Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

INDIANA's finances are low.
Iowa is to have q fruit palaces.
IMMIGRATION does not slacken.
INFLUENZA is epidemic in Iceland.
THERE are 40, 321 physicians in Japan.
THE corn crop is very good in the South.
THE drought in Kansas has been broken.
GEoRGIA's crops will surpass those Of last
year.
THERE are 19,7oO acres of sorghum in
Kansas.
MEXICO has just borrowed $4o, 900 900 in
Europe.
THE city of Hamburg has a surplus OF
s., $50, 600.
CANADA has a surplus amounting TO
s., 903, 4O1.
THE wheat yield is now estimated at 49,
600, 900 bushels
THE dog population OF New York is esti-
mated at %, O0O
THE English wheat crop will be the worst
for many years.
ALMOST "a, 600 Frenchmen belong to the
Legion of Honor.
THOMAS A. EDISON took out eight patents
during recent week.
THE balance Of trade is now quite heavily
In favor Of this country.
THE financial panic in South America il
reported to be suhsiding.
THE Italians in this city will erect $780,
900 statue to Columbus in 1892.
THE wheat crop ofEngland has been badly
damaged by wind and rain storms.
THE long distance telephone Is making its
way rapidly everywhere in Europe.
NEW SOUTH WALES will shortly INTRODUCES
penny postage throughout the colony.
CELLULoID manufacturers have formed q
trust with capital stock of %, 100000.
COTTON is advancing in price, and cotton4
seed is worth more now than year ago.
Four pearls found in a river near Galena,
ILL.,, were sold to a jeweler in Chicago for
$500.
QUITE a number of new banks have been
opened in the South within the past sixty
days.
ABOUT 1900 miles of new railroads were
built In the United States the first six months
Of this year.
THE new German Army bill will add S45,~
900, 900 to the annual expenditure OF the
Government.
DURING the last two months there have
been AS cases of cholera In Spain. Or these
PSI have been fatal.
NEVER in the history Of the cattle business
has there been such a wholesale slaughter OF
calves as is now going on.
The visible supply Of peanuts is 400, 900
bushels, against 900, 600 last year at this date.
and the year before 1, 100000.
SHARPERs have been swindling the farmers
of Central Illinois by innoculating swine with
bogus remedy Sor hog cholera.
THERE will be no fair in North Dakota this
season. the Legislature having failed to make
an appropriation therefor.
IT is reported that the new census viii show
400, 900 commercial travellers in this country:
At the last census there were 100000.
MANY settlers are leaving Oklahoma
where they say everything Is burning up
and the crops will be almost total fall
ure.
ADMISSION, Ala, in population since tina
last census, has gained HOO per cent, or, in
Guiding two large suburbs, about 1000 per
cent.
THE population Of Laredo has increased at
a greater rate than that Of any other Texan
town. In 1880 it was 1900, and now 1t Is
II, 500
THE largest contingent of recruits ever
demanded by the Russian War Office, 27O, OOOf
was fixed for the next enrolment by the
latest ukase.
HEAVY shipments of raw material and
merchandise are coming over Southern roads
into Northern markets, averaging 1000 car
loads per day.
A STATEMENT prepared by the Pension
Bureau shows that out Of the 1854 clerks
now employed in that bureau 233 are now
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THE extent Of the territory acquired by
England in Africa, under the agreement with
Germany, is estimated by Henry NJ. Stanley,
at $50 600 square miles, besides the protec-
torate of Zanzibar.
THERE are now about coo Protestant
Chinese converts in Picking China, one
fourth of whom are Presbyterians- In all
China there about 10000 Protestant and
100, 600 Catholic converts
THE Chinese Government, as a consequence
Of the recent resignation Of Admiral Lang,
an ex-British naval officer, declares that
hereafter it will never confer upon any for
eigner real authority IN the navy,
THE wife of Randall Smith. a farmer In
Conecuh County, Ala, recently gave birth
to twins On the same night one OF the
Smith COWS gave birth TO twin calves and a
mare to twin cots. The three sets OF twins
are all doing well
THE average daily paw Of locomotive en-