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, 1892-01-13

A0S AAOWu, duu LII ACCC$ Wucu tuO
learned gentlemen we referred to had
fretted their timid souls into a froth,
and evolved out of their phrensied
imaginations the horrors ofa plague
+. it was found by the American Consul
when he came to collect for his Go
vernment all the official information
bearing upon the question, that the
total number Of deaths in this city
with over $4,000 inhabitants, during
the frightful epidemic was eight-no
we are not quite sure-0n second
thoughts we believe it was nine. A
Yellow Fever doctor, in this colony,
poor devil, would lead a hard life of
it; he would surely find more pa
tients in Bermuda. 1t is not however
the reference to the rainfall, to the
unreliable habits ofour earthquakesor
to.the fevers, that pains us the most in
this Bermuda's mans diatribe against
us; the acutest agony is reached when
we find him sp aking disrespccttully
Of cur sea-breeze, for which every
soul amongst us has a g cd word.
Just listen to the character he gives
it. "The sea-breeze also is hurtful,
lit blows what miasma there may be
inland, away from the coast where
the settlements are seated, where the
poisonous air finds room t" continue
propagation and finally rolls back on
the coast settlements with all it's
terrible powersof sickness, pestilence
and death" After this it btcames a
question whether we should not pass
an ordinance to get the sea-breeze ar
rested. Our readers may now beask-
ing. What is the object the journalist
had in view in laying such a mass of
reliable information regarding De-
merara before the people of Bermu-
da; and we can easily satisfy them in
the writer's own words. In the
meantime it behoyes us to see to it
that the sanitary conditions of
these islands (the island of Demerara
"included) are so improved as to pre-
vent the possibility Of yellow fever
cor other diseases finding a home in
"our midst Asst is only too proba-
BILE that the slupendous ignorance re-
garding our colony revealed in
the article has misled a number Of
readers, and as the ignorance is
shared in by men in other places than
Bermuda, and is promoted by a few
persons living within our borders,
we cannot do better by way of fur
nishing a corrective, than to quote
the words Of a gentleman who had
lived in the colony three years, and
who, when he was uttering them was
on the point of leaving it, and SO had
no object to gain in praising it eli
mate, we are referring to the ex-
American Consul, Major Walthall;
and this is what he said at a meeting
Of the Royal Agricultural and Com
mercial Society, four months ago.
He hadgreat doubts as to the cor
rectness of the ideas prevailing about
the unhealthiness of the port of
Georgetown (hear, hear. His ex-
perience was different. He had had
charge of American sailors coming to
the colony during TIE last three
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-30
Total Disbursements.S2O,4Sl "a

Bal in Treasury ...... $685. Vi
Tho above amount stands 10 the
,rUdit of the several funds IT'S ,or
i'Teasurer's Bal. Sheet, dated April
,oJ2, iieI cts. attaCh he'd.
TEEAsURER'S BALANCE SHEET.
Cash in Treasury 10 credit nf various
funds, April l.. 1892, US follows:
.itato Fund ...... ........S LBS Is
,udge's Salary Fund ......
, ieb County fund.-. -. 20,17i %
ash Contingent r'und ...." 1853 ,.
INDECENT Sick Fund. ....... 1850 rs
Dticcrs' |Sanry Fund .... 627 o,
county School Fund -. =. 123 -
Total. .......... S30,25O II
SCHOOL FUNDS.
Butte Val, sos 0G Clover ....311 81
LAko. =. ,J21 II Harrison .3Y1 2J
! ali Ureek24d AZ Peko ...... 80 50
+ aean1 as % Smith Or. .50I 20
. scarc'al ~ 55 Deeth :. 1858 03
S..9rG. 4n., 80 w jackson .,,.34j III
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-30

Arrives from PrRcaTors evory even
ipf in TING 10 ccrpoct W so Frrrse,
t|jnB gang koth l24asE aySt4 We.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-06-30

Total go. 1910 81
vet receipts. 8,T21 81
Total receipts 80. 49,. 1882 2S
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
The Stone aud the Metal Ages.

Man, during the "Stone Age lived
in caves dressed in skins and made
weapons from fnts with which he
fought the animals existing at that time.
He was, perhaps, a canuibal, yet ho
made fires, instruments of otfensc anc
defense, adorned himself with rudely
carved beads to show his political or re-
ligious views, and buried his dead in
caves with religious ceremonies.
During the Metal Age" tools were
made of a better character. Villages
were built on piles driven deep id the
lake bottoms, and cloth was woven and
made into garments. Several kinds of
animals we've domesticated, and numer-
Gus articles Of ornament were manufac-
tured. Wheat, barley and oats were
cultivated. The bakers art was discov-
cred. Glass was found, and some fruits
stored for winter use. And after iron
had been added to the list of metals al
ready known, civilization advanced
rapidly. Free Press.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
Americas Many Names.

