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do YoU ever have to mind thc b.bu,,
mot yet; but | spose Mill whcn sba ba', III.
older, that is, Il she's got any of hcr mo.hos
about her. Atlanta Constitution '''u''
Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13

THE editor is the only person who gives
the devil his dues.-Atlanta Constitution.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13

'I-I HARDLY-HoW many lodges are you
member of Hiram?" Not one, Katie;
not one" 'Well, you may ask papa
Chicago Tribune.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13

WIsDoM.-He-'I want to marry WON
on who | know knows more than | do"
She-"Well, if she is wise, she will never
let you know it."-Toledo Free Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13

ELs1E--''Laura's health seems greatly i'm
proved" Ada Yes; she has heard that
her doctor is engaged. Life.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13

''The Man of Iron," otherwise Giles
the Wizard" was one of the persons
put to death during the witchcraft
prosecutions at Salem, Mass His real
name was Giles Corey, and at the time
Of his awful death was an old man past
eighty When accused of being a
wizard (which the Salem lunatics
seem to have considered the masculine
of ''witch''l he calmly met their
charges and coolly informed them that
he would die rather than admit that
he had ever had communion with evil
spirits. He was put to the peine forte
ct dure death by pressure with huge
weights, his fortitude during his dy-
ing moments winning for him the
title used in the first line.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13

FAST colors-The regimental flag in cay
airy charge e.-Lowell Courier.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
WASHINGTON,

CHARLES r.. SILL. n former emplOyo OF tho
Carnegie Company, testified in rogarI 10
hrmor plato frauds before tho investigating
committee in Washington.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. accompanied by
Captain Evans and DR.. O'Roilley, left Wash
ington Tor trip down Chesapeake Bay.
REPORTS Of several hundred plates exam
lnod by tho Chairman Of the Armor Plate In
VestigatinS Committee showed that at lenst
ninety per cent OF the plates mado by Car
negto were undcrtreated.
THE Sugar Trust Investigating Committee
at Washington began tho examination OF
Senators.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL OLNEY has ordered
Pacific Railroads. to recover an aggregate Of
over s17l 900, 900,
SENATOR QUAY admitted in his examination
before the Senate Investigating Committeo
that he had spcculntcd In sugar stock. SEM
tor Ransom said bis son had specuIatcd in
the stock and Senator Yes: said that Senators
GOrmaD, Brice and Smith insisted on grant
ing tho Trusts demands in the bill.
To all OF tho twenty THOUSAND and odl
money order postolliccs in the Unitel States
tho POstOflico Department rs sending tho
new form OF money order blanks.
SENATOR GORMAN was examined by tho
Senate Investigation Committee.
COMMODORE JoHN W. EAsHY, United States
Navy, died in Washington, aged seventy
five years. He was an inspector Of Govern.
ment gunbonts during the late war, and SUBJ
sequentlY became a naval constructor.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
MANY MINERS KILLED
FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE
DAMP IN AUSTRIA.

1t Was Thought That Fully Two Hun.
dred Men Perishcd by the Five
Shocks - A Rescue Party De.
Soured by Fierce Flames - Pa
phetic Scenes Witnessed.
Five distinct explosions OF firedamp oc-
CURED In the coal miaes of Count LarIsch
at Karwin, Austrian SIlesia, during the
night. Two hundred miners were killed and
others entombed. The fcst explosion oc-
CURED in one OF the pits OF the FranzIska
mines at 10 o'clock OF the large number OF
miners at work there 120 were killed. Al
most Immediately atterwarl there was AN
explosion In an adjoining pit This was fol-
lowed by several others, the most serious be-
ing In the Johann mine, In which eighty men
were killed
At o clock next morning a rescue party
went down into one of the pits. The fro
was spreading In all directions DESTROYING
the ventilator shafts. The rescue party were
caught by the flames and perlshed, Large
crowds OF people, many of chem tho wiveI.
children and other relatives OF tho dead
miners, congregated about tho entrance TO
the shafts
At 8 o'clock in the afternoon the fro hal
not abated, and men were set TO closing tho
pits with brick work. 1t was then thought
that all the bodies In tho mine had been
burned.
Only twenty of the mon injured by the OK
ploslon were got out of tho mines. Several
OF them were dying when brought to the sur
face. The rescue party which was lost con-
sisted OF ten men. Count Larisch visited
karwin and superintendent the efforts to save
the men and extingush the fire. In 1881
there was fire In the same mines 1t lasted
eight days, and mining experts say that
this time it will continue to burn for at leaa
AF;aak
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
LATER NEWS.

