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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-13
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.


JESSE J. JONES farmer of Conroy Town
ship, Penn, was ground to death in MS
steam thresher.
Two noted colored criminals. Tom Thomas
and Henry Jackson, mace their escape from
the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. after
sandbagging Captain Charles Parker, the
fifty-fve- year-old dOorkeeper, and robbinS
him of $500 They were both fre-bugs, and
were serving thirty-year terms.
GENERAL P. j CLAssEN has been con-
victed on five counts in the bank wrecking
cases in New York city.
BECAUSE of the failure of the peach crop,
the Richardson 6 Robbins Cannery at Do
yer, Del, has shut down till about Septem-
Der. This is the largest establishment on the
Peninsula employing in good fruit seasons
about $50 hands and turning out SOC, 900 cans
of peaches.
Two little children of Michael Hart were
killed by a runaway horse near their home
in New Haven, Conn.
DECISION by the Supreme Court of
Maine legaliZes the sale of liquor In original
packages III that State.
HENRY JACKSON. the colored desp 4rado
who escaped from Trenton (N. j. prison.
shot while resisting arrest in Philadel-
phia, and his companion, Thomas, was cap
tured.
ABOUT two thousand members of the
National Guard went to the new parade
ground at Van COrtlandt Park, New York
city, and took part in a realistic sham battle.
Several participants were seriously in
jured.
SERVICES were held in the cemetery and
in some of the churches at JOhnstown. Penn,
in cOmmemOration of the anniversary of tie
food.
THE boiler of the Greyfoot Canning Works.
in Nreeland Me. exploded. Jerome Gray
the engineer. was hurled through the roof, a
distance of fifty feet, and William Thorn and
his brother Charles, Gamers, were killed.
COMMODORE WILLIAM. MCCAIN, United
States Navy, formerly turned over the COM
mand of the Charleston Mass Navy Yard
to Captain Thomas o. Selfridge, the new
commandment Commodore Mccain will
take command of the European squadron.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-13
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
PRICES for hay are higher.

PRICES for hay are higher.
CHICAGO has six rural parks
THERE are &c, 229 Germans in Paris.
THERE are nc, 600 wolves in Russia.
PHILADELPHIA has abolished street music
HYDROPHoBIA in Paris decreases steadily.
New JERSEY now has a marriage license
law.
THERE are Is, 900, 900 dehorned COWS in the
West.
HUNDREDS of Icelanders are emigrating to
America.
MANY public scandals have been exposed
in Canada.
THE gold mining craze in Maine continues
undated
AMERICA this year will produce 1900, 900
tons of iron.
THERE are about 1900 American art
students in Paris.
NEW JERSEY is now the fifteenth State to
adopt ballot reform.
THE first sunstroke this season was re.
ported from Calf Ornia.
THERE is one pauper in every thirty-seven
inhabitants in England and Wales.
EGYPTIAN finances are in a more prosper
Gus condition than for many years.
ABOUT S35 900, 600 will be expended on new
buildings in Philadelphia this year.
ENGLISH capitalists are buying up sugar
plantations in the Sandwich Islands
BUSINESS in general is good, and prospects
for the summer and fall are excellent.
THERE were 138 lake disasters in April in
Lake Ontario, aggregating loss of S246, 800.
LARGE deposits of manganese and silver
have been discovered in Milton County, GA.
Nor less than %, 900 acres will be put into
broom-corn in Graham County, Kan, this
year.
CANADIAN capitalists are forming a COM
pany 10 build a railroad from Vancouver to
Alaska.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-13

Practice in Pasquotank, Perouimams, Chowau,
Gates, HEREFORD, Washington and Tyrreil Counties,
and Ia Supreme Court OF TIE State.
References-Chief Justice Smith. Raleigh, ". c.;
C. w. Grandy d S0ns, Exchange Nationd Bank.
Norfolk, Va: Whedbee 81 Dickinson, Elliott Bros,
Baltimore Nd, and VIM. Stowe, Boston. Mass.
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ByJ. Hamilton Ayers. A. NJ, Md.

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Foreign.

