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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-08
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
Eastern and Middle States.

PETER BARANCwsKI has been hanged at
Pottsville, Penn, for the brutal murder Of
two women.
Snow fell in many parts of the Middle
States few days ago.
THE American Antiquarian Society met at
Worcester, Mass.
THE Episcopal House of Deputies, after two
secret sessions on the subject at New York
city, postponed marriage and divorce leglsIa-
tOn to another convention.
NEARLY 200 Cinnamon left New York city
for China the other afternoon TO return no
more. Many Of them are going home TO
Join the National army. others to work ON
the new railroads Of China, instead OF wash
ing shirts in this country.
The first furnace of the immense steel
works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company
at Sparrow Point, Nd, has been put in ope-
ration.
THE round house and machine and repair
shops of the Pittsburg and Castle Shannon
Railway. at Castle Shannon Penn, have
been burned
THE Worlds Fair subscription books were
opened in New York city and $4,000 was
subscribed hv Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New
York Central and the Wagner Palace Car
Company.
JESSIE TRUIrT and Maggie Camack, ages
respectively twenty-five and twenty-five
years of South Chester borough, Penn,
were run over by a railroad train and killed
MAMIE. the three-year-old daughter of
Henry Matthews, of Orange n. j., was
burned to death by her clothing catching
fire from the stove.
TIE Protestant Episcopal General Conven-
ton at New York city, adjourned after taking
action the race problem and passing the
prOpOrtiOnate representation question on to
the convention of 1892.
THREE THOUSAND delegates attended the
Christian Endeavor Union of Connecticut, at
New Haven.
FIRE destroyed much of the business pcr-
ton of Port Leyden, N. Y, entailing loss
of S115OO0.
THE National Association of Collegiate
Alumna began its annual session at Buffalo,
N. Y.
JOSEPH S. BONNEY, aged sixty-tWo years,
a well-knOwn inventor, who for thirty years
had lived III Lawrence Mass, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the heart
The Rev Dr. Talmage preached his fare
well sermon at the Academy of Music
Brooklyn, before setting out for the Holy
Land.
Boston held its centennial of Washing
tons visit to that city in 1889 and Inaugural
ted movement to restore the grave of Mary
Washington.
THE principal portion of the town of Ston-
oboro, Penn, has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is $500
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-08
DANGEROUS DYNAMITE.
One Person Killed, Five Injured and
Many Houses Destroyed.

A workman named Chartrand,a employed
with number of others in making a drain
on Plantation street, Montreal, lighted
fire in forge close to several primed dyna-
mite cartridges which were being used by
the contractors who had charge of the work
for blasting purposes. The cartridges ex-
ploded, instantly killing Chartrand, aged
twenty-one, seriously injuring five other per
sons, and badly damaging many houses in
the neighborhood. The wounded are Mrs.
Charboneau, A. Leblanc, Nine Leblanc,
Philippe Leblanc and Mrs. A. Bilodian.
Chartrand leaves a widow and two children.
THE cost to the British Government for the
carriage of mails to America now amounts
to 100000 per annum. The receipts for
postage exceed 1925, 600 per annum
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-08
Foreign.

THE Baptist Union has presented a me-
nIprial to Lord Salisbury, in which the Gov
erItnent is implored 20 use the moral intiu-
ence of England to suppress the atrocities by
the Turks upon Christians which are reported
from Crete.
IRISH Nationalist met il Dublin and or
ganized the Tenants Defence League.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
A wEsTERN SNOW pLow.