| A CLoUOBURsr washed away an entire llelA
| of growing grain in Penn Valley, Pennsyl-
vania.
JUDGE JOHN NJ. CRUMr commttel suci io
| Mt his residence. In New London, Conn. by
the use of shotgun. Mr.. Crump was judge
of the Common Pleas for Now Lon lon Coun-
ty and editor of the New London Day. He
had been in failing health for several weeks
A STORM ragged with great fury in the
suburbs of New York City James Curtis
was killed by lightning at Weehawken,
others were knocked unconscious in other
parts of New Jersey an much damage was
done TO churches and buildings of various
kinds. james Flanagan, lnoman. was
killed near Bergen Field. He was up tele-
graph pole when lightning struck Il.
FIVE grooms AMI Jockeys were hurt and
nine of Mr.. Rawley's race horses Killed In Il
railroad wreck at Stillman Valley, Ill. Loss,
over $4,000.
ADMIRAL ERBEN astonished tho Navy Do
partment by cabling that $4,000 will be
needed to repair the Chicago's boilers in
Antwerp, although before tho warship left
here they were guaranteed for eighteen
months.
SECRETARY HERBERT approved the finding
of the Columbia Court of Inquiry, which
censured Captain Sumner for not being on
the bridge when passing Bulkhead Shoals
and for not slowing down. This closes the
matter.
THE President returned from his trip down
the bay and held the usual Cabinet meeting.
He was much benefited by the trip. The
party did no fishing, the Maple being kept
under way all the time.
NEAR San Pedro, Mexico, two children
were murdered for SO, which they had got
from a pawubroker on household goods.
THE nino Yale athletes to compete against
the Oxford men on July IA left New York
City for England on the steamship New York.
VERMONT Republicans nominated s. A.
Woodbury. for Governor.
SIDNEY PLUMMER, a colored man, beat n
colorei boy to death near Berlin N. j.,
threw the body into q creek and claimed that
he had been drowned.
CALIFORNIA Republicans nominated NJ. NJ
ESIeS IOT HONtTnOE HHu 'iStIhlSh IOL lLCJ
coinage of silver and woman suffrage.
AN incendiary fire in Il coal mine at Lew
isburg, Ala, imprisoned fifty new miners.
-Four were instantly killed.
The Senatorial sugar inquiry came to q
halt for lack OF witnesses.
PENSION COMMISSIONER LOCHREN estimates
n surplus of s25, 900 900 on account Of pen
sions for tho fiscal year.
The Portuguese Minister, Senior Thomas
de Sonza ROza, who has represented hts
country in Washington since December 20th,
1889, presented his letters Of recall to Presi-
dent Cleveland with tho usual formal
courtesies.
The steamer Meath Abbey, of Swansea, has
been waecked off Nash Point, England. The
captain AMI three sailors were drowned.
The Anti-LorIs Conference at Leeds,
England called on tho Government to in
trciuce a bill to deprive the House Of Peers
of veto power
Ex-PREsIDENT LORENA, Of tho rebel gov
ernment of Brazil, has boen executed by
shooting.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-29
Celebrating independence Day.

Of the day on which our independ-
ence was declared John Adams said {:
cit ought to be commemorated as
the day of deliverance by solemn acts
of devotion to God Almighty. 1t
ought to be celebrated with pomp and
parade, with shows, games, sports,
guns, bells, bonETes and illuminations,
from one end of this continent to the
other, from this time forward forever
more"
These words, says Julia Ward Howe,
show how comprehensive was the view
which the old statesman took of ma
tons holiday. He desired that all
classes and all ages should participate
in tho Joy expressed. The time which
has elapsed since his memorable utter
ance has brought nothing to diminish
this Joy. It has, however, brought
into being a new society for which
"pomp and parade, bells, guns and
bonfres" are less available for good
than pleasures of more elevated
character. We now desire a celebra-
tion which shall speak less to the
bodily senses and more to the inner
sense. This is because the historic de-
velopment of the race goes ever for
ward
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Foreign.

