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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15

Ex-senator William Window, appointed
Secretary of the Treasury, has filled that
responsible position before, having been
chosen by President Garfield in 1881. Hav-
ing lived many years in Minnesota and hav-
ing represented that State in the United
States Senate for three terms, the popular
impression is that he is native of that State,
whereas he was born in Belmont County,
Ohio, May TO- 1897.
After graduating at an academy he studied
law at Mount Vernon, Ohio. and was adj
mitted to the bar in 1859. Being of genial
disposition and possessing some legal ability.
he was made prosecuting attorney for
Knox County in 1852. He held the
position until 1855, when he removed
TO Minnesota. Soon after his ar
rival in that State he decided to mix
politics with his law business and very soon
became a prominent figure in the Republican
ranks, and in 1859 his party sent him to
Congress. He served from 1859 to 1869, two
terms as Chairman of the Committee on
Indian Affairs.
In 1870 he was appointed to the United
States Senate to fill the unexpired term of
Daniel s. Norton, deceased, and subsequently
was chosen for the term that ended in 1877.
He was again elected for the term that closed
in 1888, but resigned in 1881 to enter the
Cabinet of President Garfield as Secretary of
the Treasury.
Upon the accession of President Arthur in
the same year Secretary Window retired
from the Cabinet pom his return to Min
nesota the Legislature of that State elected
him to serve the remainder of his term in the
Senate. In that body Mr.. Window acted as
Chairman of the Committee on Appropria-
tions Foreign Affairs and Transportation.
Within the past few years ex-senator
Window has made New York city his head
quarters, being engaged in the promotion of
railway and financial schemes.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
DAKOTA SHORT OF WHEAT.
The Deficiency Nearly Three and a
Half Million Bushels.

Territorial Statistician Sheridan, of Dakota,
makes the startling statement that there is a
shortage of nearly three and half million
bushels of wheat for bread and seed in Da-
kota His recapitulation of this serious state
of affairs is rs follows:
Proportion of the wheat crop Of 1888 on
hand for consumption or sale. March l, 1889,
twenty per cent; the distribution of wheat
in the Territory consumed in the Territory,
thirty per cent shipped out Of the Territory.
seventy per cent; on hand for CONSUMPTION
or sale, grown in 1887 or previous
to last year, six per cent; estimated
average weight per bushel for all
grades, ffty-three per cent: number of
bushels Of wheat on hand from 1888 crop,
1883, 1853; number Of bushels necessary for
bread and seed, Il 1884 ,5O4; number OF bush
els shipped out - the Territory, &c, 5G3, S44;
total number of bushels of wheat raised in
the Territory, 1888, 81, 946, 34S; shortage of
wheat for seed and bread, 3,4l5, 35L
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15

Jeremiah McLain Rusk, who mas been APP
pointed Secretary of the newly created De-
partment of Agriculture, is from Ohio, hav-
ing been born in Morgan County. IN that
State, in 1880. His early life was spent in
farm work and upon attaining his majority
In 1858 he moved to Wisconsin and engaged
in agriculture in Vernon County.
In 1862, during the war. he entered the
Union Army and was commissioned Major
of the 25th Wisconsin Regiment, rose to the
rank of Lieutenant-ColOnel and served with
General William T. Sherman from the siege
of Vicksburg till the close of the war. In
1865 he received the brevet of Brigadier-
General of Volunteers for meritorious service
at the battle of Salkehatchie.
MIR. Rusk was elected Bank Comptroller of
Wisconsin in 1866, which post he held till
1870, in which year he was elected a member
Of Congress by the Republicans. He served
three terms, and as Chairman on pensions
performed important services in readjusting
the pension rates
President Garfield offered him the post of
Charge d'Affaires in Paraguay and Uruguay,
also chief of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, both of which offers he declined.
Ia 1882 he was elected Governor of Wiscon-
sin and served three tnrms-
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
THE LABOR WORLD.
ST. LOUIS has a Chinese shoemaker.