In these quadro-centennial days it is
worth while to recall the fact that the
continent now named America has gone
at one time or another by great many
names. The notion that Columbus held
of finding a westward passage to India
by way Of the Atlantic is recorded in the
names. New India and India Occiden-
tai, found upon old maps as indicating
the land discovered by Columbus. Amer
lea Mexicana was an old name of North
America, as America Peruviana was of
South America. Then Brazil was for a
time the name applied to the Southern
Continent. Finally, the origin of the
name America has been gravely disputed,
though the weight of testimony leaves
practically no doubt that it comes from
the Christian name Of Amerigo YES
pucci. Some early authorities, however,
gravely contend that the name came
from the Peruvian word Armaru, mean
ing the sacred symbol Of the cross, made
of a serpent and stick, and the sufhxca,
meaning country. Thus derived, Amer
lea means the land of the holy ANIMAL
New York Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
The "Seyen" in Neck Vertebrm.

In a recent study Of the anatomical
structure of the neck, writes the author
of "Curious Notes." | was struck with
the remarkabl fact that men and animals
alike are almost invariably provided with
seven neck vertebr9 or segments. Man
thus possesses this number in common
with the giraffe, whose extraordinary
elongation of neck is produced, not by
the introduction Of other vertebr@, but
by the greater length Of the normal num-
btr-seven. The only exceptions to this
rule of seven are found in two species of
sloth, one Of which has six and the other
nine vertebre, and in the Sirenis or ''sea
cow" a species Of whale, which is also
provided with a six-segmented elonga-
ton or extension o. the spinal column.
In view of the fact that the seven in
vades every department of life, is it any
wor der that the Orlentals have founded
regular system Of philosophy based
upon that mystic number.-St. Louis
Republic.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
Perfumed Pek0e Tea.

The tea that is always drunk in nov
els, orange pekoe, is tea perfumed by
laying orange flowers among the tender
| young leaf buds, but not produced in
| near sufficient quantities for the de-
mands made upon it by the lady novel
| lists. A new perfumed tea, however, is
being introduced. 1t is called Fayham
tea, and is expected to soon have the
vogue in literature of orange pekoe.
1t is even mere valuable in life, because
it is described as agreeable cold as hot,
and can be used to favor custards, ices,
while IN punch its own aroma is even
more fraerantly distilled by the other in
gradients. Fayham tea, it seems, is made
of the fat-dried leaves of white Or
child that grows as parasite in the
forests of Mauritius. 1t botanical name
is Angrecum fragrans. The plant has
long been known, but only recently Or
child tea has been introduced in Paris,
where it has since become an article of
commerce. But it is not only as a tea
that this parasite is making itself re-
putation. Cigars have also been made
Of the leaves, and the vanilla-like odor
they emit is described as worthy the end
of the century. The orchid of all plants
has been hitherto regarded as the most
purely ornamental, as it not even sup
ports itself. The discovery of variety
that rivals both tea and tobacco on their
own grounds is regarded of economic
Importance, and the probability is that
the orchid which belongs to the very
highest botanical circles, will yet be Gull
tivated and numbered with the crops.
New York Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14

shapes even to decorate a German cake.
She shifted. cleared her throat, and went
through awful facial gymnastics; SO
put my arm about her, and brushed my
mustache across her check, just to see
her though, you know.
"Oh, Jim!" she burst out, "didn I
Lord Coniston tell you met him at AIRS.
Chumley's in the fall. and-oh, we'll
we're engaged, SO there"
didn't quite take in her meaning.
"What3" I demanded, but she was
laughing, in a nervous kind of way.
"Ah, really, it was all his fault, you
know" she said between her giggles.
''He wouldn't let me tell you after all
that joke about the consumption; said it
was too good to spoil"
Then I compreaended! All beauti-
full little cover for Con to slip off to
Paris under. Joke, indeed!
It's all serene, though, as the moneys
coming into the family, and you may be
quite assured Con will see me through, or
Lady Coniston will hear of that week
we spent in Paris, when l had him
dying of consumption.-San Francisco
Wave.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
Dust Storms Here and Abroad.