A CADLEGEAM from Seoul, tho capital {
Korea, reports that tho rebels hnvo bc"l
overcome and peace has been eslore1. The
United States steamship Baltimore, ordered
10 Korea to protect Americans, Is In Korean
waters.
LoRD CoLERIDGE, Chief Justice Of Eng
land. is dead.
ALL opposition 10 the peaceful succession
OF Abdul Aziz I'm Morocco appears to have
subsidized and tho new Sultan has been
peacefully proclaimed at Fcz.
CARLOS EzETA, tho depOSed President OF
Salvador, gent request to President Dinl
TO intercede Mt Washington for the reiu ;c.s
on board the Bennington.
REPORTS from Santa Anna Brazil, inIi.
Gated that mob had possession OF tho city
and was s1cking IL.
RICHARD CROKER, ox-lelder Of Tamm1nv
Hall, reached Queenstown, Ireland on the
Umbria he said hc had gone abroad for hiI
health, ani would remain there in lennttely
MORE than seventeen hundred persons
have perished at Hong Kong China OF the
plague and 50, 900 Of the inhabitants have
ned from the city.
ORASGYKAN, an outlaw chief has attacked
the British military post at Kuala-T "nebeI-
tn", India, and killed nine Sikhs, seizing the
arms and ammunition, and plum Iering trad
ing boats.
IHE wear NalIey. IN hungary, mas been
inundated. Much damage has been done.
THERE was sharp conflict between
students and troops ut Naples, Italy many
on both sides were wounded.
DRoUGHr in tho Province Of Entire Rios,
Argentina, has killed two hundred thousand
head Of cattle, one hundred and fifty thou.
sand sheep andtwenty thousand horses, tho
whole being valued at three millions in cur
rency.
The University Of Cambridge, England,
has conferred the degree OF LID. on Cap
tain Alfred T. Mahan, of the United States
cruiser Chicago.
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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
The Senate.

10th DAY.-The consideration OF the
Tariff bill was continued. Messrs Lodge,
Teller, Hoar and Plat spoke in opposition
to free wool.
131sr DAY.-Several amendments to the
wool schedule of the Tariff bill were defeated
by small ma ajorities Messrs. Dolph, Carey
and Proctor spoke against free wool, and Mr..
Kyle in favor of 1t.
132D DAY.-The Senate disposed of the
wooden schedule and nearly all OF the silk
schedule of the Tariff bill.
133D DAY.-The last two schedules of the
Tariff bill proper were passed. During the
discussion Mr.. Hill. Of New York, moved to
place coal on the free list. 1t was defeated,
only seven votes being cast for it.
18th DAY.-Rapid progress was made
with the free list of the Tariff bill, twenty
pages being disposed of. The Finance Com
mittee sustained its first defeat. 1t came at
the close of the days session, when there
were more absentees on the Democratic stdo
of the chamber than was consistent with as
sured victory on that side. The subject Of 1t
was quicksilver, which the committee had
placed on the free list. On motion OF Mr..
Perkins, 1t was placed on the dutiable list at
seven cents a pound.
18TH DAY.-Mr. Jones moved that twenty
six paragraphs of the Tariff measure as re-
ported from the Finance Committee be elimt
mated and in the absence of objections this
was agreed to. These twentysix paragraphs
comprise the so-called administrative features
OF the GOrman compromise. .--COnSluerd-
ton of the free list was fnished.-Mr.
Allison introduced u joint resolution re-
questing the President to negotiate treaty
with the Government of Great Britain pro-
viding that for a period of twenty-five years
all differences or disputes between the Gov
ernments of the two countries that cannot
be adjusted by diplomatic means shalt be
referred to arbitration.
The House.
15OrH DAY.-There was considerable dis
order In the debate on the Indian Appropri-
alton bill. Mr.. Johnson, of Indiana, as
sailed Mr.. Holman and came near to blows
with Mr. Maddox, of Georgia.. The bill was
not disposed of-The House passed de-
flciency bill to provide money for the pay
nent Of dismissed employees Of the printing
office.
151sr DAy-The Indian Appropriation bill
was considered all day.
152D DAY.-The provision Of the Indian
Supply bill to remove the Indian supplies
warehouse from New York to Chicago was
defeated. The bill was then passed.
l53D DAY.-Constderation of the Hatch
Auti-Options bill was begun. House
passed the joint resolution to extend the
appropriations of tho year ending June 80
until the appropriation bills for the coming
year are passed.
154rH DAY-The Secretary of the Interior
was directed to sell at public auction 100000
acres OF pine lani In tho Chippewa Reserva-
ton, Mimi. and to surrender to the city Of
Newport. KY, for park purposes. the old
site of the Newport Barracks. The day
was chiefly spent in general debate on the
Hatch Auto ption bill, sp eeches against 1t
being delivered by Messrs. Coombs and AL
drlch, and speech In its favor by Mr.. Sib-
ley.
18TH DAY-The debate on tho Hatch
Anti-Option bill was continued all day.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle states.


