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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
WHITE CAPS COME TO GRIEF.
ONE KILLED, ANOTHER WOUNDED
AND OTHERS ARRESTED.

The white caps near Wilson,
N. c., nave come to grief. Six
of them were arrested last Satur-
day and taken their for trial.
They were tried for acts COM
mitted On the premises of Mr..
Doc Lucas, of Lucama. 1t seems
that on account of SOME alleged
ilnmoralities on the part Of Lucas
the white caps visited his house
at night and gave him beating
With rods. That occurred a
good while ago, but no evidence
could be gotten against any one
for that offence.
Last week, however, Lucas got
news that the white caps intend
ed setting fire to his tobacco
barns. With a posse of his
friends he stood guard near the
barns on the night agreed upon
by the conspirators They came
and set fire to two houses.
Lucas and his party fired upon
them, and they fed. Afterwards
the firing was kept up by both
sides for sometime.
Next morning one man was
found dead, and another severely
wounded. A hat was also found,
which aided in fixing the crime
upon the perpetrators. Several
of these became frightened and
turned States evidence, testify~
ing against the six stubborn
ones. Each of the latter was put
under a bond of $500 for appears
ance at the November term of
court.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

Clark Leary is home for few
days.
Mr.. r. P. Badham has return-
ed home from school.
The school census is being
taken.
Mr.. E. S. Norman is. visiting
relatives at Plymouth.
Mr.. c. B. Elliott lost his fine
horse "Wednesday night.
Miss Matte Tillery has return:
ed home from Norfolk.
A new awning has been erect
ed in front of the stores Of NJ. D.
Haste and H. E. Williams.
Tuesday it cost Mcssrs. John
Wilkerson and K. ". Temple
s4.o5 for fast driving.
Mr.. James Sutton was fined
twelve dollars for butchering i'll
town this week.
Mr.. F. R. Johnson, of Ply
mouth, has gone to Mays Head
to open boarding house.
A meeting of the Military
Company will be held tonight
at the Court House.
Messrs. w. D. Pruden and c.
S. Vann are attending the State
Convention at Raleigh.
DR.. Joseph Booth, of New
York, is expected to arrive in
Edenton at noon to-day.
Miss Arrobella Gore, Of Wills
mington. N. c., will spend the
summer at the Bay View.
Mr.. Walter l. Leary and fam
lily left on the 23rd for Littleton,
N. c., to spend the summer.
Miss Ella Williams has been
quite sick with slow fever, but
if now convalescent.
The new addition to Mr.. Jno.
c. Bonds home on Granville
street is quite an improvement.
Mrs. NJ. A. McCurdy has been
quite sick, but is now On the
list of the convalescent.
Mr.. Frank w. White left last
Friday for Baltimore, where he
expects to locate.
Services will be held next
Sunday at the Methodist church
by Presiding Elder r. B. John.
Mr.. E. S. Norman was fined
by the mayor on Monday for
riding his wheel OIL the sidewalk.
Quite large crowd went to
Mays Head Saturday night on
rhe excursion and all seemed to
have glorious time. Mr.. Grlce,
the clever proprietor of the hotel,
served a most excellent dinner
ten dishes filled with all the
delicaces of the season. We
wish the hotel all the success
possible.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
l9SDE2!lN(2spDM

