Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-01-16
NEWSY ~GLEANINGS,
MEXICO buys our corn.

MEXICO buys our corn.
INFLUENZA is raging in England.
LONDON has ten main railroad lines.
TEXAS is still clamoring for deep water.
NEW YORK CITY is overrun with beg.
sars.
INTENSELY cold weather prevails il Eng
land.
THg grip is spreading throughout tho
East.
AUSTRALIA has adopted a new protective
tariff.
SWITZERLAND has abolished Nationd
banks.
PERSIA has abolished the tobacco NJ
nOpoly.
THERE is not a free library in \Pnila-
delphia.
THE population CT America increases ~
.FD persons a iay,
LEFR0SY j. increasing At an alarming rate
on the lsthInuS o. Panama.
The output Of dried grapes this season is
less than one-half what it was last year.
SWEDEN AMI Norway are preparing to en-
ter the German aut-protaet1onlst league.
NEWARK y. J., Is showing a death rate Of
thjrtv-eieGt per 100, and folks stand aghass.
WOaLD's FAIR officials at Chicago are
puzzled over an apparent inslfnciency OF
space.
A NEW herring bank. 100 miles long, has
been discovered of the west coast OF New.
foundiand.
\ NEBRASKA farmer has been acquitted
Of killing a book agent who persiste1 III
forcing his book on him.
The Chicago Board of Fire Underwriters
has adopted a rate OF -. - for the new high
buildings. The rate is considered prohibit
orr.
NE St. Paul tMinnl Chamber of Com
merce is backing a scheme to connect the
Mississippi River and Lake Superior via
Saltwater.
FRANCE Is to create a new Under Secre-
taryship OF State for Worship, thus remov-
inr the church from the jurisdiction of the
Justice Department.
D~1sAFFECTIoN is rampant in Trinidad,
Toba2o. ana the Windward group OF the
West Indies. Owing TO the hlgh-handedness
OF the British colonial Office.
CANADAs annual Christmas poultry train
rane this wear from Ottawa to Boston. The
| value OF the cargo a. the frontier was $780,
600 and the duties We're $3.50.
MONEY is 50 scarce in Cuba that the brig
ands are c0mpelIel to let their prisoners go
| again, finding neither money on their per-
| sons or friends to ransom them.
pHE thres beat sugar factories in Cali
foruia have SLUT down for the season. The
total product is S, 900, 900 pounds, Oh which
the Government will pay a bounty of $lG5,
so.
r.5GLIsH troops AVE had a battle with
INDIAN tribesmen near Gllgit on the PanIi1
frontier in which many lives were lost. Rus
sian intrigue is said to Rave caused the up
rising.
THE va1as o& agricultural and pastoral
nroducts in the Argentine Republic during
the past year will be over $500, Ooo. 900, ff-
teen per cO1a. greater than n previous
year. and equivalent to $50 per capita OF the
population Of the country.
FORTY reputable assurances companies in
New England went out Of bushes in 1891
because they did not get premiums enough
to paw Losses and expenses. The year was
hard for all Insurance companies, and in-
creased rates are expected.
THE census bulletin, No. 140, relating to
public schools for the deaf in the United
States, gives the average annual number~ot
pupils in such schools for successive decades
as follows: From 1910 to 1S49, sol; from
1850 to 1859, 812: from 1860 to 1863, 1863;
from 1870 to 1879, 1853; from 1889 to 1889.
500. T..
AN lArisoHa man named Frank Blake stole
500 sheep in broad daylight from a ranch
near Los Lunas recently. and ran them off
into a canyon, Later he held his cache alone,
with the aid of a Winchester, against a doz-
gan armed herders. The party finally re-
tired and left. the daring thief in POSSESSION
of the sheen