North Carolina Newspapers

ToNE DOLLAW AND GET THE rrsHERMAN & FARMER F FOR ONE YEAR; 32 Columns. ran -LN TUB FISHERMAN & FARMER ASP tEB Th Uollni-H Grow. A. H. Mitchell, Editor and Business Manager. Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina. ESTABLISHED 1886. xr DOIxIxAR per yeai-ii advance. EDENTON, N. C FRIDAY AUGUST 23, 1895. & HI. BOND, i:di:ntoN, n. c. Jl- n the- Superior Courts of ;.,v,!k-cti-ins promptly maac. HON MAn W. RANSOM. No Longer our Minister to Mexico. Dfi. C. P. BOGERT, ami Mechanical pSHTIST I-MtMiton, N. C. iittd when requested. IV.tK-l It. II. K. L. Watkiii. HARRIS & WATKINS, ATTORNEYS SIT LcTVV, Eil en ton, N. C. ,,ff,a- in front of Hay View Hotel. ;raotia- in all the Courts of the Colicciioiis promptly maae. INQUIRY MAY DOLLAKS. SAVE YOU j Ante for prices before piuo; or-lersfor gravestones or ecuu tcry work. Dosiirns ent free. COUl'ER'S M AIIULK WOKKS, li:; & lift Hank St., Norfolk 't. TIIK ATTOUNEY GENERAL DE CLARES HIS APPOINTMENT IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITl TION. NOTHING TO PREVENT HIS REAPPOINTMENT. BUTTLE BETWEEN LAWYERS They Were Opposing Counsel in a Contested Will Case. News comes from Washington that Hon. Matt W. Ransom, of North Carolina, is no longer Minister from the United States to Mexico. The office was prac tically declared vacant last Fri day by a decision rendered by Mr. Homes Conrad, Solicitor General of the United States.aud acting Attorney General. Mr. Ransom's incombency was de clared to be contrary to the Fed eral Constitution, and the acting Attorney General sustains the action of Mr. Thomas Hoi comb, Auditor of the Treasury for the State Department, in declining to pass favorably upon Mr. Ran som's vouchers for salary and expenses. The decision of the acting At torney General was based on a question raised by Auditor Hol combastothe legality of Mr. Ransom's appointment to the Mexican mission in view of the existance of Section 2, Article 6, of the Constitution, which de clares that "No Senator or Rep resentative, shall, during the time lor which he was elected,be appointed to any civil office un der the authority of the United States which shall have been ! created, or the emoluments A r,e lot South east corner of King j whereof shall have been increas- UKl ll;l.vUlll sueeia wen auan-u i i i v-.xj1 business enterprise having I eu uumig suui uiiic. hiw water front. Said lot is about j This rirovision arjmrentlv fit- m feet wnle and 175 teet deep; cau be " on Lr'!t terms. Apply to Mrs. is. , lcu caat ji h. "ouwm, r resident Cleveland and confirmed by the COL. BURKETT MADE AN ATTACK ON MRS. KINSER'S CHARACTER AND SUFFERED FOR IT. For Sale- . lMnsh or in her absence to jicr 1 ne was nominated by 'int. .Mr. 1,. r. z.iegier, Edenton, N. C. LAND FOR SALE. That valuable tract of land at hi- head of Main street, known "Holmes," containing about iS acres. Also the "Quarter tract" recently owned by Mr. T. I). Warren, containing about 233 acres, which I will sell in sections of:; and ;o acres. Terms easy. RICHARD DILLARD. Aiictioneer. A sensational episode barely escapir. r the magnitude 01 a trageuy was witnessed on the 1 6th in the Circuit courtroom at Athens, Tenn., during a will contest case in which much bit terness had been manifested. Col T. M. Burkett and VV. L. Kinscr, opposing counsel en gaged in a knock out fight in open court and as a result Col. Buikett will be disfigured for life. The case under contest dates back to April last, when M. D. Cone died and bequeathed his entire property, valued at $30, 000, to Seesta Ware, a niece,who had, it is alleged, before his death been a cook in the family. Mrs. Jane Cone, his wife, was disinherited, but at once began suit to set aside the will, and it was during the progress of this case that Col. Burkett, attorney for Mrs. Cone, in his address to the court, violently arraiged the character of the defendant. Since coming into possession of the property left her, Miss Ware has married W. L. Kinser, who was engaged as attorney in defending her. At the close of a terrible chastisement oi the de fendant, Burkett hissed "Why she's nothing but a concubine." Mrs. Kinser's husband, attorney, advanced on his wife's accuser, white with