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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28

A few weeks ago the body Of Frank Clifford
was found in his cabin at Whisky Flat New,
partly naked and frozen stiff. A demijOh
with a small quantity of whisky in it was
near the body, while a little dog lay upon the
bosom of its dead master and fought
savagely when dislOdged. 1t is believed that
Clifford reached his cabin while intoxicated,
and that he was unable to Gisrobe and 20 10
bed, but fell asleep on the floor, and a. the
night was bitterly cold frOze 10 death. At
the cOronOrs inquest it was testified that.
Clifford was native of New Bedford, Mass. :
aged about 6S years. The finding was that
the deceased came TO his death b. ez-
posure.
The Walker Lake Bulletin SAYS: There
is a bit of romance connected with Frank
Chords life. He belongs to wealthy
family, and went to California in the ear!y
fiftes in his fathers ship. On the death Of
relatives he fell heir to $50, 900 but a. he
was cursed with an uncomfortable appetite
for drink, the courts appointed his sister a,
his guardian. and he was unabl. 10 obtain
possession Of tis money. He again went % the
Pacific coast and finally isolated himself on
a cattle range in Esmeralda County. Nevada
His death was a most miserable one, there
being no human being within many miles.
and while the owner OF thousands he died IN
poverty. He was buried at Hawthorne
New"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
South and West.

AN oil still belonging to the Standard Oil
Company exploded at Lima, Ohio killing
Patrick Ryan and injuring five other men.
AURORA, ILL.,. has been quarantined owing
to a smallpox scourge.
FRANK CHAPMAN, Fred Young and James
Bury were drowned while attempting to
cross the ST. Clair River at Marine City
Mich, in skiff.
F. A. WALTON, a trusted employee of the
Pacific Express Company at Dallas, Texas,
absconded with package containing $50, 900.
A WRIT of error has been granted to the
Chicago Anarchists in Joliet Penitentiary, SO
that their case may again be brought before
the United States Supreme Court.
FIVE Chinese on their way to Dutch Flat,
CAL were overwhelmed by an avalanche and
killed.
THE Navajo Indians in San Juan County,
New Mexico, have been harrassing the set
tiers on account of the recent killing of an
Indian. About five hundred warriors left
their reservation, and the settlers were great
ly alarmed.
AFTER the adjournment of the Montana
Senate, eight Democratic Senators, incensed
at the ruling of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rick
ards in counting them present when they re-
fused to vote, took trains going in different
directions They said they were going beyond
the State line to get out of reach of the
Sergeant-at-Arms. Their absence blocked
all legislation.
The election for Governor of West Vir-
ginia in November 1888, has just been de-
cided by the inauguration of A Brooks
Fleming, the Democratic candidate.
SENATOR PETTIGREW, of South Dakota,
has commenced an open warfare against Chi
cagO for the Worlds Fair.
THERE are said to be fully 5000 people in
North Dakota who are in need of assistance
The afflicted people are mostly Americans
and Scandinavians.
NEWS was brought to Birmingham, Ala,
of the killing of two white men and the
wounding of three others in a fight with col
ored men which occurred in Bibb County,
fifty miles south of Birmingham.
A DISPATCH from Stephen, Mimi, states
that the worst blizzard within the recolIec-
ton of the oldest inhabtant was raging The
wind was from the north, and the air was
a cloud of snow. The mercury registered ten
degrees below zero, and it was growing
colder.
PRESIDENT FITZGERALD, of the Irish
National League, issued an address from
Lincoln, Neb., calling for funds in view of
coming elections in Great Britain.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
POSTAL PRIZES.
Twelve Gold Medals for the Quickest
Men on Railway Routes.

General Order No. 3o3, just issued by the
General Superintendent of the Postoffice De-
partment, notifies the railway postal clerks
throughout the country that at the close of
1890 twelve gold medals will be presented to
the most efficient men.
They will be known as ''The Postmaster
General Medals" and one will be awarded to
the clerk in each of the eleven divisions who
shall have made the best general record on
the largest number of cards representing
postoffices distributed by routes or by coun-
ties, modified by the class of tbe clerk, the
error slip record and the car work
The twelfth medal will be awarded to the
clerk Of any class in any division who shall
during the year correctly distribute, in the
shortest time and with the largest number
of separations, cards representing the great
est number of postoffices.
Committees to determine the award Of the
division medals will be selected by the clerks
in their respective divisions, in manner to
be arranged by the Division Superintendent,
and committee to award the twelfth medal
will be designated by the General Superin-
tan6ont
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
w aShingtOn.

