Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-10
NEWsY WEANINGs.

ENGLAND has SOC, 600 velocipedists-
a NEW Atlantic cable Is proposed.
RAILROAD earnings are increasing.
THE apricot crop is reported short.
DELAWARE has adopted $500 saloon
license.
THERE are thirty-seven brands OF cham
payne
THE Philadelphia police force consists Of
1865 men.
UNwoNTED activity in tree planting pre-
walls.
MEXICO has about five thousand miles Of
railroad.
THERE are 29O churches in Chicago.
STEEL rails are quoted at 81 per ton.
CATTLE are selling at 80 a piece in Nevada
THERE is an abundance of maple sugar.
NEW YORK city has 5000 Chinese residents
TEXAS is exporting large numbers Of swine
to Mexico.
THE Panama Canal won the first )rize In
its own lottery.
The biggest mine in the world is under
the Aspan Mountain, Col.
THE dog tax adds $50, 900 year to Con-
nechcuts Treasury.
Claus Spreckles the California Sugar King,
is said to have a corner on the crop.
No fewer than 1000 horses are slaughtered
yearly in the market Of Berlin.
PARNELL's action in the Irish courts
against the London Times has been cam
celled.
THE Maine is the heaviest vessel of the new
navy at present contracted for.
MEXICO has nearly fourteen thousand
miles of telegraph lines.
THE Catholic church in Australia has s0O-
600 communicates
IT is estimated that there are 10000 more
women in Washington than men.
THE new cruiser Chicago has been put in
commission.
GOVERNOR NICHOLS, of Louisiana, has
issued quarantine proclamation.
THERE will be only two-t thirds of the usual
crop Of peanuts harvested this year.
YELLOW FEVER is still raging in Rio Ja-
metro, Brazil the deaths reaching 100 per
day.
THE Roman Catholic population of the
United States is s. 157,676.
In Saxony there is one suicide to every
8446 people.
A LARGE decrease of Chinese immigration
into British Columbia is reported.
THERE are eighty-one banks on the tax
books of New York city, with %, 262 share
holders.
THE Salvation Army has abandoned Ber-
lin, the officers in charge having discovered
that the city lis not yet ripe for salvation"
THE entire Ohio oil district is producing
about 5000 barrels daily, on an average Of
300 barrels to 100-acre tract.
The whole number of members of Baptist
churches in the United States is given as
1921, 1914
CATS are being shipped to Dakota by the
carload, owing to plague of mice in the
granaries.
TWELVE Western railroads have suffered
loss in the values of their stocks since last sum-
mer of 1921, 0OO 600,
The COrean Government has placed an or
der in America for fifteen field pieces $500
rifles and 20, 900 shells.
A FEW weeks ago the Minnesota Legisla-
ture passed the law excluding dressed meat.
The market price of beef in Duluth has since
that time advanced twenty-five per cent.
A HERD of about 300 goats were sold by
the station agent at San Angelo, Texas to
pay freight charges. They brought thirty
five cents per head.
The land of dazzling promises, the Argen-
tine Republic, to which the Government has
been bringing shiploads Of immigrants at
great cost, is as yet unable to maintain its
new population. dozen families of coal
miners who went there from France have
been sent back by their Consul, and they say
there are 10, 900 Frenchmen there now who
cannot find work and are starving.
THE rabbit drives in Fresno County, Cal,
are DISCRIMINATING the pests which year ago
seemed likely to drive the settlers from their
lands. Two thousand people recently went
over ground where a year ago they would
have corraled three or four thousand rabbits
and $50 were all they caught Going over
the ground again but a single rabbit was
found.
THERE are 1900 persons of the name Of