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A. H. Mitchell, Editor and Business Manager.
Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina.
Established 1886.
ONE DOLLAR per year in advance.
EDENTON, N. C. FRIDAY JANUARY 31 1896.
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THE BEST OI MEDIUMS.
You may talk about your posters aud
your ads. upon the fence,
Buttlicv ain't the kind of mediums that
appeal to common sense.
You may talk about your dodgers aud
vour circulars aud such,
But I Calculate they don't assist in ad
vertising much;
And especially in the winter, when the
snow is on the ground,
I wonder where your posters and your
dodgers can be found?
But within the cozy homestead, when
the parlor stove's aglow.
The newspaper is read aloud to every
one, we know.
The farmer sees the painted sign upon
his barn and grins;
Five dollars for the place he usually
wins, , ,
And there his interest in the ad. begins,
and there it ends,
And the same is true of nearly all his
neighbors and his fneuus; j
And they read the local paper every
dav or every week, .
Aud in its welcome columns all their
i Ini-m r t i I ill efk.
And you may be- quite certain that the
ads. therein displayed
Are also read with interest and are sure
to make some trade.
It stands to reason, anyhow, that what
.1 follow buys
lie's troing to read and get his money s
worth, if he be wise,
'ri... ,Aii,pr niic-le. aunt, the
i UL iaiwv-i, "''Liiv f
daughter and the son,
Are going to read the newspaper, and
so is every one.
So it all stands to reason that a local
lMcrchaut's ad
Will attract attention, be it either good
or bad.
Aud th- newspaper as a medium leads
other kind with ease,
I-or that is where the multitude the ad
vertisement sees.
1 't int o s Ink.
Series of Farmers' Insti
tutes. Commissioner Patterson an
nounces the following Farmers'
Institutes:
Sunbury, Gates county, Feb.
7 tli and Sth.
Aulander, Bertie county, Feb.
4th and 5th.
Wintou, Hertford county, Feb.
6th.
Currituck court-house, Feb.
10 and 1 ith.
Elizabeth City, Feb. 13 and 14.
Hertford, Feb. 15th.
Edenton, Feb 17th and 18th.
Plymouth, Feb. 19th.
Willianiston, Feb. 20th.
Washington, Feb. 21 and 22.
Mr. Patterson announces:
"The Commissioner of Agri
culture will be assisted by one or
more of the Professors from the
A. and M. College aud by a rep
resentative of the North Carolina
Experiment Station.
"No politics about it, but such
subjects will be discussed as are
of general interest to farmers,
truckers, aud fruitgrowers."
DAVID OOX,Jr.,B.E.
ARCHITECT and
EXHNEEK,
.and Surveying a specialty.
Plans furnished on application.
Attorney err Law
EDENToN, X. C.
Practice n the Superior Courts of
Chowan and adjoining counties, aud in
the Supreme Court at Raleigh.
'-"Collections promptly made.
DR. C. P. BOGERT,
Surgeon and Mechanical
25 B Sff T SSf
Edenton, N C.
Patients visited when requested.
sit? r, :
INQUIRY MAY
DOLLARS.
SAVi. YOU
Write for prices before plac
ing orders for gravestones or
eemetcry work.
Designs sent free.
COUl'KR'S
-MARBLE WORKS,
11, 113 & 115 Bank St.,
Norfolk Vf.
Auctioneer.
Having been appointed County
Auctioneer and given bond
therefor, all persons are forbid
den to exercise the virtues of
that office under penalty of law.
A. J. Bateman,
Broad Street, Edenton, N. C
E TO GRIEF.
A Filibustering Steamer
Goes Down soon after
Leaving: Port.
T;N LIVES LOST.
WAS IJOUNIJ FOR CUBA WITH
ARMS AND AMMUNITION
FOR THE INSURGENTS.
The schooner Helen H. Bene
dict, of New Haven, Captain
Brackett, from Norfolk for Bos
ton, arrived at New Haven, Mass
Tuesday morning with twenty-
five of the passengers aud crew
of .the wrecked steamer J. W.
Hawkins, which went down off
Montauk on the 26th inst., dur
ing a violent gale. It is report
ed that this steamer left New
York on the 26th with 175 pers
sous on board, mostly Spaniards,
claiming to be bound to Bermuda
with an excursion party. She
was making some water when
she left port, and when she en
countered the rough weather
outside with a heavy sea, she
filled in about twenty minutes.
Those on board had barely time
to g:.t into the- steamer's boats.
One of the boats was picked up
by the Benedict and her twenty
live occupants taken to Woods
II oil, whence they embarked by
train for Boston and New York.