THE gamb,ing-houses in Geneva, Svitzer
land have been closed by the authorities.
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Fun at the Table.

An Austin man read in paper that
the family should always be the scene
of laughter and merriment, and that no
meal should be passed in the moody
silence that so often characterizes those
occasions. The idea struck him so
favorably that when his family was
gathered around the table that evening
he said: .... a
snow, this sort O. thing OF keeping so
blamed mum at meals has got to stop.
You hear me? You girls, put in an tell
stories, an keep up agreeable sort O.
talk, like; an you, boys, laugh and be
jolly, or I'll take and dust your jackets
with grapevine till you can't stand.
Now begin!"
The glare that he sent around the
table made the family as funny as a
funeral.-Texas Siftings.
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Dakota)
Whose sons and husbands TO the dramshops go,
Who would like to gently drop
A ballot that should stop
the wrecking Of their loved ones by this foe.
CHoRUs-Don'ty you know. don't you know
Where a mother ought to go
When she's got a little family depending on
her sol
She should cast righteous vote,
And her loyalty devote
TO God, and home, and babies. don't you knows
There are scores of patient women who. we
know,
Never get but half the wages that men do.
Though their work is done as we'll
And the reason none can tell,
Unless il IS that voters make II so.
CHoRUs-Don't you know. don't you know
Where these women ought to go
To kill discrimination which is robbing o; them
sol
They should WELD mighty vote
Which would strike a ringing note
For equal pay for labor, don't you knowi
Women pay their share OF taxes don't you
know! -
And men hang them when they dare transgrsss
the law;
by a jury all of men,
And male judge to condemn,
Women bear each burden OF the citizen.
CHoRUs-Don't you know, don't you know
Where all honest men should 90
Since the penalties OF government descend on
woman sof
They shoud grant her every good
With which franchise is imbued,
And make her free and equal, don't you know!
-Irene G. Adams. In Womnn's LournaL
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PUBLIC OPINION.

wWe have the highest respect for
General Palmer, but his talk about the
Senate as "a body of danger" is more
moonshine.-N. Y. Sun tDem.).
BAn English writer says that it
takes about tNo-thirds of . second for an
idea to reach the BRAIN There are nosa-
BILE exceptions, however. The idea that
the country doesn't want free trade has
existed for many years, and has not yet
reached the Democratic brain.-Norris-
town Herald.
eBDavid Dudley Field says there
are now six problems before the Ameri-
can people-honest government woman
suffrage, the negro race. the rights of
labor, the government of cities and the
government of corporations To those
should be added the sever Injustice to
the soldiers of the Union armies Of the
civil sar+Toledo Blade. H sk
Democratic papers are unable to
refrain from continual sneers at An
drew Carnegie for his notable bcnefac-
ton of free libraries to American mu-
inequalities The reason Is not far TO
seek. Free libraries conduce to popu-
ular intelligence. And the more intel
Mgent and welI-informed people there
are. the fewer democrats there are M
Y. Mail and Express.
0Perhaps it would be as we'll to re-
mind our Democratic brethren that the
vote on the Republican State ticket
Governor exeeptedl indicates that Orc
gon is pretty good Republican State
State, moreover, that doesn't promise
great things for the Democratic party m
the near future. A majority OF Scoo
looms up something like mountain
peak.-PorIland Ore yonian.
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father stayed out at night; but 1 must
GO. Good night DEAR" and off he
went.
From that time on Henry heard no
more reproaches about his staying out
so late. He went out almost every even
ing. One day he was brought home in
a carriage. He had sprained his ankle.
The injury was very severe. The doc
tor said he would be confined in his
house for at least two weeks. At first
he suffered severe pains, and his wife
did all in her power to relieve his suf
ferings. She put cold applications to
his swollen limb and alleviated his
agony by reading to him. He immedi-
ately began to improve. While he no
longer suffered physical pain he was
obliged to remain in his room, as the
ankle was too weak to bear his weight.
Now was the time for Mrs. Carter to car
~ out little plan she had matured.
One evening she appeared in the
room of her husband dressed to 60 out.
She had a rose in her hair, and had 9TH
erwise made herself as attractive as pos
sible.
81 am going out, dear Henry. to at
tend little social gathering at my sis
ter's. You need not get up for me. You
can go to bed. I'll take the door key
along and let myself in"
"All right" responded Henry cheer
fully. gritting his teeth as she closed the
door. That's very nice arrangement
for woman to leave her husband at
home and go cavorting all over the
neighboIhood. What shall l do to
smuse MYSELF"
Mrs. Carter did not get home until
very late, but her husband did not re-
p-oach her. He was too proud for that
Next night she was off again, and so
for several consecutive evenings Carter
had to sit up, and he found it very ted
ious. At last she went to a ball. She
was accompanied by her brother. She
arrived at her home simultaneously
with the milkman. On opening the door
she saw her husband white with rage.
Madam" he said sternly, you have
been absent all night"
''Yes," responded Mrs. Carter, coolly,
s'the ball did not break up until the
wee small hours anent the twa.'"
Mr.. Carter was already very much ex-
asperated, but springing that old gag
upon him aroused him to a perfect
frenzy.
''Do you know" he said, in a hoarse
voice, smashing the water pitcher to
smithereens, ''that you have been out
Iprowling around every night for week
while have been confined to the house
by myself?''
Henry, am very much surprised at
your language"
'You are surprised, are you? Do you
suppose am going to stand this any
longer?"
''If were married man." said Mrs.
Carter, 81 would think it very natural
that my wife should go wherever she
likes it best. If you are displeased. you
should address me in a different tone.
You should endeavor to make home
pleasant for me-"
"What" exclaimed Mr.. Carter.
snake my home agreeable to me"
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"a Happy Omen.-

