Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-03-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

a Populist paper is to be pub,
lished Ill Orange county i'll a
wagon.
The State Medical Association
will hold its annual meeting in
| Winston in May.
Revenue Collector Simmons
says there is more illicit distilla-
ton of whiskey III the eastern
section than heretofore.
Charlotte and Mecklenburg are
to build a monument in front of
the new court house to the
memory of Zeb Vance.
Secretary Morton has adver-
tlsed for Io,ooo,ooo packets of
seeds, which will give to every
member of Congress $1,000
packets for campaign purposes.
1t has been estimated that cleo
trio railways have displaced in
the United States no less than
275,ooo horses, and the moves
lnent has not yet stopped.
An Indiana man has made ap-
| plication for his ninth divorce,
and he didn't begin his matrimo-
nial career until he was ffty-fve
years of age.
The annual report on the Y.
NJ. c. A. in this State shows
Twenty-Five associations, with
2,225 members, of these 722 be
ing in college associations.
The North Carolina Supreme
Court will not take up the grave
yard insurance cases from Carr
teret county until the September
term.
South Carolina has been en-
deavorlng to prevent drummers
from soliciting orders for liquor
i'll the State, but the United
States Court says that they have
a right to solicit such orders.
Ex- Sheriff J M. Monger, of
Moore, is working on the roads
of that county as a convict under
a three-montls sentence for re
failing liquor in Sanford, a dry
town.
Benjamin H Wiliken, for sew
eral years the private secretary
of Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
has been acquitted of the charge
Of house breaking with intent to
commit rape on Miss Gertrude
Phillips, daughter of ex~Solicitor
General Phillips, of Washington,
D. c.
The North Carolina Supreme
Court decided that though the
revenue act was not signed by
the President of the Senate Or
the Speaker of the house, the
machinery act was signed and
that the two are virtually one
act, as the machinery act was
signed properly. The court says
the two acts are really one. So
the State gets the tax.
A Pennsylvania man recently
presented his wife with a piano
lamp, which she said she would
call after him. On asking her
reason, she replied: well dear,
it has a good deal OF brass about
it, it is handsome to look at it is
not remarkably brilliant, requires
a good deal of attention, is liable
to explode, flares up occasionally,
is always out at bedtime and is
bound to smoke"
Hon. {. Nj. Stedman, ex-Lieu-
tenant Governor of North Caro-
lima, will move to Atlanta from
Asheville May Ist, and enter the |
practice of his profession, law
Major Stedman is one of the most |
distinguished mem bers of the bar
Of his State, IS truly Southern
gentleman, and considered the |
handsonest man in the Old |
North State Atlanta will well
come hinljn our midst. t.--Atlanta |
Constitution
1t has been decided by the su-
preme court of Michigan that it
is not a prejudicial error in the
trial of a criminal case for the
prosecuting attorney to call the
witness for the defense "lot of
liars "lot of dirty pups who
ought not to be believed" if the
circumstances of the case seem to
Justify the truth of the assertion.
The court says that while such
language is severe, there is no
rule prohibiting an attorney from
expressing his opinion of the
truthfulness of witnesses where