tacks the drift is a wheel revolving ran
IDLY and cuts the snow, tossing it from
100 TO 200 feet to one side, and at an
angle OF 70 dogs. from the track. 1t is
placed on the end Of a car which con-
tains the machinery to give its rotary
motion The two wings projecting over
the wheel from each upper corner of the
car breaks the circular current, forming
two separate ones at an angle Of 45 dogs.
All the snow coming In contact with the
wheel below It's axle passes out by the
lower or side current, and that which
comes above the axle passes out by the
top current When the pillow Is work
ing In a deep drift 1t viii throw the
upper current out where the snow IS
higher than the machine. The wheel
can be reversed, thereby taking advan-
tage Of the wind, low sides of cuts, and
Ope Such plow as this on every road
would be friend In need; and In the
case Of storms which only block a por-
ton of a road would be sufficient. The
western roads have always kept efficient
snow plows on hand, and they are sell
dom blocked for any length of time; but
In the east, where billiards. are not ex-
pected, there has been no preparation
whatever. Even if a snow pillow rusts
in shed It is better than the risk Of
thousands of passengers being delayed
on trains without food or bedding, as
was the case on the memorable 18th of
March, 1888.
The managers of southern roads may
well congratulate themselves that they
are not called upon to add the clearing
of their lines of snow to their other ex-
penses and annoyances.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
TALKS ON The TARIFF.
Continued Protection VIII Insure Much
More Canadian Trade.

Francis Wayland Glen Of Brooklyn
writes to the New York; Press as follows
in reply to Senator Vests appeal for
lower duties Senator Vest quoted from
a trade journal to show that American
manufacturers sent their products to
Canada to the amount Of 1876, OOO.0OO a
year, and were there able to compete
with the products Of British mannfactur-
ers paying the same rates Of duty. Mr.
Glen says:
1.-THE chief stock in trade Of the so
called revenue reformers and the only
valid argument. If true, against protec-
ton is the charge that under the protec-
tive policy Of this country, the great body
of consumers are being robbed by the
home manufacturers through the tariff.
That the fortunes made by prominent
manufacturers in this country are not the
reward Of great energy, enterprise cour-
age, skill, integrity aud good Judgment
but are gains extorted from consumers
through the duty Of imports.
IF this charge Is untrue the revenue
reformers have not single peg TO STAND
upon Prove to the consumers OF this
country that they are not paying an I'M
Just tax TO the home manufacturers by
reason Of tariff and revenue reform Will
become a dead issue The fact that
American manufacturers are able to sell
to the consumers Of Canada $36, 100000
of manufactured products per
annum-more than one half
of the manufactured goods imported
into Canada in competition with English
manufacturers-pr beyond doubt
that American consumers are not being
robbed by our home producers; that, in
fact, they are obtaining goods as cheap or
cheaper than English consumers, and,
therefore. for far less from the free trade
standpoint than American consumers
would get them If imported under tariff
for revenue only.
1.-THE inference TO be drawn from Sen
ator Vests speech is clearly in favor Of
the claims made by American advocates
of protection, viz That the price of
American made goods is not enhanced TO
the consumer through the tariff; that
the price in this country is made and con
trolled by competition among the home
producers, and that at present prices here
are as low or lower than they are in Eng
land, otherwise the Canadians would not
purchase their supplies in this country.
IF the competition among home manu-
facturers continues to reduce prices for
the next ten years TO come in the same
ratio as for the past ten years we shall
have very much larger percentage of
the Canadian trade than we now have. y
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
Masonic han az Delaware city.

The Delaware City spondent of
the Middletown transcript says: Mas
Onic Hall was dedicated according to an
Gent form, on Tuesday afternoon. Grand
Master James 5. Dobb, Grand Marshal
w. s. Quigley, Grand Tyler George f.
Yates and Grand Chaplain William Jack
son we're among the grand officers None
but Masons were. present at the cere-
mony. At o'clock Grand Chaplain. Viii
liam jackson delivered an interesting
lecture in the NJ +. Church. At 8 o'clock
the grand officers and other visiting
Masons were conducted by jackson
Lodge TO the Robinson House, where
they enjoyed an excellent supper served
in superb style by mine host Milne.
After speech making and singing the
party adjourned, and the grand officers
were escorted TO the depot where a
special train at 1920 took them to Will
mington. The singing at the hall and
church was by the Masonic choir.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
She Wouldn't Work.