ST. LOUIS has Chinese shoemaker.
SHoEhAKING in Toronto is at standstill.
THERE are twenty-five State Labor Bu-
reaus.
A NEW union of musicians has been
formed.
TRADE in Montreal, Canada, is terribly
depressed.
THERE are 40, 900 Russian workers in New
York city.
AMSTERDAM On " knitting mills employ
2200 persons.
THE Paris and Orleans Railroad of France
shares it's profits.
THE poorest class of cigarmakers averages
only s.. so per week.
Two HUNDRED THOUSAND women are en-
gagged in lacemaking.
ALEAGUE of cooperative banks has been
formed in Massachusetts.
A NINE-HoUR law has been defeated in
the Nebraska Legislature.
THE cooperative banks Of Massachusetts,
have IS, OCO cooperative members.
THE cigarmakers are winning all along the
line in suits to protect their union label.
WITHIN ter years nearly half the rolling
mills of New England have gone out of use.
THE Racine wis., basket factory is
claimed to be the largest Of its kind in the
world.
STRIKES ordered by the International
Typographical Union in 1888, cost nearly
$1,000
THERE has been heavy increase of the
membership of the silk workers unions Of
New Jersey.
THE best cigarmakers are the Germans
and Bohemians; the Cubans and Spaniards
rank next.
THERE is a tendency toward international
cooperation in q number of trades in New
York city.
CARPENTRY has been extremely dull all
over the country the past season, far more
so than usual
ONE American manufacturer of baseballs
employs 500 hands and keeps 10000 dozen
balls in stock.
member of the National Association Of
Marine Engineers
In South Carolina there are stringent pro-
visions for the enforcement of contracts be-
tween employers of labor and laborers.
THE Canadian Pacific Railway managers
discharged Montreal employe who had been
hired by the year. The employe sued for
years wages and won.
THE protest of the labor organizations Of
New York against the repeal of the Saturday
Half-holiday law will soon be heard in the
Legislature of the State.
THE fatteners in three to ten pot glass
furnaces work on an average of forty hours
per week, making from $40 to $12O in a
settlement" Of twenty days.
THE Window Glass Workers Union, of
Pittsburg, the richest labor organization in
the United States, has just resolved to put
its $500, 900 reserve fund into a bank.
THE coal miners in the Pennsylvania min
ing regions who got hopelessly into debt dur
ing the strike last year. are in distress be-
cause they cannot longer buy on credit.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
A CRAZY INDIANS AMUCK,
Seminole Jim Butchers Eight Per-
sons and is Killed Himself

News has reached Jacksonville, Fla, from
Okeechobee of a bloody ARRAY among the
Seminole Indians in the Everglades.
"Jim," a young buck, went crazy,
and with G. Winchester rife started out
on the warpath through the camp and settle
ment. He first sent bullet through the
brain of "Waukee Micco," Chief of the
Miamis, killing him instantly. He next
killed ''Old Tiger young Tiger" son of
'.Old Tiger" and in physique probably
the finest Seminole living, stepped
out of his wigwam just in time to
see his father drop to the ground. With
blood-curding war-whoop he sprang on the
maniac. and a hand to hand fight for the
possession of the rifle followed. Tiger was
the superior in strength, but was at the
wrong end of the gum and before he could
wrest it from his antagonist he was shot
dead. The maniac then killed two papooses
of his sister, and attacked bucks, squa VS.,
and children unfortunately, and killed
three of them. He was finally cornered and
shot dead by Billy" another Seminole
brave. In less than half an hour nine In
dians were killed.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
UNSIGNED BILLS,
Measures Passed by Congress Which
Failed to Become Laws

The following is list of the bills which
did not receive the Presidents signature be
fore the adjournment of Congress and con
sequently failed to become laws
The act for bridge across the Arkansas
River near Cummings Landing, Ark the
act to require the United States Circuit and
District Judges to instruct the jury in writ
ing in certain cases. the act to make Port
Angeles, Washington Territory, a port of
delivery; the act to provide for trial by jury
in the Police Court of the District Of
Columbia; the act granting the st. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad Company the
right Of way through tho Indian Territory;
the act granting right of way through the
Indian Territory to the Leavenworth and
Rio Grande Railroad Company; the acts
granting pensions and other relief to Wesley
Montgomery, Daniel NJ. MauIding, Noah W.
Yoder, A. ). McCreary, Minnie A. Bailey,
John Gallagher, Mary Murphy, Cyrus Tuttis,
Ruth Ames, Levi D. Smith, Andrew J Faust,
Elizabeth E. Grof, Rozalia Junk, William
A. Taylor. John Mann, Catherine Hayes,
John B. Whitfield, John r. Trenton, d. NJ.
Spragus, w. TiIton, Mary Horning, Sarah
A. Harrison, Lavinia Wright. Ann Z. MUS
man, Elizabeth Jones and Louisa V. A. XII
patrick. widow of Major General Fitzpatrick
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
A TOWNS TITLE.
Wallace, Idaho, Changes Owners
in Few Minutes.

