The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-06-19
NEWS tSU MMARY.

pounds; worth this year, at tho farmers
door, tho round sum of 10000 900.
Tho marriage of the King Of Bavaria has
been definitely fixed for tho 18th October,
The anniversary Of that of his father, Maxi
milan l., in 1882. and Of his grandfather,
Louis L., in 1910.
NJ Haas, of AK, in tho South of France,
exhibits, in The Paris Exhibition, q machine
by means of which o rabbit.skin can be
converted into hat in so minutes!
There is great scarcity of food in some
parts of Gratoit and Saginaw Counties,
Michigan, where tho people have no money
and no teams to haul TO market their shin
giles, tho only article they have for sale.
Arrangements have been made at San
Frnncisco to put on II new line ofstcainships
between that city, New Archangcl and Sit
ka, stopping at Victoria. distance, we
should judge, not much less than to Liver
pool from Boston.
The Australian vintage this year is larger
than ever before known, and the yield Of
gold is increased oycrthat Of last year.
Over $4,000 tons Of hrcadstufrs have been
sent to England, and I05, 900 tons moro are
ready far transportation.
Tho Peoria (lll.) Transcript rolatcs tho
case Of William Moss, who was rendered
insanc by severe attack Of typhoid fever,
and while being taken home, fell from n
bridge, md striking his head against
stone, was instantly restored to his senses.
One Of our EnTlish exchanges brings the
following mournlrl pcicc of intelligence
eve regret to announce the death. Of Quow
Daddy, King Of A4uapim, Wcsi Africa. He
was q man md n brother, and lunchcd of
cold missionary, when in season, with great
regularity
Last year 1877, 80 marriages wcro colo
ia the year were 1853, 1873, and the deaths
600, 93S The number Of males born was
slightly in excess Of the females, bciEg 3Si,
Up, against 3GS, ,1iG. There was also l2,-
0EG more deaths of males than females.
mortgage has just been recorded in
Iowa, from the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railroad Company to John a.. Stew
art and Wm. II. Osborn, Of New York, for
the sum Of ninc million dollars. Tho rove
nue. stamps amounted to nino thousand dol
lars.
Hiram Powers, the great American sculp-
Tor, who has been for thirty years absent in
Italy writes to Il friend in Washington that
he is coming back to tho United States in
the fall llo is now about sixty years OF
age. lie is n native of Vermont, but cmi
I,l Ia 10, &c, I
resided in Washington same time before
going abroad in 1886.
The husband Of the Countess Czapaska
was recently condemned to Siberia for life
The Countess went to ST. Petersburg |,
suppliontn tor tho pardon of her husband
The Car refused, and the unfortunate wo-
annn, in tho excess of her grief, wont home
and, raising II funeral pile of papers around
hcr, burnt hcrsclfto death. She leaves five
children,
IN Burgundy, Champagne, and Frcnchc-
Comtc, great quantity Of snnils of al
kinds arc consumed, anil also sent to Paris
and Professor Simmons mentions that There
arc now fifty restaurants and moro thnr
are considered y ;lclicacy by from 5000 L
10000 consumers, and that the MONTH,
consumption of this molusk is estimated Il
half million.
England Imports more cotton from Indi
than from the United States. During tn
five years preceding the war in this coMntr.
the average yearly value Of cotton importc'
into England from India was Sl0,3l3,SSO
IN tho succeeding years The average rose 1
129,i23,230. The quantity imporcdsdurin
the year 1906 is the largest known, amount
ing to ,Si7,77O bales, worth upwards 0
$lG5,000,000.
a correspondent Of tho AHhenHum ha:
shown that 'lho old story about Charles tn
Second kniyhting n loin Of beef, md thu
giving origin to The Srioin, should be final
~ consigned TO tho limbo Of vulgar errors.
Among tho proofs he adduccs arc passages
from old hooks, ono Of which, dated 1920
speaks Of "a Sirloin, and q rond Of beef,
nnd in another, the 1borHpe Of an {1lc WoWc
1920, il The expression, "ono end of a sur
loin fbecto called tho hucklcr piece" &C
which secns 10 fix the derivation quit
clearly.
A creosotcd sleeper, put down OH th
Stockton and Darlington Railway, in Eng
land, in August, 1871, was taken up Marcl
ii, 1867 after nearly &c years service
The grain ofthe wood. although slightl,
disoolorcd by crcosotc, is NJ fresh and np
parcntly as tough as that Of newly save,
timber, and the odor Of crcosotci is as stron,
as if tho wood had just been operated up
en-.
The Philadelphia Neps says: "Gcr
William Patton, Of Towanda, Brodror
County, Pa, who will DO remembered b.
many of our readers rs an effective stun
speaker at tho last election in this State
has announced his determination to 6
South on q stumping tour iu tho Conscrva
tive interest. Con. p. proposes to follow O.
tho track Of Wilson and Kelly, and will n
doubt giyo tho new generation Of votcr
something TO think Of besides conlisca
tion"