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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
SOUTHERN TRADE.
Business is Better in That Section
Than Elsewhere.

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record in
its weekly review of business conditions in
the South, says: ''The two things that are
now attracting most notice in Southern bust
ness affairs are the great attention that is be-
ing given to attracting settlers to the South
already resulting in bringing to this section
many Northern and Western families, and in
the sales of extensive tracts of Southern
agricultural lands and the tendency OF
Western trade to seek a foreign outlet
through Southern ports.
con the latter subject the entire West
seems to be aroused. Many of the new rail-
road combinations and projected lines that
are now before the country seem to be based
on the idea that there will be heavy in
crease in the shipments of Western products
through Southern ports, instead of through
North Atlantic ports. The effect of this is
already seen in the increase in the total
value of foreign exports from Southern ports
from 1902, SOC, 900 for the eight months end
ing with February, 1893, to $23O, 200, 900 for
the eight months ending with February.
1894, the gain being $27, 800, 900, the total in
crease for the entire country having been
S52 900. 600. more than one-half Of the whole
gain being from the South.
The steady improvement in the business
interests of the South is shown in the total
bank clearings of the first three months Of
1894. as compared with the same period of
1898. The decrease for seventy-one cities of
the country was nearly thirty-three per
cent. but sixteen Southern cities, including
Baltimore. show a decrease of only fifteen
per cent Out of seventy-seven cities report
ed only five had an increase in clearings, and
of these three were in the South"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
"aShiD~tOn.

THE Senate gave Senator Walsh, OF
Georgia. the following named committee as
signments Quadro-Centennial (select)
Chairman Postoffices and Post Roads, Re-
lations with Canada (seect), National Banks
(s9lect) and Private Land Claims.
THE Postmaster-General talked over a
long distance telephone, for the first time,
with Postmaster Hessing in Chicago.
The President madethe following nomina-
tions: Ormond Hammond, Assistant Treas
urer at Baltimore Barnes Compton, Naval
officer in the District of Baltimore Frank
T. Shaw, Collector of Customs, Baltimore
Davis Warfleld, Postmaster at Baltimore !; c.
Ridgely Goodwin, Surveyor of Customs, Bal
timore w. L. Marbury, United StatesDistrict
Attorney for Maryland William Fl. Harries,
Collector Of Internal Revenue, District of
Minnesota William II. Manogue, Collector
Of Customs at Georgetown, D. G. NJ. A.
Frawley, Surveyor Of Customs at Burlington,
Iowa John e. Lynch, United States Marshal
Eastern District of Missouri.
DIRECTOR PRESTON, of the Mint Bureau,
has completed his final figures on the gold
production of the United States during the
calendar year 1898. The total product is
given as 1,739,031 ounces, valued at $35,-
$50, 900, which is an increase for the year
of 73,455 ounces, representing 91,518423.
THE President sent to the Senate another
batch of Hawaiian correspondence, which
contains some information that has been be-
1OIS IhS puUlAC SoFSISAI LII tnAA
cial form.
A DEMOCRATIC caucus OF Representatives
decided by a majority of almost forty to re-
port quorum-counting rule.
SECRETARY LAMONT and party returned to
Washington from a three weeks trip of in
spect1on to the various army posts of the
South and Southwest. All of the posts
v.s.;.E We're louu. 40 l,t, in * :..iicut condt
ton, and the trip was a very enjoyable one.
WILLIAs1 MCGARRAHAN, one of Washing
tons celebrities. who, for nearly half CEN
tury, has been vainiy oontesting before Con-
gress for what he claimed to be his rights, in
the Rancho Panoche Grande, has at last
given up his fight, broken in health. The
value of his claim mounted up to the mill
ions.
The Senate confirmed the following
nominations W. W. ROckhill, Of Maryland,
TO be Third Assistant Secretary OF State.
: lward H. Strobel, of New York, to be Er-
yoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
riary to Ecuador.
THE log book AMI otner valuable relics OF
and will be turned over to the Navy Depart
ment.
CoMsfoDoRE ERBEN has pref erred charges
OF dereliction of dEty against Captain
Mahan.
MADELINE POLLARD wins The jury at
Washington decided that W. c. P. Breck ~
ridge, Repres sentative from the Lcxingt' .
(ky.) District, broke a bona fide profnis"
marry her and that he must pay her SO .o9n
therefor, The jury WAS our less than nin-;y
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, who had
not been we'll since the assembling of Con-
gress and had been confined to his homo in
Washington for the past month, had a turn
for the worse and died at 1O.45 o'clock p. m.
At about noon he had stroke of apoplexy.
The stroke sent the blood to tho brain, and
since then he had been unconscious.
Zebulon B. Vance was born in Buncombe
County, North Carolina, on May 13. 1880.
He was educated at Washington College, Ten
nessee. and at the University of North Caro-
lima He afterward studied law. was admitted
to the bar in 1852, and was elected County
Attorney the sameyear. He was elected to the
State House of Commons in 1854, and was
members of the Thirty-f1fth and Thirty
sixth Congresses. In May, 1861, he entered
the Confederate service as Captain, and was
made Colonel in August. In 1862 he was
elected Governor of North Carolina, and was
reelected in 1864. He was first elected to
the United States Senate in 1876. but adj
mission was refused him, and he re-
signed in January, 1872. He was the
Democratic nominee for the Senate the same
year, but was defeated by a combination of
bolting Democrats and Republicans. He was
elected Governor for the third time in 1875,
and was elected to the Senate and took his
seat on March 18. 1879. He was reelected in
1894 and 1890. His term will expire on March
Y 1897,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
South and West.