Wallace, Idaho, Changes Owners
in a Few Minutes.
no, over the decision of the Secretary of the
Interior in the case of Allen versus Morrill,,
involving the validity of land located with
Sioux half-breed scrip Wallace was located
with this scrip and a few minutes after the
news was received at Wallace of the deci-
sion, the entire town was jumped. The Car
ter House, the leading hotel, was the first
property seized.
A meeting was held, and a committee ap-
pointed to investigate the matter VISITED the
United States land Office in Coeur d'Alene
County and found the town had been located
with scrip that had been Cancelled 1t was
agreed that the parties should retain lots
with buildings on them, but no one should
have more than four lots. Many persons
thought to be very rich are heggars, while
poor people have become suddenly wealthy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
Secretary of the Interior.

General John w. Noble, the Secretary of
the Interior, is a ST. Louis lawyer. He was
a general in the army and was honored on
several occasions for bravery. Mr.. Noble
has done great deal of travelling during the
past ten years of his life, and has a wide
knowledge of people and thirc;s. His man
ners are very refined, and he has never yet
been seen to lose the cool dignity which he
learned so we'll to control during the years
of army service.
Mrs. Noble was a Miss Halstead, from
Rochester, n. Y, and was MARI sd to the
General at Northamton, Mass. They cele-
brated their silver wedding on the 9th dav of
February last. Mrs Mobiles life has been
one of energy Throughout. She has frequently
brought out and developed home literary
talent. Shortly before Professor w. L. Har-
rls left the West he was associated with her
in establishing classes Tor thorough study of
the classics
Mrs Mobiles salon has been frequented by
talent of the highest order While not fond
of society, as the word goes, she entertains
great deal, and as hostess is unequaled in
grace and hospitable manner. She has no
children living; her two sisters make theil,
home with her, the Misses Lily and Leonora
Halstead.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15

General Benjamin F. Tracy, who, it is
thought. will be the new Secretary Of the
Navy, is about ffty-nine years old He was
born in Oswego, n. Y, and secured his edu-
cation in the common school of his native
town. After leaving the Oswego Academy
he entered the law Office of Nathaniel W.
Davis, where he remained engaged In
the study of law until 1851, when he
was admitted to the bar and soon made a
mark in his profession, In 1858 he became
the Republican candidate for District At
torney of Tioga County, and though it was
a DeT attic = onghold he was elected.
r latel ? } was again elected to the
sac once.
He was elected to the Assembly in 1861
and year later he recruited the 109th and
18th Regiments and received his commits
sion as Colonel of the former regiment from
Governor Morgan. He subsequently, was
rendered and accepted the command of the
127th United States Colored Troops.
After the war General Tracy settled in
New York and resumed his practice of the
law as one of the firm of Benedict, Tracy &
Benedict. He was one of the counsel for the
defense in the celebrated Beecher trial In
1866 General Tracy was made United States
District-Attorney for the Eastern Dis
trict of New York, which posi-
ton he held until 1878. when he was forced
to resign because of the growth of his private
practice In 1881 he was appointed JudG
of the Court of Appeals and served one year.
General Tracy is a well-known breeder of
trotters and with his son owns the Marshand
stud, at Appalachian, Tioga County, N. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
A BOY EMPEROR WEEDS.
Vast Sums Spent While Millions or
People Starve.

