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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
Cholera at Hamburg.

DR.. Veuz, of Hamburg gives a graphic
description of the sad condition of the city.
The old town, he says, is a collection Of
dirty, sitting, crowded charnel houses. The
Alter Jung ferstieg is desolate. the Alster
pavilion deserted. There are few tram cars,
and they are almost empty. The whole city
is in dreary and disheartening contrast to
what it was. The tree-lined .5pielbudenplatz
IS un1requented, and an oppressive stiffness
hangs over it. The cafes are empty
One head-waiter, who serves at a restau-
rant where fOrmerl y 1860 persons ate daily,
told the physician the other day that eight
cen customers had been there up to D. m.
In passing the strasSe he saw a crowd and
SIX policemen holding it in check, while six
women ran screaming down the roa1 after
ambuIances which were bearing their
husbands away to the cholera hospital Oc-
cupants of houses, he says, often run out in
the street and beseech passing policemen to
send ambulanceS to remove patients but the
police can seldom accede to their appeals as
the ambulance service is quite inadequate to
the demands upon it.
At night DIR. VeuZ says, the streets are
completely deserted by pedestrians. al
though ambulances, dead wagons and
hearses can N, be heard passing almost con-
authorities. DR.. Veuz says are utterly
worthless. On one day the number of
deaths announced by the health officials was
but one-haf the number registered at the
Office.
The epidemic shows no sign of abatement.
On the day tnis cablegram was sent 969 new
cases and 500 deaths were announced, the
victims being mostly women. There were
$50 burlals. The deaths in the prisons and
lunatic asylums have been dis proportion
ately numerous. The banks have resolved
to prolong the term of payment of bills now
due till October.
The loss Of business is estimated at $780,
O,OOO. Prayer meetings are held to i'm
plore Divine assistance. Relief committees
have been formed in every ward of the city.
No other European town presents a greater
contrast between the old and new quarters.
The new quarter and the suburbs are
handsome and well built, with breezy open
spaces The old part is dirty and sitting,
and its population Of 15O, OOOis squeezed into
the space of an English town of 5000 in
habltants. 1t requires some courage to ex-
plore the further recesses of the sunless
labyrinths where each house is occupied by
dozen families. The narrow streets are
reeking with decayed vegetables and evil
smelling liquids.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
AFATAL WRECK.
Disregard of Danger Signal by the
Engineer the Cause.


Three men were instantly killed and two
others injured by an accident to the morn
ing newspaper train on the Hudson River
division of the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad at New Hamburg, n.
Y. at 6:15 o'clock few mornings ago.
The fatal accident was said to have been
due to the carelessness of the engineer, VINO
disregarded danger signal and tried to run
his train over an open drawbridge. The en-
gineer was one of the three who were killed
outright, His fireman and postal clerk
were the Others. OF the sixteen men on the
train, eleven escaped with severe shaking.
At New Hamburg the Hudson river
division of the Central, crosses NapplngeT5
Creek on a short bridge which spans about
twenty-five of water. The bridge is swing
draw. The draw had been opened for the
nearly closed again when the train dashed
on the bridge at the rate of a mile minute.
The engine bounded over the space Dc
tween the southern section of the bridge ana
the draw and hung from the middle por-
ton, with the tender hanging over the
water.
Only the strength of the couplings pre-
vented the rest of the train from piu1glng
down into the creek. But the mail car
was hurled on top of the tender
and badly smashed Engineer Owens
Firenlen Beck and John f. King. ons
of the postal clerks, were instantly killei.
Conductor Todd, Chief Postal Clerk
Toomey and Brakeman ONeil were badly
bruised. The other men escaped with slight
hurts.
Much Of the mail matter was destroyed.
The engine, tender and mail car were en-.
hrely wrecked.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16

Lizzie Borden Held at Fall River for
Her Fathers Murder.

