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T Farmer ONE DOLLAR per Year, in Advance. ELIZABETH CITY N. C, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16, I900. Established 1886 The Best Advertising Medium in the Albemarle District The Finest Fish, Track and Farming Section in North Carolina. Circulation Doubles Any Other Papr Published in This Section. The Most Wide-Awake and Successful Business Men use the FISHERMAN & FARMER Columns with the Highest Satisfaction and Profit. Fisherman ------ . ' In effect December ist , 1899. TRAIN SERVICE. NORTHBOUND Lv. Eltz. ('ity daily (ex Sun) 2:45, p.m Ar. Norfolk, " " 4-2, p.m Lv Kliz.Ctty.Tue.Thur &Sat 9:30, a.tn Ar. Norfolk " " " n:oo,am h-OUTH BOUND Lv. HI'-.. City daily (ex Sun) n 40. am Ar. Edenton " ' " 12:40, p.m Ar. Belhavea " " 445. P-m Lv. Eliz. Cits Tue Tim &Sat. 6:00, p.m j-tTrains stop at all intermediate stations. S rEAMBO VT -RVIC!7,. Steamers leav : tvl u! n daity (. x ( ' )t Sunday) i:oop in for Plymouth, Jamesvillc, Williamrtou and Winds')-. Leave Edcnton Tuesday, Thursday a:id Saturday coo p 111 for Caowan Kivcr landings; arid Fyiday for Scup pernong River. Steamers leave Elizabeth Citv foi Roanoke Island, Oriental and New licrup, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day 6:00 p. m : connect with A & N.C. R. R and W. & W. R R. for Goldsboro fii d Wilmington, &c. For Scupyeinoug River Mouday i 2 00 noon. ForCoinj ck and Noith River Land ings Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 3:00 p 111. Lfor South Mills and landings on Dismal Swamp route Monday, Wed ursdav and Friday 6:00 a. 111. Steamers leave Lelhaveu daily (ex cept Sunday lor Washington, N. C. For further information apply to M. H. SuoA-deu, Agent, Elizobeth City, or tj the General office of the N & S. R R. ( o.. Norfolk, Va. M K. KINO, H. C. HUDGINS. Gen. Wg'r. Gen Ft &Pass.Agt PORTER'S ilSEPTIC HEALING Oi For F.arb Wire Cuts, Scratches, : i.'eand Collar Galls, Cracked Heel l js, Old Sores, Cuts, Boils, Bruises, -. and all kinds of inflammation on :a or beast. Cures Itch and Mange. Zit, Cut c? Bsrn will never matter titer th oil : .; two ,?4:d. He prepared for accidents by keeping it in your e or stable. Am D rucc-isU te ;l it on a guarantee. 2 rc. No Pay. Trice 35 cts. and $1.00. If your -u;rTist does not keep it send us 35 cts. in po g 1 stamps and vvc will send it to you by mail, Paris. Tenn., Jan. 20th. 1R94. r-rSir:I liavc usci! Potter Antl.fplle Hyaline 01 f Llarnws ami Saddle Galls. Scratchesand Barb Wire Cull 1 perfect satisfaction, and I heartily r;co..mend It te . i.ivery and Stockmen. C. B IRVINE. Lirery and Feed Stable. BA3Y BURNED. r . nttemen . I am pleated to sneak a word for Porter's ... A'a Ileal . c OH. My baby was burned a fsw monthi ..;id after trying all other remedies I applied your "Oil" ltd tt;2 first application gave relief, and in a few days the 13 vis well. 1 ai jo used Hie uil 0.1 my stock and find thai il best remedy forthia purpose that I have ever used. Yours, C. T. LEWIS. Paris, Tcnn . .):: nr.rv OS, 1SD4 BixrrACTrBEn dt PARIS MEDICINE CO., sr. louis. mo N))jn!)ls and Gfavestones. Our Illustrated Catalogue, No. 10, which we mail free, con tains a variety of designs of Marble and jrranite Memorials, and will help you in making proper selection Write for it; we will satisfy you as to nripps Our stock is the lar- jp&rTQSt lu the South. THE Couper Marble Works (Established 50 Years.) Ii;a to 191 Rank Street. Nor foil. HERTFORD Coffin Co Hertford. NC tre manufacture all kinds ot V. "ite and other buris S aces Trices quoted on ap- al Ca " j t. .-.