Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

CALIFORNIA has female tramps.
THE bicycle rage has spread to India.
CH1cAGo's present area is 185 square miles.
GREAT BRITAIN has eighty protft-Slarins
firms.
CAR-rARE is ~ cents in Chcnitz Ger
many.
PERU and Ecuador are "spoiing for a
fight"
DUBLIN, Ireland has neither cable nor
electric ears.
AMERICAN securities show substantial
gain in London.
ATLANTA. Ga, is going 20 aave new
ei9lt-stOry hOte'.
THE PoDulists failed to carry Il single
county i'll Arkansas.
New York CRY is overrun with buyers
mostly rom the South.
THE new Criminal Court House, New York
City, was formally opened.
THE Md-winter Fair surplus is expected
to amount TO about 5000 900.
GERMAN-RUss1AN colonists in Kansas are
returning to their old homes.
CONTINUED improvement in business is
shown by the traie reviews.
THE Paary relief expedition has been re-
ported ''as welI' at Go lhavn.
The Salvation Army is planning a cam
paign in the Hawaiian Islands.
THE long drought is causing great loss to
farmers and dairymen in New York.
THE fads this year among the rich peop %
of the East are bicycles and catboats.
IT is now estimated that Chicago's drain
age canal system will cost 1926, ,00O, 900.
The financial condition Of Texas mer-
chants is said to be better than for years.
CH1xEsE in Japan and Japanese in China
are under the protection Of American con-
SuiS.
SINCE last May at least 1000 French-Ca-
na .ians living in the United States have re-
turned to Quebec.
SMOKE from forest fires became So dense
in Boston, Mass, that artificial light was
necessary at Roo1-
ADv1cEs from China indicate that the wa.
party is now in power and vigorous policy
is to be pursued.
ENGLISH wheat crops are looking very
bad in consequence of almost continuous
rain for three weeks,
THE English apple crop IS reported TO be
very short. Last years was the heaviest
known in twenty years.
PIrTsDURG cotton tic manufacturers find
they can compete with foreign manufac
tJrers without protection.
The first ocean cable over laid in New
York Bay has just been put down BY the
SOnIlPIcltl CotOlS COhphAJ'
THE California dried apricot crop this year
will reach the enormous total of II, 900 tons,
crncarly double that of any previous sea-
son.
FEARING pleuro-pneTmonia the Belgian
Government has ordered quarantine of ali
American cattle for forty-five days after ar
rival.
Miss ELIZABETH II. ". LORD. who died in
squalor in Br)okiyn, hal 5I3, ,000 in bank at
South Berwick, lIc., which sho left to Mrs.
T. De Witt Talmagc.
TIE National Treasury has been lifted out
of the financial rut. The Treasury receipts
for August foot up more than ten million
dollars in excess Of expenditures.
THE establishment of d permanent bureau
for the exhibition of the resources of the
Southern States was decided on By the de-
Velopmcnt convention at Washington.
II is estimated that on an average 1000
bushels day. containing $50 oysters to the
bushel, or in all 10000, 900 q day, arc re-
ccive in New York City alono during the
season.
AN uniaiiing sign of the revival of busi-
ness is the increased demand for money at
the banks AMI its incident higher rates for
10 ms. This is the business condition re-
ported
THE Rov. DR.. Burtsell arrived at New Yors
City from Rome, and said that an Apost
Delegation would be established to pass
upon all questions affecting the Roman
Church in this country.
By the burning of the home of Mss. Irene
| Taylor, at South Acton Mass, there were
| destroyed priceless lIeirlooms and historical
articles OF colonial times intended for the
] Massachusetts Historical Society.