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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19

When the PrEssian arlng came back from
their war they were received In 1866 at the
gates of Berlin, ami a choir stool above the
gates. and the first regiment advanced
and came to the gates the choir. IN music,
asked them what right they had to enter
there. And then the first regiment, in song,
replied, telling over the stories OF their con-
ficts and victories. Then they marched in,
aud all the city was full OF gla mess ana
triumph. But oh. the great joy when the
army with banners shall come up TO the
gates of our King
1t will be choir 10 choir, music to music,
hosanna to hosanna, halleluiah 10 halleluiah
Lift up your heads. ye everlasting gates
and let them come In. There Will be spread
the banquet of eternal victory. and the uu-
fallen ones Of heaven will sit at it, and all
the ransomed of earth will come in and cele-
brate the jubilee with unfading garlands on
their brows telling OF earthly conquests.
All the walls or that celestial mansion will
be a-glitter with shields won in victorious
battle and adorned with the banners of God
that were carried in front OF the host. Harp
shall tell 10 harp the heroism in which the
conquerors won their palm, and the church
that aay will sit queen at the banquet. Her
waEder1ngs over, her victories gained,
Christ shall rise up to introduce her 20 all
the nations of heaven, and as she pulls aside
her veil and looks up into the face OF her
Lord the King. Christ shall exclaim, This is
she that lOoketh forth the morning, fair
the moon, clear the sun and terrible as
an army with bannersr
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT HARRISON has gold mounted
gun.
CYRUS W FIELDS life was insured for
$3.50, 0C0
PRINCE BISMARCK has an income Of $3.50,
900 year.
JUSTICE SHIRAs is the only member Of
:he Supreme Court who wears whiskers.
REPRESENTATIVE CABLE, of illinois, is
declared to be the best camp cook III Con
gress
CHAUNcEY G. SMITH, of Hart ord, Conn,
has been fifty years a deacon OF the First
Baptist Church in that city
SUPERINTENDENT BYRNEs, the head of the
New York Police Department, has just cell
ebrated his fiftieth birthday.
QUEEN VICTORIA is surrounded by cor
don of detectives as many as those about thu
person OF his Czarship Of Russia.
The present Lord Fairfax, who lives i'll
Virginia, is doctor and practices his pro-
fession. In England his title is fully &C
knowledged
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw says that while on
shipboard he sleeps Upward OF eighteen
hours out of the twenty-four in every day
Of the voyage.
SECRETARY J. W. FOSTER is the only
diplomat who has held three irst-class mis-
sions. Grant sent him to Mexico, Hayes to
Russia and Arthur to Spain.
her marriage to Prince Ferdinand will be-
come a future Queen Of Roumania, is not
quite seventeen years OF age.
GOVERNOR PECK, of Wisconsin was once
a printer living on back street. He now
lives handsomely in the house in which Ole
Bull, the famous violinist, once lived.
CAPTAIN FRED l. DEAN, of Washington,
D. c., though not an old man in years, is
said to be the oldest G.. A. r. veteran liv-
He i Of re ioin
lZers.
HENRY NJ STANLEY has become so
angered by the illusions in the American
newspapers to his late canvass for Parlia-
ment that he declares he will never set foot
in the United States again.
ROBERT H. FoLGER, Of Massillion, Ohio,
is claimed to be the oldest practlcing attor-
ney in the United States. He was born in
Chester County, Penn, 1872 and began the
practice of law thirty years thereafter.
EDWARD OLIVER Voice TT, of Massa.
ChuSetts, who served as a private in an Ohio
regiment in 1854 and now represents Colo
RADIO in the United States Senate has taken
Oakview, ex-President Ceveland's old home.
RICHARD CROKER, who rose from a ma
Chinist's bench to be the head of Tammany
Hall, was engineer of the first steam fire en-
CINE used in New York City. He afterward
became foreman OF Engine Company %,
position of influence and Importance in pol
tiles, and his election as Alderman few
years later, in 1867, gave him start on the
career he has since followed.
JOSEPH SENIOR, whose death occurred
recently, was famous in England fo- the
verses ne wrote while toilng at his forge as
a cutler in Sheffield. He published his
poetry under the title Of ''Smithy Rhymes
and Stithy Chimes" and the book had a
large sale. At the age of sixty-fve Mr..
Senior was stricken with blindness and he
thenceforth devoted himself entirely to
verse-making.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19
A COUPLE KILLED.
Andrew j. Borden and His Wife
Found Mvsteriously Murdered.


