The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THERE are ESQ creameries in Iowa.
TENNESSEE has nearly 400 convicts.
ITALY has five battle ships Of 1900 tons.
Work has stopped on the Panama canal.
CHILL has prohibited Chinese immigration.
THE Paris Exhibition will be opened May 5.
HONOLULU, Hawaii, is now lighted by
electricity.
FLOODS prevail in tho vicinity Of Adriano-
pie, Turkey.
TEXAS has forty nine county seats destitute
of gospel preaching.
THE Indian population Of the Canadian
Dominion is 1859.
DURING 1855 eighty people perished by
poison in New York city.
SNowsToRMs of a severe nature have been
prevalent in North China.
THE London Times is ssid to have lost
$500, 900 by its Parnel fight
PEvNsYLvANIANs are talking about build
ing new $1,000 900 Capitol.
SWEDEN now furnishes the largest number
of immigrants to this country.
TEXAS has passed law prohibiting the
carrying of concealed weapons
GROWING and shipping oysters is becoming
lively business at Pensacola, Fla.
RUSSIA mas COnCluuSQ u lOdl VI S11O,ooo,
900 with the Rothschilds and others.
OUT of less than 112,00J Fijians over 1OO,-
600 are attendants Oh Christian worship.
ABOUT one-half of the paper money cir
culated in South America is counterfeit
A NEW Buddhist temple, to cost upward of
$3,OOO,000, is to be erected in Kioto, Japan.
THE missionary contributions Of all British
societies for the last year amount to 81, l43,-
195.
THE New York Fire Department had forty
six men killed and 30O Injured at fires last
year.
THERE are 1125 buildings in Philadelphia
which are now lighted by incandescent
lights.
The total number Of American citizens re-
siding in China is 1922, of whom sos are mis-
sionaries.
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.
Noless than fifteen boys have been drowned
this season at Pawtucket, X. l., while skatlne
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 ut the Paris Exposition for the dis-
play of his most important Inventions.
TIE United States Grand Jury at Indian
apois has been dismissed after bringing III
lty indictments for violations of the election
laws.
TIE eight.year. 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 50, 600 yearly
to Austria and q similar amount to hungary
for the relief of tradesmen IN danger Of
financial ruin.
THE cotton returns of tho Department of
Agriculture make the average close of pick
inc 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 horss into
q gambling dive where some of her cowboys
were being cheated in crooked game. Sho
s,held up" the gamblers, took her $500 out
of their pile and divided the rest among her
boys.
JOSEPH BENT. life convict in the Massa-
chusetts State Prison who had already served
twenty-five years for the killing of sailor
on an American whaling vessel in 1854. was
pardoned by Cleveland Bent is Portu-
euese, seYenty.nine years old.