LESS than three hundred men were affected
by the building trades lock out in Chicago.
THE Worlds Fair buildings are still the
property of the South Park Commissioners.
The sale of the buildings to L. c. Garrett, OF
st. Louis, was declared off because the money
was not forthcoming.
JUDGE DUNDY, Of Omaha, Neb, ordered
the wages Of the unorganized employees of
the Union Pacific restored to the basis which
ruled before the reduction recently inaugu-
rated by the receivers.
GovFnNoR TILLMAN, of South Carolina,
began to disband those militia companies
which refused to follow his Darlington or.
ders.
FIRE destroyed the business portion of
ElizabethtoWn, KY.
SEYMOUR NEwIIN, colored man with a
bad reputation, committed a criminal as
sault upon an aged woman named Mrs.
Knowles, living at Rash Sylvania, Logan
County, Ohio. He was taken from a Gala
boose by a mob aud hanged to a tree.
THERE was just S249, $50. 76 worth of dis
pensary liquor sold in South Carolina dur
ing the quarter ending February /. There
were fifty-seven dispensaries in operation,
and the net profits for equal division be-
tween the counties and towns were $41,-
1884
aged seventy-two. He was born at and al
ways lived at Camden. S. c., except that he
served the COnfederacy throughout the war;
rising from Colonel to Major-General. He
was Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court from
f1977 until last June, when he resigned be-
cause of ill health. and then President Cleve-
land made him Postmaster.
The Great Northern railroad strike
spread to 1900 miles of the line.
TWENTY -FOUR buildings in the heart of
Santa Cruz. Cal. were burned. Loss $685.
000
A FATAL accident occurred at Huntington,
Tenn, where party of schoolboys attempted
to haze a new student. The plan was to take
the victim to the woods and frighten him
with pistols fired from ambush. One of the
shots struck young man named H. L. Har-
per, who was passing along the road at the
time, inficting a wound from which he died
in a few hours
AN expert investigation of the books of
City Treasurer Mrs. E. r. Pulliam. of Fort
Scott, Kan, the only female city treasurer in
the State, makes it appear that she is $1,000
short in her accounts. She has been sus-
pended pending further investigation.
The stoppage of traffic by reason of a
strike continued over a large part of the
Cheat Northern Railway in the West.
A LONE highwayman robbed the stage near
Milton, Cal, of the Wells-Fargo treasure
box, containing $1,000
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
Foreign.