Arguments were heard by Judge Blais-
dell, of the District Court, at Fall River,
Mass, in the case of Miss Lizzie Borden, &C.
cused of the murder of her father and step
mother. The evidence was reviewed by
both Mr.. Jennings, Miss Borden's counsel,
and the District Attorney, and at the close
the Judge declared Miss Borden probably
guilty and held her for the action of the
Grand Jury
PENDANT, commenced his argument at $50
and closed at Hos. He contended that the
State had failed to prove that there existed
an opportunity for the prisoner to commit
the crime, and that it based its case on
merely the inconsistencies in the story told
by Lizzie Borden of her whereabouts on the
morning Of the murder.
District Attorney 81. NJ. Knowlton fol-
lowed. His argument was mastery sum-
ming up of the evidence. His language
was simple, and he forged around
the accused a solid cham of cir
cumstantial evidence. He said the
motive that caused Lizzie Borden to kill
her parents was her anxiety to inherit the
property, and he declared that She and she
alone, did the deed.
The hacking buCchery was not the work
of a man. 1t was the work Of a woman who
knew not when she had completed her work.
The Ratchet hal not been found, neither
was the bloody dress which she wore, but
the evidence was SO strong that aside from
these things the Court must find that she is
probably guilty.
When Dlstrict-Attorney Knowlton had
finished his summing up for the prosecution
Judge Biaisde1l said: sympathy should be
laid aside. and duty, stern duty, re-
sulres upon this evidence that
but one thing be done. Surprising that
a man was seen in the cham
Der of Mrs. Borden, the guest chamber of
death, and that he was in The room of the
father when death came; suppose that
man should tell as many different stories as
Lizzie Borden had done, the way would be
plain. find that she is probably guilty"
When Lizzie Borden was pronounced prob
ably guilty, hundreds of people gave way to
tears, and the scene in the courtroom was
truly affecting.
She was committed to Taunton Jail with
out bail to await the action OF the Grand
Jury.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

|
The effect of warm weather is found
in the egg basket.
Do not brighten the hens, as it dimin-
| ishes the egg supply.
The largest kind of maturei corn is
the best to convert into ensllage.
In arranging the poultry house have
| both the nests and the roosts low.
One of the worst mistakes that poultry
beginners can make is too close in breed
ing.
In nearly all cases the fowls can be
fattened on soft food faster than on hard
grain.
When the poultry are confined pos.
ton of the run should be spaded up
daily.
With all kinds of poultry it is the
morning meal that is the most important;
give it early.
One of the best ways of fattening
geese rapidly is to feed them boiled oats
with plenty of milk.
A good way to break a hen of wanting
to set is to put her in a strange yard
with a young cockerel.
A COW should be fed all the clover she
can eat, which will be in the neighbor-
hood of five pounds per day.
Select the turkey hens wanted for
breeding. The hens should not be kept
after they are three years old.
Now is the time when the fowls relish
green food. Give them plenty of it and
less grain rations-especially corn.
Care should be taken that the fowls do
not lay on too much fat. Be careful in
feeding, and there will be no danger.
When the feeding is done at regular
hours the fowls soon get accustomed to
it, and will know when the time comes.
Many consider that boiling the milk
before feeding it to the poultry increases
its value aud lessons the risk Of disease.
The fowls losing their feathers is
often caused by want CT green food or OF
dust bath. See that both are supplied.
One reason why there is such large
amount of poor butter is that the cream
is allowed to stand too long before it is
churned.
In feeding a considerable saving
might be made if the keeper would re-
member that what makes fat does not
make eggs.
Old stock of any kind is Improbable.
Every season enough young poultry
should be selected from what is raised
to take the place of the old.
The farm fowl should be of a good
size, good table fowl, good layer, con-
stitutionally strong and we'll adapted to
stand the rough usage of the farm.
No cow was ever a good dairy cow
that was not born so, but thousands Of
COWS that were born so have been
spoiled by poor and unwise handling.
A thrifty tree that fails to bear should
be root pruned. A trench dug about it,
and filled partly with rubbish, will effect
important and profitable changes for the
better. Root pruning checks growth
and develops fruit buds. 1t is an old
remedy, but not as often escorted to as
it should be.
As the wheat aud other small grain
ripens, their sap dries, cutting of the
food supply Of the chinch bugs, which
thqreupon often migra.e to the juicy
stalks Of the cornield. This migration
can be prevented by blowing strip
some rods wide between the small grain
and the corn, as the chinch bugs are
10th to cross land devoid of vegetation.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
A MILE IN 2.O5 IA.

