Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-29
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

RUSSIA has %, $40 army officers.
THE Indiana State Treasury is empty.
THERE is no taxing of land in Alaska.
The city of Pisa is virtually bankrupt.
FLOODS prevail in the west Of England.
WHITE CAPS have appeared in Canada.
CLEVELAND Ohio has female frs-bug.
ITALIAN emigration to Brazil continues.
OUR navy is commanded by 1914 officers.
Boston is becoming great frog market.
NEW ministry has been formed in Peru.
The farmers are sowing wheat in Dakota.
FRANCE has the largest number of vessels.
RAMIE culture is a new Southern indus
try.
CLUB life is on the increase in New YorA
city.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts are due this
year.
SUICIDE is greatly on the increase in
France
THERE are 1900 policemen in the City of
Mexico.
The pig iron output is nearly 10000 tons
per week.
The country is in remarkably healthy
condition.
ABOUT 5000 to 10, 900 miles of road will be
laid this year.
The State telegraphs in England still fail
to meet expenses.
THE American Spool and Bobb1n Trust
has gone TO pieces.
THE Car is delighted with the abdication
of Milan of SerVla.
The yield of lumber in Minnesota is very
short for the season.
FIFTY colored men are studying for the
priesthood in Rome.
NEW YORK is now the largest mahogany
market in the world.
GATE, CITY, Ala, has the largest limestone
quarry in the country.
THE Nihilists are again becoming trouble
some in st. Petersburg.
CANADA will have surplus of $780, 600
for the present fiscal year.
The number Of men in the German i'm.
perial navy is about 1900.
THERE will be over 14OO American exhibit
tors at the Paris Exposition.
WESTERN-GROWN corn is being shipped in
large quantities to the South.
THE projected rapid transit system in New
York city will cost $3O, OOO,OOO.
THE Panama canal is navigable to Chagres,
fifteen miles in from Aspinwall.
The assessed valuation of real estate in
Now York city is 1902, S18,S79.
THE name of Paso del Norte, Mexico, has
been officially changed to Juarez.
THE Colombian Government is buying up
its bonds at $75 and $50 on the 800.
NORTHERN sportsmen in Florida are COM
planning of the scarcity Of alligators
The ground squirrel is becoming a de-
structive pest to California fruit-growers.
SIX Generals of the Bavarian army have
resigned in consequence of court quarrels.
A BANQUET has been rendered to ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland by New York business men.
ACCOUNTS of the winter wheat now re-
ceived from the West are highly favorable.
ALL the Maine cities and towns must now
supply their school children with free text
books.
The Vanderbilt party recently travelled
112 miles in Ill minutes on the Michigan
Central Road.
TEN MILLIONS will be spent to build town
wharves, depots and ships on the eastern
coast of Nova Scotia.
THE Woman Suffrage bill has been de-
feated in the Massachusetts, Legislature for
the twenty-frst time.
SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND tons of asphalt
have been found in Utah. and Eastern capt.
talistS have secured it.
q THERE is a heavy exodus of people to
Dakota, caused by the possible opening OF
10000. 900 acres of Sioux land.
The first submarine telephone cable
about thirty miles long-is to be laid between
Buenos Ayres and Montevideo.
MANY California vineyardists intend this
season to dry their grapes instead OF selling
them at low rates to wlnemakers.
Two HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT varieties
of palms are in Mr.. Jay Gould's conserva-
tories at Irvington- on the-Hudson.
THE Michigan Legislature has passed the
bill to allow women to vote for and hold the
office of School Inspector in Detroit.