The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-17
N.EWSY GLEANINGS.
SCOTLAND has a gold fever.


SCARLET FEVER is raging in Chicago.
JAPAN wants more doctors and dentists.
TEEY have friedrich trust in England.
THERE are several goat ranches in Texas.
THE University of Berlin has $3.50 students
WILD geese are numerous in South Dakota.
THERE are 5000 Chinese in New York
city.
GERMANY has 224 inhabitants to the square
mile.
Iowa has fifty-fve jails without an in
mate.
STRIKES are spreading throughout Ger
many.
THERE are 1856 Browning clubs in this
country.
A COAL mine trust of the United Kingdom
Is proposed,
The Straits of Mackinaw are already open
for navigation.
The Pope's fainting fits have become more
frequent Of late.
WILD ducks are swarming on the Kauka-
kee ill., marshes.
Z THE taxable property of Missouri aggre-
gates $3.50, lSl, 49,.
ABOUT S,G0O,0 900 acres will soon be added to
the public domain.
CHINA and Corea have arrived at an ami
cable understanding.
CANADA proposes to have another trans
continental railroad.
THE estimate OF the total ice harvest OF
Maine is l,l7l,0)o tons
THE. British Government will lay cable
fromSermuda to Halifax.
The Australian wheat crop has fallen
short Of the estimated product.
I HYDE C0UNr-, Dakota, farmers have or
ganized a hail insurance company.
OF the GOOOO) barrels annual product of
cotton seed oil, 10, 900 go into lard.
PEOPLE in China. oppressed by famine,
are selling their children to buy fool.
TIE famo1s Vcrrugas Railroad bridge in
Peru has been swept away by great flood.
VANILLA plants ars selling in Papantla,
Vera Cruz, Mexico, at from s1o to $50 per
1860
NEARLY $1,000 people went up the Wash
inston Monument elevator at inauguration
tim,.
TIE population of the Province Of Quebec,
Canada, has fallen of ,340 in the past five
years.
THE British gunboat Spider, which was tc
SoNIA
failure.
COLUMBUS, Ga, levies tax of ten cents
on each dressed carcass sold within the city
limits
TIE great stallion Prince Wilkes has been
sold to a gentleman of Buenos Ayres for
$S0,O)0.
THERE have been six defaications in the
government of Hoboken, n. j., within a.
many years.
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN prisoners escaped
recently from the Zacatlan Jail, state o.
Puebla, Mexico. &.
DURING the past two years 81, 4l2,0J9 oi
the national debt Of Honduras has oesn pald
and only s7712, $50 remains.
FARMERS in the Northwest are sowing
with frosted wheat, as experiments nave
lately dem 2nstrated its value.
THE losses of the exploded Partisan copper
syndicate are stated at $50. 0Jo,OOl All the
authors of the syndicate are ruined.
GERMANY has accede1 to the request OF
France for the transfer OF the remains ol
Generals Carnot and Marcsau to France.
A PERMANENT association is to bs formed
in New York to widen the field of trade will
Spanish American States and compete will
Europe.
THE State Of Massa chusetts has granted 6
charter to the Meigs Elevated Railroad
Company, which will build an elevated road
in Boston.
BARNUM's HOTEL, Baltimore, opened i,
1925, and which Charles Dickens said wa.
the best hostslry in America, is to be sold
and closed
GOLD in large quantities is said to hav
been discovered on the Sweet Grass Hills
Montana, and adventurers are Hooking ther
in great numbers.
AN examination of the books of the bank
rups Reading PENN iron works shows tina
the company instead Of having made prof;
of s60O, go in the last four years, had sustaine:
an annual loss Of S2jj,Ool
The poor of the District OF Columbii
profted s26 OOO by the Inauguration of Gen
eral Harrison, as check for tnas sum thf
excess of receipts over e1penses has beer
turned over for their bsnsft