Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-12
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
)TLAND has a gold fever.

SCARLET FEVER is raging in Chicago :
JAPAN wants more doctors and dentists.
THEY have fire. brick trust in England.
THERE are several goat ranches in Texas
THE University of Berlin has 579O students.
WILD geese are numerous in South Dakota.
THERE are 5000 Chinese in New York
city.
GERMANY has 224 inhabitants to the square
mile.
Iowa has fifty-fve jais without an in
mate.
STRIKES are spreading throughout Ger
many.
THERE are 1886 Browning clubs in this
country.
A COAL mine trust Of the United Kingdom
is proposed,
The Straits of Mackinaw are already open
for navigation.
The Pope's fainting fits have become more
frequent of late.
WILD ducks are swarn1ing on the Kanka-
kee ILL., marshes.
THE taxable property of Missouri aggre-
gates $3.50, l31, 139.
ABOUT 5000, 900 acres will soon be added to
the public domain.
CHINA and Corea have arrived at an ami
cable understanding.
CANADA proposes to have another trans
continental railroad.
THE estimate OF the total ice harvest of
Maine is l, I'll, 900 tons.
The British Government will lay q cable
from Bermuda to Halifax.
The Australian wheat crop has fallen
short of the estimated product.
HYDE COUNTY, Dakota, farmers have Or
gained a hail insurance company.
OF the 100000 barrels annual product Of
cotton seed oil, 100000 go into lard.
PEOPLE in China. oppressed by famine,
are selling their children to buy food.
THE famous Verrugas Railroad bridge in
Peru has been swept away by great flood.
THE business of the London Stock Ex-
change amounts annually to So, $780, 900, 900.
VANILLA plants are selling in Papantla,
Vera Cruz, Mexico, at from SIS to $85 per
1000.
NEARLY $4,000 people went up the Wash
ington Monument elevator at inauguration
time.
HE population OF the Province of Quebec,
Canada, has fallen off 239, $40 in the past five
years.
THE British gunboat Spider, which was to
have proved such marine terror, is
failure.
COLUMBUS, Ca, levies tax of ten cents
on each dressed carcass sold within the city
limits.
THE great stallion Prince Wilkes has bean
sold to a gentleman of Buenos Ayres for
$780, 200.
THERE have been six defalcations in the
government of Hoboken, n j., within as
many years.
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN prisoners escaped
recently from the Zacatlan JAIL State of
Puebla, Mexico.
DURING the past two years s., 412, 099 of
the national debt of Honduras has been paid,
and only $772, $50 remains.
FARMERS in the Northwest are sowing
with frosted wheat, experiments have
lately demonstrated its value.
THE losses of the exploded Partisan copper
syndicate are stated at $50, 600, 600. All the
authors of tbs syndicate are ruined.
GERMANY has acceded to the request of
France for the transfer Of the remains of
Generals Carnot and Marceau to France.
A PERMANENT association is to be formed
in New YOrk to widen the field of trade with
Spanish American States and compete with
Europe.
The State of Massa chusetts has granted a
charter to the Meigs Elevated Railroad
Company, which will build an elevated road
in Boston.
BARNUMs HOTEL, Baltimore, opened in
1925, and which Charles Dickens said was
tbs best hosiery in America, is to be sold
and closed.
GOLD in large quantities is said to have
been discovered on the Sweet Grass Hills,
Montana, and adventures are fiocking there
in great numbers.
AN examination of the books of the bank
rupt Reading PENN iron works shows that
the company instead of having made profit
Of 5000, 900 in the last four years, had sustained
an annual loss Of S263, 900.
THE poor of the District of Columbia
profited $40, 900 by the Inauguration of Gen
eral Harrison, as a check for that sum (the
excess of receipts over expenses) has been
f,,rr od for hou