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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

more easily than tirecrackers it does
not need as many laborers. They are
also men born to the profession, men
whose children will grow up to be
paper makers after them. Every morn
ing Of their lives they wake up with
the one endless routine before them
and they eat and sleep, too, in the
great paper mill. The paper is made
from the bark of the koon chon tree,
which is known in America under the
equally incomprehensiblo name of
"aralia paphyrifeca, ground up with
lime and then baked in kiln. When
in the form of long rolls and then cut
up into slices, inst as the confectioner
behind the great glass window cuts up
his long and yielding twist Of molasses
candy for the amusement of a crowd
of boys outside and the benefit Of those
who come in and buy.
These pieces arc put into curious
little mortar and pounded together
again with a little hammer that comes
very near being worked by machinery,
just as near as anything could in China,
11S1 G4SlC d1 z op SlNly
to work ior miserable allowance OF
rice. At last these slices are made
! into mass again, and this time it
comes out as soft as dough, which is
placed In q large pot of water till it is
completely dissolved, then with some
thing very like sieve they lift water
from this pot, allowing it to run back
again through the bottom, which is "a
fine net of bamboo thread, and there
is always thin white sediment left in
the bottom of the sieve. Suddenly
throwing the sieveupside down on the
floor they dislodge the sediment,
which falls in a thin white film. A
thousand of these are left to lie one
upon the other, then the whole is
taken out in the sun to dry, and thus
it becomes paper. The process is al
ways the same all over China, but the
ingredients differ in almost every
factory. The common ingredients are
bamboo, cotton, the tow of silk, bark
and the leaves of many plants, the
| hair and even the intestines of animals
If you take the inner piece of brown
paper on the wrapping of pack of
|
you will be able to see some of the in
gradients used in making paper.
1t is an easy thing to distinguish
the firecrackers made in America
from those of Chinese make. In the
first place, the American crackers are
never small. They are rarely smaller
than four and half inches in length
and have short cord fuses, while, on
the other hand, the Chinese kind have
paper fuses, are braided into packs
and have gilt labels. A fireworks firm
in Chicago once tried to make small
frecrackers by machinery, but after
several fruitless attempts gave it up
with loss of several Thousand dol
lars. They could reproduce a pack
of firecrackers after the Chinese pat
tern, the only trouble being that they
would not explode. This is mainly
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
FIRECRACKERS
20 "GLORIOUS FOURTH" is
COMPLETE WITHOUT THEM.
How and Where That Delight Of
the Small Boy is Made
A Visit to a Chinese
Cracker Shop.

XSTHAT visions are conjured
w up by the mere name of
Y Y the firecracker? Flags
flying, grotesque process
sions, small boys with smoke black
ened faces and blistered fingers that
mamma is tenderly binding, with in
termittent scoldings-that is the sort
IF thing the f1recrackers bring to
mind, for is it not an adjunct to the
glorious Fourth which no patriotic
young American would be without on
that happy day?
Niter, the principal ingredient of
gunpowder, has always been found in
great quantities in China, and the
ancient records of that country prove
that gunpowder was there manufac-
tured at time when Europe was a
wilderness except in the lit
tie corner where Rome sat on her
seven hills ere she had become the
mighty empress of the world. Fire
works were the ear liest form in which
was used, as oddly enough,
it's entertaining qualities were discov-
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
SCOURGED BY FLAMES.
Jersey City's Extensive Abattoir and
Stock Yards Burned.


