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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
HORSE NOTES.

Bran makes more bone than oats
Beauty and speed combined will al
ways sell.
Breed in to fix the type and out to
strengthen the constitution.
Horses kindly treated anl well
groomed require less feed than those
which are not we'll cared for.
The horse breeder should know how
to handle his horse intelligently, treat
it humanely and feed it scientifically.
The horse is dainty feeder and will
eat more heartily and with better
relish if the food is not kept con
stantly before them.
When German coach horses are
crossed, even upon common mares,
the colts produced are remarkable for
size, bone and action.
Young horses for roadsters and driv-
ing purposes need to be fed properly
and upon the grain foods adapted to
their needs and future development.
Every farmer should include a colt
or two among his live stock. If they
are the proper kind, they will pay
better than almost any other kind of
stock.
Turn the colts out every day to ex-
ercise at will in a paddock. If kept
i'll the stall their spirits and health
suffer and they are apt to form bad
habits.
In order to bring good price
young trotters must be trained. If
the breeder cannot afford to do this he
can sometimes arrange with a trainer
for development on ''shares."
If horse meat could be made popu-
lar as an article of diet, it would be a
boon to those people who have been
foolish enough to breed inferior hOr ses
which are not suitable for road or
draught purposes.
The produce of pacing dams train
more easily and develop more rapidly
than animals in which that element is
wanting, and the explanation of this is
that the fast pace is older than the
fast trot and the instinct more firmly
fixed.
Moderate exercise to light cart and
on a smooth road or track during the
coming winter is less apt to prove in
furious to last springs foals than is the
oldfashioned practice of turning them
out together in rough or icy yards,
when more or less injury is sure to re-
suit from their play.-New York
World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
NEWS.z GLEANIlJGS,
AR1zOTA is raising peanuts.


NEBRASKA has 900 Swedes.
ANARCHISTS continue active in France.
BUFFALO, N. Y, is the greatest fou; port
TRAMP3 are practically unknown in New
Zealand.
CONNECTICUT farmers lately held State
Convention.
THE Chicago Treasury's deficit will proD&.
bly, be 81 900, 900.
SEVEN Iowa men are racing after Will
son'5 seat in the United States Senate.
Rich and extensive phosphate beds have
been discovered in Lewis County, Tennessee,
The Cape Cod (Mass.) cranberry bogs
produced $50, 900 barrels of red berries this
season.
DESPITE rigid economies the cash bal
ance in the United States Treasury is still
falling off.
FLORIDA has 1913 varieties Of wood and an
eighteenpOu pineapple at the Augusta
(Ga.) Exposition.
CHARITABLE women have opened a shop
in New York City for the employment of
destitute women.
COOP, heavy draught horses and good
roadsterS in fair demand at fair prices,
but for the common horse there is no mar
ket.
THE relations between Sweden and Nor
way are becoming so strained that the posi-
bility of war between them for supremacy
is now being seriously considered in Eu-
rope.
Mrs. SABAH JOHNSON, is years old died
few days ago, at Camden n J. She was
the oldest woman in the State. Mrs. John
son retained her faculties up to the time of
her death.
THE settlers and ranchmen in the vicinity
of Owen, Wyoming, complain that stock is
killed in great numbers by bears. Hunters
are not after these animals, as there is no
bounty for them.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
LATER NEWS.

