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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25
Washington.

THE President has sent to the Senate the
following nominations: James G. Kerr, of
Delaware to be Post Chaplain in the Army;
Samuel A. Harper to be United States At
torney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
THE bill to revive the grade of Lieutenant
General of the Army ordered to be ia
vOrably reported by the Senate Committee
on Military Affairs.
SECRETARY BLAINE has asked the House
to appropriate $500 for necessary repairs in
the United States graveyard at Acapulco,
Mexico, which is in a delapidated condition.
THE Senate in secret session at Washing
ton confirmed the following nominations:
Lewis A. Grant to be Assistant Secretary
of War: gadier-General Nelson A. Miles,
Major-General; Colonel B. H. Grierson, Brig
adier-General: Major T. H Stanton, Deputy
Paymastar-General.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved the
act making an application to supply the de-
ficiency occasiOned by the defalcahon in the
office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms.
MRS. HARRISON held the closing one of
her afternoon receptions at the White House.
the event having been postponed by the
tragedy of the Tracy fire. The occasion
drew forth a throng of anxious sightseers
and many prominent IN official and social
life.
Parlor of the White House at Washington to
witness the formal presentation of medal
to Joseph Francis, of New York city, in
recognition of his services in the construction
and perfection of life saving appliances. The
medal is of pure gold and weighs over three
troy pounds. 1t is four inches in diameter
and contains 500 worth of pure gold.
SECRETARY TRACY has accepted the new
torpedo boat Gushing, built by the HERES
hoffs at Bristol, r. l. The complete cost OF
the Gushing to the Government was SOS, O60.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved the
joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of
the Navy to remove the naval magazine
from Ellis Island, in New York harbor, and
to purchase site for a naval magazine at
some other point.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25
Alfred Andrews at BeIlefonte.

Alfred Andrews was hanged at Bellefonte
for the killing of Clara Price. The drop fell
at II :03.
1t was just 1O:45 o'clock when the march to
the scaffold began; The prisoner was en-
tirely self possessed. When ON the scaffold
he read the fifteenth chapter Of Romans, and
exhorted all present to forsake their sins and
meet him in heaven. He then prayed and
babe all goodbye.
Andrewss neck was not broken by the fall,
but he died from strangulation. About 500
persons witnessed the execution. The crime
for which Alfred Andrews was hanged was
the murder of Clara Price, sixteen years old,
the daughter of respectable and well-to-do
parents living at Karthaus, Centre County,
on November %, 1889. AL Of the evidence
at the trial was circuustantial. After con-
viction by the jury, Andrews voluntarily
confessed his guilt.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25
Charles Carter at Ebensburg.

Charles Carter the murderer of John
Matthews, was hanged in the county Jail at
Ebensburg at l 80 o'clock in the afternoon.
Charles Carter was about twenty two
years old. native of Richmond, Va, and
was rather good-looking colored man. He
had very bad reputation and came from
family of criminals. His brother, Jesse Car
ter, was hanged in Allegheny County several
years ago for the murder of a man of the
name of Foster.
Another brother is now serving term in
the Western Penitentiary for killing man
two years ago. The murder for which Charles
Carter was hanged was committed in Novem-
Der, 1889, in Johnstown in the house of John
H. Roberts, also colored. Roberts was mar
ried to a white woman.
Carter and his victim, Matthews, became
infatuated with Emma Dunn, a white girl
who was also frequent visitor at the Rob
erts house. Carter and Matthews quarrelled
about the girl. Carter shot Matthews through
the breast killing BIN.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25
APRIL CROP REPORT.
Good Average for Wheat and Rye
Winter Exposure Disastrous

