The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-05-08
Statistical.

fully as snappish as ever.
Theirs is CO., and Guizot 10 years old,
and both hale aud vigorous.
Ex-President Buchanan entered upon the
10th year of his age last Monday, (3oth.)
Thursday, April Odd, was the 25oth an
niyersary Of the death of Shakespeare.
II viii be interesting TO the ladies to
know that the Empress Eugene will be forty
years cid on the fifth of May. Queen Vic
toria is in her forty eighth year.
The twenty ninth of June. 1867, will be
the eighteenth, hundred anniversary of st.
Peters death. On that occasion the Pope
is to convene all the bishops of Christen-
dom to Rome, where Il grand jubilee will be
celebrated
There are 81, 900 churches in the Uaited
States. They will hold 14,000,000 people
The Central Presbyterian, published at
Richmond, estimates the strength of the
Presbyterian Church (South) rs follows
10 Synods 46 Presbyteries 1,ll2 Church
es G45 Ministers; 85 Liccntiates.; 45 Can
didates and 81, 696 Commandments.
There are nearly thirty millions of acres
Of public lands in the South open to settle
ment.
The value Of sheep killed by dogs during
the last year, in Ohio, is $l04,323 so, more
than all the ours in Christendom are worth.
Over million Of emgrants have arri we'd
in this country since September
More than. million of ncw-laid eggs n
day it is said, are exported from France 10
Eagand.
There are 5000 square miles of coal in
Great Britain and 1890 in the United
States.
The cholera took off six thousand four
hundred people in Paris.
Tho whole number of pardons granted by
the President under the twenty thousand
dollar clause in the amnesty proclamation,
is 7,197.
A vine e-growcr made 81 ,087 last year from
five acres of island soil in Lake Erie lie
raised "a, 500 pounds of grapes, and made
G,0Oo gallons of wine.
The production of petroleum for the cur
rent year is estimated at ., $50, 900 barrels.
In two months New York received no less
than 1876, 582 barrels.
The number of men are equal to the num-
Der of women. The average of human life
is about thirtythrec years. One quarter
die before the age of seven. To every one
thousand persons one rarely reaches the
ago of one hundred years, and not more
than one in five hundred will reach the age
of eighty.
The message of Mayor Brown estimates
the present value property in Nashville Mt
Sl8,OO0,0O0, or nearly $4,OO0,O0O more
than five years ago, at the commencement t
Of the rebellion.
For five years ending May l, 1866, the
divorces decreed by the Supreme Judicial
Court of Massachusetts, were as follows :
Barnstable and Dukes counties, % /; Frank
lin, %; Hampton, %; Hampshire, 20:
Middlesex, 202; Nantucket, 10; Norfolk, G.;
Plymouth, d; Suffolk, 3G4; Worcester, l5l.
Total, 1916.
a French journal publishes some facts
respecting old winters that were remarkable
for their mildness. In ll72, 1880. 1927 and
1927. the treers were in leaf in January, and
the birds had begun to build their nests in
the branches. In 1888, the gardens were
filed with flowers on the 1st Of February,
and swimming parties were organized in
Paris.
The number Of words that were contain
ed in DR.. Webster's first dictionary of the
English language was from 10, 600 to SO, 600.
After several revisions, the Websters Die
tionary, published in 1859, contained 90, :
798 words. Prof. Worcester's dictionary
contains about l04, 900 and the latest cdi
tion of Webster more than Id, 200 words.
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MILLARD FtLLMoRE.--The Now York 7'T-
Dune thinks it unfortunate that the Hon
Aillard Fillmore, now travelling in Europe,
should have written to President johnson
in warm commendation of the Executive
policy. That it personally respects Mr..
Fillmore the seme paper is good enough to
say, but Immediately subjoins to this money
The bitter declarations that "his heart was
with the Rebels throughout our great strug
gle,' and that not "tcn other copperheads''
in New York were so hostile to co ercion as
that gonlleman. AS man once holding
great office and woll known singular purity
Of character, it is Of course, gratifying to
know that Mr.. Fillmore's sympathies were
ever with the weak against the streng, but,
beyond this, there is a further matter con.
nested with his position which sets the sage