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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
THE LABOR WORLD,

ABOUT 5000 iron cars are in use.
WESTERN stove foundries are nearly all on
full time
A NEW forty mile ore road Is to be built in
Michigan.
THERE are two hundred gold beaters in
New York.
II the South all the coke ovens are running
double time.
THERE is general depression in labor con-
dltions abroad.
A LADY in Belfast, Me-, is learning the
machinists trade
MNNEAPoLIs, Mimi, has 1000 men who
are looking for work.
MONTANA coal miners show an out crop
twenty-five feet thick.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. is to have a mill for
weaving fancy cashmeres.
A THOUSAND dock workers at Marseilles.
France, have gone on strike.
THE Gadsden, tAla) car works have an or
der for 700 cars for one road.
A GOOD many costly hotels are being built
OF concrete and artificial stone.
STARVATION wages and idle worknen is
the story that comes from Berlin.
BED PLATE weighing thirty-three tons
was recently cast at Steelton, Penn.
IN the neglected mining district of ZacaIpan,
Mexico, labor is paid S14 per month.
WAGES are being reduced in New England
wooden mills and new mills are starting up,
In Baltimore 5000 women and girls get the
average weekly wages Of 50 for making over
ais
A VIENNA man is making good leather
from red beechwood. 1t can be nailed or
sewed.
PATTERSON, On. j. silk weavers work till
9 o'clock at night, and new silk mills are
starting.
DELAWARE RIVER shipbuilders have con-
tracts enough on hand to keep them busy for
two years.
THE New York Progressive Musical Union
has taken steps toward getting up national
organization.
THE 10000 washerwomen of Paris have
formed a union. They will demand seventy
five cents per day.
IN Australia SO, ASS workmen, employed in
4, SO shops and mills have their lives in
Sured against accidents.
NASHUA N. H. tool makers have had to
reduce wages five to thirty-fve per cent. to
| meet Western competition.
BUILDING in the City of Mexico is said to
be so active that some Of the work has to be
| suspended for want of briclklayers.
The strike outbreak in Germany is so
general that it would appear to be an organ
lied cooperation Of the trade centers.
THE Standard Oil Company think they
now have process to turn lime into gas, and
have just bought up 4O, 600 acres of territory
OSTMASTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER is
the pioneer in Philadelphia in employing col
ored people for responsible positions in his
business.
A UNION of Manchester England Tailor
esses has been formed. Miss Hardness stated
that there were 25 900 tailoresses in London,
working sixteen hours a day, at two cents an
hour when thew can get work
ALBERT RAYMOND, a Jersey City IN. j.
painter, is out with an offer to paint 100 to
inch letters six colors to a letter, against
any man, the painting to be done on glass, in
water colors He has a 6.22 record for the
job.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Individuality OF Horses.

The individuality of horses varies as
much as that of men. Everyone has a
different mental as we'll as physical make
up. Some horses seem to possess sense,
are quick to understand and obey the
least sign, motion or word of their mas
ter; others are not Ineptly termed Chunk
heads" always awkward, numbering
about, difficult to teach, and never make
anything in a physiological sense. 1t
may be true that these traits in a horse
are sometimes due to the habits of his
driver or owner, and that the horse him
self may not be so mu:h to blame for his
ignorance, but however much he is ex-
cused on this score, there is surprising
difference in these mental qualities of
horses. Between nervous, sensitive and
intelligent horse and his considerate
owner how large g union of fellowship
and sympathy exist. In the stable, on
the road, if overtaken by an accident,
the cool, sensitive man is sure to have a
quick SYMPATHY for his horse. He trusts
his master as his master trusts him. II
the master is quiet the horse will be
equally so, knowing everything is safe
if the man busters, or becomes anxious,
or exhibits fear, the horse knows it at
once, aud becomes FESTIVE likewise. -
NtO York H42ald.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19

the supplies may not fail to ascend freely
to the leaves, these should be allowed
to form anywhere on the stem, the lower
down and nearer covering and shading
it the better. A strip of cloth Or paper
wrapped sPirally round the stem from
the lowest leaves to the ground will help
to keep the vessels of the stem from con.
tracing by parching sun or wind, and.
in the case of trees liable to be infested
by borers will serve most useful pur
pose in repelling the parent beetle. Thif
early planting is favored much by having
the holes dug during or before winter.
and the finer mold for filing rendered
all the tner and dryer by being heaped
up and exposed fully to the frost. The
trees art always best obtained in the fall
and kept IN a cool cellar with the roots
covered we'll with sand or fine earth, OF
some sheltered place in e dry bank out
of door, safe from mice and rabbits. A
wrapping of the stem of each will secure
this, and the wrapping will then be
ready in place for summer use as above.
-NceO York Tribune.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Manure Your Lawn.

