The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-18
B Il I E f S

the railroad company, in Altoona, Pa,
have reached depth of a thousand feet.
-TheWisconsin State Normal Schools
have dropped Greek, trie onometry and
astronomy from their courses of study.
There were 27l labor strikes In Eng
land In 1876. Successful 4; compro-
missed II; won't back to work on en-
ployers' terms, $50.
--England's debt, to state 1t in roma
numbers, stands ut about ST., 900, ,OCO, 900,
and yet she enjoys the best credit In
the world.
India produces from 10000 900 to
280 100000 bushels Of wheat annually,
being as much as the production OF
France or Russia. .''....
Dakota is larger is larger than New
England, and It's people are beginning
to agltate Its division into three Terri
tories.
In the Pennsylvania coal fields the
average pay of the miners Is 50 per day,
OF the laborers I.2S and of the boys fifty
cents.
The Sons Of Temperance number
about 10000 in North America. the
Temple Of Honor 10000, and the Good
Tcmplars, whose order extends to MANY
nations, number some 400, 900.
Kansas has now $50 churches. GO
OF which are Baptist, 80 Congregation
alist, 33 Lutheran, % Episcopal, 1852
Methodist, 80 Presbyterian, and 10
United Presby terian.
-.-During July l2,71O Immigrants
landed at New York, against 9G89 in tie
same month last year. For the year
ending July 81, the increase In immi-
grants was 29,l06.
The Western Union TELEGRAPH
Company purchase about 10000 miles
OF wire annually, which gives some
idea of the enormous extent Of their
business.
A recent official return Of the ma
tional debt Of Great Britain puts the
exact figures OH the 1st of April last at
t778,O7S, $40. III 1889, e803, ,127 was
paid off and G,2sD, 1923 added.
Some gentlemen in Tarry town. on
the Hudson. have offered to give one
thousand dollars for monument to
Washington Irving, and also to give
the land on which to erect it.
The remains Of all old furnace or
forge, long since dismantled, which
supplied the Continental army with
cannon and ball, are still visible on the
Black Rock road In York county, Pa.
The raising of bees has become a
business OF great profit among the far
mers of Washington county, Pa. 1t
pays better than wool, and the dogs are
not as hard on the bees as on the sheep.
Eight horses have been sent from
Chester county, Pa, to England, These
animals were selected with special refe-
renee renee, to size and style, speed being
than sixteen hands high.
II
London, wherein John Milton was bap-
tlzed In l608, was torn down last year,
ana on the buildings erected on the site
Is placed an inscription and soulptur-
cd head of the poet. .....'
Touring mills, affording employment
to more than GO,O0O persons. Their
annual product Of flour is moro than
$4,000, 900 barrels, some of the largo
mills producing 1000 barrels day.
Judge j. l.. Rice, of Keokuk, Iowa,
who died last week, bequeathed $40 900
to tho Library Association Of that CITY
for tho erection Of a building, $4,000 to
Williams College, OF Massachusetts, ard
81 900 to st. Johns Episcopal Church,
of Keokuk.
The corn crop of this country in
1873 was 1850 100000 bushels. The
crop of 1879 will probably equal If not
exceed the crop Of 1878. The export of
corn from this country from September
1878, to August 81, 1879, will proba.
bly, reach 100000 bushels.
"A Toronto Magistrate has ruled
that shaving is a work Of necessity, and
consequently is lawful on the Sabbath
day, and some Of the BARRIERS OF the city,
who object to keeping open shop on
that day, have determined to appeal
against his decision. '.l"
The Army and Navy Co. operative
Stores of London comprise 13, 900 share
holders, 5000 life members and Is, 900
annual subscribers. The capital is
100000. Last year the profits were
over Gl2,0O0. although prices had heen
reduced.
The Rev. George Schamback, Pas
tor Of the German Lutheran Church at
Newark, n. j., sued Christian Volk,
an undertaken, te recover $18 for nine
funerals he had attended at tho call of
Volk. The suit was decided in favor
OF the undertaken. ~
In 1860 there were 1858 shops IL
ccnsed for the sale OF tobacco In Paris,
and the numbers OF eact year have
gradually increased till In 1873 there
"cIc l.f4O Fotall uculoTB Ill GODaCCO. i
OF these %, 1851 sold tobacco alone, while
1888 were also engaged as official
agents.
The San Francicco Board of Under
writer's have voted to give Captain
Armstrong and his daughter 5000 each
for the courage ana fortitude they dis
played In bringing the ship Templarin
to port against adverse winds, and aftsr
many of the crew had been lost from
yellow fever,
Tho Municipal Council of Paris re-
Gently decided to have the statues of 1O8
aersonages arected on the facade Of the
restored Hotel dc Vile. Among them
are Beranger, Berryer, Cavaignao, Co
rot, Daubigny, Delacroix, Didot, Hale
Wy, Ledru-Rollln, Mtchelet. Alfred
De Mus ct, Regnault George Sand,
Scribe, Eugene Sue, and Horace Vernet.
The elder brother of the Pope, who
died recently, Of apoploxy, was doubt
less Charles Pecci. an toetogenarian,
who resided at Rome, Oh the street OF
Santa Chiara. The second brother,