The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
has 224 brass bands.


The bullion value Of our standard
silver dollar Is now Just 50 1912 In gold.
There arc SIC, 900 miles of telegraph
wire under ground in London.
Plus | x witnessed the death of one
hundred Cardinals during his life.
Mark Twain appears on the Hart
ford tax-list assessed for $G7 $50.
king Humbert has been forbidden
to smoke by physicians.
Atlanta, Ga, has 275 female clerks
In her stores.
The amount of United States frac-
tional currency outstanding Is about
$10,000.O0O.
"A dynamite cartridge factory has
been established in Saginaw county,
Mich.
"A carrier pigeon made the distance
from Monson to New London, Conn.,.
6l miles, In 81 minutes, on Friday.
In London the Fishmongors Comp
any has given $3.50 to the Female
School Of Art.
The Irish people Of Wilkesharre,
Penn, are raising fund to erect an
orphans asylum.
age In Baltimore. and Of this number
4G,778 attend school.
The striking glass-blowers Of Pitts
burg received $4,000 In help from outside
sources.
-Austrians smoke more and more.
In 1877 the whole amount paid for to-
bacco was 10000, 900 1orins, against
$4,000, 900 last year.
From tho debris of the coal mines.
France makes annually 700, 900 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 100000
tons.
The Confederate monument in Au-
gusta, Ga, cost $l7, 800. At each Of the
corners Of the base stands a marble flg-
ure OF Lee, Jackson, Walker and Cobb.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, during
the month of April. averaged daily
about five car loads Of emigrants for the
West
The amount OF timber RATED to
market this year ls estimated at lust
double the amount sent last year. The
prices arc only fair.
Tho vestry of st Georges, Hanover
Square, London, has resolved, By a
vote or 80 to 20, not to allow statue Of
Byron to be placed III st. james street.
Tho potterles In tho vicinity of
Trenton, N. j.. are reported as doing
ming full-handed and on full time.
1t Is proposed in the oil regions OF
Pennsylvania to invite tho Marquis of
lIorne and the Princess Louise to make
tour Of that territory.
Tho Clarion county, Pa, papers
state that the lumber season has ended
with them, and the prices received for
the timber were better than those that
have ruled for many years.
"A Corning IN. W man lost roll
OF bills containing $l75. An honest
fellow found the money and returned
1t to the owner, and he was rewarded
with five cent cigar.
The cut of lumber on the Kenne-
bee river, In Maine, during the present
season, wih amount In the aggregate
to 90 100000 feet or about $4,000, 900
less than the cut Of 1873.
Official documents show that the
ratio Of deaths per one thousand per-
sons employed In England is less in
coal mining than In the navy by drown
Ing, and onc-halflcss than on railroads.
The managers Of the Woodruff
scientific expedition announce a tenn
porary abandonment Of the grand af-
fair. They have spent $4,000 and re-
ce1ved nothing In return.
This year 700, lao men will be call
ell out to do military service in France.
The number will be distributed as fol-
lows: 10 the active army, 479, 100; to
the reserves, 144 $50; to tho territorial
army, $4,000.
Tho twenty-first musical festival
Of the German Saengcrbund of North
America will be held at Springer Mus
ical Hall. lin Cincinnati, on the I1th of
June. The grand chorus will embrace
1871 singers, besides 100 instrumental
musicians.
MIR, II. j. Jewctt, President Of the
Erie railway. receives an annual salary
of sac, 900. Col. Scott's yearly income
as President of seven lines, Vice Presi-
gent OF eleven, and director Of thirty
four, is over $l00, 1000.
For the three mouths ending March
81, 1878, there were imported Into the
United States Of irOn--plg, bar, hoop,
sheet and railroad-7,252 tons, and for
the same period this year 1,928 tons
being an increase Of imports as between
the two periods OF 1904.
1t requires 3O0, 900 cubic feet Of the
finest quality Of pine lumber to make
The yearly supply Of luclfer matches
for tile United States, and 1t takes 10O,-
00O cords Of fine hard wood to make
our shoe-pegs. 1t takes 40, 900 900 ties
to supply our 10000 miles OF railroad.
The City Of Paris commenced last
year the publication of general iRyeyl-
tory Of the artistic riches contained In
the different municipal edIfices OF the
capital. Two volumes haYe already
been issued. The number OF ediflces in
the twenty ACCOMPLISHMENTS Is so great
that the task is far from being termin-
ated.
The latest estimates Of church ac-
comodation in England gives the Estab-
lished Church $500, 900 slttings; the :.
Wesleyan Methodlsts, 1,702,724; the
independents, 1,21l ,101; the Baptists,
0l3, 1855; tho Primitive. .Methodists, 49,
8S7, and all other religious. bodies q
total Of $50. l03-making a grand to-
tai Of IL, ,53l 400.
OF potatoes, ireland produces 23