The Peerless Nancy Hanks Lowers
SunOPs Record Three Seconds.
The great little champion of the trotting
turf, the peerless Nancy Hanks, has added
new honors to the fullness of her fame. On
the kite shaped track at Independence, Iowa,
piloted by that prince of drivers, Budd
Doble, she trotted from wire to wire without
q break or falter in the sensational time of
2O5A.
This crowns her triumphs and makes her
indisputably the greatest race mare that
ever was harnessed. Within month she
has achieved a dual championship. At
Washington Park, Chicago, over a regula-
ton track she trotte1 a mile in 2,07L, not
only lowering the record so long held by
Maud s., but beating even the time clada
by Sunol on the Stockton kite
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
SHEEP LICKING EACH OTHER.

Usually when sheep bite and tear
their own wool it indicates some disturb
ing Irritation of the skin. but this is
hardly likely to cause sheep to tear each
others wool, and yet it may be, for ami
mails have way OF knowing what 9TH
ers want. 1t is possible that this habit
may be due to a want Of salt. as the
perspiration OF the skin of an animal is
always more or less salt. 1t might stop
the habit to give the sheep a liberal
quantity Of salt if they have not been
supplied heretofore. If they have, give
dose of one ounce of epson salts to
each Of the flock New York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
LIQUID MANURE FOR PIONEERING PLANTS

liquid MANURE FOR FLOWEKING PLANTS.
Flowers will be produced more freely
if the plants are regularly watered with
some liquid manure. This may be done
safely as follows: Some good manure
mixed with poultry droppings, or some
artificial fertilizer (nitrate of soda is the
best, is put in barrel and stepped in
water. The barrel should be kept full -,
and not more than two pounds of the
fertilizer or half a bushel of the manure
should 60 to a barrel of water. A pint
of this liquid is poured on the soil
around the plant every evening during
the season. If lhe weather is dry the
proportions of water should be doubled
and quart of the diluted liquid given.
American Farmer.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
DEATHS.

HARDIN AN-At the residence Of his son,
W. v. Hardman, N. Main ST., Butler,
Feb. 26. 1892, David w. Hardman, aged
81 years.
UAVIS-At the residence of her mother.
Al Penn'a. Ave, Allegh eny, Feb. 25,
1892, Mrs. Cora Davis, nee Hays, in her
2lst year
HOMPS0N-At her home in Grove City,
Feb. -, 1902, Mrs. Rev. Thompson.
She was buried at Mars.
McKINNEY-0n Monday, February %,
1892, at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. w. 6. Westlake, Grove City, Mrs.
Ellenor Mckinney, Of pneumonia, aged
10 years and | day.
The deceased had been i'll but few days
until death claimed her for his own. She
had been consistent ard faithful member
of the Convenanter church At Mars, Butler
county, for many years. Her remains
were taken to that place for interment in
the Union cemetery. Services we're con-
Quoted at he late residence by Rev. j. Il.
McCleland. Tuesday. She leaves a family
of five children To mourn the loss OF an aifec-
tionate mother. Telephone.
HUMPHREY-At his late residence in
Pine township, Mercer Co, on Sabbath,
Feb. 81, 1899, Mr.. Joseph Humphrey,
age ~ yeats.
HILL-Feb. %, 1892, at her residence In
Allegheny, Pa, Margaret Hill, in her
5atb year
HECRATHoRS-At his home in Worth
twp. Feb. 10Th, 1892. John Heckathorn.
aged about 55 years
He was an old soldier.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
Local Institute Report .

