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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

The yellow fever is still raging
at Brunswick, Georgia.
The bill to repeal the Fedora.
election law passed the house al.
most unanimously.
The New York evening posst
says the Valkyrie will be keptolA
this side of the Atlantic for he
winter. IN
The mayor OF Brooklyn I'D :,
sheriff of Kings county have e-s
clded to prevent the MitcIl- r.
Corbett fight taking placeat H.
Coney Island. {S
The fastest record made as X
by an ocean steamer is dalI
IS hours and Is minutes. ThH
was done last week by the TN
ciana, between Queenstown All
New York.
There is danger of an epiderM
ic In the vicinity of New OrleanI
as a consequence of the preai
number of bodies of storm vic
Tins that lie decomposine ir
In marshes where they cannot be
reached.
A St. Louis woman has lately
perfected an invention for sWeet
potato flour. The process in.
cludes peeling the potatoe and
peel as food for live stock. drv
ing and grinding the potato into
three grades of -four, and also
slicing into Saratoga chips.
Never before says the Phila
delphia Inquirer, has there beer
SO much enforced idleness in tbi,
city: Estimates differ, but the
total is large, and already the sui
terlng is terrible. The winte,
coming on and thousands will h,
dependent On charity unless Con
gross gives the nation relief"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

Rev Sam P. Jones is said to be
making temperance speeches In
the Virginia campaign. Tenn
perance is all right but it is vast
ing time to be trying to carry
Virginia this year for temperance
candidates.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

Little Benny Harrison is op-
posed to repeating the bayonet
election laws. Does the little
fellow expect to be nominated
again that he thinks he will need
their help?-Wil. Messenger.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

The President of the South
Carolina Farmers Alliance is
sues an address to the farmers ad-
vising them to hold their cotton
for better prices and to prepare to
reduce the cotton acreage next
wear and raise their own food
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

Massachusetts, MugWumps. have
fallen out with the President and
are very indignant. 1t is all
about the humbug civil service.
One fellow offered an apology in
the name of the Reform club, to
ex-President Harrison Tor having
"declared that Cleveland was a
more honest and earnest civil
service reformer than he, and
would improve his (Harrison's)
record"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
STATE NEWS.

OF the $50 convicts at the three
farms on the Roanoke, $50 are
repairing dikes and the others
are picking cotton.
DR.. w. R. Wood has rendered
his resignation as superintendent
of the insane asylum and will re-
tire about the first of The year.
1t is reported that whltecaps
have posted notices in Cleveland
county, warning cotton-ginners
not to gin until the price OF cot
ton reaches ten cents per pound.
The State Agricultural society
met last Friday in annual session.
R. H. Battle, Esq, declined re-
election as president and Col.
Julian S. Carr of Durham was
elected as his successor.
The Tarboro Southerner says:
1t was reported on our streets last
week that a man had died near
Williamson, of yellow fever.
Twas said that he was just from
a small town near Brunswick,
Georgia. This report IS given
for what it is worth.
A little girl near Winston was
bitten by snake last August.
She recovered with this excep-
ton: Ever since the bite of the
reptile her eyes have had a green
color, and occasionally her
tongue protrudes in the same
manner as that of snake.
From the Washington Prog
gress we take the following:
Ten years ago salt water fish,
frt sh, was decidedly a luxury i'll
this town. Now it is no unusual
occurrence to ship in one day Io,-
600 pounds. On Saturday morn
ing last the shipment was 113
boxes, containing 100 pounds
each"
Edward Murphy, white man
who fought an alleged prize fight
with a negro at New Berne, at
tackled the local editor of the
New Berne Journal last week
and knocked him senseless. This
tough made the attack because
the Journal spoke Of him as a
common tough. He is now in
Jail. He has tried to get out
under habeas corpus proceedings,
but has failed to do so. He says
he is from Richmond.
We are told of nearly a whole
family, that of Mr.. A. A. Dudly,
having died at Morehead within
twelve days of each other. Mrs.
Dudly died first, a week later the
two year old daughter died and
on last Friday the 18th inst, Mr..
Dudly died, and his sister, Miss
Annie Dudly, about eighteen
years old is now critically i'll.
Mr.. Dudly was in charge of the
Terry planning mill. For a
while he was at the Hamilton
mill in New Berne.-Journal
The Railway Commission have
decided in the matter OF the
GAINESVILLE and Washington rail-
way, against which road COM
plant of insecurity OF track has
been made, to take no action UNI
til November Ist. The company
proposes to make improvements
by the end Of the present month.
1t says the road never made mon
ey and as now built never will,
as the track must run to Ply
mouth or east of that place. So
the part of the road north of
Walkers Neck is to be aband-
oned, and a new line constructed
at once from Walkers Neck to
Plymouth. The track to be re-
moved is between Walkers Neck
and GAINESVILLE.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
DEATH OF JUDGE BOND.

