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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
Trousers for Women.

Viscountess Harberton came out in
favor of Zouave and Turkish trousers
for women at a recent meeting of the
Rational Dress Association. She said
that the reforms sought would be easily
reached if women only understood how
uncomfortable they were in their pres
ent style of dress, or how physical ex-
ercise could be enjoyed when unre-
stricted by petticoats. Another speaker
thought that men were the chief op-
ponents of any reasonable innovation
in woman's dress. The association has
opened store where garments of styles
al proved by the society are sold.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
Barnum's Shrewd Dodge.

P. T. Barnum was not above beat
ing the Custom House in Canada.
There is an exorbitant duty there on
show-bills, posters and similar printed
matter, which Barnum determined TO
avoid. He planned a Canadian tour
for 1886. Two years previous he sent
tons of posters to Canada and neglected
to pay the duty. The stuff lay in the
Custom House without being called
for, and was at last advertised for sale
at auction. Barnum sent an agent to
the sale to buy up the show bills,
which naturally went for little or
nothing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

The sultan may not be much OF a
hnancier, but his ideas of meeting a
monetary crisis are practical and
sound. A few days ago an adult of his
finance department disclosed big de-
fcit, and 10 meet it his majesty ordered
q reduction in the salaries of his state
officials. Another monarch would have
raised the public taxes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
Caught at Last,

Capt. Samuel B. Bigelow, of New
York, commanded a whaler fifteen
years, circumnavigated the globe twice
and visited many strange lands, but
had not learned enough at the age of
seventy-five to escape the tolls of
Bessie Smith, who was only onc-third
his years. He married her, decided
her all his property, discovered that
she had another husband whom she
preferred to him, and is now making
a rneager living b, filing saws while
suing to get bis property back.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

The proposed ship canal across Italy,
to connect the Tyrrhenian Sea with the
Adriatic, is expected not only to afford
improved water communication for
many places, hut TO facilitate the drai n
age of marshy districts and to render
40 square miles of lake area fit for
cultivation. The canal would be 124
miles long, 263 feet wide and 40 feet
deep, and its cost is estimated by Signor
Bocca at $125, 100000
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

The Cars latest fad is to force all
members of the imperial family to
wear clothing of only Russian ma
terial, made up only by Russian hands.
Both the Car and the Czarina have
heretofore obtained their clothing from
Paris, and her Majesty has had TWEEN
ty French dressmakers constantly en-
ployed at St Petersburg.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

The French academy of science has
discovered, by experiment, that each
human body is in itself an electric
battery. one electrode being repre-
scented by the head and the other by
the feet Therefore it is the proper
thing to sleep with ones head to the
north and feet to the south.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

A PORTRAIT of Ex- President Cleve-
land is soon to be hung in the White
House. The picture will cost s., 600, and
will be paid for from money provided
by congress in the official estimates for
the executive branch Of the govern
ment This is the first time that such
an item has been embodied in the
treasury estimates for the fiscal year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
A VALENTINE.

Go, Valentine. l do not dare
To go myself and speak
The word which, like the morning air,
Shall tinge this Roses cheek.
And when YOU see the scarlet tint
Across her features climb,
Betraying in blush hint
How she accepts my rhyme,
Know this: if her heart have won,
Her lips shall part and tell;
If [ have lost, your day is done,
A swift match and farewell.
Go, then, and while l madly burn
In loves devOuring fire,
l live if she one word return;
Or else, like you, expire.
Frank Dempster Sherman in Harper's
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

BUFFALO BILL had an inter esting
experience at Barcelona. As he was
about to leave that city he was ac-
costed by an envoy of the Spanish gov
eminent, who asked him if he would
accept certain decoration. Not by
a long sight" said Colonel Cody. 81
am already duke of Colorado. The
envoy bowed respectfully and disap-
naarPd
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
A Pretty Table Cloth.