rage and savagely assaulted him. Colonel Burkett's face was Senate before his term of office as Senator from North Carolina' beaten into a pulpy, bloody mass ATLAMTEXPOSITIOH Will Rank Next to the World's Fair. SAD ACCIDENT. t M BE. cross killed by a trac set for thieves. HISTORY OF METHODISM Nathaniel Allen of the town of Edenton. txt unUXTTOM ! On the Minutes of a Charch Confer x-, 'ence held September 1 ith, 181 1, may be BY REV. N. M. WATSON, PASTOR. Having been appointed County ucti oueer and given bond therefor, all persons are forbid den to exercise the virtues of that oil ice under .penalty of law. A. J. Bateman, Broad Street, Edeutou, N. C. NOTICE Tnc run of I; end & Makelv. existing !kiY'afo!v between D. ti. Bond and M. Makdv, is hereby dissolved, by the withdniwa- of the undersigned. Parties interested will please take utice. M. MAKELV, June 27th. 1895. A WORD TO THE WISK. had expired, and during that term the salary of the Mexican mission had been increased 000 a year. The Treasury Department records shows that exSenator Ransom has drawn in salary and expenses as Minister to Mexico jabout $5,000, ot which 4275 was for salary up to June 1st. The last payment made to him was on June 22nd for $1,490, which included his May salary. Now that the legal phrase of the case has been settled adverse- y to Mr. Ransom. Auditor Hol- omb, who is responsible ior all money wrongfully paid through his office, will, following his usual custom, in case Mr. Ran som is re-appointed, withhold his salary until the accumulation equals the amount wrongfully paid him. This is ouly.ol course, . i j 4. 111 case Mr. Kansora uoes nut straighten out the matter by re. turning all the money heretofore paid him and appeal to Congress or the payment of the salary thus returned. The constitutional provision hroueh which Mr. Ransom has been deprived of office does not bar him from being reappointed o the Mexican mission. He could have been appointed with out violation of the law or Con stitution at anv time after the hour of noon on March 4th last, when his Senatorial term ex pired. It is believed that Presi dent Cleveland will, upon being officiallv notified or the condition of affairs, reappoint Mr. Ransom to the office which nearly every Senator united in asking the President to do last winter. p3 - AltE IMMENSE. This means dollars to the farmers and people gener- allly. This money will go into all channels of business and will be a rich harvest for advertisers. The 0 o and O O is carefully read by the farmers and laboring men of this section and tfyou want a goodly portion of the Fall trade you should insert your advertisement at once. and he was carried helpless out of the courtroom. Both attor neys will be tried before Judge Parks for contempt of court. The affair created the wildest excitement. REMARKABLE ESCAPE. AN ENGINE AND TEN CARS PASSOVER A CHILD WITHOUT INJUKY. Staunton, (Va.) News. Yesterday morning as a freight train was coming up the lower valley over the Baltimore ana Ohio railroad, it took the side track at Stickley's (Juarry, about two miles north of Strasburg. The little 18-months-old child of a man named Jenkins, who lives near the railroad, got on the track and was probably struck by the engine. It fell over on the ties and the engine and ten cars passed over it without doing it any injury. When rescued, the only apparent injury discovered was a bruise on one shoulder. The engine was going very slow and probably only pushed the child over. Senator Marion Butler, in his speech at Concord, made one ot the severest attacks on President Cleveland ever heard in North Carolina. He said: "The man who puts party above principle is the best tool the goldbugs have and the devil never had a better servant than a goldbug. Every bond this Government owes England or any other country or individual is payable in gold or silver at the option of the Government, and it says so on the face of the bond Yet Cleveland is going to England to get gold when he could pay the bonds in silver. He does not pay them in silver because he is the hireling of the goldbugs. charge it here, and I'll charge it on the floor of the United States Senate if he sends down his army after me for