Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-03-29
Newsy Gieanings.

BROOKLYN is at present overrun with
tramps.
MONTANA has a new county of the name of
SWeetgrass.
Texas sheep have decreased more than
twenty per cent.
THE recent cold spell killed $500 sheep Ga
one ranch in Montana.
SEATTLE, Wash, has under consideration
an ordinance to revive the curfew bell.
For the first time in nine years the Gov.
ernor Of Massachusetts, recently vetoed a bill.
THE deficit in the English postal telegraph
service for the fiscal year Will reach 50, 700,-
900.
REFRESHING sleep has come to David Jones,
of Elwood. Ind, after 1872 days and nights of
Wakefulness.
A SPECIAL crusade has been started by the
Salvation Army to convert the New York
City police force.
GERMAN railroads are adopting as rapidly
as possible the American plan of vestibulinS
passenger trains.
A SYNDICATE of wealthy Chinese of San
Francisco have leased the great fruit ranch
Of John G. Bidwell.
Foa the first time in fifteen years an Amer
lean vessel the Hamilton Fish, has cleared
from Bergen, Norway.
LARGE tracts of farming and fruit lands in
Alabama have been sold lately to farmers
from Northwestern States.
AMNESTY being the order of the dav in
France, 500 prosecutions pending against
Paris cabmen have been dropped
MARIETTA, Ga, has just opened big new
paper mill with {. barbecue The mill has a
capacity of ten tons ofpaper day.
THE Nebraska Legislature has decided to
revive the beet sugar bounty by paying the
producer $5 per ton for all bcets produced.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED acres of land will be
sown to peas in the Big Bend (Washington)
country, this year for an Eastern seed firm
SECRETARY CARLISLE decided to distribute
the 100000 sugar bounty authorized by
Congress amoES the producers according to
yield.
GERMANY is extending the functions of her
consuls with the purpose of enlarging her
foreign trade, especially with the United
States.
ALEX. WELLS, a colored preac cher OF Geor-
gia, burned down his own church to get the
insurance. He got sixteen years in the PEN
itentiary.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's decision in favor
of Brazil in the dispute with the Argentine
Republic was enthusiastically received al
Rio Janeiro.
THE Navajo Indians in California are said
to be suffering for the necessaries OF life.
Wool, which is their main dependence, is SO
low that they realized next to nothing on last
years clip.
SQUIRRELS are doing great damage to grow
ing crops in Spokane County, Washington,
and the Commissioners are taking pains to
abate the nuisance.
The lens for the largest telescope in the
world is to be made in Greenville, Penn. It
is for the Methodist University in Washing
ton, and will be sixty-two inches in diameter
and seven inches in thickness.
THE Southern Memorial and Literary So
ciety has decided to put the Jefferson Davis
mansion at Richmond, Va, in thorough re-
pair, at cost of $4,000, and convert ii
into museum OF Confederate relics.
AUNT EUNICE CONRAD. the oldest woman in
West Virginia, and probably the Oldest in the
United States. the subject of many news
paper articles, died few days ago at her
home near Cedarvilla, Gilmore County, in
her 120th year.
The report of the Immigration Bureau
shows that the number of outgoing Steerage
passengers during the last seven months ex-
ceeds the arrivals.
Nor over 1000 crates of pineapples will be
sent North from the Lake Worth region, in
Florida, against so, 900 last season.
THERE is now lying in public elevators in
Chicago %, 264, 900 bushels of wheat. There
is probably 5,000. 900 more in prva.e eleva-
tors, and of this fully 20.000,G00 bushels is
under contract. It is charged much of this
wheat is below grade.
A PECULIAR disease is spreading among ti9
Indian ponies on the Umatilla reservation
in Oregon, and causing much uneasinass to
white settlers in the vicinity. The afflicted
horses reel and stagger, their hair drops of,
and sGz.s break out all over the body.