Chauncy NJ. Depew spoke at Chicago
recently on the Worlds Fair. before a
great audience. Among other things he
said: ...r...h .ts %
at was happy omen Of what America would
do for woman that when statesmen and prelate
alike had rejected the appeal Of Columbus rs
visionary land the King had dismissed it with
chilling courtesy Isabella comprehended the
discoveries idea, saw the opportunities Of his
success, appreciated the magnitude Of the re-
suits to her throne and to the world. and pledg-
ed not only her royal favor but her fortune and
her jewels 10 the enterprise. The American
woman. with her property rights guaranteed
by American law, with her equal position and
independence, with her uneaqualled opportun-
tiles for higher education and for usefulness,
can say with pride TO her brother her lover and
her husband: You owe America to me-"
No doubt, says the Woman's Journal,
this passage in Mr.. Depew's speech was
meant to be kind and complimentary to
the women. But suppose the laws for
both sexes were made by the women
alone, and no man in this country had
a right to vote. even upon the questions
that most nearly concern him-we won
der if in that case Mr.. Depew would be
moved to boast of the equal and indie
pendent position occupied by the men
of America? Sauce for the goose Is
sauce for the gander. .....
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A RIGHTEOUS MEASURE.
The Protection of the Ballot in Congress.
slonal Elections.