" lu(SE ApOSufo DISdSCIOuS
The condition of winter wheat on April 1.
as reported by the Statistician of the De-
partment Of Agriculture at Washington,
averages 81 for the entire breadth The
general average for rye is 92S. Seeding was
late in the States OF the central valleys be-
cause Of drOuth ami the soil was therefore
not in the best condition; but the mild win
ter continued growth until the plants were
too luXuriant to withstand the usual vicissi-
tudes of March. Recent frosts have cut
down the growing plants generally, and in
wet or submerged areas the roots have been
destroyed. There are reports of recupera-
ton by sprouting and renewed growth in
this region. Where the roots are intact
great imprOv enent will follow with good
weather. The fact that the roots are so we'll
dev elOpOd is favorable to Improvement.
In the South the soil was generally in bet
ter condition, and the early sown developed
rapidly and in December and January suf-
fered more or less from attacks of the Hessian
fly. In March frOstS We're general, discolor-
ing and sometimes killing the plants down TO
the ground, but not in turing the roots ex-
cept i'll wet places. The crop looks brown in
New York, but the State agent believes it is
better than it looks The other Middle States
return wheat in good condition.
The Pacific Coast has had an extraordinary
amount of rain and snow which have della we'd
seeding and injured the early sown areas.
The report of condition of farm animals
makes average as follows: Horses. 81 cattle
"a |; sheep, 93.7: swine $50 The loses from
winter exposure of cattle have been heavy in
the Northern Rocky Mountain belt and on
the Pacific Coast. The reports indicate the
loss by exposure throughout the country of
more than a million cattle and still larger
losses Of sheap.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25
Zach Taylor at Waynesburg.

Zach Taylor was hanged at Waynesburg at
II :12 O'Clock in the forenoon.
In a speech on the scaffold he said he was
an Innocent man, that he never saw the man
who was murdered, and that he was going
home to Jesus. After religious services Tay-
lor shackled his own ankles. He babe and
kissed al present goodbye. When ali was
ready at ~ he dropped the handkerchief
as signal to spring the trap. The fall was
three feet and his neck was broken. His
body was coffined and taken to his home in
Masontown, Fayette County.
On Saturday, September 10, 1887, William
McCausland. a well-to-do stock dealer of
Allegheny City, was murdered i'll Cumber-
land township. Green County. A revol-
yer bearing the initials u. T. c." was
found beside McCausland, and was the
clew which led to the arrest of John T. Clark
and Zach Taylor At the trial, George Clark
and Zach Taylor were found guilty. George
Clark was respited half a dozen times, but
was hanged February 26.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25

HE ETHEL tower, which has been croza5
SINCE the Paris Exposition, is about To Ia r.
opened. 1t has been overhauled and refitted
the public. 0-1S Az
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25

A GRAND butter and dairy exhibition, under
the auspices of the Farmers Institute of
Miami County, and the first of this nature
in the United States, has been held in Peru.
Ind. Dairy products of every kind were on
exhibition from all parts Of the country.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25

EMPEROR MENELEK- of Abyasinia has writ
ten letter TO Prime Minister Crispi author
izing Italy to represent him at the Brussels
Antl-Slavery Congress, and affirming the in
tentlon of Ethiopia TO follow the example of
civilized Christian nations and to reoress III
slave trade
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-25
Foreign.

A RAILWAY train went over an embank-
ment at Frankfort, Germany, and twenty.
seven workmen were injured.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
No. l2o

pine forest as eyes ever beheld. Glorious
indeed are all the surroundings and memories
Of this little upland valley; but from the
top of Pratomagno the most ravishingly
beautiful view in all Italy is presented.
What wondrous associations are copjured in
contemplation of the fair, far Casentino val-
ley, with Its boundary beyond formed By the
lofty Apenines, where are born tie Tiber
and Arnol Tuscany, home Of the dream
breeding vine and of tair women, stetches
sunnily to the westward. The majestic Du-
ONO glitters down there in the center of the
purple, checkered valley where Florence
stands. And far. faint and magically seen
through the passes Of the uttermost peaks Of
Carrara. shines a thread of sapphire where
sweep the sails upon the broad Mediterrane-
an. Descend to the old monastery. Dream
among its cloisters. Wander among its
stately groves. Leave it to go your way and
never return. But all the sadness Italy has
left in your heart will lie there with some-
thing akin to forgiviDg tenderness If you
have but once drunk the ambrosia and known
the spell
"a where the Etrurian shades
"High overareh'd embower.'
EDGAR L. WAKEAAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31

New Haven lost the capital and the capt.
tol, but she has gained base ball team.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It isn't often that both sides are "skunked'
In game of ball.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
Saturday, May 81, 1890.
ONE SPREE A YEAR.


