Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THERE are $50 creameries in Iowa.
TENNESSEE has nearly 400 convicts.
ITALY has five battle ships of 1900 tons.
WORK has stopped on the Panama canal.
Chilli has prohibit I'd Chinese immigration
THE Paris Exhibition will be opened May s.
HONOLULU Hawaii is now lighted by
electricity.
FLOODS prevail in the vicinity Of Adriano,
pie, Turkey.
TEXAS has forty nine county seats destitute
of gospel preaching.
The Indian population of the Canadian
Dominion is 125, $50
DURING 1888 eighty people persisted by
poison in New York city.
SNOWsToRMs of a severe nature have been
prevalent in North China.
THE London Times is said to have lost
$500, 900 by it's Parnell fight.
PENNSYLvANIANs are talking about build
ing q new s., 900 900 Capitol.
SWEDEN now furnishes the largest number
of immi grants to this country.
TENAS has passed law prohibiting the
carrying of concealed weapons.
GROWING and shipping oysters IS becoming
a lively business at Pensacola, Fla
RUSSIA has concluded a loan of S14O, O0O,-
600 with the Rothschlds and others.
OUT of less than I12,OOJ Fijians oyer lOO,-
600 are attendants on Christian worship.
ABOUT one-half of the paper money cir
culated in South America is counterfeit.
A NEW Buddhist temple, to cost upward of
5000 900, is to be erected i'll Kioto, Japan.
THE missionary contributions of all British
societies for the last year amount to st, 143, =
795.
THE New York Fire Department had forty
six men killed and 800 Injured at fires last
year.
THERE are 1926 buildings in Philadelphia
which are now lighted by incandescent
lights.
The total number Of American citizens
siding in China is 1922, of whom 500 are mis-
SOnareS.
THE first shipment of tobacco grown in
Zanzibar, Africa, consisting of seventy boxes,
has been sent to Hamburg.
PENNSYLVANIA was first to fly the new
flag with forty two stars and it waves over
the Capitol at Harrisburg.
No less than fifteen boys have been drowned
this season at Pawtucket. r l., while skating
on thin ice around air holes.
The laws of the United States forbid the
importation of liquor into Alaska, yet Juneau
has twenty-five saloons in full blast.
THOMAS EDISON has taken 5000 square feet
of space at the Paris Exposition for the dis
play OF his most important Inventions
THE United States Grand Jury at Indian
apolis has been dismissed after bringing in
log indictments for violations of the election
laws.
THE eight-year-o old son of W. l. Freeman,
of Grand Rapids, Mich, tried to see how long
he could hold his breath, burst blood vessel
and died.
BARON HIRSCH has donated S24 600 yearly
to Austria and similar amount to Hungary
for the relief of tradesmen in danger of
financial ruin.
THE cotton returns Of the Department of
Agriculture make the average close Of pick
ing six days later than last year, on account
of later maturity and frequent rains.
WORRIED by the loss of $500 at the Capt.
tai of Wyoming, Mrs. Kate Maxwell, better
known as Cattle Kate rode her horse into
a gambling dive where some OF her cowboys
were being cheated in a crooked game. She
held up" the gamblers, took her $500 out
OF their pile and divided the rest among her
boys
JOSEPH BENT. a life convict in the Massa
chusetts State Prison who had already served
twenty-five years Tor the killing of a sailor
on an American whaling vessel in 1864. was
pardoned by Cleveland. Bent is a Portu-
gueSe, seventy nine years old.
Two children named Callahan, at Belmont,
Montana were burned to death and third
fatally injured. The mother had gone out
to procure some household supplies, when
the oldest held the cat against the fire and its
hair caught fire. IL ran under the sofa ami
the building was burned.