Not in many years has such a destructive
fire occurred in Jersey City, N. j., as that
which destroyed the abattoir and cold stor-
age warehouse of the Central Stock Yard
and Transit Company, at the foot of Sixth
street on the Hudson River. The total loss
Is estimated rs approaching close to 81, ,0O0,
900. The structure destroyed covered an
area of five acres.
So rapidly did the fire spread that Watch
man James Mccarthy, who saw it and ran to
give the alarm, heard the roar oftho hungry
flames when he was three blocks away.
Almost the entire plant of the company
was built on piles. Hundreds of feet out
into the river, and on the very edge OF the
artificial foundation, stood the building
where the fire started. This was a gigantic
affair. Its width on the river was 800 feet
and 1t ran back 600 feet.
More than 5000 sheep were DESTROYED by
the flames. The plaintive cries of the poor
animals were distressing. But their torture
was not of long duration. The fire came
with such rush that everything seemed to
go up like flash.
One of the pleasing incidents of the fire
was the -eleasing by some thoughtful indi-
V1dual of a hundred or more sheep from q
pen quite near the abattoir. The frightened
animals did not wait for a leader but in
st1nct1vely sought to get as far as possible
from the element which had DESTROYED their
mates.
In addition to the five thousand sheep
which were destroyed there were 939 head
OF dressed sheep in the refrigerator and 739
head killed and ready for shipment to Eu-
rope. Besides this stock there was an i'm
mense quantity of hides, fat, tallow and oil
for oleomargerine.
The Stock Yards Company estimate their
loss at about 81 500, 900, consisting of build
ings, slaughter house machinery, ice and re-
frtgerating machinery, cattle boats and stock
all totally destroyed. The ePennsylvania!Rai
road Company and the Berwind White Coal
Company, loss to coal barge and trestle,
nearly $1O0, ,O0O
The Central Stock Yard and Transit Com
pany constructed their yards and buildings
in January, 1874. Since that time there have
been seven fires in the premises, but all were
extinguished with comparative slight loss.
The yard covered about five acres and was
next to the largest of the small stockyards
in the United States, the only larger one be-
ing that OF Buffalo, N. Y. The principal
stock handled was sheep.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

Erastus Wiman, thequondam philanthropy
ist and millionaire of Staten Island, convicted
of forgery In the second degree, was sem
fenced to five years and six months in State
Prison, by Justice Ingraham. in the Court
of Oyer and Terminer, New York City. Good
behavior will reduce his actual sentence to
three years. eleven months, fifteen days
General Tracy and Lawyer Boardman of
Mr.. Wman's counsel, were in the room when
the prisoner and his sons entered, and u
whispered conversation between the con-
Wet ed man and his lawyers followed.
As soon as the court officer had called the
court to order, General Tracy arose and
moved for q new trial He said that his mo-
tion was based on three grounds: First,
that the court had mischarged tho jury
second. that the verdict was contrary to law,
and. third, that the verdict was contrary TO
the evidence
The motion was denied, and General
Tracy then argued for light sentence. He
called attention to the verdict of the jury
recommending the prtsonert to the mercy of
the court, and also to the fact that Mr.
Wiman had made as complete restitution
possible, by turning over not only his own
property, but that of his wife to the firm of
R. G. Dun & Co. Lastly, General Tracy
asked that Justice Ingraham consider Dir.
Wiman's former good character, and also his
family.
At the conclusion OF General Tracy's
Spo6cI tue CloEk Oh the court CHlleu:
'Erastus Wtman to the bar"
Mr.. Wiman arose and the clerk asked
"Have YOU anything to say why the sent
tence of the court should not be lawfully
passed upon your
For answer Mr.. Wiman shook his head.
Justice Ingraham then addressed tho
prisoner:
''The duty have to perform is extremely
painful, and ono l would be glad to be rid
Of. The law does not punish for vengeance.
1t is not to crafty R. G. Dun or his associ-
ates, but til very existence ofsociety requires
that certain acts shall not be committed. In
this case there is not presented a single act
of misdong under some great temptation.
For long period you constantly appropr-
ated the funds of your business associates,
and after that committed forgery. Mr.. Dun
so trusted you that he did not examine your
accounts, and you violated a trust as wei! as
appropriating the money Of others. Every
word in your letters produced here shows
that you knew you had no right to take the
money you did. On the other hand, the jury
have strongly recommended mercy, and am
always glad to have the assistance of the
jury in cases of this sort. I am also asked
to consider your age, your former good
character and your family. have taken all
these things into consideration. The sentence
of the court is that you be imprisoned for
five years and six months In State Prison"
At the conclusion Of the sentence Mr.. Wi
man was taken back to the TOmbs.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
Abiiah's Fourth of July.
Iiah Stone strolled off alone

Abjah Stone strolled off alone
While yet the morn was hazy;
The neighbors' boys made such noise,
They almost drove him crazy.
81 love my country WE'LL said he,
''But think 1t is sin, sir,
To spoil July's sweet jubilee
By making such din, sir"
So, in a nook beside a brook,
Serenely sound asleep, sir,
Abijah lay tho liveiong day,
Curled in little heap, sir;
While in the town the brass-b1nds brayo1,
And cannon boomel like thunler,
Until a very small boy made
most tremendous blunder,
For, Just at dark, he dropped a spark
Whero sparks are very worst, sir;
A binding flash--a frightful crash
A powIer-keg had burst, sir!
Abijah found but scattered shreds
When he returned to town, sir.
And people standing on their heads
Where they had just come down, sir!
st. Nicholas.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
PACKING FIRECRACKERS.