THE New York Legislature at Albany NIT
and organized by the election OF George Il.
Malby rs Speaker OF ths Assembly AMI
Charles T. Ssxtoa as President pro ten OF
the Senate the Governors message was
read in both Houses.
MRS ANNIE HACKErr 10 ising-house at
Buffalo, N Y, burned. There were no fire.
escapes Two persons are dead AMI five may
die
Ex-CoEGREssaAN ORLANDO Is. PoTTER was
stricken with aPoplexy on the street in New
York City and died at the Democratic Club 4
few minutes afterward-
The total loss by the burning of tho G!o5o
Theatre, Boston, Mass. was S350.ooo. The
Hanlons lose $4,000 John stetson says he
will at once rebuild.
QUARRYMAN at Roxbury. Mass. let fifteen
pounds of dynamite fall. The explosion
killed three men, injured others. AMI dam
aged nearby bu ildings.
RIVALRY between the towns OF Frazier and
Dayton, in Iowa, led to fight i'll which
Marshal Larson. of Dayton. was killed and
many men injured.
A EREIOHl lCdlu CEdSilctl lutp tue I'LL "
another freight ten miles east of Lawrence.
Kan. The caboose, a passenger III. a car
load of lumber and a carload of hogs were
burned. Four men were killed, five hurt.
A TWO per cent. tax upon individual in
comes of over $4,000 and upon corporate in
comes was agreed upon by Democratic me n
bers of Ways and Means, with increased tax
on bonded whisky and an extension Of the
bonding period. a tax on p!ayin'; car Is Hni
an increased tax on cigarettes.
SEVERAL more anti-tax riots occurred in
Sicily, in which eight persons were ktlIcl
and many wounded by the troop. paHllc
buildings In two towns were set on Ire by
mobs.
WAR operations between NtcrraEu1 auI
Honduras have commenced.
Ara conference OF the heads or the mu-
nicipal departments, New York City, 1t was
decided to provide work for the poor by
carrying on public improvements.
THE Republican State Convention at Har
rsburg. Penn. nominated Galusha A. Grow
for Congressman at Large from Pennsyl
vania, and adopted resolutions denouncn2
the Wilson Tariff bill and the Presidents
Hawaiian policy.
A FIRE in Toledo, Ohio, destroyed property
valued at $3.50, 900.
A ROBBERS den has been discovered under
the Agricultural Building at the Worlds
Fair. Chicago.
BURGLARS blew open "warranted burg
Iar-proof' safe in the vaults of the Franklin
Grove Bank, ILL.,. and destroyed $4,000 Of
the banks money, leaving but $4,000 as
booty.
The Commissioners appointed by the See
rotary of the Interior to negotiate with tho
Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians in Wyoming
for tho cession of portion Of their lands tc
the Government have made report in which
they state that they could not reach a faiI
agreement with the Indians and consequent
ly dropped the negotiations.
GEORGE w. SAVAGE, United States Consul
at Dundee, Scotland. is dead. He was born
at West Point, n. T., in 1915.
INCREASING alarm is felt by the Italian
Cabinet over the troubles in Sicily 10000
troops are already in the island, and an
other section of the reserves has been called
out five people were killed in an anti-tax
riot
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE road house known as the Casino,
situated in the centre of South Lakewood
Park, n j.. was burned. The siK-months-
old daughter OF Henry Alexander, the
manager. was thrown by its mother from
The second story to people who were trying
to rescue the inmates of the building. The
mother In her excitement threw the child
over the heads of the crowd and it fell upon
the ground and was picked up dead.
FREE kitchens for the hungry poor have
been opened in different sections OF New
York City.
AT New York City, the ST. Nicholas Banks
capital is found to be impaired S270,000.
MRS HErT1E KISKLE, the oldest inhabitant
OF Quaker Valley Pennsylvania, died a few
days ago at her home in Quakake, aged 1G4.
THE total number OF arrests made from
all causes in New York City during 1898 was
s., 612. OF this number Is. 622 we're females.
According to the record the police have har-
bored 127, $50 people under the name OF
dodgers, OF whom &C, 1856 wero males and
so, 744 females. This is an increase over last
year.
SMILE entertaining party Of friends in
New York City Mrs. Magnus Ahlberg's
Christmas tree caught fire. She leaped with
her babe out OF fourth story window to
the street below. The child was instantly
killed, and the mother was fatally injured.
WHILE suffering from insanity due to an
attack of the grip, Swtnthin c. Shorlidge,
Principal of Shortlidges Academy for Young
Men at Media, Penn, shot and killed his
wife while walking with her in country
road near the school.
JOHN Y. McKANE. of Gravesend, N. Y, was
indicted for election frauds on seven felony
and four misdemeanor counts by the Extra
ordinary Grand Jury in the Kings County
Court OF Oyer and Terminer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
On the Maine Coast.

