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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
TWO HORRIBLE DEATHS.
A Fight Among Farmers in Which
One Avenges His Brother.

A terrible fight among farmers is reported
from Celina, Ohio. While James Lewis and
Tom johnson were running thrashlng ma
chine on John Coles's farm, Lewis cut John
son on the hand. He claimed that the
act was accidental. johnson, how
ever, would listen to no explana-
ton, and rushed at Lewis, striking him
terrible blow in the face. Lewis fell under
the thrashing machine and was drawn
between the cylinders. He was killed in
stantly.
Frank Lewis, a brother of James, was wit
ness of the affair. He caught up pitch
fork, and before anybody had time to re-
strain him, he plunged the tines into John
sons stomach, killing him almost instantly.
Lewis is under arrest.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
DYNAMITE IN WHEAT,

One Man Killed and Four Injured
in Singular Accident.
William Null was killed and four others
fatally injured at the farm of Daniel Drow-
heller, near Findlay, Ohio, by an explosion
in a wheat thrasher
The machine exploded with terrific
effect, wrecl1ing the place and blowino nieces
or IRON through the roof 1t was thoupht
mat the boiler had given way, but it was
FURTHER investigation showed that some
one aad placed dynamite cartridge in
9 thea 1 OF wheat, and when it was fed through
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
Excellent Opportuni tiles

For a personal inspection of the magnificent
resources of the territory tributary to the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway will be af.
points in northwestern Iowa, Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyom-
ing, Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Mon tana, fol
rates Circulars giving full information will
be mailed on application to w. A. Thrall, Gen.
tickets can be procured Of Your nearest Il cket
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
CHANGED HER MIND,
That Was Why DIR. Ballard Killed
His Sweetheart aud HIMSELF

His Sweetheart aud HIMSELF
DIR. c. E. Ballard member of prominent
family at Saybrook, ILL.,, shot andkilled Miss
Bertha Ison and then killed himself. He had
been engaged to the young woman and on
recent day took out alicease to marry her.
She changed her mind next day and refused
to marry him.
Next morning he made final appeal, and
being refused shot her through the heart.
He then shot himself three times in the
breast and once in the head. He died in a
new new. moments homer He was thirty years old;
with grief.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18

There's a cure for Catarrh, too,
no matter what you've been led to
believe. If there isn't, in your case,
you'll get $500 cash. It's bona
fide offer that's made by the pro-
prietors of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. There's risk in it, to be
sure, but they are willing to take
the risk-you ought to be glad
to take the medicine.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18

xIkSTS y 0tgtScE
In a cough-more than ever when
your blood is chad" It makes
things easy for Consumption. But
there's a cure for it in DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. A posi-
tive cure not only for Weak
Lungs, Splitting of Blood, Bron-
chitis, Asthma and all lingering
Coughs, but for Consumption itself
in all it's earlier stages. It's rea-
sonable. All these diseases depend
on tainted blood. Consumption is
simply Lung scrofula. And for
every form of scrofula and blood
faint, the "Discovery" is a certain
remedy. It's SO certain, that its
makers guarantee it to benefit or
cure, in every case, or the money is
refunded. With medicine that is
certain, this can be done.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18

NERVE REsToRER. No dts after irst days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and ~ trial bottle
tree. Dr.. Kline, 93l Arch St. Phila.. Pa.
IT afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18

J. G. Simpson, Marques, W. Va. says:
Halls Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad
case of catarrh.'' Druggists sell it, 75c.
KRUPP will put up a gun foundry in China
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
Children Tease For 1t.

DR.. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure is a boon tt
children who are attacked with Group or acute
congestive colds. Sold by druggists or mailed
on receipt of 50 cts. Address A. P. Hoxsie
Buffalo. N. Y,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
The Nantucket Lightship.

