1 ONE DOLLAR per Year, in Advance. ELIZABETH CITY, N C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 1897 ESTABLISHED 1887 Tlie Lestd-in ISTe-wspaper of .tlx First District- . ' i ' i ' ! i i " . . 1 " r M t 1 LI .i I il Miller & Jo., WHOLESALE COMMISSION FlSli Dealers, NO. 7 FULTON MARK lvT, New York. Samuel H. Miller, Clarence O, Miller J Special Attention (liven to I.1KSALE OF NORTH CARO LINA SHAD. Sr.Dcils ami Stationery Furnished on Application. K EMPLOY NO AGENT. W. HAFF t Wholesale Commission Dcalei in :D lililSH USE yt) 1 Fulton Fish Marketj l?r North Carolina Shad a Specialty. No Agents S.L.STORER&CO WliuifMie Dealers and Shippers of all kinds of 1; FULTON FISH MAHKET TV i : W V O 1 1 . We work harder for the inter est of the Southern fishernier than any house in the business. If your Stencil is tiot.in ood o -do let us know, I-?-" We Urn ploy no Agents and l'ay no Commissions. E W. Albaugli & Son Wholesale Commission Merchants Fresh. Fish, TERRIPIN AND GAME. No.iI21 Light IStreel Wharf, HALT1MORE Prompt Returns, Quick Sales- REFEIIENCE. Citizens National Bank. W. J Ito.,-r fc Co. Stencils Furnished Free. Established 1861. SAML M. LAWDER & SON. W'mih'sale Commission Dealei s in Fresh Fish riv.ft Crabs Terrapin, Etc. 125 Light St. Baltimore, Md. 11 irk Sales ' Prompt Returns REFERENCES Ti t.l. i s Nat l Hank, DunB Mercantile Atretic Win.. I. Hoj) ei it i'o. I. Dukehiut Co. 1 liiiw Nat l. Bank. The J. S. Johnson Co av Wholesale Gioeers and Com mission Merchants And Dealers in JUH -1 Richmond, Virginia. Consignments of North Caro lina Herring solicited, and pro ceeds remitted in cash. On account of our intimate acquain'.ance.and frequent trans action with the Grocery trade 01 the West and South we are able to handle N. C. Fish to the best possible advantage, and we are known everywhere asthe largest distributors in this marked. A. S. FOREMAN, Successor to J. R. Wyun & Co. Wholesale Fish Commission Merchants, No. Roanoke Dock. Norfolk, Virginia. Reference Bank of Commerce; R. G. Dunn Mer cantile Apency: Adams and Southern express Company, or any large busi- Come South Young Man. Norfolk I 'irginiav. This is the way the Atlanta Constitution speaks to hundreds and thousands of the people in frozen regions of the North and West, who feel that they have made a mistake in ever settling in those sections, and it is right. The latchstriug, so to speak,of the South hangs outside and these people will always find a warm welcome in the Southern country. In referring to the condition of the people in the Northwest, our contetnpory says : "It is time for these suffer ers to consider the imiua ments held out by t ie South. If they do not like to come alone to a strange section, let them organize colonies. But there is no reason why they should not come singly. There is not a locality in the South where the right class of settlers would not receive a hearty welcome. Sectional prejudice is a thing of the past, and a man from Maine or Nebraska feels as much at home in Georgia asJ anywhere else. 1 he South is the HI Dorado of the future. She has the natural resources and the advantages, and her opportunity is at hand. The first decade or two of the twentieth century will witness a great business and industrial awakening here. Direct trade with Europe is coming, our ports will swarm with ships; our producers and toilers will be busy; our farming lauds will be in demand. Now is the time for immigrants to come. Why stay in a land where all the forces of nature are against you? 1 11 the past Southern countries have been the centres of the highest civilization and the greatest posperity, and history will re peat itself. Come South, young man!" These are facts that cannot be controverted. On the contrary, the success of thousands of sets tiers fiom the West and Norths west who have cast their lots in the South, are living witnesses for the advantages this section promises over all others of this country. ESTABLISHED 1S86. The Most Reliable House m Norfolk. FEUERSTEIN CO., " WHOLESALE- FISH COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOOT OF ROANOKE DOCK. Norfolk, Va. Quick Sales, Prompt Returns. References by Permission: City National Bank; R. G. Dunn Mercantile Agency; Southern and Adams Express Co.- We respectfully solicit a share ot your patronage. Stencils furnished on application. E.M.WHLKER&CO., Currituck C. H., N. C. Shippers and Packers of all kind of j-ESH JVATER jISH. BASS and PERGH A Specialty. ail Kind of GM. All orders promptly attended to when accompanied with a part cash and balance C. O. 1). These i(oods arc all fresh and ship ped daily to all parts of the country. Give us Your Orders. ESTABLISHED 1887- COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Consignments Solicit cl. Stuucils Furnished. S CAPITOL Laid in Hums by Flames ANCIENT STRUCTURE. LOSS NEARLY A MILLION DOL- LARH. WILL BE REBUILT. A ire, which started in the rooms of Lieutenant Governor Lyon some time Tuesday morn nig. swept through the ancient Capitol of Pennsylvania, at Har- risburg, and within an hour and a half after the breaking out of the flames the structure was in ruins. The Senate and House were about to reconvene for their afternoon session when the fire burst through the walls, and the lawmakers were driven for their lives to the open air. As far as known no one was killed, but a number jf people were in the building trying to save furniture and other effects