The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-22
NEWSY GLEANIN GS.
HOG cholera Is prevalent In Iowa.
Tar ErpIish fruit crop Is a failure.

Hoe cholera Is prevalent AloHa:
The English fruit crop Is failure.
The population of Cincinnati is $500.
VERMONT is the only State to report full
top crop.
PREPARE for bitter cold winter, say the
weather prophets.
SEVEN or eight Texas colored men are
worth 500, 900 each.
OVER 10000 bills were introduced in Con.
gress ct the last session.
THERE are thirty-nine theosophical soci-
eties in the United States.
Pennsylvania produces one-half OF the
coal mined In tho United States.
RICH petroleum fields have been discov.
cred In the State Of Tobasco, Mexico
THE assessed valuation OF Spokane Falls,
Washington, is $40, ,0O0, ,00O above that OF last
year.
THE Turks have become alarmed over the
massing Of Russian troops on the Armenian
frontier.
EIGHTEEN carloads Of bottled catchup were
shipped recently from Cincinnati to Chicago
and st. Louis.
RUSSIA has ordered six torpedo vessels and
200, coo rifles Of the latest pattern from French
manufacturers.
The four leading candidates upon the Re.
publican ticket In Massachusetts, are sons OF
New Hampshire.
The fruit shipments from California to
the East this year will reach 10, 900 carloads,
or 200, 900, 900 pounds.
ENGLAND is about to establish a fortress al
Port Said. This will give her possession Of
both ends Of the Suez canal
< MANUFAcrUR1Nd city modelled after
Pullman, H., Is to bs built On 5000 acres oi
land adjacent to Minneapolis.
DROUGHT and hot winds have ruined the
crops in North Dakota, and there Is great
destitution among the settlers.
CARAVANS that enter the Soudan ore plum
dered by the natives to obtain food, as thou
sands are dying Of starvation.
The condition of the potato crop, accord
ing to Statistician Dodge, is 65.7, or the low.
est average ever before reported.
THE cotton crop Of Georgia is expected tx
be at least TWENTY-FIVE per cent. short thi
year on account Of the heavy rains.
MORE than 5000, 900 pieces Of mail matter
are sent annually to the Dead Letter Office
1t is daily average Of 10000 pieces.
Ell Sol, the largest steamer ever con
ctructed in the United States, was launched,
afew days ago, at Cramps's shipyards, Phil
ndelphia.
THE New York City Postofice is self sus
tanning, its profit amounting during the last
fiscal year to the tolerably pleasant sum oi
IS. 3.753,0G0.
PHYSICAL education has been suspended in
tie New York city public schools this yeai
from lack of an appropriation necessary for
the purpose.
IT is claimed that it takes about fifteen
pounds more of spring wheat from the croE
Of 1890 to make barrel of -four than it die
from the crop of 1889.
CHINA has secured SO much of the trans
Baikal trade in Siberia that the Governor OF
the district has petitioned Russia to prohibit
the immigration Of Chinese.
The number of pension claims already
filed under the new Dependent Pension law
mas reached IA, 01S and they arc increasing
ut the rate Of about Is, 900 week.
A MAJORITY of the South American gov.
ments have signifed their support of the
project for all international exhibition at
Genoa, Italy, in 1892 to celebrate the dis
covery Of America.