Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-29
LATER NEWS.

THE English brewery buying syndicate
has paid Sc, 800. 900 for Frank Jones's brewery
ct Portsmouth, N Il.
GEORGE A. WELLS, q wellto-do farmer or
Exeter, r. L, was burned to death in IRE
that destroyed his dwelling.
ST. PATRICKs DAY was celebrated In New
York city by parade, exercises at Jones's
Wood and several dinners in the evening,
chief among them being thatof the st. Pat
rick Society at the Hoffman House.
AT Mahanoy City PENN colliery three
miners. David Evans and his sons, David and
Edward, were engaged in robbing pillars
when suddenly the roof fell, catching all
three men. The father and son Edward
we're crushed to death, while David received
severe in uries
THE boiler OF the Whitney s. Tuttle saw
mill exploded at Pound, Wis, wrecking the
structure and killing Otis Clement and
August BedeL Four others were seriously
Injured.
appointed j. Lowrie Bell to be Superinten-
Bancroft, resigned
Ex-PosTMAsTER GENERAL TYNER has
been appointed Assistant Acknowledgement
for the Postoffice Department
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed T. E.
Byrnes, of st. Paul, Mimi, to be Chief of
the appointment division Of the Treasury
Department, vice P E. Smith resigned.
The natives have risen on the Kwang-S 81
frontier of Tonquin and killed 100 French
men.
The strike in the shipbuilding trade at Bel
fast, Ireland, is spreading. About 1000 men
are now idle.
The great French copper syndicate has
failed.
THE Deputy Postmaster of New Bruins
wick, n j., has absconded with S5OOO
NORTH & Co.. pork packers, of Boston,
have assigned, with liabilities estimated at
$3.50, 900.
The body of John Kynard, aged fifty
eight years, farmer, who lived near Car
Isle, Penn, was found hanging to the
rafters of his barn. he having committed
suicide
FIERCE mountain fires were raging in the
Blue mountains Of Pennsylvania.
A HOUSE situated near Days Mills, Mass,
was burned, and Mrs. Russell, aged seventy
nine, ami two daughters of a neighbor
named Truohoart aged five and fifteen re-
spectively, perished in the flames.
McGEE"'s Touring mill and the adjoining
elevator, at Lexington, Mo, were destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
TIL annual report O. the Chicago, Bur-
lngton and Quincy for 1888 shows a def
cheney Of 1881 ,425.
CAPTAIN EDMUND R. MORSE, Of Rutland
Vt, has been appointed Private Secretary
to Secretary of War Proctor
Mr.. SEwALI, recently Consul General at
Samoa who was removed by the last Adj
ministration, will accompany the Samoan
Commissioners to Berlin in the capacity of
disbursing officer.
VICE-PRESIDENT MORTON announced the
appointment of the following select Com
mittee on the April Constitutional Celebra-
ton in New York: Senators Hiscock, Sher-
man, Hoar, VOORHEES, and Eustis.
ENGLAND has despatched small squadron
to Morocco, on account of the unsatisfactory
attitude of the Sultan toward the British
Government.
The Prussian Government has granted a
subsidy of $4,000, 900 to aid in the construc-
ton of canal connecting the Elbe and
Trave Rivers
A COTTON mill at Unterhausen, Germany,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is s., 900, OOO
EXPERIMENTS are, it is stated, being
made on the Prussian railways with
axle-boXes in which the bearing sur
face consists of sheets of vegetable
parchment set on edge, and strongly
compressed together. The fabrication
of these bearings is said to be very
perfect, as, owing to the capillary at
traction between the different sheets,
the whole becomes thoroughly sat
urated with oil.