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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Pears should never be allowed to be-
come eatable on the Trees.
There is no need of sending select fruit
to market if it is not carefully packed.
The fowls kept for breeding should be
the best of the whole dock, carefully
selected.
It will never do any harm to cut of
the dead wood or a crossing limb Of
fruit tree.
After pear trees have arrived at the
bearing age, there should be but very
little trimming done.
Hay and fruit cannot be very well
grown On the same land, and especially
is this true in the case with apples.
It is better to prevent the growth that
YOU do not want than it is TO wait until
the wood is made and then cut 1t of.
Cochins, Brahmas, Wyaudottes, Leg
horns and Doni;niques all have yellow
legs, wh1ca is an advantage in a market
fowl.
Late Matched pullets should be
pushed to maturity. Ualess well ma
tu-ed before cold weather pullets will
not lay until spring.
Turkeys are in their glory now, and
they secure plenty of insects while forag-
ing. The farmer cannot realize the
good they do in this way. i,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07

After blowing thoroughly it is very
important to have land intended to be
sown 10 fall wheat that it be prepared in
as good condition as possible. The soil
to the depth of three or four inches
should be IN fine filth as a seed bed for
the wheat, and underneath this the bed
should be reasonably solid. The kind
{. Implement needed 10 properly fit the
soil he seed must be largely deter
mined bS t"+ c..aracter of the sell and
its conditions. When early, and it is in
proper state, d good smoothing har-
row is all that will be needed to properly
fine it. Afterwards, however, before the
blowing can be done the soil gets hard
and may break up in hard Jumps, and
the drag may be used to properly level
and fine. Again, hard, beating rains
after blowing will often run the soil to-
gether, and the hot sun will cause it to
bake, and in this condition, in the ma
jonty of cases, it be best to use the disc
harrow.
What will be best at one time or in
one kind of soil will not be the most
economical under other conditions and,
for this reason, the character of the soil
and the kind of work to be done must
always be considered. The one i'm
portant item is to be sure OF working
enough, and then to use the implement
that will do the work most thoroughly
md economically. With nearly all va
rieties of seeds, the more thorough the
preparation of the soil, the better and
thriftier the termination of the seed,
and the better the start to grow of the
plants Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
BAD FLAVORS IN BUTTER.

IF you want the cows to yield perfect
favored milk do not let them eat leeks,
fungus growths, or any noxious vegeta-
tons. This implies that you must have
a clean pasture, which should be part
and parcel of every dairy farm.
Some COWS develop morbid appetite,
generally those that are ill fed, and they
will eat with avidity refuse and foul
growths that have a most deleterous
effect on the quality of the milk. We
have known cows to give tainted milk
day after day of so rank a character that
aeration had but little effect upon the
odor, and the butter made therefrom
was practically UNBEATABLE. Continued
investigation for long time failed to
reveal the cause, until it was az last dis
covered that some of the COWS had been
eating poisonous varieties of mush-
rooms, commonly known as "toad
Stools" which grew abundantly about
some old decayed stumps in the pasture.
AS soon as the cause was removed the
milk resumed its normal character.
It amounts to one and the same thing
to give unhealthy food to mich COWS, or
10 pace IL Ill d mOulucu 10TH on your
table for your family's use. Bad food
given to COW in milk will surely i'm
press its bad character upon her tactical
secretion. Damaged food turned into
beef may not be so quickly and thor
oughly transmitted to the human
stomach as in the case of milk, for the
slower process of nutrition in the animal
tissues gives time for considerable OF de-
leterious matter to be eliminated by the
processes of nature before the meat be-
comes human food.
With milk the case is practically of
the same character as the feed. An after
aeration of the fluid cannot expel disease
germs and microbes absorbed from an
unhealthy appetite. Prevention is the
only cure for bad flavor and worse re-
suits, in milk affected in the way de-
scribed.-American Dairyman.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
FIGHTING NOXIOUs INSECTS.