If neglected last fall, it is not yet too
late to recuperate Impoverished lawns. A
thin sprinkling of manure, placed on the
grass and raked Off just as it begins to
grow lively, will be found to put new
heart into the grass. The fact Of fire.
quent cutting of the grass and carting
away the clippings, which should al
ways be done, viii in time impoverish
the richest soil. The addition of coat
ing of manure in the winter or spring
keeps al supplied again. Almost any
soil, as that of the common garden, that
can be spared, or that from below where
a compost heap has been laid, or the
cleaning out of bitches by the roadside.
that is part decayed vegetable matter, is
splendid thing to spread on the lawn.
Any of the latter class is excellent for
such lawns as have dead spots in the
grass. In this case, if the whole is left
until frost is gone out of the ground,
then spread on. raked in, sown with
grass seed on the bare spots, and well
rolled after, the lawn will very often be
as good as when first laid down.
Nothing is more attractive around
the dwelling, whether the castle or cot
tage, than a nice green sward of grass.
1t is cool and pleasant to the eye in the
hottest weather, and in the most scorch-
ing sunshine, and all can enjoy it, who
90 not live in the pent-up streets of
solid brick and mortar. Fave a grass
plat around your dwelling. Prairie
Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Grating Wax.

There has been good many inquiries
in regarding how to make grating wax.
There are many variations in the quantity
of the ingredients used by different graft
ers the essential requisite being to form
a composition that is soft and pliable
enough to be freely applied, and yet not
melt or run in the hot sun. The follow
ing ingredients and directions are given
in Thomas's American Fruit CulturGst
Melt together three parts of resin, three
of beeswax and two of tallow. A
cheaper composition, but more liable to
adhere to the hands, is made of four
parts OF resin, two of tallow and one of
beeswax. Some grafters use linseed oil
instead of tallow, in equal parts. The
wax may be applied directly to the graft.
or it may be spread when softened by
sufficient warmth on what is termed
''grafting paper" cut into strips, and
wound around the graft when inserted.
-AqriculturuI ReUje1o.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Soft Soap on the Farm.

An abundance OF what is called soft
soap" may be had at the store or from
the wagon of the vendors. Real soft
soap is made, not bought. It is made
from the refuse fat of the kitchen.
Every economical housekeeper has her
pot for ''soap grease" which, instead of
trading it off with the soap man for
soap, often Of a poor grade, she makes
into soft-soap. The other ingredient
necessary is I've, made from the ashes of
hard wood. A substitute for I've may
be made with the potash Of commerce
dissolved in water. This solution is
used in the same manner as the lye,
being mixed with the fat, hot or cold,
according the method adopted in the
family. Soap made in this manner is
always soft, a broWnish, thick, Viscid,
somewhat jelly-like soft-solid, which by
no amount Of standing will ever become
hard Potash and soda both combine
with fat to make soap; potash or I've,
which is the same, always makes a soft
soap, while soda in the form of salsoda,
or soda ash, always makes a hard soap,
but soda or potaah soap may be con-
verted into hard soap by adding to it
common salt, which supplies soda. What
is generally sold as "soft soap" is simply
common white hard soap, to which so
much water has been added that it no
longer retains its form, but becomes a
semi-solid mass. If one purchases a
quart of this stuff, he buys
at least three half pints of water
we are therefore justified in call
ing the stuff a fraud" Besides it is
greatly inferior in strength for all the
purposes for which it may be used, espe-
cially in horticulture, to the homemade
soft-soap we have described. If one has
an old orchard, the trunks and larger
branches covered with loose bark, on
which MOSES, lichens and still lower
forms of vegetation find foot-hold, and
which afford resting and hiding place
for numerous in furious insects in various
states of development, the first thing to
be done is to scrape off all the loose
scales of bark. Use moderately dull
hoe-a sharp one might in jure the bark;
one with a short handle will allow the
lower branches to be reached. Use the
home made soft-soap, dilute it with hot
water, stir it we'll until it is thin enough
TO apply with a small white wash brush
or large paint brush. Put plenty OF 1t
on the trunks and the larger branches.
One should endeavor to apply the soap
very early IN spring, so that it may not
dry up at once, but be gradually washed
off by the rains that usually occur at this
season. When the trees have had a
thorough washing the bark will present
beautifully smooth appearance that
will amply repay one for the trouble.
For removing the green growth on the
outside of flower pots, this soap is ex-
cellent; it has also been recommended as
a vehicle to apply kerosene for aphides
or plant lice and other insects. One
pint of soft-soap is mixed with half a
pint of kerosene. Mix thoroughly, add
to seven or eight gallon of water, and
apply with syringe. This has been
found destructive to the chlnch bug.
american -4grjculturast.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Points for Tree Planters.

