The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-06
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Is Shell of silver, with pearl resting
In 1t and bearded fringe Of fine silver
beads hanging from the shell.
-Extensive preparations are being
made for celebrating the sixtieth ami
versary of American Odd Fellowship,
at pittston, Pa, on the 25th Of April,
anu at Reading on the Goth.
The now post office, now In course
OF erected ut Hartford, Connecticut,
has thus far cost $3.50, 900, and it Is csti-
mated that /; will use 1000 before it
is completed.
The Bureau Veritas, of Paris in
giving tho number of steamers register
ed In 1878, makes Great Britain head
the list, with 32l6; the United States Is
placed next, with GIG, and France
ranks third, with 275 steamers.
Professor Dana, the geologist, of
Yale, although sixty years old, is a tre-
| mendous pedestrian, and can run like
n deer. In his excursions with his
students they find that few can keep
pace with him If he undertakes to walk
rapidly.
-Gas manufacture IN Paris contin-
ues to be an increasingly prosperous
industry. Tho collected revenue of
the Partisan Company for lighting and
heating by "as. in January Of this year,
was 81 l,3l7,l45, or 1928 per cent. more
than the collections Of the same month
last year.
1t has been decided to erect new
tower for the Eddystone Lighthouse
about 127 feet from tho present site.
The focal plane will be raised to an elc-
vation of l30 feet, and the range OF
light extended to 17L nautical miles.
The new tower will be constructed en-
tircly Of granite.
The Sixth Annual Convention Of
the Millers' National Association will
DC held in the city of Chicago, May 13,
1879. AS recommended by the Execu-
tive Committee, reorganization Of the
association will probably take place,
and IL Is hoped as many members as
possible will attend.
Throughout France gardening is
practically taught In the primary and
elcmentery schools. There are at pre-
sent % 900 of the schools, each Of which
has garden attached to it, and is under
the care of master capable Of impart-
Ing knowledge of the principles of
horticulture.
The memorial tablet beneath the
window Of the room In which Keata died
In Rome has just been unveiled with
appropriate ceremonies in tho presence
of number of English, Americans and
>'SAh hOtl " lICCIIU LplC uClifCICu
| an address and entrusted tllo tablet to
| the care OF the British Ambassador.
Suit has been entered by Washing
ton county Pa.) coal operators against
six miners to recover $1,000 damages,
| resulting from strikes. 1t Is alleged
the defendants conspired together to
| prevent men from working, thus caus-
| ing the loss named. The defendants
were arrested on capidS and committed
In default of $4,000 bail each.
"A Maine paper relates that an ELS
worth man visited one Of tho logging
camps. and, on leaving forgot his nit
tens. He did not miss them until
mile away. He wrote a noto and gave
| 1t to his dog, with instructions to 20
back to tho camp and give 1t to the cook,
which he did, and returned in a very
short time with tho mittcns in his
mouth.
Fisk University, at Nashville,
! Tenn, has just received tho sum of
SOC, 900 in aid of the work the institution
Is doing for the education Of the color
cd people Of the South. The gift comes
through Rev. w. H. Wilcox, of Massa-
chusetts, who is privileged to distribute
nearly 81 900, ,O00-the contribution of
his aunt. Mrs. Daniel P. Stone, of NAL
den. Mass.,-- the cause of Christian
| CuuS~GtOH Ill ClllS COlllllTys
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
cided that whore drunken and unru-
| ly passenger la put off railroad train,
and is then run over by another
train, the railroad company Is not liza
Bile. 1t was the duty Of the conductor
ts protect other passengers against him
by ejccting him, and If he was too
drunk to take care Of himself after that
1t was only his own fault. Similar de-
! ciSiOns have been made in other States.
| Persons tond OF statistics may be
delighted to know that one day recent
| ly, a man on the top OF the custom.
house IN Newburyport, Mass, counted
sixty-flvc fishing vessels. Each vessel,
he estimated, carried eight mon; each
man attended to about eight hundred
hooks; so (if his figures were corroct),
about 416, 900 hooks were hanging ag-
noses Of the hungry Goldfish on the little
strip of New England coast within the
line Of his vision.
Cornell University has just estab-
lisbed an experimental station which Is
prepared to analyze different kinds of
commercial fertilizers in the laboratory
and to test them in the field to exam
Inc seeds that are suspected to be adul-
terated; and TO identify and name
grasses, weeds or other plants. The
board Of control is formed Of several
professors OF the university and Of the
chief officers Of several agricultural
societies of this State. T#
Leo XIII has made valuable addi-
ton to the Vatican Library in the
shape Of one hundred and thirty-fve
volumes Of the Moniteur Universel OF
Paris. containing the continuous issue
of that newspaper, without break,
from the day Of the publication Of its
first number, on the 10Th of November,
1889, to the'end of the year 1861. The
volumes were offered for sale at auction
at tho startling price of $4,000. The
Pope gave an unlimited commission,
and they were knocked down to him at
5000. " ~
Mr.. Williams, United States Con-
sui at Sydney, Australia, informs the
Department Of State that the scope and
plan of the international exhibition
to be held there has been greatly en-