It was reported by those res
cued that the steamer's true des
tination was Cuba and that her
cargo, consisting 01 25,000
worth of ammunition, one gun
on board having cost S;,ooo.
They were, without doubt, bound
on a filibustering expedition to
Cuba.
The four masted schooner
Alice B. Crosby, Newport News
for Boston, fell in with another
boat from the steamer about 65
miles southeast by east of Sandy
Hook lighthouse, which contain-.
ed twenty-three persons, but ow
ing to the rough sea only fhirs
teen were saved, the other ten
being drowned The Crosby
landed the thirteen survivors at
Woods Holl Tuesday morning,
aud they A on a train for New
York the same day. Another
v. ssel, a threeMnas :ed schooner,
picked up seventy -five ol the sur
vivors, aud it is supposed put
back with them to Delaware
breakwater.
The men say but little. There
were three Americans among
those at Woods Holl, the others'
being Spaniards.
They saw that thousands of
dollars in money went down
with those who were drowned
and in the private chests in the
steamer.
The U. S. cruisers .Raleigh
aud Montgomery were sent out
Sunday to intercpt the filibusters
and enjoyed quite a wild goose
chase.
The Spanish navy also spent
two days . try in
1 cr
to overhaul
them.
Don't Overwork the Boys.
Farmers are sometimes very
inconsiderate in the treatment of
their sons. Without meaning
any harm they impose labor up
on boys which should be the
work of men. Now, the physis
cal energies of a growing boy
have already an important work
allotted to them, that of building
up a strong, healthy organiza
tion. I be vital force cannot be
exerted in making muscles and
bones, and at the same time be
expended in a hard day's work
in the corn field. We have seen
many instances of boys being
stunted and dwarfed because they
were overworked by an incon
siderate father, says the Western
Plozvman.
When work is crowding in the
fields there is a strong tempta
tion to utilize everv muscle, and
the willing boy is pressed into
service to provide means for the
growing hogs, at the expense of
his own growing body. This is
all wrong. A farmer would not
for an instant think of harness
ing his six-months-old colt and
hitching him to the plow, and
why should not the growing
boy have the same thoughtful
consideration? Don't overwork
the Doys. They fire all the mate
rial we have to make men of.
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A NEGRO DESPERADO.
Kills Two Persons And is Lynch
ed For His Crime.
Alex. Jones, a negro desperado,
of Elkhoru, West Virginia,
boarded a west-bound passenger
train Monday night at Keystone,
evidently for the purpose of hav
ing trouble. Hj was under the
influence of liquor and very
boisterous. He abused the con
ducior aud refused to pay his
fare. Jones then pulled two re
volvers and commeuced firing at
random through the car, which
was crowded with people, empt-
mg both weapons. After the
shooting it was discovered that
W. H. Strother, post-master at
Elkhorn, was shot through the
abdomen, causing death almost
instantly. Conductor McCul-
lough was shot in the side, not
seriously wounded. Peter Rice, a
colored miner, was shot through
the right breast and will proba
bly die., Jones was arrested and
placed on the 2 o'clock train for
Huntingdon. While passing
Hemphill the train was flagged
by a mob of fifty men, who took
Jones from the train and hanged
him to a tree and shot his body
full of lead.
The -Bashful Younir 3Ian.
He has come to make his first
call, aud he is so overwhelmed
with the fear that he will not do
what is right that it depends on
you, his hostess, to make him
comfortable. Don't take auv
notice of the little mistakes that
le makes. If he comes in the
parlor with his overcoat on, let
lim take it off and put it where
le pleases, but you ignore its
existence. When he sees that
Ok
other men have taken theirs off
in the hall, he will know what to
do next time. If he drops his
handkerchief or the album that
he is looking over, or seems to
S 1 1 1 K. into contemplation of his
hands and feet, you talk on just
as merrily as possible, and try
your best to find out what he is
interested in and what he can
talk about. It may be pictures,
or it may be pig-iron, but what
ever it is, when you do find out
what he really has at heart, he
will talk well about it, aud you
will discover that the outer veneer
of bash fulness only covered an
awkward boy aud not a stupid
one.
Have patience with him, aud
never permit yourself to be rude
enough to laugh at him. You
can make a friend of him by be
ing a gracious hostess, and friends
my dear girl, real friends, are not
so plentiful, and it is never wise
to throw aside the chance of
making one. And, if you can
make a friend of the bashful
young man, be sure he will re
main one. Y. P. Leader.
Big OysterShell.
An extraordinary oyster shell
is owned by a Portland man,
says the Boston Herald It is
almost two feet in length, and
one and a half feet in width.
