Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
CUT TO THE CORE.
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS TAKEN
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Butler and Prltchard have
been elected by the Legislature
to the u. S. Senate
VIM. Ks Vanderbilt and others
will build a yacht to defend the
Americas cup i'll the coming
race.
The Federal Supreme Court
decides that Debs and others are
entitled to their writ OF habeas
corpus.
Jack Wimberly, charged with
numbering his daughter, was
tried last week at Raleigh ant
acquitted.
Miss Mary L. Stevenson, eldest
daughter Of vice-President Ada;
E. Stevenson, died at Asheville
on the 18th.
After several years delay the
Treasury Department has order
ed work to begin on the public
buildings at New Berne.
Peter Jackson has accepted
Charlie Mitchell's challenge fol-
$1,000 if the fight is at the Lon
don National Sporting club.
In Mississippi a man named
Bush shot negro because he
said he did not believe Jesus
Christ had ever ridden ali ass.
Norris, the volunteer detective
and Caps, the Norfolk sports
man, arrested III connection with
the gold brick swindle at Rich
mond, are discharged.
Fire Sunday night destroyed
nearly all the block between the
Hyman building and the ole
Sledge store at Warrenton, orig.
mating in the carriage shop o.
w. E, Davis.
It is predicted by some whc
are keeping an eye on the cotton
mill movement Southwark tina
500, 900, 900 will be invested il
mills in the South within the
next five years.
Capt, Mills, engineer Of the
lighthouse board, after inspect
ing Diamond shoals, says the
erection ola lighthouse there il
entirely practicable. The ap
preparation is 100000.
The twelfth annual session o
the North Carolina Teachers
Assembly will be held this yea,
June 18th to July Ist at More
head. Many educators from
other States will be present.
A special act has been passed
in the Legislature reducing the
bond of the Sheriff of Pitt county
so the Sheriff can bond. He fail
ed to give his bond and time was
given him to make up the same
DR.. Sampson Pope, has pre-
sented petition to the United
States Senate charging fraud in
the South Carolina election
whereby a Legislature was chos-
ell which elected Ti1l1nan to the
Senate.
A Northern contemporary III,
forms us that Hon. Jeter c.
Pritchard, nominated BY the
Republicans of North Carolina
for the u. S. Senate, will be the
first Republican from that State
to sit in the Senate for twenty
two years. "
The situation at Brooklyn is
most serious. Riotous 1nobs of
car strikers have caused nearly
ten thousand militia and police
to be put Oh duty. Several of the
strikers have been killed and a
number wounded. Apparently
there must be serious slaughter
before peace can be restored.
Augustus Schell and William
Owens, two young white men,
were arrested Saturday night at
Norfolk, charged with selling
bogus soap to merchants of that
city. They claimed to represent
a firm in New York. $3.50 was
found i'll their pockets. They
were bailed out and when tie
case was called on Monday the
soap-sellers had skipped.
The United States steamer
Raleigh II gone to Newport,
R. l., where she is to receive her
complement of torpedoes prepar-
atory to joining the North At
lantic squadron. If she gets her
torpedoes as promptly as expec
ted she may join the New York
before her departure, otherwise
she will proceed directly from
Newport to Key West-Ports-