Next to having healthy, thrifty young
!1lees, not overgrown and not spoiled by
Crying or freezing, early planting is Of
nrSt Importance for all sorts of decidu-
Gus trees, so that all wounds may calIous
over before the season for visible growth.
Next secure healthy, tull-size leaves
capable of maintaining growth. This
Is helped by pruning the top well, re
moving all de-branches and even short
ening the main stem if needful to re-
ouce the number of growing points
Souds). When these are few they can
De adequately supplied by the weakened
roots, and the leaves will then be fully
developed and filed out to full size. To
assure that they continue to be supplied
throughout the growing season, the
roots that are to supply them should be
secured from dryness before hot weather
" vide and liberal mulch of any sort
" vegetable waste, And in order that
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Farm and Garden Notes.

Look out for lice on poultry, cattle
and hogs.
Inspect drain outlets and clear out
INSTRUCTED ones.
A flock of poultry on farm is indis-
pensable to the setting of good table.
See that the pigs have plenty of water
to drink, even if they are fed On Stops.
If you have plenty of wood ashes you
will not be compelled to buy fertilizers
rich in potash.
Cows that are to have calves in the
spring should not be fed meal now, but
bulky, juicy food.
Stock by this time are becoming tired
of winters restraint and vermln Will
badly worry them now.
Spending the crops before they are
made is working to disadvantage; so far
as possible, pay as you go.
In saving seed make it an item to Sc
lect that which has ripened first; with
corn this is very important.
The old method of mixing up a
dough of cornmeal with cold water for
chicks won't make them grow.
A fruit grower affirms that in the cul-
tivation of peaches stable manure pro-
duces too much growth of wood.
Aside from the home consumption of
eggs, a small flock of poultry. when
properly handled, may be made proita-
BILE.
Hens should lay from this date until
warm weather without ceasing, and will,
if the conditions are anything like ia
vorable.
The proper time to water horses is
just before they eat, not afterward.
Watering after eating is the cause OF
more deaths of horses by collie than any
other cause. Use good common horse
sense in feeding and watering and care
for your stock.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Feeding Meat to Fowls.

Too much meat, either ground or
fresh is injurious, as it causes bowel
disease. It may be fed three times a
week, if the dried, ground meat be used,
and twice week if fresh butchers meat
is given. One pound Of fresh meat,
chopped, is about the proper quantity
for fifteen liens, and half pound of the
ground meat answers for a meal, mixed
with other food, for the same number.
If preferred, the ground meat may be
given twice week and the fresh meat
once Ground fish is also excellent, and
makes a cheap and good egg food, if
given with ground grain. -Farm and
Flreside
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
A Cow With a Cough.