Rev. w. w. White, Of Will
mington, Del, preached at the
NJ. E. Church last Sunday morn
ing and evening.
Capt. \. S. Conk1in has re-
turned from Philadelphia, where
he went to carry the steamer
Haven Belle.
Miss Sallie c. White, of Muir
freesboro, is visiting her neice
Mrs. 7. D. Byrun, Oh Magnolia
street.
Rich folks have dc fine dinners,
Poor folks have dem plain,
Bnt all de folks use I'ro!lo Celery
To get rid o! the hoala@a- just ii
same
Mr.. J. N. Jones and little sou
MeridltI!, are spending the wees;
at the scasi,e with his brother.
Mr. ". II. Jones.
Miss Pencie McMullan has
returned from Hertfurd, accom-
panied by her cousin Miss Whid-
bee, of that place
If you want to keep on the
good side of your best girl get a
bottle of Bromo Celery, for it is
a sure cure for the headache.
Mrs. J. D. Bate1nan and child
rem will leave next Tuesday for
Kittrells, n. c., at which place
thew will remain several months.
Mr.. Wallace Winborne has re
signed his position with the
Branning Mfg. Co., and returned
to his home in Berkeley. Some
one carries a sad heart; who is it?
Mr.. NJ. F. Bond, accompanied
by his son Frank, Henry Hoop
er and Henry Bond left last
Saturday in an open boat for
Mays H ad.
Some thief broke into Mr.. F.
A. Whites chicken house Tues
day night, but was scared off by
two shots from Mr.. Whites gun.
The dwelling on Broad street,
next to BurtOn's store, is being
torn down to give place to new
one soon to be e: eCted.
Miss Wake, of Norfolk, Va,
who has been visiting Miss
Hawkins On Broad street, left
Tuesday for Avoca to visit her
uncle Mr.. H. E. Wake.
Messrs. K. Rea, NJ. H. Dixon
A. J. Batenan, Brent Drane and
Mics Brown went to Nays
Head Monday on Mr.. Rea's
yacht to spend about two weeks
A party of young ladies aud
gentlemen, chaperoned by Mrs
H. Deb: Hooger, left Saturday
night for Nays Head to spenc
about ten days at the seaside
Among those in the party are
Miss Lizzie Ward, of Arlington
| N. J., Miss Annie Shaw, o.
Shawboro, Miss Kate Wood, Miss
Alice Makely, and Messrs. E. L
Woodland, Harry Cason, Carol
Brinklev and Wick Graves.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
Fighting Against Desper-
ate Odds.

When the Cuban insurgents
can do no beforehand frequently
they cannot-they manufacture
homemade cannon out of ma
tive tree of great toughness. The
bore is burnt out with hot crow
bars and the gun tightly wound
with green raw hide cut in strips.
A correspondent relates that in
one instance General Gomez
converted an iron pipe, which
was part of the equipment of a
captured sawnill, into a cannon,
and with it drove the Spanish
troops out of two strongholds
and compelled them to surrender
third. If the Cubans were
provided with modern arms iii
sufficient quantities they would
surely sweep the Spanish troops
from the island in short notice.
Undoubtedly they will do this
eventually, even with their inns
provised weapons. The deter
mination to win is the battle
half won. The barbarians cap
tured Rome with bows and ar
rows, sticks and stones and other
handy missiles And the bars
barians lacked inspiration born
of patriotism and a just cause
New York Advertiser.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

The State Democratic Con-
vention met at Raleigh yester-
day OF course it is now too
early to say what is or what
will be done. Taking Chairman
James II. Pou's word for it, an
honest, earnest and straight tor
ward silver plank, calling for
free, unlimited and independent
coinage at the ratio of 10 to
will be adopted. After all this
is the only issue before the peo>
pie and the party must take
some action whether right Or
wrong.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
A Good Radiance.
Georgetown Democrat. 7

The good people of Chioco>
league are rejoicing that the last
member of the "sanctihed band"
has left the island. The last
contingent, seventeen in number,
sold their personal effects at a
sacrifice last week aud went to
Join their comrades in North
Carolina.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
Junior Giants "a; Bellcross 3.

Our local base ball club, the
Junior Giants, went to Belcross
on Saturday, and defeated the
team of that town by a score of
"a to 5. When it comes to
playing ball the Junior Giants
are right there.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
wrong.

