The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-30
NEWS IN. BRIEF.

600 hides.
The Katahdin iron works have
never been so busy as now.
-Steam and horse railroads in this
country require 100, 900 men to labor on
Sunday.
Ohio has school population of
l,o43 $50, of whom 734 ,s57 are enrolled
scholars. 't'.' 80
A factory in Oshkosh, WIS.,, cut I'D
2,oo0,O00 feet of lumber into matches
last year.
There has been no issue of silver
nVe cent and copper two cent pieces
since 1879.
,-Brocton, Mass, shoe shipments are
almost four times as great as they were
year ago.
The combined length of the new
railroads projected for 1880 will be
5000 miles.
The militia forces of the United
States @ are put at 117,000 men with
$500 officers.
Large quantities of land have been
ieased III Potter county Pa, to put
| down test oil wells.
The Penobscot lumbermen antici-
pate a better business in the spring
~-.>''A AoA hh"AJ ySaIS puSC.
Mrs. Chisholm has been promoted
to clerkship In the Treasury Depart
ment, with salary of $1,000.
-Adelina Patti is reported to have
Deen pald 81 200 night during her en-
gagement ut Pesth; Nicolini, 5000.
The total coinage Of the mints dur
which 81. .456,O were silver dollars.
Intn
never to marry until he had m income
of $4,000 year. He never married.
The returns by counties where the
number of the sufferers to be 3l2, $40.
Over 800 persons are employed in
cha1r making IN Gardner, Mass, turn
ing out over 81, ,000, 900 worth annually.
The sea is to the land, in round
mlllions OF square miles, as one hun
drcd and sixty to forty, or as four to
one.
The first gas ever exhibited in Now
YORK was from lamp erected by the
old gas company in l822, In Franklin
Square.
In the Pennsylvania oil region the
past month there were $40 wells COM
barrels. 'lI1 'FT@
,,,-oG Soy: 9,, Holiday, of Virginia, has re-
tence Of John Il. Pomdexter to one
year In jail. -.
Everybody who ascends Bunker
Hill monument counts the steps-295.
The ascenslons yielded $3.50 in fees
during tho past year. -.
"A sale by auction Of tract of land
h1ty-one by, thirty eight miles in area,
III h3nsas, is to be made to satisfy q
mortgage of $6.0OO,OUO.
Mrs. Zachariah Chandler has been
very Ill since the death of her husband,
put Is now recovering. Her daughtar,
Mrs. Hale, is still with her.
Tho rolling stock of the Union "a
cine railroad consists Of l70 loconlo-
lives, l66 passenger, baggage and sleep-
Ing cars, and 3,2l6 freight cars.
1.-The Commissioners of Allegheny
county. Pa, have called for the pay
ment Of the money subscribed to pay
the Pennsylvania Railroad claims.
There were five Sundays In Febru-
ary, 1924, In February, 1869, and in
February, 1880. The next fiyo Sunday
February will not occur until 1920.
The annual blessing Of the Nova
took place at st. Petersburg on the 18th
of January, tho Emperor and his
household attending the ceremony.
--Anson D. Stephenson, a clerk In
Boston, on several occasions befriended
young lady who has just died leaving
TO 70 stephenson property valued at $780,
One hundred and thirty Indians
were confirmed by Bishop Hare, of the
Protestant Episcopal Churcn, during
the last year, and seventy-three Indian
adults were baptlsed. f'SSf'st,
General Robert E. Lee has a pew in Z
the old Christ Church In Alexandra.
Va, where Washington ! once wor-
shipped; and every button has been
taken from the cushions by curiosity
hunters. 
The ex-Empress Eugenie's party
TO Natal, Africa, will consist Of one or
two ladies other household, Sir Evelyn
and Lady Wood, Mrs. Ronald Camp
bel, the Duo de Bassa2o, and Surgeon
Major Scott. Ss5&h @5tF
LIN 1867 42,O0O,oOo head of sheep
produced 147 100000 pounds of wool;
1877 3b,00O,00 head produced 208,-
OO0, 900 pounds. This shows a wonder
full Improvement in tho science of sheen
husbandry. $afA
Of Commons has $40, 900 year, q house
rent free, $4,000 Of equipment money,
1000 ounces Of silver plate on his cleo
tion, $500 for stationery each year, and
fees amounting to SIG, 900 year. !.
Chicago has eight Reformed Epis-
copal churches and ten clergymen of
that denomination. Christ Church and
st. Paul's, the two principal parishes,
each own DrODortV worth frs,tn AK 0nA e