SAID and dust whirls occur in arid
regions in hot weather. They may be
anywhere from rod to several rods in
diameter and from twenty to a thousand
feet high. They are sometimes COM
pound, score or more small whirls
forming a whirling circle around COM
mon centre. They are very common in
India. They sometimes carry up so much
sar d in the Sahara and Arabia that those
on whom the sand fails are overwhelmed.
They occur also in the arid regions of the
United States. In the Magda!ena Valley,
across the mountains westward from
Socorro, in New Mexico, during a hot
day in summer they form at the head Of
the valley in a long, slender, vertical
column, perhaps six hundred feet high,
and then travel down the valley toward
the village of Magda.ena, over which
they burst sometimes, bringing little
puffs of contrary winds and shower of
fine dust. In some places group of
stationary whirls Of the same general
character as the preceding arc tied down
to one point. Such are the whirls which
form sometimes over volcanoes. Chicago
News
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
THE NATIONAL GAME.

ST LOUIS has now tried six third baseneu.
anu stu Is that spos wax one.
DOYLE has thus far played IN six different
posIticns Tor the New York Club
PITCHERS NICHOLS AND STALEY, o. Bos-
ton, have not stolen Ezase TINS season
SALARIES for 1895 viii be, on an average,
forty per cent lower than they ara now.
The New Yorks, as now constituted, are
as good a team as there Is II the country.
DIVER. of Chicago. uses more head work
In his pitching than any man IN the Lea que.
NEW YORK new third basemar, Knowles,
takes aoouU everything that comes his
way, but moves slowly.
Now that O'Rou-le is out Arson is the
only player left in zoe League who started
out with that organization IN 1876.
CLARKsoN's success is in his phenomenal
control OF the ball. But for that the Ciaye-
land pitcher would be ''out OF it" now.
III irca thai managers ali 700 tor ''oic"
pltcneis shows thai pitching - rapidly -
coming matter or mere brute strength
MANAGER Powers says that the Nav
YORK team OF next year will nut contain any
stars. What viii become o. S.3,,cS" Ew-
Ing?
THE star OF the young player is still is the
ascendant. Next season promising young
stcrs will be given more chances than ever
before.
PITCHER TERRY says the base paths on
the New YORK grounds are of sDft san + To
prevent the base-runner from sprinting so
that Ewing has a chance to throw them out
despite u lame arm.
lie Chicago Club management would I'M
dcubtedIy llke to transfer the remaining
nome games TO some Otner city. The taree
games played the other week resulted i'll a
loss OF 5000. Less taan 100 persons saw
ths three games.
The Cleveland team has gone through the
year without a single cnange. Garrison,
the pitcher, was the only man signed since
the bail began to roll Iast April In every
game the same men are presented. Outside
OF the pitchers the makeup OF thu tel Is
the same day IN, day out.
The main stand and cottage of the Louis
Vile Baseball Park were utstroye by IRE
early the other mOrnlny. The ire was ev.-
denUly OF an Incendiary ori gin an / could not
be e1tlngulshed. The grant sLani WAS r.
htteu last spring, an the total loss Is abou1
SlU, COu, with $22OU insurance
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
THELABOR WORLD,

ENGLAND has had go strikes in ten
months
AMERICAN street railways employ nearly
7l,000 men.
In Whitechapel, London, bakers work
nety hours for 50. IS per week.
A MACHIyIsrs' and Boiler Makers Trades
Council is to BE- organized in Philadelphia.
BUED1NGER in Hesse. Germany. boasts OF
a laborer VINO has celebrated his 101st BIRTH
day.
SOUTH SCOTLAND mine owners have de-
cided to reduce the wages Of miners twelve
cents day.
OVER five thousand children are daily
working in the mills at Rhode Island for On
dollar week.
In carrying forward the immense railway
traffic Of England upward Of $4,000 men
are nployed.
BRITISH cooperative societies now have
!, 191, 400 members, and LII new societies O.:
this kind were organized last year.
WORKING girls of Salem. Ohio have or
ganlZed a Federal Union connected with
the American Federation of Labor
The Retail Grocery Clerks Association
OF Minneapolis is very active in organizing
thu clerks III the other cities Of Minnesota.
LONDON bakers, unorganized, work eighty
hours per week, Manchester bakers, thor
oughly organized, work fifty hours per
week.
UNION clerks in Albany, n. Y, advertise
their names and stores where they are en-
ployed to secure the patronage of union
workmen.
AT a recent meeting of 5000 shop girls in
Paris, Mile. Laonie Rouzade advocated the
formation of a syndicate to promote their
interests by cooperation.
A WOMAN has lately been admitted for the
first time to the London society of compost
tors. The society refuses to admit women
who ara paid at the same rate as men.
In South Dakota the labor organizations
circulate petition to the Legislature ask
ing that the Constitution Of that State be 50
amended as to enable the people to make
laws by the system of Referendum and mi
tiative, as prevailing in Switzerland.
MARRIED women work at nailmaking in
England for 81 to $1.25 per week. Soma of
them take their babies to the shop, where
they are kept in baskets near the fire Of the
forge. To protect the children from being
burned by flying cinders the baskets are
covered with sack-cloth.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
Once Was Enough for the Monkeys.