Tue forces IF President Peixoto have re-
captured Parangua from the Brazilian
insurgents.
SIR WILLIAM HARCoURT announced to the
House of Commons that the territory OF
Uganda, Africa, had been placed under
British protectOrate, with a regular admins
tration-
THE farmers of England, France Ger
many, Austria and Poland are grealy wor-
ried by the dry weather which prevails in
these countries. The drought has not been
broken in more than five weeks.
AN explosion caused by fire damp occurred
in coal mine at Czuprija, ServIa. Sixteen
were killed.
ADMIRAL MELLo and his adherents have
been driven out of Rio Grarde, and the
Brazilian revolution Is apparently nearly
ended.
PRESIDENT CARNoT will not be a candidate
for reelection at the French elections next
fall.
RIAz PAsHA, of Egypt, who has been a
thorn in the British flesh, has resigned and
his fellow-Ministers go out Of Office with him.
The Khedive consulted Lord Cromer before
picking out a new Premier.
NEARLY fifty houses were destroyed and
eight farms were devastated by fire in
Oldenburg, Germany. The flames spread
rapidly, as the buildings and timber had
been parched by the drought and there was
little water available.
THE budget introduced into the English
House of Commons provides chiefly by in
creased taxation for an estimated deficit of
1922, 500, ,000
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
LAWLESS STRIKERS KILLED.
A Plucky Sheriff QueIls a Mob of
Furious Poles.

Trouble has been brewing between the
Water Board and the Polish laborers engaged
to lay the pipe extensions east Of the
waterworks, near Connors Creek, four
miles from Detroit. Mich. over
the question of wages for som"
DAYS These men were quarreisome, and re-
fused to go to work themselves or allow any
one else to do SO, but no serious outbreak
occurred At o'clock Il. m. an angry look
ing mob began to gather at the scene, ana
when o'clock arrived more than 500 men,
carrying pickaxes and spades. were patrol
ling the road. Four policemen were sworn
in as deputy sheriffs, and eighteen men We're
put to work. The strikers threatened to Kill
the first man who dared attempt to do any
work, and when one of the men, more dar-
ing than his felIow-WOrkmen. jumped into
the ditch he was saYagely assaulted. Inc
handful of deputies were OVerpOwered. and
the strikers were left in possession for tho
time being.
When Engineer Williams attempted to
withdraw his men peacefully the strikers be
came furious and made an onslaughter on
one of the men. Sheriff Collins ordered the
mob to disperse. threatening to shoot if the
order was not Obeyed. The mob appeared
maddened, however and continued the at
tack Then the sheriff ordered his posse to
fire He suited the action to the word, and
fired three shots from his revolver in rapid
succession This was signal for vOlley
from the deputies, who emptied their revoi-
yers at the advancing mob. Two strikers
were shot dead. and at least fifteen others
are more or less dangerously wounded. The
sheriff was Knocked senseless, being struck
over the head repeatedly with shovel His
injuries were considered dangerous. This
had a demoralizing effect on the MOB. and it
fell back.
The dead are Andrea Karnetski and John
Pielat. The injured are Theopil SIawlnski,
ha hap Oua1nDGkF.
shot in the breast. fatally :Laurenz Kulwicsr
shot in the hip Tony Gerkowiaki, shot IN
the thigh, all strikers. Sheriff Collins, cut
on head and right leg ant several roiy
bruises, Foreman CatheY, fatally injurad,
end a policeman, seriously cut and bruIse1.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
THE THIRTEEN-INCH GUN.
1t Sent a Half-Ton ProjectiIe Through
TweIve-Inch Steel Plate.

Naval ordnance officers fired two shots
from the big thirteen-inch gun at Indian
Head proving grounds near Washington,
few days ago, which proved to their com
plete satisfaction that the gun is a magnih-
cent weapon, probably unsurpassed for
all practical purposes. The occa-
sion for firing the great rife
was TO test the nickel steel projectiles, each
weighing more than half n ton. The target
was tveive-inch nickel steel plate, and both
shells went entirely through II, one OF them
breaking to pieces and the other remaining
intact after it had cleared the plate. The Car
penter shell was unhurt by the operation Of
rushing fts half-ton mass through foot OF
solid steel. which Is exactly what the ord
nance officials have been looking for rs q
means of testing the great seventeen-tnch
armor for the battle ships. The tests wers
therefore only preliminary to the trials for
the acceptance or condemnation o! the
heaviest armor plates yet made in this coun-
try.
In few days it Is probable that the thir-
teen inch gun will be aimed at the typical
battleship plates, with results that will be
anxiousiy awaited by the Navy Department
and the armor contractors. After these
tests the big guns range will be tried hy
long shots down the Potomac River.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
The Senate,

