Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-01-16
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
CLOVER seed is going to be scarce.

CLOVER seed is going to be scarce.
OIL has been struck at Valparaiso, Ind:
The supply Of natural gas in Ohio is fall.
Ing.
THE value Of the European potato crop 4,
5000 000,000
WISCONSIN has large cranberry crop OF
good quality.
THE ice crop in Maine this year is estimated
at SIS 600 tons.
A GENUINE case of lcprosy is reported n,
Defiance, Iowa.
A LARGE acreage OF wheat has been sown
for this years crop.
The railroad>' pay-rolls for 1890 ware
nearly 500, OOO, 900.
VEIN Of salt 240 feet thick has been found
at kanopoiiS Kan.
AMERICAN corn will hereafter be admitted
duty free into Mexico.
THERE are thirty thousands cases OF the
grip in New Orleans, La.
The golden poppy has been selected as ths
State flower OF California.
CHICAGO has a canning company that Is
composed entirely Of women.
SUGAR beet factory, TO cost $40, 900, will
be built a. Pierre, South Dakota
MUCH of the corn grown in the West lasr
year was too soft to put into cribs.
THE Papal income for 1891 is estimated at
ii, 4OO, 900, and the expenses 81, 10000.
THE German Emperor will shortly make a
tour through France in strict incognito
PETROLEUM was struck in an artesian we'll
at a depth Of SIS feet at Chinook, Montana.
THERE is so much ice in the Antwerp BEL
giuml harbor that wooden shipping cannot
enter.
THERE were more suicides than ever last
gear at Monte Carlo, the European gambling
resort.
IT costs from 5000 to $1,000 to clear the
streets OF New York City after one snow
storm
EIGHT new monasteries are being built in
Barcelona, Spain, where thore are already
6fty-hvc.
AN army OF locusts is moving across sew.
eral districts OF Victoria, New South Wales,
causing great loss.
SAN Francisco has been without rain for
nine months. Settlers are leaving the dry
districts of California,
THERE are 80, 900 pension attorneys in the
United States, aud their profits aggregate
over 81, 900, 900 per year.
MEssRs. KIDDER, PEABODY & Co, Of Bos-
ton, last year made gifts to their employees
amounting to over $4,000.
THE London money market is in good CON
dtion again, aud confidence on the London
Exchange in American securities is rapidly
gaining.
THE aggregate amount now 10 the credit
OF the pupils OF tho public schools In the
Long Island City IN. " Savings Bank is
sl6 6l0.3S.
ADvICEs from the fruit belt on the lake
shore OF Michigan state that the condition
OF the embryo crop is good ani that it will
be able to stand severe winter.
A CHICAGO publishing house is reported TO
have refused to fill an order FOR maps from
the State Of Indiana unless the cash accom-
panied the order, the firm alleging that tho
States credit was not good.
THE neurological records of New Hamp-
shire showed that during the past year six
persons have died who hal reached the age
of 100 years, one being l05 years old Seven.
teen persons died Whose ages ranged be.
tween ninety-hve and 100, and nearly seventy
Others who had reached OF passed four-score-
and-ten.
EMPEROR WILLIAM Is following the ex-
ample Of Frederick the Great in enlisting the
tallest mon that can be found for his Guards.
The latest acquisition Is young Rhine
lander whose height is soven feet four and n
half inches He Is tho tallest man in the
Guards since 1880.
The great cracker trust has planuei to
erect the largest building in New York for
a factory at a cost of 81, 00J0J0.
IT has been discovered that q spurious
imitation of Professor Koch's lymph is being
manufactured, and number of cases have
been reported in which foreign m edical man
have been deceived into purchasing tho
bogus preparation. The agents of Professor
Koch have been unable to discover the MANY
facturers Of the counterfeit.