The telegraph of Tuesday an
nounced the death of Judge Bond
In Baltimore that day. He had
been Judge of the United States
District Court, embracing the
circuit extending from Maryland
to South Carolina, from 1870
when he was appointed by Presi-
dent Grant.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
OUR COLORED PEOPLE.
This column is edited by w. E. Burk.

Sunday being stormy day our
churches were SHINY attended.
K. NJ. Lee has opened a bar
and grocery below Water street.
Misses Mary and Penlope
johnson left on the Goth for
Norfolk.
Miss Priscilla Dixon returned
home from CresWell on the
24th.
Rev c. NJ. Cartwright was at
Columbia, N. c., on Sunday
last.
Rev. H. B. Pettigrew LETT on
the 24th for E. City to accom-
pany his daughter.
Miss Gertrude Bowser, of Man.
teo. is in our city visiting We
wish her a pleasant stay.
Miss Laura Alice Pettigrew
left on the 24th to attend the E.
City State Normal School.
Mr.. Allen Smith returned from
Cape Charles city on the 24th.
Glad to see him home again.
Don't forget that the Edenton
A. & F. fair dates are Nov. 9TH,
Sth, 9th, and 10th. Don't let
it pass without seeing it.
Pay the printer NOW what you
owe, and help him make the
paper one of the best. Do not
expect pearls for promises,
Mr.. Daniel Oden left OH the
24th for Washington, N. c., be-
ing hurriedly summoned to Wit
ness the burial of his wife.
Miss Rachel A. Roberts re-
turned home on the 23rd from
Berkeley, where she has been Wis
lt1ng her sister Mary E. Harvey.
Miss Matte Mabene is home
from E. City, being summoned
to attend the funeral of her neice
little Lillian Sivors.
Mrs. Samuel Walker of Bos-
ton, Mass, formerly of this city,
was in town last week visiting
friends. She returned home On
the 24th.
Remember that w. E. Burk's
shoe shop is the only frst-class
shoe shop in town. Prices to
suit the times. Shop on Mag
nolia street.
We were pleased to shake the
hands Of Rev. J. A. Faux and
Rev. J K. Lamb of E. City who
were returning from the Baptist
State Convention which con-
vened in the city of Winston-Sa-
lem on the 18TH.
We announce with profound
regret the very sudden death of
Mrs, Daniel Oden which occurred
at Washington, N. c., on the
morning of the 24th. She left
home on the 10th to visit her
people. at which place she died
of Congestive Chills. The be-
reaved have our sympathy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
SMART MEN AND GREAT
MEN.

"great" and smart men, as at
the present day. Almost every
school teacher and cross-road
squire is making some preten-
tons of smartness and greatness.
Almost every bobtail merchant or
business man that can raise few
hundred dollars from his friends,
or blacksmith fathers hard labor
is a great and smart man. The
lad, that was once so good and
sociable among his numerous
country friends, soon aspires to
politics and makes innumerable
promises to be fulfilled when he
is in Office. In nine cases out of
every ten, when the hard work
ing, good lcitizens have placed
him in any position, it is the last
thought of them, or their inter
ests, until the canvass for re-elec-
ton. big" men, and the people
supporting them ! The country
is full of them, and everybody
knows them-particularly about
election times. They live in fine
houses and drive fine horses and
(after you nave voted) you had
better get we'll out of the road
when they come along, or they
will run right over you Not be-
cause they mean to, but because
they see so far in the future that
they have no eyes for small mat
tiers ! They are after the main
chance! They know the power
which rules the world, and are
closer after it-money!
AS general thing, they are
children of poverty. They like
to tell of it-they like to remind
their friends of how smart they
have been! Doubtless they came
to the city with but shilling in
their pockets 1t is quite the
thing for boys who want to be
smart men to launch out i'll life
with Ebut a shilling in their
pockets
1t sounds pretty to speak of it
when these same boys have be
come smart men, and are making
public speeches after their cleo
ton to Congress, and they can
finger knowingly their diamond
studs and watch seals while they
are alluding to it. 1t will show
more plainly the connection be-
tween the past and the present.
ooh, he is a smart man p
And everybody looks after him
and studies the cut of his clothes,
and the way he brushes past the
ragged neWsboy. The young
ladies shake out their founces at
his approach, and their mamas
smile on him, and tell him in
conhdence-"Fanny is such a
sweet girl, SO afectionate, you
know !"
Who stops to ask how many
widows and orphans he has
crushed in his triumphal march
to success ? Who knows, or
cares, anything about the bar
gains he has driveu-by which
perchance, poor men were swim
died, and honest labor lost its
just recompense?
The poor wretch who steals a
loaf of bread from your shop, or a
penny from your pocket, is
thief! Society brands him, 1.-THE
laws of the country punish him,
virtue shrinks away from him,
and he has before him two
choices-death, oblivion, or the
society of the lowest and vilest
But the man who, by shrewd
ness and calculation, flches his
from his neighbor in a
sharp bargain, is a smart man,
and society Worships him, and
men honour him; and if there is
a fat Office vacant, he is put into
lt-ars1 20 the world goes on!
God hasten the time when hon
est and true worth shall be the
standard by which man is iudg-
ed, and when his standing in So
ciety shall not be determined by
his bank account
do SOMETHING"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
EDENTON, N. C. Oct. 81, 1898.

