Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-11-18
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE world has 45CO paper mills.
CHICAGO handles 1900 trains daily.
DAHoMEY has fallen to the French.
FROST in Brazil has sent coffee up.
CHICAGO is to have Chinese theatre.
RAINS have caused floods in England.
DEER are plentiful in the Adirodacks.
ITALY is suffering from O lack Of small
coin.
CHOLERA is making appalling ravages in
China.
THERE are 800 Indian voters in the new
State of Washington.
APACHE Indians in New Mexico and Arl-
IONA are on the warpath
THE Swiss Republic has been duped by a
bogus Minister from Salvador.
THE Bolivian Congress has passed law
fixing the Presidential term at four years.
The railroads of the country were never
so overrun with business as the are to-day.
DYsENTERY is raging fatally in some
districts in China, with 3044 deaths in 49,,
O00 cases.
The Ohio River at Fittsbur-. Penn, IS
lower than for years, and traffic has been
suspended.
DEER are so plentiful in Michigan that
boys have to be hired TO stone them OUT OF
the turnip fields
sweet corn and 100 900 cases OF succotash is
the pack reported for Maine.
THE girl baby born in the E-quimaux
village at the Worlds Fair, Chicago, has
been named Columbia Susan.
THE Missouri Pacific Road has given $1O,-
600 to the families of those killed in the
fight with the Dalton gang at Coffeyville,
Kan.
THE heaviest loss among swine, according
to the Department of Agricultural reports,
is sustained in the South. Georgia leads,
with loss of almost ten per cent. while
Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas are not
far behind.
A GENERAL rain throughout the North
west has given the railroad managers
couragement in their efforts to raise the
grain blockade. They say the rains will
make the roads baI and stop farmers from
hauling in grain.
The original Columbus letter. recently
purchased in Europe for the Lenox Library
reached the Custom House, New York City.
1t was put under safe lock, for the precious
document has an invoice value Of $500.
There is no duty upon it,
A MANITOBA Indian made death-bed
confession that he and a companion, while
accompanying a Sir John Franklin Arctic
relief expedition, discovered one of Frank
Inns ships. but were afraid to report it, fear
ing delay at time when provisions were
short.
PROFESSOR FANCIULLI, of New York, has
been appointed leader of the band OF the
United States Marine Corps at Washington,
to succeed John Philip Sousa. The new
bandmaster is an Italian, having been born
in Tuscany and educated in the Conserva-
tory OF Music Of Florence.
The heaviest armor plate ever made is
now in course Of preparation at the Bethe-
hem PENN Iron Works. The ingot weighs
eighty-four tons. and when completed will
be seventeen inches thick. This armor will
defend the side of the battle5bip Indiana,
now building at Cramps ship yard, Phila-
delphia.
PIMAs Indian was about to shoot his
squaw near Tempe, Arizona, when the lat
ters brother suggested that the irate
brother had better shoot him, which sugges-
ton was promptly adopted, and the big
brother dropped dead. Four P.mas, dapu-
tized as constables, subsequently pursued
the murderer, and as he failed to heed their
warnings to stop he met with similar fate
at their hands.