JAMES u. CARPENTER was hanged at Mi.
Hinton. Pcnn., for the mur,ler OF his father.
James J. Carpenter. at Port Royal on Dcccm,
ber 10, 1893. The latter was blind huck-
ster.
The immense hotter in Goslcr h Co. q saw
mill at peloys. Penn. blow up. Pirrran
Joseph Pickcy and his l;ttla daughter wcrn
Killed, tho mill was demolished AMI tho
boiler was thrown seventy. nvc foot
BuR1IAHs cracked safo and sot away
with $4,000 in Government bonds, tho
property OF tho Milltown (Conn.D Congrc-
gational Church.
TnE Schenectady On w Savings Bank Il
short $4,000. August Hcnkc tho banks
accountant, disappeared on tho discovery
and has been found dead
The great T-shapod building fronting on
Elm, Pearl and Duane streets. New York
CITY; occupied chiefly by Vernon h Co. tho
WholeSaie paper dealers. wont up in flames
and smoke. II was st25 900 biazr
AT a meeting of minors In Pennsylvania a
majority OF tho men favored a settle mcnt on
terms which were proposed.
ERAsrus WMAN, cx-partner Of II. G. Dun
Co, was found guilty, nj New York CITY
OF forgery In tho second degree Tho Jury
made strong Recommendation 10 mercy
Under the verdict he could receive "A sen.
tence OF not less than fivo nor moro than ton
years.
YALE won the college baseball champion
snip from Princeton at Eastorn Park, brook
lyn, n. y, by tho ScorC of to 5.
FIVE noted burglars wero arrcstoh h> Cen
trol Ohlce men in New York City. They all
have long careers II crime and ara accused "
working tho recent series of burglarics IN
New York City and Brooklyn.
The coal strike in Central Pennsylvania
was declared of, ms result Of District Prcsl-
dent Bradloy's cpnferenco with tho opera
tors. settlement was reached on tho basis ot
lorty cents per net and forty-hvc cents per
gross ton. Striking coal miners ovcrpowcroI
deputies and blew up fan house with a
bomb IN Tarr Station, Penn.
THE United States protected cruiser Gin
clhhhti went into commission at tho Navy
lard, Brooklyn. The ceremonies attending
the function wero brief
WALTER THING and John Eagan, Of Lvnn.
Mass, disobcved their parents and went
swimming both were drowned.
EIGHT persons were injured ut Riverside
Station, n. j.. whore II train dashed into n
trolley car. Tho fiagman WAS talking pol-
ties and freight cars ohstru ,tod tho rnsi
nccrs view
JAMES FohsHAY, an old resident Of Now
York City crazed Icy grief for his dead wife,
shot and killed his youngest son, thon blew
out his own brains.
CENTRAL Pennsylvania coal operators re-
Jocted the compromise which their commit
toe made with the miners at Altoona A
lhrge number OF miners IN various districts
resumed work
GooDwIN Il SWIFT. electric railway pro
mot"Ts Of New York city made nm assign
ment liabilities from $500 900 to $3.50, 900
BUNKER HILL DAY was celebrated ia Bos-
ton, Mass, and Hartford. Conn.
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cred before its destructive powers
The show ers of sparks that fall from
rockets have sparkled in Chinese skies
from time immemoria1. The fire.
cracker is said to be the earliest form
of explosive, and was not SO much In
tended for boys to use in sport as for
an article of heathen worship.
In the mountains of Western China
there is supposed to be a giant devil
of O brilliant red, at the sight of whom
men grow faint with fear. A man who
lived about 5000 years ago by the
name of LeeGien found that the bang
ing Of firecrackers would frighten him
away, hence Leedien is the god of fire.
crackers All the red frecrackers are
intended to be used to frighten away
the red devil, while the green and
yellow ones are offerings to Leedien.
From the simple little frecracker was
gradually evolved the destructive can
non, which was used by the Chinese
in their war with the Mongols in A.
D. 1882. It was introduced into
Europe about 1910. Thus we owe to
the Chinese the invention of the most
useful article of warfare in the world.
The most interesting sights of Can
ton are the tea factories and the fire
cracker factories, and the most interest
ing of the two are the firecracker fac
tories. These establishments can hardly
be called factories, if we use the word
in the sense of making by machinery,
for oil of the work is accomplished by
hand, and they are, therefore, called
by the English residents of that coun-
try "frecracker go-downs." "
On approaching the building one is
not greeted with the usual roar of
furnaces and the many and one
noises that go to make up the din of o
factory, but it is anything but quiet
place. At distance it sounded like
the riot Of furious mob compared
with the quiet about Canton, though
Canton seemed noisy enough.
For milo around the factory the
thousands of inhabitants are all en-
ployed in making frecrackers. AS
soon as the children are old emo ugh to
be anything but babies they begin to
work, aud as soon as their mothers
have finished the housework they turn
their hands to making free hackers !;
but there is no confusion, for no one
knows how to do but very small part
of the immense amount of work re-
quired i'll turning out millions of
these little explosives. One man, for
instance, makes fuses, another cuts
them in length and another sorts
them in sizes; one man makes the
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The Hygiene of Laughter.

