Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-08-21
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ALASKA contains six volcanoes
NEVADA has only Il, 900 voters.
SMALLPOX is raging in Honduras.
THERE is a case of leprosy in Chicago.
DISASTROUS floods are reported in India.
FEsUvIUs is again in a state Of eruption.
PILL~BoX lids circulate as money in Chilli.
GRAssHoPPERs are damaging crops in
Ohio
The Alabama cottonis being damaged by
worms.
KANSAS had the coolest anl wettest July
in twenty years.
BRITISH money is said to be fighting Bal
maceda in Chill.
THE wheat crop of Oklahoma is pro-
nounced failure.
DROUGHT and bugs have done great harm
to crops in Wisconsin.
THE settlement OF Hebrews on unoccupied
landin Italy is proposed.
THE Farmers Alliance people OF Kansas
are to hold camp meetings.
CUSTOMS receipts in July were SIS, 46S, 153,
against S33 953, 1856 last year.
THE corn and cotton crops in Mississippi
have been damaged by floods
FARM property in Kansas has doubled in
value since the wheat harvest
MACON (Ga.l dealers have been shipping
watermelons direct to Liverpool.
THE new Weather Bureau chief proposes
to appoint twenty local forcasters.
MILLIONS OF worms are destroying the
hemlock trees In Potter County, Penn.
CoLoREp men in the South are fockinS
into the Alliance fold by the thousands
ARRIVALS from Newfoundland report
| that actual starvation exists along the west
| coast
CHESTNUTS may be expected In abund-
ance this fall as the trees are laden with
blossoms.
THE exports from Italy to the United
States for the year ending June 80 amounted
TO S23, $780, 900.
MORMON missionaries in Southern Cali
| forna have made several notable conyer-
sions in polygamy.
| ACCORDING to latest reports the present
year will be the most prosperous ever known
to Kansas farmers.
BUT 322 miles of railroad have been built
since january l. a heavy decrease from the
figures Of last year.
THE Health Commissioner at Milwaukee,
Wis, reports that the city was never SO dirty
and never so healthy as at present.
THE fourth centennial of the discovery of
| America is to be celebrated at Genoa, Italy,
the birthplace Of Columbus, with many fes.
! tivties.
A COLONY of 1903 citiz,ns Of other States
are settled at Sioux Falls South Dakota, to
take advantage of the easy divorce laws Of
that State.
WITHIN the next two months il is expected
that the large crops will use up every avail
able freight car, thus causing famine of
cars especially for the transportation of
coal
COMPETENT authority has computed
that the present indications point to the
largest yield of cotton on record, one of the
factors in New Orleans placing it at 1900, =
O0O bales.
FRANCE has prohibited the working o
railroad firsmen and engineers over twelve
hours day.
The farmers in New England are offering
s25 per month and board for laborers, an
cannot secure them.
For carrying marble blocks on their head
from the quarries, Italian women receiv
twenty-five cents per day. They are now o
, strike to get three cents more.
GENERAL BoorH, OF the Salvation Arm.
who sailed recently for South Africa froI
! Southampton, intends, it is said, to organii
companies of the Salvation Army among tt
Zulus and afterward to import them as a
/ excellent exhibit of a Salvation Arm
triumph to the United States and Gre
\ | Britain.