Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-12-13
OOINGs OF THE WEEK.
News Gathered Here
There, and Everywhere.
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
PICKED Up AND put IN SHAPE FOR THE
BUSY READER.
III the Senate 272 bills were
introduced during the first day.

During November sixty sever
convicts arrived at the North
Carolina penitentiary.
Mail bags can now be taken on
and delivered from trains run
| ming at sixty miles an hour.
1t is said that Eugene V. Debs
) will be nominated for President
by the Populist party, and that
he will not accept.
The Atlanta Constitution says
that on a conservative estimate
the total cost of the Exposition
would be $1,000, 900.
For the first time i'll the history
of Kentucky a Republican gov
ernor has been inaugurated at
the Blue Grass capital.
John Philip Sousa and his
peerless band of 50 musicians is
to visit Norfolk to-day, Dec. IS,
and give two grand concerts.
The United States army cOn>
sists of 25,35S men, of whom
2o,5o are effective for field ser
vice. The officers number 2,125.
The Beaufort graveyard i'll
surance swindlers are on trial
this week in Jones county-the
cases having been removed to
that county.
Robert Watkins, a married
man 27 years old, was found
frozen to death in his wagon
near Hay Meadow, Wilkes coun-
ty, Tuesday morning.
President Spencer, of the
Southern Railroad, has leased
5000 acres of land in Guilford
county, N. G., for the purpose Of
quail shooting--AHaata Consh-
tutor.
George Z. French says i'll re-
gard to the prospects i'll this
State of Republican aspirants for
Presidential nomination, that
there is not the slightest doubt
that Reed will have the North
Carolina delegation.
The grand jury of Beaufort
county have found true bill
against all the four men held as
prisoners for the murder Of J. B.
Bonner at Aurora. They will
be tried at a special court, begin
ming OIL the second Monday III
January.
IfDr. Capehart can induce Mr..
| Cleveland while in the North
Carolina waters to take one pull
at his seine, the old 1na11 will be
so delighted at the big haul he
will make that he will i1nmedl-
ately make him Fish Commits
sioner.-We7vs 6 ObSer0c,>.
| There are some corporations
that are not soulless, after all
remarks the Sa0aunah Ne70s
| The Southern Railway has con-
tributed $4,000 to the fund fol
the rebuilding of the University
of Virginia, and the Chesapeake
and Ohio road has contributed
81 900 to the same fund.
The taxable value of property
in this State, on the 1894 valua
ton. for 1895 taxes, as made uI
in the office OF the State Auditor
is as follows: Value of land
$115,oS2,725; town lots, s43 3,oo6,,
141; total, SI58,oSS,So4. Per.
sonal property, s76,3oI,o37
Railway property, s24,5oI,889
Pullman cars, s3I ,o43; telegraph
: lines and telephone lines. S2I2,
oo2; steamboats, and canals, $3.50,
oo3. Grand total, s253.634,4I8
The Charlotte Meas tells of :
little 12-year-old girl in Meek
lenburg county who cut one o
her fingers on the point of al
Indian arrow head. About two
hours afterwards she was seizec
: with violent pains, and h e
finger began to swell. She suf
: fered the same as a person wh'
: had been snake bitten, aud
e doctor worked with her all night
The supposition is that it was
: poisoned arrow and had retaine'
: the poison through all thes
, years.