Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-04
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THERE are now 10, 600 Mormons in Utah
Territory.
THE Belgian Exhibition in London next
year will open on April Is.
THE gold export from the Cape and Natal
South Africa, during August amounted to
100000
THERE is building in a shipyard in Maine
what is said to be the largest clipper ship in
the world.
A COMPANY has been organized at Daven-
port, Iowa, for the object of building a
81, 900 900 union passenger depot.
STRAY dogs are seized in Birmingham
England, and after being poisoned are Gre
mated in a furnace at the rate of fifty q
day.
THE Parliament of Sweden has passed a
law prohibiting the importation of OleO-
margarine and restricting its manufacture
at home
THERE are eleven grain elevators in ST
Louis, with an aggregate value of 81 900, OOO
They have all been consolidated under a sin
gle management.
4 SERIES Of tOrrential rain storms and
floods in the southern provinces Of Russia
has isolated several villages by making the
roads imDaSSable
ALONDON journal states shirts of chain ar
NOR, which cost about $500, are now worn by
more than one distinguished person on the
continent OF Europe.
THE DiscOnte GeseIlschaft, in conjunction
with another influential bank in Hamburg
are about to issue a Chinese loan to the
amount of $40, 600 900.
THE first lot of ivory that has been i'm
ported into Belgium direct from the Congo,
Central Africa, has just been sold at Antwerp
and realized very high prices.
NJ. DE FREYCINET the French statesman,
has issued a commission to inquire into the
Residences of employing swallows to carry
war messages i'll lieu of carrier pigeons.
IN some parts of the West hundreds Of
artesian wells have been sunk, each yielding
large flow of water at depth'Of 1000 feet
The water is utilized to run mills and fac
tories.
The Gar has new train of cars to travel
in. The cars are connected with each other
by veStlbuleS, so that he can pass from one to
another without being seen from the out.
side, and they are covered with iron and
cork.
A MEMPHIS policeman, who was called on
to shoot dog, managed TO hit bOv in the
leg man in the foot and horse in the
head, and, while he was scattering two OF
three more bullets along the street. the dog
trotted off.
The colony of Pitcairn Island numbers 12C
people, all related by blood or marriage
and the amount of money circulating among
them has never been above $50. The one
who gets hold OF $50 of this is considered a
mllnasnalrS,
THE crews of the German men-of wal
Adler and Eber, which were wrecked in the
Samoa hurricane have arrived at Kiel Ger
many. Prince Henry, in an address tol0
them that they had nobly performed Their
duty in Samoa, showing themselves brave
sons of the Fatherland.
The Congo Railway, in Africa, is to be be-
gun at once nearly the whole of the capital
having been subscribed Probably the Congo
State will ask the Belgian Government to
grant an annual subsidy of $780, 900 for ten
years. until the enterprise can pay its way.
MISS SALLIE L. BULL, of Alaska. has been
appointed copyist in the Interior Department
at W ashington on certificate from the Civil
Service Commission. Miss Bull is the first
person ever appointed to the department
service from Alaska.