They take good care Of people in Nassa-
chusetts. The latest evidence of the truth
of this statement Is found in bill which has
been passed in the lower branch of the lsgis-
lature by vote of 129 yeas to 90 nays. This
bill provides that any person found intoxi-
Gated In public place, and not committing
breach of peace, may be arrested and taken
home, or kept in custody in some suitable
place until he has recovered from intoxica-
ton. If he has not been previously arrested
for drunkenness within tho twelve months
next preceding, he shall on recovery be
discharged from custody, unless he demands
trial. When trial is insisted on, con-
vietion for a FIRST offsnse will be punished by
imprisonment not exceeding ten days. But
q second offense is to be dealt with in q very
different temper. A person who has twice
been arrested for intoxieation within twelve
months may be sentenced to imprisonment
for period not less than ninety days, nor
more than two years.
If the people of Massachusetts, do not ap-
preciate this they deserve to be fined and
imprisoned every time they get drunk.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31

Howe & StGtsOl
CONSPICUOUS SUCCESS
Silk Finish MeIaneis


Made in Black Ground with
White Figures is the most ele-
giant and desirable cotton dress
fabric ever made, for they will
not crock or grow red by acids
or perspiration, and unlike all
other dress goods will grow more
brilliant by washing in soap and
hot water. Our price is only 25c
per y'd. We have a large line of
small and medium designs that
are very choice and artistic.
Samples to any address,"
French style Flannelettes at
I5c per yard are having a very
rapid sale. Our styles are the
choicest ever made, as the de-
signs are reprints from the best
French makers.
One case Children's Gauze
Vests in high necks and short
sleeves at sc for 16 inch up to
25c for "a size.
One case Ladies Gauze Vests
in high French necks, short
sleeves, pearl buttons, etc., at
25c each.
80 p'ces plaid Challi Mohairs,
27 in. wide, at Ioc yard; goods
were made to retail at 3oc.
Cream White Mohairs 36
inches wide at 35c per yard; reg
ular price soc. Only a few pie
ces left in this lot.
Another invoice of silk drape-
ry nets in stripes and figures at
soc, CSC, 75c, $I.oo, $1.25 and
$I.5o per yard, also 8 pieces
polka dot drapery net in black
and cream at 25c per yard.
Special bargains in Black Jap
anese,, Shanghai and Canton
Silks at soc, 75c and 81 per y'd.
Just received another invoice
of Tetley's famous English
Breakfast Tea, at soc and 7oc lb.
Friday, May 80, Decoration
Day,) our store will be closed
all day. We shall be open
Thursday even'g until 9 o'clock.
Bargain day for this week
Thursday, May 2eth. Some
thing way under price in every
department.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
LEFT.

