Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-26
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ITALY has seventy-one vessels.
MISSISSIPPI has 80, 800 horses
THE British navy has 327 vessels.
A SILK syndicate has been formed
THE Mexican Congress has opened
LONDON has upward Of Il 600 policemen
WE have standing army of %, 900 men
THE Treasury of Quebec, Canada, is empty.
DICKINSON COUNTY, Kan, has a cat ranch.
THE stock of petroleum is Il, COO 900 barrels.
ENGLAND's -four trust has fallen through.
NATURAL GAS is being found in Arkansas.
TIE total Mormon population of Utah IS
153, 911.
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 800
per acre.
THE cotton crop of 1855 was the largest
ever made.
& CHINA has only 1913 inhabitants to the
square mile.
THE farms of Ohio are mortgaged for
1915 600, 900.
THE Russians are building grain elevators
on the Black Sea.
a CHINAMAN has been lecturing in favor Of
prohibition in Minnesota.
SOUTHERN lumber manufacturers have or
gained and put up prices.
THERE was never e 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
a very large 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 the New England
forests has been ain unusually short one.
WILLIAM GLASS, of Verndale, Mimi. re-
Gently ate five dozen eggs IN thirty minutes.
MExICOs exhibit in the Paris Exposition
will include Il, 900 specimens of minerals of
various kinds.
GENERAL BOULANGER has made applica-
ton to the Swiss Government for permission
to reside in Geneva.
SEVERAL people have gone insane at Vic
toria British Columbia, victims of the Saliva
ton army excitement.
THE tobacco crop of Kentucky, which is
being put on the market, amounts to
nearly 300, 100000 pounds.
SEVERAL young clergymen have been
caught stealing Dr. Talmage's sermons and
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 debt of North Carolina has been re-
duced from S1S,277, 600 to 81, 13O 600, and the
latter amount is now being refunded in new
4 per cents
SIXTEEN THOUSAND acres Of Government
homesteads and prescriptions have been
taken by eager settlers at Great Falls, Mon
tana, since January LIST.
The United States Government, as a re-
ward for his faithful services has enrolled
dams in W yoming, as a Government scout,
with the pay of a regular soldier.
By an almost unanimous and a very en-
thusiastic vote the Farmers Alliance of Geor-
gia, representing 80 600 farmers resolved that
they would use cotton bagging for the baIing
of their cOttOn-and would not use jute I'M
der any circumstances.
HAVING taught himself Latin and written
a creditable translation of the first six books
Of Virg1S ''LEneid," EraStus Richardson, a
Pawtucket (R. H. bookkeeper, has now car
RED out similar method of training in music,
by learning the use OF violin and then max