AT a recent dinner, the cloth in the
centre of the table was long and mar
row, and was of silver br cade. Along
the edge lay small punches of maiden
hair and white chrysanthemums. A
large bunch tied with green ribbon of
the shade of the fern, was at each cor
ner, the stalks lying outwards. There
were no other flowers on the table,
but the effect was attractive.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
DOmng the Hat.

a movement is in progress in Aus
tria and Hungary to substitute the mil
itarv salute among men for the doffing
of the hat. 1t is argued that the form
er must necessarily imply as much re-
pect as the latter, since a common sol
der thus salutes the highest command
er. The civil and military governors
and the Mayor of Graz, have agreed
to accept the military salute in the flu
tupp
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

Capt. Frederick Phisterer, late of
the United States army, in his supple
mentary volume of Statistical Record
of the Military Ac ions in the Civil
War published by Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York, 1889 gives the date
and place of every engagement, be-
ginning at Fort Sumter, April 18th
and 18th, 1861, and ending with the
surrender of Gen. Kirby Smiths
forces May goth, 1865. A surrender
is classed as an engagement, and he
sums up all meetings of opposing for
ces, whether many or few participated,
at 2,261. There were in each year
such actions and engagements as fol-
lows:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

The fights with the Indians in the
Western and Northwestern States and
Territories not enumerated above,
for although they exerted some little
influence in the civil war, they had no
connection with the Confederates.
These are rather curious statistics, and
they show how the terrible conflict
pervaded the entire Union.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

MACAULAY, in one of his essays, I'M
dertakes to prove that the idea of pa
triotism generally entertained by the
ancient Greeks was very questionable
virtue, and that the quality which it
stood for was not necessarily beneficial
to society. The Portuguese govern
ment seems to have arrived at some
thing like Macaulay's opinion, and has
issued proclamation forbidding pa
triotic meetings in Lisbon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

THERE is an increasing agitation in
California for a division of the state
on the line of the Sierra Nevada
mountains Division would mean one
democratic and one republican state in
place of state now democratic in state
elections and republican on national
isS11aS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

ABOUT eighty eight million bushels
of American corn were exported to
foreign markets in 1889. In 1888 only
about 5000. 600 bushels were export
ed. The demand for American com
in foreign markets steadily increases
as the value of that product as an arti-
Gle of food is better appreciated. As
a substitute for oil cake for stock its
demand is also increasing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
The Little Boy Was Right.

Mr.. Knowall Gan educator)-"Yes,
children, have now told you in most
graphic language the chief points of
geology. You have heard about the
iron age and the stone age, and all the
rest. Now, what little boy can tell me
what the present age is?"
Little boy-'I know, sir; the age of
steal."-Rochestey Post-Express.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

WILLIAM THORNTON BLUFFIELD, q
resident of Hickman county, Tenn,
claims to be ~ years of age, and he
possesses some remarkable proofs of his
age. Among these is a very ancient
looking family Bible, in which his
birth is recorded as having taken
place on January 3. 1853, at village
six miles west of Lake Drummond, Va.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
Another Antarctic Expedition.

The scheme for sending oIt an Ant
arctic expedition under Prof. Nor
denskjold, will, it is said, be carried
out in the summer of 1891. The ex-
petition will be undertaken at the
joint expense of Baron Oscar Dickson,
of Gothenburg, the Antarctic Expedi-
ton Committee of the Royal Society
of Victoria, and the Royal Geographic
cal Society of Australia.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
The Battles of the War,

The manager of one of the railroads
that lies chiefly in Tennessee has is
sued a map of the Southern States on
which is dotted what is represented
to be the locality of every chief battle
of the civil war. OF course the lesser
actions are not given, and only consid-
cradle battles are, mentiore ed; the whole
number is put down at 692. They are
distributed by Stat S as follows:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

OKLAHOMA seems to have greater
attractions for the negro as an immi-
grafton field than the banks OF the
Congo. There are already $4,000 col
ored people there, and by the middle
OF spring this number will be doubled.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

ONE Of the Parnell witnesses was
iibelled by Sir Richard Webster. the
attorney for the Times. in his closing
argument This witness sued Webster,
and to settle that suit the Times paid
this man $1,000 and al the costs which
he had incurred in retaining lawyers,
etc. A little English idea in this par
ticular would be salutary and just Cd
this side of the water.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

