The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-12-30
VOL. III.-NO. 143.
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hats, which then came into general
vogue.
There are in California l5O, 900
goats. and in thc Pacific territories
50,0G0, making Il total Of 200 900 on the
Pacific slope. ....
The earnings Of he Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railroad for the third week
Of October was 5000 900, an Increase OF
| SOB 73l.
Earnings Of the Union Pacific rail-
road fer the first twenty-one days Of
October were 81 ,003, l0l 20, an increase
of $l72, 1870.
Pa. has been acquitted of using illegal
means to secure his election to the Leg
| iSiaturc.
The Father" of the English House
of Commons is Mr.. Christopher Talbot.
who has sat continuously for Glamor-
ganshire since 1890. ~
During Octobc.' over 30, 200, 900 DOS
tai cards were sent from the Holyoke
factory-the largest months business
ever done. MI
! Ten thousand salmon fry from
San Francisco have been put Into the
Mcuse, at Blorick, Holland, and 10000
more are expected.
1t Is said that a very largo number
of the best gold and silver mines in
Mexico are passing into the hands OF
United States capitalists.
THE engagement of Miss Stanton.
youngest daughter OF the late Secretary
Stanton, to Lieutenant Bush, of the
Fifth Artillery, is announced.
Ten tons Of paper pulp have been
shipped from Soledad, Los Angeles
county, Cal, To New York city as an
" nnJinnnt j. a 1yytlI ,,lont
The pen used by Prince Bismarck
IN the hotel Mt Vienna was sold for 500.
The man who cut the Princes hair Is
making little fortune out of lOckcts.
1t is said that the Emperor Of Rus
sia purposes celebrating with great
solcmnity tho 25th anniversary OF his
accession to the throne. March "a, 1880.
According to Smiths History Pow
hatcn the indian chief or Emperor, rs
Smith calls him, had no less than 100
wives, 'of whom dozen young w0-
men were favoritcs."
Among the new towns on the line
of tho Northern Pacific, which have Il
promising future, Is Sanborn, Barnes
! county, Dakota, about IL miles west
OF Fargo, and 20 miles cast Of James
town.
MFR. Eugene Hale, IL is thought,
will be obliged to quit politics for the
present. in order to take charge Of his
late father-in-law's large estate. Mr..
Hale is the son-ln-aw OF the late 5ena-
tor Chandler.
The number OF foreign films en-
gagged in commerce in China is 35l, and
, the total foreign population 3,Sl4. The
population OF the treaty ports is csLi-
mated at 100000. The American
residents number 420.
--Thc merchants of st. Louis have
organized u movement for the erection
Ola spacious and permanent Exposition
Building, like those Of Chicago, Louis
Vile and Cincinnati. 1T Is intended TO
finish 1t for next fall.
"A company has been organized IN
| New York to build al elevated railroad
| from the Pennsylvania Railroad IN
Jersey City to Ilobokcn and jersey
| City Heights with branches TO Union
! Hill and West IIoboken.
| "A relic Of Burns has Just been plac-
ed In the Kilmarnock Museum. 1t is
the draught or checker-bonrd which
was used by the poet and his brother
in their hours Of recreation while they
were engaged In farming together.
According TO the last ccnsus tho po-
pulatlon OF Greece, which In 1870 was
only ,457 ,30l, amounts now to l,679,-
75G. The population Of Athens has in
creased In the same period from $4,000
to ~, 900, and that of Pirmus from II 900
TO double.
1t Is possible that within five years
Beaconsilcld, Gladstone, Bismarck, En-
pcror William, Gortschakoff and En-
pcror Alexander, will have passed away.
All are In failing health, and all, OK
| ccpt Bismarck and Alexander, over
seventy years OF age.
The total number of tho Hebrew
race to-day is about what It was in the
days of King David, between 100000
and 100000. There arc in Europe,
according to the latest statistical infor-
nation, about 5,000,OO0; in Asia, 200,-
600; in Africa, over $4,000; in Amcr-
ca, from 100000 to 100000.
Norfolk, Va, did IN export busi-
ness last year Of $l0,000,0 900, and with
her cotton returns now ranks as the Sc
cond cotton exporting port in the Uni
ted States. 1t Is the first peanut port
in tho world, receiving the entire crop
Of Virginia, which Is much larger than
the grOwths Of Tennessee and North
Carolina.
In return for jokes played upon
others some one filled the overcOat
pocket of Mr.. +. p. Gulse, young at
torncy Of Williamsport, Pa, with steel
pens. A number of them stuck In his
hand, and in taking them out several
broke Off. The hand Is terribly swol-
len, and 1t ls feared the consequences
may be fatal.
The late Walter Hastings, of Bos-
ton, has directed in his will that the
trustees he appoints shall erect upon
the grounds Of, Harvard College q
building to cost not less than $200,00O
and not more than $3.50, 1000, this build
ing to be called tho "Walter Hastings
Hail." in memory Of his father, grand
father and great-grandfather, all Of
whom graduated at Harvard College.
"A new industry in California Is
flower farming, which is about to be
introduced into Santa Barbara and Ala
media counties for the scents to be OBJ
tanned from the blossoms, Roses Will
yiel>l there 1000 pounds to the acre,
from which essences worth 1876 can be
extracted !; orange trees, z, 900 pounds,