saying it. If you had an honest man for President he could make the times easier in ten days by calling Congress together to furnish relief. It is not enough to send honest men to Congress. We will never see better times till we drive the traitors out of the White House and get an honest free silver :aian for President." Senator Butler was asked. "If the Democratic party would item inate a silver man for President, would you vote for him?" HTis reply was, "Not if he oppostxl the income tax or the repeal of the national banking system.' It is to be doubted, if there is another place in America, where the growth of Methodism has been so slow, or where the visible returns have been so meager in proportion to effort expended. As far back as 1 793, Eden ton appears on the General Minutes with Archer Davis as preacher in charge. Whether he tried and failed, or what became of him or the appointment does not appear. Not until 1804 was a second attempt made; this time with Joseph Moore, preacher in charge. To the succeeding Confer ence he could report no progress. In 1807, a third effort was made, this time with John Lattimore in charge, but again the record is silent, and we con clude that like his predecessors he found Edenton a hard soil in which to plant Methodism. But the Methodist Fath ers were not disheartened. Next came the Rev. Enoch. Jones. At last the soil was broken and a Society of 18 mem bers 9 white and 9 colored was or ganized and reported to the annual Conference which met at Tarboro, Feb. and, 1809. It will be interesting to note tnat, tne total Methodist membership 111 the United States, at that time, was 151. 995. having grown from 65,980 to that num ber since 1793, wnen Arcner jjavis was first appointed to Edentou. It is also interesting to note that, since 1S0S, when Edenton had 18 members, Meth odism in the United States has grown from 151,995 to 5397.72 members at the close of the statistical year 1894. If the increase at Edenton had been in proportion to the increase of Ameri can Methodism, there would now be about 900 members. The writer will not undertake to say how long it will ORGANIZATION OK THE PRISE. ENTF.R- seen the loiiowimr entry: 1 iwmui Thurniau made the following motion, viz: That the residue of the money af ter the payment of his own board and church expenses, should be applied to ihc board and salary of his wife. Motion was refused, unanimously; be cause Pleasant Thurniau was received by the society as a single preacher and are only bound to support him as such An appeal to quarterly Conference was craved by P. Thurman, which was ac cordingly granted. When the appeal came up for trial we find the following decision recorded: "That the Society is not bound to support P. Thurman's wife unaer the circumstances stated." Doubtless they intended to teach their future pastors not to rush headlong to matrimonial bliss. How many will heed the warning, the muses have yet to tell. In 18I2 Joel Arrington was preacher in charge; next cxme Henry Holmes, a pious, godly man, who was permitted to labor but a few short weeks, when the Master called him to his reward. In the old church yard his body awaits the dawn of the resurrection morn. Through the next forty years we might trace the history of many a strug gle, but we pass on to 1857 and find a white membership of sixty, moving in to a more commodious church on Eden alley. But in 1865 when the. din of war had subsided they could count but thirty members, three men and twenty seven women. Certainly the outlook was dark enough, but collecting them selves together they began a determined struerle for existence, and a protract ed struggle for many years it proved to be, It would take a wiser philosopher than this writer claims to be, to tell wliv the trrowth of Methodism has been so slow among the white population of 'Tis true the atmosphere is From all that has been said in relation to Atlanta, and concern ing the magnificent country of which she is the natural commer cial center it ought to be plain to the reader that she has a very good excuse to offer, if any ex cuse were necessary, for under" taking an enterprise of such magnitude and importance as the Cotton States and Interna tional