Found Mvsteriously Murdered.
A bloody double tragedy was enacted at
Fall River, Mass, few days ago. Andrew
j. Borden and his wife were found dead at
No. 90 Second street at II o'clock in the
morning.
Both had been frightfully mutilated about
the head and face with an axe cleaver or
razor.
Mr.. Borden lay on a sofa in a room on the
top floor of the house. His head had been
cut, and gashes from four to six inches long
were found on his face and neck.
Mrs. Borden was in her own chamber on
the upper floor, and the condition of her
face and head was the same as that of her
husband. She lay face down in the bed,
which was veritable pool of blood. The
police were notified, and Immediately All in
veStigation Yves begun.
No implements that could have been used
in the commission of the crime have been
found.
The daughter of the unfortunate couple
was the first to make the discovery. She
went upstairs after finding the body of her
father and saw that Of her mother. She
thought her me her had fallen in a swoon,
but on finding That she, too, was murdered,
the girl fed downstairs and tainted.
The police have searched in vain for any
clew to the murderer. Word was sent to
Mrs. Borden that morning that sick friend
desired to see her, but she did not go out.
It is said that the servant Bridget Sullivan
says she went into the room to make some
inquiry of Mr.. Borden about five minutes
before Lizzie Borden gave the alarm. He
was then sitting on the sofa reading news
paper.
Mr.. Borden was wealthy real estate
owner and mill man and was seen on the
street half All hour before he was found dead.
There is not even an apparent motive for
the crime. A reward of 5000 has been Of
fered for the detection of the murderer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19

1t only costs seventy cents to ship
a barrel Of flour from Atchison, Kan, to
Liverpool.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19

In May Boston exported 200, 900
pounds of oatmeal to European com
tries.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19

TWELVE THOUSAND men are laying the
eastern section of the Trans-Siberian Rail-
way work, and it is expected that it Will be
completed next autumn.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19
UNCLE SAM APOLOGIES,
The Unwarranted Arrest of an
Attache of the Swiss LEGATION.

the United States an apology for the arrest
by mistake of Mr.. Georg an attache of the
Swiss Legation at Washington.
Mr.. Georg was standing at a
soda fountain at Bay Ridge, near
Annapolis, Md, when Mrs W. D. Borde a
Baltimore woman, missed her pocketbook
and accused him with having stolen it. The
arrest followed but. as the woman was
clearly in error, Mr.. Georg was discharged
Immediately by tie authorities
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19

If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-19

GERMAN medical experts warn Americans
to be extremely careful against any incec-
ton OF cholera from Europe.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS.

CHARLIE E. STONES, late agent of the
louisville & Nashville Railroad, is in
Jail at Birmingham, Ala, charged with
embezzlement.
NELLIE MCGUIRE was killed in a fight
by her lover, Charles Bevell, at Glas-
gov, XIV, on the 21st. Bevell comes
from a good family, but has bad repu-
tation. He has been paying attention
TO the woman for some time and was in
tensely jealous of her.
Two coLoRED delegates on their way
home to Florida from Minneapolis, not
having tickets or money, were put of
the train by brakeman at Peru, Ind.
They attacked him so viciouSly that
thew were arrested and charged with
murderous assault, and were tried and
sentenced to two years. imprisonment.
FRED C. BLAICHER, one OF the mem
bers of the Democratic Club of Newark,
N. j., fell asleep on the window-sill OF
his room on the fourth floor of the Ire
mont House, Chicago, on tho 21st, and
while thus engaged lost his balance and
fell to the ground, killing himself in
stantly.
FRAN KATcHEvILLE, employed in th2
steam lard department of the Sinclair
Packing company, fell into vatof boil
ing water at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the
21st, and was fatally scalded before
assistance reached him.
NEAR New Albany, Ind. on the goth,
G.. w. Gelomaker was assaulted ana
robbed of S., 500. He had been in the
country to purchase farm, and was re-
turning home when attacked by four
men, all of whom escaped.
In the disaster by powder explosion,
caused by lightning striking store
near Somerset, KY, on the Goth, three
are fatally hurt, Thomas Powell James
Young and w. FL. Ryan. Twenty-four
Others were seriously wounded. Three
houses were destroyed.
THE depot building Of the Kansas
CITY, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
at jasper, Ala, was burned on the 18th.
Loss 100000.
TuR new levee on the bayou protect
ing the town of East Bayou cara, La
gave way on the 10Th. and by noon the
town was totally submerged to deptn
ranging from to II feet.
The elevator of the Kentucky MALI
ing Company of Louisville, KY, wal
DESTROYED by fire on the 10Th. The ele'
vator occupied half square ana con
tanned 165, 900 bushels OF malt. Inc
loss is $3.50, 900, upon which there was an
insurance of $4,000.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