Time has come for an active discus
sion of the means for preventing the
great increase in number and varieties of
pernicious insects. These have become
an intolerable burden upon farmers, and
the losses by them far surpass the total
of those which have been suffered by
animal diseases. And yet there has been
for years a special department of the
Agricultural Bureau for the suppression
of diseases among animals. Laws Lave
been enacted in all the States for the
protection of live stock FROM disease
spread by careless persons.
But nothing has been done in regard
to the spread of noxious insects from
farm to farm in the manner Of pesti
lence, and encouraged by thoughtless
and careless neighbors, who breed
myriads of the pests in their fields or
gardens, and permit them to scatter
abroad without conjunction. The in
jury done is enormous, and unless some
effective remedy is applied very soon the
burden will become too heavy to be
borne.
Just now the striped potato beetle may
be seen leaving the early potato fields
where the crop has been gathered and
swarming over the roads and fences to
the fields which have been cleared
already of repeated swarms of the pests
at large expense. And now the stock is
renewed by persons who have themselves
taken but very inadequate pains to de-
stroy the insects on the-r own fields and
now are stocking fielSe of their neigh
boEs. This is a crime, aad with other
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
related offenses calls for sfEe ,tive remedy

related ottenses calls for ette ctive remedy
by law
There is a certain remedy for these
pests and cheap one. This is spraying
the plants and trees with well known
preparations which kill the insects. Il
has been proved effective, and the use Of
it should be enforced by law. A begin
ming has been made in the State of New
York, where penalties are provided for
neglect to destroy the fungus which pro-
duces the black knot in cherry aud plum
trees, by no means nearly so costly
pest as many others that might be men
toned. What is most me- ded, however,
is the public sentiment which would in
duce all concerned to take the necessary
measures to keep their own premises
free from pests of all kinds, and when
this is once aroused effectively there will
be an end of the trouble. York
Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
WOMAN SUFFRAGE TICKET.
For President, Victoria Woodruff
Martin; Vice-President, Mrs Stowe.

In the parlors Of the Willard Hotel. at
Washington, under the call Of April Goth, a
National Convention Of woman suffragists
was held, under the direction of delegates
from Victoria Leagues of the different
States. Mrs Anna M. Parker, Of st. Louis,
Mo-, was called to the chair. and Elizabeth
Powers, of Providence r. l.. acted as Sec
rotary. Twenty eight States were repre-
sented by fifty delegates.
On motion of Mrs. Windish, of New York
City, Mrs. Victoria Woodruff Martin, Of
New York and London, was nominated for
President of the United States and Mrs.
Mary L. Stowe, of California, was nominated
for Vice.President. The platform reads as
follows:
Whereas Under the fourteenth amend
ment no citizen is deprived of the franchise
through..law, but by custom and habit;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we. the representative
women of America, ask the officers in charge
of the election precincts through the United
States in the coming campaign to give US
the opportunity to cast our ballots on the
first tuesday in November, 1892 for our
candidates.
Resolved, That by the united efforts of
the women voters Of this Nation we will
drive anarchy, crime, insanity and drunken
ness from our midst by our humanitarian
efforts, backed by the ballot.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THE woman tramp is increasing.
GERMANY has 385 military bands.
BRIGANDAGE is increasing in Italy.
PHILADELPHIAs tax-rate is $3.50
PITrsBURG has built cholera hospital.
B1-METAL1sM is not popular in England.
THE cholera scare at New York has died
out.
THE Western Union clears S., 0OO.OO0 a
year.
THE apple is likely to be scarce article
the coming winter
The new military bill will add 95, 900 men
to the German army.
CoNNECrIcUT's peach crop amounted this
year to only IS, 0J0 baskets.
UsELEssNEss of short quarantine has
been demonstrated in England.
LATE reports make it appear that the
hop crop will be short this year.
THE German army maneuvres were post.
poned on account Of the cholera.
RHoDoDENDRoN has been declared by vote
the State flower OF Washington.
DIscoURAGING accounts are made of the
results Of the harvest in Great Britain.
The cholera in Europe greatly democrat
iZed the 80, 00O American tourists still there.
A CHECK for S3145)O. covering the direct
tax due Louisiana, has been paid to her Gov.
ernor.
OVER thirty-fve per cent of the aliens of
Ohio cannot speak or write the English
language.
NOVEMBER 10 has been proclaimed as a
day o. thanks giving throu ghout Canada for
a bountiful harvest.
THE President of the English Chamber OF
Commerce has just reported large falling
off in Englands export trade.
NUMBERS of bears have been slaughtered
in the region about Moosehead Lake, Maine,
and the local markets are glutted with bear
skins.
The Viceroy at Canton, China, reports
the execution within the last year Of 1OJ
persons charged with piracy on the coast i'll
that vicinity.
AN ostrich ten feet high and big in pro.
portion has just walked six hundred miles
from Central Africa TO Sierra Leone. This
gigantic fowl is present to Queen Victoria
from Alimany Salmaden, the great NOLAN.
medan chief, and is the largest and finest
ever known.
THE Payne Theological Seminary, the
first institution of the kind for the educa-
ton of colored preachers, was formally
opened the other day by Bishop Payne Of
the African Methodist Church. 1t is located
on the campus of the Wilheforce University,
Xenia, Ohio.
EVERY one of the $4,000 odd Cinnamon
and Chinese women of chinatown" San
Francisco, has been notified that unless he
or she complies with the requirements of the
registration law before May next the de-
linquent will be arrested and deported from
the United States.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
LABOR RIOTS.
st. Thomas, West Indies, in the Con.
troll OF q Mob.

