The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-12
N EWS IN BRIEF.
Iowa has 224 brass bands.


The bullion value Of our standard
silver dollar is now Just so 1872 in gold.
There are SIC 900 miles of telegraph
wire under ground in London.
Plus x witnessed the death Of one
hundred Cardinals during his life.
Mark Twain appears on the Hart.
ford tux-list assessed for $67 $50.
King Humbert has beea forbidden
to smoke by physicians.
Atlanta, Ga, has 275 female clerks
In her stores.
The amount of United States frac-
tl0nal currency outstanding Is about
$l0,000.O0O.
"A dynamite cartridge factory has
been established in Saginaw county,
Mich.
"A carrier pigeon made the distance
from Monson to New London, Conn,
VI miles, In 61 minutes, OH Friday.
In London the Fishmongcrs Comp
any has given $3.50 to the Female
School of Art.
Tho Irish people Of Wilkcsharre,
Penn, are raising fund to erect an
orphans asylum.
There are sc, 981 children Of school
age In Baltimore. and Of this number
46,778 attend school.
The striking glass-bOwers Of Pitts
burg received $4,000 in help from outside
sources.
"A ustrlans smoke more and moro.
In 1877 the whole amount paid for TO-
bacco was 10000, 900 1orins, against
$4,000, 900 last year.
From the debris Of the coal mines,
France makes annually zoe, 900 tons Of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 100000
tons.
The Confederate monument in Au-
gusta, Ga, cost $17 500. At each Of the
corners Of the base stands ma bile fig
ure Of Lee, Jackson, Walker and Cobb.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, during
the month of April. averaged daily
about five car loads of emigrants for the
West
The amount of timber RATED to
market this year IL estimated at lust
double the amount sent last year. The
prices are only fair.
The vestry of st Georges, Hanover
Square, London, has resolved, by
vote OF 33 to 20, not to allow statue of
Byron to be placed In St. james street.
Tho potterles in tho Vicinity of
trenton, N. D., are reported as doing
good business just now, and are rum
1t Is proposed in the oil regions OF
>Pennsylyanta to invite tho Marquis of
Lorne and the Princess Louise to make
tour Of that territory.
The Clarion county, Pa, papers
state that the lumber season has ended
with them, and the prices received for
the timber were better than those that
have ruled for many years.
A Corning IN. " man lost roll
Of bills containing $175. An honest
tcilow found the money and returned
1t to the owner, aud he was rewarded
with five cent cigar.
The cut of lumber on the Kenne-
bee river, In Maine, during the present
season, will amount In the aggregate
to Go, ,O0O, 900 feet or about l2,0OO. 600
less than the cut Of 1878.
Official documents show that the
ratio Of deaths per one thousand per-
sons employed In England is less in
coal mining than in the navy by drown
Ing, and onc-half less than on railroads.
The managers Of the Woodruff
scientific expedition announce tenn
porary abandonment Of the grand af-
fair. They have spent $40, 600 and re-
cetved nothing In return.
This year 700, l40 mon will be call
ed out to do military service in France.
The number will be distributed as fol-
lows: 10 the active army, 479, 100; to
the reserves, Id $50; to the territorial
army, 118, 900.
Tho twenty-first musical festival
Of the German Snengcrbund Of North
America will be held at Springer Mus
ical Hall. in Cincinnati, on the 1Ith of
June. The grand chorus Will embrace
l97l singers, besides $50 instrumental
musicians.
-Mr, II. J. Jewctt, President OF the
Erie railway. receives an annual SALARY
of sac, 900. Col. Scott's yearly income
as President Of seven lines, Vice Presi-
dent of eleven, and director Of thirty
four, is over 100000.
For the three months ending March
81, 1873, there were imported Into the
United States Of irOn--pig, bar, hoop,
sheet and railroad-7, ,252 tons, and for
the same period this year II, ,928 tons
being an increase Of imports as between
the two periods OF 1904.
1t requires 3O0, 900 cubic feet of the
finest quality Of pine lumber to make
the yearly supply Of lucifer matches
for the United States, and 1t takes l00,-
900 cords Of fine hard wood to make
our shoe-pegs. 1t takes 0,OOO. 900 ties
to supply our 10000 miles Of rsllread.
The City Of Paris commenced last
year the publication of a general inven-
tory Of the artistic riches contained In
the different municipal edifices OF the
capital. Two volumes haye already
been issued. The number Of ediflces In
the twenty ACCOMPLISHMENTS Is so great
that the task Is far from being termin-
ated.
The latest estimates Of church &C.
comodation in England gives the Estab-
lished Church $685. 900 sittings; 4; the /.
Wesleyan Methodlsts, 1,702,7S4; the
Independents, 1,21l, ,10l; the Baptists,
8S7, and all other religious. bodies q
total Of ], $50. 1O3 making a grand to- 4
tai Of IL, ,53l 400.
OF potatoes, ireland produces 23
bushels to each inhakitant: the Ger