Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-13

for 1t the support Of our people. Read
notice in this issue.
The revival service in the colored
Methodist church continued this
week with unabating interest. Bap-
tism will occur Sunday morning at
the usual place and time.
The Edenton Academy will open
Monday. Pupils should be present
at the opening as it will be best both
for them and the teachers. Prof. L.
A. Williams will be in charge.
The Nays Head property was
offered for sale, at the Court House
in E. City. on Saturday and was
knocked off to John 2. Overman,
who purchased it for Mr.. c. w. Hol-
lowell at 81 800.
Mr.. Busbee, District Attorney for
the Edenton District of North Caro-
lima, has resigned. Who will sue.
coed him? Certainly none more
worthy, no one more suited, by wis
dom and experience, for the position.
Quite number of our citizens are
on the excursion to-day to Norfolk.
Some say they are intent upon bust
ness but, our Devil says, Robinson's
circus accounts for the absence of
the most Of them.
The FISHERMAN AND FARMER is
booming as we'll as our town. II our
people will only give the paper the
patronage it should have, we would
show them our appreciation by giving
them paper that would be unsur
passed.
Is everybody coming to the Fair?
Well, let them come, we have room
and to spare and there will be plenty
to amuse, entertain and make prof.
table the stay of all in our midst.
Come along! Don't anybody stay
away.
Rev. Earnest Stevens left this
week for his home in Petersburg Va.
where he proposes to take rest and
recruit his health. His sermon here,
Sunday night. was good enough to
last until his return. May his visit
prove a benefit to the extent Of com.
plete restoration.
The unsightly establishment on
King Street, few steps from Main,
commonly designated as "Buzzard
Roost," is being torn down. Mr.. r.
j. Mitchell, having purchased it,
proposes, in the near future. to erect
handsome business edefice upon its
former site. Goodi 50 say all the
merchants and neighbor Whereabouts.
Miss Belle White our popular and
fashionable Milliner leaves to-day
for an extend tour of the Northern
cities, combining pleasure with bust
ness. While North she will select
full stock of the latest styles of
fashionable headgear to adorn the
craniums of the fair damsels and
stately matrons of our city. We
wish her a pleasant trip and a safe
return.
Unanimity Lodge, A. F. and A.
NJ, has recently repaired and other
wise renovated the old hall in which
they have met since the building was
erected away back in the earliest day
of the country's history. The Lodge
is one of the oldest in the State and
the history of it's membership has
been, from the beginning, as remark
able as that Of any organization the
country has ever known. Its record
is q good one and we hope the insti-
tuition continued life of increasing
usefulness.
O, for that christian civil !zation
that would cause the average colored
person to go and return from church
like human beings before and after
worship and not as the rabble going
to or. coming from circus. The
loud noise made and the laughing
and whistling would be considered as
unworthy a savage, say nothing of
people claiming for themselves the
denominate name of christian. It |
would be we'll if our local ministry |
would give their congregations some
upon the binding force of
general decorum.
ANY amount of real estate in Eden
ton for sale at fair prices. Although
the demand, our people have not gone
crazy neither is there any LAND
sharks among us. Every man of