Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
THE rice crop looks fine.

1HE rice crop looks nne.
SUGAR making is nearly over.
GEORGIA has tifty-five cotton mills.
SIAM is exceedingly rich in minerals.
COMPLETE anarchy prevails in Crete.
THE Illinois Legislature has adjourned.
FRANCE is suffering from severe storms.
ILLINOIS has a new compulsory education
law
THE number of drug stores in st. Louis is
325
CUBANs express a desire for little home
rule.
FLORIDA is not afraid of yellow. fever this
year.
KANSAS CITY was visited by a severe
storm.
THE Massachusetts, Legislature has adj
journed.
THE United States Treasury surplus is
SOS, 000, OJG.
New ORLEANS badly needs a good system
of drainage.
A TREATY between Mexico and Japan has
been ratified
CINCINNATI talks Of securing natural gas
by pipe lines.
THE harvest in Northern Texas is under
full Roadway.
GREAT BRITAIN is spending 500, 100000 on
iron ships
THE prospects for the Egyptian cotton crop
are favorable
PAoLA, Kan, has rented its city park to a
carpet renovatOr.
AN early fall trade is expected by jobbers
and manufacturers.
BARLEY is beginning to be sown for winter
pasture In the South.
ALMOST 40, 600 men will be engaged in TAX
ing the coming census.
REPORTS from the growing grain in the
w est continue favorable.
THE latest trust that is forming in the
W est is the castor oil trust
IT is proposed to lay cable from Ostend,
Belgium, to the United States.
MILITARY service has been made obligatory
In all the normal schools Of Chill.
CHINESE are said to be pouring into Cali
fornia over the Mexican border.
THE present seasons Delaware peach crop
is estimated at s. 600, 600 baskets.
A RAILWAY has been completed to the top
OF Mount Pilatus in Switzerland.
THERE are an even 200 patients in the
Yankton Dakota) Insane Asylum
THE total crop of Florida oranges for the
season just ended was 2, 200 900 boxes.
THE number of Russian visitors to the Paris
Exhibition is said to be unprecedented.
OVER a million Italians have settled in the.
Argentine Republic in thirty-three years.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has shipped thirty
per cent. more oranges this year than last.
THE recent frost has destroyed over one
fourth of the grape crop of New York State.
HARVARD graduates 225 young men in her
academic department this year. Yale turns
out 1877.
A FACTORY for making altar Of rose and
other flower essence is just being established
at Atlanta, Ga.
THE citizens OF Seattle Washington Terri
tory, have resolved to widen their streets and
erect fre-proof buildings
The acreage of spring wheat seems to have
declined in Wisconsin and Minnesota owing
to the raVages of the chinch bug.
A BILL has been presented in the Legisla-
ture of Jalisco, Mexico, for the prohibition in
that State of bull and cock fights
WASHINGTON TERRITORY's Constitutional
Convention viii be composed of forty-slx Re
publicans and twenty-nne Democrats.
MANY farmers in Oregon are literally
throwing away potatoes; much Of the last
crop remains in the hands of the producers.
WHILE in the act of receiving the third de-
gree in Masonic lodge at Wichita, Kan.
DIR. James L. Lawrence fell dead with heart
disease
TWENTY years ago the British army num-
bered 1S7, 600. Now there are 2Il 600 men OF
all arms including those serving in the
colonies.
THE Australians have forbidden the slaugh-
1st, OF each year, on account of its value
export article.
THERE is rumor that the Mexican Con
question of ceding lower California to the
limited States