slonsl Elections.
!, There seems to be probability that
some definite legislation will be Sc
cured at the present session Of Congress
for the protection of the ballot in Fed
eral elections in all the States Of the
Union. The election bill which has
been agreed upon by the committees,
and Is now under consideration, pro-
poses an extension of the existing
statute IN regard to the appointment OF
supervisors in cities to any district in
which one hundred or more citizens may
ask for such action; and it would seem
that law which has proved effacious
in the prevention of fraud and intimida-
ton in the larger cities Of the North
should be welcomed everywhere as just
and desirable. The bill includes SEQ
ton which is designed to meet cases like
those which occur in some Southern
States, where the names of qualified
voters are arbitrarily stricken from the
registration lists, and also provides that
ballots deposited by mistake in the
wrong box, where more than one box Is
used, shall be counted. This is de-
signed to meet the practice which pre-
walls in South Carolina, where eight diff
ferent ballot-boxes are sometimes used,
and are so shifted about as to confuse
the most ignorant voters. Under this
bill two supervisors for each precinct
are to be appointed by the United
States Circuit Court upon the NOM
ination of the chief supervisor-the
same as under existing rlaw-whose
duty it shall be to watch the registra-
ton and counting Of the votes, and who
are themselves to make returns as a
check on false counting. They are
also authorized to open the polls when
they are not opened by the State
officials, and in such cases are to pro-
vide for receiving and counting and
canvassing the ballots. This section
would prevent the tdisfranchisement Of
voters in Republican districts, as is now
sometimes done by failure on the part
Of interested officials to open the polls.
1t is also provided. and the provision is
most important one, that the can
wasting board which shall make returns
of the voting for members of Congress
shall be appointed by a United States
Circuit Court Judge. The certificate Of
this board, when received By the elork
of the House Of Representatives, shall
be prima yfaeis evidence of the right 70 a
seat in that body. So
The whole aim Of the proposed law il
to secure fair elections, and it has not
single provision which can, under any
condition of circumstances, operate
harshly or arbitrarily upon any citizen
or any party. That its passage would
tend to largely abate the evils Of fraud
ulent voting and unfair elections in
some States there can be no doubt what
ever Frank Eeslie's Illustrated News
paDar
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replied Mrs. Cartel, sand perhaps IN
stay In more than / DO"
''But you didn't have q sprainedI
ankle, interposed the astounded hus-
band.
'sThat is SO, but woman is tied up in
the house the whole year around as
much as you have been for the last week
or 30 with that sprained ankle"
$50 you are playing for even?"
"Just so. / hated to do it. 1t almost
broke my heart to treat you with such
apparent neglect, but ! only wanted to
make you appreciate what have gone
through"
Emma, come to my arms. Look out
for my sprained ankle. / was wrong
and I'll own up" 1
eThat is all want. I will not go out
until you are WELL"
Sand then when l go out you shall go
along with me, as is right and proper"
And he kept his word.
a ALEX. E. SWEET.
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spend the evening with few friends. L
will take the front door key along so
you will not need to get up on my &C
count" r
Mrs. Carter sighed.
'sThis is the fifth night you have been
away from home this week and left me
here alone" said Mrs. Carter, bitterly.
81 don't see why people get married at
all, if that is the way they do. If / was
only an old maid could at least go to
bed and go TO sleep. l would not be
obliged TO lay awake half the night
waiting to hear you come stumbling up
the stairs. Its really too bad, Henry.
too bad"
Emma, you surprise me-" replied the
young husband with great dignity.
at is about your own conduct that
you should be surprised. How would
you like to be treated in such a heart
less manner night after night?" said
Mrs. Carter.
eff was married woman" retorted
Mr.. Carter, 81 should think it very nat
ural that my husband should go where
# pleases him best, and if was dis
pitdSeu db any OulhB ho uAu "Ouiu
speak to him in quite different tone,
for you are not adopting the means to
make home pleasant for your husband"
SIS there really any way by which
home can be made pleasant to hus-
band?"
81 suppose there is; but don't think
have ever prevented you from going
out whenever you felt like it."
THAT is so, but never stay out until
three o'clock in the morning."
"Gou can stay out as late as you
please, if you have any,good reason for
doing So"
81 wouldn't stay away from home for
any thing in the world. o, Harry, you
can't have any idea how tedious it is
when you are away
why don't you read? If you don't
want to read, you can sew shirts. That's
what my mother used to do when my
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An ECCENTRIC "slycoon.n

In Illinois small cottage Just at the
edge of recent cyclone was moved by
the wind thirty or forty feet without in
juring the structure materially. The
family was scarcely aware of the move
ment, but Goals were scattered from the
CRATE upon the floor, and there was dan
ger of confagration. The head of the
family seized a bucket, and fastened
TO the we'll for water, but no well was
to be foundi The house had covered it,
but the patriarch did not notice this
fact. Rushing back to the house, he ex-
claimed:
''Maria, tibet war the doggondest sly
coon ever heern on. 1t hes blowed the
well clean off the lot, without even
leaving stun to tell whar it war;
Texas Siftinrs.
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THE CONGO BASIN.