Lighting" Only an American boy
would be guilty of such a reckless
thing. In China as soon as "a child
lights era cker he leaves it and does
not run back and pick it up to see if
the fuse is bu rned out. But in Ameri-
ca it is not so. The glorious Fourth
comes but once year, and the small
boy in his endeavor to have good
time rushes about and does some of
the most venturesome things. If he
would follow the Chinese example the
oculists and surgeons would not do
such thriving business the day fol-
lowing the celebration of independ-
ence
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
PEARY RELIEF PARTY.
The Departure of the Expedition for
theArctic Region.

The members of the auxiliary Peary party,
who will go to North Greenland to bring
back the Arctic explorer and his family
sociates, after their year In high latftudes,
sailed from Brooklyn by the Red Cross
steamer Fortia for Newfoundland. The six
members of the party, under the charge of
Henry G. Bryant, of Philadelphia, went
aboard the vessel at RobinsOn's stores.
The only Brooklyn member of the party is
Herbert L.. Bridgman, a personal friend of
Lieutenant Pear. His wife, Mrs. Helen
Bartlett Bridgman, accompanies him as far
as st. Johns, Newfoundland. From that
point Mr.. Bryant's party will proceed by tho
mailing steamer Falcon to Bowdoin Bay,
North Greenland, where the Peary expedi-
ton passed the winter, where Mrs. Peary and
some other members Of the party, it Is ex-
pected, will be founi.
The party is equipped with snowshoes, u
whaleboat, sleepins-5ags, ice-axes, and
other articles needed for Arctic travel and
comfort. aud the necessary weapons.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
South and West.

MINERS conventions in number Of coal
mining districts voted TO return to work on
the basis OF the Columbus agreement tho
pIockado on coal-carrying roads In Onto
was brokop.
GOVERNOR STONE, OF Mississippi, has
pardoncd rX-Troasurer w. l.. IIomingway
sentenced December 1, 1890, To five years In
the penitcniary for failure To turn over To
his successor in Office 1915, ,G12lg.
ADDISON BERRY. OF Frederick, Nd, WAS
Killed aud stripped Of all his clothing by a
lightning bolt.
IHE Alabama miners voted TO continue on
strlke two bridges wcre blown up
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

becaufe no machine can be manufac-
tured to roll the frecrackers and take
the place of the gentle pressure done
with the human hand. They invariably
roll them too tight and thereby
render them useless.
The large American frecrackers al
ways have a notice printed on their
side, "Do not hold in the hand after
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

shore at or near Seventy-irst street via
duct will take trains down 10 Thirty-eirhth
street, on line between Eleventh and
Twelfth avenues, thence the viaduct will
curve east and reach n grand depot filling
the space from Thirty-seventht to Thirty-ninth
streets, from Eighth avenue to broadway
This station will be 400 feet by 1900 feet in
plan, and the drawings show grand and
roomy hotel facing on Broadway for two
blocks.
The grade of the two-milc-loug vladuct
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
THREE THIEVES LYNCHED.
Farmers Vengeance Wreaked Upon
Horse Stealers In Kentucky

Seventy-flve farmers OF Mason County,
Kentucky, hanged Archie, Burt and William
Haines, colorei, w1o Were said TO have
been stealing horses and sheep. Two Of the
coIored men lived at Gallipolis, Ohio.
Later, It was reported that the victims had
been terrorlzing the vicinity. They were
seen stealing by several stockmen, who were
compelled to move Oh at the muzzies of re-
volvers. This enraged the people of tho
neighborhood, and they cunclu led to organ
ize a lynching moi, with the above result.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

Jersey Legislatures have passed acts Great
ing commissions to locate the bridge and its
approaches.
Tho bill provides for the sanction of tho
Secretary of War, through his engineers, of
the plans of the company. Tho present
plans, as prepared Professionally by Engi-
neers Thomas @. Clarke and Charles B.
Brush, provide for span Of 1000 feet with a
clear height above tho spring high tides of
$50 feet. There will be width enough for
six tracks, and upon reaching the New York
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
For the Safety of Letters,

Letters patent have been taken ont
by woman in Madison, N. J., for an
improvement in envelopes. The in
vention consists in printing a small
device of any shape on the under side
of the flap of the gummed envelope
in sensitive fluid, stable when dry,
but which will run or spread on the
application of steam or moisture,
thereby showing at once that the let
ter has been tampered with. The
Government has recently invited
means of detecting the unlawful open
ing of sealed letters. Detroit Free
Press.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
No Day for the Sisters.