You know every time the car passes
over rail joint there is a distinct
click. just count the number of these
clicks in twenty seconds and you have
the number of miles the train is going
per hour. This is simple matter of
arithmetic, as the length of the rail is
uniform.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

THE surest way to abolish poverty
in this and every other country is to
ward of his own efforts, and 10 take
care that no one individual is able to
obtain wealth by devices which create
that wealth at the cost of others.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

A SINGULAR coincidence was the
simultaneous death of Riley Swan at
Weatherford, Texas, and Jacob Birch
of Kittaning, Pa The singular feature
Is, the former was bitten to death by
rats; and the latter died from eating
chestuuts
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

No ONE except free white person
or an alien of African nativity or a
person of African descent can become
a citizen of the United States. Chin
ese. Maylays and japanese are ex-
Guided. The act specifying the above
was passed in 1870.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
UnmiStakabIe Evidence. I

THAT fellow over there who claims
to be an English lord is an imposter-
he comes from Chicago"
elbow do you know~
"He draws his feet under a chair
every time woman approaches him."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

MURAT HALsTEAD, of Cincinnati,
has agreed to conduct a new depart
ment in the Cosmopolitan Magazine,iu
which he will write every month OF
important public events in an unparti-
san manner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
QeWs and Citizen.

The only excellency there is without
labor is eating raw oysteri that re-
quires none. just take the oyster in
your mouth and look at the ceiling.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

HERR ORTIZ, the young cousin Of the
emperor of Austria, a few months ago
renowned all his imperial rank and
dignities in order to become private
citizen
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

THE New York Sun produces a
grouped engraving OF the supreme
judges of the United States, two OF
whom-Fuller and Lamar-had forgot
ten to shave their heads on top be-
fore sitting for pictures
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

The North Dakota scheme to relieve
the drouth sufferers by a legaiized
lottery would have a tendency to re-
heve some of the sufferers of the
little they have left of this worlds
C0Oda
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

PRINCE Kawana-Nakoa, nephew of
King KaIakaua, of the Sandwich
Islands, has entered the Royal Agri-.
cultural College at Cirencester, Eng
land
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

The appearance of an article in the
last number of Harper's Magazine on
GLOW to Listen 20 Wagners Music,"
warrants the remark that for the vast
majority the first requisite is to scrape
together that considerable percentage of
weeks salary that will pay for the
Tickets
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

OF course 1868 was the bloody year,
not only because of its greatest num-
Der of battles, but also of the desper-
ate campaigns of Grant in Virginia,
and the heavy operations in Tennessee
and Georgia, counted up SO terribly in
losses. Capt. Phisterer figures up the
engagements by States as follows:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20

"An now," said Charlie, at the ex-
piration of half an hour 81 have one
favour | wish to ask you. Let our
engagement be a short one"
On hearing this she b!ushel and
averted her gaze.
81 am SO poor" she murmured. 81
have no money at all. And you-n
"Are equally penniless, you were
going to say. But, Una-my darling
can you keep a secret?"
81 hope sol" she answered, regard
ing him with a puzzled air, as if to
gauge the purpose of his question.
"Then | will tell you one!" he re-
Piled. "But first-you know Stave-
ley?"
"Yesl" she said, with ever so slight
a pout of her dainty lips. "And i
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24

torn Calendar and Weather Fore
casts Tor 1890, by Rev Irl r. Hicks,
mailed to any address. on receipt Of
. two cent postage stafsp.
The DR. J. II. MCLEAN MED. Co.,
ST.. LOUIS. Ma
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
NOTICE.

