The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-30

NEWS IN BRIEF.


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There are 732 children under the
age of fifteen employed In the mills Of
Lawrence, Mass.
North Cnrolina farmers have about
42O. 900 sheep, which Yield a yearly pro-
Ut OF something noar $450,000.
The population Of Australia is now
2.500 900, and the import and export
trade is $4,000, 900.
1t ia estimated that the Log crop Of
Wisconsin this year will reach 81, $685.
600, 600 against l ,075, ,000, 900 last year.
The whole number of communi-
cants In Congregational churches, III
Vermont, Is 2O,ll7, about one-seven-
tcenth of the population.
Senator Gordon has a sheep rancho
H. Georgia comprising DO, 900 acres. A
stone wall enclosing 1t Is being built by
colorcd convlcCs.
The Methodist Missionary Society
has expended SO, ,O0O. 900 in its work in
this country, and 100000 on foreign
fields.
The sum Of 50 .042 ,213 has been con-
tribntcd to the sustentation fund of the
disestablished Irish Episcopal Church
since 1870.
During the mouth Of May the Uni
ted States Mints coined gold peces val
ued at $2,S78, $50; 1880, 900 silver dol
lars, and S4,708 in smaller coins.
The total bonded debt of New York
city, less the sinking fund, on May 81,
was $l2l ,532 ,O07.51 an increase Of $2,-
409, ,l70,l over tho previous month.
-America annually imports $50, ,00O,-
O0O OF flax, hemp, Juto, ramie-all be-
ing products that may be raised on our
own soil. .......tl T., 'fIa,'
The Municipal Police Aid Assosla-
ton In New York city has $40 members.
During the last three months no deaths
Of members have occurred.
The Countess de Montljo, the moth
or Of the ex-Emprcss Eugenie, is now
eighty-three years old, bed-ridden and
almost blind. ..t ...
The equestrian statue Of the Prince
of Wales, presented to the city Of Bonn
bay by Sir Albert Sassoon, was unveil-
cd recently by the Governor Of Bombay.
On the corner of Twenty third
street and Second avenue, New York,
was once the country seat of General
Horatio Gates, of Revolutionary fame.
The next Pennsy lvania State Fair
will be held in the Permanent Exhibit
ton building, Phtladel phla, from tho
8th to tho goth Of September, both days
inclusive. ".}
The little town Of Salem, N. c., has
shipped this season 8 600. 900 pounds of
blackberrtes; result, $45 900, or the
equal Of 5000 bales of cotton at ten
o.nts pound. ,.s.
., "A submarine cable, is to be laid
across the Caspian Sea from Cape
Gourgian to Krasnovodsk, distance of
100 miles. 1t will cost 100000 rubles,
and Is to be laid In September.
The exports of provisions to Europe
are falling of very rapidly--Lhe total
during April being only about SO, $780,
600, or 81 800, 900 less than during the
month Of April, 1873, .y
Calculating from the number Of
names recorded in the new city direc-
tory, the Rochester papers conclude the
population of that city must be from
$4,000 to 10000. fIs - 91d
Six million pounds of wool are
raised within a radius Of forty miles
surrounding Steubenvllle, Ohio, which
at the average price Of 80 cents will
realize $2,000,000.
- is estimated by competent per-
sons that the amount RATED out of the
booms at Williamsport, Pa, up to the
close OF the 81 Of July, will aggregate
between OF, 900, 900 and 100, 900 900 feet.
Mile. Gabrielle Duret, the grand
daughter of Cherubini, has just been
married in Paris, and the organ music
which accompanied the ceremony was
taken from the works Of her celebrated
grandfather.
What Is said to be the largest entry
that ever passed through the Boston
Custom House was entered q short time
sugar, tho duties of which amounted to
$80,257. ~.
The historian Grogorovius is now
engaged in preparing a life of Pope
Urban VIII., and has collected many
important documents calculating the
policy pursued by that Pontif during
the Thirty Years. War.
The total cost of the new Palace Of
Justice, at Brussels, Is estimated in the
report addressed to the Chamber of
Deputies, at about $s 800 900. and five
wears Will be required to terminate the
building.
1t seems incongru0us that the Far
West should be holding centennial an-
,niversaries, but Minnesota celebrated
the Fourth of July as the bicentennlal
Of the discovery of that unexplored
wilderness by Do Luth. who planted
the French flag there on July 2, 1879.
Charles Summers grave is to be
marked by handsome sarcophagus Of
white Concord granite bought with the
funds lett over after paying all expen-
ses connected with the statue of Sum
ner made by Ball and erected in the
Public Garden:in Boston.
"A very cheering indication Of the
improved condition Of business in the
West Ia given In the fact that the clear
ings OF the Chicago banks for the first
six months Of this year amounted to
$685., ,000, 900, an increase of nearly $780,
000, 900 or more than 10 per cent. over
the corresponding six months Of last
year. '@.si% slgaS&4 4iis i8t.ai
"A sword ofrEthan tlAllcn, tie hero
Of Ticonderoga, has lately been presen-
ted to the Kentucky Historical Society.
This interesting weapon is dirk-edgsd;
tho hilt is surmounted by lions head
encircltd by the Britlsh Drown, and the