The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-05
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III HusI'b, 1eSaS, inc pants having
stood out all winter. ...
The loss of trade In the Mononge-
hcla Valley by the recent strike Of coal
miners Is estimated at 81 100000.
New Hampshire, Kansas, Minneso-
tn and Colorado now give women the
right to vote at school elections. ..
Bordeaux exports nearly half
million casks Of spurious liquors annu-
ally.
The present cotton crop Is one of
the largest ever raised in the South; 1t
will foot up to over five million bales.
Tho tax on armorial bearings in
England realizes half a million Of dol
lars annually.
Poverty and crime-those twin
sisters--cest England fully $s5, ,O0O, 900
annually. '
The Grand Lodge Knights of
Honor OF Pennsylvania, will hold their
next annual session at Pittston, Pa.
There are 4S0 patients confined in
the New Jersey State Lunatc Asylum,
near Trenton. ..'...
The contributions in Massachusetts
for the families Of Gloucestcr's lost
fisherman, aggregate $40, 900. ~,
The London police have received
orders to arrest any person seen drop
ping orange peel in the street.
On the lst Of March the total num-
bcr of poor in London was SO. .529-45,-
Ol3 in workhouscs and 44, ,5lG outside,
though receiving help.
Cornell University has 403 students
OF both sexes attending the university,
and only about 800 young mon, against
about 700 when the experiment began.
king Humbert, of Italy, has face
to which no picture does justice, He
has Il remarkably kind and sad express
sion. =
The Lehman foundry Mt st. Peters
burg has the portable printing press
which was captured from Napoleon Oh
tho retreat from Moscow
The last census Of Paris shows
that the population Is composed Of
l,764 900 Catholics, 1000 Lithcrans
and Calvinists and 23,600 Jews.
The world averages an annual pro-
duet ot6Sl 900. 600 pourds of tea, China
producing 600, 200, 600, japan &c, ,OOO, 900,
India, 30, 900, 900, and Java 5000, 900.
In the hollow of tree sixty feet
from the ground, p. w. White of Fem
ner, N. Y, found fin thriving condi-
tion gooseberry bush about foot high.
The Sing Sing IN. " prison earn
cd In March $lS, ,55S.l2. The expenses
were SIC, 1881 leaving profit of
-, ,220 SO.
Seals have become quite plenty In
the lower Conn ccticut river, and some
hnye ,I!, been seen as far north as Rocky
Hill ton miln1 h"lc;,-,r .;.,"fn. pt-.sil
:. The death is announced of, Admiral
Smytn, UHo VI ItIo Gov eutvirv. Of
Trafalgar. He entered the navy in
1903. a.... nr.<
The Duchess of Marlborough un-
yelled the Balfe Memorial Window in
st. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on the
Goth Of March. .. .'!
Stamford, Conn, rejected the char
tor granted by the last Legislature in
cooperating the place rs a city by a vote
Of 40S to 81. .........,..
The Indebtedness Of Toledo, Ohio,
amounts to about one-fourth OF its tax
able property, and Its annual tax rate
is about four per contum. ~ ,o.H
Almost all the places Of amusement
In Boston, city OF about four hundred
thousand inhabitants, are within q
circle the radius Of which is little more
than one hundred yards. @'fr" GDa
"A weather record, kept in the
northern part Of Vermont, shows that
there have been 100 days of sleighing
snow have fallen. "f"'' = "'.' "@N
The honey crop of San Diego coun-
ty, CAL, in 1873. was more than 7S7
tons. San Diego county produced
more honey than all the rest Of the
State taken together >l'F".
DIR. Jacob Dampman and wife, of
st. Mary's, Chester county, Pa, are he-
lieved to be the Oldest married couple
in that section Of the State, having
lived III wodlock for period Of 8S
years. Dr., Dampman is 80 years of
age and his wife SO. They have had
10 children, 81 grandchildren, So great
grandchildren, and great-great-grand-
child.
"A San Francisco Juror, who offer
cd to sell his vote tor $500 to save the
prisoner, woman, from the penalties
Of hero crime,E has been sentenced to
four years imprisonment lii tho State
Prison. "a! b'nI "i 6caoIiu%
Tho Now York Evening Post nhas
already started q ''Fresh Air Fund"
for sen ling sick and debilitnted child
ron Of that city to the country for brief
vacations. The sum Of $3.50 has thus
far been subscribed. Su1nU D4.A,i
y .--Complalnt Is made inI Gettysburg
about raising corn. ia the portions Of
theGettysburg battlefield that have been
set aside as monumental Of the great
combat on Culp's HILL Many Of the
old bullet marked trees have hoep con-
vcrted into fire twood.f,j coi pniiiH
General r. E. Lees portrait, paint
ed by the southern. artist G1erry, was
exhibited at tho Centennial Exhibition,
and tile state of Texas offered for 1t
$4,000. 1t was, however, returned to
Greenvilie, Ga, where II was accli!dd'en- l!dd'e
tally burned,
;" Tho rice fields on the Cape Fear
river, near Wilmington, N O., which
have lain iale and grown up with
weeds since the war; ahaYe been re-
claimed and planted this season by sew
era1 energetic parties, who expect to
raise at least zoo, 900 bushels Of rice in
the next flve'years.iffo ,flsrt,ft 3if
o,--A gentleman while trying on d
pair OF, gloves ,iil A, store az, ,Brackton,.
Mass, found a g6ld ring inside on
Which was insert Bed the owners shame,