The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-15
N EWS IN BRIEF.

Gov. Robinson, of New York, is 81.
and the oldest Governor in the land.
"A Bristol II. I. man has made 100
pairs Of rubber boots In 100 hours.
-Atlanta, Ca, has fifty-eight tele-
phonic exchanges. -a.
The area O.: Pennsylvania is about
$4,000 square milee.
Fifty different species Of tobacco
are described by botanists.
The international Exhibition In
Mexico In 1880 is likely to be given ND.
The banks OF York, Pa, hayo re-
solved to neither take nor pay trade
The New Haven, Conn.,, public
school teachers are to have their salar-
les reduced. .s.
the first Of last March, Chicago packed
nearly 5000, 900 hogs,
"A larger quantity of tobacco will
be cultivated In Cumberland county,
Pa. this year than ever before.
In tho Mississippi penitentiary
there are over 200 comvicts who are i'm
prisoned for life. ....s..,E,..y
The principal Of the Tltusville,. Pa,
schools has been arrested for cruelty
beating a pupil.
The tomb Of Napoleon III, is cover
Gu with fresh flowers every day by Or
der OF Euge3ie. 0vfr,.
1t costs, so says n current item, the
farmers Of the Unlted States sac, 900, 900
annually to do their plowing.
The Jefferson Medical College,
PhiladelDhia, has sent out upon the
land 1858 doctors. ,
The population of Spain Is now es-
,iniated at about II ,0J0 900, an increase
OF nearly one million since 1860. iEl
The Five Cent Savings Bank of
Lowell, Mass, has been closed by the
Bank Commissioners.
Captain Paul Boynton is going to
swim tho Connecticut River from Hart
ford to Saybrook. #@@:
-Mr. IL. ID. Parker, of the Parker
House, Boston, Mass, is worth $780,
QUO.
More snow OH Mount Washington
the past winter than for forty years be-
fore. ' nw
Each day In April the pipe lines
took 80 S93 barrels OF oil from the wells
in tho Venango REGION,
Seventy vessels from five to seven
ty tons buruhen, with 800 men, are now
engaged In the Key West spon ge trade.
"A Nebraska man, with the aid Of
sixteen men, has planted $4,000 trees
on his claln In eight days, this spring.
"A farmer on the shores Of Lake
Ontario has had nino acres washed
away in twenty years. He is evident
MIA eiootl6'ii SidwatI6nA Votb o. Gfltf0so
and majority of 5000 for tho New
Constitution.
Enough cloth can be woven in
Massachusetts, in sixty days to supply
all the people In the United States with
clothing. -.~..
The yield Of petroleum in the
United States last year was GIG, ,007 ,004
gallons. The quantity exported WAS
valued at $40 .574 ,074. 1r,.
William Jay, a lad of Penn town.
ship, Chester county, Pa, died recently
from lOckjaw. He stuck II thorn into
his foot and the wound fcstered.
Colonel King, Texas cattle man,
has Il fenue soventy-avo miles long, en-
range 10000 oeasLs. -..s..
Among the twenty-three new con-
verts which Bishop Whipple recently
nontlrmed at st. Paul, Mimi, were
twelve Indians. = lass,a5i
-AIs Aolihcse Ino Iopo Hhs sCou-
ferred the Grand Cross Of the Order of
st. Gregory the Great on Mr.. Daniel
Thomas Murphy, Of California.
completed, at Bradford, England, the
unexpected feat of, walking $500 miles
| in 1000 consecutive hours. .t.e.;
MFR. William r. Cushing, of Malta
| polsett, Me-, has dug his grave, board
cd 1t up insldes covered 1t up In good
shape. and Is only waiting for the final
dissolution Of all things. r.4
Among the Seminole Indians there
Is q tradition that Florida was once in
habiteu by q half-civiliZed race, who
were artisans anu great In wealth and
war. '.a fN. ss""ist afNs
The flowers used for decorating
Queen Victoria's apartments at the
British Embassy, In Paris, on the oc-
casi0ns Of her two recent Visits there,
COST $4,000. H1n@ 8" Ss@Af shAA
There are $4,000, 900 acres of land
In California fit for cut tvatiOE, and not
over 5000 900 are in actual use for that
purpose, and not over 5000, 900 are en-
closed.
The salary Of Whitelaw Reid, Of
the New York Tribune, is $4,000.
Hurlburt, OF the World, receives $4,000
u year. Charles A. .Dana,t Of the Sun,
gets salary OF $l2, 900.
An English company has been
formed with a capital Of $1,250,O00 to
establish line OF steamers 10 rum be-
tween Baltimore and 3Barrow-in{ Fur
ness, for the transportation Of cattle.
The land in Ireland is cultivated
by 100000 tenants, VINO occupy an
average Of thlrty-twO acres eacll. There
are l8.0U0 landlords. of whom ], ,042
own two-thirds OF the whole .couMiry.
The largest cultivated wheat farm
on the globe is said TO be the GrOndin
farm, not far from the town OF Fargo,
Dakota. II embraces some 40, 900 acre /,
both Government and railway land,
and lies close TO the, Red river. 81,
The crown given by the King of
Spain TO Queen Mercedes on their Wed-
dug day was made inS Madrid, and
Host 500 900. Ri A. necklace mac deilwith
forty pearls cost. $80, ,QO0, and a few sol.
ltaires, $40, 600. 81 ~, NJ
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