The shell is very rough on the
outside, and white aud smooth
and beautiful on the inside. It
is at least three inches thick in
the center portion and is very
massive and heavy. It tips the
scales at thirty-seven pounds. Of
course, the twTo halves of the
shell would weigh at least twice
that, or seventy-four pounds.
These huge oyster shells were
brought to Portland in the five
masted schooner Governor Ames,
on the occasion of her last visit
there some years ago. The
oyster was secured alive in Japan
and made a stew that was more
than enough for the whole crew
of eight men. The whole oyster
when alive weighed eighty-two
pounds. Leaving out the seven
ty-two pounds for the shells, and
there is eight pounds that the
oyster itself must have weighed
To prevent failures on the
farm diversify your crops.
KEPT HIS WORD.
David Hammell, of New Jersey,
Lives the Life of a Hermit,
Waiting the Election of
a Republican Gov
ernor. WAITS THIRTY YEAR.
UPON HEARING OFTHE ELECTION OF
JOHN W. GRIGGS, A REPUBLICAN
HE RETURNS TO HIS
FAMILY,
There tra3 unusual rejoicing
at the home of David Hammcl,
liring in Warren county, New
Jersey, over what the resi
dents termed the returning to
life of "old Hammell" himself.
For the past thirty years, Ham
mell has lived the life of a her
mit and has spoken little, if any,
to any one, and especially feo his
wife and his three children, two
sons and one daughter.
Marcus L. Ward was a candi
date for Governor in 1866. Ham
mell ''laid himself out" in be
half of the Republican ticket.
Mrs. Hammell was in spirit a
follower of Democracy,
Mrs. Hammell and her hus
band had manv differences over
his political faith, and finally the
family quarrelled, Mrs. Hammell
being supported by her two sons
and daughter. Hammell left
home and told his family it
would be a lo:;g time before he
returned, and further told a
neighbor that he intended to
work for the next Republican
candidate for Governor, and if
he was not elected he would
not go home until a Republican
succeeded Ward.
Hammell went into the woods
and secured timber, with which
he built himself a hut. He liv
ed alone in this all the years un
til the election of John W.Griggs
as Governor. Efforts were made
by his family to induce him to
return home, but he would not
go, saying he intended to live
alone until a Republican Mas
elected Governor. His wife and
family talked with him, but he
never replied. Hammell took
his supplies from the house and
barn, and never said a word to
auvoue until the news was re,
ceived that John W. Griggs had
been elected last .Fall.
Hammell immediately became
a changed man. He talked to a
neighbor, and said he would re
turn home th day Governor
Griggs was inaugurated. Prepar
ations were made to receive him,
and when he entered the hou.se
he was greeted heartily. Ham
mell kissed his wife and children,
and his children's children,whom
he had never talked to before,
aud it seemed as though he had
returned from the dead.
"Who was it," asked the pretty
school ma'am, "who said, Give
me liberty or give me death?"
'Patrick Henry, ma'am," replied
a small pupil. "And which did
he eet?" ""Both, ma'am."
Harper's Bazaar.
A Missouri fanner figured it
out one rainy day that he had
walked 300 miles in cultivating
one acre of corn. He thereupon
sold his farm and moved to town,
where he walked 600 miles to
find a job. Arkansas Traveler.
"Five years ago," says Anga A
Lewis, Ricard, N. Y-, "I had a constant
cough, night sweats, was. greatly re
duced in llesu, and had been given up
my physicians. I began to take Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral, and after using two
bottles was completely cured.
When deciding where to trade
pick up a copy of the Fisher-
ERMAn & Farmer and look
over its advertising columns
Wide-awake merchants have
their names therein, and they
will make it to your interest to
deal with them.
BEARDED LIKE A PARD.
North Carolina Offers Her Sea
Serpent Yarn.
New Tor'i Press.
Frozen to death in the duck
ing district made famous
President Cleveland!
by
Such is the lamentable late of
the serpent that invaded the
waters of the North Carolina
coast off Currituck Whether
the death of the marine monster
was caused by a passing ship
the extreme coldness of the
vviter, or some of the "bait"
thrown overboard by the Cleve
land party when on their recent
shooting expedition must re
main forever an impenetrable
mvsterv. Some of the North
Carolina sportsmen are inclined
to think that the serpent must
have swallowed a copy of Cleve
land's last financial message,
which was known to have been
on board the Violet.