The marriage ceremony of the Emperor
of China, which has just been celebrated,
was a most gorgeous, though exclusive,
affair The foreign diplomats requested the
privilege of paying their respects to His
Majesty, but the tenders were politely de-
clined. They were entertained at a banquet
by the Ministers, however, and received
valuable presents in honor of the occasion;
The splendor surrounding the ceremony ana
the vast sum expended In carrying out the
programme is in marked contrast to the fact
that millions of people are starving In the
Provinces.
Tsai Tien, the Emperor, is now seventeen
wears old. He is a slender, yellow-faced,
almond-eyed young Tartar. His wife
about fifteen years Of age
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
The Acknowledgement.

William Henry Harrison Miller is typi-
cal Indiana lawyer of high standing. He is
fifty years of age. and member of General
Harrison's law firm in indianapolis for
about ten years, having left large practice
at Fort Wayne, Ind, to join it. He is a man
on whom the President has been accustomed
to rely in important cases.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
Secretary of War.

Redfeld Proctor, WHO, it is said, has been
given the portfolio of the War Departmen
IS a native Of Vermont and was at one time
Governor of the State. Among the reasons
given for the recognition by the new Presi-
dent of the Green Mountain State in Cabinet
counsels are, first, the enhance of Ex-Gov-
ernor Proctor in his party, it being
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
The PCStmaster-General.

John Wanamaker. the Postmaster General
is now in his fifty-second year, having been
born in Philadelphia, July II, 1887. Mr..
Wanamaker is of German stock on his
fathers side and descendant of the Hugue-
nots in his mothers line. He was fashioned
for business career by an inexorable law of
circumstances. His education was, there
fore not elaborate
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15

mr. miller nas never ned promtnene
public office, and enters upon an entlrey
new experience in w asnlngtnn- ne - iS a.";Ii
under the medium height, of average build
and is in the full vigor of his mental powers
He is a Western man by birth and educa-
ton. Though he is named after ene n L;s
President Harrison, the grandtaener OF MS
Chief it is nowhere stated that tnef7 l. amy
family connection between them
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-14
PITH AND POINT.

& i 81
-Fetters Of gold are still letters,
and silken cords pinch.
/, The woman who lives in vanity
lives in vain. Merchant Traveller.
Pride makes some men ridiculous
but prevents others from becoming so.
"A good resolution is a fine start
ing point, but as terminus it has no
value. Scranton Truth.
Doubt is the vestibule whitehall
must pass before they can enter into the
temple of wisdom.
"A man full of spirits is not natur-
ally given to sober reflection. -Balti-
more American. -s.-
Nothing more completely battles
one who is full of trick and duplicity
himself. than straightforward and
simple integrity in another. es
1t is greater thing to maintain a
brave and self-respecting silence than
to defend ones self to no purpose
Origen.
If you tell a friend your troubles
and he weeps with you it is not for
your trouble that he weeps, but at the
recollection of his own.-Atchison
Globe.
People who are constantly COM
planning that life is a burden to them
seem surprised at the intimation that
they are making it burden to every
body else.-Merchant Traveller.
When you are young grief is a
tempest which prostrates you; at ma
ture age it is simply north wind
which adds wrinkle to your brow and
one more white hair to your head.
-Aff1iction acts like the wind upon
the trees, making them take deeper
root; it is the moving of the grass that
it may shoot up thicker and greener;
it is the shaking of the torch that it
may burn brighter.
The insolent civility of proud
man is, if possible, more shocking than
his rudeness could be; because he
shows you, by his manner. that he
and that his goodness alone bestows
upon you what you have no pretense
to claim. -Chesterfeld.
They have useful mission who,
proportionately, devote themselves to
telling the world its sins, pointing out
it's mistakes, and rebuking it's perver-
stiles. But if one do that and nothing
else he is sure to grow into sour and
disagreeable Pathfinder. whose words
are become of no effect, and who is
personally disliked and avoided. We
must acknowledge the good if we are
! to help destroy the bad.-United Pres
| byterian.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-14
TEST OF CIVILIZATION,
An Instance of tho Saperi GRITTY of Chris
tian to Classic Life.

