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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28

make out a warrant for the amount in favor
of the relief fund This morning | teIa-
graphed Mayor Filter of Philadelphia for
four steam fire engines. At II ne replied
that they were on the way with crews. /
deemed this necessary as a precautionary
measure, ON account of the great mass Of
debris we shall burn during the next few
days"
Governor Beaver announced that he had
abandoned the idea of using 81, OOO, 900 out
of the Pennsylvania State Treasury under
the proposed indemnity-bond scheme. for
the reason that such action might establish
bad precedent. He has decided instead 70
adopt the suggestion of William h Kemble
that the money be loaned TO the Governor
by private corporations. The Governor
stated that he had been offered a million dol
lars by national banks of Philadelphia with
out security and without interest the loaners
to be reimbursed by the Legislature at its
next session, and he has accepted this offer.
This money will be used to clear the streams
and place the highways in order and perform
other necessary State work.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

AT meeting of the National Democratic
Committee in New York Calvin 3. Brlce, or
Ohio. was unanimously elected Chairman to
succeed the late W. H. Barnum. Resolutions
of respect for the memory of Mr.. Barnum
and the late Captain F. W. Dawson, another
member Of the Committee, recently murdered
in Charleston, S. c., were passed.
THE Society OF the Army of the Potomac
held its twentieth annual reunion at Orange
=. J.
THE borough of Johnstown and the sur
rounding towns are now under military rule
General Hastings has taken charge, and SOL
diers were placed on guard duty. Colonel A.
T. Douglass, chief engineer of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, at the request of Governor
Beaver, of Pennsylvania, went to Johnstown
TO take charge of the entire force employed
in cleaning away the debris caused by the
food.
GENERAL SHERMAN delivered the diplomas
to the graduating class at West Point Mill
taTy Academy.
CAMILLo BoUGATTI, an Italian confined in
the Tombs New York city, on a charge of
murder, committed suicide by hanging.
". E. PHILLIPS, chief letter carrier at Fall
River, Mass, has been arrested for robblng
the mails Of jewelry.
". E. CHAEDLER was nominated on the
first ballot for United States Senator by the
Republican Legislators Of New Hampshire.
a DDC Bile SIX story IeHelucuC AOuSS III
New York city was Quilted by fire, and an
aged woman, Mrs. Kirschman, and her
grandchild were roasted alive.
HENRY JOHNSON, a farmer, aged eighty,
committed suicide at Silver Springs, Y. Y,
He became respondent, and going to his barn
fixed a gun attached to a rope and blew out
his brains. The appearance Of the corpse
was frightful.
BURT HARVEY, fourteen year-old boy,
recovering from the measles, committed
suicide by hanging himself with a halter
at Gilbertville, Mass.
WILLIAM SEMPLE, the millionaire dry
goods merchant of Allegheny City, Penn, has
just died at the age of sixty-two.
AN electric storm swept over a large sec
ton Of the East, doing much damage. A
number Of buildings were struck by lightning,
and several persons killed.
HEAVY charges of dynamite were used in
breaking up the immense mass of Wreckage
at the Johnstown railroad bridge. In con-
sequence many windows were broken,
chimneys blown down and the strongest re-
naming houses badly shaken. A protest
was sent to Governor Beaver, and the heavy
blasting was ordered to be discontinued.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
ANOTHER BROKEN DAM.
A Kansas Village Flooded and
Several Lives Lost.
Bridges Swept and the Growing
Crops Greatly Damaged.

