The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-07-01
New 5 of the Day.

attend tho formal opening of tho
new bridge at St. Louis on July 4.
The total cost of the great st,
Iaouis bridge WAS nearly $4,000, 900.
Its total length Is four thousand and
ninety.four feet.
Mucle vs.. brainIThirty-two can.
didates passed the intellectual ex-
Animation at West Point and ninety.
five the physical test.
! The Prince of Wales won largely
in the last Derby, he having freely
backed tho winning horse, which was
named after his second son.
| 1t is stated that the choice of an
American Cardinal lies between
| Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
and Archbishop Perche, of New Or.
leans.
Among tho importations entere d
Mt the Chhioago Customhouso on the
18th inst, was an invoice of Loly
water from the grotto of Notre Dame,
Lourdes, France.
| Mrs. Audubon, widow of the cello.
brated naturalict. died Mt kellys.
vile, KY, last week, aged eighty
eight. She was lady of unusual
| attainments, and was the constant
companion of her husband in his la
bors ard travels, aud visited the
principal courts Of Europe in his
, company.
According to the United States
consul at Le;psic, there were export
ell from that city to this country,
during the year 1868, $4,000
worth Of pictures, music and books.
This is all itom that testiGes to the
extent the foreign art, literary and
musical market is patroniaed by
Americans.
=. During theSdelibberationg of the
jury in the recount Grant Parish trial
In New Orleans the judges retired
to their rooms and played q game
of sot.baok euchre with "Gov."
Kellogg. The lives of eight men
wero being balanced between life and
death at that very time in the neigh
boring jury.room, but that was moth
ing.
A remarkable instance of family
rotation in office exists in the selec-
tlon of consul to Falmouth, Eugland:
President Washington appointed as
our first consular representative at
that place Mr.. Fox, who held the
Office many years. He was succeed
cd by his son, who recently gave up
the position, and last week, Howard
Fox, his son, has been nominated to
succeed his father.
A young boy in Athol, Mass, is
exciting no little interest and specu.
lation among the physicians by dis
playing an Irresistible propensity
to eat himself up. He has pursued
this habit with such fatal pcrsistcncy
during tho four years of his life as to
reduce oil the fingers of both hands
to raw and bleeding stumps, while
of the thumb of the left hand nothing
whatever remains.
1tisnow positively asserted that
Queen Victoria is to undertake a
journey to St. Petersburg next
| autumn, and that sho will stop on
her way at Berlin, to be present at
the confirmation of her eldest grand
child, the eldest son Of the Crown
Prince and Princess of Prussia. The
yt:.ng gentlemen in question is near
ly fifteen ) ears of hge, and, like all
princes Of tender years, he is said to
bo fine, promising boy, but unfor-
tunately he is paralyzed in the right
arh,, ahd the physicians give no hope
that he will cvet regain the use of it.
The first of July is oemi.annual
dividend day, when millions of dol
lars will be paid in interest. Where
hll this money Is to find safe and
| profitable Investment is question
not easy to decide. The New York
Express says that with 30 much CAPT.
tal scattered all over tho country,
and interest so low on all money put
on call, with Che grain crops full of
promise, The cotton crop to be, in all
probability, far moro than wo an:
tioipated six weeks since, there Is
every reason to hope for n better
state Of business in the coming att.
tumh than the country has enjoyed
In any season for the two years past.
The fortune of Jas. Lick, the Cali:
fornia Peabody, is estimated at from
$4, 100000 to $5,00O,OOO. Hc owns
the whole island off Santa Catalina.
containing nearly $4,000 acres, and
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House md its adjacent property in
San Francisco is sot down at 81 ,5OO,-
900. The property donated to the
Academy of Sciences and the Pioneer
Society is worth about 5000, 900. and
thore arc othor lots in the city which
| will realize $5O0,OOO, and property
| in San Joso is valued at $1,000, 900.
The figures given exceed $1,000, 900,
! and there are other pieces of much
value not included. Ast trustees