Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-11
Foreign.

THE Abban Flour Mills at Waltham. Eng
land, have been burned. The loss is S45O,0OO.
THE death of General Loris off, the
well-knOwn Russian officer, is re. ted from
Nice. General Melikoff was born in 1924.
DEsERTERs from the rebel fc~"e at Suakin
Egypt, report that there are m~ly wounded
Arabs III Handoub. Osman Digna, is send
ing his women to Erymeit preparatory to
retreating to the Nile. The friendly Sheiks
strongly urge the British authorities to adj
vance upon Handoub
THE new drill in which the German nfan-
try has been exercised for some time is now
considered to have been thoroughly tested.
Military experts are unanimous in it's praise.
THE British steamer Storm Queen has
foundered in the Bay of Biscay, off the
Spanish coast. Her Captain and five other
persons were drowned.
MONsIGNOR MACCHI, of Rome, has been
created Cardinal by the Pope.
THE Russian budget for 1889 shows sur
plus income of 81 10000
HON. LAMBERT TREE, who was recently
transferred from the United States Lega-
ton in Belgium to that in st. Petersburg,
Russia, has arrived at his new post
AT meeting in Paris of four thousand
bondholders of the Panama Canal Company,
a resolution was unanimously adopted ex
pressing confidence in M. de Lesseps, and
volunteering to forego the interest on coupons
and the redemption OF bonds until the canal
spent two years at the Panama works, de-
clared that the canal could be finished at the
longest in three years, with an outlay Of
$4,000, 900.
The bursting OF shell in one of the
fOrtresses of Messina, Sicily, exploded a
powder magazine, killing sixteen soldiers and
lnjuring many others.
The annual report of the Minister of Gus
toms shows that the exports of Canada dur
ing the fiscal year. ending June 30 were
$50, $50, 600 and the imports Sill ,OO0,0 900, the
largest balance Of trade against Canada since
the Dominion was formed.
WEBB BRANDON, who killed his wife while
drunk, has been hanged at Winnipeg, Mani
tOba.
FIRE destroyed most of the village of Del
oraine, in Canada The total loss is about
500. 600
PRINCE KARAGEORGEVITCH, brother of the
pretender to the Servian throne, is dead.
His immense fortune goes to his brother.
THE hangman of Minas- Geraes, Brazil.
has died after service of forty-eight years.
This interesting individual was condemned
to death, with his father and mother, in
1885, but learning that the office of public
hangman was vacant offered himself on con-
dition of Communication CT his penalty to i'm
prisOnment for life. His offer was accepted
and his debut in his functions as executor of
high justice was made in the hanging of his
own parents.
A REBELLION mas broken our IN the au
country in Upper Burmah. The prisoners
in the Shwebo Jail, in Burmah, recently
made an attempt to escape. Several We're
killed and three wounded.
A BOY named John Gill has been afro
ciously murdered and mutilated at Bradford
England. His legs and arms had been
chopped off in a rough manner and tied to
his body, his ears had been cut off, there
were two knife wounds in his chest and his
heart and entrails had been torn out. The
Whitechapel tiend is believed to have COM
mitted the crime.