It has been aptly said that there is
not the remotest corner of the inlet
Of the minute blood vessels of the hu-
man body that does not feed some
wavelet from the commissions occa-
stoned by good, hearty laughter. The
life principle of the central man is
shaken to it's innermost depths, send
ing new tides of life and strength to
the surface, thus materially tending
to insure good health to the persons
who indulge therein. The blood moves
rapidly, and conveys a different i'm
preston to all the organs of the body,
as it visits them on that particular
mystic journey when the man is
laughing, from what it does at other
times. For this reason every good,
hearty laugh, in which a person in
dulges, tends to lengthen his life, con.
veying as it does new and distinct
stimulus to the vital forces. Brook.
iyn Times.
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paper, another rolls the crackers.
while his neighbor fills the ends with
clay. The paper man would not do
the clay mans work, any more than
the fusemaker would do the sorter's
work, and every little frecracker be-
fore it reaches America has in its con-
struction passed through over sixty
different pairs of hands. The go-down
is divided into dozen long sheds,
with blue tiled roofs; the laborers sit
on little stools at long benct-like
tables. AS soon as one man finishes
his part of the work he passes it on to
his neighbor, the latter following his
example when he has done his share,
and thus it starts ut one end of the
table as little paper and fuse and
comes out at the other end a finished
firecracker.
The next room visited WAS devoted
to braiding and wrapping the crackers.
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EDENTON, N. c., FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1894

and the next to packing them for ship
ment. They are packed in boxes much
resembling the common tea box and
contain thirty packages. A box in
this country brings $1.25, and after
duty and shipment have been paid it
is wonder any profit is made ct all.
The two proprietors of this estab-
Gshment, which, by the way, is called
the "yat shing." showed me into the
room where the designer of labels sat
ct work. He was an old man, with
bamboo-bound spectacles, and sat at a
desk drawing flowers, gnomes and
dragons in all the grotesqueness of
Chinese art. I had some of the char
acters on the labels translated There
were three large characters in the
center, and they conveyed the useful
information of thousand, blazing,
hall" What does it mean? 1t is q
word picture and endeavors to convey
the idea that their goods are of such
superior quality that they are likened
unto large hall or palace blazing
with splendor. This is as good an ex-
planation as can he given. If you can
catch the idea you have the principle
of the Chinese language, but until you
do you will never be able to learn the
language of the celestial empire.
After the designer and ongrsvers
have done their work the blocks go to
the printing room. where they are
printed with hand presses, but such
presses. Ii you would take old Ben
Franklin's press, break it to pieces
md prop it up with rope and bamboo,
you would have a fair sample of
Chinese press. They are clumsy,
rickety-looking things. and look as il
a breath of air would blow them over,
yet it is wonderful what al amount of
work can be done with them in q day
besides the Chinese do not want
machinery. Human labor is cheap
for there is so much of it, therefore
anything that will lesson labor is a
curse to the country. A mandarin
who introduced silk machine in Annoy
by doing SO starved to death four hun
dred families. We can better under
stand the large population of this
country when we learn that the pro-
vince of Nganhwui in China contains
81, 16S, 200, while Kiang Su contains
80, 843, 500, altogether making 72, 011,-
700. Just think of it, two States in
China contain over 1000, 900 more
people than the whole United States
AS paper forms such on important
part of the frecracker you can imag-
inc the making of 1t must be a large
industry in Canton, and SO it is. How
ever, the paper mills are anything but
imposing structures. They are low,
square buildings, with dirty, white
washed sides, the only pretty thing
about them being the large, double
tiled roofs with turned up corners.
There are no more than 100 workmen
in each mill, for paper being made