There is g great drive of sea gulls
in the barbor, and to the wanderers
along the warvcs they furnish an in
spring picture. 1t is not an infre-
quent sight to see between seventy
five and 100 gulls sailing around in
the same immediate vicinity, and oc-
casionnlly dropping down into the
water to grapple the floating fractions
of fish that are washed off the fishing
vessels.
81 don't know as they hang out any
where in particular, but [ s'pose they
rest down on Green Island, or some
where else where they don't have no
human inhabitants. Down on Green
Island they have wolf dogs, they say,
but [ think that some of the gulls
sleep on that shore o nights. They
don't do no harm about the harbor,
and | rather guess they do a heap of
good, picking mp fish waste i'll the har-
Dor, was n fisherman reply.-Port
land (Ie.) Coast.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
The Pronunciation Of Arkansas.

] have travelled in Arkansas, and it
is said there that the legal prouncia-
tiOn is Arkansaw. In the ante-bellum
days, about the time Kansas was adj
mitted as free State, there was agita-
ton in the State Legislature of Ar
kansas in regard to the State name be-
ing mistaken by its similarity to the
name of Kansas. One very Jealous
member of the House moved that the
legal pronunciation of the State should
be Arkansaw. The proposition was
seconded, and passed by a large ma
iority. SO the story goes. To travel
the State and say Arkansas and not
Arkansaw, marks person among the
natives as being a tenderfoot to their
soil. AS q rule all Southern people
say Arkunsaw, and that, [ believe, is
why the pronunciation is still kept
fresh, rs l know that the schools of
Kansas and the West teach the pro-
nunciation Arkansas. baltimore Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
An Oversight.

There was one oversight ut the Great Ex-
position al Chicago in not having in full
Wow, 10y easy arrangement, some compare
tive vital statistics of our own general health
az compared with other nations, and our
scientific facilities for the relief of human
suffering. Then it would have appeared
hoH much we are misrepresented and how,
even in all those minor ills which beset man
kind, we are masters of cure and alienation.
In the line of general ailments which all
nations have in common, such as rheumatic
or neuralgia Affections, there is no prompt
and permanent cure in the world the equal
of what we could have shown. st. Jacobs
Oil, for instance, for this purpose, would
have taken any premium that might have
been offered. 1t has done SO at many of tho
great fairs OF the world. AS for the ordinary
casualties of everyday busy life, such as
sprains, bruises, burns, wounds or cuts, of
course it is we'll known as tho superior
remedy of the age. Perhaps doctors dis
agree, but the people are never mistaken in
knowing what is best.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will MT
accept any substitute if offered. 4,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
The Saxon Kings STAFF.

In all probability the most magnifi-
cent marshaps staff ever owned by a
soldier of any country is that presented
by the Emperor of Germany to the
King of Saxony in honor of the fiftieth
anniversary of the Saxon rulers en-
trance into the army. The staff is 494
centimeters long and four centimeters
in diameter. It is of silver, covered
with bright blue velvet, which in turn
carries beautiful pearls. Along it's
sides are seven gold Pr1seian eagles
and seven Prussian crowns of silver.
Each end of the staff IS golden. On
the top are the initials 'W. r." in
diamonds, surrounded by golden
laurel wreath. A Prussian eagle in
brilliants ornaments the base. About
the eagle are emeralds and diamonds
representing tie colors of Saxony-
green and white. A band of diamonds
also ornaments each end of the staff
From the top hangs a gold diamond
studded band on which is the inscrip-
ton: civilian H., King of Prussia,
TO the Field Mars hal, King Albert of
Saxony, for Services in the Victorious
Campaign, 1870 1871, for His Semi
Centennial Military Jubilee, October
"a, 1898"
The present greatly pleased the
venerable monarch of Saxony, the
only ruler i'll Germany now living who
showed the soldiers genius in the
Franco Prussian war. The fact that
William III referred to himself in the
inscription rs King of Prussia and not
as German Emperor has excited some
comment IL the Empire. It is gener-
ally believed that he used that form as
delicate compliment to the older
monarch, preferring to appear as his
equal rather than his superior in rank.
This fact, more than the presentation
of the staff, gave pleasure to the Saxon
people. -New York Tribune.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
EARLY FATTEN1NG OF HOGS.

