Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-02-28
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

BERLIN is now talking Of Worlds Fair
in 1897
THE wheat crop of Australia is estimated
at sc, 900, 600 bushels.
THERE were seventy suicides including
children, in Berlin during January.
THE railroads of Nebraska have consented
TO reduce the rates on corn ten per cent
THE confirmation of the Samoan treaty
was received with thegreatest satisfaction in
Germany.
AN attempt is to be made to import live
cattle into France from Buenos Ayres, Ar
gentine Republic.
THE expense involved in determining who
was elected Governor Of West Virginia was
more than $50, 600.
THERE are 400 516 unadjudicated and
pending claims now on file in the pension
Office at Washington.
THE raisin yield of California for 1889 is
estimated at 80 900, COO pounds, an increase of
100000 pounds over lsSS.
IT cost Massachusetts, little over 81, 900
to supply and distribute the official ballots at
the last election in that State
4 GLOUCESTER Mass schooner sailed re-
Gently on an experimental trip for the coast
OF Norway to engage in codfshinc
THE number of failui in the United
States last year was larger and the liabilities
greater than for any Of the previous five
years.
THE Chiapas Colonization and Develop
ment Company has planted SOO,GJO trees an
Mexico. The Government is anxious 20 fos-
ter this industry,
FRANCE has declined the invitation Of the
German Emperor to an International labor
conference, as she had already accepted
that Of Switzerland.
GOVERNOR BIGGs, of Delaware, saws the
talk about the peach crop being ruined is all
nonsense He considers the outlook for a big
crop better than usual.
THE distress from famine in some districts
Of China has reached such a point that girl
babies are taken in baskets and carried
around the cities for sale.
THE arrivals Of Chinese by the Canadian
Pacific Railway steamships from China III
British Columbia during The year 1889 were
800 less than the departures for China.
Fossil remains are being discovered in
large quantities i'll Florida \ citizen of
Orlando has i'll his possession an eShumed
tooth which weighs eight pounds and half.
THE population of the United Kingdom in
the middle of 1889 was estimated ut 81, SOS
SG persons-29 Ol5,6l3 in England and
Wales, 4,077 070 in Scotland and 4, 1l6, 2O9 i'll
ireland.
THE losses of cattle at sea reported for the
month Of January foot up nearly 1000 head,
and in addition to these a large number must
have reached port in bruised and damaged
condition.
THE London School Board, which looks
after the education of 5000 900 children, has
passed resolution in favor OF free schools
The policy is being vigorously opposed by the
Tories and the advocates of denominational
schools.
A RESOLUTION has been adopted in the Vir-
ginia Legislature, requesting the representa-
tives in Congress from that State to urge
the passage of the bill before said body,
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to
loan money to farmers at two per cent. in
terest.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has prepared statement showing that the
total collections from July l to December
81. 1889, were $69,077, $50, as compared with
S63, $40, 565 collected during the correspond
ing period of the previous year, being an in
crease of s., T61, ,267.