Under decree rendered at Fall Term
1890. of Chowan Superior Court. by His
Honor III. G. Co1nor. Judge presiding,
in the cause of James Mccoy against
Ebert Price and others will sell fo-
cash by public auction before the Court
House door in Edenton. county of Chow
an and State of North Carolina. on the
10th day of Nov. 1890, at l2 o'clk. M,
the following described real estate lying
and being in said unity aud State afore-
said towit: That part Of the farm
known as Little Strawberry Hill, "
commencing one hundred and fifty yds.
from the centre OF the bridge on the
HEREFORD road and running west to the
Collins line and Mrs. E. G.. Hines line
north one hundred and forty Ave yards,
from thence east to the HEREFORD road V,
then south along the said Hereford
road one hundred and forty-five yards
to the first station containing five acres
more or less. w. J LEARY. JR.
Oct. Z, 80. Special Comr.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
EASTERN eARoL1sA DISPATCH.
FXST FREIGHT LINE.

Regular line OF steamers between
Atlantic & North Carolina r. R., New
Berne, washington and Elisabeth city.
Daily u rail service between Edenton,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Norfolk.
Through cars. ns low rates and quicker
time than by any other route.
Direct a goods to be shipped by East
ern carolina Dispatch, as follows: FROM
Norfolk by n S. K. R.: Baltimore by P.
w. B. r. T.: President St. Station,
Phia delphia by Pennsvlyapia r. r.
Dock ST. SCation: New York by Penn
sylvania r. r., Pier 81 North River.
E. WOOD. Agent. Edenton. n. c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
SOUTHERN RAILROAD CON-


HToRFOLk SOUTHERN RAILROAD CON-
IN b.. PANG.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY l, 1890
Mail Train leaves Norfolk 9:2o a. m,
daily except Sunday. and arrives at
Edenton 1895 .. M Leaves Edenton 90,
and arrives at Norfolk ut 4:So p. m.
AS Norfolk close connections With all
rail and steamer lines.
At Elizabeth City-with steamooats
for all points on Pasquotank, North and
Alligator rivers.
At Edenron--with n. 3. Railroad
company 3 steamboats,, Plymouth, and
Mary f. Roberts for all points on
Chowan, ScuppernongL Little, cashie and
Roanoke rivers, and Jamseyills q Wash
inston, and Albemarle 4 Raleigh Rail
Roads. also with Str. HaveL Belle for
Hackeyis Ferry and points on the A. q
P. r. r.
The steamer Plymouth, plying be-
tween Edent1n and Williamston, will
20 to Hamilton ON Tuesday aSd,E Friday
Of each week, eaving that paScel at .
clock u. ~, on wednesday and
Saturday.
Norfolk nusSenger and freight station
at Norfolk and western Railroad Depot.
Freight received daily, except Sun
days.
Through tickets on sale and baggage
checked between Edenton aud Elizabeth
City and Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York by Bay Line and Old Domin-
ion steamers and n. Y. p. spaN. r. =.
form Norfo Z. and bet ween NNk3plk and
Washington, Plymouth, WILLIAMSON,
Windsor and JSmesvilie.
II. K. KING. General Manager.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
A SCRAP PAPER SAVES HER
LIFE.

It was just an ordinary scrap OF
wrapping paper but it saved her life
She was in the last stages of Con-
sumption, told by physicians that she
was incurable and could live only
a short time she weighed less than
seventy pounds. On piece OF
wrapping paper she read of DR..
Kings New Discovery. and got a
sample bottle:it helped her more.
bought another and grew better fast
continued its use and is now strong
healthy, rosy. plump weighing 40
pounds. For fuller particulars send
stamp to w. 81. Cole, Druggist,
Fort Smith. Trial bottles of this
wonderful Discovery free at Leary's
Drugstore.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
EUPEPSY.

This is what You ought to have, in
fact you must have it, to fully enjoy
life. Thousands are searching for it dai.
ly, and mourning because they find it
not. Thousands upon thousands Ct
dollars are spent annually in hope to
obtain this boon. And yet it may be
had by all We guarantee that Elec.
trio Bitters, if used according to direc.
tions and the use persisted in, will
bring you good digestion and GUST the
demon dyspepsia and install instead
eupepsia We recomend Electric
Bitters for Dyspepsia and all diseases
of Liver ,Stomache and Kidneys.
Sold at SOC and 81 per bottle by Lea
~ Druggist.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
MY FRlEND-4 WORD WITH
YOU.

