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North Carolina has 267 toba-
co faetories5 - ssfaa1aH
Albany, Ga, has a: pottery
among her industries.
There are 10000 missionary
Baptists in North Carolina.
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The oyster trade. of Baltimore
this season is valued at S., 500
600. .......-.---..-....
The bluegrass region of Ken
lucky contains 10000 square
miles. dI
This years American cotton
crop is estimated at $4,000
bales.
A three-acre orange-bearing
grove in Florida is valued at
over $4,000.
New Orleans employs 1925
hands in the manufacture ofcot-
ION seed oil and caIr.
The population & ST. Louis
as published by the-eensus-bu-,
reau, is 35o,555.
A meeting Of sheep and wool
growers viii be held at Wash
ington..c city July IS. d
An incendiary fire destroyed
Horn & Bros distillery, at
Knoxville, Tenn, the Sd.
Four Albanian chiefs have
been arrested by Dervish Pssha,
and viii be sent to Constantine
pie. 9wOIS
Athens, Ga, has the only bob
bin.mill in the south, and can
not supply the demand for bob
bins.
Mississippi Gotten planters
find that cotton-seed is really
worth about $40 a ton to them
asa fertilizer.
New York is shortly to have
a line Of steamers toBordesux
France, the trip to be made in
twelve days.
In the late engagement be-
tween the Russians and the
Tekke Turcomans, the former
lost 5000 men. s..-e.f
1t is thought that in the vicin-
ity of Dahlonego, Ca, there is
sIoo. 600 of gold within aFadius
Of twenty miles. r A N
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Illinois claims to have made
halfthe farm machinery made
in the United States last year
S77,727,oo worth.
The iron district of the south
has been developed with a "a
pidity unprecedented in the his
tory Of iron-making.
Times are awful hard in this
country. Only SI.oo5o68ooo
were spent for cigars in the
United States last year. brow
A few days ago the Chata-
nooga iron furnace turned cut
forty-one tons of pig-the big
gest days work ever done inthe
south. ror.
The porte is preparing to
mass one hundred thousand
men on the Greek frontier, and
concentrate forces at other
points. tJa
The President Of Orange,
free State, South Africa, has re-
fused the rebel Basuto chief per
mission to buy ammunition in
that territory.
The Irishmen of Glasgow have
decided to Withhold their patron
age from any freshman there
who refuses to support the Irish
land movements
Russia does not enjoy the
luxury of an income tax. but
that modern improvement Is
contemplated. The excise tax
on salt IS Just abolished. A
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg |
has signed a contract to sing |
twenty nights in Paris, as soon |
as her Russian engagement is |
ended. at 5000 night. |
The St. Louis criminal state !
ment shows that twcnty-eight |
murderers and hfty-seven sui
cides were committed in that |
city during the past year. llH
Senator Jones, of Florida, |
came TO this country from Ire
land in-I855, and-for-a--ieng |
time worked by the side ORA |
slave at a Carpenters bench. ~
Miss Belle Thorpe, Of Paft= |
NEVILLE, Wayne county, N. Y, |
does not claim,to be handsome, |
but she can pare forty bushels |
Of apples inside of FIVE hours.
The warlike sentiment is
growingin Athens. Thirty two |
thousand reserves and all the
national guard between the ages |
Of go and 20 will soon be called |
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