The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-03
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

IHE late SCOrm caused an eSIlIu6Uo0 lOSS VI
$4,0U0,000 in louisiana
THE Archduchess Valerie, Of Austria, be-
comes victim Of epilepsy.
Six hundred thousand Frenchmen own
shares in the Panama Canal
The production of the 5000, 900 acres o
cotton in Texas is 1,50O, 600 bales.
THE Congo basin in Africa contains vast
quantities Of easily-reduced iron ore
THE pig iron production of the United
Ssates is now llS,UOO tons per week.
The total production OF sugar in the EN-
pire Of China is placed at wv tons
THE Car and Czarina have started upon
q two months tour of southern Russia.
THE fresh fruit crop Of California this sea-
son has an estimated value Of Sl0,00O,UO.
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 2bO, ,0o0,0Jo bushels Of slxty-two
pounds each.
THIS years seal catch on ST. George and
st. Paul Islands, in the Behring Sea, amounts
to lO0,0U0 skins.
TIE vanilla bean grows wild in Mexico,
and fresh from the forest sells at ten or twelve
dollars per l0u0.
COTTON planters Of Louisiana complain
that the crops lave been seriously damaged
by worms and rain.
OVER one thousand children are reported
to have died from measles in Santiago, Chill,
in less than two months
IT has been finally determined that the
shortage Of the absconding Treasurer Tate,
of Kentucky, is $3.50
MARGARET FENNIsAL died recently at
Carlisle, Penn. She was fifty-6ve years old
and only thirty inches in height.
RETURNS for 1855 show that British live
stock has decreased As per cent. compared to
1887, and rs compared with 1886.
WE consume 62, 600, ,0O0 barrels Of our an
nual 75,OOO,OUO barrel production of flour.
At Minneapolis $4,000 barrels are made per
day.
MISS ISABEL CABALIRo, we'll known
belle Of Havana, Cuba, committed suicide by
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.l like to-day as when
they we're inferred in their air-tight casket
at Chicago twenty-seven years ago.
THE one hundredth birthday of Mrs. Lu-
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 as that of the present year. The
granaries are already filled to overflowing,
and farmers are puzzled to know what to do
with the surplus
AcoAL 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 II, 600, ,09O cocoanuts per year
from Central America In rainy weather
the tree sheds two cocoanuts in three days
and one every two DAYS on fair day. They
average about lSO nuts per year.
GABRIELLE MARILLo asstruck few days
ago in the street at Duluth, Mimi, by water
from hydrant, which knocked his false
teeth down his throat. He died from hem
orrhage following their removal
PERSONS representing the principal coal
companies of Kentucky and Virg MIA met in
Louisville lately, and formed combination
involving about s3,OOJO ~ capital and 49n0
acres of coal land. including mines in opera
tion, besides an outside acreage OF $4,000 in
Virginia and q, ,7SO acres in Bell County,
Kentucky. g..