v When four years ago, on the anniversary OF
the declaration of our national independence, a
committee, designated by the republican ma
tional convention held in Chicago, came to my
home in Indianapolis to notify me OF my nomi-
nation for the presidency, my sense of graft
tude great as it was, was forced into the back
ground by an overwhelming sense of
the responsibility of leadership in a
civil contest that Involved SO much
to my country and to my fellow
citizens / could not hope that much would be
found when the record of quiet life had been
brought under the strong light of public criti-
cism, to enthuse my party followers or upon
which an assurance of adequacy for the highest
civil affairs might be rested. No one so much
as realize that the strength OF the campaign
must be found in Republican principles: and
nv hope was that nothing in life or word
of mine might weaken the appeal OF
our American policies to the Ameri-
can heart That appeal did not fail.
republican president and vice president and a
republican congress were chosen. The record
has been made, and we are now to submit 1t to
the Judgment Of patriotic people OF my own
relation to the great transactions in legislation
and in administration, which m ust be the basis
of this Judgment, it does not become me to
speak
| gratefully accept, sir, the assurance given
by republican state conventions and by the ma
tional convention, through you that no charge
of inadequacy or delinquency to principle has
been lodged against the administration loud
applauseI The faithful and highly successful
work done by the able heads of the executive
departments and by our representatives abroad
/ desire most cordially to acknowledge and
commend The work of the Fifty first con-
gress In which you, sir, bore so conspicuous and
so useful part will strongly and most bene-
ficiallv influence the national prosperity 1or
generations to come. Loud applauseI
After referring to the good effect OF
the Mckinley bill, the president closed
by saying that he would accept the
nomination and would before long
write a formal letter declaring his
reasons for adhering to the platform
adopted by the convention.
A general hand-shakiDg and luncheon
followed.
The committee will visit Mr. Reid, at
Ophir farm, near New York, to-day.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the nth great convention, rep
resenting the loyalist sentiment ire
spective ofreligion, and participated in
by Orangemen and Catholics alike, was
held in Belfast, to voice sentiment
against an Irish parliament
THE cry of 1.-The dam is broken! fly
for your ives!" aroused the people of
Mahanoy City, Pa, on the night of the
18th, and as the fearful announcement
was repeated, the affrighted people
made good their escape to the hills be-
fore the roaring torrent reached the
city. Rumors of lives lost and persons
missing flew in all directions, but none
of them were authenticated.
News from Zanzibar confirms the re-
port of the defeat of the German force
under the command of Baron Bulow in
the Moshi territory, near Mount Kilima
Marc. The district around Fort
Mar0rIg, to which the Germans were
compelled to retreat and subsequently
to abandon, has been deserted.
A BERLIN newspaper says that the
government will introduce a bill in the
reichstag next autumn augmenting the
standing army of Germany on peace
footing by 63, 900 men. The additional
yearly cost will be 60, 900, 900 marks.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the night of the
18th, mob caught ''Lucifer' Durand,
successor to 'sPrincc Michael as chief
of the Longhaired Israelites, and cut
off his hair and whiskers. They also
cut off the hair of his wife.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

