The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-06
VOL. IV.-NO. 20.
BRIEFS.


valued at $685. 900.
Out OF 577 1863 persons of school age
In Iowa only 264, ,702 attend school.
New Hampshire has 500 ,OS0 acres
In grain, potatoes and moving land.
Over seven million watch glasses
are sold annually in the United States.
The first iceboaJ on the Hudson
River, n. Y, was built at Athens In
1918.
There are now 900 Sabbath Schools
IN France, 1000 in Germany, and !, 200
in Italy.
-London has S72 churches. In New
YORK there is one for every 2,6l3 i'll
habitants.
| The crop Of castor beans raised I'm
Kansas last year, is estimated at 10 ,OOO,-
OC0 bushels.
--Iho Parncll demonstration In Phil
aaeiphIa, Pa, yielded $4,000 for the
Irish sufferers,
The cost of the Hayden trial Is estl-
mated ut ovor $25, 900. The Jurors re-
ccivcd about 5000 each.
-fhe debt of English towns and
cities for sanitary improvements
amount to 10000, 900.
OF the 134 members of the two
ffOuses of the Louisiana Legisls turo
| oniy l3 are Republicans.
The amount expended on public
schools In the United Kingdom during
the year 1873, was $l3,G77 900.
A man in EaSton, Maine, has this
year harvested 10000 bushels OF potn-
toes from forty-live acres of ground.
The South raised last year 600 ,OOO,-
OOO pounds of tobacco, which is II ,OOO,,-
ooo moro than she ever raised before.
The total debt Of Boston at the close
OF last year will be $l2, 1856, ,Sl6.23 being
adecrease during the year of $9, ,720, ,G24.
Within the past five years tho acre
| age OF cereals in the United States h az
Increased from $4,000, 600 to 90, ,0OO, 900.
"A Virginia paper estimates tho an
nual loss to that State by the destruc-
GHn Cion OF sheep by vicious dogs at 81 ,000,-
Mrs, j. j. Astor, of New York, In
1871, provided homes tor 877 fricndless
children in the west, ut an expense of
$o750.
The Sisters Of Charity in the United
states numbered at a recent enumera-
ton ], l,l79, III charge Of ll0G establish
mchts.
Nashville, Tenn, points to new
buildings worth nearly 5000, 200 as evil
dcnce OF substantial growth during the
past year.
| Queen Victoria has ordered uuan-
tiCy OF decorative furniture in Dublin
Tor Windsor Castle and Osborne, to be
made Of Irish materials.
"A medal has been struck to com.
memorate Mr.. Gladstone's seventieth
| plrthday anniversary, and Il copy IN
gold has been accepted by Mrs. Glad
stone.
There are 1,G3S public schools In
Connecticuu, attended by 80, ,504 pupils.
The school revenue amounted last year
TO ,5oo,072.5 and the expenditures
There are now nearly 100 lumber
ana shingle mills on the Saginaw River,
with an estimated capacity Of 8l0,5OO,-
600 feet, and giving employment to
over COO men.
| Lyons, France is going to raise
statue to the memory Of jacquard, the
inventor Of the famous loom bearing
his name, who was born there in 1861
and died In 1884.
-..Ihe decrease in the mum bcr of pu-
pills studying German in the St. Louis
public schools Is since last year nearly
700. Nevertheless 20, 1913 pupils out Of
5S,4s5 are still taking the language.
Recent statistics show that about
two Thousand Russian soldiers COM
pletely lost their sight during the late
war with Turkey. Only about eighty
became blind through tho direct action
of warlike causes.
The area Of the Black Hills proper
Is 5000 square miles, running in a
Northeast and Southwest direction a
distance of about 100 miles, and an
average width Of 60 miles between tho
fork of the Cheyenne.
The wooleh trade has grown rap
Idly in France of late years. In 1851
there were only 500, 900 woolen spindlcs
III that country, but now they number
2,270,000. The value of the goods pro.
duccd is 684 900, 900 francs.
Harvard University owns In Bos-
ton property exempt from taxation OF
the value of $404 300, and taxable prop
ertV valued at $500. 900. The uni
yerstty's property In Cambridge which
Is exempt amounts to $685. 900.
The Cossacks number 1900 officers
ana l52, Old men. They render military
service without remuneration, in lieu
or paying taxes, and have a small al.
lowance in lieu of ratlons, together
with their arms and ammunition.
The ten orphan children Of Gen.
John II. Hood are to reside in Austin,
ASh"o. hOy VIII 10 tllG OSpCClHk
care OF Mrs. E. II. Hennen, to whom
they were consigned by Gen. Hood
only few hours before his death.
The reading-room Of the British
Museum contains three miles of book
cases eight feet high. The dome
whence the electric light irradiates the
vast room Is, next to that of the Pam
theon at Rome, the largest extant.
There are about &C, 900 Mennonites
In America. They have 500 meeting
houses, one-eighth of that number be-
Ing In Canada. They abstain from
taking the oath, do not infiict punish-
ment. do not accept public office, and q
never 60 to law. They are nearly all 4
farmers. t, al.r. .fss.
Boston has q mulatto 'longshoro-
man, a native Of Cape Verde Island,
and formerly sea captain, who can
speak Portuguese, Spanish, Italian,