al cncc went up the Amazon and ORR
noco rivers on an animal capturing ex-
petition for the late p. I. Barnum,"
said Dick Cowper, an old Snowman. II
got quite q collection of snakes. birds
and monkeys. bit on a novel plan tor
the capture of the latter and it worked
like a charm
"A monkey is a greater imitator than
a Chinaman. He will do anything he
sees done, AID that is what gets so MANY
OF his kind into the cage. rugged up
an electric battery and attached 10 II an
apparatus that would allo" score OF the
simisns TO get hold OF it. | then took
party Of natives and went into the forest
where there were troops Of monkeys. We
put the apparatus down, attached the
wire, and removed the battery to con-
siderable distance. The natives then
took hold OF the apparatus, danced and
yelled, then retired. The monkeys
made dash for it. Half dozen caught
hold, and turned on the current. They
began to shrek and squirm, but the
Others thought their performance part
Of the programme, and fairly fell over
each other to get hold of the machine.
I could have stuck the whole troop in
they could have got hold. We then
made descent on them with sacks, and
soon had a score Of them corralled.
''But 1t would only work once. We
tried it a month afterward at n point
fifty miles distant, but not a monkey
came off his perch in the trees. They
viewed the proceedings with curiosity,
but without any desire to initiate our
war dance around the machine.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
The Governor Was Trespassing,

Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
during walk in the suburbs of Phila.
delphia recently, sat down to rest on
rustic seat beneath tree which was on
private ground, although he did not
know it. He was soon informed of the
fact by little girl, who, approaching
him, said: ''Do you know that this is
private property, and that my father
will prosecute trespassersf" And there
upon the Governor, who was too much
amused by the situation to make any
protest, was escorted off the grounds By
the little girl.-Picayune.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
Amount of Salt in All Oceans.

Expert photographers and others OF
curious turn of mind and a faculty or
figuring on things that seem impossible
of solution have concluded that the wa
ter of the oceans aud the seas Of our
globe hold not less than 60, 900, 000,
900, 000,0 TOYS of salt ia suspension!
If these figures are correct and the
oceans should be entirely dried up, there
would be deposit of salt $50 feet deep
over every foot of the great basin If taken
out and spread upon what is now dry
land it would give Us a salt covering
nearly 1900 feet thick.-St. Louis Re
public.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
SIX DEAD SAILORS,
Ihe1r Bodies, Lashed to a Spar RAFT
Washed Ashore

Six bodies, supposed to be those of sailors.
were washed ashore, a few days since. On
the beach near Little River, S. C., forty
miles south OF the mouth OF Cape Fear
River.
they were lashei to a raft, ma le Of soars.
anu were In an advanced stage OF decon-
position. The head and one arm Of one OF
the men were gone
some "reckage came ashore. AMI it was
supposed that sotue vessel foun Tered off the
coast but there was nothing about the
Wreckage TO indicate the name OF the vessel
or fate Of the crew.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
WORDS AND DEEDS OF HEROES

The hero true will speak for you
When towards lips are sealed with fear;
He pleads your cause when comes che pause
That chiils with doubt tina eager ear.
He dares defend
The absent friend,
And he will bare
His heart to share
The threat ming, poised and pointed spear.
How brave his deeds, when fashion pleads
For gorgeous gilt and trappings gayI
He will not wear the feathers fair
For which he has no means TO pay.
He dares to meet
Upon the street,
In garments old,
Men decked with gold,
Who dream not of the debtors daY,
How brave is he who feariesslY
In battle dangers dares to meet.
And share the blows of angry foes
In storms OF fame and leaden sleet.
True courage high
Its flag will fly
In front of wrongs
When shouting throngs
Trample the right beneath their feet.
His word bond, he looks beyond
The courts to keep him just and true;
And we can trace upon his face
The honest courage shining through.
Hail, heroes just,
All men can trust
Whose words and deeds,
Like scattered SEEDS
Spring up like roses wet with dew!
George W. Buugay, in New York Ledger
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
THE SOUVENIR COINS,
The Desi sn for the Worlds Fab
Halt Dollar Selected

