Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-05-08

Yesterday was a regular over
, coat day, and straw hats an
spring clothing took back sea-
To day is beautiful and balmy.
In the absence of DR.. Black
we'll there will be no service
held at the Baptist Church Sun
day. The usual services will b
held at all the other churches b,
the regular pastors.
It is a fact worth mentioning
that old residents now know
very few people that they NEE
On the streets; so great has beer
the growth Of Elizabeth City i,
the past few years.
Mr.. B, F. Gum, a skilled me
chanic, thinks that shoe factory
would pay in Elizabeth City
and would gladly enter into such
an enterprise with a coiLpeten
partner with small capital.
| Reports from the country
around comes to us that farmers
generally have a beautiful stand
of corn, and the prospects are
bright for the largest crop ever
raised in Pasquotank county.
Evangelist Crane and Gospel
singer Wolfsohn, we'll and favor
ably known here, are now hold
ing very successful revival
meeting at the Court street Bap-
fist Church in Portsmouth.
Mr.. r. T. Gray, member of
the Raleigh Bar and a very
prominent lawyer, favored the
FISHERMAN & FARMER with a
call on yesterday while in the
city returning from Dare court.
Rev. DR.. G. S. Blackwell left
Tuesday to attend the session of
the Southern Baptist Convention
now being held at Chattanooga,
Tenn. An effort will be made
to have the convention meet ct
Wilmington, N. c., next year.
After being thoroughly over.
hauled at Norfolk, the steamer
Newbern will return here to NOR
row and resume her route to
Newbern until the first Of July,
when she will begin her daily
trips to Mays Head.
Among the lawyers who pass
ed through the city Tuesday on
their way to Dare court were
Solicitor Leary, Hon. 7. G..
Skinner and w. D. Pruden.
Members Of the Elizabeth City
bar also attended this court.
1t is now thought by those in
position to form an idea, that the
Jones Lumber Company mill
will start up about the last Of
this month, though there is yet
considerable work to be done
before the improvements which
the plant is undergoing are COM
pleted.
Cyclists should be more care
full how they ride and drivers of
vehicles should remember that
they have not the sole right-of-
way On the streets. What might
have been very serious accident
to a young lady was narrowly
averted near the postoh6ce Mon
day afternoon.
A telegram was received here
yesterday stating that the Indiana
Republican State Convention,
held yesterday at Indianapolis,
instructed its delegates to the
St. Louis Convention for McKin-
ley. We give this as an item of
news for Our many Republican
readers.
The regular monthly session
of the City Council held Monday
night was entirely taken up with
routine business. About the
only thing done of public interest
was the order passed requiring
bicycle riders to carry bells and
lights at night on their wheels,
and limiting the speed at cross
ings to eight miles per hour.
The editor spent Saturday of
last week at Shiloh, in Camden
county, and made many very
pleasant acquaintance, among
them Mr.. J. H. Morrisett, at
whose home we were very cor
daily entertained. The occasion
was the services at the Baptist
Church, where Rev. DR.. Override
preached a very interesting and
instructive sermon to large con-
gregation.
Mr.. Jerome B. Bell, editor and
proprietor Of the Wilmington
Del.) Star, is in the CRY on his
annual visit to his mothers
family. The writer occasionally
sees the Star and considers it
among the brightest and newsiest
metropolitan papers, and the
editor a brainy and entertaining
gentleman. Mr.. Bell is accom-