when the dome fell in, and it is possible that some one may be buried under the ruins. Quite a number of people were cut and bruised or half smothered by smoke but r.o 1 4 M one was seriously Hurt. The most valuable of the State and legislative records, which were in the building, were saved, but the records and statistics of the Department of Public Instruc tion, which included much val- uable information bearing: upon the public schools ot the Stat?, were destroyed. The Legisla ture will find a temporary home, the Senate in the rooms of the Supreme Court and the House in United States District Court, in the postoffice building, and the legislature will at once take steps to have the Capitol rebuilt. The total loss is estimated at nearly a million of dollars, on which there is an insurance of but $200,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Husband choosers club. At Hagerstown Indiana, the Oriole Club, composed of thir teen young ladies, hasbeen form ed. The particular object is to advance the interest of the mem bers matrimonial. Should any Oriole develop matrimonial symptoms her course will be watched, 'and her interests foster eel by her sister members. There are many duties required of members, but the most import ant is to observe the habits of young and marriageable men, and to discuss their characters in club meetings. As to Adversity.. "Sweet are the adversities of poverty," sings those who have never experienced their bitter pangs. There is no sweetness in adversity but there is somes times a good deal of revelation in it. It brings out a man's true traits of character and shows him who are and who are not his friends. It shows how quickly those who buzz about him in the sunshine of his prosperity, desert him in the hour of adver sity. 1 Your Cough, like a dog's bark, is a sign that there is something foreign around which shouldn't fce f. r r? You can cuiet the noise. but the danger may be there I just the same. SCOT i 'S EMULSION cf Cod-liver Oil is not a cough specific; it does not merely allay the symptoms but it does give such strength to the body that it is able to throw off the disease. You know the old proverb of "the ounce of prevention?" Don't neglect your cough. A book which will tell you more on the subject sent free on re quest. Your drugget keeps Scotfs Emul sion of Cod-liver Oil. Put up in 50 cts. and $1.00 sizes. SCOTT & BOWNE, New York. PENNSYLVANIA REFUSESTO TALK. A Maine Man Who fias Been Voluntarily Silent For Years There lives in Miluridge, in Washington county, Me., a man who defies all human explana tion. His name is Winfield Wakefield, says the Lewiston yonrnal. This extraordinary person dif fers lrom the rest of mankind in that he can speak, but won't, and was never known in all his strange life to utter a single word to any person other than his father and mother. It is truly an anomaly. Now, whether his failure to talk with people is due to eccentricity, embarassment, or birth, nobody seems to know. Manv believe him obstinate, and laving kept silent for so many years, the habit has so grown on' him and that he now cannot break from it. This diagnosis of the case is hardly correct, we believe, but the man's face bears visible traces of set determina- ion a determination never to relent when the mind is once made up. But the man is not obstinate, at least, those who enow him best say he is not. When his father was alive Wakefield used to converse with lim freelv, but he now talks onlv with his mother. From her he has acquired a fair education, learned to read and write. In the, presence of all other people he never talks. Some of his neighbors have often overheard him talking with his parents, but every eflort, every ruse to get him to speak outside, has failed. Hither lis? cannot or will not talk to people. Day after Wakefield has work ed by the side of other men with out speaking a single word. When interrogated he will mere ly express his indisposition to reply by a bland smile, yet fully manifesting his determination. He has been threatened with bodily injury unless he would speak, but intimidation could not avert him from his extraor dinary purpose, and he could not be coerced to speak. One day a gentleman, just to try the young man's nerve, seized him roughly by the coat collar,! and with an oath threatened to throw him lrom a high staging in a shipyard. But Wakefield did not quail. He only smiled at the threat. Once it was said of him that he had promised his parents that he would speak on arriving at the age of 21, but the promise was not kept. Wakefield is now about 40 years old, He is unmarried, and since his fath er's death is his mother's only means of support. The people hereabouts thought he would speak after his father died, but he did not. Wakefield does .not avoid so ciety, nor does he fear publicity. He takes his misfortune, if such it is, rather philosophically, and is not one whit sensitive about it. When he was a boy he always engaged in sports with the other boys, played ball and other games but never spoke to a playmate. He even now attends places of amusement and dances with the iris, but the fair oiks always find lim a silent partner. None now challenge him to conversation, for they know how useless it would be to try to get him to talk to them. It is the most remark able case we ever heard of, and probably the wTorld does not af ford a parallel. One Dead, the Other Dying. Bailey