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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-11
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

SS1ENIAFIS AND INDI SIhlAIS
Wood pavement lasts about seven
years in streets where the traffic il
heavy.
The velocity of the progression of the
tornado cloud varies from seven to 100
miles an hour, the average being a IL
miles.
A travelling electric light has proved
quite successful in Germany The whole
outfit complete for service is carried in
one vehicle.
A society has been started in London
to promote the development Of science of
mesmerism and of the application OF
hypnotism to practical medicine
Three millions of money that belongs
to inventors, having been collected
through the Patent Office in excess of The
expenses of that bureau, are in the
Treasury.
Observations of the stars were made in
Babylon from remote antiquity and
careful records kept Of ccHpscs. Some
of the Babylonian astronomical state
ments refer TO period earlier than 1000
years B. G..
Southwestern soldiers will remember
Lavergne, seventeen miles southwest Of
Nashville. A mine Of mineral paint has
been found there, and SOC, 600 worth Of
machinery has been put up To get out
the stuff to ship to New York.
For deafness of old age, Sapolini, Of
Milan, Italy, swabs the membrane tym-
PAM with a weak oleaginous solution of
phosphorus. He claims to have stimu-
lated the actions of the membrane and
improved the hearing in sixty-two
cases.
system of building houses entirely Of
sheet iron has been communicated to the
Society of Architecture in Paris The
walls, partitions, roofs, and wainscot-
ing are composed of double metallic
sheets, separated by an air mattress, which
is surrounded by different non-conduc-
tors of heat.
The street cars at Lyons. in France.
are hereafter to be operated by a series of
compressed air, which has been found to
work satisfactorily in Nantes and other
French cities. The cars are sail to run
smoothly and with but little noise, while
the machinery is simple and does not re-
quire a skilled mechanic to supcrintcnd
it. The cost is less than with horses,
steam or electricity.
cit is not intellectual work that Injuries
the brain" says the London Hospital,
"but emotional excitement. Most men
can stand the severest thought and study
of which their brains are capable, and be
none the worst for it for neither thought
nor study interferes with the recuperative
influence of sleep. 1t is ambition, anxiety,
and disappointment, the hopes and fears,
the loves and hates, of our lives, that
wear out our nervous system and cndanger
the balance of the brain"
Some interesting notes on human
skulls, found in old monastery in the
KeadrOn Valley, near Jerusalem, have
been given by DR.. Dwight in a medical
journal. He concludes that the Caucasian
skull has, during the past thirteen centu-
ries, increased two inches in average cir
cumference, and gained brain holding
capacity of three and a half cubic inches.
The growth has been wholly in the frontal
and upper region, and none at all in the
lower portions associated with purely
animal functions This is the most i'm
portant discovery in ethnology of recent
date.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-11
Foreign.

A TEACHER of Odessa, Russia, named Sause
committed suicide. His wife was so much
affected that she lost her reason. She killed
her five children, carried their bodies to a
third story window, and threw them to the
ground. She then threw herself out, recelv-
ing fatal injuries.
JOE KEMP, who was taken out from the
Quebec ruins alive after one hundred hours
imprisonment, has died.
BY the collapse of an unfinished house in
Milan, Italy, five persons were killed and
twenty injured.
MUssULMAN outrages upon Christians in
Crete have taken place. Numbers of Chris
tans are fleeing to the mountains.
FIVE hundred navvles employed on the
Bale des Chaleurs Railway in Quebec have
struck for back pay amounting to S4O,O
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS the new
American Minister to Germany, has pre-
sented his credentials to Emperor William.
AN extensive strike of dock laborers has
taken place at Rotterdam, Holland.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-11
A LARGE PENSION.
And an Unusual Tragedy of the War
Which 1t Recalls.

Mrs Mary Pierson, of Kanawha County,
W. Va, has just received a large pension,
which recalls an unusual tragedy not noted
at the time ana almost forgotten since AT
the breaking out Of the war her husband was
an ardent Southerner. She favored the
Union, as did her children. Finally the old
est son, Harvey, joined the Union army.
His angry father swore he would kill the first
Yankee soldier he saw.
In 1861 squad of eighteen Union soldiers
stopped in front Of his house. The Lieuten-
ant. not thinking of dam :, climbed upon
the fence and sat down. Pierson shot him
dead In revenge the soldiers killed Person
and three of his children. The son Harvey
was killed in battle. The mother, with sew
eral children, has lived in poverty until now.
She is seventy-fve years old.
DURING August IO9 railway accidents weI'
reported in the United States, OF which >
were caused by collisions, So by derallmenta
and 6 were due to minor negligence and ex--
plosions The loss of life is placed at d
persons and 253 sustained injuries
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-11

THE new Catholic University near Wash
ington, D. c., viii be formally dedicated and
opened on November 18th. Cardinal Glib
bons will conduct the dedicatory ceremonies
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-11