Do you know that every man who
desires 10 vote at this election must
register ANEW? Even if you have
registered and voted before, You
must register again under the new
Election Law to vote this year.
Do you want the Republicans to
carry the election and have your
neighbors arrested and put q Jail &c
in 1868 81 II not. register and vote
the Democratic ticket.
Do you wish the negro to get con
troll of county and State9 If not
register and vote for the Democrat
ic nominees.
Do you not know that every ne
gro in the State will register and
vote Then so must every white
man.
DO you want negro Yankee sold
iers with drawn bayOnets to meet
you at the polls and dictate to you
! how to votes II not, be sure your
name is on the registration books
and do not fail to vote the straight
Democratic ticket.
You can't register after Oct. oath
so register::at once. Don't ayyou
have not time-take time your hap
piness depends Oh it; the good name
and prosperity Of your State de.
ponds upon it; honest government
and white mans cotrof depends on
it. Don't wait. Delay may cost
the defeat of the party.
All Democratic papers will please
copy and keep at the top Of the col
umn of each issue until after the
election.
Ed CHAMBERS Smith,
Chm'n. Dem. State FIX. Com.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
Oh WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF
MORTAL BE PROUD?
BIZ WILLIAM KNOX.


Oh why should the spirit Of mortal be
proud?
Like swift-feeting meteor, a fast
flying cloud.
A fash of the lig htening, a break OF
Man passes from life to his rest in the
grave.
The leaves Of the oak and the willow
will fade.
Be scattered around and together be
laid;
And the young and the old. and the low
and the high,
Shall nsoulder to dust and together
shall lie.
The infant mother attended and loved,
The mother that infant affected who
proved;
The husband that mother and infant
who blessed,
Each, ali, are away TO their dwellings
Of rest.
The maid ON whose cheek, on whose
brow, in whose eye
Show beauty and pleasure-her tri-
umphs are by;
And the memory Of those who loved
her and praised,
Are alike from the minds of the liv-
ing erased.
The hand of the king that the sceptre
hath borne,
The brow of the priest that the mitre
hath worn,
The eye of the sage and the heart Of
the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depth of
the grave.
The peasant, whose lot was TO SOW and
to reap,
The heardsman. who climed with his
goats up the steep,
The beggar, who wandered in search of
his bread.
Have faded away like the grass that
we tread.
The saint who enjoyed the communion
of heaven,
The sinner who dared to remain un-
forgiven,
The wise and the foolish, the guilty
and just.
Have quietly mingled their bones in
the dust.
So the multitude goes, like the flowers
or the weed
That withers away to let others sue
coed.
80 the multitude comes, even those we
behold.
To repeat every tale that has often
been told.
For we are the same eur fathers have
been:
We see the same sights our fathers
have seen
We drink the Same stream and view
the same sun.
And run thesam courss our fathers
have rup.
The thoughts we are thinking our faith
ers would think.
From the death We are shrinking Our
fathers would shrink,
To the life we are clinging they also
would cling.
But it speeds for us ali, like q bird
on the wing.
They loved, but the story we cannot
unfold,
They soorned, but the heart OF tha
naughty 10 cold:
They grieved. but no wall from their
slumbers will come,
They joyed, but the tongue Of their
gladness is dumb.
AAOy NAONS 0%01 bAoy AASus 0A0 VIC 6uAu8H
that are now,
Who walk on the turf that lies over
their brow,
Who make in their dwellings, q tran
sient abode,
Meet the things that they met on their
pilgrimage road.
Veal hope and dependency. pleasure
and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and
rain,
And the smilsrs and the tears, the song
and the dirge,
Still follow each other. like surge
upon surge.
TITS the wink of an eye, tits the draught
of a breath,
Form the blossom of health to the
paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and
the shroud,
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal
be proud?
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24

The FISHERMAN & FARMER wants
good, trustworthy and reliable agent
in all the surrounding oca tiles. Lib.
eral commission will be given xaiSbbt,
parties: Apply Ut once. } h lea W
ct the Office. M