The following is report of the Local
Teachers Institute. held at West Liberty,
Feb 81, 1892 The Institute was called
to order by Mr.. G. G. Magee who was
afterwards elected Chairman. Mr.. 5. s.
Wick conducted the devotional exercises.
Mr.. S. Is. Badger made the opening ad-
dress and in few well chosen remarks,
stated the object of the Institute and the
advantages OF free exchange of ideas in
regard to school work.-Mr. s. S. Wick
gave an instructive talk on Penmanship-
Next was rehearsal by Maggie Francis
entitled death Doomed" The subject of
Fractions was well discussed by Mr.. q. e.
Magee.
Defamation, subject 'E Pluribus Unum"
by Andy McKissick. The next subject on
the program was Percentage by NJ. +.
Mayer At the close of the latter's re-
marks, Mr.. n. w. Campbell of Euclid
school volunteered some remarks on his
methods of teaching Arithmetic.
piece of music was then sung, after
which Miss Flo. McNees favored the
audience with recitation entitled "The
Glacier Beds"
The General discussion of Primary Read
ing IVES opened by Mr.. N. w Campbell
and participated in by Miss Buna Nc.
QUESTION, 5 b. Badger, 5. Wick. NJ. +.
Mayer and G. G. Nagee. Defamation BY
Samuel W. Thompson subject "5heridan's
Ride. Mr.. S. B. Badger gave practical
talk on Language.
In the course Of his remarks he said in
the words of another "laDgnage is not
taught but caught" and that the opp0r-
tunity to acquire the use of good language
should be given as soon as the pupil enters
school Sentence building and composition
should be taught as soon as the pupil lB
able To write. Technical grammar should
be relegated to the realm of forgotten
lore, at least 30 far as the common schools
are concerned. Additional remarks were
made on the subject by Mr.. n. W. Camp
bell
Miss Buna McQuistion gave an In.
structive talk on NJ entail Arithmetic. Dec
lamation, by Gertie Croll, subject The
Girl of 9l." The query box was omitted
ON account Of the lateness of the hour The
exercises Of the occasion closed with the
singing Of "A piece of music.
Onr thanks are due To the ladies of tho
vicinity Tor their assistance in furnishing
music for the occasion. TO the scholars of
this and other schools for the part they
took in the Institute and to the citizens
and friends who encouraged us by their
presence. The Institute adjourned but
not before the impression was made that
it was success and that West Liberty
should not be left out Of the list of Local
Instit tutes in the future.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
A TEACHER.

OCCASIONAL items of information as to
the horrible way in which the defeated
Balmacedists are msltreated by their con-
querors go strongly to confirm the sound
judgment Of President Harrison n making
the Chilians understand thar they could
not indulge their barbarity with impunity
on men wearing the uniform of the United
States.
1t appears, by recent Chilian advices,
that the Balmacedan prisoners are fire.
quently Hogged and otherwise tortured,
and that former officer OF Balmaceda's Is
army. convicted on suspicion Of having
shot one of the guards, was bound to the
corpse ali night before the morning of his
execution. A government which inaicts
such cruel and cowardly vengeance on the
vanquished could only have been brought
to a sense Of the risk incurred in the
slaughter and wounding of American sea
men by an energetic display of force.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
West Sunbury's Musical Canine.

West Sunbury's Musical Canine.
In very stately mansion,
Few furlongs from the mill,
There lived wonderous little dog
That's known by all as Bill.
And now before the morning breaks,
About this dog for fun
Well tell to you little tale,
Fer swiftly home We run.
Some boys and girls one night for fun,
Did meet to play and sing;
But were tormented with this dog,
Whose voice alone did ring.
Although of statue small; he was
OF great capacity;
When he opens his mouth he lets
Go his sagaclty.
And although he knew no grammar,
And parsed not any tense;
However his musical compass
Was simply just immense.
Whenever from the magic keys
The music rose so grand;
The little dog began To sneeze,
His lungs would then expand.
And he sat on the tufted noor
With eyes so very bright,
And sweeter sang than the Fairies,
That round us scared that night.
Then quickly for the organ made,
Whence rose the notes so fne,
To see if like the "Glory Harp"
His structure was divine.
His accent was uncommon good;
But yet he kept no time;
His voice was very badly cracked;
Still, it was quite sublime.
The Tenor. Bass alto and air,
Each part he tried to reach;
But t'would have killed the Leslie ear,
To have heard that dogs speech.
Though men have often fiercely We'd,
For fame in song and story;
But none e'er reach that topmost ring,
Where Billy stood in glory.
And by the shrillest notes e'er heard,
That gathering was blest;
When long since the seven bell had runs
And the town was all at rest.
His color was extremely black;
The music spotless white,
That came from Billy's toothless month,
On that illustrious night.
The leap year party's race by the track
And upset on the bill;
With all their yells. and oh don't boys
Did not compare to Bill.
And we all laughed at Billy's voice,
Accompanied with the organ;
And all agreed it couldn't be drowned,
BY drums Of the waring Morgan.
The boys may go out on their sleds,
If Prof ant on the street,
And make a racket all the night,
Unless they hear his beat.
A key may lock brown front door,
And cause q coonny tree:
But nothing stops and nothing curbs,
Our Billy's do, ra, me.
Some people ride upon the train,
And stop at Euclid station:
But on and on goes Billy's voice,
And sweeps the very nation.
SEVEN SLBEPBRs.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
A Much Absent Senator.