A cough may be caused by indigestion,
and this is probably the cause when
otherwise cow appears to be in good
health. Overlooking will cause difficulty
in breathing by adding too much fat to
the heart. Give the cow dose of epson
salts zone pound) dissolved IN warm thin
linseed tea, about quart; and stop
feeding grains for few days. Mash the
bran and add a pound of linseed meal
to it for few days and gradually return
to the former feeding. Brewers grains
should not be fed when warm or sour
Mem York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

RUSSIA has 1873 vessels.
AN ice trust is the latest.
FLORIDA has fresh pineapples.
PROFOUND peace reigns in Samoa
In America there are 500, 600 Jews.
LOUISVILLE is to have natural gas
FROGS legs cost fifty cents pound.
BOSTON eats fifty tons of candy day.
CHICAGO receipts of hogs are increasing.
THE United States has ninety-eight vessels.
EUROPEAN crop prospects continue favor
able.
The number of priests in this country is
6118.
MURDERS are decidedly on the increase in
| Paris.
In Germany there are one million surplus
women.
A FOREIGN steel rail syndicate is being
formed.
A STRONG current of emigration to Chile
is noted.
In all there are 1000 miles of pipe lines in
the world.
LOUISIANA strawberries are in the New
York market.
Cincinnati is paving its streets with
Georgia granite.
THE zouave uniform is to be abandoned in
the French army.
has not succeeded.
MAUD S., queen of the trotting turf is now
fifteen years of age.
THE annual production of mineral oil is
1000 million gallons.
THE Hessian fly is destroying the wheat
crop in central Illinois,
GAS wells are being struck along the
Rocky Mountains slope.
No Russian liable to military service (
permitted to leave that country now
FLORIDA has sent 2, OOO 600 young orange
trees to California since last September.
THE Indiana Legislature refuses to allow
natural gas to be piped out of the State.
AN Australian experiment of shipping
oranges to London proved very successful.
THERE will be about ninety vacancies this
year at the United States Naval Academy.
DURING the last seven years Atlanta, Ga
has put nearly 81 900, 600 in her streets and
| sewers.
THE Spiritua1ists of Boston recently cele-
brated the forty-frst anniversary of modern
spirltualis1n.
NEARLY two hundred thousand barrels of
apples are lying unsold in the northern part
Of New York.
ALABAMA got the first Postmaster ap-
pointed in the Southern States under the new
administration.
TROTTING begins to be recognized in Eng
land. A track for it is to be established just
out of Liverpool.
A NEWSPAPER trust is being organized in
England. Newspaper men are ordering sup
plies from abroad.
THE Chinese are getting ready to build $50
miles of railroad, 81 locomotives, $50 coaches
and $50 cars. All American make.
A MEAT syndicate to be known as the
American Meat Company, has been organ
ICED in Philadelphia with a capital of $25,-
600 OOO
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19

At last, while in hopeless fran.
One day she said, There is nal
I've often seen-a remedy
Perhaps twill help; / can but try"
And so, according to direction,
She took DIR. Pierces Favorite Prescription,
And every baleful symptom fed,
And she was raised as from the dead.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19

That dainty iaIy tripping by,
How light her step, how bright her eye,
How fresh her cheek with healthful glow
Like roses that in Maytine blow
And yet few weeks have passed away
Since she was fading, day by day.
The doctors skill could naught avail;
Weaker she grew, and thin and pale.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
Money i'm Chickens.

a man who devoted 81 yearr
of MS life 20 CONDUCTTNG
A POULTRY YARD AS A
BUSINESS, not a. a pas
time. As tile living of him
self and family depended
on it, ne gave the subject
such attention as only Q
need of bread win com
mand, and the result was Q
grand success. after he had
spent much money and lost
hundreds Of valuable chick
ems in experimenting. Whist
he learned in ali these years
IL embodied in this book,
which We send postpaid for
IS cents in stamps. II
teaches you how 10 Detect
and Cure Diseases, how to
Feed for Eggs and also for
Fattenlng. which Fowls to
Save for Breeding Purposes
and everything. indeed. you
should know on this subject
BOOK PUB. HOUSE.
1S4 Leonard St.. y. Y. City.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-27
Shorty Caldwell whips Jensen,