Fierce labor riots are reported from st.
Thomas, in the West Indies. The troops
were called out and they met the mob near
the English bank. After a sharp fight. In
which eleven soldiers were severely injured
with stones and several colored men were shot
the troops were driven back. When the
order for retreat was given the moo at
tackled so hotly that the soldiers broke ranks
and fed.
The worst element then had almost COM
plete possession OF the city. Scores OF houses
have been entered and plundered by bur-
glars.
Many of the wealthiest families took
refuge on their ships for fear that they
mio6t become victims OF fire AMI outrage in
the city.
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18
EDITOR MEDILL of the Chicago

EDITOR MEDILL of the Chicago
Tribune who has always enter
tanned a sincere admiration of
Mr.. Blaine, admits that the NOM
lnation of the ''man from Maine"
at Minneapolis would not have
changed the result of the recent
election He thinks Blaine's pop
ularity might have somewhat
modified the democratic victory,
hut that it would not have altered
the general verdict. Mr.. Medill
is persuaded that personal consid-
erations have nothing to do with
the matter; that it was a contest
of principles and policies, and that
the outcome clearly indicates the
dissatisfaction of the people with
the doctrine of protection. Mr..
Medill does not venture this opin-
ion as tariff reformer, which he
is at heart, but merely as a
thoughtful and intelligent observer
of the situation.
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18

MIR. RICHARD CROKER is very
frank in speaking about the feder-
al patronage. Il am in favor of
the democrats taking the posses
sion of the Offices" he says:
"Now that we have won, I think
that the democrats should have
the full results of their victory" "
The pious mugwamps who helped
elect Mr.. Cleveland because they
believed him to be a civil service
reformer can see no promise in
this quiet but firm declaration of
Tammany principles. The price
for New York is all the federal
officers at the command of the in
coming administration
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18

No matter who is president, in
dustry, honesty and economy will
give every American citizen a
good living, besides something to
lay by for rainy day. There is
no danger that the dial of progress
which has been sweeping forward
so rapidly since the republicans
came into power will be turned
back by a single republican defeat.
Let us be cheerful. The democ-
racy doesn't want free trade half
SO badly as it wants the offices.
AS soon as it fills its belly it will
60 to sleep and the Legislation of
the republican congress will re-
main practically undisturbed.-
Journal.
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18
The London Specular is yigor-