-, nrnni. P Write for information and Ply-ni save money thereby. ssswi ajsiJii. ar THE STATE CONVENTION Chairman Simmons Issues the Call. QUESTION OF PRIMARIES Foi the Selection of a United States Senator Referred to in Accordance With In structions from the State Com mittee. Hon. F. M. Simmons, chair man of the Democratic State Executive Committee, has issued the call for the State Conven tion, which meets in Raleigh April 11. The call contains the resolu tion passed by the State Execu tive Committee at its last meet ing, referring to the people the question of primaries for the selection of a United States Senator. The call enumerates the rep resentation to which counties are entitled in tLie State Conven tion. It is given herewith : "To the Demociatic Voters of North Carolina : " By order of the State Execu tive Committee, notice is heres by given that the next State Convention of the Democratic party will assemble in the city of Raleigh on the nth day of April, 1900, for the purpose of nominating candidates for State offices, the selection of delegates to the National Convention, and the transaction of such other business as it may deem proper to consider and determine. Each county will be entitled to elect one delegate and one alternate to the said convention for every one hundred and fifty Demo cratic voters, and one delegate for fraction over seventy-five Democratic votes cast therein at the last Gubernatorial election. "Notice is also given that at the time of the call of the State Ct nvention your Executive Committee passed unanimously the following resolution : " 'Resolved, That the question of primaries for selection of a candidate for United States Sen ator be referred to the people in the call for the next State Dem ocratic Convention for such ac tion as that convention may deem best ' F. M. Simmons, Ch'm State Dem. Ex. Com. "John W. Thompson, "Secretary." A Young Bride. Durham county probably has the youngest bride in the State. She is barely thirteen years old and her name is Mrs. Percy Crabtree, nee Mangum. The ceremony that made her a wife was performed at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Margar et Mangum, in the Flat River section, Sunday night. Thelitis band is twice the age of the bride, being twenty six years old. Mrs. Mangum came in per son to the register of deeds and authorized him to issue the mar ria;e papers. It is understood that the mother first opposed the match at this time and asks ed her daughter to wait. The bride to be and groom elect in sisted that the ceremony be per formed at once and she yielded. Roth parties are well kuown in this section. Mr. and Mrs. Crab tree will live at the home of the bride's mother for the present, at least. A Powder Mill Explosion Removes everything in sight: so do drastic mineral pills, but both are mighty dangerous Don't dynamite the delicate machinery of your body with calomel, croton oil or aloes pills, when Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are gentle as a summer breeze, do the work perfectly. Cures Headache, Constipation. Only 25c at Standard Pharmacy drug store. C3 Bears the Signature Of 'Ji? o jtc x j3l. . . The Kind You Have Always Bought a DIKED ON SCAFFOLD. Peculiar Dining Place Criminal. of a At Somerset, Pa , the last day of January, Samuel P. Meyeis sat down to a hearty meal on the death trap of the permanent scaffold in the corridor of the county jail. Then the table and furnishings were removed and Meyers was hanged for the murder of Michael Kearney and Tohn Lenheart in this county last September. "I may as well enjoy life while it lasts," said Meyers "I am innocent ol these crimes, and I'm going to face death like a man. I'm not afraid. I'll eat my last meal right up there on the scafluid." As is the custom, the con demned man's last requests were honored. First he had the wid ows ot the two men for killing whom he was adjudged guilty brought to his cell. He asked their forgiveness for any injury he had done them. Attired, both in the garb of mourning. the widows of his victims sol emnly gave the condemned earthly forgiveness for his crimes, and besought him to turn his thoughts toward a higher Power for forgiveness in the hereafter. Meyers thanked them, and then sent for the Sheriff and his spiritual adviser, who had agreed to eat dinner with him. Shortly before 12 o'clock the three Meyers, Sheriff Say lor and Rev. B. B. Collins, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Meyers dale left the former's cell for the scaffold iu the corridor, where the dinner service had been lakl. There was no sign of nervousness about Meyers no indication ot anything out of the ordinary he might have been taking a couple of friends to sup with him at his home. Arrived at the table he deferen tially stood, while the sheriff