"AIercy me! what is that noise?"
cried old Mrs Bensal, as a huge
cracker exploded beneath her window.
"T don't know" said the innocent
son and heir, who was responsible for
the explosion, "unless it was sister
Mary's bang you heard"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
A Pinwheel Suggestion.

"WelI, Walter" said Walters
grandmother, after the fireworks had
all been set off, chow did you enjoy
the pinwheels?"
"They was awful NICE" said Walter.
"They looked just like soda water
fountain on fire."
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

will be forty feet TO the milo. The basement
of the station will be lofty in ceiling, OWN;
to the slope of tho ground to Eighth avenue.
1t will be utilized for trucks aud other land
vehicles.
In all fifteen present railroads will DO
connected with tho bridge an its approaches
The New YORK and New Jersey Bridge Com
pany expects to build tho bridge in four
years after the completion of tn" preIimIm-
aries, and che cost is estimatel at $l0,O00,-
OOO ''
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
SUNK BY AN ICEBERG.
A Fishing Schooner and Twelve Lives
Lost.

a FISnlnA SCHUUHtF anu "tIVt LINVb
Lost.
The schooner Rose, Of which Henry Gosse
was master, boun1 from Spantards' Bay,
New Foundland, to Labrador, for the sum-
mer fishery, with crews numbering ffty-five
persons on board. struck an iceberg of
Partridge Point In a dense fog, and
sank In ten minutes. The iceberg
being low and fiat, forty-three per-
sons managed to climb upon 1t.
The other twelve, eight men, two women
and two boys, sank with the vessel. The
survivors consisted of twenty-seven men,
nine woClen and seven children. But for
the accessibility OF the iceberg none of them
would have been saved The body OF one
woman was recovere3.
Soon afterward the crew of the Irene.
which was passing; heard their cries, and
took of the castaWays.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED.
Terrible Disaster to a Holiday Party
I'm Samara, Russia.

A dispatch from Samara, tho capital OF
the Russian Government of that name, says
that while party OF young people were re-
turning from a tete Oh the River Jek forty
five were drowned by the sinking OF the
ferryboat which was carrying them across
the water.
The boat was leaking and overcrowded,
fully seventy people being on board. Tle
passengers, alarmed at the rapidly rising
water within the ferryboat, became panic.
water.
When near Bugulme the ferryboat sank,
and then commenced a terrible struggle for
life. The drowning people, few OF whom
could swim, clutchet frantically at each
other In their efforts 10 keep themselves
above water, but forty-fYe out OF the seventy
were drowned.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE.

A Splendid Structure 70 Connect New
York and New Jersey.
The Presidents signature to the New York
and New jersey Bridge Company's bill pu-
that dual concern In the way of proceeding
with its project without further delay. The
whole scheme has been under consideration
for years and both tho New York and New
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

JUDGE RIcKs, In United States Circuit
Court at Cleveland. Ohio, has rendered a de-
cision which practically declares the Ohio
tax inquisition law unconstitutional. The
decision enjoins the Treasurer from collect
Ing 500, 900 in back taxes from half dozen
big estates.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

The dining-room of the Campania,
the Cunard steamer, is 100 by sixty
four feet, and seats 430 persons.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

AS q result OF the privileges extended to
Chinese exhibitors by Congress In connec-
lion with the Midwinter Fair, San Francisco,
Cal, 1t Is stated that fully $50 Chinese labor
ers have gained admittance to the country,
and are doubtless now registered.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

MISS CLARA BARTON and the Red Cross
staff have closed the field OF relief at Beau
fort, y. G. The Sea Islands, with their
population OF SO. 900, after nine months OF
hard work, are left In a condition to support
themselves. The cyclone of August. 1893,
destroyed over 1000 lives. devastated 1900
acres of land. and ruined 5000 cabins.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29

Raising OhtckenS'
and make your Fowls earn dollars for you. The
point is that you must be able to detect trouble in
the Poultry lard soon as il appears, and know
how remedy IT. This book will teach you.
IT tells how to detect and cure disease; to feed for
eggs and also for Tattenng: which fowls TO for
breeding purposes; and everything, indeed, you
sh0u .d know this subject TO make 1t profitable.
Sent postpaid fer twenty-five cents in &c. On &c.
stamI
Book Publishing House,
135 LEONARD ST.. \, Y. City.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-01-06
SHOCkEYSVlLLE, VA.