THE board of fortifcation estimate tina
sos 600 600 will be required to put the harbor
of San Francisco in q fair state of defence.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

ALL sorts Of conflicting rumors are be-
ing circulated concerning the sugar trust.
Certain interested parties have started
the report that the managers aud those
on the inside of the trust are losing
money. In view Of the fact however,
that it is possible for the large relineries
to make handsome profit on q margin
of q cent a pound between raw and re-
fined sugar, and that in the last two
years the difference has averaged more
than Ia. cent pound, statements
that the sugar trust has not made a good
deal Of money during the past two years
can not be considered very reliable. The
fact that certificates Of the sugar trust
are at a low valuation at present may be
accounted for: first that the certificate
holder is not protected, and secondly be-
cause the New York courts are deciding
cases against the trust. Except specu-
lators or exceedingly credulous and greedy
persons, investors and capitalists gener-
ally look upon trust certificates of all
descriptions with great suspicion and will
not invest in them.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

AND now it turns out that great many
of the prosecutions of saw mill men and
mine operators in Grant county for the
alleged unlawful cutting of timber on the
public domain were instituted by officials
appointed under the late Democratic re-
form administration, and for no other
purposes than to swell the amount of
fees these proceedings are on par with
the Wholesale iEdicting for alleged land
frauds in the lst district some years ago and
for alleged election frauds recently, and
with the indictments found for alleged
violations of the Edmunds law, which
was intended for Utah only, in the 4th
district. Gees must and shall be made"
was and is the motto of the Democratic
court officials. They have lived up to it
faithfully and energetically. Here is
very fine and rich field Of investigation
for the honorable the attorney general.
A good, honest and impartial special
agent of the department OF justice
weuld make a report after q full
and fair investigation of the matteas al
luded to, which report on readingit would
make the honorable attorney generals
hair stand on end.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

THE Glove match" between Miss Gwen
daline Caldwell, Of Washington, and
Prince Murat, of no particular plaza, has
been declared "otl'." The princes love
was deep and passionate, but as his debts
amounted $5,OOO,0O0, sd as Miss Cald-
wells fortune is only Sc, 100000, the course
OF true love did not run smooth in this in
stance
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

ALTHOUGH the weather is cold and
good deal Of snow has already fallen i'll
the middle and eastern states, neyerthe-
less it is safe to predict that it will right
hot tomorrow in Virginia, Ohio and New
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

If the Republicans OF New York carry
the legislature in to-morrow's contest,
and itlooks as ifthey would carry it, Gov.
Hill will not need to consult the encyclo-
pedia 10 find out what fix he is in.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

AND now if Atty. Gen. Miller will act in
the matter Of the appointments of an
other chief justice and another U. S. mar
shall for New Mexico, he will place the peo-
pie of New Mexico under obligations and
benefit the public service.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

Tie business Of cattle raising, the re-
port says, has been in depressed con-
Gition throughout the year, not on &C
count Of any intrinsic difficulty, but of
the low prices to be obtained for the ami
mails when sold
During the past year mining, the gov
ernor says, has been carried on with
more than average success.
mo more peaceful or safe community
is to be found in the whole land" says
the governor. Crime is more rare than
in staid New England, and one may ira
verse the whole territory on horseback
alone without danger The days of Billy
the Kid Of 'Rudebaugh' and 'Hoodoo
Brown are long since over"
lie quotes the fact that in July he Wis
tied Lincoln county, which comprises an
area equal to the states of Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, New Hampshire, ConneC-
ticut, Delaware and New Jersey, and in
all that vast area of 2G,500 square miles
there was not Il man in jsil, though its
sheriff is one Of the most efficient men in
the territory.
81 submit, - says Gov. Prince, shat no
similar area inthe whole country can show
such 4 record as that"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04
LAND TITLES.

The governor calls special attention to
the subject Of land titles in That territory.
The governor briefly reviews the history
Of congressional action in the matter, in
the course of which he says:
MATTERS were in this very unsatisfac-
tory condition when the late surveyor
general made them worse by endeavoring
to unsettle the few things that were sup
posed to be determined. Taking up cases
which had been decided twenty five years
ago, when the testimony as heard by the
then surveyor general was satisfactory
he approved title, and without notice to
any one Of calling single other witness
or having word of new evidence, revers-
ing the decision of the surveyor general
who heard the case and declared the tes-
timony insufficient and the grant invalid"
The governor summarizes the needs OF
the people as follows:
%. A limitation Of the time within
which grants can be presented; (2)
tribunal exclusively for the hearing OF
those claims and settlement of these titles.
This tribunal, the governor says, should
be court in order to challenge the high
est respect, and it should have no con-
nection with any other court, either to
with its business or to be inter
fered with in turn. "To the community
at large" he says, "it is Of very little i'm
portanCe whether one man or another
owns a pice of land, or whether it is pri-
vate property Or public domain. The main
point is certainty as to the title. If it be-
longs to private person, We can nego-
bate with him; if it is public domain we
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