and Rev. Collins seated them selves. Then he sat down and bowed his head while the min ister said grace, and then en tered upon the meal. The daughter of the sheriff served the dinrer. Meyers led the con versation. The restraint under which the sheriff and the minis ter labored was entirely absent in him. He was enjoying life while it lasted, to quote his own words. Meyers chatted on. making a clumsy joke here an(l there, at which he laughed, dis cussed the two murders foi which he was about to dieonce more asserted his innocence, and expressed a perfect willing ness to die, the spiritual con solation afforded him by Rev. Collins having fully prepared him for the end. And all the while the clock in the sheriff s room was ticking off the seconds which remained to Meyer of life. Every movement of his body caused a creaking of the trap on which his chair rested, through which in less than an hour bis body would shoot to death. The condemned ate one of the heartiest meals be had partaken of since his arrival in the jail. At 12:30 the dinner was at an end. He stretched back in his chair with an air of satisfaction, and, gazing fixedl at the sheriff, said : "I am ready." He was then escorted back to his cell for the last time. Hur riedly the table was cleared and removed trom the scaffold, the upright put in place, and the rope adjusted. In five minutes, supported on either side by the sheriff and his spiritual adviser, Meyers returned to the scaffold and resumccLbis place over the trap standing iauw, ua witri the noose dangling overhead. He betrayed no fear, being firm and steady to the end. The final scene was short. With the rope around 'dis neck. Meyers once more asserted his mnos cence. He then murmured a brief prayer and the cap was adjusted. The trap fell at 12:56, and fourteen minutes later he was pronounced dead, his neck having been broken by the fall. MISS MARY WAS KISSED. Then She Sadly Fooled Beau and Her Father. Her The Charlotte, N. C, Obser ver tells the following good story : Miss Mary Edwards has a beau and her father, who is an enthusiastic sportsman, has a new shotgun. While impa tiently waiting tor the season to open, he would get out the gun every evening, handle it with affection and discourse on its merits, until his wife and es pecially his fair daughter were weary of the subject of guns. Miss Mary, who has a loving heart, a sparkling eye and a keen sense of humor, rather liked her beau, Mr. Alihur Wildman, but held him some what at arms length on proba tion, as it were. He called last week, aud the young people chatted in the parlor, while the old folks made themselves comfortable in the sitting room. "I'm going to kiss you," said Mr. Wildman to Miss Mary. "If you dare' said the young lady, I'll certainly make you regret it." "But I really am going to," said Mr. Wildman "If you do I'll tell papa," said Miss Mary, with a twinkle in her eye and without the slight est attempt to get out of the way. Taking her nonchalance f.r a woman's consent, tie grabbed and kissed htr. Sne promptly whacked him on the cheek with her hand and then, leaving the room aud walking across the ha 1 said to her father, with the sweetest of sweet smiles : "Papa, I've beeu telling Mr. Wildman about your new gun and he asks f you won't show it to him." "Certainly, with pleasure,' said Mr. Edwards, delighted to have some one to take an inter est in his new pet. Picking up the gun he walked with expectant pleasure into the parlor. Mr. Wildman was waiting, somewhat doubting the girl's purpose. When the mau with the gun came 111 the door Mr. Wildman's doubts, accompanied by Mr. Wildman himselr, went out of the window without even taking the precaution to raise the sash. Mr. Edwards looked around at his daughter dumtounded. She laughed till she could no onger stand. Holding her heart in her hands, she said : Father, you must be careful how you go at people with that t r 1 jl i 1 11 gun. II i oian 1 Know you wen, I should have been suie several MM - times you meant to snoot me with it. You must be more careful. How am I ever to get married if you run my beaux off like that? Take the horrid old gun away." Mr. Wildman is still missing. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Always Proves Effectual. There are no better medicines on the market than Chamber- ain's. We have used the Cough Remedy when all others failed, and in every instance It proved effectual. Almost daily we hear the virtues of Chamberlain's remedies extrolled by those who have used them. This is not an empty puff, paid for at so much a line, but is voluntarily given in good faith, in the hope that suffering humanity may try these remedies and, like the writer, be benefited From the Olenville CW- Va.l PathBuder. For sale bv W. W. tiriggs & son JJruggists. Senator Butler has made a long argument in the United States Senate against the pro posed amendment to the Con stitution of North Carolina. the mm. WHEN l WAS A. BOY. A Word to the Farmers Returned to the Good Old Way. It is sometimes good to re member the days that are past to review atld collect from for mer experiences the crumbs that are left that nothing be lost. I shall at present speak of! farming. My father was a larmer and I began to plow at the age of seven years. His primal object of farming was to raise his own supplies I never knew him to buy a grain of corn, nor a pound of meat, a chicken, horse, cow, mule, nor auy thing of that sort He usually had such things to sell. It was common for men to drive their wagons to his cjib and load them with corn, and buy bacon from htm. Now and then he would sell a horse. Always he had something to sell, and the buyer would come to him to purchase. He did not plant much cotton not tobacco. He always had money in his pocket, and bought a tract of land almost every year. If in those days a farmer bought corn it shook his credit, for he was considered a poor farmer. Mv observation is that the farmers now that raise their own bread and meat at home are sue cessful, but those that buy their corn, meat, flour and all such things as they must have are failures. Now who are the wiser, the farmers of the olden time that made their provisions at home and kept out of debt, or those of these days that grow so much cotton and tobacco and buy what they eat, and are so enslav ed with debt? Return to the good old day. Plant corn enough to fatten your hogs. Raise your supplies at Lome. Have your smoke house at home and your corn at the same place, well filled. Raise chickens. Have your own milk and butter and such things at home.' Then what cotton or tobacco you make will be your own. P. D. Gold, in Wilson Times. UNCLE JEREMIAH'S "AMEN. The Last Sin the Preacher Al luded to Was Too Much For Uncle Jerry. (By Frederick Lynch.) I happened to be telling some stories of my boyhood home last night, and this wfs one of them. Jeremiah Panderford, or Uncle Jerry, as everybody called him, was a staunch Methodist. He haunted the meetings and was a fervid exhorter in claj-s meeting and "experience gatherings,' as we called them in Rhode Lland On Sundays, moreover, he led the "amen'' chorus, sitting in the front row of the church right under the preacher's nose. - During the preliminary services of song, which Uncle Jerry considered as a sort of neces sarv weakness for the sake of the vounc and the women, he j - a would sit with his head bowed down and both hands resting on the head of his big silver-headed cane. But when the preacher began the sermon, then Uncle Jerry straightened up, fixed his eyes on the preacher's face and drank in eagerly every word. The preacher never went far in to his sermon without soon be ginning to look to Uncle Jerry for encouragement. The strang er in the pulpit always ended by. pleaching to uncie jerry. For it was from Uncle Jerry that there used to come those deep, sonorous amens that reverberat ed through the whole chuich. One day the pulpit was occu pied by an enthusiastic revival- ist from Boston. His fame had gone before him, and at the Sun day evening service the little church was packed to the door. Long before the time for service Uncle Jerry was in his seat. For anyone else to have taken that seat would have been a profana tion. The preacher began and was soon worked up to a high degree of excitement. Uncle Jerry bent forward further and further, hanging upon every word, his soul rejoicing