Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-03-01
Domestic.

Mrs. ". S. RAINsFoED, the wife of the rec
tor of st. Georges Church. was made a
school trustee in New York City.
A CARLOAD of Chinese in bond from Hong
Kong to Havana passed through Fort
Worth, Texas. There were about one hun
dred and they have contracted to work
plantations in Cuba.
CoRDELIA HILL, residing at Rippon, W.
Va, shot and instantly killed her father. He
had numerically beaten one of his sons and
was choking his wife when the daughter
placed the muzzie Of a revolver near the back
OF her fathers head and fired.
INCOMING fishermen report immense quaint
titles Of dead fish on the reefs and shores O.
West Bay, Texas, killed by the recent cold.
They were washed ashore by the ton.
WHILE engaged in boring deep we'll on a
farm southwest Of Rich Hill, Mo-, John
Marshall, prOspector, struck a fine blow of
petroleum at depth Of 10 feet.
The Faculty of Harvard College at
special meeting a. Cambridge, Mass, decided
to recommend the abolition of Intercollegiate
football.
DIssENs1oN in the ranks of the American
Protective Association in Illinois has resulted
in the organization Of an opposition society,
known as the National Assembly Patriotic
League.
FIRE consumed the large breaker of Will
lam Connell Company, at Connellton,
Penn. The loss is S1O0000 Six hundred
men are boys We're thrown out of employ
ment.
THE Bond Syndicate issued the prospectus
for the new four per cent. loan. The bonds
offered at 11214.
W. S. GUMMRRE of Trenton was nominated
by Governor Werts to succeed the late JUS
tice Albeit on the New Jersey Supreme
Court bench.
JAMES B. GENTRY. the actor who shot and
killed Madge lorke, the actress, in Phlla-
delphia, Penn. has been arrested He was
suffering from a fractured skull and was cut
over the heart, where he had tried to COM
nit suicide with penknife.
CHARLES ANsORY and Louis Busam, aged
nine and eleven, respectively, broke through
the ice at Cincinnati and were drowned in
the Ohio River. Their bodies have not yet
been recovered.
The Retail Butchers Association and the
Retail Grocers Union have bOycOtted those
big drygoods stores in New York City which
sell meats and groceries. and have notified
wholesalers not TO supply the drygoods peo-
pie.
CHARLES F. WARWICK, Republican, was
elected Mayor Of Philadelphia, defeating ex-
Governor Pattison, the Reform candidate, by
about sixty thousand.
The Brooklyn tro !, ~ men formally de-
clared the strike of, with the exception of
the men on President Norton's Atlantic Ave
nue. system.
EDWIN P. BRowS a hermit. was found dead
in his hut of field stones which he occupied
in the woods about a mile from Westpor
Harbor. Mass. The body was frozen stiff and
had been nibhled at by rats.
AT the Rhode Island State Prohibition
Convention at Providence the nominees were:
For Governor, the Hon. Smith Quimby, Of
Warwick; Lieutenant-Governor. William B.
Franklin, of Newport.
A SPECIAL train of eleven coaches carried
the body of Isaac ?. Gray. late Minister to
Mexico, to Union City, Ind, for burial. The
militia companies conducted the remains
from the Capitol Building. Indianapolis,
where they had been lying in state
GREAT sensation was created at Raleigh,
n. c., by the adoption, in the House, of a
resolution, introduced by a colored man,
that the General Assembly adjourn in honor
of Frederick Douglass. The resolution was
passed, all the Democrats voting against it,