The boarding house strawberry never gets
left.-Yonkers Statesman.
Census taker-"How old are you, msdamt"
s'I count twenty-five springs. -Fiegende
| Blatter.
"Now, Johnny, you know what noun is,
do yoHa" "Yeth, um." "What Is Jerusa-
LENT" "An ejaculation, um."-Harper's
Bazaar.
Brown-Did the dog eat up much when he
got into the pantry4 Mrs. Brownies;
everything but the dog uit.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The fatality among census enumerators
promises to be very great as soon as they get
well under way with their questions.-
ington Star.
Point for Barnum-Always engage a
squint-eyed man for lion tanner, because he
can fix two beasts at once with his eyes
Fliegende Blatter.
Sympathetic.-'At the north pole, Hans,
| they have nights six months long" "Oh,
| but, father, just think of tbs poor watchmen."
l-Fliegende Blatter.
Bilieus-"I sleep in feathers but believe
| its unhealthy" Tuffnut-"Whst's thatf
Look at the spring chicken see how tough
| he is."-Boston Herald.
Husband (weak and wsvering)-What shall
We do, dear, when the wolf comes to the
doora Wife (strong and confdent)-Thank
Heaven that we've got door.-Washingto
Star.
Educational Item.-First boy-"How do
| you like your new teachers" Second boy
'He is not lightning teacher. He strikes
| several times In the same place" e."-Texas
| Siftings.
Full Well He Laughef.-"Time Will prove
| my client innocentl" cried Squiljig. "Your
argument carries some wait with it," observ-
ed the court. And Squiljig laughed so
heartily that he Wen his case.-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
"You never saw such dog as mp Nerol
The other day friend borrowed him to go
shooting with. he didn't have any luck ,and
when they came back Nero actually dragged
him to the stand of q game-dealer. File
gende Blatter.
Miss De Note tat the top of her voice.
Grandma, won't you 20 with Us to the opera?
No, thank you, my dear. I'll wait for a
Wagner night. You know Pm little deaf.
New York Weekly.
Do ships have eyes when they go to scar
Dass Are there spgips in the s oceans ts esd
Can a river lose its head?
| What kind of food is watchman's beat:
Can an old loom sing its lays
Can poem trip without its feet?
! What notes does gambler play:
L Will q DlaCKSpllGn 3 VlSc COnuolnn D1S SOdis
| Can book be white and read?
To whom does tn church bell pay its tolls
| Who shingles water sheds
If minstrel boy can sing his lay,
| Can ship sing her "lay to?''
Do tigers ask for grace when they preys
| Can bugle note come cue?
Is "Father Time, & noted thief
| For stealing the hours away:
| Can you give windoI-Iane relief?
| Can you mend the break OF Say?
Will foreign cline make anyone tifsdf
Is mountain climb like May? -
Can haul of fish for balls be hired: .no,
Can donkeys feed on brae? w
| Is purchase made when shoes are Soieds 4
Can axe the rainbow hue?
If keep on twisting the tale I've told,
Pray what will your readers do?
| Boston Globe.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
to spend at least year in serious and tho
ough study.
HousrxrEr1Na MADE EASY.

10 6p6uO NJ 16e6t u y0hX Al pckAOu9 ohSA sASAN
ough study.
HoUsEKREPINa MADE EASY.
According to Sir Edwin Arnold, house
keeping in Japan is by no means tie compli-
GATED and burdensome occupation that
housewives In this country find, or make, 1t.
Six or eight little rooms constitute the Japa-
nese homo, very neat and dainty with their
white mattings, scrupulously clean wood
work and light partitions covered with gold
Or silver stamped paper. The tidy little
kitchen is ornamented with rows of shining
brass and copper utensils hung in rows;
every thing is bright and spotlsss. Large
quilted cotton s'comforts" form bed and
bedding, two are to lie upon, and two are for
coverings, and these during the day are
rolled up and slowed away in cupboards.
The furniture is not abundant or cumber-
some. Little square cushions serve for seats;
there are beautifully made chests in which
clothing is kept, glass cupboard for tea
cups and tea, dressing case and an appara-
tus which holds tobacco, pipes and the ever
lighted charcoal. There is no household
linen to wash and iron, as sheets, pillow
cases and table cloths are not used; hand
kerehiefs and napkins are made of paper,
and the towels are small squares of blue and
white cotton. A little cupboard holds rice
and sweet biscuits, but there need be no
pantry OR store room to take care OF. as all
kinds of fresh food are kept at the bazsars,
and the days supplies may be bought from
merchants who bring their wares to the
door, or brought home from the market
wrapped in cool green leaf. Only two solid
meals are eaten and these are easily prepared
over the charcoal fire, rice, fried fish and any
amount of tea usually forming the break
fast. Between meals there is good deal of
nibbling at cakes, fruit and nuts. A Japa-
nese lady finds plenty of time to arrange her
wardrobe, to strum the guitar, entertain
callers, do little needlework, 60 shopping,
or riding, or pay a visit to the temple of
Buddha. Sir Edwin says: "Life is not
looked upon in very serious light by my
charming fellow citizens. I sometimes think
they must all have been birds in previous
sxistenoe-they have the same delightful way
of doing nothing very busily, chirping
through their days of existence, preening
their bright feathers, picking forever at some
iiny, foolish food, and loving singing, sum
shine and the flowers"
New Haven houseksepers whose lives are a
drive and whirl Of work, who have
svictuals at six and dishes at seven,
Sweeping at eight and busting at nine,
Fretting and fuming from ten to eleven,
and who think of the home beyond es a
blessed place where they shall edo nothing
forever and ever" may envy the ease and
leisure of the care-free Japanese women, but,
still envious. will probably continue to do
with all their might, all the necessary or su-
perfuous work that their hands can find to
do. HILARY.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
GERMANY In AFRICA.