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-A ring in the
upper loft oi a barn in New Jersey was
the scene Of q conflict this morning
London rules governed and kid glCyes
were worn. The lighters were Billy Jen-
SEP, OF Newark, who is 90 years old,
stands feet inches tall and weighs 147
pounds, and Steven, otherwise Shorty"
caldwell, OF Philadelphia, who was two
years older than the other and q half
pound heavier, although two inches
shorter. Neither man had ever fought
In the ring before.
For four rounds the men fought hard,
particularly In fighting before the fall.
caldwell landed on top three times of the
four. In the seventh round Jensen scor-
ed knock-down by q rushing right
handed drive on Caldwell's breast, and
he also won the eighth fall.
Jensen showed great grit, but when he
went down In the fourteenth round the
oack OF bis head struck the floor with q
bang and he became unconscious. he
lost the fight In that way. 1t was for O
300 parse.
JACK FARRELL KNOCKED OUT.
TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 26.-Jack Far
reii, the Brooklyn pugilist, was whipped
here las; night BY William Higgs, OF 81.
raul. The fight lasted three rounds.
Farrell looked as though he expected an
easy victory, but Higss dealt him three
blows over the heart in rapid succession
In the third round and the BROOKLYN mar
went down. He had TO 10 helped from
the room.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-27
Printers Stand Firm.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2I-A large
number Of printers attended the special
meeting OF Typographical Union. No. 3.
a. Musical Fund Hall, yesterday at noon.
70 take action on the refusal of the pro.
prietors OF the Inquirer, North Ameri-
can, Record, Press and Times TO grant
the advance in the price of type-setting
recently demapded. President jacob
Glaser presided, Eugene Madden was
secretary, and International Union
PRESIDENT Plank and District Organizer
Jones, OF the International Union, were
present
AFTER several addresses had been made,
urging that the demand OF the Union be
ineisted upon, vote was taken on the
Question OF referring the whole M after to
the Executive Council of the Inter.
national Union for action. The result
was overwhelmingly In favor OF pushing
the demand In this way.
BY this action, 1t was said after the
meeting, the local union secures the co
operation OF the International Union
and its financial as well as moral sun.
port In the, event Of q strike. Under
this action District Organizer Jones be
came the representative of the men or
consultations with the proprietors. and
he started out TO visit the latter yester
day afternoon. His report, 1t is said
will be made 10 the Executive Council
which represents the International
Union when the latter is rot in session
and which 10 now authorized to dIrecI
extreme measures on the part of th,
printers concerned If It sees fit to do 40
The Executive Council consists OF the
District Organizer and the officers of n,
International Union. Other members o
the Council besides Mr.. Plank and Mr.
Jones have been sent for, and Mr.. Nc
Clevey, the International Secretary
Treasurer, wac reported on his .wal
here last night
Daily Republican., 1889-12-27
Harness repaired promptly at Perkins,
i0l W. Eighth street.


Syracuse, New York, was visited by q
cyclone yesterday morning which de-
stroSed the barn of the Peoples Street
Railway Company and killed Charles A.
Nichols, assistant superintendent. Sev.
eral other employees we're badly hurt.
At Utica hailsIoncs /. 4 and great dam
age was done to fruit trees. At Auburn
rain, hail, thunder and lightning and
high winds characterized the weather.
An Ice house in Look Haven, Pa, was
destroyed yesterday by the wind, which
was accompanied by rair, thunder and
lightning. At Pittsburg the storm was
OF short duration, but conslderable dam
age was done by the wind. In New
York city new three-story building In
course of erection was blown down and
several men and two children were in
iui ed.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-27
The Panama Canal.
tcoMMUNIcATRD,l

Convert the interior OF the Isthmus ol
Panama into a great navlgable lake In
the basins Of the Rio Chagres and Rio
Grande by daming the mouths OF these
two rivers and constructing canal locks
In the dams 2S metres high, the whole at
cost ot less than a hundred million
dollars, is the theory OF NJ. Baulercau.
Culebrs, his pamphlet proposes, must be
cut through at width OF 81 metres q,
the floating line.
The Atlantic lock will be at Bohio SOL
dsdo, fourteen miles from the Colon
terminus, which 10 the extent to which
the tide level canal has been cut at this
end. The masonry of the locks would
excel the great Pyramid. Forty chi d.
daily could pass through from one ocean
TO the other. The construction OF the
locks and the uniting OF the river beds
are planned to be passable I'm less than
two years. The Obispo river will also
contribute its waters TO the great lake
which 1t 10 believed would have q sanitary
effect on the climate.
As the French government have q
commission to inquire into the feasibility
oil completing the canal, this lake scheme
will come under their investigation. So
vast number of the citizens of France
have put money in the Panama canal
that there Is q strong political influence
iu favor OF Its completion,