Some Writers Estimate Africa's Popula-
tion at 325. 900, 900 Souls.
And under the name of the Independ-
ent States of Congo its government was
organized after the mostapproved meth
DDS Of Belgian administration, and it
entered fully equipped into the family
of nations There is within it's area,
which, as said, is thirty-three times
that of Belgium, a population Of $50
whites, about one-half State officials
and employees, and the estimated num-
Der of natives within its borders is
about 4O, 900. 900; and in the whole Con-
go basin is estimated at about 80, 600, 900.
Africa is about three times the area OF
Europe, or l., 900, 900 square miles, and
some writer's estimate it to contain
about an equal population-325,0 900, 900
souls. The enormous trade developing
there comes mainly from the narrow
selvage which separates the mountains
from the sea, It is a great basin COM
posed of plateaus gradually ascending
to 1000 feet at some of the central
lakes. 1t has four great river systems:
On the vest the Congo, second only to
the Amazon in the volume of its waters,
and the Niger; on the north the Nile;
on the east the Zambesi. These rivers
once formed vast internal seas, which,
finally breaking through the. mountain
barriers. have descended by eataracts
and canyons to the ocean, leaving great
areas of rich deposits OF wonderful fer
tility.
.sThs Congo basin, says an eminent
scientific authority, Prof. Dupont fresh
from visit there, sis destined to be the
granary of the world" Is this the
ground to draw thegathering electricity
from that black cloud spreading over
the Southern States, which thus far has
dropped fairness upon and given vast
production to them, but which is now
growing big with destructive elementse
Perhaps here may be found a solution
of the race problem that presses on Us
and must be met and must be solved.
What eminent statesman will give him
self to this great work, compel public
attention. and point the way thither for
these disturbing elements? Though
condemned at present by many from
partisan or other standpoints, an exodus
Of the better educated and more anbi-
tious people of the eolored race would
lead up to practical, peaceful. happy re-
sults for rs and for our African races.
and to immortal honors for that States
man.. When is the new colored Moses
to rise for this exodus and lead his peo-
pie home?- Henry S. Sanford in FO-
rurn ...H ..H4r"s4
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pledges made by a loyal people, and be 90 en-
larged and extended rs TO provide against M
possibility nat any man who honorably wore
the Federal Uniform shall become an inmate q
an almshonse or dependent ufon private char
fly. In the presence OF an overfiowing treas
ury 1t would be public scandal to do less for
those whose valorous service preserved the
Government
We denounce the hostile spirit shown b.
Presid snt Cleveland in his numerous vetoes Of
measures for pension relief, and the action Of
the Democratic House Of Representatives in re-
fusing even q consideration OF general pension
legislation.
That policy should and does govern
the representatives of the Republican
party in Congress. When that platform
was adopted the members of the present
Congress had not been chosen. But the
Republicans declared that if the people
would elect Republican Congress 1t
would see that the pledge contained in
this platform was faithfully kept. That
promise the Republicans in Congress
are keeping, both in the special and the
general pension legislation. They are
doing the best they can to provide
against the possibility that any man
who honorably wore the Federal uni
form shall become an inmate of an aims
house. or dependents upon private char
ity. 1t might be said, parenthetically.
in this connection that the Democratic
party is doing all it can to obstruct
them in this noble work. But before
this session of Congress ends a general
pension bill will be passed which will
give pension to every disabled soldier
of the Republic in spite of Democratic
sneers and open opposition.
The last Republican State platform
in Iowa also contained an expression on
the pension question as follows:
i Eve favor d liberal construction Of the pen.
sion laws and such further legislation as will
secure to the old soldie; his Just dues from ths
Government he has faithfully served. and
which he has enriched by hfs sacrifices"
That expression is in line with the
policy Of the party as defined in the
National platform. The Republicans
in Congress know that while there is a
difference of opinion as to a service
pension, there is substantial unanimity
as to disability pension, always omit
ting of course the Democrats who are
opposed to all pensions for Union SOL
diers. So they are endeavoring to pass
at this session general pension bill
for the benefit of those who need imme-
diate relief. Some time a service PEN
sion bill will probably be passed, but at
present the party is pushing the meas
ure of most Immediate necessity. and
the one to whose provisions, in spirit If
not IN letter, the party is solemnly
pledged.-Des Moines ia. Register.