Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-04-27
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THERE are over 200, 900 foreigners in Paris.
ALASKA ships cranberries to Eastern mar.
kets.
OVER 100000 acres Of southern timber land
have been sold since January 1st
THIS country imports not much less than
2,0OO,OOO bushels of potatoes year.
THERE are $50, 0O0 liquor saloons In Eng
land, 10000 of which are in London.
MRS. MCELMoRE, of Texarkana, Texas,
has had nine children in three years.
THE Germans have imprisoned Malietoa,
the deposed Samoan King at Cameroons.
Paris was never so dull in the way Of bust
ness as now. Over 20, 900 fat apartments are
for rent.
A LARGE flow of petroleum has been
struck at Leavenworth, Kan, az depth of
1900 feet
A DENVER firm has closed a contract to
furnish French army with 5000 head of cat
tie weekly.
THE Sultan of Turkey has prohibited the
expectation of Arab horses from any part Of
his dominions.
JOHN B. Fry, Henry Clay's private secre-
tary, is living at Sidney, N. Y, nearly sew
enty years old.
The Chicago police have abandoned the
search for Tascott, the supposed murderer of
Millionaire Smell.
THE Swedish Minister at Washington has
sold to Speaker Carlisle his residence on K
street for $4,000.
IT is claimed that 500 tons of coal were
stolen the past winter from the railroad sheds
at Fond du Lac, Wis.
NORTH RITTER Won GoLDsC HM1DT, for
fifty years manager Of the Rothschilds bank
ing house in Vienna, is dead.
In sixty days hunting along the Orinoco
River in South America, an American shot
$50 alligators and ninety jaguars.
SARATOGA, Kan had population of 1000
a year ago At present only $50 sad-faced
persons remain in the deserted town.
IT is estimated that $4,000, 900 gallons of
cotton seed oil were used in this country last
year in manufacturing "refined lard"
THE sealer Neptune has arrived at st.
Johns, New Foundland, with $4,000 seals, the
largest cargo ever brought into that port.
LAMATE, the artist whose carricature of
the funeral of Emperor William, of Germany,
was suppressed, has committed suicide in
Paris.
WILLIAM LAYTON, of Milwaukee, mas
presented to that city an art gallery, with
pictures worth $150,000, and an endowment
of 100000.
A PEER Of England, who is somewhat hard
up financially, has accepted an engagement
as travelling man to well known firm of
piano makers.
HENRY ROSENBERG, of Galveston, Texas,
has just given $40, 600 to the public schools of
that city, regardless of race, color or pre-
vious condition of servitude.
A number of claims on the mud flats in the
harbor Of Seattle, Washington Territory,
have been staked off, and test is about to be
made in tranSplanting oysters.
THE authorities at Kalamazoo, Mich, it is
stated, have secured wholesale rate from
restaurant keeper, whereby hungry tramps
will be fed for sixty cents dozen.
JAMES BAILEY, a miner of Shamokin,
Penn, has fallen heir to S1,600,000, left him
by the death of an uncle. Bailey has wife
and seven children, and for some months has
lived in abject poverty.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's personal servant" a
pure bred Highlander, who was raised on
Deeside, always stands, arrayed in Celtic
garb, behind her Majesty's chair when she
dimes in company in the Oak Room at Wind
Sor.
AT the funeral of John s. Brown, of Shaw
neetown. ILL.,, at the family residence, a floor
gave way, throwing the coffin and all the ar
ticles of furniture, along with forty men,
women and children into a deep cellar. A
number were hurt, but none dangerously.
A WOMAN at Argentine, Mich, has terror
lied the whole neighborhood. She keeps fire.
arms in her house to shoot anyone who tries
to arrest her; her landlord cannot collect his
rent and no one dares to refuse her anything
she asks for lest she will kill him set fire tt
his house.
w. E. FARLowE, a Chicago commission
merchant, had 220 Angora goats on his hands
recently, and finding purchasers backward
he caused five Of them to be slaughtered, and
gave "goat's meat banquet at which sew
eral butchers were present. The guests de-
clared the meat better and sweeter than NUT
ton and bought the whole consignment Of
goats to retail in their markets.