The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03
NEWSY GLEANINGS.


SUGAR making is nearly over.
GEORGIA has fifty-fve 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 new compulsory education
law.
THE number of drug stores in ST. Louis is
S25
CUBAHs express a desire for little home
rule.
FLORIDA is not afraid of yellow fever this
year.
KANSAS CITY was visited by severe
storm.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has ad-
journed.
THE United States Treasury surplus is
s5S,00O,000.
NEW ORLEANS badly needs 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 headway.
GREAT BRITAIN is spending 1000, 900 on
new iron ships
TIE prospects for the Egyptian cotton crop
are favorable.
PAoLA, Kan, has rented its city park to
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 10000 men will be engaged in TAX
ing the coming census.
REPORTS from the growing grain in the
West continue favorable.
THE latest trust that is forming in the
West 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 5000, 900 baskets.
A RAILWAY has been completed to the top
of Mount Pilatus in Switzerland.
THERE are an even 200 patients in the
Ysnkton Dakota) Insane Asylum.
The total crop Of Florida oranges for the
season just ended was 2200, 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 127.
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 raveges 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 will be composed Of forty-six Re-
pubEcans and twenty-nine Democrats.
MANY farmers in Oregon are literally
throwing away potatoes; much Of the last
crop III Chc Va phC ~ OOuSCio'
WHILE in the act of receiving the third de-
gree in Masonic lodge at Wichita, Kan,
Dr. James L. Lawrence fell dead with heart
disease
TWENTY years ego the British army num-
bered 1S7, 900. Now there are 211, 900 men Of
all arms, including those serving in the
colonies.
The Australians have forbidden the slaugh-
! ter of the kangaroo from January 1St to May
1st, of each year, on account of its value as an
export article.
THERE is a rumor that the Mexican Con-
! gress in secret session, is considering the
| question of ceding lower California to the
United States.
IT is proposed to establish a penal colony
on the Isla % Pinos, abolishing the peniten-
tiaries in the different cities in Cuba; also O
workhouse for vagrants.
THE leading gas company of Chicago is
making arrangements for replacing its pres
enT supply of manufactured gas with natural
gas from the coal regions.
THERE are said to be 5000 typewriters
| employed in Chicago, ninety-nine per cent. OF
whom are stenographers. Over seventy five
per cent of them are women.
THE fresh fish trade on the Atlantic coast il
all broken up. A Providence R. L. dealer,
! VINO handled 1000 barrels last spring, says be
lost at least s6OO. The public taste runs td
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