The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-11-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The tax on commercial travellers in
Texas has already brought SD 900 to
the State treasury. 10.
-Philadelphia pays over $4,000
day for oysters, and New York almost
$4,000 every twenty-four hours.
There are in the United States
nearly 200 Universalist churches and
over 700 ministers.
"A cord of stone, three bushels lime,
and cubic yard Of sand will lay 100
cubic feet Of wall.
The yearly production OF soap in
France Is estimated at 22O kilos (about
4SO, 100000 pounds.)
Twelve years ago Texas shipped
only 75, 900 bales Of cotton. Last wear
she shipped ! 200, 900 bales.
Thus far in 1870 there have been
l,347,O0l barrels of salt made in Sag
inaw valley.
Or the 900 miles of railroad
completed in the world in,1S7S, nearly
one half were In the United States.
The population of Greece, 1,547,-
S0l in 1870, has now risen to 1,G70, ,775.
In 1888 1t was $4,000.
In the silk factories of Italy 12O, ,42S
women are employed, besides 2G,976 in
cotton, and 1907 in tobacco factories.
During the past year no fewer than
300 900, 900 acres of government land
nave been taken up or sold to settlers.
According to the most recent cal
culatiOns-those Of Peterman-tle Do-
pulatiOn of the whole world is now
| ,424 100000.
The expectation of American cheese
has increased during tho last quarter
OF century from 900, 900 to GO, 600, 900
pounds.
Ohio Iron mills have not been so
busy since 1873. Mills at Lancaster,
Portsmouth and Urbana have heavy
orders ahead.
The celebrated Kennedy cattle
rancho, Texas, OH the Rio Grande, has
been purchased by an English com.
pany tor $050,00O.
quite brisk demand for American
windmills has sprung up in the British
colonies, West India islands and South
America. ..
The bankruptcies In the "wholcsale
trade' IN Great Britain and Ireland
were 2,172 in 1877, 2,6l2 In 1878 and
| ,b33 In the first half of 1870.
The Dork-packing at Chicago from
March lst to date Is 1,40S,000 hogs,
against l,61S 900 for the corresponding
date year ago.
The foreign and domestic oyster
trade OF this country exceeds $500, ,000,-
600 annually, and we ship abroad
$4,000, 100000 oysters every year.
There are SEQ mon at work in the
Coatesville- (Pa.) iron mills. An in
crease Of twenty cents a ton has Just
been put OIL their wages.
Mr.. Jamvs Gordon Bennett is re-
ported to have bought at the Munich
art exhibition Adams "Cromwell" for
5000, and canvas by T.. A. Kaulbach
for $4,000.
--One-flfth more siding and flooring
is needed thau the number of square
feet Of surface to be coYered, because Of
the lap In tho siding and matching of
the flooring,
Tho wages of laborcrs in Canada
range from forty cents to one dollar
day, and some skilled mechanics are
working for from eighty cents to one
dollar per day. ,l... '..If
Straw hats and bonnets to the value
Of from SIG, ,000, 900 to 20, 600, 900 are
manufactured in New England every
year. Nearly all of this business is
confined to Massachusetts.
West Virginia factories have STAR
ted up. So great Is the demand for
nails at the Wheeling mills, that they
have advanced the price fifteen CO its
per keg. HH,h 'N 1I
a The Duke of Norfolk, the richest
and most influential Roman Catholic
peer of England, Is building Roman
Catholic church on his Sheffield estate
which will cost 100000. "i'
On the 31st Of December, 1877,
there were 5S,466 post-offlces in Eu-
rope, with 223,517 persons employed,
or ono postal estab' 'ishment for every
5,134 inhabitants.
-Charlotta Patti was born in 1910;
Marie Sass, 1888; Adelina Patti, ls43;
Nilsson, 1847; Croizette, 184S; Marie
Roze, l840; Judic, 1850; Heilbron,
Five thousand five hundred and
elghty-four white and colored children
have been enrolled In tho Richmond
(Va.) schools; lack Of accommodation
made 1t necessary to reject 1859.
The Treasury Department has
placed SIG, 1000, 900 In gold to the credit
fee In New York, to. be used in pay
ment for foreign gold coin and bars.
The first export Of apples from the
1915, and they brought six and eight
dollars barrel. That country now re-
ceives 10000 barrels Of American ap-
pics per year. t| 'N&t|t
During the past eight years WOOL
growing In California has Increased
noarly 500 per cont, and the territory
now has 100000 sheep, which will yield
the presentyear nearly 1900, 900 pounds
Of wool. #'j3 r4b ht7}tN 81
Last September a census was taken
Of tho Japanese Islands. The total po-
pHlation Of the empire was 81, 1888 ,4O4.
OF these, l ,036, III dwell In Yeddo, or,
as the inhabitants name 1t, Toxic, In 8
286,061 houses, being about4.37 occu- D
pants for each house. 3l9Es@i
The total strength Of the French
army next year will Ebe 08S 800 men.
Of this number 407, zoe will belong to {
the active army; 3l3,858, with 1850
officers, to the reserve Of the active ar !,
my, and Ids, 900, with 4 800 officers, to
tho territorial army. Nsg n
The total receipts from customs for
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