The American people are very clearly
in their habits and use good deal Of
soap, Rabbit, the soap manufacturer,
who died a few days ago, left fortune Of
$4,000 900.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

MONTANA had best settle her election
differences, and that mighty quick. She
will have to stay out of the union for the
present should she not.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

THE new superintendent of the terri
torial penitentiary, Mr.. D. r. 4tbrahams,
took full charge to-day. He will make,
we predict, first class official.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

A CRACKER trust is being organized.
We can stand that, but q formation OF a
pie trust would surely bring about reyo-
luton in this country.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

IF the Ohio Democrats carry the legis-
lature in to-morrow's contest Calvin S.
Brice will be a candidate for the U. s. sem
ate. If!
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

CLAUS SPRECKELs says sugar will go
down cent a pound in thirty days.
Claus likes to hear himself talk.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

A VIRGINIAN has declined a postmaster's
appointment. Great Scott wondsrs will
never cease
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

No GAS, no road improvements, no po-
lice protection. What becomes Of Santa
Fe county taxes then?
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

A CORRESPONDENT asks: "Whcre are
our public schools?" Don'tknoW, Give
it up. Ask us something easy.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

Lo, the poor Indian, will soon be a
. thing of the past. He is to be educated
and civilized in dead earnest.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4.

AN assay office should be established in
New Mexico.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

improvement, and 50 the development Of
the country is constantly retarded"
As TO STATEHOOD.
Upon the subject Of statehood, the gov
crnor says, in part:
New Mexico was q much older terri
tory than either OF those admitted; its
population largely exceeds that Of Mon
tauG or Washington; it had Il special right
to sGjt-gOEernment under the treaty Of
Guadalupe IIidalgo; it had only failed of
admission in 1876 by an accident; its re-
sources were both greater and more
varied, and its population was better
adapted for safe and conservative self
government than that OF our sections Of
the west. This refusal to admit her has
forced US to recognize that there is q
prejudice in the older states against New
Mexico, which although based solely on
ignorance OF our condition, yet it is none
the less powerful and injurious"
The governor answers at some length
the statement made by persons opposed
to the admission OF the territory tending
to show that she is not yet prepared for
statehood. He says that while the older
native populations are more or less ILL
terate, this is not true OF very large
proportion OF her people. The ratio Of
lIliteracy, he says, has been reduced 20
per cent during the last five years. The
governor makes an earnest plea for the
admission OF New Mexico into the union.
Upon the subject of water supply and
irrigation the governor says; The peo-
pie feel that it is as much the business OF
the government to render valuable the
immense areas, largely Of public land,
which are now useless for cultivation, as
it is to improve the harbors Of the sea-
board or the rivers (often so called by
courtesy by the Central states"
While hoping for extensive aid in this
regard, the governor says that private
enterprises has not been idle. During
the year several corporations have been
for purposes OF irrigation. One company
formed is now constructing two immense
canals, the first being forty miles long,
forty feet wide at the bottom and carry
ing seven feet OF water, and the other
fifty miles long, iorty-livo feet wide and
also carrying seven feet OF water. These
he says, are 10 be fed by the Pecos River,
the flow OF which is calculated to be 100
cubic feet per second. These canals,
with their intervening reservoirs, are esti-
mated to cost about 81 100000, and
to Irrigato between 290, 200, and 100000
acres Of land.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

JAY GOULD is opposed to q railroad
trust. OF course he is, he is doing well
enough.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04
PHYSICIANS.
l., ZABALLA, NJ. ID.

Faculty of Paris and Madrid. Diseases OF the
Eye q specially. Office, DelGado building, low
er Frisco street.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

HENRY l.. WALDO,
Attorney at Law. Will practice in the seyera
courts of the territory Prompt attention givel
to all business intrusted to his care.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04

Attorney and Counselor at Law, 7. o. Box
ST." Santa Fe, N NJ, practices in supreme ana
all district courts of New Mexico. Special at
tentior given to mining and Spanish and Mex
lean land grant litigation.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-04
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

Lawyer, Santa Fe, New Mexico. once
Second National Bank.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-15
The Cotton Crop.

The August crop report of the
Department of Agriculture makes
the condition of cotton 1913, through
out the Southern States, being an
advance of nearly two points during
the month of July. In South Caro-
lima the condition has been improved
by good seasons, though there has
been some local damage from excess
i've rains.
The averages of condition by
States are Wirginin 63, North
Carolina 80, South Carolina 90,
Georgia Of, Florida 95, Alabama 90,
Mississippi SO, Louisiana 02, Texas
81, Arkansas 93, Tennessee 79.
The caterpillar and boil worm are
occasionally mentioned in Mississippi
and Louisiana and in several Coun-
ties of Texas, but the damage from
them is as yet inappreciable.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-15
District Conference Echoes.

