Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-07
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

1tsON Is GOWN a OO1Iar.
BALTIMORE has 5000 saloons.
OKLAHOMA is practically settled.
SWEDEN has 5000 miles of railway.
The rainy season in Mexico has begun.
WE are to have a new Chinese Minister.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts have appeared.
AMERICA has 10, 900 electric motors in use.
BRAZIL is preparing for war with Bolivia.
Iowa has IS 900 mules, valued at 81, 000 600.
GREAT BRITAIN is to have 147 torpedo
boats.
BREADsTUFFs are tending downward in
price.
GoPHERs are becoming terrible pest in
Iowa.
THERE is great shortage in tobacco
plants.
ANARCHISTS are fomenting trouble in Lom-
hardy.
INDIA wheat is lower in the English
markets.
THERE are now 5000, 900 Baptists in this
country.
THE domestic hemp crop is only 10, 900 tons
annually
Irish coast.
THE Buddhists claim $40, OeO 900 adherents
in the world.
THERE are upward of $4,000 club men in
New Y ork city.
THERE are 200, 900 people engaged in farm
ing in Oregon.
IMMIGRATION to this country seems to be
on the increase.
THERE are over 10000 locomotives in use
In North America.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has been inspecting
West Point Academy.
THE admission to the Paris Exposition is
twenty cents per day.
A WELL of turpentine has been discovered
In Laurens County, Ga.
THE Florida vegetable growers are having
avery prosperous season.
THE outlook is now generally good for
crops throughout the West.
DAKOTA has a gold rush to new placers
forty miles from Deadwood.
THE Pacific coast wheat crop this year is
estimated at 100, 000 900 bushels
On July the State Treasurer will pay the
last dollar of the Iowa State debt.
THE rice output in the Indies is reported
90S, 800 bags short of last year.
BOOMERS are gathering in Dakota await
ing the opening of the Sioux reservation.
CHICAGO has twenty police stations, 1145
policemen and 113 miles Of street railroad.
THE signs of Broadway, New York, run to
brass and are said to have cost $50, 600, 600.
APPO1NTMENTS IOT census bureau
be made without reference to Civil Service
rules.
SIXTEEN contested election cases will be
fought out in the next House of Representa-
tives.
DETROIT is the best electrically lighted city
in the country. 1t has 1876 towers and 121
poles.
OVER 1000 Mormon men, women and chill
dren are said to be migrating from Utah to
Idaho.
WIDESPREAD plot against the Car Of
Russia has been discovered among military
officers.
IT is claimed that Iowa leads all the States
in the number of its hogs, having over four
millions.
NEW style Of sword, just introduced into
the German army for the use of officers, is
straight.
The gamblers of Louisiana have offered TO
pay the State debt-S12, 900, OOO-for fifty
year lease.
IN the army operations of the year the
most important work will be done by France
and Germany.
VEIN of graphite 300 feet long by about
four and half feet wide has been discovered
at st. Joseph No.
a MONUMENT to German Confederates was
dedicated at Charleston. S. c., recently and
United States Senator Wade Hampton made
a speech.
FRENCHMES abroad. who have left France
without performing their military service,
may visit the Paris Exposition this year
without fear of arrest.
GREAT BRITAIN has sixty-seven war ships
of various sizes building and completing in
the dock yards and private yards. Sixty
three out of the sixty-seven viii be ready for
commission in eighteen months.