HE San Francisco Post, speaking OF
lhe Nicaragua canal project, says: ''We
nl'ght as well make up our minds that
tne canal is going to be built, and that
the people of the United States do not
oulld 1t somebody else will. How should
we ike to see an English or French or
"erman fort at each end of the Nicara-
qua canal, and every American vessel
required to halt and give an account of
HerSelf before passing from ocean to
ocean? Such might be the sequel if we
aiioW the canal to pass into European
hands"
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

THE body Of young man taken from
the river at st. Louis, on the 18th,
proved to be that of Albert johnson, of
Dubuque, Ia, son of the editor of pa
ber in that city. On January last, he
and three young companions took ride
in a skiff. The frail craft was over
turned and all four young men were
drowned. The bodies of his compan-
ions were recovered several months
ago.
sPRINCE MICHAEL" of the "Flying
Roll" was convicted at Ann Arbor,
Mich. on the nth, on the indictment
charging him with immoral practices,
and was given the full extent OF the
law, Eve years in the penitentiary.
AT Magdeburg. Germany, on the
10th. while some munitions were being
unloaded, a shell exploded, and two
sergeants were killed and five soldiers
terribly injured.
RoCKDALE, about three miles from
Dubuque, Ia, was wiped out by hood
on the evening of the 1Tth, part OF the
Centrars track being swept away The
village was cleaned out July 4, 1875,
when many lives were lost.
On the 10Th car on the East Liver
pool (O.) electric railway jumped the
track near the power-house, and
plunged down a thirtyfoot embank-
ment to the river, overturning several
times and completelely wrecklng the
car. Over twenty-five passengers were
aboard, and though none were kiiieo
outright twenty were injured, some Oh
them probably fatally.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25


higkly complimented the president. In
the course of his remarks Gov. McKin-
ley &aid:
We need hardly assure you of the pleasure 1t
gives us to convey this message from the re-
publicans of the country to their chosen leader
Your nomination was but the registering by
the convention of the will of the majority of
the republicans of the United States, and has
been received in every quarter with profound
satisfaction.
After one of the most careful, successful and
brilliant administrations in our history, you
receive denomination, furnishing an approval
of your work which must bring to you the
keenest satisfaction. The difficult and en-
barrassing questions which confronted
your administration have been met
with an ability, fidelity to duty and
with a lofty patriotism which fill the
American hearts with glowing pride. Your do
mestic policy has been wise. broad and states
manlike your foreign policy firm, just and
truly American. These have won the commen
dation of the thoughtful and conservative and
the confidence of your country, irrespective OF
party, and will, we believe, insure your trium-
phant election in November.
In conclusion, we desire to extend to you our
personal congratulations and to express our
qualification at the rare honor paid by re-
nomination, with firm faith that the destinies
Of this great people will be confided to your
care a;ld keeping for another four years.
The president bowed slightly, and IN a
very clear and natural tone read his re
ply, accepting the nomination, as fol
lows:
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

W noIADsroNE is not only the Grand Old
nan OF England, but he is living ex-
a.nple OF almost perennial youth SO far
. physical and mental ability go. Re-
osn'iy - ne delivered speech in the house
- commons which had every charac-
. sel,suc OF youthful vigor, including
.asihess and enthusiasm Later he
l;e IpoAe 70 some sweltering thousands of
emen IN Memorial hall, in London,
1u again his speech was the speech of
Soung man, with that buoyancy Of
one which takes no account Of OBJ
ra.les' hr. and pays no heed to any facts
'"' such as suit his immediate purpose.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

ABOUT forty college students are to be
turned loose this summer by the Worlds
falr commission ''to measure the Indi-
ans, to secure those measurements of
cody, head and face which are used by
anthropologists to determine racial
types This is to be done ''in order to
determine whether the various people
who were here when Columbus came
We're all Of one race" It's not quite
GEAR how the question is to be deter
mined by these measurements, but Chi
cago science is a wonderful thing.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

THE Germans of the national capital
are about to do tardy justice to the
memory of one of their most distin-
ouished fellow ow-countrymen, Baron Won
Steuben, by the erection of bust of
him in one of the public reservations of
Washington, congress having given
consent thereto.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

Two brothers arrived in New York
recently who, upon interrogation, adj
mitted that their passage was paid by
the Swiss government; and they fur
thermore declared that any Swiss pau
per can secure a ticket to America by
signing an agreement never again to
ask aid of his government. This state
ment should act as an eye opener to
orr LEGISLATORS
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25
He Wanted a Room.

