Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-02-21

Mrs. Lease is reported to have
abandoned politics and will take
to the pulpit
There is bill i'll the New
York Legislature that prohibit:
the er ,ction of sky scrapine
buildings. The highest canno'
be more than $50 feet.
Nearly ten thousand of the
twenty thousand dollars needed
has been subscribed for the erec
ton of Y. NJ. G. a. building al
Chapel Hill.
A fatal boiler explosion occur
red Thursday at J. R Plunner's S
saw mill, ten miles southwest OF
Ashboro, n. c. Three work1nen
were killed and three fatally
wounded.
| 1he Cleveland Leaatr says that
one of Senator Allisons biog-
raphers says that "after he was
born he grew up" That may
sound strange, but it is true.
Georgia has produced an
anomaly i'll the shape Of a man
who has struck a streak of lusk
at 90, and is going aroung hunt
ing up and settling accounts
which nave been standing from
ten to forty years.
| During the heavy gale in
Washington, D. c., last week a
grand elm tree that has stood at
west entrance of the circular
driveway leading to the White
House for nearly century was
uprooted and fell. The tree was
| older than the White house build
ing.
DR.. Frithjoy Nansen, the Nor
wegian explorer, sends word
| from across the frozen waters of
Siberia that he has found the
! North Pole. The report is not
credited by those in this country,
who are equipped to pass an
opinion upon the probability of
thc statement
Dr L, ". Perkins, of Beaufort,
n. c., has been arrested OH the
charge of perjury in connection
with the recent graveyard i'll
surauce cases Dr.. Perkins was
the examining physician and was
witness for the prosecution in
the trial.
Mrs. Sarah Williams, relict of
the late Alfred Williams, died at
her home at Raleigh last Satur-
day, aged 86 years. She was
Miss Jones, of Edenton, and first
married David w. Stone, then
President of the Bank of Cape
Fear. III 1869 she married Mr..
Williams, who died last month.
It is runored that high Of
icials Of the Norfolk & Western
Railroad Company have recent>
ly bought all extensive tract of
iron ore lands in Ashe county
N. c., upon which there are
heavy deposits OF rich magnetic
iron ores.
There are ten saw mills now
in and near Washington, N. c.,
all at work, except one planning
mill, which is-being enlarged to
double its present capacity. One
day last week 100000 feet of
lumber were loaded On barges to
be carried to Northern markets.
| The Biblical Recorder saws that
| Superintendent Leazer, of the
| States prison, is to be congratu-
lated. He has come nearer solv
ing the penitentiary problem
ithan any other man, if he has
mot actually done it Not many
iyears ago the penitentiary cost
| the people not less than $50 ,ooc
lannually. Last year it ran it
tself. Conditions have 10,
changed, except as the Superin
tendent has changed them. The
farming plan is success.
/ An effort is being made to get
| a pardon for John Y. McKane
lwho is serving sentence in the
fSing Sing, N. Y, penitentiary
Among the things said in hi!
favor is that since his imprison
/ rnent he has saved that Stat,
$4,000 by acting as supervise
, |of the buildings. They ma,
possibly conclude that man a
valuable as that should be KEEP
r in the penitentiary.
K 1t was reported that Judg
-(Daniel Russell, Spier Whitake
{ land NJ. L. Wood were at Wash
{. ington City in conference las