Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-05
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

The negroes are still emigrating from
the State.
The Catholics will soon erect a new
church at GeIdsboro.
Another plug tobacco factory is con-
templated at Durham.
A company has been formed to erect
an opera house at Suffolk, Va.
The capital stock Of the First National
Bank OF Suffolk, Va, is TO be $4,000.
The Navy Department will erect an
electric light plant i'll the navy yard at
Portsmouth, Va.
The Philadelphia Post Office contro-
versy IS bringing out some bad blood in
the Quaker City.
A permanent Democratic Club has
been organized at Raleigh with Thos. S
keenan,, president, and b. G. Beck with.
treasurer.
The Baptist people of E. City have
extended a call to Rev. G. a. G.. Thomas,
Of 1anceyville. n. c., to become pastor
Of their Chm Oh.
A movement is on foot in Ohio, to
nominate Allen w. Thurman, son of
the Old Roman, for governor, on the
Democratic ticket.
It is stated that Southern Pines, the
health resort on the r. & A. Railroad D.,
is having very great rush. The place
is crowded to it's utmost.
Raleigh wants an Electrical Railway.
E. R. Stamps, of the Raleigh Street
Railway Co., is investigating the use of
electricity as a motive power with view
to it's adoption.
The City of Shelby, N. g., will decide
by a popular vote on the 18th of April
whether or not to issue So, 900 of bonds
to build a school and $4,000 of bonds
for "a fire company.
A letter has been found by a Herald
reporter, written by President Harrison
to Blaine, in which he tells the magnetic
man to mind his own business, aud that
he, the President, will run this Govern
ment. Tx.
Colonel Joe Harris, a member of the
Tennessee legislature, was lnsulted in a
Washington barbOr shop the other day
He at once sailed into the shop and now
the proprietor and seven BARRIERS are
laid up for repairs.
Col. r. B. Creepy, of the E. City
Economist, has been appointed by Gov.
FOwle to attend the Centennial AnEi-
versary Of the Inauguration of George
Washington as President Of the United
States, at New York City on April 3Oth.
Quarters for Gov Fowle and his staff
have been secured at the Metropolitan
Hotel, New York, during the Inaugural
ton Centennial. The EdgecOmbe
Guards, of Tarboro, have decided to
Join the Governor s Guard and accom-
pany the Governor there as an escort.
The trial of Henry Lowe last week at
Hartford for the murder OF Matthew
J. Wood, resulted IN an acquital on the
ground of insanity: He was ordered to
the Insane Asylum and was taken there
by Sheriff Riddick, on Monday; also a
colored boy, sentenced to the peniten-
tiary two years for larceny.-Carolinian
Letters have been received in Raleigh
from Illinois, says the Falcon, making
inquiries as to the opportunities of white
farm hands getting employment IN
North Carolina It is stated that thirty
thousand farm hands in that State are
anxious to come to this State to work
Ou IarnIo, PROVIDED Cney can get perma-
nent employment.
North Carolina boys came to the front
at the recent commencement of the
Vanderbilt and Nashville College Medi-
cal Departments. In these two institu-
tiOns there are about two hundred and
fifty young men, Of whom between
seventv-fve and one hundred grad uated
at the receut commencement, March E.
There were thirteen medals awarded in
the institutions, and though North Car
DINA has scarcely half dozen in the
two hundred and fifty students, they
took six medals.-EX