Stanley thinks and says that the rulers of
Great Britain are not acting wisely and eff
eiently in regard to Germanys performances
in Africa. Germany has certainly been
very energetic in establishing her "sphere"
in that country. She did not become q
colonizer in Africa until 1884, when Ger
man protectorate was established in South
west Africa and Southeast Africa, the
growth of the latter during the past year
having become the chief cause of the
present complications. The German
sphere, commencing on the slave
coast Of Upper Guinea, southwest Of
the Sudan, includes Togoland, with
an area of 1880 acres and an estimated pop
ulation of 40,0oe; Oameroons, with an area
of lid. 900 acres and q population of SOC, 600;
German Southwest Africa, extending over at
least 800. 600 and population supposed to
be 250, 900; and German East Africa, cover
ing at present 4SO, 900 acres and population
of S00,0 The first of these Is governed by
an imperial commissioner; Cameroons by an
imperial governor; the third by an imperial
commissioner and the fourth by the East
African company and a commissioner.
Palm oil and ivory are the chief articles OBJ.
tanned from Togoland, in the forests of
which commerce is getting COCOA,
caoutcheuc and dye woods. The CAMERON
region runs ITO miles along the coast be-
tween the Campo River and Rio del Rsy; II
is already productive tobocco plantation.
The Orange River is the southern boundary
of German Southwest Africa, and its coast
line is estimated at $50 miles. It ia setineled
by two harbors, Apgra Pequsna and Band.
wich Harbor. 1t is supposed to be an ex-
osptionally sne grazing country, and Its soil
10 known to be rich in minerals. In 1885 q
treaty line defined the northern limit oi
German East Africa. 1t runs from the eas!
shore of Victoria Nyanza southwest to the
Umbe or Elmbre River. Its western limit Ia
INV the hona of NON uxaution
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
NEW HAVEN CONN., SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 81 $780,

man; and fourthly, he was a married man.
And learn all this about the man from one
single word that the Bible says about him; IT
says he was certain man. Now, we all
know that there is no certainty in drankard,
there is NO certainty In man who is not
punctual to his engagements, no certainty In
an idle loafsr, and there Is not one of these
bachelors in forty that you cen trust.
The words Of Abraham Lincoln on the
field of Gettysburg can be proftably read at
this time. They are: Fourscore and seven
years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent new nation, conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal. Now We are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation 80 conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on great
battlefield of that war. We have come to
dedicate portion of that field, as fnal
resting place for those who here gave their
lives that the nation might live. 1t is Alto
gether fitting and proper that we should do
this. But, in larger sense, we cannot ded-
icate,-we cannot oonseerate,-we cannot
hallow-this ground. The brave men, Hv-
ing and dead, who struggled here, have con-
secrated II, far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note, nor
long remember, what We say here, but 1t
can never forget what they did here.
II is for us the living, rather, to
be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought hero
have thus far go nobly advanced. 1t is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us-that from
these honored dead we take increased devo-
tion to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion,-that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain-that this nation, under God,
snail have new birth of freedom-and that
government of the people, by the people
and for the people, shall not perish from the
earth
Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-31
Mr.. CUTLBR'S EXPECTATIONS,

expect before closing the sale Of my
stock to frame between three and four
thousand pictures, which will be Offer
ed far below first cost. The stock con-
sists Of Ensravings, Etchfngs, PhOtO-
graphs, PhOtOgravures and ArtOtypes,
together with a few Paintings and Wa
ter COlOrs. Those cannot all be framed
in a day, nor a week, nor a month, but
this sale will not cease till every picture
i'm my old stock is sold for cash.
EVARTS CUTLER.