Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-23
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE King of the Netherlands is not ex-
pected to live.
THE only railroad in China is daily crowded
with passengers.
BOTH Houses of the English Parliament
will discuss the Sackville case.
BRooKLYN's population is estimated by the
health department to be SO5, SO.
THE hide dealers of the Northwest are
agltatlng the formation of trust
THE Catholics of Australia and India have
presented the Pope with 81, 00O,0 900.
IT turns out after all that Father Schleyer
the inventor of Volapuk, is not dead
The corn crop at Campton, n. H, and
vicinity is the greatest failure since 1886.
THE honey season has not been a success
full one in either the United States or Canada.
IT is said that the British Government may
give Lord Sackville the mission to St Peters
burg.
THE women of America expend IS. 600, 900
annually for paint and powder for their
faces
THIS country purchased half of the china
made in Limoges last year for 1900, 900
francs
INDIANAPOLIS claims that hers was the
first Union railroad depot. 1t was erected
in 1852.
A SEVERE drought has nearly extermi-
mated the rabbits in some parts of New South
Wales.
THE Spanish Government has been erect
Pyrenees.
THE FontainebIeau forest was fired by in
cendiaries at five different points and the
damage was $3.50, go.
RUSSIA gets nearly 100000 900 pounds of
cotton from foreign countries especia lly the
United States and Egypt.
ENGLAND is importing six times as much
wheat from Russia and twice as much from
India as at this time last year.
THE whole court at Berlin is now entirely
composed of new people. The friends OF the
late Emperor have disappeared.
A RETIRED German officer, convicted as a
spy by the French authorities at Nice is SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment
In Washington, y. H, apples are sold on
the trees for twenty-five cents a barrel, and
cider apples for two cents buShel
TORONTO medical students hooted and
threw stones at a professor who pulled a
revolver and shot one Of them in the Leg.
THE suit brought by General Badeau
against Mrs. Grant for work done on her
distinguished husbands memoirs has been
settled on the payment to the former of
SIC, 900.
GEORGE G. HARDWOOD an incurable lunatic
in Longyiew Asylum, Cincinnati, has lust
been awarded pension of So a month and
back pay amounting to $4,000. He has no
relatives.
THE body of John Groshart, a ranchman.
has been found in isolated spot in Carlton
County, Wy, with bullet hole in his head.
1t is the fifth mysterious murder in that
county in as many months.
THE budget for the Dutch East Indies
shows deficit of "a 200, 600 The Finance
Minister proposes to increase by one form
the native license tax for the cultivatonEof
coffee and to appoint a royal commission TO
inquire as to means for developing the COT
fee industry.
FARMERS in the sections Of New South
w ales that are suffering from drought lind
consolation in the fact that the dry, spell has
cut wide swath through the rabbit army.
In some localities there scarcely any OF
the pests left.
THE flint-bottle manufacturers of Pitts
burg and vicinity are about to form a big
Trust which will, when the deal is consum-
mated, take in the greater portion OF the
hintbottle manufacturers in this country.