Eidson and Lovell Whitesides engaged in a fight on the public square at Frank lin Ky., Saturday. Whithsides used a knife with such deadly effect that it is thought Eidson can not recover. After being separated Eidson secured a pistol arid, returning, shot Whitesides killing him instantly. White sides is the son of a prominent THE CABINET TO DATE. MAJ.McKINLEY HAS NEARLY C &5PLETED HIS CABINET. Secretary of Agriculture Named. Jas. S. Wilson, of Iowa, Will be the Head ot That Depart ment. The announcement made by Hon. James S. Wilson, of Iowa, on Monday, that he had been tendered the portfolio of Agri culture by Major McKinley, and had accepted, fills the Cabinet with reasonable certainty, exs cepting the offices of Attorney- General and Postmaster General. THE CAB I : DATE. The McKinley Cabinet to date, therefore, may be given as follows . Secretary of State John Sherman, of Ohio. Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, of Illinoise. Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, of Michigan. Secretary o. the Navy John D. Long, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior Judge McKenna, of California. Secretary of Agriculture Jas. S. Wilson, of Iowa. Governor Long and Judge McKenna have not announced the certainty of their appoint ments, and there is a bare possi bility that the Massachusetts statesman may be displaced by General Steward L. Woodruff, of New York. One of the unfilled portfolios will, of course, be given to a New Yorker, and if the foregoing list, giving five of the eight offices in the Cabin net to the West, should be the fixed slate, there is no likelihood that either the postoffice or juss tice departments will be directed by a Western man. One East, ern man and one Southern man are expected to be appointed to these two vacancies, prominent amont the latter candidates be ing Hon. H. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, since the declination of Judge Nathan Goff, of West Virginia m m m Music as a Panacea. After the water cure we now have the music cure, and the French and German papers are devoting much attention to it. It is'seriously prescribed as a cure for nervous diseases, and it is claimed that it can remove some maladies in the space of a few weeks. It is also asserted that a musical hospital is about to be established in Munich, where the patients will be regularly dosed at proper intervals with instru- m?ntal and vocal music. The idea that music can cure diseases of the body is by no means novel. Everybody admits that singing possesses almost a magical power. It was by in cantation, accompained by the strongest instruments, that the sorcerers of antiquity prepared their charms and their evil do- ings. Jby playing tne narp uavia soothed the sadness of Paul. The belief that singing cures not only the ills of the mind, but also the maladies of the body, has been perpetuated till the present time. At the end of the eigh teenth century Princess Belmont Piguatelli, the patroness of all talents, and particularly musical talents, became ill. ne was visited by Chevaliey Raaf, the celebrated singer, who happened to be in Paris at that time. No sooner had he come into her pres ence than she begged him to sing an airette. The singer con sented, and chose a piece by Hasse called "The Saxon." While he was singing the fever of the princess ceased complete ly. Her medical attendant, who was present, said to her, point ing, to the artist: "There, ma dam is your real doctor." The Journal de Paris of April 15 1788, from which this story is taken, adds that the princess was comnletelv cured after a few visits from the Chevalier Baaf. According to The Journal En cyclopedique, 1776, Dr. Duval cured a woman sixty years of age who was strickened with paraly sis by making her sing Christs mas hymns. Of course nobody can guarantee the truth of these statements, but it is beyond a doubt, for all that, that singing has an extraordinary influence over a trrcat manv people. This A. is proved by the daily experience I that everybody is able to verify with tacihty. It is by singing that men en gaged in heavy work lighten their burdens. The song of a nurse soothes the pain of the child calms its impatience and often communicates to it a gay ety which is clearly attested by smiles. Homer and Plutarch tell us that the ancients had ahab- it of singing at the end of each meal, in order to dissipate, or at least reduce the effects of wine. According to Gallied, singing has the effect of calming the fu ries of intoxication. Why not go far hack? At no time was the power of singing more clearly demonstrated in all its grandeur and eclat than dur incf the French revolution. Men dangerously wounded performed acts of heroisn while singing "The Marseillaise" and such to day is the power of certain songs upon men of most healthy minds that every time liberty is pros cribed the songs are forbidded. Music, therefore, has an incon testable influence upon the hu man organism. But is this in fluence great enough to turn it in certain cases into a cure? That is precisely what the ex periments to be tried at Munich will tell us in a lew years. An alienist doctor, on being con sulted on this subject, showed less skepticism than was expect ed for him. In the hospital of La Saltpetriere, for example, it was remarked that the concerts given by the Lyounet brothers had a most beneficial effect up on certain subjects. Who, there- ore can foresee