No. 1, Nantucket, New South Shoal,
pitches and plunges, rears and rolls,
year in and year out, twenty-four miles
off Sankaty Head, Nantucket Island,
with the broad ocean to the eastward,
and rips and breakers to the westward,
northward and southwark. No. 1, Nan.
tucket, New South Shoal, is lightship
the most desolate and dangerous sta
ton in the United States lighthouse es-
tablishment. Upon this tossing island,
out of sight of land, exposed to the fury
of every tempest, and without message
from home during all the stormy months
of winter, and sometimes even longer,
ten men, Drawing the perils of wind and
wave, and the worse terrors of desola-
ton, trim the lamps whose light warns
thousands of vessels from certain de-
struction, and hold themselves ready to
save life when the warning is in vain.
When vessels have been driven helplessly
upon the shoals over which the South
Shoal Lightship stands guard, her crew
have not hesitated to lower their boat in
seas which threatened every moment to
stave or to cngulf it, and to pull, often in
the teeth of furious gale, to the rescue
of the shipwrecked, not only saving their
lives, but afterward sharing with them,
often to their own great discon fort, such
cheer as the lightship affords. Yet who
ever heard of medal being awarded to
the life-savers of No. 1, Nantucket, New
South Shoal?-Century.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
Strange Prehistoric Skeletons.

A discovery which will probably prove
of immense interest to ethnologsts ha,
been made at the little hamlet of Sinaloa,
Mexico, within the past few days, while
breaking ground for large coffee plan
tation which is being established by an
English syndicate. The find consists of
thousands of skeletons either of large
apes or of prehistoric human beings of a
very low order. If the remains are of
apes, they were of gigantic size, and Of
variety no longer extant; while if they
are Of men, the men were provided with
distinct caudel appendages, very thick
and short, and curled uD like squirrels.
That they are the skeletons of apes can
hardly be doubted, judging from the
arms, which reach nearly half a foot be-
low the knee, and the thumbs, which are
also abnormally long and curved, with
exceedingly sharp and powerful nails.
The feet, too, show that they were in.
tended for climbing, rather than walk
ing, and are also provided with claws
and prehensile toes of unusual length. 1t
is probable that the large number of
skeletons found are due to battle be-
tween two bands of the animals having
taken place at the spot, which is further
evidenced by the number of broken
skulls and other bones among them, and
the fact that several of the skeletons were
found clenched in deadly embrace. No
weapons, however, were discovered, but
as those were probably of wood they
have persisted in the course of time.
The work of searching for other re-
mains still goes on, every hour seeing
hundreds of more detached fragments or
occasionally whole skeletons uuearthed.
1t is calculated that over four hundred
entire ones have already been disinterred.
A few of the most perfect have been sent
to the British Museum, and others will
be presented to the Smithsonian Institute
by the owners of the land.-PhiIaaephla
Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
Banking i'm hTnyico.

Banking, says Frank G. Carpenter in
the Washington Stur, is in the first days
of its infancy in Mexico. The insecur' ty
of the country in the revolutions and
until about twenty years ago was such
that the people buried their money in
stead of depositing it, and there are to-
day millions upon millions of dollars in
the hands of the rich hacie1dados,
which are buried in the ground or hid
den away under the walls of their homes.
These men have for years been making
money and boarding. They don't know
what interest means, and they sell their
crops and work their mines year after
year and pile away the surplus. 1t is
the same with many of the poorer classes.
Some of these are richer than they look,
and in the coffee districts hear of men
dying who were supposed to have moth
ing and from $50, 600 to $4,000 dis
covered about their mud huts. This
represented the accumulation of years,
and the secret of It's existence was cCm-
munlcated from father to son. Every
old Spanish family has its strong box.
and American merchants and drummers
tell me that appearances arc very deceit
full here, and that you can't tell how
rich one of these rough looking old
farmers is by his clothes.
was surprised to find that Mexico
had no such agency as Dunn Or Brad
street. The country has number of big
cities. Leon has 100, 900, Guadalahara
has 100, 900, and San Louis Potosi have
Is, 200 people. All these towns aud
dozens of others are centres of trade,
still you cannot go into Mexico City,
which is the wholesale distributing point,
and find the standing of any merchant
in any one of them. The banks have
their own private correspondents, but
the people have no means of obtaining
such information. Notwithstanding this
the system of credit giving is very gen
eral, and both wholesale and retail
dealers give it. A great many goods are
sold on instalments, and great deal of
money is loaned on chattel mortgages.
AS to mortgages on real estate, these are
few, and according to the laws of the
country hard to realize upon. The titles
to the property are often bad, and the
expense of drawing up the papers, with
the heavy stamp duties, is great.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
WORKS OF WISDOM.