The London Specular is vigor-
ously reproved by the New York
Sun for speaking Of part Of the
United States as the eastern prov
inces." AS rule the sun is very
good authority on everything out
side CT politics, but in this case
the reproof is not entirely a fair
one. The eastern states are in
many respects entirely provincial,
and do not seem to be overcom-
ing hatyouthful fault as they grow
older. The real center of the life
of this republic is now west Of the
Alleghanies. s.-Journal.
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18

SHORTLY before the Mckinley
bill went into effect the keen-eyed
merchant warned the people to
buy literally and store goods away
Tor future use, as prices were
bound to advance when the new
tariff law became effective. Now
the eastern brokers are advising
their patrons to buy literally be-
cause of an inevitable advance in
prices incident to reduction of
customs duties. With the keen
eyed broker it is "heads, [ win :;
tails, you lose.''
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18

SENATOR PERKINS of Kansas is
one of those who thinks that the
tariff did not have all to do with
the result of the national election.
He lays the responsibility for re-
publican defeat largely upon the
national committee, which he
charges with mismanagement in
neglecting the republican sections
Of the country. 81 believe our
defeat is due to the rainbow chas-
ing Of the republican national
committee" said Senator Perkins.
Instead Of giving their attention
to the republican sections Of the
country, they neglected and over
looked the republican states al
most entirely. They dissipated
and wasted their efforts where
there was no reason to expect
republican success" This is in
line with the opinion expressed by
the Bee in discussing the causes of
republican defeat, and while criti-
cism of those who had the manage
ment of the campaign is cf no
consequence now, it is we'll to have
# understood that democratic VIC
tory was not due wholly or mainly
to popular dissatisfaction with the
.qriff policy of the republican
,,artv.-Bee.
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18
$i.so A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
ALL HOME PRINT

CHAUNCEY DEPEw takes a very
sensible view of the matter. He
says: "The result could not be
attributed to any one person or
party OF persons. New York
alone did not effect the result. 1t
was the whole country. The people
wanted II change of policy more
than of candidates and they will
have it."
The McCook tribune., 1892-11-18

TIE republican party is not
dish, .yed by defeat now any more
han it was in 1856 OF 1884. 1t
,ccepts occasional disaster as part
IF the fortunes of politics under a
popular form Of government. The
democracy will now be put upon
trial. From 1886 to 1889 it was
hedged in by republican senate.
Now, with the aid of the populists
of the senate, it will have a major
itv. and after the 4th of March
next will be in power. 1t must do
one of two things, either abandon
its hostility to protection OF put
that hostility into practical effect.
The republican party as political
organization can afford to await
with equanimity the result, and as
to the effects upon the industrial
interest of the country of return
to free trade, if such return
should be made, in whole or in
part, they would be no worse for
republicans than for democrats.
Hard times, like good times, are
shared by the people, irrespective
Of party. With the republicans
unfaltering in their loyalty to pro-
lection that fundamental principle
is in no danger of overthrow ! The
sun may be eclipsed, but its fires
cannot be put out.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-15
Fair Haven NeWs.

