Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are sixteen candidates for the United
States Senate in Texas.
FLORIDA fig trees are putting on the first
crop of figs for the year.
AN affianced couple were drowned while
skating near BOwman'S Penn.
HUNDREDS of Canadians are said to be
waiting naturalization in Chicago
An indignant father drew pistol in a Chi
cagO court to kill an enemy whom the jury
acquitted.
Ten clergymen in st. Louis have been in
dicted for failing to make proper returns of
marriages.
OUT of ], 900 Liberians brought to Panama
to work on the canal nine months ago, $50
have died.
THE constitutional prohibition amendment
was passed in the Massachusetts, Senate by a
vote of 25 to 8.
CoNvICTs confined in the Eddyville, KY,
prison are permitted to give public negro
minstrel shows.
THE twenty birthday of Kansas
occurred January %, and the State celebrated
the anniversary.
THE tobacco industry has paid S76O, 900
of revenue to the Government since the tax
first imposed.
MICHAEL KENNY, of Philadelphia, kicked
his wife to death because she used too much
butter on her bread.
CAPT. POLLY BRYAN, a prominent mem
ber has been expelled from the Salvation
Army for wearing a hustle
A PROTECTIVE committee at Buffalo has
collected nearly $1,000 due to poor women.
1t was chiefly in small sums.
THE Austrian papers make an urgent ap-
peal for aid for the starving pOpulace of
Gorice, where famine prevails
A DESPATCH from Massowah, Africa, says
sickness prevails among the Italian troops,
and that 400 soldiers are in hospital
LARGE numbers of counterfeit silver dol
,IofIr ICrl0f nnIl
were taken at the Sub-treasury in one day.
MAINE claims to have sixteen men and
women who have lived more than 100 years,
and no end of inhabitants who are over 90.
AN English syndicate which already owns
1000, 600 acres of land in Mexico has pur-
chased 500 900 acres more for p cents an
acre.
JOHN D. WEST, who was wounded in the
street fight by James d. Rule, associate ed
itor of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, has
died.
WILLIAM O'BR1EN. the Irish Nationalist,
has gone to the South of Europe TO recuperate
after his recent experience in the Irish
prisons
BERRY, the English hangman, has executed
/ 10 persons up to the present time, sixteen or
them having been in Ireland and two IN
Scotland
THE heaviest deposit in the closed Auburn
IN W bank was S120 900 by the three Town
Railroad Comrissi 0ners, who are all directors
of the bank.
EUGENE TAFER principal of public
school in Columbus Ohio, commltted SUI
eide at Cleveland hotel after losing 500
at a faro bank.
CHARLES MCLEAN, patient, was wheeled
into an elevator shaft at Roosevelt Hospital,
New York city, by an inexperienced attend
ant and killed.
THE Court of Cessation in Paris has de-
cided that the marriage of Catholic priest
& a nerfect1y lawful one, notwithstanding his
vows of celibacy.
AMONG the men who handle the brakes on
the Brooklyn Bridge cars are two lawyers,
q clergyman. a college professor and grad
nate from Oxford
THE Rev. David Lathrop HUM, the oldest
living graduate OF Yale College, died in Buff
falo recently. age19S wears. He was grad
uate of the class Of 1915.
president You've says the gross receipts
of the National League base ball clubs, in
1886. were S:}20, 900, and that the receipts OF
1887 beat this amount by $4,000.