Nothing can cost Sc much as sin.
No man has a right to be curse tc
his neighbour.
No man can live low who is always
looking high.
People never get the big head because
they know too much.
A lie is one degree worse than the sin
which it tries to conceal.
If there is death in your heart there
will be death in your life.
The evil that is the most dangerous is
the one that looks most harmless.
Nothing can make us richer except
that which makes us more thankful.
A poet is man who lets other people
look at things through his spectacIeS.
The only joys which live and grow
are those which are shared with Others.
1t is as much murder to kill man
with a pill as it is to do it with a cannon
ball.
Pull off the masks that people wear
and nobody would know his next door
neighbor.
Spend as much time IN counting your
blessings as you do in worrying over
your troubles and you will soon be rich.
(I0d.) Rams Horn.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
"Strapped" in Two Senses,

A Georgia railway conductor wa
about fifty miles from Atlanta when he
found tramp Cd his train. He took
him back to the cab and demanded hi
fare. Of course the tramp had nc
money, and reaching to the end of the
bell cord the conductor proceeded to use
it on him.
"There now," he said, II haye hit
you one cut for every mile to the next
station, and you can ride that far"
After the next station the tramp was
found serenely sitting on box in the
corner of the cab.
He still had no money, but mildly in
timated that he was ready to pay that
stations fare in the same way the first
had been paid. The conductor assented,
and fairly tiptoed to his work, the bell
cord playing lively tune.
Between every station the same per-
Torrance was repeated, and as they
pulled up in Atlanta the conductor said
"Well, old boy, you've got more grit
than anything I ever saw, and any time
you want to ride on my train on the same
sort of a ticket just come on"
''That's all right. cap," was the cheer
III reply; 81 rode from Atlanta to Macon
nee in the lion cage of John Robinsons
circus, and wasn't to be downed by any
consumptive conductor and bell rope. !"
-BrunswaeE (Ga.l Adgertiser.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17