One could scarcely expect a COW, not
trained to the profession of arms, to conduct
herself with great self possession as one Of an
army. In the STORY of a Boy Company is
TO be found an anecdote concerning one such
new recruit-a COW which, with several hens
and rooster, were attached to a Confeder-
ate battery. As soon as a halt was made for
the night the fowls were taken from the
wagon, where they rode, the rooster was tied
TO a wheel spoke by the leg and his family
always remained near him.
As the war progressed, and the horses
grew poor, the COW was brought into use as a
beast of burden. She was saddled, dishes,
fryiRg pans and coffee pots we're hung upon
the saddle, and the docile creature moved
away, quite oblivious of the clatter on her
back She was usually tied to caisson, but
often she was tuSned loose, and thus followed
the battery like an enlisted soldier.
During the last winter Of the war large
raw boned, hrindle COW strayed into camp
and although at first wild, she soon followed
the example of the veteran and became an
orderly recruit.
One day, when sudden start had been or
dered. 1t was thought advisable to utilize the
new COW as porter. A little fellow named
Carlton was ordered to saddle the COWS. The
'@o SAo vas ADh4cl VIII the
baggage, recently killed chickens and other
rations, and Carlton then proceeded 10 put
the coffee pot, skillet and other utensils upon
the brindle. He was obliged to make her fast
to pine tree in order TO load her rapidly.
Everything was ready, the battery was
about TO move, and the captain directed
Carlton to let go the ropes, and mako the
brindle follow in the wake Of the old COW
who had just taken the limo IF march in good
order But no sooner had the ropes slipped
from brindles horns than, with head, heels
and tail high in the air, she sped down the
hill, the sound Of her believing mingling
with the clatter of tin, and forming bass
and tenor seldom heard.
After freeing herself of every vestige of
her pack she slowly returned, seeking her
companion. The scattered load was col
lected and placed again upon her back, but
as soon as she was free, with bound and
below, she ned down the hill. this time
never to return.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
NEWSPAPER OPINION.
Republican Delaware.

hepubhcah DethWuro-
New York Tribune.
Delaware seems to be thoroughly salts.
ned with the election Of Anthony Higgins
10 the United States Senate, and GER
tainly the rest of the country can take
much pleasure in applauding her action.
Mr.. Higgins himself is entitled to feel
decidedly exultant When he first began
TO vote the Republican ticket, and he Is a
young man still, it was almost as much
As a mans life was worth in Delaware.
He has supported its cause under disad-
vantages such as are scarcely believable
70 people outside of Delaware, and now
ne sees the top heavy autocracy Of the
Saulsburys and the Bayards tumbling at
his feet
1t is healthy spectacle, too. There
Is no room in this country for aristocratic
democracies. We want no hybrid sys-
tens in which two or more families I'M
dertake TO parcel out the state govern
ment among themselves and to transmit
their lordly functions to their posterity.
The people OF Delaware have reasons Ia
be profoundly thankful that the Republi.
can victory there has given them the
services Of man who has other resources
than pedigree. and whose distinction
has been won by the force of his own
character and ability The Republicans
OF the Legislature have done their full
duty to their state, the nation and them.
selves.
1t must not be thought that Republi
lcan ascendancy in Delaware is necessari
ly temporary. 1t should be the reverse
A Republican victory there has been i'm
minent for nearly ten years, and moth
ing was needed but break between
Bayard ana Salisbury to make it a fact
The truth is that Delaware contains
more Republican than Democrat voters
and only the most UNANIMOUSLY ty
rannical and unjust kind OF
election laws have sufficed to keep the
state within the grip Of the autocrats
The Delaware registry and poll-tax law
As one of the meanest devices to cheat
the people Of their rights ever contrived.
and the Legislature should make short
work Of it. Governor Biggs has init
mated in his message that he will oppose
any measure Of relief We don't believe
he will ever hold to that He is an hon.
est man and rational one, and we be.
heve his sense of justice and decencv will
prevent him from resisting measure in.
tended to put an end to fraud. But if he
does resist it the Republicans can have
recourse to constitutional convention
That he cannot resist.
Delaware has our warmest fluctuations
nhe only needs new methods to realiz,
the Importance to which her past history
and her present commercial strength en-
title her. Those methods the Republican
party can be depended upon to give her
In the next general election New Castl,
county can easily be redeemed. vii
mington already enjoys in Austin Har
rington, young. handsome, popular ant
efficient Republican mayor, and Will
Senator Higgins to lead the party in tn,
urban district, and such men as Messrs
Massey, Treat, Fisher, .Lofand and Mar
vii working tremendously in the peach,
counties Delawares complete regenera
tion is inevitable
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18

