Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-04-26
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ITALY has seyenty-oGe vesselz
MISSISSIPPI has 80 399 horses.
THE British navy has 321 vessels
A. SILK syndicate has been formed.
The Mexican Congress has opened.
LONDON has upward of Il, 900 policemen.
WE have a standing army of %, 600 men.
The Treasury Of Quebec, Canada, is empty,
DICKINSON COUNTY, Kan, has a cat ranch.
THE stock Of petroleum is II ZOO, 900 barrels.
ENGLANDs -four trust has fallen through.
NATURAL GAS is being found in Arkansas.
THE total Mormon population of Utah is
1891.
ITALY has opened its universities to
women.
AN immense pine-straw trust has been or
gained.
LIBBY PRISON will soon be removed to
Chicago.
PINEAPPLE culture in Florida yields $500
per acre,
The cotton crop of 1888 was the largest
ever made.
CHINA has only 1913 inhabitants to the
square mile.
The farms Of Ohio are mortgaged for
$315, COO 900.
TIE Russians are building grain elevators
on the Black Sea-
A CHINAMAN has been lecturing III favor Of
prohibition in Minnesota.
SOUTHERN lumber manufacturers have or
ganized and put up prices.
THERE was never a season more favorable
for the flow of maple sap.
SIX juvenile heirs and heiresses have been
| abducted within five months
THE output of lumber this year will be
| twenty per cent less than last
THE range of observation from the top of
the Eiffel Tower is forty miles.
THERE are 1865 foreign offices at the dis
posal of the State Department.
RAILROAD companies statistics show that
! very largo business is being done.
The revolt against the Germans in East
| Africa is spreading among the natives
THE premium on gold in the Argentine Re.
public has reached sixty-four per cent
The logging season in tho New England
forests hes been an unusually short one.
WILLIAM GLASS, Of Verndale Mimi, re.
Gently ate five dozen eggs in thirty minutes.
MExco's exhibit in the Paris Exposition
viii include $4,000 specimens Of minerals OF
various kinds.
GENERAL BoULANGER has made applica.
ton to the Swiss Government Tor permission
to reside in Geneva.
SEVERAL people have gone insane at Vic
tora, British Columbia, victims of the Saliva
ton army excitement.
/ THE tobacco crop OF Kentucky, which is
now being put on the market, amounts tx
nearly 500, 00O001 pounds
SEVERAL young clargyueu have beer
caught stealing DR.. TamGges sermons, anC
new cases are reported almost daily.
Two Vermont hunters trapped last winter
near Bradford, over 100 foxes, on which they
received State bounty of fifty cents on
fox.
THE deb Of North Carolina has been re
duced from Els 2G1, GEO to 81, l30, coo, and The
latter amount is now being refunded in new
per cents.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND ccrCs Of Government
hOmesteads and prescriptions have been
taken hy eager settlers at Great Falls, Mon
tana, since January lst
The United States Government, as re
ward for his faithful services has enrolled
Washable the head chief of the Shoshone In
dams in Wyoming, as a Government scout
with the pay Of regular soldier,
BY an almost unanimous and a very en-
thusiastic vote the Farmers Alliance of Geor
gia, representing So 900 farmers, resolved tina
they would use cotton bagging for the balinl
Of their cotton-and would not use jute I'm
der any circumstances.
HAVING taught himself Latin and writer
a creditable translation of the first six book
of VirgiPs "HEneid" Erastus Richardson,
Pawtucket Or. ~ bookkeeper has now car
ried out similar method of training in music
by learning the use of violin and then max
ing an instrument on which TO play.