The bursting Of dam at L niontOwn, Kan,
flooded the towns of Uniontown and Bell
town, and several lives were lost. Union
town is about fifteen miles west of Fort
Scott, on the Wichita and Western Railway.
Two women and four children were drowned
The place has 600 inhabitants. 1t is in the
midst of thickly settled country.
The storm struck the western part of BOur-
bon County late at night, coming from the
west, where it had played great havoc. At
Augusta it assumed the form Of a cloud burst.
In Fort Scott it commenced raining about
o'clock in the morning Old residents say
it was the hardest rain in thirty years. The
water commenced rising in Buck Run at S A.
II. Lamb G Mead'S ice dam, on Sixth street,
burst about 10 A. NJ, causing the water in
Buck Run to rise at the rate Of about three
feet an hour, carrying away several houses
and the bridge across Sixth street. The part
of Fort Scott known as BelltOwn was entirely
under water. People were taken out With
boats.
Several bridges were washed out, and trains
were stopped on both sides of Fort Scott
The Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota track was
under water for about nine miles out. The
Memphis road was badly damaged for about
1000 feet ten miles north of Fort Scott. All
the people in the bottom in east Fort Scott
moved out.
The upper valley of the Walnut was flooded
4IOLl 0ACeSSlN . 1dllS 1AC liver CGHIc up 50
suddenly that family named Graham start
ed from their home to the highland. The
mother and babe were drowned, the father
and one child escaping. Grain fields are flood
ed, and much damage must result
Allen County, Kansas, has suffered severe
Iy from floods in the Neosho River and its
principal tributaries. The streams have been
unusually high all spring, and heavy
rains brought them out of their
banks, flooding the bottoms for mile or
more on either side. Hundreds of acres of
wheat, which was just ripening and promised
a very large yield are almost a total loss,
while the submerged corn and other
crops will be greatly damaged. The
st. Louis, Wichita and Western Railroad
bridge across Rock Greek, east of lola, has
been undermined, and is only held by the iron
track from going down stream. Nearly
a quarter Of a mile of track has been
washed from the bed, while the road
bed has been seriously damaged. Near the
river west of lola a large number of
small bridges and culverts along the wagon
roads have been washed out.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
W aShingtOn.

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE RUsK is
overwhelmed with invitations to address
farmers conventions and agricultural fairs
during the summer throughout the country.
TIE President appointed A. E. Baxter, of
New York, to be United States Marshal for
the Northern District of New York. He is a
well-known lawyer Of Elmira.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed
Donald Mclean to be General Appraiser Of
Merchandise for the Port of New York.
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued a
general order that all metal-covered ships Of
the navy shall be painted white. Heretofore
they have been painted black.
THE United States man-of-war Kearsarge
has been ordered to Hayti. More fighting
among the opposing factions of the natives
was reported.
MRS. HARRISON, wife of the President, &C
companied by her father, DIR. Scott, and her
two grandchildren and their nurses, left
Washington for a two weeks visit to Cape
May, n. j. They were to occupy the cottage
of Postmaster General Wanamaker, which
had been specially prepared for their use.
T. CAMPBELL-CoPELAND, of New York,
has been appointed the statistical expert of
the Census Office.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
South and West.

LAWRENCE and Edward Stoeb and their
two adopted sons were killed by a locomotive
at the Fort Wayne railroad crossing at
Cleveland, Ohio.
SETH MURRAY, a farmer of Vincennes
Ind, aged ffty-fve, and father of six chill
dren, became jealous of his wife and shot her
in the abdomen. He then cut her head off
with a corn cleaver and swallowed dose of
prussic acid, from the effects Of which he died
in few moments.
FORTY-ONE houses were burned in Grin
nell, Iowa, which was entirely destroyed
seven years ago by tornado. The loss is
about 100000, fully insured
EDWARD PALMER TURNER shot and killed
his cousin and brother-in-law, Robert Turner,
near ''The Plains, " Fauquier County, Va,
and was in turn shot through the breast and
hand and killed by Edward c.. Turner,
brother of Robert.
FOUR young men riding in a buggy were
killed by a train on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad, near Canton,
Ohio.
The Chippewa Indians at Mile Lac Lake,
Mimi, in an uprising killed number of
Swedish settlers.
JAMES DEAvIN and Charles Tennyson,
burglars, were taken from the Jail and lynched
at COrydOn, Ind.
PATRICK A. WARD, sixty-two years old
and the most prominent Irishman in Indian
apOlis, Ind, committed suicide Rumor con-
nected him with the murder Of DR.. Cronin in
Chicago.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires ragged in Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota. Over 81, 100000 of pine
lumber was burned.
UNITED STATES troops were sent to the
scene of the reported outbreak among the
Chippewa Indians in Minnesota
GEORGE and Charles Sherwood, aged re-
spectively fourteen and seventeen years, sons
Of railway conductor were drowned in the
Calumet River near Chicago.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN charged with the
murder of DR.. P. H. Cronin, in Chicago, was
released from prison on $40, 900 bail.
ALEXANDER HENDERSON colored, was
hanged at Bainbridge Ga; VIII Dibell, col
ored, at Thomasville, Ga, and John Pickett,
colored, at Leesburg, Ga. All were executed
for murders.
JUDGE MCLAIN, President of the Savannah
(Mo) Savings Institution, which failed, was
arrested for receiving deposits, knowing that
the bank was insolvent. The liabilities of
the bank reach S85, 600. Only 5000 was
found in the safe.
The Virginia Prohibitionists will hold a
convention for the nomination of candidates
for Governor and other officers at Lynch
burg on July II.
GENERAL W. T. WRITER'S, of Kentucky
a Mexican and Confederate war veteran and
a noted breeder of trotters, is dead, in his
sixty-ifth year.
WOODRUFF, the man implicated in the
Cronin murder case at Chicago made new
and revised confession duplicating Alex ander
Sullivan, Detective Coughlin and two other
men.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28