1.-THE Democratic ticket should
be defeated this Fall it will be
because of the unsoundness of
the platform on the money
question. If elected it will be
because Of the soundness of the
platform Oil the burning issue.
The Republicans failed to satisfy
the people in this matter, and
when scheming politicians tell
you that it is the tariff and not
the currency upon which the
battle in November is to be
fought they are simply trying to
avoid the real issue of the cam
paign and put you of your track,
and make excuses for the short
comings of their party at St.
Louis.
The Democrats at Chicago
must pronounce for money as
good a. any nation enjoys---1non-
ey as good as that Of England,
France, Germany or any other
civilized country. They must
pledge the party to leave moths
ing undone to preserve for
Americans the good money they
demand, and by providing suf-
fcient revenue by all necessary
means. If the Chicago Conven>
ton does not do that and adopts
a platform with the frmness and
aggressiveness of a jelly fish two
things will happen: First, the
vast army of the Democratic
party, which wants a platform
giving out no uncertain sound,
will be disguised and dishearten-
ed. The business men, on one
side the open dishonesty of the
Republican Convention and OH
the other hand the cowardice
and incincerity of their own
party, will not care which way
the election goes. Second, the
adoption of a plank which
neither positively affr1ns or
denies, but which shuff1es and
equivocates, viii repel a million
silver Republicans and Populists,
who are ready to vote for a Dem
ocratic candidate on pure fnan-
cial basis. Like Noah's dove
they can find no place for the
sole of their feet, and many of
them will fly back to the Repub~
lican ark and roost there. Some
will take to the woods. None
OF them will vote for the Deno>
cratic candidate on a straddle
platform, for they will gain
nothing by it.
The Sounder the Democratic
platform on the money question
. the greater the majority for the
Democratic ticket from top to
bottom. The greater the con>
trast between the courageous
honesty of the Democratic COM
vention money plank and the
defiant dishonesty of the Repub-
lican plank the more sweeping
will be the Democratic victory
in November. Honesty is truly
the best policy, in politics as
we'll as elsewhere.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

Ayers Pills promote The natural mo-
ton of the bowels, without which there
can be no regular, healthy operations.
For the cure of biliousness, indigestion,
sick headache, constipation, jaundice,
and liver complaint, these pills have no
equal Every dose effective.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

The Republican Party is great
on hats, thinks the Wilmington
IN. c. Star. In 1888 and 1892
it was our "gradfather's" hat,
and now it's the Napoleon" hat.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
MURDER IN CAMDEN.
A PASOUOTANK FARMER is
KILLED BY HIS NEIGHBOR.
SHOT FIVE TIMES.
Joseph Cooper Kills Afford Stat
ford and Skipps to Parts
Unknown.

| A decided sensation was Great
ed III Newland township yester
day morning by the announce
ment that Mr.. Afford Stafford
had been murdered by Mr.. 10
seph Cooper, of the same sec
ton, and thorough invest1ga-
ton revealed the fact that the
statatement-at first a wild rus
lnor-was we'll founded.
The diligence of the FISHER
MAN & FARMER man failed in
obtaining the full outcome of
the affair; but from the best in
formation obtainable, it seems
that grudge about the trespass-
ing Of stock had existed between
the parties for some time. Both
are men whose locks are whiten>
ed with the frosts of many wins
tiers, and both with a reputation
for being unneighborly.
Both live within a half mile
of each other-Cooper in Cam
den and Stafford in Pasquotank,
the river being the dividing line
between the two counties. Stat
ford was in the habit of keeping
his hogs on the Camden side,
and, from this, it is thought, the
trouble originated.
Several weeks ago, it is stated,
Cooper sent Stafford word that
he was going to kill him, and
the circumstances surrounding
yesterdays tragedy looks as if he
layed in waiting to carry out
his threat.
Stafford was feeding his hogs
on the Camden side of the river
at o'clock yesterday morning,
and this is where and when the
shooting took place. Mr.. Joseph
IDeNaria, French Canadian
who happened to be in the
neighborhood, and who Gains
to have heard the report of the
gun and seen the smoke after the
report, says that Stafford was
shot without warming and was
i'll the act of throwing more corn
to his hogs when the first shot
was fired.
The first shot was from a rifle
and penetrated the right should
er. -Four other shots followed
from a pistol, either of which
would have been fatal. Stafford
only lived few minutes after he
was taken to his home, where
the remains were viewed by the
Corouer's jury yesterday after
noon.
Cooper skipped after the
shooting, and up to the time of
going to press, no news of his
arrest had been received. He
gave the rifle and pistol to his
wife.
Mr.. Afford Stafford has always
been a well-to>do and prominent
citizen of this county. He made
farming his business and has
been quite successful. He has
to his credit several large plan>
tatlons III this and adjoining
counties, besides owning valu-
able real estate in Elizrbeth City
and money On interest. He was
about 65 years of age and leaves
a family consisting of a wife and
two boys who have we'll nigh
reached their maturity.
Mr.. Joseph Cooper is aged
between 50 and 90 years and also
has family. He was reared
within a few miles of this city,
but possessed of a roaming dis
position having lived in almost
every State in the Union-most>
ly in Virginia. In this section
he was regarded as peaceable
and quiet citizen. He is rather
tall, stopped in the shoulders, has
blue eyes, sandy beard and very
hard of hearing.
The funeral of Mr.. Stafford
will take place from his late
residence this afternoon.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

