Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-07-12
LATER NEWS.

THEODORE DWIGHT WooLsEv, ex-Presi-
dent of Yale University, died a few days ago
at New Haven, Conn, aged Lightweight
years.
THE plant Of the Reading PENN Iron
Works, which failed for over a million, has
been sold for $3.50, 900, subject to a mortgage
of 5000, 900, to representative of the Read
ing Railroad.
NNETT-sIx yearlings from J. B. Hagginss
California ranch were sold in New York for
$113 $50.
WHLIAsI SCHILz and Charles Schroeder,
two sixteen-year-old boys, were drowned at
Riverside, IL, while boating on the picnic
grounds.
FIRE IN Savannah, Ga, destroyed the es-
Establishments Of J. T. Cohen, IL Ster.berg,
and L. Z. Byck & Son. Total loss $4,000.
Two fremen were killed and eight injured.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM PIERCE, Superinten-
dent of the Public Works Department, of
New Orleans, La, and for years Captain Of
that crack military organization, the CONT
mental Guards, has committed suicide in
that city by blowing out his brains.
n SION 4 c3pEO1eu al DEaSn0dT nIL. ATk..
and Thomas Brashear, the owner, and two
bystanders were killed by being struck by
pieces Of the stone.
ADDITIONAL consular appointments by
the President: A. Louden Snowden, of Penn
sylvania, to be Minister Resident and Consul
General Of the United States to Roumania,
Servia, and Greece; VIM. Hayden Edwards,
0f Ohio IN he of tina J-Yitoj
States at Berlin; Augustus o. Bourne, Of
Rhode Island, to be COnsul-General OF the
United States at Rome; Eugene Schuyler of
New York, to be Agent and Consul-General
of the United States at Cairo.
A MONEY order convention between Ger
many and the United States has been signed
by the German Minister, Count D'Arco Val
ley, and Postmaster General Wanamaker. It
increases the amount Of a money order that
can be sent by either country to the other
from $50 to 500.
SECRETARY RUSK has made the following
appointments: Thomas Taylor of Massa-
chusetts, microscopic, $500; George Vasey,
Illinois, botanist $500, and H. E. Vande-
man, Kansas, pomologist, $500.
SECRETARY BLAINE left Washington for
Bar Harbor, Me, where he will remain until
September.
THE reduction Of the public debt during
June amounted to SIC, 255, 92574. The total
cash in the Treasury is S643, 113, 172.O1.
THE Shah of Persia arrived in England
The Thames embankment was lined with
troops during the progress to Westminster.
He was received at the steps by the Prince Of
Wales and sons, the Earl of Rosebery, Earl
Cadogan ard Sir Henry Drummond Wolf,
the British Ambassador to Prussia, and
driven to Buckingham Palace.
ALDERMAN JAMES WINsTANLEY. a Pro-
testant and supporter of Mr.. Farnell, has
been unanimously nominated to be Lord
Mayor of Dublin, ireland, for 1890.
FERDINANDo DE LUCIA Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary Of Italy
to China, died recently at Shanghai.
THE Massachusetts rife team contested
with the Honorable Artillery Company at
rifle shooting in London, England. The
American team won by q score Of 1918 to
961. The contest took place at the Nunhead
Range.
MILLET's great masterpiece, the ''Angelus,"
is to remain in France. It was purchased
for the Louvre by Anton Proust, the French
Paris for the enormous sum of S11060O The
highest American bid for the painting was
$4,000.