Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-21
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE late storm caused an estimated loss OF
81, Doc, 900 in louisiana.
The Archduchess Valerie, of Austria, be-
comes victim of epilepsy.
Six hundred thousand FreEchmen own
shares in the Panama Canal.
THE production of the 5000 900 acres o
cotton in Texas is 100000 bales.
THE Congo basin in Africa contains vast
quantities Of eaSlly-reduced iron ore.
THE pig iron production of the United
Ssates is now us, 900 tons per week.
The total production OF sugar in the En-
pre of China is placed at $50, UOO tons.
THE Car and Czarina have started upon
a two months tour Of southern Russia.
THE fresh fruit crop of California this sea-
son has estimated value Of S1O,000, 600.
The largest crop of cranberries this coun-
try has ever produced will be gathered this
fall.
AN attempt is to be made to introduce the
breed of Shetland ponies into the Hebrides Of
Scotland.
DURING the last five years 425 lives have
been lost at sea among the English herring
fishermen.
IT is expected that the wheat crop in India
will reach 2j0, 900, 900 bushels of s1xty-two
pounds each.
THIS years seal catch on st. George and
st. Paul Islands, in the Behring Sea, amounts
to 10000 skins.
and fresh from the forest sells at ten or twelve
dollars per 1000
8 COTTON planters of Louisiana complain
that the crops have been seriously damaged
by worms and rain.
OVER one thousand children are reported
to have died from measles in Santiago Chilli
in less than two months.
IT has been finally determined that the
shortage of the absconding Treasurer Tate
of Kentucky, is $4,000.
MARGARET FENNISAL died recently at
Carlisle, Penn. She was fifty-five years old
and only thirty inches N height.
RETURNS for 1888 show that British live
stock has decreased f. 8 per cent. COMPARED to
1887, and &c compared with 1886.
WE consume g., 900, 900 barrels of our an
nual 75,O00,0 600 barrel production of -four
At Minneapolis 80, coo barrels are made per
day.
MISS ISABEL CABALIRO, a well known
shooting herself with a revolver. She dis
charged the weapon in her mouth.
IT is said that the remains of Stephen A.
Douglas are as life like to-day as when
they were inferred in their alright casket
at Chicago twenty-seven years ago.
THE one hundredth birthday of Mrs. LII
cinda Fletcher was celebrated at North
Springfield, Vt, by a reception in the
church, which was attended by nearly all the
townspeOple.
RARELY has such harvest been known in
Russia that of the present year The
granaries are already filed to OVERLOOKING,
and farmers are puzzled to know what to 10
with the surplus.
A COAL mine near fremont, Penn, on
which Henry He'll spent his fortune twenty
years ago, proves rich in coal Had He'll
driven his drill six feet further he would
have found wealth.
WE receive 1900, 900 cocoanuts per year
from Central America. In rainy weather
the tree sheds two cOcoanuts in three DAYS
and one every two DAYS on fair days They
average about 1SG nuts per year.
GABRILLE MARILLo was struck few days
ago in the street at Duluth, Mimi. by water
from a hydrant, which knocked his false
teeth down his throat He died from hem
Crrhage following their removal.
PERSONS representing the principal coal
companies of Kentucky and Virginia met in
Louisville lately, and formed combination
involving about s., 100000 capital and 1850
acres of coal land including mines in opera
ton, besides an outside acreage of 80, O0J in
Virginia and ., $50 acres IN Bell County,
Kentucky.
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