When g good and respectable mar
has been frivolous, it is no doubt com
fort to him to find that some worthy
friend has been frivolous also. An En-
gll5h clergyman writes:
l was at Innsbruck with friend, anC
as we sauntered about one afternoon
not quite knowing what to do with our
selves, we came upon a carrousel. OF
merry-go-round. We walked on, and
then said
Let rs go back and see the Xaver.
ianum," Il public collection of paintings.
NO." said my companion, Il don't
feel inclined for the Aaverianum. I'll
go down by the river
SO we parted. Now I had not gone
far along my way to the Aaverianum
before | said to myself:
Il don't want to see pictures either,
but as my friend is awav-upon nv
world am unknown here Ill-yes,
[ 1oiIl-Ill go and have round on the
whirligig!"
SO retraced my steps, and on reach
ing the merry-go-round, what should
behold but my friend seated on piebald
horse, with short sword in his hand,
aiming at the targets he passed in his
revolution. He was q bald-headed
man, with long gray beard, and his
face and head became like q beet-root
when he saw me. 1t was not long, how.
ever. before I offered him the consola-
ton of mpanionship.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Candy, as late berry, probably has
no superior.
One advantage with pea fowls is that
they need little care.
A little raw salt pork is good rem
edy to give hens that have got into the
habit of pulling feathers.
Never use whey if the skim milk can
be had. Fermentation of food sometimes
renders it unwholesome.
1t is told that mignonette can be kept
as pot plant for years, provided no
seeds are allowed to develop.
To secure good laying strain select
pullets from hens that have, upon fair
trial, proved themselves good layers.
1t will not pay to attempt to raise
young chicks now. 1t is too late in the
season, as lice will be sure to attack
them.
Late cabbagcs make an excellent crop
instead of weeds, and they serve to keep
the ground clean by demanding frequent
hoeing.
The best and most economical way of
feeding meal to poultry is by first mix
ing it with boiling water; that partially
cooks it.
Road dust is an excellent absorbent for
manure cellars and privies, and during
dry season can be gathered in quantity
by the aid of a scraper. 1t usually con-
tains also a considerable percentage of
horse manure.
Every rod of land in your field should
produce something. In that vacant row
plant squashes, pumpkins or turnips.
Manure literally that corner in the pota-
to field that was too wet to plant early,
and set it with cabbage.
An ounce of saltpetre dissolved in
gallon of water is not only an excellent
fertilizer for squash vines but serves to
prevent the attacks of the squash bugs,
which are busily at work now. As it re-
nuires but a short time for them to en-
tirely destroy the vines, the vines should
be examined daily.
Judge Miller, in his report on the
newer strawberries for 1891, at the
Nurserymen's late convention, said OF
Michel's early: "This, I think, has
come to stay; it ripens eight days before
Crescent, lasts month, and in quality
is among the best 1t will, think, do
away with the Crescent.
A popular way of polling running
beans is by setting pole ia the centre
Of a hill and planting the beans around
it. Popular Gardening suggests, as an
improvement upon this plan, to set the
pole in the centre of four hills and
stretch string from the top to hooked
Peg in the centfe Of each hill.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
FASHION NOTES.

A new sort of gold metallic thread
has been introduced. 1t may be used in
the same way as ordinary thread Or silk.
Only the faultless figure, divinely tall,
and yet more divinely slight, can wear
the Elizabethan drapery, which is new
feature of the late styles.
The Duchess glove in suede is shown
in tans, drabs, browns, biscuit, gray and
slate, and is to be had in the mousque-
taire styles in all these tints.
Buckles of Rhine stones are worn on
felt hats and on velvet toques, as are also
brooches and long lace pins of the Paris
ian diamonds, which are so skillful an
imitation of the real stones.
Flower jewelry is in special favor.
The sweet peas and double violet take
the lead. Glover leaves come next in
popularity. The diamond dewdrop is
not necessary adjunct, but an added
beauty.
The new straw platter exercises good
deal of ingenuity, and one of the tri-
umphs of his art is dull red straw hat
woven with an intermixture of white
crinoline. Poppies and white ribbons
are the trimmings.
The evening bonnets are very charm
ing and very Frenchy. One purchased
in Paris by Mrs. Hicks-Lord has a wreath
of pink roses with standing bow in
front of green velvet and an aigrette of
black plumes. The narrow strings are
of green velvet.
The scoop poke bonnet for.school girls
is again in vogue. Nothing is daintier
to make more lovely, more modest Or
more distractedly enchanting their unso-
phisticated, untrammeled youthful
bushes, babyish expressiveness and
pouting features.
The long girdles have been modified
for shopping and every day wear into
deep belts. THY are narrow at the
back, but with deep point in front.
Very stylish ones are of black leather
trimmed with silver, gold or steel
Heavily gorgeous and glittering are til:
cut silver ones, which CLEAN and spark
as the Wearer passes by.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
MR.. VAN DEREN'S CROWS.
A Remarkable Story That He Led Up to
Comfy with Another One.