77TH DAY.--The day was consumed by Mr..
Peffer. who continued his speech on the
Wilson bill.
18TH DAY-After some routine morning
business the Senate resumed the considera-
ton of the Further Urgent Deficiency bill.
Mr.. Hill proposed to count pairs to make
quorum. The matter went Over.-When
the Tariff bill was taken up Mr.. PETER con-
tinued his speech on the subject. the fourth
installment. He was followed by Mr.. Nit
chell.
7GTa DAY-Mr Hill reintroduced his reso-
lutiol to 80 amend the rules as t. permit
pairs to be counted in making up a quorum.
The Further Urgent Deficiency bill was
then after some more discussion as to the
censorship of papers prepared by special
agents of the Census Bureau, passed, with
many amendments. The bill, as passed by
the House, appropriated about 1922, 900,
and the amendments of the Senate increase
that amount to 81, ,795, 900. One of the Senate
amendments is $4,000 for the widow of Sena-
tor Colquftt, of Georgia. The Tariff bill
was taken up and Mr.. Quay addressed the
Senate in opposition to 1t.
S0TH DAY.-Funeral services for the late
Senator Vance were held inthe Senate cham
Der. the members of the House participating.
81sT DAY.-Attorney-G General Olney sent a
letter from George Hoadly to the Senate in
reply to the Boatner Union Pacific resolu-
tions.-Mr. Smith, of New Jersey, de-
livered a speech against the income tax
feature of the Tariff bill.
SD DAY.-Messrs. Morrill,, Turpie, Cam.
eron and Quay spoke on the tariff.
The House.
TOOTH DAY.-The House was In session only
IN hour, adjourning On account of the eau
Gus, no quorum and no business.
101sT DAY.-As the Clerk began reading
the journal Mr.. Reed interrupted with the
suggestion that the first business was the
question of approving the journal of the day
before. The House was again unable to OBJ
tain a quorum and. on motion, adjourned.
102D DAY.-No business was done, the
House adjourning out of respect to the mem
Ory of Senator Vance, whose funeral was
held in the Senate Chamber. The House be-
fore adjournment passed appropriate reso-
lutions in honor of the memory of General
Henry ". Slocum.
103D DAY.-The House adopted the
quOrnm-counting rule by a vote of 212 to At,
the Republicans voting for it.-The Diplo-
matte and Consular Appropriation bill was
considered.
104TH BAY.-A debate on the Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation bill drifted into
a general discussion of the Administrations
record.-Mr. Cummings reported the Ma
val Appropriation bill for the year ending
June 80, 1895, and the House sdiourned.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
SCARED TO DEATH.
A Snake Swallows a Canary and
Throws Child Into Commissions,

Virgie Collier. aged twelve, daughter of
Mrs. Irene Collier, living near Skiles, in
Muhlenberg County, Ky., has been fright
ened to death by a back snake, which
crawled into the house IN the absence of the
family, opened cage and swallowed a
canary.
The child came suddenly upon the snake
in her room and Immediately fell in convul-
sions, which continued with ever growing
violence until her death during the might.
The mother killed the snake and found II to
be oves six feet long.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
De MeIIo Sails Away.

The Brazilian Government is advised that
Admiral MeIlo did not surrender himself to
the Uruguayan authorities, but remained
on board the Republica- 1t is said that
II was his intention to surrender TO the
authorities of Uruguay, and that ne offered
to do so on condition that they would not
turn him over to the Brazilian Govern
ment. The Uruguayans were not pre-
pared to give. him such guarantee, and he
put to sea In the Republfca. General
Salgado, with about 400 men, landed from
the Republica and submitted to the
Uruguayans. The men were unarmed, and
were nearly all disabled from wounds, Illness,
and hunger. 1t Is said that after Mello
sailed way from the Uruguayan coast he
returned to tho State of Rio Grande do Sui
and attempted to land with his men, but the
Government troops drove him back, and he
re-embarked and steamed away. His desti-
nation was not known. 1t Is reported that
the State of Santa Catherine has declared al
legtance to the Government.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27

minutes. The case was appealed, defendant
himself arising and making the customary
motion for new trial.
The subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Indian Affairs completed the
Indian Appropriation bill. The bin carries
an appropriation of SO, ,455, ,866. The office
of Superintendent of Indian Schools is
abolished.
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN IRWIN was placed on
the retired list by the operation of law, ON
reaching the age OF sixty-two years He
hauled down his flag on the Philadelphia at
Honolulu, rs Admiral Benham did on the
San Francisco at Curacoa five drys ago.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
NEW HOUSE RULE.
Members Must Answer to Name or
Vote on RolI-CalI.