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to try Hoods Sarsapariila. Soon could
do all my own housework. I have taken
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

Wien Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria-
When she was n Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss she chung to Castoria-
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

A man has a perfect right to
express his honest views on any
public question.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26
Cured

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26


Chops of lamb may be broiled
in five minutes with frequent
turning, except when Ell papil>
lote--that is. broiled in oiled
paper,-When eight to ten min
utes over a brisk fire is neces-
sa1y. Mutton chops require one
minute more. Mutton and lamb
roasted as much and no more
than they are generally liked,
require fifteen minutes to each
pound after it is salted, peppered
and Aour-dredged. Mutton roast
ed rare needs but ten minutes for
each pound in a hot oven.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

There are two reasonable things
which everybody should do: take good
care OF one health; and ifIost, regain
It quickly, and to this everybody will
agree. And there are a great multi
tude of people who are agreed that for
both purposes Simmons Liver Rcgu-
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with torpid liver and nothing gives re-
liefso quick like Simmons Liver Regu-
1ator. R. r. Strange, Lake City, Fla.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-06-26

ELIZABETH CITY, June 10Th, 1896.
, 1896-03-12

the century. II stands for such IA poll
cy with all foreign nations as will in
sure both to us and to them justice.
good faith, dignity and honor. It
stands for the Monroe doctrine as
Monroe himself proclaimed it.
1t stands for a commercial policy
that will whiten every sea with the
sails Of American vessels flying the
American flag and that will protect
that flag wherever it floats.
II stands for a fiscal policy opposed
to debts and deficits in time of peace
and favOrs the retur OF the govern
ment to a debt-paying policy, and OPP
poses the debt-making policy. 1t is too
| plain for argument that the public
credit and commercial interests Of the
country require the revenues Of the
government to be amply sufficient for
the public expenditures at all times
without danger of deficit, and to that
end congress should. without delay,
make due provision.
We contend for honest money: for a
currency of gold. silver and paper,
with which to measure our exchange,
that shall be as sound as the govern
ment and as '3rtarnished as its honor:
and to that end we favor bi-metallism.
and demand the Use of both gold and
silver as standard money. either in
accordance with a ratio to he fixed by
an International agreement, if that can
be obtained, or under such ~restriC-
tons and such provisions. to be de-
tCrmined by legislation, as will Sc
cure the maintenance of the PARTIES
OF the values of the two metals. so that
the purchasing and debt-paying power
Of the dollar. whether of silver, gold
or paper. shall be at all times equal.
We denounce the present admins
tration of the pension bureau for its
betrayal of the interests of the union
soldiers, and we pledge anew to the
veterans of the republic a watchful
care and recognition of their just
claims upon a grateful people.
The following resolution was then
adopted:
Resolved. That Asa S. Bushnell,
Joseph B.. Foraker. Charles II. Gros-
venor and Marcus A. Hanna be, and
they are hereby elected delegates-at-
large from the State of Ohio to the
republican national convention at st.
Louis, and they are instructed by the
republicans of Ohio to vote and work
for the nomination of William Nc
Kinley. jr., for president of the United
States.
, 1896-03-12
pended.


