The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-17
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are about $500 female physicians.
BR1GASDs are giving trouble in Bulgaria
CARL Gotta, the famous Munich publisher,
is dead
CALIFORNIA uses 93,ooOOoO burlap bags
for flour.
EVERY year in Brooklyn 20o0 persons die
of consumption.
THIS country consumes yearly 100000 600
paper flour sacks.
THERE are about six thousand voting pre-
cinctS in Indiana.
FORTY counties in Arkansas have voted
against liquor license.
THE death of Stanley, the African ex-
plorer. is regarded as certain.
A LIEUTENANT in the German army is
examining our coast defences.
TIE California grape crop has been
seriously injured by hot weather.
THE population of ST. Petersburg has di-
minished by $500 in the last seven years.
ADMIRAL LUCE says that the only way to
kill yellow. fever microbes is to freeze them
out.
ACLYDEsDALE colt has been sold for s15,-
0o0, the highest price ever paid for draught
horse.
On account of the short crop it is proba-
bic that France will abolish duties on foreign
cereals.
Mn. WILLIAM H. SMITH, First Lord of the
Treasury, has been raised to the Peerage of
England.
A FoRTY-EIGHT inch vein of coal has been
found at Spckardsville, Mo. The coal is OF
superior grade.
THERE are 1865 convicts in the Georgia
penitentiary, of which number POS are under
sentence for life.
EURoPB and America are now connected
| by nine cables. There are thus llo,O0O miles
| of cable employed.
A PURE Arab mare, the first and only one
| in this country, has just Eeen imported by
New York gentleman.
An officer in Krupp's Essen gun works
has been arrested for Offering to sell draw
ings to an English firm.
| THE 25Oth anniversary Of the first settle
| ment of the SwedeS in America has been
celebrated at Minneapolis.
a YOUNG squaw, accused Of preaching
| witchcraft, has been burned to death by the
Mojave Indians in California
| A REWARD of $40, 600 has been offered for
! William B. Tascott, the alleged murderer or
millionaire Smell, Of Chicago.
THE honey season in the United States
proves to be nearest to faIlure or any season
| in some time, except last year.
Two men have been arrested in Jersey for
tho murder of Elias Trauger, Deputy
Marshal, which occurred twenty-six years
ago.
Tng Mormons have recently sent a mission
ary from Salt Lake to thu Samoan Islands
to preach the gospel and drum up recruits
among the natives
IN France there are 2?,Sl3 national schools
for girls and %7.!g4 for boys. The first
named are conducted by female teachers and
the last by males
CAPTAIN VAN GELE, who has just returned
to Belgium from the Congo country, says he
/ is the man who has been described as the
"White Pasha" of Central Africa.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT JASPER says
that in eight warls Of New York city there
are -, ,OD0 children for whom there is no ac-
com1nodation in the public schools.
A NATURAL gas well has been drilled in
la Fontane ten miles south Of Wabash,
Ind. Two flames burn 100 feet high from
the three-inch casing. Tie well is perfectly
dry.
WIN. H. HOWARD, a wealthy cotton mer-
chant Mt Augusta, Ga, age elghty-two, has
married Mrs Geo. heindel, a widow, age
thirty. Her wedding present was check
for $50, 600.