Through my kind and esteemed
friend, Stephen Hutsler, lately be-
came reader of your most valuable
paper. 1t is the best of four that come
to my desk, SO, if accepted, I will give
you few items from this place. We
live away up here in the mountains,
on the Old Pack Horse Road, known
as sd Hill Mountain, but we are all i'll
favor of protection.
Rev E. f, Andrews held his fourth
and last Quarterly Meeting at Howard
Chapel on the goth and 2Ist Presid-
ing Elder J. w Wheeler was in at
tendance. He preached three most
magnificent sermons.
Our highly esteemed friend, Jesse
Finch, was granted license by the
Quarterly Conference to exhort. He
certainly is worthy. 1t ought to have
been preachers license.
Many OF our people are down with
the grip, but no serious cases.
On last Friday morning our CON-
munity was shocked to hear of the
sudden death of Margaret Daily. She
was laid to rest at Files Chapel, on Sat
urday. Funeral services conducted
by Rev. P. ]. Lawrence.
Miss Burnie Finch is spending few
days with the writer and family.
We were glad to CLASP the hand of
our old friend, H. B. Nesinith, Satur-
day last.
There was quite battle fought in
our village on last Saturday The con-
testing parties were George w. and
John Davy Mason We do not know
whether it was for Free Trade or Pro
lection as we never heard the partic-
ulars Hope it was for Protection.
We have been informed that Edgar
B. Finch of Davis, w. Va, sings, "A
charge to keep have It's boy.
Sing on, Ed. BACKwooDsMAN.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-01-06
PUBLIC SALE
OF
REAL ESTATE and MILLING
PROPERTY.

By virtue of power of attorney duly
recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the
County Court of Berkeley County, w.
Va, and if not sold at private sale before
then, will sell at the Court House in
said county, on
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1894,
at p. m lit being the first day of the
Circuit Court of said county,, that valu-
able tract of land and mill property
known as the
SHIELDS MILL PROPERTY,
containing 147b acres, lying miles
northwest of Hedgesyille, in said county.
This would make a good grazing farm,
and has about 0acres bottom land about
go acres cleared, and the balance in oak,
pine, and chestnut timber. On the prop
erty is good log house, and kitchen,
wood and hen house, corn crib, and
ordinary log barn. A spring of good
limestone water is in the yard. The mill
was rebuilt short time ago, is 24x32
feet and has good burrs, cloths, and
shutter The inside works are all new.
/ ANY person wishing to buy good home
would do well by coming TO see it.
TERMS or SALE.-0ne thousand dol
lars cash, the balance in three equal pay.
ments due in one, two and three years
respectively, with interest from day Of
sale, the deferred payments to be secured
by deed of trust on the property. Pos
session to be given on the 1st day o
April, 1894.
JAMES ID. JACK,
Atty for keirs.
1 ]. V. QUINN, Auctioner.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-01-06

We are glad to note the convaies-
cense of Mrs Ralnsburg and Mrs. Jan
ney.
Francis Miller has been quite i'll.
Edward Buhrman returned from
Philadelphia on Saturday the 5oth. Ed.
reports good time.
Mrs. Jonathan Miller is on a visit
to her son, P. Miller, of Connellsville.
Thomas Myers has been appointed
road supervisor in ]. NIiller's place.
Upton Buhrman has been consider
ably indisposed.
Benjamin Andeison's new house
presents fine appearance.
Miss Clara Felles is spending week
at her fathers.
Willie A. and Flory B. Evers are
on visit to Baltimore.
Miss Mamie Vanmeter is spending
her vacation at home.
On last Sa bbath evening Rev. Stro-
Their preached TO large and apprecia-
tive audience in Cur Union Chapel
After the sermon a number of persons
were received into church. Among
whom was Miss Fannie Tansel of this
place.
The general cry is hard times, a
fact universally conceded, and polite
ally speaking, if men shall reap what
they have sown, what will the lar
vest be- L.