Exposition. If the impression prevails any where in the vast territory cov ered by the circulation of the Chicago Herald that Atlanta's Exposition of 1895 is to be southern, or merely an American affair, that impression will be very speedily dissipated. It is going to be an exposition that will rank among the great expo sitions of the United States, sec ond only in importance, in scope and character to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. It will outrank in many impor tant particulars the Centennial Exposition in 1876. This seems very much like a hazardous prophecy, but unless something happens to change the entire plan upon which the enterprise is at present projected it will be fulfilled. The United States have a great deal more to exhibit, as the result of national progress, than they had in 1876. At that time some of the grandest States 1 m tne union were uiuaiyu. Many of them were under mili tary rule, and some of them were writhing beneath carpet-bag un surpation. The United States were united states only in name. Some of the greatest nations of the earth, it is true, contributed toward the success of the Cen tennial. Had thev not done so it would have proved a mostdis A Power for Good. Dl churns!11 k IlIMdjr Matter fWn Illney IVctur mat A sad accident occured at Suf folk Va., about 12 o'clock last Saturday night. Thefts having been very numerous 111 that sec tion of late, Mr. B.E. Cross, who kept r. store on East Washington street, near the Suffolk & Caro linu depot, having been roblcd receutly.set a gun for the thieves in case of a repetition, and on Saturday night, after having closed the store for the night, had occasion to return for a pack age which he had left on the counter. On entering the store he thought he could get what he wanted without striking z light, while his son and son-in-law waited for him, but in his efiort J Bakacho cure, a forw Kv uo rcUd uui uuiwoa tuiru. iou wvjiww mi n "Rcnrfnlph. Iowa. May 13, IMS. Dr.Fcnner, TVarSir: I hud kitlncy disc, consumption of the txiwrls, rheumatism and bad rough. I wut nf hurglnti bloody matter from my kidneys ui.d uUrodd of Cecil and blood from my boweU. I suflVrfd tum-h pala waa rcrj uOar dvutU. My wife had female weakness. Wc found no relief until wo u-d your Klduey and Diseases. Swelled Limbs. Bricht's Dis ease, Impotency, etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. Sample free. Dr. Fcnnor's Pellets euro Sick IloailarhOH, Constipation, etc. Tlio u-st Family 1'hynlc I)r. Fcnnor's Gorman Eye-Salve euro SoroEytw. t'raoltfd LIiw.I'Uhh.SUIii Kruptlotm. SOAP AS CURRENCY. QUEER LEGAL TENDER IN USE IN SOME PARTS OK MEXICO Dr. Former's Cough Honey. Relieve any cough, u-silinia, et. In an hour. to do SO lie went aaillSt the Wire j and Uhorself again. I never knw a rvuody i i. poaeaaed of such, power for good. Our cue connected with the gun, n1uc1i j ETHtTndinii recIlUlCnJatl(nx for u horo was instantly discharged, the en- j Qpg FENNER'S hWiV j Kidney aBackache Core ot the knee, cutting the main j RefJQ QepurQnt artery and carrying away mus- Wsalidiseascsof thekidn judder, cles nerves and all, when the! urinary passages, Female Weaknesses, . , ', . . , I Bed Wetting m children, Dropsy, Heart blood is said to have run Disease, Rheumatism, Skin and Blood from him as if poured from a pitcher. Everything was done for the unfortunate man, but to no avail, as he died about 11 o'clock Sunday morning, never having rallied from the loss of blood and shock. Mr. Cross was only about four feet from the gun when it was discharged and it is thought that almost every shot took effect. Even the paper wad was taken from. the wound. Deceased was j about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and several children, be sides a large circle of friends to mourn his untimely death. His family had tried to prevail on him not to set the trap by which he was caught, but he persisted, with the sad result here chronicled. Dr. Fcnnor's Golden Relief. A buooIOc In any Inflammation, ltolleven burns, tooth ache, neuralgia, rhcumattHtn, or any pain lit 1 to30mlnuto. OuroHrolI dyHjMTttdft.dywii taryund flux; also bron-hltln aud conauiuir Uou. Ouo dobo euros LaUriyuo. SoMy Walter I. Leary. 