"That Is the strangest attachment l ever
saw formed, and I've been around with cir
cuses, man and boy, for forty-six years, y
said Harry Pierce, the veteran in charge of
Grenier's wild beasts, in the winter quarters
Of the menagerie at the corner Of Randolph
and Ann streets He referred to a white
Burmese COW and white kid, which were
made fast, close by one another, to wheel
Of the great cage in which was the hippo
potamus "Why, sir, said Pierce, approach
ing close to the animals with The Herald re-
porter, I'VE dare not separate them, even for
q few moments, lest the COW go into Cts
She win cry, moan and take on like a human
being If it is out Of her sight for a moment
She is evidently under the delusion that il is
her calf. She will lick it, get close by it's
side, insist upon its having the choice Of all
food and fight for it, il needs be.n-Chicago
Herald
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18

A suitable agate, after being thoroughly
dried, Is immersed In mixture Of honey
and water or in olive oil, and kept thus at
least three days, exposed TO a moderate beat
It ds then washed, dried and put in a vessel
containing enough sulphuric acid to cover it
Tho vessel is thereafter exposed to a eentle
beat for a varying number Of hours, when
the porous layers are found to have become
much darker in color. The reason Of this Is
that these layers, having become saturated
with oil, are acted upon by the sulphuric
acid, which decomposes the sugary or oily
constituent, and forms Ia its place q. deposit
Of carbon. 1t is in this way that banded
agate Is converted into the onyx, with its
black and white layers, used in the produc-
ton Of canoes and intaglios
Exposure u strong sunlight was long 400
found to give reddish tint to gray colored
agates, and this suggested the burning of
such stones so as to convert them into car
nelians. At Oberstein, likely stones for this
purpose are first dried thoroughly, then sat
urated in sulphuric acid and afterward ex-
posed in an earthenware crucible to red heat.
They are allowed to cool slowly, and are
then seen 70 be Of light red color. Not
content with initiating the rarer natural Va
rieties Of agate, such as onyx and carnelian.
German manufacturers have taken TO stain
ing agates blue, and all other sorts of colors
unknown 70 the natural stone Aniline dyes
as unnatural as they are fugitive, have also
lately been used for agate staining. Jewel
lers Review.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
Eat Plenty of Onions

No family ought to be without onions the
whole year round Plant old onions in the
fall, and they will come up at least three
weeks earlier in the spring than by spring
planting. Give children Of all ages q few Of
them raw, as soon as they are fit to be eaten;
do not miss treating them with mess OF raw
onions three or four times a week. When
they get too large and strong to beeaten raw.
then boilor roast them. During unhealthy
seasons, when diphtheria and like contagious
diseases prevail, onions ought to be eaten 10
the spring OF the year at least once a week
Onions are invigorating and prophylactic
beyond description. Children do not die OF
diphtheria or scarlatina, anginosa, etc, where
onions are freely eaten-HalIs Journal of
Health
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
REPORT OF MAINE LABOR COMMITS