A Cincinnati man, it is sald'
has not slept in three weeks.
Probably he is in training for a
limited States Senatorship.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

When two young people marry
for love they both marry for
tune, although they may be as
poor as a couple of Jobs shah
best turkeys.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27

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s. 2. SMITH, of Towanda, Pa,
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Ibelieve this preparation of Sarsaparilla
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-27
GENERAL NEWS.

The yellow fever is still raging
at Brunswick, Georgia.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04
MISS ANTHONY FOREVER.

The New York State Industrial
School for girls has worthy champion
in Susan B. Anthony, who is now a
member of the board of managers of
that institution. In her tour of inspec-
ton, she found that the boys industrial
school was enjoying the benefit of i'm
proved laundry machinery, while the
poor girls were forced to use Anticipated
wash-tubs boards and flat irons. Miss
Anthony hustled around, and at last was
able to obtain leave from Governor Flow
er for her girls to take their wash to the
boys department. The girls have now
ample time to attend the cooking, dress
making and millinery classes Miss An
thony is establishing.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

similar compounds, always describe
that which is of it's kind coarse, rough,
and unfit for delicate uses. The origi-
nal meaning of it was one of condem-
nation and dispraise for a stupidity ap-
preaching well-nigh to idiocy. If some
thorough horses and donkey were
comparing experiences and boasting Of
their successes, the donkey might say:
"Oh, l run in every race, but never win
any! l am Jack at everything" The
saying was coined to discourage the
donkey who should attempt everything
and succeed in nothing. If they who
make this confession so glibly remem-
bered that, literally translated, it means,
81 am Ounce at everything, and do
nothing well" we should hear less of
this remarkable proverb.
Register.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

Warden Lamoreaux's report of the
state prison shows among other things
that 249 convicts were placed behind
the bars of the prison in 1892. Thirty
six of these were under 20 years of age,
ia between 21 and 30, 50 between 80
and 40, 9 between so and 60, and be-
tween 80 and 20. One hundred and
thirty-six were moderate drinkers, "a
were Incorporate, 80 total abstainers.
Fiftythree were married, 176 single, 2
widows, being the only women, IL wild
overs, and 6 divorces. One hundred
and seventy-eight were born in the
United States, % in Canada, 20 in Ger
many, in Ireland, in Norway, in
Sweden, 3 in England, 2 in Wales. in
Austria, l in Arabia, in Belgium, 1
in Bohemia, in Denmark, in Holland,
in Mexico, in Poland, and in Swift
erland. There are n life prisoners now
confined there. The longest time served
by any prisoner now confined is thirty
years. Washbu1n Co. (Wis.) Register
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

"Jack at all trades and master of
none" is saying often used with cheer
full alacrity, that indicates in the speak
er cOmplacent cOntentment with him
self and his many requirements. Being
rallied on his diverse occupations, one
exclaims, "Oh, l am a Jack at all
trades! This use of the saying is so
peculiarly inappropriate and opposed
to it's real meaning that it is a wonder
how it ever became so perverted. The
word "Jack," once understood to mean
something rough, coarse, and untitled
for fine uses, is now misused to signify
an adept at all trdes. A jack-screw, a
jack-knife, jaok-bolt, jackass, and
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