Tt costs much less to make pound
of pork early than it does late, though
if corn alone be fed too much of it
while the weather is warm is app to in
jure digestion. The great advantage
of early fattening is that it is done
while there is usually plenty of waste
vegetables, small potatoes, beets and
small apples, more or less of which go
to the pigpen and vary the diet of the
fattening hogs. After these are all
stored in the cellar it is very rare that
any are taken out, and then fattening
hogs soon cloy on their ration of corn
without anything to make it more easy
of digestion. American Cultivator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
FOREIGN.

THE brazilian Foreign Minister stated that
Peixotos forces had won victory at Nicthe
roy and another in Rio Grande du Sui.
PRIME MINISTER GLADSTONE practically
tells the unemployed of Great Britain that
Government is not a charity
HEAVY storm swept over Port Philip Bay.
Australia, doing considerable damage to
shipping. The steamer Alert was wrecked
at Jubilee Point and thirteen of her crew and
two passengers were drowned
FIFTEEN persons were drowned during a
fog in Amsterdam, Holland, and in the
Zuyder Zee.
CAPTAIN PICKING has cut off the shore
leave of the sailors of the American fleet at
Rio Janciro Brazil. as u precaution against
yellow fever.
A THOUSAND deaths from cholera have oc-
Cured at Teneriffe, one of the Canary
Islands, since the beginning of the outbreak.
DURING charity carnival at Mini Nov
gOrOd, Russia, on the Yolga River the ice
broke, and a large number of people fell
into tne river. Twenty-eight persons were
drowned.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
WASHINGTON,

SUPERVISING ARCHITECT O'RoURKE has
made his report on work done on Federal
public buildings.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his party re-
turned to Washington from their duck shoot
ing trip.
Two HUNDRED AND SIXTY "schoolmarms"
from Brooklyn, New York and adjacent
towns did the sights OF the capital during
the Holidays.
THE Presidents New Years reception was
attended by 5000 people. Receptions were
given Cabinet officials and ball by Ambassa-
dor Pauncefote. Two harmless cranks were
arrested at the White House just before the
reception.
THE Chilean Government has notified
Secretary of State Gresham that it cannot
accept the proposition of tho United States
for an extension of the existence of the
United States and Chilean Claims Com
mission, now in session.
COLONEL J. HAMPTON HoGE, OF Virginia,
United States Counsel to Annoy, China, has
been dropped from the consular service. as a
result OF an investigation of the charges
against his integrity.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
South and West.

"CHRIs" EVANS, the noted robber and
murderer has escaped from jail in Fresno,
Cal.
A COLoEED man under arrest shot and
mortally wounded constable at Spartans-
burg, S. G. The latter returned the fire,
killing the colored man.
MITCHELL and Corbett were arrested at
Jacksonville, Fla, TO test the validity of the
State law against glove fights.
Rev. Dir. A. ". READ committed suicide at
Atlanta, Ga, by shooting himself in the head
with a shotgun. He was born in Virginia
seventy-four years ago, and was q ltonized
preacher in the Baptist Church.
COLONEL CHARLES T. OFEBRALL was in
augurated Governor Of Virginia at Rich
nlond.
AT Kenesaw, Neb., Fred Smith, boy Of
sixteen, accidentally killed his mother, Mrs.
j. D. Smith, while handling revolver.
Four lives were lost in Omaha, Neb., as
the result of a drunken row. james Cum
mIngs hurled lamp at a companion which
exploded and burned to death the four men
in the room.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
A POINT IN BUTTER MAKING.

The readings of the Babcock test at
Chicago, in the dairy test, and the
actual results of the churn, indicate
at the close of sixty-five days that, had
it been possible to make separators
and churns and other things to work
to perfection, the Jerseys would have
had ninety weight, the Guernseys ninety
two, the Shorthorns, ninety three
pounds each more butter to their
credit, and this with the most perfect
mechanism ever devised III butter
making and controlled by the best ex-
perts obtainable. Now il with separa-
tors and best churns, over ninety
pounds of butter is lost in about $500
pounds, what is the loss in the usual
farm house, where butter is being
made in primitive ways, so to speak :?
This shows loss of about one pound
of butter in forty of original fat,
while ordinary making shows about
one pound in four is lost between pan
and butter crock, or at least ten times
more. Prairie Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12