Nebraska is as fertile in point of
candidates as Hon. John Milton Thurs
ton is in point Of metaphors. The
state prohibition convention has in
structed for Hon. c.. Z. Bentley of Lin
coin as the dry man for president.
Hon. Charles Francis Henderson is a
republican candidate. and Hon. Tobias
Castor will be a powerful and moving
democratic candidate, and every lover
of silver wheels and cartwheels will
shout for Hon. William Jennings
Bryan. the Boy Orator of the Platte, as
the fittest and highest sounding chap
for the populist nomination. Candi-
dates are as thick in Nebraska now as
grasshoppers were in unhappier days,
And speaking of grasshoppers. Hon.
julius Sterling Morton may be a a n
didate for something himself.-New
York Sun.
, 1896-03-12
THEIR

The republicans of Ohio in conven-
ton assembled adopted the following
as their platform:
The republicans of Ohio congratu-
late the people of the country upon the
growth of republican sentiment, as
evidenced by the signal victories of the
last three years, which assure a glori-
GUS national triumph in the coming
election.
We denounce the democratic admin
istration as the most destructive and
disastrous the history of the country
has ever known. 1t has not only disap-
pointed the expectations of the coun-
try, but has justly forfeited the conf
dence and support of it's own party.
We affirm our adherence to the prin-
ciples of the republican party, as de-
fined by the national convention OF
1892.
We are faithfully welded to the
great principle of protection by every
tie of party fealty and affection, and it
is dearer to as now thar ever before.
1t mas more devoted supporters among
the great masses of the American peo-
pie, irrespective of party, than at any
previous period in our national his
tory. 1t is everywhere recognized and
Endorsed as the great, masterful, tri-
umphant American principle key
to our prosperity in business, the SAT-
est prop to the treasury of the United
States and the bulwark of our national
independence and financial honor.
We denounce the present tariff law
as the sublimest product of democratic
ignorance and INCOMPETENCE, bringing,
as 1t has, to a prosperous and happy
people a period of unprecedented ad-
versity and distress from which moth
ing but a return to the policy of pro-
lection al relieve it.
We denounce the free wool provis-
ion Of the present tariff law as an un-
just discrimination against an import
ant industry and against a large part
Of our people, and demand such pro-
lection for sheep husbandry as will Sc
cure fair prices for American wool.
The republican party stands for a
reciprocity that reciprocates. and
which does not YIELD up to another
country a single days labor that be-
longs to the American workingman.
It stands for the International agree
ments which get as much as they give,
upon terms Of mutual advantage. 1t
stands for a foreign policy dictated by
and imbued with a spirit that is gen.
timely American for a policy that will
revive the national traditions and re-
store the national spirit which carried
, 1896-03-12
AN UNFORTUNATE EXPERIMENT.

AN UNFORTUNATE EXPERIMENT.
She filled her lamp with X Ray oil that
night when Willie called;
And oh the sight that met her eyes, 1t
very much appalled,!
For as she flashed it on his heart. and
gazed intent within,
SO frightful to her hopes was IT, it
made her poor head spin.
Within its left-hand curvature she saw
the face of Jane.
The maid he'd said he loved no more,
and ne'er would love again
And still that face remained therein,
and 10, twas smiling yet!
And just beneath it, Sinking, too. she
saw the lips of Bette.
OF to the left was Mollie Jones, and
with patrician pride
The visage of Miss Vanderbrow was
beaming at her side
And lower down was Polly Wilkes, and
Alice Perkins. too.
Wv III pl'"H II. dilu Ildlllt IIlthS.
and pouting little Prue.
Some sixteen other maidens of the
neighborhood were there,
And yet he told her softly. yester-eve,
out OF the stair,
That in his heart shrine there was but
one queen upon the throne,
Whose face and grace and charms he
loved, and they were all her own!
All, girls. beware of X Ray lamps;
avoid this poor girls woe:
Don't gaze into your lovers heart, nor
seek too much to know:
For since she turned that searching
light on Willie as he sat,
She's been so madly jealous that she
knows not where she's at!
-Harper's Bazaar.