The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-11-29
VOL. III.-NO. 1870.
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lc"FlhS al estate WORTH w ,OO0, 900.
The consumption Of Southern cot
ton by Southern mills last year in
creased 2G per cent, that of the North.
ern mills per cent.
Two thousand men are now en-
ploycd in the Baldwin locomotive works
Philadelphia. and large portion OF
them are working overtime.
-Thcre are still nearly 5000 women
and girls employed about the coal
mines In the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland.
Sweden imports annually about
1000, 900 ton of coal. The yield OF the
Swedish coal pits for 1876 was about
$4,000 tons.
Oranges, lemons, olives, and al
monds are to be cultivated in Florida
soon by large number Of Italian solon-
lists, now on their way to that State.
The extreme length of the State
of Pennsylvania is $40 miles, and the
precise breadth, from the borders of
New York TO tho Maryland line. 100.
The peanut crop of Virginia, Ten
nessce and North Carolina is estimated
at 1925 900 bushcls-an increase of
about 100000 bushels over last year.
Eighteen new Austrian peers have
Just been gazcttcd, but only few OF
cm are known outside of Austria.
The title OF one Is Baron Max Wash
ington.
Recent income taX returns show
that ninety persons in Great Britain,
exercising trades and professions, have
incomes over $3.50 900, and 094 between
$50 900 and $3.50 900.
during the year ending Sept. 30,
2G ,S27 1924 pounds Of leaf tobacco were
sold in the tobacco warehouses at Dam
vile, Va, ut an average of $l2.01 per
100 pounds.
The United States produces annu-
ally between 400, ,000, ,0C0 and SOC, 900 900
pounds of tobacco. The worlds all
nual product is estimated at from
l,boO 100000 TO 100, 100000.
"A National School Of Art Wood
Carving has beon established in Eng
land TO revive the neglected art Of earv-
Ing In that country. 1t offers twelve
free scholarships.
Prince Bisnarck's house Mt Varzin
will accommodate thirty guests. In the
course Of time Prince Bismarck will
probably rebuild the house and make
it into II kind of castle.
The steel works in Western Penn
sylvania turned out more ingots and
rails last month than atany similar time
since their establishment. All Of them
have more orGe sthan they can fill.
A young woman in Hamilton
county, Ohio, won a prize by prepar-
ing good dinner In sixty-itve minutes.
One girl cooked Il dinner in flfty-four
minutes, but it was not good.
The number of suicides of late
years has greatly increased In Snxony.
The statistics for 1878 show that there
were ,l2G cases Of suicide committed,
OF which 2l5 were women. In 740 cases
death was caused by hanging, In 217
by drowning. In SS by shooting.
The New York City Mission reports
for September rs follows: Forty mis-
sionnries, 1850 visits, 208 meetings,
2S5 pledges obtained, 2G5 families aided,
G5 900 tracts distributed. Receipts for
The month, $l,705,33; payments, $2,-
0S1 .23.
About $50 steamships arc employed
In the Atlantic and Pacific trade of the
United States, and with tho exception
Of two from Philadelphia, not one en-
gagged in the Atlantic and European
transportation business, carries the
American flag.
Archer, lately Lord Falmouth's
jockey, is in the happy position of hav-
ing made his fortune before he is %.
lie Is now to receive $4,000 n year as
first jockey to the Duke of Westmin-
stcr, and another $4,000 year from
another source.
In q recent German debate, Herr
Tiedemann stated that there were In
Germany 100000 land proprietors,
2,000,0 600 OF whom were untaxcd as
having incomes under $l05 year. Out
of the actual taxpayers there were not
more than 0,OO0 whose incomes OK
cccd $3.50 q year.
Switzerland has been visited this
year by 100000 strangers, number
which exceeds by several thousand
the average of tho last four years. Of
this total one-flfth are said to be En-
glish, Germans, and Austrians; hve- E
tenths Russians, one-twentieth French
and Danes, ,thr:c-twentieth Americans,
and other natiOnalities one-tenth.
An American engineer has been
studying the great wall Of China. 1t
is l ,728 miles long, and, being built
without the slightest regard to the con-
flguratlon Of the ground, is sometimes
carried 1000 feet down into abysses.
Brooks and small rivers arc bridged
ovcr by 1t, aid strong towers on both
sides protect large rivers.
st. Georges Chapel, Windsor Cas- Z
tie, has been reopened after renovation.
A beautiful memorial Of the late King
of tho Belgians has been placed In the
chapel by the Queen, bearing the In
scription: "Erectcd by her Majesty
Queen Victoria, in loving memory Of
Leopold, the first King of the Beleians,
who was father to her as she was to a
him daughter" 80
The magnitude Of the late Mark
Hopkins fortune may be estimated
from the fact that the pleasant sums
Of $4,000, 600 In bonds and $4,000, 900 In 4
gold coin belonging TO Mr.. Hopkins
have just been discovered lying In the
Treasury sat Washingtou, where they
have beerls overlooked by the executors. t
The total value of the estate Is said to
be $23, 100000. ss. 81, y
Last year 9,88s,00O packages Of
tomatoes were put up in the q United
States. Their value was / GOO, 900. Or
these Maryland furnished g8,840 900 3
nankanaa. Now .IarSaY. 602 600 Della. 6