A story of Nine. Patti comes from
Craigy-nos. She stopped recently at
the door of little cottage to drink u
cup of milk, while the old lady re-
called her guest with fabulous stories
of Nine. Patti Then the mistress Of
Craig y-nos made herself known. al
am Nine. Patti, said she. The rustic
gammer was delighted. and with
charming naivete, answered, ooh,
then will you be kindly pleased to
sing me a song?" every WELL, an
swcred the other. ''Sh,t the door
and [ will sing" The door was shut,
and Nine. Patti sang CLONE, Sweet
Home" In other words, her glass Of
milk was paid for with notes to the
value of about $500. The old Welsh
body should be proud woman. -
Black and White.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12

with instructions to the jury. lengthy, but
explicit, providing for every contingency or
doubt which might arise in the minds of
those who were Prendergast's judges.
The jury retired at 1.25 o'clock. Prender-
CAST sat sullen and silent. After a while he
was taken back to his cell in the JAIL and the
tension which had kept the men and women
subdued was relaxed.
The Harrison family was represented by
Preston Harrison, son of tie murdered man.
Suddenly, at 2.28 O'Clock, in the midst of
general conversation and laughter, came
bailif1's voice calling, "Take seats now, gen
tlemen."
Every eye was turned toward the door and
the buzz Of conversation died away. Judge
Brentan> led the way, followed by the jury
and bailitfs. The Sheriff's deputies who had
gone to the jail to bring in the prisoner
turned with him. Walking with guards in
front of him and guards behind him,
Prendergast advanced slowly TO his seat.
Jail Clerk Ben Price, who accompanied the
assassin, urged him to ''brace up and keep
your mouth shut"
Prendergast obeyed the latter injunction
only. His bravado had fed and he came be-
fore the court and the jury Bringing and
afraid. He dropped into his seat against
the wall and guards stood over him. His
lips hung apart, a pallOr spread over his
face and he stared vacantly in front of him.
The silence was broken by the voice of Judge
BrentSno saying:
"Have you agreed upon verdict, gentle
MANI"
"We have, your Honor" replied Foreman
Suffer, handing the document to the Judge,
who gave it to the Clerk. That officer opened
it in the midst of breathless suspense and
read:
eve the jury, find the defendant, Patrick
Eugene Prendergast, guilty of murder in the
manner and form as charged in the indict-
ment, and we fix his punishment at death"
When the Clerk uttered the word death"
Prendergast made the Catholic sign over his
breast with his right hand. Not word es-
capped his lips.
After the jury had been polled and Prem
dergast had been removed. Attorney Wade
entered the formal motion for a new trial.
Then the crowd quietly dispersed.
Preston Harrison went to Mr.. Trude and
thanked him earnestly for his able services
and personal interest in meeting out justice
to the murderer OF his father. His remarks
were free from exultant feeling. He believed
that Justice only had been done.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS,
The Senate.

10TH DAY. Mr.. Boutelle attempted 10 call
up his Hawaiian resolution the House
thereupon got into a parliamentary tangle,
from which it escaped by adjournment,
without transacting any business.
The House.
18TH DAY.-The session lasted only an
hour and twenty minutes and half of that
time was given to the consideration of ex-
ecutiye business. Nothing of any public IN
terest took place in the open session.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
FIVE CHILDREN DROWNED,
The Ice on the Spree Went Down Tn
der the Skaters.

A sad accident occurred at Cottbus, Brand
enburg, Germany. While large number of
children were skating on the Spree at that
place, the ice gave way and twenty-five of
thcm fell into the river. Five either sank
before assistance could reach them or were
carried under the sound Ice by the current
whore they perished,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12
PRENDERGAST CONVICTED.
The Murderer of Carter III. Harrf-
SON to Be Hanged.

SON to Be Hanged.
The jury in the case of Patrick Eugene
Joseph Prendergast, the murderer of Carter
Henry Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, ad-
juded him responsible for his act and re-
commended that he be hanged. Now
the death watch sits outside his cell in the
county jail. The verdict of the jury was
agreed upon after elaboration of little
over an hour.
The morning of the last day of the trial was
allotted to Alfred S. Trude. who argued to
convince the jurymen that Prendergast knew
he was committing crime when he took the
life OF the Mayor. Judge Brentano followed
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-12

The Austrian savings banks are pa
tronizcd by |, $50, 600 depositors, who
have on deposit $613. 600, 900.