REAR-ADMIRAL STEPHEN P. QUACKEN-
at Washington, aged sixty-seven.
SENATOR SHERMAN and Murat Halstead,
the Cincinnati editor. succeeded Governor
Campbell, of Ohio, as witnesses before the
House Committee on the Ballot Box Forgery.
NOMINATIONS by the President: James w.
Remick to be United States Attorney for the
District of New Hampshire; Paris Kilbourne,
to be Surveyor of Customs at San Francisco;
Collectors of Customs-Alanson w. Beard
district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass. !:
George B. Edmonds at Fairfield, Conn ::
Louis Mckenzie Bell, at Alexandria, Va; J.
II. Pinkerton, at St. Marks Fla. Frank A
Vaughan, at Saluria, Tex.
THE Colored Convention elected P B. s.
Pinchback President of the new organiza-
ton and adjourned after issuing an address
to the country.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
TIE LATEST SNARE.

''The newest fad in New York SAYS ths
Chicago Champion Giquor organ. is -
little three-ounce cocktail bottle that holds
Just enough for two drinks This late,t IL
vention OF the ingenious and cunning Dr.---
Devil is a 'prettily-shaped" bottle Wit :
s.nickel-plated screw top which, t0-rt-='
with the two hand mixedn drinks Il OK
tains is doled out for a quarter Of a dollar.
The proof that it Is the Devils haudIwJrs =
in the temptation which this neat contriva1.s:
holds out 70 men who would not tEIn- D
carving a larger bottle about with tE-Il.
1t is an especial snare and trap laid by ''t-..
old serpent called the Devil and Satan. -
hasten the steps of the unwary down . IL
and especially young tipplers and n -
rate drinkers who have never made j. i
practice TO lug liquor about with them, III
perchance will find no inconvenience IN -
ing a tiny two-drink vial into their 49,
pockets. What next.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

WILLIAM S. GILBERT, the librettist, says
that he never reads criticisms of his own
works.
LONDON'S theatres are said to have had a
flat, stale and altogether Improbable
winter.
KARL MERE, known throug hOut the United
States as an eminent musician, recently died
at Worcester. Ohio.
THE Gondoliers," Gilbert and Sullivan's
latest comic opera, will shortly be sung in
German in Munich.
WILLIAM CRANE in his new play, The
Senator" is said to make up so as to re-
semble Senator Plumb, of Kansas.
MISS ADELE AUS DER OHE, the eminent
pianist, has been playing a number of suo-
cessful recitals in Boston and Providence.
THE production of ''As You Like It" at
the st. James's Theatre in London was post
pOned in consequence of the illness of Mrs.
Langtry.
HENRIK IBsEN, the Norwegian playwright,
is thought by some good critics to be the
most original dramatist of the nineteenth
century.
A PLAY at one of the English theatres has
just had to be modified because the actors
had a superstition against the appearance
of a peacock or its feathers on the stage.
SIMS REEVE, the once famous tenor, is liv-
ing in London at the age of seventy. 1t is
said that while his voice is apparently unim-
paired, he does not wish to sing in public any
more.
WILSON BARRETT was offered $1,000 to give
performance of THE Silver King in Chi
cage on a Sunday night, but refused on the
ground that it would be an affront to his
Sabbath observing friends.
THE most noted cOlored actress of the day
is Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Baltimore.
She made her debut in Washington. in 1888,
and has been well received in such roles as
Juliet, Desdemona, Queen Elizabeth and
Leah.
IT has been determined TO give a concert in
London during the ensuing season, which Dr..
Joachim will be asked to conduct. The pro-
ceeds will be devoted to the general fund for
the establishment in the house Of his birth Of
a Beethoven museum.
Mrs. ERvING WINsLow. the Boston &C
tress and eiocutionist, has been giving read
ings of Ibsen's plays "A Dolls Home" Pill
lars of Society" The Lady of the Sea, - etc,
which have been received with much pleas
IRE by the admirers of the Norwegian dra-
matiSt.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
Great Damage to Property in Oregon
and Washington.

and WashingtOn.
Heavy rains and melting snow have re-
suited in disastrous floods in Oregon and
Washington. Portland, Ore, was partly
submerged, and the only travel through the
principal business streets was by small
boats. Many bridges were swept away. All
railroad communication south and east OF
Portland was cut off for five days.
The wagon bridge across the Willamette
River at Salem, Ore, was carried away.
The structure was 1000 feet long and cost
about $75, 600. No less than ten million logs
have been swept away on the Willamette
and Columbia Rivers. Large quantities of
sawed lumber and number of sawmills on
the river have also been carried away. The
damage was estimated at over $500, 900.
At Tacoma, Washington, the Willamette
River was higher than for twenty years
past and much damage was inflicted.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
Foreign.

EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, sent a
sensational rescript to Prince Bismarck and
an order to Minister BerIepsch requesting
better treatment Of workingmen
e. AN American officer has arrived at Nc
Leod, in Northwest Canada, to try and re-
cover the white girl held captive there by the
Blackfeet Indians
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-02-27

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o.9l0.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, /
Nevada, September 9th, 1889 /


N Office Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ A. White. By his attorney-in-fact, James
LOWE, whose Posioffice address Is Frisbie
lander County, Nevada. his this day filed
his application or patent for l4,0 linear
feet of the Grant rize mine VEN bearing sill
yer with surface ground 600 fee. in width stu
att ID in Bullion Mining District County of Ian 4.
der, and state of Nevada and desi gna ted by the
field notes and official plat on file Ia this office as
Lot Number 3s on unsuryeyed land. said Lot No
3s bel Z described as follows, to-w.t'
Beginning at p st marked No U s IS,
whence Mineral Monument No /. Bullion
District, bears o. 13 min W, 1902 feet and
e Mineral honu merit No bears 81 deg "A
min W, 1887 feet and run thence,
1st course. S l3 deg 81 min W 40 feet to post
marked No 2 U > IS, iheace
2nd course ) &c deg Sc min Z, GOO feet to post
m ,rked No Z S IS. thence,
3rd curse, - deg 81 min f, 14l0 feet to
post marked No 5 81, thence
4th course n &C deg So min W. 900 fee. TO post
IN rked No U 80. the place of beginning.
Magnetic variation II deg &c min East, con-
tanning 1912 acres
The location of this mine Is recorded in the
Recorders office of Ian Ter County in Book l OF
Duplicate Mining Notices.
Any ard all persons claiming adversely
any portion of said Grand Prize mine or snriare
ground required TO fife their adverse claims
with the Register of the United states Land
Office at Eureka. in tae County OF Eurek
State of Nevada; during the sixty dsvs period OF
publication hereof, or they will be barred by
virtue of the provisions of the statute.
b. ii. HALL, Register.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing Notice
of Application for Patent be published for the
period OF % days (ten consecutive weeks) in the
Central Nevadan IA week y newspaper published
at Battle Mountain. Lander Coun y, Nevada.
d. Ii. HALL, Register
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-02-27

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Remarkable Cure.

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No. oil.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
UNITED STATES LAND OPFIcE
Eureka, Nevada, Septenbef 9th, 1889. !

N Office l. HEREBY GIvLN THAT
~ A, White, by his Attosney-in-fa James
LOWE whose PostoTiic address is trisbie, Ian
der CJunty, Nevada, has this day filed his ap.
plicaiOn fora patent for l420 linear feet of the
Silver rze nine vein besring silver with
surface ground 6)0 feet i'll width. situated in
Bullion mining district County of Lander and
State OF Nevada, and designated by tie neld
notes aud official plat on file in this office as Lot
Number 80 ON unsurveyed land, said Lot NO 80
bel described as follows. to-wit.
Beginning at post marked No. ], U S 30.
whence U Mineral Monument No | Bullion
district, bears d x 70 MN L, 260l feet, u :
Nineal Monument No bears ) 7J deg z5 min
y929 feet anu iun thence
LIST Gourso-N ~ deg 81 min + 425 feet to
post NO. U D urvey 3s On Grand Prize lode
thence, ON same course. lI5 feet 10 post No
y ) 49, thenee tor
I'd courss-N As deg 81 min w 1920 feet 10
post marked No ) . su,v<y 80 III nee
3 course, 5 40 deg 81 mi. W 60O 4, ct 70 post
marked MOI : 80, th<,ice
attn course. S As des 81 min L 1920 TT to post
marked No U . 80 the place of beginning.
Magnetic variation II deg 35 min East.
Containing 10. IS acres
The location of this mine Is recorded in the
Recorders office of Lander County, Nevada, ln
Book of Duplicate Mining Records The ad
joining claimants are owner of Grand Prize lode.
Any aud all persons claiming adversely any
por ion of said Silver Prize mine or
surface ground are required to file their adverse
claims with the Register of the United States
Land Oihee at Eureka in the O.. OF Eureka state
of New. during the sixty days period of publica-
ton hereof, or they will be barred by virtue of
the provisions of the statute.
d. H. HALL, Register.
II hereby ordered that the foregoing Notice of
Application f,r Patent be published FOR the
period of 90 days (ten consecutive weeks) in the
Central Nevadan, weekly newspaper pub
lished at Battle Mountain. Lander Co. New
y. IL. HALL, Register.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-02-27

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