An Instance of tho Superiority of Chris
tian to Classic Life.
The civilized man is distinguished
from the savage in nothing more than
in the cultivation of his sympathies.
In barbarous countries men learn to
endure the actual sight of cruelty and
suffering that in a more advanced So
ciety would arouse storm Of sympathy
for the sufferers and Indignation
against those by whom the sufferings
were inflicted. ct is one of the strongest
instances of the superiority of Chris
tian to classic civilization that the cruel
sports in which the most refined of
Roman men and women took delight
are impossible in modern times, and
that the countries in which these sports
survive are rated lower in civilization
on that account than the countries from
which they have been banished. The
Punishment is nowhere quite complete,
bnt the advance is steady and constant.
We are on the way to the establishment
OF the ideal condition of the poet in
which it shall be the rule of human life
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow ofthe meanest thing that feels.
We have SO nearly attained it that the
actual sight of protracted suffering is
avoided by all civilized people. But
there is a long step from this condi-
ton to one in which the thought of
unseen human suffering is intolerable.
A much higher refinement is needed
to evoke sympathy and aid for distant
and unknown victims. Even the most
advanced nations have still a great
step to make before the brotherhood
of man is recognized in them as a
practical fact, and before family in
India Or in China excites the same
emotions as a story of starvation in
the next street. But here also prog
ress is steadily making: Already the
solidarity of Western Europe and
America-of what We May still call
Chrislendom-is great social force,
and the sympathy that comes from It
does not fail to be translated into he'll p
full action whenever disaster occurs,
the results of which are plainly be-
yond the power of relief of those who
in q more restricted and less Scriptural
sense are the neighbors of the victims.
IN. Y. Times. ~-... :. d.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-14
RATTLESNAKE POISON.

How It Affected Bantam Hen-The
Frightful Bat.
There is no telling how long an ami
NAL will live after being struck by a
rattlesnake," said Simon Kent, the
"rattlesnalze king" of Clinton County,
and professional snake hunter. 1T
may not die at all. I have known a
rat to die within six minutes after re-
ceiving the fangs of RATHER in his
neck, and have known one again, to
live twenty-four hours after being
struck. l never knew of but one thing
to recover after being bitten by rat
tlesnake without being treated for the
bite, and that was bantam hen. l
exposed her to rattlesnake l had in
box, and he struck her at once. That
seemed to enrage the pugnacious lit
tie hen, and she pitched into the
snake so fiercely that she drove him in
to corner bleeding like a stuck pig.
The excited little fowl would certainly
have killed the snake if I had let her
alone, but the RATHER was valuable
specimen, and l took the hen away.
She scratched around for an hour as if
nothing had occurred, when suddenly
she keeled over with a curious squawk
supposed, of course, that she was done
for, the poison having got it's work in
at last, but she lived three days in a
stupor, and then gradually got we'll.
when said that hon was the only
thing I ever knew to recover without
treatment after being bitten by a rat
tlesnake didn't intend to include
pigs. Pigs don't seem to mind the bite
of rattlesnakes so much as do a mo-
squito bite, so far as&I ever have OBJ
served. They rather. enjoy getting in
among rattlers. I had an old SOW
once, and she was irregular terror after
rattlesnalxes. She would find the trail on
one as surely as the hound can find the
deer's track, and she'd follow that
trail until she came up with the snake
that made it, and then the RATHER was
her meat She didn't seem to care
for any other kind of snakes, but she'd
hunt rattlesnakes from the beginning
OF the season until the end. If could
have taught that pig to retrieve she'd
have been worth a good deal to me,
for the number of snakes she'd
have brought in during a
season would have been i'm
mense, and rattlesnake skins are
worth any where from fifty cents to
two dollars apiece, and the oil always
stands fellow in at least one dollar
an ounce. But she wasn't on the re-
trieve. She was hunting for her own
accommodation. and ate every snake
she caught, leaving only the head.
used to find SO many heads on my
tours through the woods that it began
to dawn on me that my old SOW was
working dead against me by destroy
ing the snake crop, and I was forced
to kill her for my own protection.
1.-The only thing that I ever knew a
rattlesnake to be really afraid of is a
bat. If you want to scare q rattle
snake into fits 50 that he will curl up
in a corner and cover up his head and
actually tremble, just put a bat in his
cage. But a bat is enough to give
any body fits. Harrisburg pa Cor
n. Y. Sun.
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