0 ill ill (II Good Steady Customers Those who long for of lots of 1 11 ,.l ,...1.t.. mal failure. The smaller 11a-, currency, TCKaiu,s ux 4a , ,can a useful innt from a story tions were not represented as a travder who went they were at the World s Fair. The South American republics proouoiy uc ucivre nun " very damp, but the colored Methodist hurcn. nas not ianea 10 nounu, uuu reached. For the year 1809, the Rev. Enoch Jones was returned to Edenton, and succeeded in buildiujr a Methodist Church, and to the succeeding Confer ence which met at Petersburg, Va., re ported 75 members 15 white and 60 colored. In 1810 Robert Thompson was preacher iu charge, and to the next Conference, which, met at Raleigh, N. C, reported 39 white and 129 colored members. Next comes Rev. Pleasant Thurman. (the father of Hon. Allen G. Thurniau, of Ohio) a young man and unmarried. On the 11 tn of ay after his arrival in February lie was "happily married," so the old record says, to Miss Man' G. Allen, daughter of Col. now numbers about 600 members. They can claim the proud distinction of be ing the largest church organization in the county. To the hopeful man, a brighter day for the . E. Church, South in Edenton, seems to be dawning; at least these years of struggle have evolved a band of heroic men and women, who un daunted by the fortunes of the past, have recently attested their faith in future Methodism, by contributing lartrelv and freely of their means to the erection, on Broad street, of one of the handsomest brick churches to be found, in Eastern Carolina. HON. WM. STRONG DEAD Hi; WAS A RKTIRED ASSOCIATE JUSTICE op Tin; V. S. SUPREME COUltT. Corbett Married. James J. Corbett was married on the 1 5tb at Asbury Parle, N J., to Miss Jessie Taylor, o Omaha, Neb. The bride is known by- the name of Vera Stan wood, and she is the "Vers-.' oi the divorce suit. HIS PARDON CAME TOO LATE A NORTH CAROLINA COUNTERFEITER - DIES IN. THE PENITENTIARY AT ALBANY. Associated Justice Strong (re tired) of the United States Su preme Court, died at Jake Min- newaska. N. Y., on the 19th inst. The direct cause ot his deatn was paralvsis, but he has been much an invalid aurmg mauy years. Tustice Strong was a lawyer ol . . j ereat ability, and was nominated bv President rant in 1070. m -1 . . 1 1 ,1.1 1 1880 he, having reacueu uic g-j undertake the journey home at which, under the constitution, retirement from the Bench after ten years' of service thereon is f permitted, retired, ric was Here ig a curious item from a prominent resident 01 vvasmug- ... m,.. vf;sc- tnr 4--... fot-inor an arrive interest ltt 0 J miA, wikiui. - - . ... 1 - benevolent and religious projects. John Honeycutt, aged twenty two, the counterfeiter, died in the penitentiary at Albany, this week, a victim of consumption He was bom at Fort, Stanly county, N. C, and was convicted January 1894. He was pardons ed out last week by President Cleveland, but was not able to BURIED IN HER PIANO. made but a poor display. The period between 1876 and 1894 has been one of the brightest of the nineteenth century, the most prolific in invention and the most wonderful in industrial develop ment. Without any aid from abroad the United States would be able to make an exhibit of the arts, sciences, manufactures, industries and products of the soil and sea to-day superior to any international display that could have been made a quarter of a century ago. Chicago Hct aid. Those are the results you want from your advertis ing. It is people of this sort who read the Fisher man & Farmer read it reg ularlv and read it thor- oughly. You can keep 111 jj; touch with them only by , i advertising in these col- j.) minis. Tell them what v you have to sell they ,,; know a good thing when j'j thev see it. Found Guilty. Have you read the Fisher man & Farmer Trade Edition? "Peg Leg" in Georgia. "Peg Leg" Williams, well known in North Carolina a few years ago as the promoter of negro emigration to other states has turned up in Georgia, in the same business. He recently took a big crowd to Mexico, but they are dying with small pox and are destitute. Sound Money: That paid for a Cornet. - J county than any other agency Always speak a good word for the Fish rman & farmer. H Remember