Simpson Van Deren, who lives over
near Hibernia, aud is extremely fond of
fish, said last week to Dover On. j.
correspondent Of the New York San
that the crows up his way were entirely
too cunning for him.
"They learned trick Or two last win.
Ter that they are following up vet" he
sad, land that is stealing bait off the
hooks. They bothered me good bit
when was fishing on the ice for pick
erel. On thawing days | used to hol-
low out little places in the ice and fill
them with water to keep tie bait handy
to the tipups and save toting the heavy
kettle Of bait around. The crows got
| onto the bait in short order and stole
most of it. They were so bold and hun
CRY that they would como within short
gunshot to steal the bait. l kept my
bait in the basket after that, and one
day when left the pond 70. an hour I
came back and found all OF the lines
out on the ice and the bait gone. |
thought it queer, and suspected that
some Of the Italians had been there in
my absence
Il set all tho lines again and stood
near one of the lower holes, when [
saw big crow swoop down to another
hole not 200 yards away ard get to
work on the line. He hauled it up
with claw and bill until he got the bait
and ate it. In the meantime three
other crows lit down and started in
hauling in the lines l was so sur
prised that | let them 60 on until four
lines were up on the ice. Then [
yelled, and all but one of the crows
scootcl away. The other tried to take
the fish with him and got hooked. You
never saw crazier crow than that one
was until I wrung his neck. left him
on the ice, and no more crows bothered
my bait until the ice left in the spring."
THAT ant what you started to tell,
is it," said Linus Haring, who was lis
tening to Van Deren in the drug store.
No, but I'm just getting round to
that part now. [ have been working
set lines in the pond and not getting
anything but cells lately. I wanted
mess Of pickerel last week and con-
cluded that my line was .sagging down
IN the mud too much, SO I rugged blocks
o'ol toI lSt1 " support IL. 1 nau pet
ter luck then, and caught Slew of
pickcrel until Sunday, when I went up
to the pond to look at the lines and
found the biggest part of the bait gone.
| baited again aud started for home, but
as [ climbed the hill back of the old
forge [ took a look abound and saw
something that as:onished me. On
nearly every block of that set-line was
crow a'hauling in line and eating the
bait. That settled the block business
for me, and will have to get up some
new zig to get the best of the black
rascals. l thought when l heard of
Myron Cooks setter dog catching pick
erel through the ice that it was pretty
slick for a dumb critter, but the crows
Law over +l'C ? ~ f,r i.c-n"riiy."
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-17
SOME POINTS ABOUT PULLED WOOL.


Pulled wool is the name that is given
to the wool that is pulled from the skin
or pelt of the slaughtered animal. The
nnwashed wool pulled from the carcass
OF dead animal is distinguished as dead
pulled wool. Few farmers or shepherds
are aware Of the large amount of this
description of wool produced are manu-
featured in this country or of the fact
that in the manufacture of certain goods
the result attained by their use cannot
be produced by any other kinds. Of
pulled woods, it is said, stocks in the
leading markets are at this time unusu-
ally light, and manufacturers are finding
it difficult to obtain supply. Accord
ing to Brd0street'S, we are almost entirely
dependent for woods of this description
on our own production, as our importa-
tons of them are very small, the major
ity of these coming in on the skins, in
which condition their value is a second
airy and not primary consideration.
Pullers, since the first of the year, have
been kept unusually busy and report that
they have had a smaller number of skins
during the past year than for several
previous years.
AS stated by the authority above
quoted, formerly the major part of our
pulled wool was produced in the East,
but since sheep began to be slaughtered
in the West, instead of being shipped
alive, the industry has rapidly declined
in the East, particularly in New York.
1t is further said that Armour and Swift
each pull about 5000 skins cay, and
that Swift has increased the capacity of
his factory SO that hereafter the output
will be about 5000 skins instead of 5000
as heretofore.
One additional reasn which may be
given for the present scarcity of these
woods in Eastern markets is the increas-
ing consumption in the Middle States.
Swift reports that about four-ffths of
the woods pulled in his factory last year
were taken by Western manufacturers.-I
New York World.