The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-21
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public debt, which amounted to 80. .OOO.-
600.
The Arnold print works at North
Adams, Mass, now make 125, 900 wards
OF prints day.
The receipts of the English rail-
ways have been rapidly declining for
six months.
The sugar crop Of Cuba is larger
than that Of last year by hundred
thousand pounds.
In twenty-eignt years New York
has sent $4,000 friendless children to
tho West and found homes for them.
The fleece OF the common sheep
will average less than one-half in
weight to that Of II Mcrlno or Cotswold.
Compulsory education is suggested
Tor wisconsin. Nearly one-third OF
the school population went untaught
last year.
The new City Directory of Boston
lor 1917 has Just been published. 1t
contains 134, 4,07l names, against $4,000
in 1870. e.,
| The United States imports Of Gu
ban productions are upward of $40, ,OOO,-
uoo per annum. while her exports to
that island amount to but $l5, 900 900,
The average consumption of wheat
for each individual of the population of
Great Britain Is eight bushels per an
nun.
Between 1874 and 1873, both wears
inclusive, 3.S6J,000 persons were en-
plpyed III Brush mines, and 0058 of
them lost their lives.
The recent State censis shows that
the population of N Nebraska is sabout $780,
i0O, or nearly 100 times greater than it
was 20 years ago.
New towns are laid out in tho oil
| region OF MCKean county, Pa, almost
every week. No less than five were
surveyed in the month of June.
The total contributions to the relief
of tho wives and children Of the Glou-
cester, Mass, lost fisherman amounts
to $28 ,0s3.
The excess of exports over imports
for the year ending May 81, 1870, was
$3.50, 700 ,S76. and for the year ending
May 81, 1873, $24l ,S59, ,039.
| Henry King, colorcd, aged 70 years,
residing at Sa lisbury, Md, claims the
paternity of IL children. The oldest is
90 and the youngest Is two weeks old.
Humber shipments are gradually
increasing at Lock Haven, Pa. The
Republican says that, up to June Goth,
they were 100000 feet greater than ut
this time last year.
The Department Of Agriculture re-
ports that the losses to sheep owners
by the ravages of dogs reach one mil
lion dollars annually IN the mutton and
WOOL actually destroyed.
The first two days of the sale Of the
late Nine. Musard's jewels at Paris,
produced about $4,000 The sensa-
ton lot was necklace Of seven rows
| nf plu xyhtn1, hrn,,.rI,t
The blossoms of the ailantnus tree
Recently Mrs" T "Jsno Jsne f. ayyfaSHEnI yyfaSHEnso 1f9Wytlsi
county, Maryland, lost sixty-one small
ducks, 1t Is believed from this cause.
Mr.. Henry, inventor Of the Martin
i-Henry rifle barrel and ammunition
Is vainly seeking for adequate remun-
Grafton from tho British Wnr Office for
the use of his patents by that Govern
ment.
Mrs. Judith Mitchell, sprlghtly
old woman in Ohio county, KY, born
in 1856, has six children, 81 grand
children, 1lG great-grandchildren, and
10 cat-grandchildren. All are
living.
"A statue Of Marshal Won Moltkc Is
to be erected in Cologne, the city Of his
birth, and the First Burgomaster has
offered three prizes, of 1000, 1910 and
QUO marks respectively, for the best
models.
The King Of Denmark is suffering
much from i'll health. Tie has felt
deeply tho loss Of his last daughter,
| Thyra, Duchess Of Cumberland, and
the incorporation by Prussia Of North
Schleswig was also u trouble to him.
Gardener e. Ssson undertook late-
| 1U In PrlSythnnt,n II / RI rnnEn Inn
pairs Of India rubber boots in 100 con.
secutive hours, or forfeit $1,000. He
performed his task four inmates before
the expiration Of his time.
Mechanics get $50 day, and COM
mon laborers SIS day, in Buenos
Ayres. Bookkeepers $2o.00Oa year,
and extra zeal as q manager brings
$75,0U0. The paper dollar is worth
three cents in gold. A loaf Of bread
costs So. o&nt
A bar shot, supposed to have been
thrown from one Of the English frlgates
which came up the Penobscot river in
1914, has beon found on the premises Of
Jonathan Pitcher, III Bangor, Maine,
some three feet below the surface Of
the ground.
Miss Elizabeth Leibesberger, Of
Berks county, Pa, aged %, Is one Of
| IlO "CaitIlCSt IhdkoCh tllhv
State. She owns several large farms.
She has silvery gaay hair, is neat and
trim in appearances, and, considering
her great age, is quite active and alert.
A wooden doll which William Penn
brought over from England as a pre-
sent TO one Of his daughters Is still
cherished by Washington family.
1t is known as Letitla Penn, the name
Of the great Quaker's daughter, and is
faded beauty, twelve inches high, with
out joint il: its body.
There Is an eccentric tramp in
Litchfield county, Conn.,, known as
"the leatherman.' He lives In cavo
in Roxbury during the winter, and at
other seasons Wanders from town to
town begging his way. His entire
dress, hat included, consists of old boot
legs tied together With leather strings,
! France is a large importer Of for
etgn stock. In 1877 she imported 1867
900 black cattle, 100000 sheep, and
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