The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-12
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

A COAL fever RACES at Astoria, Oregon.
GERMANY last year imported 62, 900 horses
THE Bell telephone patent expires in 1893
THE present value of ton Of silver is $751;.
704.s4
NOVEMBER 18th was Thanksgiving Day in
Canada
TIE vote for Fisk and Brooks is estimated
at SEQ 0)0.
THE Mexicans bet heavily on the result of
our Presidential election.
! THERE are about 100000 Union soldiers
living at the present time.
OFFICIAL returns in Mississippi give
Cleveland plurality of 55.3S.
THE crop of potatoes in Michigan this year
is estimated at lj,2ls,0S bushels.
A NEW society to promote the cause Of
anarchy has beeA started at Chicago.
For the first six months of 1873 the English
! railways killed lG5 people and injured ISL
! THE great exposition at Cincinnati was a
! financial failure, resulting in loss Of S340,
; 600.
OVER sS7, O00,010 of Government bonds
have been redeemed under tho circular Of
April II.
THE statistics of agrarian outrages in Ire
! land during the last quarter place the num-
ber at l75
THE crop Of Malaga grapes is larger than
for wears before, and raisins will he cheaper
than ever.
SwARMs of gnats have made themselves so
pestiferous as to break up the schools at st.
| Albans, VT.
THE Cheyenne Indiqns in Dakota are
! starving and the Government is called upon
! to extend aid.
THE German budget for 1SS9.91 contains
an appropriation of So, 133, 400 for strength
ening the navy.
WILLIAM KELLY, deaf mute, has been
convicted of theft in Boston on the testimony
| of deaf mute.
MRS. BERENICE CHoUTEAC, the first white
woman who lived in Kansas City, has just
died there at the age Of eighty seven.
THIS years mackerel catch by tho Glouces-
ter Mass,) fleet is the smallest for fiftv
years. 1t was less than half that OF last
| season.
Mrs. CLEVELAND has, by her personal
efforts, raised 100000 to rebuild Wells
College, her Alma Mater, which was recently
burned.
THE paupers receiving indoor relief in
London are rapidly increasing. They num-
ber 66:I9 more now than three years ago. or
$4,000 altogether.
Chamber of deputies indorses General
Boulanger's idea of abolishing both the
Senate and the Presidency.
THE idea that yellow fever is one of the
most fatal of epilemlcs is not borne out by
the history of the disease at jacksonville,
Fla. The total number of cases so far re-
portcd foot up little over 1900 and the
deaths less than 4Oo.
TIE total whaling catch in the North Pa
ciGc and Arctic fishery this year was l5,033
barrels of oil ani 3Ol,247 pounds Of whale
bnne divided among 80 vesSe's This makes
nm average of ;s>5 barrels of oil for each vcs-
sci, which is very small.
THE latest official advices report the aver
age yield of cotton this year about the same
ms last in the cotton .rowing States generally,
eycpnt a sli hit increase in those west of the
Mississippi, anil trliling reduction in Geor-
gin. Alabama and Tennessee.
PLAN; for the proposed SG,000,0O0 cathc-
dral OF Trinity parish, New York city, are
in the hands of architects and as soon as COM
niatod will he submitted to the Building
Committce. IL is understood the cathedral
will be called "St John the Divine"