The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
NEWsY GLEANINGs.
CALIFORNIA has female tramps.

CALIFORNIA has female tramps.
THE bicycle rage has spread to India.
CH1oAao's present area Is 1S5 square miles.
GREAT BRITAIN has eighty proft-sharing
firms.
CAR-FARE Is 215 cents in Chemitz, Ger
many.
PERU and Ecuador are "spoiling for q
fight"
DUBLIN, Ireland. has neither cable nor
electric cars.
AMERICAN securities show a substantial
gain in London.
A.. A51ss!A, .:sE!. Ga, Ca is going to have ne"
THE Populists failed to carry q single
county in Arkansas.
New YORK CRY Is overrun with buyers,
mostly from the South.
The new Criminal Court House, New York
City, was formally opened.
TIE Mid-winter Fair surplus Is expecred
to amount to about 100000.
GERMAN-RUss1AN colonists In Kansas are
returning to their old homes.
CONTINUED improvement In business Is
shown by the trade reviews.
The Peary relief expedition has been re-
ported ':as Well" at Godhavn.
TIE Salvation Army Is planning a cam
paign in tho Hawaiian Islands.
TIE long drought Is causing great loss to
farmers and dairymen In New York.
The fads this year among the rich people
of the Eas. are bicycles and catboats.
IT Is now estimated that Chicago's drain
age canal system will cost S25,00O,O0O.
TIE financial condition OF Texas mer-
chants Is said to be better than for years.
CHINESE in Japan and japanese in China
are under the protection OF American con-
suls.
SINCE last May at least 10000 French-Ca-
nadians living In the United States have re-
turned to Quebec.
SMOKE from forest fires became 80 dense
In Boston, Mass, that artificial light was
necessary at noon.
ADy1cEs from China indicate that the war
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.
P1rTsBuRa cotton tie manufacturers find
they can compete with foreign manufac-
turers without protection.
The first ocean cable ever laid In New
York Bay has just been put down BY the
Commercial Gable Company.
The California dried apricot crop this year
will reach the enormous total of IL 900 TONS
or nearly double that OF any previous sea-
Son.
FEARING pleuro-pneumonia the Belgian
Government has ordered quarantine OF all
American cattle for forty-lve days after ar
rival.
MISS ELIZABETH q. W. LORD, who died in
squalor in Brooklyn, had $4,000 In bank at
South Berwick, Me-, which she left to Mrs.
T. De Witt Talmage.
TIE National Treasury has been liftei out
OF the financial rut. The Treasury receipts
for August foot up more than ten millfor
dollars in excess Of expenditures.
The establishment of permanent bureau
for the exhibition Of the resources OF the
Southern States was decided on by the de-
velopment convention at Washington.
IT Is estimated that on an average 1000
bushels day, containing $50 oysters to the
oushel, or In all 10000, 900 day, are re.
ceiyed in New York City alone during the
season.
An unfailing sign OF the revival Of busi-
ness Is the increased demand for money at
the banks and its incident higher rates for
loans. This Is the business condition re-
ported.
The Rev. DR.. Burtsell arrived at New York
City from Rome, and said that an Apostolic
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 heirlooms and historical
articles OF colonial times intended for the
Massachusetts, Historical Society.