The design for the five million souvenir
half dollars has been agreed upon By the
Worlds Fair people and Mint Director
Leech. The face of the ooin will contain
Lotto's head of Columbus AMI the reverse
side his caravals under which are two
globes. Across the globes will be the figures
1892. Under the globes will be the year in
which the coin is STRUCK, 1892 or 1898. Di-
rector Leech said he hoped to have one mill.
lon OF these souvenirs pieces STRUCK this year
and the remaining four millions early in
Ns93.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
When Nature

Needs assistance it may be best 20 render it
promptly, hut one should remember 20 use
even the most perfect remedies only wAen
needed. The best and most simple and gentle
remedy is the Syrup OF Figs manufactured by
the California Fig Syrup Co.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14

cup of tea. felt in an internal temper,
too. Never had such day in my
life. Drew a fox in one Of the most
unlikely covers in zen counties; then my
brute of mount went dog lame, when
I'd barely managed to keep on the tail
of the field, over a few miles Of the
beastliest fallowland Gust after a severe
thaw, too) in tho shires I did feel blue,
even though it was the women's hour and
dinner was in the near future.
Gimp / rather Grossly replied to
pretty Blanche Glossop's sweetIy uttered
remark. you'll have to turn out some
thing big to soothe me just now, Blanche,
I IN in a pretty hole, and here's one
of the beasts on which I have been
banking, as my chief mainstay during
the rest of the season, utterly broken
down. Cad it's hard lines"
"Abomina5 !" she mu1mured sympa-
thetically. "You poor boy; never
mind, have your remedy, and know
she is worth at least 500, 900. Then she
is quiet a sentabIe-indeed, really
q very pretty little barbarian"
"American?" inquired briefly.
Blanche nodded.
autumn and trotted her out little; she
introduced her to me. She says che is
travelling for amusement and to improve
herself. I think she is looking about to
buy up suitable parti" And Blanche's
lids dropped over her big blue eyes in an
amused smile.
L"dy Glossop had always stood me
bright good friend; she had out Man
chester girl for me all through that win
ter; big girl with corresponding big
purse; Manchester straight through, she
rocked of cotton. And the worst of it
all was the creature insisted on riding, or
trying to. She had half a dozen clean
thoroughbreds down at Glossop during
her stay-cost five hundred each and up
to twelve stone-she rode them on q
curb, too. 1t was the very dickens to
see her tugg1ng at those beauties, while
I pounded along on forty or fifty
guinea Irish beast; it was a severe win
ter.
Under the circumstances, you can
understand how relieved was to hear
of an American; anything but bumma-
gem Englishwoman.
''Blancher' cried enthusiastically,
t'you're a trump. Half the men know
would be colonizing row but for you're
saving help; you're our only refuge,
God bless you! Where Is shea"
''Oh, she will be here directly, she's
quite decent looking, very chick. and
that you know-why, here she isl"
!. Hooked up as there entered quite q
smart looking body-very pretty, too,
just my style, all big gray eyes and
fuzzy hair, very correctly dressed.
Blanche introduced her all round, skill
fully steering her up to me. ''Ina, she
said said sweetly, ''let me introduce to
you one of my incest boys, Mr.. Hallett.
Now you must be very gracious to him,
as he gives the best things about here.
But must run; 1 see Captain and Mrs.
Randall are coming H."
I Soon we were chatting away, and
was the happiest and most sanguine of
fishers. She had excellent points and
was really very fctchiug-in any case
she was tremendous improvement on
Miss Morton, the awful cotton heiress.
Now there was staying at Gtossop lust
then in the character of Blanche Clos
sop's favorite tame cat. the Bay Middle
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14

Chlna's foreign trade last year aggre-
gated $3.50, 100000.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-14
WHY SHE SENT ME- DOWN,

0 W il mmie,
what is wrong
You look shock
ingly blue, and
when I've such
a morsel for you,
too--wait till
you hear and see
it. "
And Lady
Glossop gave a
little squeak,fu
of pleasant mys-
terry, as she
handed me a