N1- O-N-~'
The new quorum-counting rule was
adopted and put into practical effect in the
House, and the long deadlock which the op-
position had forced by their refusal to vote
was at last broken.
There was an unusually largo attendance
In the House. and few seats on either side Of
the Chamber were unoccupled. The galleries
were thrOnged to Overlooking in anticipation
of lively fight. General Catchings, of the
Rules Committee, was recognized as soon as
the House met to present the rule, which
was read.
The new rule reads in full as follows
upon every roll-call, and before the be-
ginning thereof, the Speaker shall name two
members, one from each side of the pending
question, if practicable, who shall take their
places at the Clerks desk to tell the names
of at least enough members who are in tho
hall of the House during the rolI-call who do
not respond, when added to those responding
to make quorum. If quorum does not re-
spond on tho roll-call, then the names of
those so noted as present shall be reported
to tho Speaker, who shall cause the list to be
called from the Clerks desk, and recorded
in the Journal, and in determining the pres
once of q quorum to do business, those who
voted, those who answered present and those
so reported present shall be considered.
Members noted may, when their names are
called, record their votes notwithstanding
the provisions of clause l of this rule.
amend clause l of rule 8 by adding this
to the following words, and on a rOll-call
should he not VOTE he shall answer present.
so as to read, every member shall be pres
ent within the hall of the House during its
sittings, unless excused or necessarily pre-
vented, and shall vote on each question put,
unless he has direct personal or pecuniary
interest in the event of such question, and
on a rol-call should he hot vote, he shall
answer present.
The vote was then taken On the rule after
a short debate, and it was adopted by 212
yeas to ~ nays.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
A PICTURESQUE sTEEPLE.
The Wind Blew II on the Church and
1t Stood Upon Its ApCx.

At Litchaeld, Conn, the gallo blew over
the steeple OF st. Michaels Episcopal
Church. II fell apex downward on tho
lawn In front OF tho church, and it's
point sank several feot into tho ground.
Tho steeplo broke of md stood up
side down, its peak in tho ground and its
base In the air Efforts wero made TO pull
tho inverted steeple over by ropes without
success, but tts baso was finally inclined to
tho boil tower, against which it still rcsts,
with apex to tho ground. Apart from tho
loss Of the steeplo tho church was not badly
damaged.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
BULLDOZED THE BANKER.
A Robber With Two Revolvers Grabs
All the Money in Sight.

A bold robbery was perpetrated at Craw-
ford, Neb., the Crawford Banking Company
losing about s2300. The robbery took place
at &. AS p m, after banking hours, and while
President Whipple was alone In the bank.
He was sitting at his desk At work when
suddenly he was told to throw up his hands
and not to call out. He looked into the muz-
zles OF pair of revolvers 10 the hands of
big man. He was told to open the money
drawer. which he did, and the robber poe.
keted the cont ents.
Whipple was then marched to the vault,
and what cash was available there was taken
The robber then closed the vault door, leav
ing the bank President on the inside, ana the
bolt was slipped on the prisoner, who was re-
leased @ few minutes later.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27

in line of battle It was a wretched
affair, which the Aquidaban, well handled.
could have destroyed in half hour, but h
wiped out the last vestige of the monarchial
feet Of Da Cana, and with 1t the last hope Of
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27

The Supreme Court of Colorado has
granted the writ of custer in the Denver
Fire and Police Board controversy, and Or
dered the old board to turn over the offices
at once.
This is complete victory for Governor
Waite. The opinion reviews the history OF
the case and declares that the defendants
could not legally show that they had been
removed for political reasons when the cause
alleged was given in writing, and was upon
it's face a just cause for removal. The an
swer made by them was held to be Insult
cient in lay.
Acknowledgement Tarsney issued orders
for the dismissal of all State troops held un-
der arms at the various armories since the
beginning of this trouble.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27

OWING to the defeat of the British Ministry
on a private bill and small ma jorities Oh other
other measures the downfall OF the Rossbsry
government is predicted by tile Tories,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-27
BRAZIL'S WARCOLLAPSES
THE CONVENIENT TRIUMPHS
OVER ITS ENEMIES.

Admiral de MelIo Surrenders to the
Uruguayan Authorities - Petxoto
Again Rules in Rio Grande do
SuI-The Last Act at the Play at
War in Rio HarbOr.