in the fervid denunciations of sin. Soon the preacher got over into parti culars, and then Uncle Jerry's aniens came thick and fast and loud "My friends," shouted the preacher, "gambling is sending thousands of our youths to per dition every year. We have got to run the curse out of our land." "Amen!" said Uncle Jerry, in deep voiced, emphatic tone. "Dancing is degrading our young women and leading them into paths of wickedness. We've got, as Christians, to put the ban upon it." "Amen!" lrora Uncle Jerry, with increasing fervor "The drink evil is undermining the foundation of our nation and dragging our youth down to drunkard's graves. We've got to wipe out the curse in our fair land." "Amen!" shouted Uncle Jerry, iu terrific tones, and al most rising from his seat. The preacher waxed warmer and went on. ''The tobacco hab it is diseasing our boys and giv ing us a race of weaklings and effeminate youth. We've got to abolish the evil now or never." There was a deathly bush. Not a word. The preacher waited. It grew embarrassing. The boys began to giggle. Everybody looked at Uncle Jerry. There he sat with lace set, stern and stolid, but djwn each corner of his mouth were the tobacco trick- lings that had run there for years. For Uncle Jerry was THE FAIR. ! : The Big- Department Store, THE SHOE SALE is the biggest sale that the city. Our prices for this week are : Monday, February 12th, - - Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Have you beed in Shoe never without a goovl, big com forting quid of Farmers' Delight in his mouth. It was too much foi the audience. They laughed outright. The preacher hemmed and hawed, and then went on mechanically. Uncle Jerry sat 6xed and silent through it all. The preacher soon Snished and all went home to enjoy the laugh they hardly dared veut in church. How orteu I think of that story. It is so true to hu man nature. We shout amen with great gusto till the truth strikes home to us. and then we well, we dojust what Uncle Jerry did. get angry and keep silent. The American Agricul turist. GRANDY Mrs. John Mercer is visiting relatives at Munden's Point this week. Mr. Julian Aydlett of Curri tuck C. H., was in our midst Sunday. Messrs. Isaac Spry and Calvin Crane, of Coinjock, were in our village Suuday. Miss Laura Woodhouse enters tained quite a number of her friends Sunday evening. Mr. M. McIIorney has re-1 turned from Norfolk, where he has been spending a few days. . Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Forbes, of Jarvisburg, spent Sunday here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Forbes. Mr. W. B. Mercer has returned from Munden's Point, where he has been visiting his sister, Mrs. E. F. Gibbs. Miss Helen Roberts and Miss Katie Kinsey, of Coinjock, were the guests of Miss Carrie Evans Saturday and Sunday. Mae, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Forbes, we are glad to hear is now improving under the skillful treatment of 1 Dr. W. T. Griggs. B. 13th,- - 14th, - - 15th,- - 16th, - - 17th,- - 19th, - - 20th,- - 21st, - - 22nd,- - to see these great bargains ? Department, TSEj fair j Digger Sipois ! 0 Do you take cold with every change In the weather? Doeg your throat feel raw? And do sharp pains dart through our chest ? Don't you know these are danger signai whkh point to pneumonia, bronchitis, or consumption itself? If you are ailing and have lost flesh lately, they are certainly dan. rr signals. The question for you to decide is, "Have I the itality to throw off these diseases f ' Don't wait to try 5COTTS EMULSION " e a last re tort." There Is no remedy cijunl to It for fortify ing the system. Prevention Is easy . Scott's Emulsion prevents consumption and hosts of other diseases which attack the weak and those with poor blood. SCOTT'S EMULSION la the one standard remedy for inflamed throats and lungs, for colds, bronchitis and con sumption. It Is a food medi cine of remarkable power. A food, because it nourishes the body ; and a medicine, be cause it corrects diseased conditions. $oc. and $ 1 00, sll druggists. SCOTT ft IIOWM-:, Chemists, N.w York I ft) s 0 0 t v CASTOR I A lor Infants aud Children. 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