The second annual report Of Hon Sam
mel w. Matthews, labor commissioner
of Maine, which is now being printed, is
replete with interesting information.
The workingmen's returns and the tables
connected furnish an interesting portion
of the report. The blank form used for
distribution contained twenty seven
questions, and invited views and sugges-
tions on matters Of interest to wage.
workers The recapitulation is as fol-
lows. Analysis. Number Of reports
11S; native born, co. foreign born, % !
average age Of persons reporting 40;
hours employed daily, 10t daily wages,
$1.S6 annual earnings S442 o.; yearly
earnings other members of family, 1892,
80; cost Of living $S76.70; rental per
month, $6.7s; persons in family, A. Re.
ports from 222 women show the follow
ing averages: Hours worked daily, 10;
weekly wages, 1901 cost of board, So "a.
The commission has obtained thirty five
returns from three Of the leading indus
tries of the state-boots and shoes, cot
on goods aud wool en- goods-from the
tabulations of which the following totals
and averages are made: Cotton mills
Total capital invested, SO. 14O, 600; value
of plants $36S7, 416; value Of raw
material used, 5000 002 value of pro
auctions, SS,8r, 5Ss wages aud salaries
paid, $3,170,554; average number of
weeks in operation, 81 weekly earnings
of men, IS. 46; weekly earnings of women,
$5.SS; weekly earnings of boys, $3 As;
weekly earnings of girls, $3.50
Wooden mills-capital invested, 81, 146, {.
sS4 value of plants, 1878, 500;
value Of raw materials used, 81, 021, 1857 ;
value Of production, So 500, SOL wages
and salaries paid, 1925, 1871 aveage num-
Der of weeks in operation, 49i; weekly
earnings Of men, $0.1S; weekly earnings
of women, $7.17; weekly earnings Of
boys, $4.64; weekly earnings of girls,
SAB Boot and shoe factories-Total
capital invested, 1924, 600; value Of
plants, $1S4, 600 value of raw materials
nsed, 81, 2S2, 666; value Of production,
$2,OS3, Si3; wages and salaries paid,
%605, 1872; average number Of weeks in
operation, 40; weekly earnings of men,
&11; earnings Of women, $50; earnings
of boys, $4 90; earnings Of girls, $3.50.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
Returning Good for Evil

A strange scene occurred the other day at
Sierck, on the Moselle. Herr Schmidt had a
dog which be wished to get rid Of. Rowing
out into the middle Of the river, he fastened
a stone round the dogs head and threw him
into the water. The animal sank at once, but
during his struggles the rope slipped the
stone, aud he again rose to the surface and
tried to get back into the boat. His master,
however, continued TO push him back, but as
the dog perseyered he lost his patience, and,
striking at him with his oar, lost bis footing
aud fell into the water himself. He was un-
able to swim, but the dog, Selling him by the
coat, succeeded in bringing him to the Land,
after having been washed away by the cur
rent The dogs life was spared, we are
happy to say.-Han's Journal of Health.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-18
a Trtumph of Chnracter.

The Philadelphia Public Ledger says
this morning in Political Drift lone
Of the most gratifying political events Of
the week Past has been the election by
the Legislature of Delaware of Mr. An
I lony Higgins as Senator of the United
states. Mr.. Higgins's election is graft
flying in many ways; but more especially
ia that it gives to the country the first
Republican Senator it has ever had from
the Commonwealth of Delaware, and
again, that the choice has fallen upon a
man Of the highest private character and
the most conspicuous public worth. 1t
has been invidiously stated and com
planned of that the United States Senate
has become a select club, to which only
those who are hereditary Senators or mil
lionaires are eligible While there is not
sufficient truth in this complaint to war
rant it being made, it is true there are
many members of exceedingly great
wealth in the Senate, and that some of
them were apparently chosen because of
their wealth, and for no other cause
whatsoever.
MIR. Higgins is neither wealthy nor
the lineal successor Of line of Senators.
He is a man Of extraordinary ability Of
most genial character. He is a learned
able lawyer, a gentleman of refined taste.
of gentle manners, of fine wit and re-
markable shrewdness Probably no
other citizen of Delaware of his age is so
admirably equipped in all ways for the
eflice TO which he has been elected as Mr..
Higgins.
"His election is a triumph Of character
and ability, and, while it reflects the
highest distinction upon the Legislature
that accomplished il, it also gives assur-
Snce that Delaware will be wisely and
worthily represented in the United States
Senate"