The actions of the United States SEN
ate is leading the American people to
believe that only part of the contents
of the Russian treaty is to be revealed
to the outside public. Let us have it all.
Every American citizen is interested in
the treaty: and he has the right to know
what the servants he has hired to do
his lawmaking for him are about.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

THE MIRROR joins the numerous
friends of Mrs. Lulie Monroe Power,
editress of the Iron Clad Age, in her
great sorrow. Death, the great propri-
etor of all, has snatched from her arms
her son, Erie Monroe. He had reached
that bright age when youth holds no
society with grief" passing away from
this world in his nineteenth year.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

Mayor Harrison has ventilated his
views in cold type, and tells how he
proposes to govern Chicago this year.
The police are to be "divorced" from
politics, the principal streets are to be
kept scrupulously clean, and he is
bound, he says, to govern the city on
metropolitan principles.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

The dock strikers of Hull, England,
have adopted an excellent means of de-
feating themselves, and of creating SEN
timent against labor organizations in
general, by resorting to the destruction
of property in their effort to carry their
point, which they have despaired of do
ing by lawful means.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

The enterprising publishers of Puck
are bound to keep abreast, if not a little
ahead, of the times. They have erected
building on the Worlds Fair grounds
from which weekly edition of the
Worlds Fair Puck will be issued. A
sample copy received at this office is as
bright as newly coined dollar.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

Now that it is proposed to amend the
Penal Code by making it misdemean-
or to wilfully misrepresent the circula-
ton of any newspaper or periodical, we
may expect to hear no more comments
upon the low educational standard of
our prison populations Summary.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

The warden of Sing Sing gave orders
to his jailers to shoot the escaping pris-
oners on sight. Nothing is said about
his intention to shoot the men who per-
mitted them to escape-Nicetoacn Ne
11eSiS
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

A brace of sharpers in Chicago have
perpetrated one of the most barefaced
ticket swindles known in the history of
railroads. By simply borrowing the
name of little wood road eight miles
long in Louisiana, they printed tickets
by wholesale purporting to be the roads
issue and reaching any point in this
country passenger wished to go. The
tickets were honored promptly, and the
swindle was only discovered when the
various lines drew on the eight-mile
road for their proportions of the haul.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

The New York Herald recently in
vited a number of well-known literary
gentleman, in America and Europe, to
give their views on the question, what
are the qualities essential to the devel-
opment of the perfect man." Chaun-
cy NJ. Depew responded as follows:
1.-THE man who would answer this
question must be phenomenal egotist
If he know what constitutes a perfect
man, then he is one, or ought to be-
If he says that he is, we all know that
he lies, and no man will admit in print
his deficiencies-mor intellectual or
physical. a perfect man would be a
creature who could find no congenial
companion in the club, society, business
or politics, and no woman would live
with him. So long as we all do the best
we can, according to our lights, to reach
the ideals of our faith we will get as
near perfection as is possible in this
world, with reasonable hope for the
next, and still have enough human weak
nesses not to be an offense to our
neighbors, who are doing the best they
can, but are happily conscious of their
own frailties."
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

The tired feeling that comes from
dissipation, the recuperative powers of
nature do not hurry to relieve. That
tired feeling that comes from honest
toll makes sleep sweet and enjoyable.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

England's chancellor of the excheq-
uer, proposes to increase the income tax
by penny on the pound. This is to
cover the expenditures of the coming
fiscal year, which will exceed its reve-
nues by about 100000.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

sends wife heaters to the workhouse for
80 days. They have set movement on
foot to present him with magnificent
testimonial; but far preferable would it
be to give the "jedge" "a life position, as
such man is worth preserving.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

The insurance companies are paying
their policies on the cargo of the freight
steamer Naronic, proving that she is at
last given up entirely. She will proba-
bly, remain as the ocean mystery.of 1893
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

per published in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t
was founded in 1887 by the cOnvicts and is edited
and managed by them. Its objects are: to be a
home newspaper; to encourage moral and intel
lectual improvement among the prisoners; to
acquant the public with the true status of the
prisoner; to disseminate pathological informa-
ton, and to aid in dispelling that prejudice
which has ever been the bar sinister to fallen
mans self-redemption. The paper is entirely
dependent on the public for its financial sup
port. If at any time there should accrue a sur
plus of funds the money would be expended in
the interests of the prison library.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04

ToaCn Topics, published at Lincoln,
Neb., and the Hutchinson Leader,
Hutchinson, Mimi, are the latest papers
added to our exchange list.