Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

TURKEY refuses to occupy Bulgaria
SOCIALISTS rioted in the streets OF Ant
werp.
THERE are not more than $50, 900 Quakers
IN America
TwESrY-EIGHr counties of Michigan have
voted for Prohibition
WARLTKE activity Is noticed in the British
Admiralty Department.
ITALY is talking of bringing home her
soldiers from AbySSinia-
RUSSIA has had bad luck with her best
ronclad- 1t must be rebuilt
THERE are thirty-seven japanese students
in the University OF Michigan
KANSAS CITY bids fair TO become the rae
ing centre of the boundleSs West
THE Israel Putnam monument at Brook
lyn, Conn, is to be dedicated on June II
NINETY thousand Italian emigrants have
gone 10 Brazil during the past twelve months
THERE are seven American defaulters.
bank-wreckers and murderers In Bueuos
Ayres.
THE Government of Santo Domingo has
granted concessions to American railroad
contractors
THE sarcophagus containing the BODY of
Alexander the Great has been discovered at
Saida, Turkey.
FIFTY thousand bags of beans have arrived
at New York from Mediterranean ports dur
ing the last two months.
OVER $4,000 worth of potatoes were
shipped from Halifax TO the United States
during the last quarter Of 1887.
SPAIN is TO have an international Exhibition
IL 1888. 1t is TO be held in Barcelona, and il
to be open from April to September.
JOHNNY BEALL, the thirteen-year- old mnr-
derer of his mother, OF Columbus Ohio, has
been sentenced TO life Imprisonment.
ALTOGETHER, 1,022 novels, OF which CPS
were reprints of English works, were pub
lfSlRn in laaI Init Lat
CHARLES POSIEROY, who started from New
York to Havana in an open boat last fall has
been washed up on the Florida coast, a
corpse.
THE Grant Monument Committee of New
York has on deposit Sl26, lo2. 30 The con-
tributions of the last year aggregated about
$4,000
County, Ark, filled his mouth with powder
and placed lighted match to it. He was
fatally injured
A SYNDICATE of French engineers has con-
tracted to stop the breach in the Hoang- Ho
River whose overflow caused the great disas-
ter short time ago.
THERE are now stored along the Hudson
River about 3, $50, 600 tons of ice, while from
the lakes of the vicinity nearly 500, 900 tons
more have been cut.
COLLECTOR MAGONE's investigation of
opium frauds at the Port of New York has
so far revealed fraudulent expectations
amounting to 81, 100000
JOHN F. CHASE, a Maine war veteran who
received forty eight wounds and wears
glass eye, has invented an aerial war ship for
dropping dynamite on the heads of the
enemy.
A VAN containing oil paintings valued at
S150,000, was lately burned on the Edgeware
Road in London. One of the pictures, owned
by a nobleman, was worth $50, 900. How the
fire occurred is mystery.
A WHALE sixty feet long was captured just
off the coast near Morehead City, n. c., q
few days ago. 1t struggled desperately, and
a crew of dozen men had all they could do
to take it. 1t is expected to yield its captors
So, 600.
THE Chamber of Commerce of ST. Paul
Mimi, has passed resolution for a commit
tee of twenty to confer with a similar com
mittee from the Minneapolis Chamber OF
Commerce respecting the proposed union o.
the two cities. The committee was ap pointed
atOnce.