The monument over General Arthur's grave
was designed by Mr.. E. Keyser, of Albany,
and the work cost $40, 600. A broad flight of
five granite steps leads from the path to the
turf which covers the burial plot, while
around the enclosure are granite pillars, be-
tween which are suspended heavy chains of
bronze. In the centre of the plot is the
monument, a sarcophagus of dark granite,
perfectly plain and highly polished. The
sarcophagus stands on two piers of lighter
colored granite, also highly polished The
piers rest on a broad base Of granite, and the
base is supported by a smoothly dressed gran
lite plinth ten feet long and six feet broad
At the foot of the sarcophagus stands a
figure representing the Angel of Sorrow.
The figure is of bronze and is of heroic size
1t stands with folded wings leaning against
the sarcophagus one wing being thrown out
ward by the pressure in the most animated
and picturesque manner. The left arm of
the figure is extended along the sarcophagus
laying on the tomb palm Of bronze. There
is no inscription on the sarcophagus, but on
the base is the word Arthur" in letters
raised in high relief, and also a tablet of
bronze sunk into the base with the inscrip-
ton:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
THE DROWNING RECORD,
Seven Lives Lost in One Day in Vari.
Gus Localities.

While swimming in the Vermilion River,
short distance below Danville, ILL.,, Robert
Courtney, aged fifteen, and another lad,
were drowned.
Otto Meyers, aged twenty-three years, was
drowned at Shelton, Conn, while bathing in
the Housatonic.
A man named Arms and an unknown boy
were drowned while swimming at ST. Paul,
Mimi.
Mrs. Charles Cleaves and Erdine Cole,
young woman of 16, were drowned at Spring
field. Ne, while bathing. Mrs. Cleaves
leaves four children and a husband in the
West
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR.
Twenty-frst President of the United
States.
Born, Oct, 5, $780,
Died. Nov. Is. 1856.

There are also buried in the plot General
Arthur's father and mother, his wife and a
son. A fund for the erection in New York
of statue to General Arthur has been
raised, and the money has all been paid in
AS yet no design has been adopted, but one
soon will be, and the work will then be be-
gun. The statue will doubtless be placed in
one of the principal public squares or parks
In New York city. When it is ready to be
unveiled the exercises that were to have been
held at the unwilling of the Albany monu-
ment, or others similar. will be carried out
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
ARTHUR'S MONUMENT.

n memorial ErccteU by HIS FrIenUS
Unveiled at Albany.
The handsome granite and bronze monu-
ment erected at the grave of the late Presi-
dent Chester A. Arthur, in Rural Cemetery,
at Albany, N. Y, by some of his personal
admirers, has been officially unveiled with.
out ceremony, by the donors, who inspected it.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28

HAVE you ever been through the st.
Lawrence rapids?" mo, but married
inv third wife last week"
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14
Demorest MEDAL Contest.

