Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-09-20

DO|NGs Of THE WEEK.
News Gathered Here
There, and Everywhere.
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
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BUSY READER
Roper, in Washington county
is only ten years old, claims
population Of 900, and give
employment in its saw mills t.
$50 men.
Butler, Skinner, Moody ant
: company of the Fusion order
have issued calls asking all the
Populists and Republicans to at
tend the silver convention or
the 25th at Raleigh. 1t is their
: intention to capture it
Captain Sumner, of the L. S
cruiser, Columbia, who was re-
Gently tried by court-martial for
carelessness in docking his ship
at Southampton, England, has
been suspended for six months
There are II different branch
es Of Methodism in this country
each having distinctive name,
its own church property, its own
organization, its own places of
worship and its own body or
mem bership.
Gov. Carr has appointed B. B.
Winberne, of Hertford county,
Judge of the criminel court of
that county He was the only
Judge whom the fusion Legisla-
ture overlooked. His term is
two years from the first Monday
In last June.
The State Commissioners ap-
pointed from leading colored
men of North Carolina to work
up in interest among their race
in the Atlanta Exposition, are
confident that the colored ex-
hibit will surpass that of any
ether State.
The Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition will open
more advanced than the Worlds
Fair did, and a very large pros
portion of the exhibits will be in
place. Within a week after the
the whole thing will be
practically complete.
The fac-simile of the old To1>
nado, the first engine ever run on
the Raleigh and CASTOR road,now
a part of the great Seaboa1d Air
Line, has been shipped to At
lanta and will form a part of the
North Carolina exhibit at the
fair.
1t is reported that there is
gigantic scheme on foot to pur-
chase Linville City, just below
Blowing Rock and transform it
into huge summer and winter
John Wanamaker, the
great merchant prince Of Phila- .
1elphia, is said to be interested
II this enterprise, and other cap
talists will aid him. !
The Washington Progress says: ,
We learn that efforts are being )
made to connect the road from :,
with the Norfolk and .,
Southern at Edenton via WASH .
ngton. 1t would be a blessing =
0 our people as competition al> :,
Ways tends to make rates lower. :.
t would be another advantage to
ur fish dealers.
Since the war our chief city,
Wilmington, has furnished one
J. S. Senator, Mr.. Abbott; our y
econd city, Raleigh, one, Mr.. Il
1errl1non; our third city, Char> Q
otte, one, Mr.. Vance. The 9TH Il
r Senators have come from the $
or small towns. Mr.. P
,ansom has lived on his farm in 8
lie country; Mr.. Pool lived in '
elizabeth City; Mr.. Butler lives
l the country, and Mr.. Pritch> v
I'd in a small village. =,
In a recent address to an Afrl- "
an Methodist conference, Rev. >
'r. Coffin, a prominent negro 90
reacher of Philadelphia said: +,
We do not ask for social rights.
here is no such thing In
5ery walk of life there are
rades Of society. ask no man
} invite me to his parlor, but I
} ask him to invite me to his "a
orkshop. l do not ask for So dc
al rights. 1 ask for a job of w
ork. Every colored man should or
ave three things. They are SO
ible, spelling book, and bank V
ook. Without these we are
eak indeed. We simply ask
| equal chance with the for
gner. We ask that the white
.ople put us on the spelling ~