A correspondent of the Grecnvillc
Enterprise and Mo,o,taineer says:
"Walhalla did the handsome thing
in entertaining the Conference.
Homes were easily provided for the
entertainment of one hundred and
fifty-one persons-and when we say
homes, we do not mean stopping
places. Their doors were thrown
wide open and their hearts still wider
and every one found such welcome
as could have possibly been wished
for or imagined The people were
found to he fine entertainers, hos
pitable and clever. Never was n
Conference entertained handsomcr
or better.
The Easley Messenger says:
"Rev. j. II. Anderson, (col.,) of the
'Colored M. e. Church in America,
was presented to the Conference by
the President. Mr.. Anderson rep
resented a church which had been
founded by the M. T.. Church, South,
and asked help to build church at
Hodges, Abbcville county. A col
lection was raised and $25 placed in
the hands of the Brothcr in Black
who returned his heartfelt thanks in
a short speech and left on the next
train for Lowndcsvillc to attend the
District Conference of his church.
"But any account of the Confer
cnce would be defective without
mention of the hospitality of the
generous Christians of Walhalla.
They opened their homes and hearts
to the delegates, and did all that
Southern hospitality could do to
make them feel at home. The writer
feels that he speaks for all, when
he asserts that he was completely
captivatcd by the Kindness so lavish
ly bestowed on him. If the Con.
ference ever goes to Walhalla again
he earnestly desires to be there"
The Seneca Tree Press says:
"Too much cannot be said in
praise OF the Christian hospitality of
the citizens of Walhala and West
Union. Their homes and churches
were thrown open to the visiting
body, and all wed in their efforts to
render the session pleasant and prof
table. The delegates carry pleas
ant remcmbrances of Oconec's capi-
tai.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-15
TOnassee Locals.

ToMAssEE, S. c., August 12, 1889.
DEAR COURIER: Allow me lit
tie space in tho columns of your
valuable journal and I will pcn yor,
a few lines from this part.
Crops generally look well and bid
fair to make better crops than we
have had for some years. Corn is
exceptionally good. Watermclons
and fruit are plentiful and ripe. The
blackberries are not of much ac-
count, owing to the almost constant
rain for week past. Garden vege-
tables are tolerably good.
The Tomassee school opened on
Monday, August 5th. The Tomas
see school building is undergoing
some needed repairs. 1t is being
made IL feet longer and 80 inches
higher. A piazza will also be con-
structed to the building. When
these repairs shall have been COM
pleted this will be perhaps tho most
complete school building in the up
per portion of the county.
When we have apples, of course
we have cider, don't eye" know.
We are glad to see. that bright
county journal, the COURIER, when
it makes its weekly visits, brimming
with county and secular news.
This l.! not local, but 1 will simply
state that the Piedmont Exposition
opens at Atlanta, Ca, on the 7th of
October, for the benefit of those
who have. not heard of it. Presi-
dent Ben. Harrison and James G.
Blaine will probably be present and
it is thought that Diaz, President of
the Mexican Republic, will also be
present.
Mr.. John N. Todd is i'll with ty-
phoid fever. We hope he will re-
cover quickly. Mr.. Todd has had
some very bad luck of late. His
daughter and her husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Barker, have just had a
very severe attack of fever.
The Lords Supper was admin
jistered in Bethel Presbyterian church
last Sunday. Quite congregation
attended.
The weather is so hot that we will
close pro name.
GUSTAYE FERRON.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-15
The Public Schools.

Much has been said and written
from time to time about the common
school system of our State. Even a
casual observation will convince one
that the system is not accomplishing
all the good it should. Everywhere
there is demand for better schools
and better teachers. But when we
consider the limited means with
which the schools have been run in
the past, we do not wonder at their
inciliciency; we only wonder at the
training and education which they
have wrought.
The system within itself we be-
lieve to be an admirable one, but it
takes money to make the mare 60,
and there is as little use in trying to
run the schools Of the State without
money as there is to develop her
material resources. The one can be
no more easily done than the other.
To cut long matter short, what
does our school system most need ?
~,Qhoney! More MomeyW No one
can gainsay this.
A term of only three months in
the year, during which the public
schools can be open and free to all,
is a shame and disgrace to the State
at large. 1t shows on its face that
less than half work is being done.
What then must be done? There
is but one answer, raise more. money
8 by taxation, double the school fund,
do it manfully, boldly, squarcly and
with the full knowledge Of every
taxpayer.
There is no time for any more
whining, whimperjng and putting in