The monster's carcass was
found by two Norfolk business
men who were on a duck-hunt-
ing trip. Iney were on tneir
way home when they saw a sight
that at first filled the in with con
sternation. It was about 9:30
o'clock in the morning. To the
right of them and just beyond
reach of the tide, lay one of the
most hideous looking objects
they had ever seen or heard of.
They dropped their game and
ran toward the water's edge.
What they saw was a sea serpent,
and no mistake.
The carcass was inerusted with
ice, and from the tip of the nose
to tip of tail was no less than
thirty-six feet long. To make
sure of the snake's length, they
paced it oft several times. The
monster was about as thick
around as a beer keg, except the
neck part, which was no larger
than an ordinary man's leg,
though at least a yard long. The
head was frightfully hideous.
The wide-open jaws revealed two
lomr rows of teeth of razor-like
sharpness. The huge tongue
was swoolen and coated with ice
The eyes were shut and had
fallen into the head, leaving
holes large enough to put in
each socket a good-sized apple.
The most hideous thing about
the head, which was two feet
long, was the beard, or rath
er what looked like beard. The
"beard" was in reality nothing
but a lot of "feelers" and "suck
ers," they were about two feet
long, and stuck out in all direc
tions like the quills of a porcu
pine. They, as well as the fore
part of the head, were crushed.
This was probably due to the
snake's carcass coming in contact
with some passing vessel; or,
perhaps, it became entangled
with the propeller of a coast
steamer. Could it have been
that of the Violet?
The back of the snake was of
dirty greenish gray. Its belly
was white as far as the duck-
shooters could see. One of the
men, who had a camera with him,
photographed the serpent. When
they got back to Norfolk they
told their amazing story to their
friends, who, knowing them to
be men of business standing and
unimpeachable character, could
not doubt their word.
Whether the snake's carcass is
st:ll on the shore or not is a matter
of doubt. Probably it has been
washed away by the tides.
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News Gathered Here
There, and Everywhere.
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
PICKED VP AND PUT IN SHAPE FOR THE
BUSY READER.
For the first time in thirty
years New Jersey has a Republi
can Governor.
President Cleveland spent a
few days at Quantico, Va., this
week, duck hunting.
A severe epidemic of measfes
is spreading 111 many towns in
North and South Carolina.
Charlotte will open a new cot
ton mill March 1st. This' city
leads the State as a manufacture
iug city.
Theodore Ruuyon, Uuit.d
States Ambassador to Germany,
died in Berlin, on Sunday, of
heart failure.
General Manager John C.
Winder of the Seaboard Air Line
has been summarily retired, and
Vice President St. John has
taken his place.
On Tuesday, Col. John K.
Brown, a prominent lawyer of
Charlotte, shoots himself in the
head with a suicidal intent; the
wound is immortal.
Four white men at the Wash
ington navy yard gunning' school
will be imprisoned and then dis
missed the navy for hazing
negroes in the same school.
Gen. W. P. Roberts, United
States consul at Victoria, British
Columbia,' who has been visiting
iu this State for two weeks past.,
has returned to his post of duty.
Old Kentucky Whiskey, in,
stead of champagne will be
used to christen the battleship
Kentucky, when she is launched
from the ways at Newport News.
The Kentucky "colonel's" are
evidently not ashamed of their
raisin'.
The balloon expedition to the
north pole, which will take place
under the auspices of the king of
Sweden m 1896, is progressing
favorably. The balloon will be
filled, on one of the islands north
west of Spitzenburg and weight
ed to float about 900 feet high.
It is said a horse can draw on
the worst kind of earth road
about four times as much as he
can carry on his back. On a
good macadamized road he can
pull ten times as much, on a
wooden road twentyfive times
as much, aud on a street railway
fiftyeight times as much.
The persons who recently eu
red suit to annul the lease of
-he N. C. Railroad to the South
ern Railway, both the represen
tatives of the Farmer's Alliance
and the private stockholders,
have withdrawn their suits. This
leaves the lease unquestioned. ,
The Board of Directors of the
Tennessee Centennial and Inter
national Exposition have voted
to postpone the opening Irom
Sept. 1896, to May 1st 1897. The
exposition is planned to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary
of the State, and as the State
was admitted in June 1st, 1796,
June 1, 1896 is the anniversary,
but the directory decided the ex
position could not be completed
this year.
The Bonner Murder Trial.
The lawyeis are still arguing
the Bonner murder trial at Wash
ington, N. C. It is thought that
the jury w-ill get the case by
to-day noon. This is the longest
murder trial in the history, of
North Carolina and will have
covered a period of three weeks.
The policy of the defense has
been to break down Credle's con
fession. They take the position
that he has implicated the de
fendants in order to conceal the
Uue perpetrators of the crime.
