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

We are offering Job Printing cheaper
than any Office in this section. And
not until after the Ball. will we
allow any one to compete with us. Send
| us an order.
The boy who told his father that he
had horrid cold in his head was
cruelty rebuffed when the old man
thanked heaven that he had at last
something in it.
Postmaster Brinkley is i'll receipt of
Postal Card from the Relief Commit
tee of Brunswick, Ca, thanking some
unknown friend for five dollars sent
the sufferers from this city.
The increase of our patronage during
the past week has been exceedingly
gratifying. Old friends have renewed
their allegiance, and many new ones
have joined them. Words of cheer are
extended us on every hand and we ap-
preciate them, and hepe to eetpublic
expectations.
Says an exchange: The serc and
faded leaf droppeth from the swaying
trees. The luscious pumpkin yellows
in the cornfcld. The turkey goblcr be-
gins to fatten in the barnyard These
signs point to the approach of the an
nual thanksgiving season.
Grand Master Coco. Berry, of GeOr-
gia, has sent All appeal to the order at
large for assistance for the Odd Fellows
of Brunswick Grand Master Caster,
of this State, appeals to the order i'll
this Jurisdiction and the Edcnton Odd
Fellows promptly responded by for
warding 4 contribution on Tuesday last.
Farmers, your attention is directed
to the advertisement of the J. w. Perry
Company, of Norfolk, cotton factors
and dealers i'll cotton ties, bagging and
peanut bags. This firm is old, we'll es-
tablished and perfectly reliable, and
we hope our farmers will send them
their cotton and peanuts when shipping
to Norfolk.
At Suffolk, Va, last week the snake
charmer, Lille Iona, who is seen every
year at our fair, was bitten i'll her arm
by IS foot boa-constrictor. We met
the lady Wednesday at the L. City
Fair, who informed lis that the wound
was not at all dangerous, that a mad
stone had been applied to the bite, and
that she would again amusc our people
at the I:dentOn Fair.
What stale, miserable place this
world wC;tld be without children. They
are to the world just rs plums are to
plum pudding-thcy make it the rich
cr. You all know what plum pudding
would be with the plnms left out, so
our world would, without the merry
children, be a sort of gloomy funeral
hymn all the time. Children are of
much more Importance in this world
than we sometimes think. Some of
them preach sermons every day to
which a ministers long Sunday-lccture
cannot hold a light
Last week man stepped up to us
and said he would pay us every cent he
owed, if he lived till Saturday night; !
we presume that man died. Another
said he would pay us i'll a day or two,
as sure as we were born; qucry-dld the
man lie, or were we born? Another
said he would settle his bill as sure as
shooting; we are led to the conclusion
that shooting is decidedly uncertain.
Quite a number said they would see us
tomorrow; those men have been blind
ever since, or else tomorrow has not
come. One man told us, six months
ago, that he would pay us as soon as he
got some money; that man would not
lie, and of course has not had 4 cent
since. We will not call the names of
the above parties just now, but will
give them one more chance to make
their promises good.