There was a large attendance at the
contest in the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms last
evening, which was held under the au-
spices of the Young Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. The object is to pro-
mote the cause of temperance, and chill
dren who are members of a prohibition
society gave recitations on temperance
subjects. They all acquitted themselves
with great credit, and afforded great
pleasure to the audience. All had re-
ceived special elocutionary training and
their delivery showed very careful and
systematic study Of their pieces. Col. J.
NJ. Ray presided over the contest, which
laid between Amelia Pulliam, Mabel
Randolph, Daisy Sawyer, Ray Whitlock,
Harold Johnson and Francis Gudger.
The judges were Miss Ella Brown. Miss
Yeatman aud Mr.. E. P. Mangum. The
medal was awarded by them to Francis
Gudger, who received it at the hands OF
the Hon. Thos. D. Johnston, who made
the presentation speech. In the intervals
between the recltations a select choir
rendered in a very pleasing and acCepta,
BILE way prohibition songs such as;
Prohibition Bugle Call" Prohibition
Chime" etc,
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

Franklin Press: The work on the new
bridge has been suspended on account OF
the breaking down of the saw mill hav-
ing the contract to furnish flooring
Rev. P. P. Mclean lost valuable horse
few days ago by his stepping on one
enu of stick about six ieet long, the
other end flying up and penetrating the
abdomen several inches Mrs. Andrew
Patton went to Clay to visit her daugl-
ter, who had typhoid fever, and while
there contracted the disease and died last
Sunday night. She was brought home
for burial, the funeral taking place yester-
day.
s-Observer: 1t is learned that the
Blackwell Tobacco Company, of Durham,
has made an arrangement with an Eng
lish syndicate for the sale of the prop
erty for 3,500,0 and that both par
ties have put up forfeit of $4,000.
The syndicate proposes to pay CASH
Yesterday just as the ceremonies were
beginning in the Metropolitan Hall, Mr..
w. c. Stronach saw James Jones who
used to be the body servant OF Hon. Je-
erson Davis, sitting in the gallery and
he went up and escorted him down to a
seat in the front of the audience.-Cap
tain George A. Britt, one of the most
prominent farmers of Herttord county,
n. c., committed suicide by hanging
himself from a small tree on the edge Of
the woods back of his residence. The
deceased was sixty-three years Old and
a graduate of the University of North
Carolina. He delivered an able address
before the Alumni of that institution last
summer: He had been despondent for
some time on account Of short crops and
tancied poverty.
Morganton Herald: Col. w. L. Hardin
returned from Charlotte Tuesday, where
he has been to attend the December term
of the United States court. His suit
which was pending in that court against
the r. & D. X. X. Company for damages
resulting from the sad accident to his
son Edward some time ago while i'll the
employ of the railroad company, was
compromised, the plaintiff receiving So
500 in damages, and the railroad paying
all costs in both State and Federal
courts.-Little John Hey, son of Mr.
L. S. and Mrs. Mamie Grow, met with a
fearful accident Tuesday evening. The
little fellow, who is less than four years
old, was playing in room in the second
story of the house beside an open win
dow. In some way he stepped back
ward and fell through the window to
the ground below, striking his head first,
and lying apparently dead. Mrs. Grow,
who is an invalid, was sitting i'll the
room when the accident happened, and
seeing the child disappear, rushed to-
wards the window but fell in a dead
faint and was unconscious for an hour
None of the little fellows bones were
broken, but he seems to be suffering
greatly with his head, and serious re-
suits are feared. Mr.. Grow, who is a
faithful employe in the Herald office, has
the sympathy of the community i'll his
trouble.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14
IGNORANCE OF HISTORY.
1t ls said to be Characteristic of
North CarOllnlans.
Farmer and Scottish Chief.

FurnlcT anu SCOIllSn SnlSi
Ignorance of the history of our State is
an astonishing characteristic of our peo
pie. The ignorance is not confined to
the masses, but is often conspicuous
among our prominent men. The des
cription be Centennial orator at Char
lotte in 1875, of the act Of throwing the
tea overheard in Wilmington harbor by
the men of the Revolution is al instance
of this stupidity among some men o
high repnte. While passing the Guiltord
Battle field two years ago the train was
running slowly to give the passengers
the benefit of viewing this historic spot
A Greensboro wag was showing the po
sition of two armies and where? where!
where? were heard. from the passengers
who rushed to the windows. After
pointin out the various interesting
places, he poinied to an antiquated
log house in the distance with
the remark "In that house Corn
wallis surrendered" Where where
were again heard from the eager passen
gers. We remarked to the Greensboro
man that 1--WE thought CORVALLIS sur
rendered at York." shut your mouth
Mister! You are spelling all the enjoy,
ment of this crowd. Let 'em alone. Let
'em enjoy the thought and carry the
news to their families that they saw the
house in which CORVALLIS surrendered
These fools don't know anything about
North Carolina history and what is the
use of spelling all their enjoyment and
then too they would think that | was a
first class historian"
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14
Officers Royal Arcanurn.

