Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-06-30
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

Our chief cities contain 1876, 900 Canadians.
EUROPEAN railroads stretch 142, 685 miles.
FRANCE is building twenty-five war ships.
THERE are in the United States GIT thea
THERE are 80, 900 acres of watermelons in
Georgia.
VENEZUELA has in preparation new con-
stitutiOn.
COLORADO has adopted Saturday half
holiday law.
A WAR between sheepherders and cattlemen
is on in Colorado.
RICH gold deposits have been found in the
mountains of Wyoming.
The Capitol at Washington will be 100
years old on September 18th.
A HORDE of women beggars now infest the
streets of the City of Mexico.
CHINA is taking census of American resi-
dents in the Flowery Kingdom.
THE heresy trial of DR.. Briggs involved a
total expenditure of about $50 900.
IT is announced that work on the Panama
Canal will be resumed at the end Of the year.
New YORK hotels report an almost UMPIRE
cedentedly small number of visitors Of the
first class.
THE expenses of both sides in the war Just
closed in Nicaragua will be borne by the
public treasury.
THREE women have been elected elders Of
the Economic Society, in Pennsylvania, be-
cause of a paucity of men.
THE monument over the grave of Max
SchnOckenberger. author of the song, The
Watch on the Rhine" was unveiled in Der
lin.
BURGLAR JOHN MEYERS has made the first
record of digging out of the "TOmbs," New
York City, since they were built, sixty years
ago.
The army worm has appeared in vast num-
bers in Knox County, Indiana. and across
the Wabash River in Lawrence County, Hi
nois.
COUNT KALNosKY, the Austrian Premier in
a speech, eulogized the Triple Alliance and
reaff1rmed the kindly feeling of Russia for
Austria.
IRISH and Liberal members of the House
of Commons urged Gladstone to take more
vigorous measures to expedite the passage of
the Home Rule bill.
The anti-missionary crusade in China
which was carried on two years ago by a
noted scholar of Human has been revived by
another member of the Chinese literati.
IT is charged that. as result of ten-year
boom at Sioux City, Iowa, five hundred
banks in different parts of the country now
hold paper calling for fifty million dollars.
THE worst Is thought to be over in the
flooded districts in the South and those
threatened with overflow. Great damage
has been done to crops and there is much
suffering.
THE immigration commissioners of the
United States of Colombia propose to send
representatives to New York for the purpose
of inducing immigrants who land there to go
to South America.
A. the Vegetarian Congress in Chicago
resolutions were adopted declaring the
practice of the use of the flesh and blood Of
animals as food promotes low standard OF
morality and recommending the abolition OF
this evil.
ONE of the greatest celebrations of modern
times took place few days ago at st. Paul.
Mimi, in honor of James j. Hill. President
of the Great Northern Railway, the compile
ton of whose system from st. Paul to Puget
Sound without aid from the Government has
placed him in the first rank ofthe great tinan-
oiers of the country. Delegations in large
numbers were present from seven States
through which the railway passes, and the
~~eatest enthusiasm was manifested