the results that may be obtained by a skilful nanipulation of musical perfor mances? "Now" concluded the doctor "in regard to mental mala dies we must never be either too skeptical only separates rea son lrom madness, vvlio can say that a musical zephyr may not be powerful enough to blow away the grain and allow reason to dissipate insanity?" New York Sun. The Farmer's Creed. Progressive Farmer. We believe in small well till ed farms; that the soil must be ed as well as the owner, so that the crops shall make the farm and the farmer richer. We believe in thought draint age, in deep plowing, and iii la bor saving implements. We believe in good fences, barns conveniently arranged, orchardsand gardens, and plenty of home raised hog and hominy. We believe in raising, pure bred stock; or in grading up 'the best to be gotten until they equal the thoughbreds. We believe in growing the best varieties of farm crops, and sav ing the choicest for seed. We believe in fertilizing the brain with phosphorus as well as applying it to the soil. We believe in the proper care and application of the barnyard manure. We believe that the best fer- j tilizers are of little value, unless accompanied by industry, enter prise and intelligence. We believe in rotation, diver sification and thorough cultiva tion of crops. We believe that every farm should own a good farmer, and that every good farmer will even tually own a.good farm. B. Irby. Prof of Agriculture, A. & M. . College, Raleigh, N. C. M0U1 MURDERS TERRIBLE FIGHT IN POLK COUNTY, N.C. TV0 DEAD, ONE DYING. Knives and Pistols do the Fatal Work. A horrible tragedy was enact ed in Polk county, N. C, a few miles above Spartanburg Mon day night about 1 1 o'clock. Will and Joe Gunnel, two al leged moonshiners, were cut and shot to death bv a man named Jenkins, while Jenkins lies mor tally wounded. The facts of the killing as near as could be obtain ed are as follows: Will Gunnel and Tenkins became in- volved in a difficulty Saturday night in which Gunnel was cons siderably worsted. Monday night, while Jenkins was on his way home from his fathersin law's house he was met in the middle of the road by the Guns nel brothers, W ill and Joe, who atacked him with knives. Jens kins made a desperate resistance and drawing his own knife sev ered Will Gunnel's jugular vein at the first blow. Joe then knocked him down and sprung upon him, continuing cutting and stabbing. Presently, Jen kins succeeded in pulling his pis tol and shot his antagonist through the head, killing him instantly. When Jennkins cut Will Gunnel he lost his knife, and had he been unsuccessful in getting the pistol would have without doubt been murdered then and there by Joe Gunnel. As it was he was carved to pieces and at last accounts there was scarcely a shadow of a chance for his recovery. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to Jenkins, who acted solely in selfsde-fence. CONGRESS OF MOTHERS. The first National Congress of Mothers will meet in Washing ton February 17 for a session of three days. The meeting will be conducted by mothers, and attended by mothers irom all parts of the country, and will result, it is hoped, in the gener al establishment of mothers' clubs throughout the land. The object of the Congress is to consider questions bearing upou the better and broader spiritual and physical, as well as mental, training of the young, such as the value of kindergarten work and the extension of its principles to more advanced studies, a love of humanity and of country, the physical and men tal evils resulting from some of the present methods of our schools, and the advantages to follow from a closer relation bes tween the influence of the home and that of institutions of learn ing. Of special importance will be the subject of the means of de veloping in children character istic which will elevate and en noble them, and thus assist in overcoming the conditions which now prompt crime, and make uecessary the maintainance of jails, workhouses and reforma tories. These matters will be present ed to the Congress by men and women well known in such work. Arrangements have been made by the Washington corns mittee to have Mrs. Cleveland receive the delegates at the White House on the afternoon of February 17th. State of Ohio, City op Toledo, , art lvtLAS VUlAiY. ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and btate aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be enred by the use of Hah's CATARK.H Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of Decem ber, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Send for testimonials, free. P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. 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J! ox 1 j Elinab0ih CI, N. Q ni mm Several Houses and Lots in Edenton. One residence on Church St. Six on Queen street. One 011 Court street. Two stores on Broad street. Will sell either or all on exsy terms. Apply tb J. W. SPRUIXL, Edenton, N C Mies Jennings, 00 000 0000000 O- o o 000000000 Sanders Building, Poindexter St. Mill and Marine Forgings A Specialty. All work done promptly and in the most workmanlike manner. GiVe Mc a Trial. Jan- 1st TO March ist ! All broken lots ot SHOES will be closed out at As we do not intend to carry over any Winter weight Shoes. DOYLE & SMALL. mm am 1 111 1302 Main St, NORFOLK, VA. Mention Fisherman & Farmer arm m Norlolk. - merchant. No.9,Nivison St., NORFOLK.