it is your county i i r 1.1 i paper ana aoes more ior me Tate, an American gin ana a pianist of considerable merit died a short ago, only 21 years old. Her last wish was to be laid out upon and buried in her grand piano. She was laid out upon the instrument, a choral being played upon it, while re, ligious services were held over her body. After the ceremony the cover was raised, the strings torn from the piano and the body placed in it. Then the piano legs were taken off and the body of the piano raised up on the hearse. As she had re- ouested. her own piano is her last resting place. W. J. Urquhart, who was tried at Suffolk, Va , last week, for the murder of John E. Gray, Novem ber, 1870, has been found guilty of murder in second degree, and the penalty fixed at five years in the penitentiary. POSTPONED. The old Liberty Hell's trip from Philadelphia to Atlanta has been postponed from Sept. nth to Oct. 4th. This action was taken at the request of Atlanta citizens, who, it is stated, will be able to give the Liberty Bell, and the Councilmanic party, a '-bet- ter reception after the turmoil of the opening day." No action has been taken by the court in the application of several Philadel phia citizens for an injunction to prevent the taking of the bell to the exposition. The Cotton Mill Company at E. City has elected Dr. O. G MrMnllan president. The mill will be located on the N. & S Railroad, near the old E. City fair grounds. told by many years ago to Mexico and found the natives using a strange kind of currency. Says he: "In one of the small towns I bought some limes and gave the girl $1 in payment. ''By way of change she return ed me forty- nine pieces of soap the size ofa small buscuit. I look ed at her in astonishment, and she returned my look with equal surprise, when a police officer, who had witnessed the incident, hastened to inform me that for small sums soap was legal ten der in many portions of the country. I examined my change and found that each cake was stamped with the name ot a town aud of a manufacturer who was authorized bv the Govern ment. The cakes of soap were worth three farthings each. Afterward in my travel 1 fre quently received similar change. "Many of the cakes snoweu signs of having been in the washtub, but that, i discovered, was not at all uncommon. Pros vid'id the stamp was not obliter ated the soap did not lose any value as currency. Occasionally a man would borrow a cake of a friend.wash his hands and return it with thanks. I made use of my pieces more than once in my bath, and subsequently spent them." Harper s Round Tabic. J. H. BELL, The Tinner. Manufacturer and Repairer of Ware. Roofing and Guttering A SPECIALTY. ItIfiix' oCHtovcx. All work attended to promptly. Satisfaction guaranti ed. Only first class shop iu Edenton POSTED. Millions Spent for News. A writer estimates that the newspaper publishers in the United States spend annually $17,000,000 for news. There are tc.ooo persons engaged upon editorial work on daily and week ly papers. The largest paper Din in tne United States is the New York World's which amounts to $670,- 000 per annum; 'the World also tons the list in the weekly com- position bill which amounts to S6.000. The Boston Globe comes next with $4,100. The World pays $3 1 5 a week for proofread ing, and the same is paid Dy tne Herald. Boston buys more paper in proportion to population than any other city in America. All jK-rsons are hereby notified that the grounds of the Edenton Agl. aud Pish Pair have been posted, and that any one tres passing thereon for any purpose whatever will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. J.vo. C. Bond, Sec'ty. Clubs for ball practice may get special permit from the Sec'ty. PLATING! Gold ;ui(I nil t?r .. f,f Having made special arrange ments with a first-class Gold and Silver Plating Establishment, I offer myself to the public a agent for same, an quote the fok lowing prices for plating. GOLD. Watch Cases fi.ooeach. Vest chains .50 cents each Queen " .30 Necklace '.3 RinKS .30 Cuff Buttons .30 " Ear-rings .y SILVElt. Watch Cases from f 1.00 up. Table Spoons, per do., I3.00 Dessert " " $2.50 Tea 44 I2.00 II. E. BYRD, Watchmaker, Jeweler and Optician, t 11