A. H. Cargill, the builder, who has been critically i'll for several weeks, is now able to sit up portion of the day.
 The letter carriers had considerable extra labor in delivering valentines on Saturday. Trade at the Fair Haven stores in these missives was also very good, one dealer having sold 1 200 the past week.
 Just before the preaching service at the Grand Avenue Baptist church last evening brief address was given by Rev. K. H. Basmajian, of Constantinople.
 The Congregational club will meet at the Grand Avenue Congregational church this evening. A supper served by the ladies of the church will be ready at 6:3O, and one hour later short addresses will be in order, the Rev. D. M. James, of the Second church to lead in discussion of the topic: 'Some modern methods of church work" :"
 East Haven grange, No. 1106, has seventy eight members and has had very prosperous year. The chief officers are as follows: Master, L. F. Richmond; lec- turer, s. w. F. Andrews; secretary, l.. R. J. Kirkhaw; gate keeper, John s. Tyler. The officers of Foxon grange, No. 84, are as follows: Master, George D. Page; lec- turer, Charles W. Grannis. secretary Honoria E. Grannis; gate keeper, H. J. H. Thompson.
 Funeral services over the remains of the late Frederick A. Genet, aged thirty years, who died Friday, were conducted yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his late residence, 229 Chapel street. Ser vices were conducted in St. Francis church at 2:30. Rev. Father Mulholland officiated. The bearers were Michael Cal lias Michael Connolly, James Connors, James Sullivan and William Bedding. The St. Ignatius society has appointed John H. Cain and John Gibbins delegates ! to represent that society at the meeting of | the organization recently organized which is called the New Haven To- | tai Abstinence Union. This union is making efforts to secure an able speaker to | deliver a temperance lecture in St. Francis church during the present month. Super intendent of Parks Kent and Philip Ryan are the delegates to the union from St. | Francis T. A. and B. society. Mir. Kent ! is also treasurer of the union.
 The funeral of the late Mrs. Margaret Schappa, wife of Charles Shappa of 102 James street, who died Saturday, will be held this morning at 8:30 o'clock from her late residence. In ST. Faancis' church at o'clock funeral services will be conducted
 Mrs. Shappa was 8 young woman, being
 but twenty-six years of age, and was vel
 known and beloved by wide circle oi l friends.
 Edward J. Brennan of Perkins street ii
 spending js vacation at his mothers
 home. He will enter St. Ma1y's seminary
 Emmittsburg, Md.
 The St. Ignatius Athletic association
 held meeting yesterday afternoon snt ! AoI kl, ce1l zf
 James N. Greene, Thomas Fogarty, Thoms
 Maher, John Kennedy, John Grady, ,Charle
 Keane, Thomas Kelleher, James Hope
 Thomas Coffey and John Gibbons.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-15
COMING WEEK IN CONGRESS.

Indications of a Notable Week - The
 Silver Question Appropriation
 Bills-Indian Affairs.
 WASHINGTON, D. c. Feb. 14.-There are indications that this week will be notable in congressional annals as one in which political issues were made up. In the house there may be an alignment of mem bers on the silver question, and it is prob able that in the senate will be defined the economical policy of the demo- crats as a sequence of the program adopted by the majority in the house. The bill providing for the public printing and binding, which is the pending busi- ness in the senate will probably be attacked in the section creating a superintendent of public documents. The democratic sen ators are disposed to question the state ment that the entire bill is in the interest of economy. The debate on the measure is expected to occupy several days.
 It is probable that the subject of appro- priations will the topic of discussion in the house during the week unless the silver question should be forced to the front. It is the intention of the Indian affairs com mittee to call up the Indian appropriation bill and its consideration may operate to postpone all other measures The silver men are striving to have the house rules committee report at an early day MT. Bland's resolution making the sill yer bill a special continuing order in the house. When this resolution is reported it is expected that an interesting parlia- | struggle will begin.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-15
PROPOSE A NEW BELT LINE.

PROPOSE A NEW BELT LINE. Rather Than Elevate Their Tracks
 Roads Entering Chicago Will
 Abandon Their Property Within
 the City Limits.
 CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-The Times says a revolutionary move is contemplated by the railways entering Chicago. Rather than elevate their tracks they propose to build a new belt line with which each road will make connections, all tracks, depots and other property within the city limits to be abandoned.
 The Chicago and Northwestern estimates that to elevate the 19O miles of surface tracks which it owns in the city would cost $65, 900, ,000. There are nearly l ,5OO miles of surface tracks in Chicago proper, and on this basis the cost to complete the eleva- tion would run up to between $6OO,- 900, ,000 and $900 000, ,000, or nearly twice the amonnt it would cost to duplicate the great Atchison system, which, with it's 10, 900 miles of main lines, is the greatest railroad company in the world. It is pro- posed to sell all railroad property in the city limits and it is believed the amount so realized will build the belt line at the new depots, and pay all expenses attending the change, and then leave a surplus of more than $10, ,000, ,000in the aggregate. Behind the scheme are the all the Vanderbilt roads, including the Chicago and Northwestern, and six other companies. The motive for this radical departure is the agitation re- sulting from the daily horrors at Grand Crossing and loss of life in the aggregate being appalling.