Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-10-11
DOIHGs Of THE WEEK.
News Gathered Here
There, and Everywhere.
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
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B. P. Sales, the rich saloon1st
of Norfolk, has made an asslgn-
ment.
The Battleship Texas went out
on her first trip on the morning
of the 3rd.
The State Supreme court
licensed ffty-one new lawyers to
practice law last week.
It is said that Tom Watson
will be the next Populist candi-
date for Governor of Georgia.
One Of the greatest revolution
lists of the age died a few days
lago in Chicago. It was DR..
Timbley, the inventor Of the tur-
bine wheel
The Blades Lumber Co1npany's
saw mill, dry kiln and 100000
feet of lumber at New Berne,
were destroyed by fire on the 4th
inst. Loss $4,000. No insur-
lance.
| Col. Vim. G. Davis, a proini-
nent citizen and Democrat of
E. City, also ex-post master of
that place, died very suddenly On
1.-The night of the 3rd at his home
on Road Street; aged GO years.
| Richard w. Cardwell, late
bookkeeper at the State Bank, at
Richmond, Va, charged with
making false entries in favor OF
S. B. Nelson, has been given two
years in the Virginia peniten-
tiary.
The scarcity of water is be-
coming a serious matter with
, farmers in Central Kentucky
, Water is SO scarce and valuable
says the Courier 3ouyUal, that
farmers whose wells are not dry
resort to unusual means to pre-
vent theft OF their supply.
On the 9th of next month Mr.
? and Mrs. Mosely, of Boston, will
celebrate the 74th anniversary O
their marriage. Mr.. Mosely i!
81 years old and Mrs Mosely IS
Five generations Of younge,
Mosleys will participate in thu
festivities, and wish them many
more returns, etc.
Minnesota has just completed ;
o hve-year census and finds tina
the population of the pine torres
region has increased 50 per cent
within that time and the popula
: ton of the agricultural section
:, in the Western part of the Stat
4 Is per cent.
Some years ago LaWrenc
Brown, a merchant of Wilnin 2
Il ton willed all h is propert
e (about o,ooo) to the Roman
Y Catholic Church. In the Supe
q rior Court of New Hanover las
- week the heirs of Brown entere
:, suit for the money and got
Il favorable verdict; but an appea
was taken.
}. The Texas Legislature la
Just met in extra session to tax
q action in regard to the COMING
= Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight. TIL
&c Governor is determined
prevent the fight if such a thin
" is possible, and even if the Leg
. islature tails to enact a law wit
e an emergency clause attached
G he will have the participants al
l. rested Oh other charges.
:, Prof. Massey, of the Mort
Carolina Experiment Station
: says that when frost is 1mlninen
e he gathers his green tonatoe:
g wraps them separately i'll pape
(old newspapers will answer
and packs them in boxes, whic
are stored in place just war;
enough to be secured from fros
the object being to keep then
e and not to ripen them. Then a
It the fruits are wanted, few ar
brought out at time and place
= in a warm position, where the
u will ripen in a few days. l
y this way he has kept his tabl
7, supplied with sliced tomatoes II
r to mid winter.
North Carolina, according t
reports, has an excellent exhib:
y of her resources at the Atlant
Exposition, but her disp1a
> would have been much more e1
. tensive had not the last Legisla