The State relies upon Credle's
confession and circumstantial
evidence to support it.
FISH COMMISSIONER.
Mr. Ferguson, of Maryland, is
Appointed.
The President has appointed
Mr. Ferguson, of Maryland, who
has been United States Minister
to Norway and Sweden, to the
position of Fish Commissioner.
Mr. Ferguson was formerly an
assistant in the fish commission,
is a lover of fish study, and ac-
cepts the position, not for the pay
there is in it but that he may
continue in the interesting work.
Another Murder at Aurora.
News comes from Washington,
N. C, of the cruel and terrible
murder of a colored woman at
the hands of her husband, Steph
en Barrficld, near Aurora. Barr
ficld had been living with the
woman near Idalia, on the Turn-
age place, aud they had some
misunderstanding which resulted
in Barrficld murdering her and
then cutting her all to pices and
burying her.
She was missed Sunday and
search instituted. The man was
seen placing straw over fresh
dirt aud this caused suspicion
afterwards leading to the finding
of the body where he had buried
it. Barrficld was arrested by
Mr. B. II. Thompson, living near
the scene of his cruel deed.
This dastardly deed is the third
jue to happen in that section of
the county within a little over a
year.
Corbett Rudely Handled.
Champion James J. Corbett,
while playing at a theatre in
Philadelphia, Saturday night, be
came involved in a fight with a
fireman named William II. Mur
phy. Blows were struck on both
sides, and the actor pugilist was
unceremoniously tumbled down
a flight of stairs.
The fight started after Corbett
had ejected the fireman from his
lressing room, which he had en
tered to order the champion to
stop smoking. Murphy was de
tailed at the theatre to look after
ind prevent fires, and while
passing Corbett's room smelled
igarette smoke. He rapped at
he door, and as Corbett opened
t saw him put the cigarette be
hind him. Murphy told him it
was against the rules to smoke,
and Corbett denied he was doing
so.
Murphy insisted, and Corbett
then forced him from the room
and lock the door. Murphy rap
ped for admittance. The door
was opened suddenly, and he re
ceived a stunning blow in the
face, which knocked him from
his feet. He arose quickly, how
ever, and landed one on Corbett's
mouth, drawing blood.
The men then grappled, and
reaching a stairway, Murphy
caught Corbett by the feet and
sent him sliding to the lower
door. Here they again grappled,
.vhen some of the stage hands
and the company separated them.
The fireman is about twenty
five years age, and is of medium
build.
They Enter a Protest.
When people talk about there
being a better State tha North
Carolina, every potato slightly
winks its eye, every cabbage
shakes its head, every beet gets
red in the face, every onion feels
stronger, every oat field is shock
ed, rye strokes its beard, corn
sticks up its ears, and every foot
of land kicks. The horses even
denounce the statement with a
neigh and the printers grab their
shootingssticks,says the Durham
Sun.
Col. Ingersoll wickedly ob
serves that he feels toward those
who have been praying for him
as the girl did toward the young
man who squeezed her hand
She said: "It pleases him and
doesn't hurt me." Better give
him up.
A GEORGIA COLONY
Includes People From Nearly
Every State in The Union
And is Growing Rapidly.
A special to the Manufacturers"
Record from Fitzgerald, Ga., the
location of the Grand Army
'Colony," says: -There are now
between 6,000 and 7,000 people
at Fitzgerald, and the colony is
growing rapidly. The Georgia
& Atlanta Railroad brought in
one day this mouth more than
five hundred colonists, aud Mr.
Fitzgerald, the organizer of the
movement, states that there will
be between 35,000 and 40,000
within the next twelve months.
The colony already includes
people from every State iu the
Union except two, Canada also
being well represented. A care
ful investigation shows that
many of the colonists, all of
whom have come into this sec
tion within the last five months,
are all well-to-do people finan
cially, and that quite a number
of them ar worth from $50,000
to 100,000 each. In this res
spect it is probably different
from any great colonization work
ever seen. Three banks are al
ready organized and buildings
are under construction for them.
Two local papers have also been
established.
The sale of the Abbeville .K:
Waycross Railroad, extending
from Abbeville, Ga., to Uilaville,
eighteen aud one-half miles, to
the Georgia & Alabama Rail
road, has just been consummated,
and the new owners began the
operation of the property. The
road will be immediately extend
ed from Lulaville to Fitzgerald,
four and one-half miles. This
extension will be completed by
the 10th of February, and what
was five months ago an unbroken
pine foiest will then be' trans,
formed to a thriving railroad
town.
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