The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-06
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OF improvements in six months.
The dividends paid In Boston in
August aggregated 81, ,533 ,OG5.
The soil on which timber is grown
increases or detcriorates It's value.
In Cambria county, Pa., butter
Sells at eight cents per pound.
Senator Wade Hampton'sL leg still!
gives him great deal OF trouble.
London has police force Of 10, ,474
men, costing $3.50, 900 to maintain 1t.
"A new directory of Minneapolis.
Minnesota, indicates that the population
OF the city Is about 50 900.
The pensions granted last year,
from the English Civil List, amounted
to $1,000. 8
Mr. Tcnnyson has been requested
to write the inaugural ode for the Aus
trallan international Exhibition.
The cotton mills Of Columbus, Ga.
consume annually 1926 bales of the
staple. .O-., ...r.,, .,.
In Bombay cotton factory man
receives 81 Il month, a woman 81, and
child So 90. p" '''1f',I :
Since the Crlmcan war England
mas reduced her national debC from
e00O, ,000, ,O0J to E7l2. 100000.
Nearly 300 miles of railroad hay Q
been built in California so far this
year. ....,..,.. ........
Split timber is moro durable and
| stronger than that which Is hewn.
from t"e continuity OF the fibres.
Red ink IS Il solution Of alum, COL
| ored with Brazil wood, or an ammoni-
cal solution Of cochincal. ..-,.T
Tho Pullman palace oars have been
| introduced on the Italian routes run
ming from Brindisi and Bologna.
The crop Of pineapples this season
| IS estimated at double that OF former
years. .". .,.. n .v..l "a.
Ground has beea broken for the
monument to General Wayne, to be
erected at Erie, Pa.
The Ragged School Union Of Lon
don expends about $3.50, 900 a year in
efforts to elevate the lowest and DOOR
est classes.
-NIeissonier will soon finish a por-
Crait or the late Louis Napoleon, begun
III 1870, but delayed by the war and the
| exile. ..ai' .4r .,f
Mrs, Mary Hewitt has received
from the English Government a pen-
sion OF 5000, In consideration OF her lit
erary services. "'"'''
The Pennsylvania Railroad Comp
any have ordered the building of eight
hundred freight cars and twenty pas
senger cars at tho Altoona shops.
The President begins work shortly
after O'Clock In the morning. His
son, Webb, sits on his left hand and his
stenogr8pher behind his chair,
In thunderstorm III Appenzil,
Switzerland, few days ago, u farmer
! ana ten OF his cows, one Of Whicn he
was milking. were killed by lightning.
The 5000 won by Courtney the 9TH
| or day at Silver Lake has been presen-
ted by him to the widow Of man who
lost his life while In the sculler's en-
ploy. '..''4
Chief Juaticc Chaso's grave at Oak
Hid, near Washington, is marked sim
| ply by block Of gray granite, bearing
only the rca9rd of his birth and death
following his name. %,
The apple crop in Kent county,
Md, promises to be much larger than
usual, and 1t is expected that fiftcen dis
tillcrics, producing 5000 gallons Of ap-
pie brandy, will be put In operation.
AT general Conference Of the Af-
rican Methodist churches Of New Eng
land, recently held at New Bedford, re-
ports showed membership OF 1,3l7.
Tne denomination has twelve Sunday
schools, containing $50 scholars.
-Fof the six months ending June
3lth, 1870, there were thirty failures In
Boston, with liabilities of 50. .504, 900,
while for the same time last year there
we're l75 failures, with liabilities Of $8.-
b36,523. y .'"''.i'''. A"2
| The famous solid silver vase, two
fabricated, presented by the ;Whlgs to
Henry Clay, in 1874, is offered for sale
! at Boston, by the great mans grand
| son. '.' l''" ''Hi" p 'f'nR
During the first six months Of 1870,
| 81 ,304 cases Of champagne were impot-
tel, an increase OF IL ,105 eases as com.
pared with the. same months Of 1878;
,02O gallons and sos cases Of
French still wines were imported, an
increase OF 264, $50 gallons.Ynt
Dean Stanley has granted site for
a memorial Of the late Prince Louis
Napoleon in Westminster Abbey. It's
in a recess In Henry Wis Chapel, near
the spot where Cro,n wGll's remains lay
till they were disturbed at, the Restor-
alton. ,.r..sg ,u,n h#sS
IA woman. working for a farmer
! near Detroit was fatally poisoned, re-
Gently, by washing''a a pair Of overalis,
which he had worn while putting Paris
green on hispotatoes. 4. The woman had
cut or two OH her hands, into which
the poison penetrated. ="
The English Wesleyan Association
Of Local Prehchers, organized in l849,
has paid TO the f'sick, this Rged, and for
death, !" among Its own, members. over
$275 900. There Is a proposal 70 estAb-
lish fraternal intercourse with the Me-
thodist LOCAL Preachers Association in
this country. ,stH 4.iv'{ Ygas
d--Ithas been determined by theSchool
Board of Richmond, Va.3 that all lady
teachers In the public. school OF that
city who shall marry during their
t. rms Of service shall thereafter be In
eligible to the position nof TEACHER, and
their, PLACES. shall be, supplied by the
Superintendent Of Schools.
| New England has over 23O farmers
clubs, with Y, 900 Active men and
library books to tie number Of al 900.
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