Editor Citizen AT a meeting of the
Royal Arcanum held on the 10th inst,
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year. As the organist, whose
name appears below, was unanimously
elected by the regent, it is hoped that he
will be present at the first regular meet
ing in January, 1890.
Regent-Dr. D, T. Millard.
Vice Regent-Dr. NJ. H. Fletcher
Orator-T. w. Patton.
Secretary-S, Lipinsky.
Collector-E. |. Holmes.
Treasurer-S. Hammershlag.
haplain-James West.
Guide-T. L. Hyndman.
Warden-W. H. Cook.
Sentinel-S. B. Woody.
Organist-George Henderson.
Trustees-T. G. Lindsey (for two years;)
J. NJ. Heston (for three years.
Janitor-W. H. Cook.
Past Regent-W. Talbot Penniman.
CHAS L. LINDSEY,
Secretary F. B. Council, 7O1, R. A.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14

Secretary F. B. Council, 7Ol, R. A.

We publish to-day The address of the
Rev. J. L. Carroll, D. D., delivered at the
memorial celebration on Wednesday;
also the address on the same occasion at
Richmond, Va, by the Rev. Dr. Mennige-
rode, long time Rector of St. Paul's
church, into which Mr.. Davis was admit
ted to membership during the period of
his Presidency; and also the letter of Mr..
Davis to the committee of invitation to
the Fayetteville centennial celebration,
probably the last written production of
that immortal man.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14
Railroad Excitement in DanvIlle

DANvILLE, Va, December 13.-There
is an undercurrent of excitement here to-
day because of well authenticated ru,
NOR that the Richmond and Danville
Railroad Company has obtained an op-
ton on the bonds of the Danvile and
New River Company. and will soon pur-
chase that property. The Dauville and
New River Company is short line from
Danville to Patrick court house, and in
the direction of the proposed extension
OF the Atlantic and Danvile road west
ward. 1t is believed here that the OBJ
iect of the Richmond Danville Company
is either to build west from this point to
the coal fields, or to handicap the AT,
Iantic and Danville Company in its pro,
posed western extension.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14
Homicide in concord township

Thursday night, the 9Th inst, in Con-
cord township, Monroe Sharpe, colored,
tenant on the lands of Messrs. w. F..
and J. M. Sharpe, stabbed and killed
Aleck Watts, also colored. 1t appears
that some time during the night, Sharpe
and his household having gone to bed
and being asleep, Aleck Watts, Bill
Morrison and Rute Smith, all colored,
and all, very probably, more or less
drunk, came to the house and demanded
admittance. This was refused them and
they began trying to force the door and
to raise the windows. After warning
them away but without effect, Sharpe
opened the door and the intruders at
once began pushing and crowding him.
He succeeded in keeping them out of the
house and himself got outside, when, as
appears, Watts jerked of his coat and
rushed upon him. Sharpe dropped back,
stumbled over a stick OF wood, recovered
himself, and as he and his antagonist
came together, drove the blade of knife
into his heart. Watts fell or lay down
by the side of the house and was dead in
less time than it takes to tell it. Sharpe
went to the house, told what had hap
pened and Mr.. ]. NJ. Sharpe took him to
]. H. Scroggs,. Esq, who sent him to
Jail. Coroner Clegg held an inquest over
the body the next day.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-14
MIR. Hunts Funeral.


The remains of Mr.. Walter L. Hunt ar
rived here to-day from Ashevile on the
noon train, accompanied by Mrs. Hunt.
They were met by number Of relatives
and friends, and were taken to Trinity
church, where the funeral was held at 2
O'Clock this aiternyon. The pail bearers
were Messrs. H. A. Reams, w. H. Rog.
ers. T. j. Lambe, !. w. Goodson, Capt.
J, F. Freeland and Capt. U. NJ. Wahab.
The deceased was well known here,
having lived in Durham for a considera.
BILE time. He was a brothcr-in-law OF
our townsmen MesSrs. ]. H. Halliburton
and w. S. Halliburton. A wife and one
child survive him. The family have the
deepest sympathy of our people in their
sore bereavementS.