When State elects q United States
Senator it is to have representative IN
the highest legislative body Of the country,
and it ia reasonable to expect him to be
diligent and earnest in attention to his
duties. This is required not only in the
represents, but for the benefit of the country
at large. 1t is expected he will grasp and
act intelligently upon all questions which
concern the people. 1t will hardly be
his seat on two-thirds or more Of the roll
calls on all important measures iulfills this
very proper requirement.
That, however, is the record Senator
Quay has made, and the neglect is all the
more aggravated because his Pennsy lvania
colleague, Senator Cameron, is equally
inattcntive. The State is without any re-
presentation in the Senate great deal OF
the time. Even when our Senators are
present they contribute nothing to the dis
cussions and proceedings save TO respond
when the roll ID called on some question,
and some times on the wrong side. These
are facts with which the people Of Penn
sylvania can hardly have much patience.
1t IL M excuse for absence that Senator
has paired with some one OF different poll
tics. A Senator who is fit for the high
duties Of his office has something to do be-
sides merely answering tu his name when
the roll Ii called and he happens 10 be
present. II he is competent and takes the
trouble TO acquire an understanding Of the
questions under consideration his presence
Ii needed for something more than his
vote. And his pair with an opposition
Senator amounts TO nothing save in the
exceptionally rare cases of party division.
Pennsylyania has been placed in most
humiliating position at Washington by the
frequent absence Of her Senators from their
seats. That absence has more than once
proved an embarrassment to the Republi'
can majority, although their presence some
times has been equally detrimental, as was
the case when the elections bill was side
| tracked and then defeated. The unswery-
ing, nncompromising Republicanism Of
| Pennsylvania, which never faltors in Its
devotion to principle, was disgracefnlly
misrepresented on those occasions. There
are no Republicans anywhere more earnest
! for honest elections and an honest count,
| whether North or south. than the Repub
licans of Pennsy lyaDia, bnt they have not
been properly represented.
These are matters for the Republicans OF
| the State TO reflect upon at this tune
| when they are about 70 nominate candi
dates for the Legislature who will elect a
successor to Mr. Quay. They must de
termine whether the record given in the
Washington dispatches is to be continued
through another six years, or whether tho
great State Of Pennsylvania shall be rep.
resented in the Senate az she is entitled
to Philadelphia Press
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
West Liberty.


The Alletherian Literary Society which
meets every Monday night AT the Barley
school house is u grand success.
There are singings every Friday night
in the u. +. Church conducted by Mr.
Matthew Young.
The Institute held by the Teachers of
Brady twp. in the West Liberty school
house on Saturday. Feb. 81, was well at
tended. The school gave an entertain
ment In the evening.
Miss EfIie Badger Of near Prospect was
visiting friends in this place.
Mr.. It. A. McClymonds and W. ".
moore yere visiting friends in Lancaster
twp. not long ago.
Miss Louisa Allen who j. teaching In
Lancaster twp. was home on a visit on
WashingtoH's birthday.
Mr.. jesse Cornelius aud wifo Of Beaver
Falls, formerly Of this place gave our town
flying visit.
We have nice weather, good roads, pien-
ty to eat and the grippe.
Tue OTWSR FELLOW.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
The Record they have Made.

Every opportunity has been given to
both the Pennsy lyania Senators TO Duitd
themselves up in the public confidence AS
men of public usefulness and reliability.
But every body knows what kind Of rec
ord they both have made. Pennsylvania
ia compelled to turn her face to the wall.
Her representatives on the floor of the
Senate are universally regarded as men ut
terly out of place, of no practical use to
their State, their party, or the country
The greater portion of their time is devot-
cd to the conduct Of practical politics, the
petty affairs of the machine, to setting up
delegates, controlling conventions, and SO
distributing and controlling the spoils,
State and Federal, as to promote their own
personal interests and those of their most
rubservient followers and henchmen. This
is the simple, albeit unpleasant, story, the
plain truth which no intelligent man
will for moment question. n.-Philadelphia
Tele1rdDh.