The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-22
VOL. III.-NO. "a.
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1T Is reported that President HAYES
Will spend the sumwlcr months ut his
home in Fremont, Ohio.
The Howard iron works of Center
county, Pa, lost 900 cords of wood by
mountain fires. .
Chicago fires in May caused loss
OF $llO,4 403, Of which about half was
borne by Insurance companies.
London has a shell mission, the
shells being sent by children at the sea-
side for children in hospitals. 49,,
Ocean county, N. j., is the place to
get wortleberrics, Of which $5O, 900
worth will be gathered this year.
1t Is estimated that the Log crop of
Wisconsin this year will reach 81 ,G35.-
feet against l,O75, ,00C, 900 last year,
--Alr. Spurgeon has been presented
In honor of the twenty fifth year ofhls
work as a preacher.
The potato bugs in the western
part Of the State of Maine are, it is said.
making sad havoc with the potato
vines. .
| There were ], 1867 fires in the United
States and Canada in April, 1879. The
| aggregate loss is so, los, 600. The loss
10 Insurance companies Is "a, ,505, 800.
| Mr.. John B. Cough has en- ded his
| lecture tour in Great Britain, and il
| about to return home. He has given
ll5 lectures there.
Isaac and David Seltzer, twin bro
| theirs, haye just celebrated their 93,l
birthday in their Chester county (Pa1
| home.
The Prince of Wales has reduced
| inc rents ofall his farmers In the Duchy
| OF Cornwall twenty per centum for
three years. .N,I..
Only 100000 of the now silver
dollars have gone into circulation since
the coinage began last year, whflo the
treasury holds $4,000, coo. .
-Forty-six thousand dollars' worth
OF Holsters wcrc shipped from Halifax
tor the London market, ono day, last
week, 1t being the first cargo.
During the month of May the
United States Mints coined gold pieces
valued at $2,87S, $50; 1880, 600 silver
dollars, and "a ,7OS in smaller coins.
-The longest pine root Oh record has
recently been dug up Oh a plantation IL
few miles from Savannah, Ga. 1t was
l02 feet long. - ....rl
The total bonded debt of Now York
city, less tho sinking fund, on May 81,
was $l2l 1872 O07 81, an increase Of $2,-
409,l 5,1l over the previous month.
The anti-tobacco Society Of Paris
has pctitioncd the authorities to pro-
| hibit smoking in tho streets and cafes
| by youths under sixteen years of age.
Hartford, Conn.,, has just had
grand jury whose average height was
feet q inches, and average weight was
1915 pounds. The tallest wss @ feet 4
inches.
The Germans, Italians, and French
are repairing for extensive exhibits aC
view of lnterrupting trade between the
United States and Mexico.
The exports Of provisions to Europe
| are falling Off very rapidly-the total
during April being only about $780,
| 600, or 81 100000 less than during the
month Of April, 1873. ...t.
| "A piece Of ordnance has been man.
| ufncturcd at Turin which throws a pro-
jcctile weighing ton, and requires 800
pounds Of powder for char 20. 1t Is
34 feet long, and has al 1S-inch calibre.
TO the 120,000,000 quarts of milk
sent annually to New York there Is ad-
dcd 0,000,0 900 quarts Of water, which,
sold ut ten cents quart, brought ST.
| 1000 per annum, or $4,000 per day.
| In 1870 Colorado had a population
Of 30,864. Now it has grown to $50 900,
| or over six hundred per cent. in nine
ycars-a proportion even greater than
Kansas. 81. .H ... Fs.g..
Tho formation Of company to con-
| struct a tide level canal across the 18TH
| mus of Dnrien, has been begun by NJ.
De Lesscps, and a subscription for 400,-
! O0O, 900 francs will be Immediately call
ed for. ...,. .a
1t is stated that they are now, max
ing artificial Ice down South at a cost
| Of only seventy cents per ton. One
| factory turns out ten tons daily in the
form of blocks IN feet long by ten In
ches In thickness. ..'4 4.
| The Pennsylvania railroadcompany
has begun to plant Virginia creepers on
the hillsldes along their tracks. The
effect 1t Is thought will add. TO the beau-
ty Of the scenery and tend to prevent
land slides. ,.n.
The exports Of whoat and wheat
flour at its equivalent In grain from all
the United States ports to all foreign
countries for the year ending Decem-
Der 81, 1878, as per the official report Of
the government, were equal to 1874 ,300,-
o6e bushels, against 81 ,402, ,so6 bushels
In 1877. ~ a9 'fst ,qaew
Mrs. Zerviah Gould Mitchell, of
North Abingdon, Mass, an old Indian
woman who says that she is lineal de-
scendant of Massasoit, has pitched her
tent on the borders Of Assawompset
Pond, in Lakeville, Mass, on the land
Of her forofathers, which she claims,
and Intends to pass the summer there.
up to the 18th Of May, nearly
1000, 900 francs Isl, 10000 have been
sent to the Archbishop Of Parisyas sub
scriptions for the Church OF the Sacred
Heart, now being built in that city.
The snbterranean vault of the ediflce is
nearly finished, andi's dimensions arc
cathedral In France. t,gs.y sslst
According to statisticsjus publish
cd, there were 1878 young men stu
dying at the 20 German universities
during the winter semester Just passed.
! or these 2438 we're studying theology,
5108 law, and 1857 medicine, 1857 being
inscribed in the Philosophical Faculty,