PORTLAND. Me-, June 21.-A short,
middle-aged man, with heavy, sandy
mustache, came into the St Julien ho-
tel, yesterday morning, and registered
as Henry Garland, Detroit, Mich. He
said he had been travelling two days
and wanted room. He went directly
to his room, and ten minutes later shot
himself in the head, dying instantly.
Nothing more is known of him here,
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

RECENT inundations in Matanzas, in
the island of Cuba. have done much
damage to the sugar plantations and
made the coming crop prospects very
gloomy. Ours is not the only country
that will have cause to remember the
first half of 1892 and its train of woe
nv storm and flood.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25
HARRISON ACCEPTS.

The President Officially Notified of His
denomination by the Committee APP
pointed for that Purpose Chairman n
M-Kinley's Felicitous Speech and Presi-
dent Harrison's Reply Thereto-The
Notification Followed by Luncheon at
tho White House.
WASHINGTON. June 21.-The commit
tee to notify President Harrison of his
denomination by the Minneapolis con-
vention waited upon him yesterday.
Chairman Mckinley, in brief address,
conveyed the official information and
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

CRIMINAL proceedings have been be-
gun against Mercier, ex-premier Of
Quebec, and it looks decidedly cloudy
1or that once arrogant politician. A
bankrupt in fortune and reputation, he
is IN fair way to see the inside of a
prison with time to ruminate on the
suicidal policy pursued by himself and
others, who would bankrupt their gov
ernment for their own enrichment.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

Z A PHILADELPHIA school teacher COM
peeled little girl to walk up and down
stairs twenty-five times by way Of pun
ishment. The child went home and
died on the following day. The school
authorities are now deba ting what they
will do in the premises. 1t would ap-
pear to be case for prompt action
rather than prolonged debate.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25
VOLUME XIII.

SOME of the experts are figuring out
wheat yield of about 500, o00,OO bush
els for this year. This would be about
20 r,oo 900 bushels smaller than the crop
of 1891. but it would be As, 900, 900 larger
than that of any other year of whereby
,ra have record
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25
HUNTSVILLE. ALA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1892.
AT Mccomb CITY. Miss. on the 10Th.

AT McComb City, Miss, on the 10Th,
John johnson. a negro murderer. was
lynched by mob composed partly of
blacks.
On the 18th Mare Pendleton. once an
actor and a son-jn-law of a Cleveland
lO.) millionaire, killed himself through
fear of approaching insanity.
The yacht Caprice, with twenty-seven
people on board, was -capsized near
Peche island, several miles above the
city OF Detroit, Mich. near the Cana
dian shore, on the afternoon of the 10Th
All OF the party were thrown into the
water, and Carrie Bieber, aged 10, and
Minnie Mock, aged II, were drowned
The yacht Duke, when going to their
assistance, attempted to turn, and Henry
Pathow, Jr., was knocked overheard bv
a boom and was also drowned.
AT Portland, Me-, on the Goth, a
short, middle-aged man went into the
st. Julian hotel and registered as
Henry Garland, Detroit. Mich He
said he had been travelling two DAYS
and wanted room. He went directly
to his room, and ten minutes later shot
himself in the head, dying instantly.
AT Woodland, Cal, John Ruggles,
who robbed the Redding Cali stage
and killed Messenger Montgomery and
wounded two other men, recently, was
captured on the GOTH
In Londcn Murray Neill, alias Thomas
Neill, the alleged American who had
been passing in that city as a druggists
agent, was brought up at Bow street
again, on the Goth, on charges of at
tempting to extort money. He is also
suspected of several eases of poisoning.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-25

The Canadians are possessed of q
growing desire for closer commercial
relations with the United States, and
the idea finds favor on this side of the
line, When our neighbors see their
way clear to push out a plank broad
enough for us to walk upon they will
doubtless find us ready to meet them
half way.