars were committed by Justice
Kilbreth for examination. They gave
their names as Daniel Quinn, OF No.
40 Forsythe street, and Thomas Finiran,
of No. 70 Bowery. The boy was COM
plimented upon his success in securing
the arrest of the culprits.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-04
EXHIBITING a SKULL IN COURT.
A Dramatic Scene I'm the Westbrook
Murder Trial at Newton.

A Newton On. J.) special says: The
town is OVERLOOKING with country people
interested in the WestbroOk trial. At an
early hour the doors were locked and
tho crowd outside was held back by con-
stables. During the morning session
one Of the most dramatic scenes ever
witnessed in a courtroom took place.
The prosecution rested early in the MORN
ing, and after q civil engineer had eX-
planned map OF the locality, differing
very materially from that OF the State,
DR.. Thomas Address was sworn. He
carried n formidable-looking package,
and after some preliminaries said he
went to New York on January 9th and
got head from the body Of an old man
lately deceased. He fitted it on mana
kin and holding it at an angle of forty
five degrees let it fall. the skull striking
q round stone. The whole concern
weighed but nine pounds. half
the weight of Morris's, still the
skull was crushed worse than
his. While the physician was speak
ing he unwrapped his bundle and
proudly laid the CHASTITY relic on the
bar near Justice Magic. 1t was an awful
sight and staggered court, jury, and au-
dience. The prosecution then objected
to the evidence, and after long discus
sion it was all overruled. The doctor
further said Morris could have fallen
and sustained all his injuries. He did
not think the wounds necessarily fatal.
This witness fatty contradicted the
medical evidence of the State.
In the afternoon the defendant WIS
placed on the stand and told his story at
length, in the main being told the same
as told during the trial. He contra
dicted number of the witnesses of the
prosecution in minor details. Through
out he was cool and collected. DIR.
Hedges thought that if a stone was
thrown against and fractured the skull
no blood would he on the stone, while
DR.. Address differed with him. This
closed the case, and Counsellor Kalisch
feeling i'll court adjourned. Counsel
will sum up and the case so to the jury
tomorrow,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-04
RAILROAD IrsEa.
M n aE sYMsE 5zQE;
pICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG
III AND POTOMAC RAILROAD

THROUGH ALL-RAIL FAST-YRgfgHr Irxs
To AND FROM BALTIMORE. PHILL
DELPHiA, NEW YORK, AND
EASTERN AND WEST
ERN CITIES.
ONLY TWELVE HOURS BETWEEN Rrca-
xoND AND BALTIMORE IN EACH
DIRECTION
correspondingly quick time u other pointx
Through bills OF lading Issued AZ low ratss
&. A. TAYLOR
no2 General Freight Agent
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-04
PETERSBTRG.
The Proposed Confederate MOnu-
ment-Progress OF the Palmer
Forgery Case.


Correspondence Of tho Richmond Dspatch.l
FEpRUABY 3, 1888.
The Ladies' Memorial Association of
this city are determined to erect a
suitable monument in Blandford Gene
terry to the memory Of the Con-
federate dead, and have been quietly
working for some time to accom-
plish that desired end. Last night the
memorial fund was handsomely in
creased by an amateur performance OF
"Patience at the Academy oil Music,
which attracted a splendid audience.
The performers were ladies' and gentle
men of Petersburg. The plan Tor the
proposed monument has been approved.
1t is of very handsome design and will
cost between g, 800 and $1,000.
The Palmer forgery case still occupies
the attention OF the Husting Court.
Mr.. Theo. Crowder, who declares that
his name was forged as endOrser by
Palmer, is still on the witness-stand, this
being his fourth day thereon. This case
evidently involves deeper interest than
the mere criminal prosecution OF Mr..
Palmer-hence the slow progress of the
trial and the elaborate examination OF
witnesses.
There we're only thirty-nine deaths in
Petersburg during the month of Janu-
airy. the rate of mortality being, as
usual. heavier among the colored popu-
lation.
John M. Langston, late president of
the Normal School, has commenced an
active campaign for Congress, and has
already spoken several times i'll behalf of
his candidacy, which he some time ago
announced.
The confirmation of Mr.. p. F. Cog
bill as collector of customs of this port
is gratifying to his many friends. Mr.
Cogbill has held the Office ever since the
summer of Mr.. Cleveland's Inauguration,
but his confirmation has hung fire in the
Senate until now. Each time the Senate
failed to confirm him he was reappOinted
by tho President.
The new town Of Crewe, in Nottoway
county-the site of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company's shops for
this diyision-will have among its citi-
zens many families of Petersburg who
are dependent upon the company for
support. ROBIN ADAIR.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-04
Fight WITH Riotous strikers.
lBy telegraph TO the Dispatch. ]

READING, Pa, February 3.-Another
skirmish, with pistol-shots, is reported
from the coal regions this morning..
The miners at the William Penn colliery
were stopped by party OF twenty men
from No. 3 aud fight ensued. The
strikers also met men from Rock Bank
Mt 1urkey-kun switch and stoned some
Polanders. The attacking party are on
a strike OF the Philadelphia Coal Com
pany's works. The Coal and Iron Com
psny's police in disguise were with tho
Poles, and made rush for the assailau IS
aud Thomas Ryan was captured and
taken TO the PottsVille jail The others
were chased by the police to No. school
house, where they were met by large
force, who fired two shots at the officers.
The latter did not return the fire with
their carbines for fear OF killing some
innocent person, but went back and es-
corted the Poles to place OF safety.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-04
DYNAMITE WILL DROPPED.
An Augusta veteran Claims 10 Have
Perfected an Aerial Wnr-ship.

An Augusta (Me.) special says: Mr..
John f. Chase, an Augusta veteran who
received forty-eight wounds at the bat
tie of Gettysburg, was carried off the
field for dead, wears a glass eye, and has
but one arm, as the result, has invented
an aerial war-ship. He departed for the
national capital tonight to present
the merits of his invention to the
Naval Committee. His ship will
be propelled by wings, and the
secret Of its successful fight is
their peculiar form and the manner in
which power is applied to them. This
secret he will divulge to no one. His
craft, he says, is perfectly under the con-
troll of the navigator, and can be driven
with the wind or against it. A speed of
sixty miles can be easily attained and
but a small amount of power is required
to operate it. A war-ship which will
move off with ton he estimates will cost
$780, Only q four-horse power en-
CINE, burning coal or oil, will be re-
quired to operate the wings The length
of this novel craft would be about $50
feet.
Mr.. Chase's plan is to load his vessel
with dynamite bombs and soar off over
an enemy to a height of two or three
miles and dump the load down upon it.
Mr.. Chase has given five years study to
his invention and is positive that it can
fly with ease. He has given it repeated
trials. his machine being On O small
scale, with six-inch wings.