The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-03
VOL. IV.-NO. II.
BRIEFS.

sons left British India for British colo
MES.
The British Government will give
$3,750,000 for Irish amelioration this
year.
Tho Prince Of Wales lays the cor
ner stone OF the Cathedral Of Truro In
April.
-Manbouquct, the celebrated French
stceplechaser, was sold recently for
$4,000.
when m English peer Is made a
Knight Of the Garter his robes cost
about 5000.
The salaries paid to federal office
holders id the whole country amount to
$3l ,252,l0 "
In Amsterdam there are $4,000
Jews engaged in cutting, polishing and
setting diamonds. ~,
| MIR. w. B. Astor owns narrow
gauge railroad in Florida which is
doing good business.
| mississippi was the banner cotton
state last year, having raised $4,000
| bales more than Texas.
The Baptist theological seminarics
Tn the United States have 400 young
men studying for the ministry.
Nearly 40 per cent. of the colored
children Of Tennessee were last year
enrolled In the public schools. )
Gents have begun to appear in San
francisco. Hitherto tlve-cent pieces
have been the least coin received.
-Th United States government.pays
srlaries to $4,000 persons, of whom
only 23G this year come from Georgia.
The late A. e. Borie, of Philadel-
phia, left bequest of $4,000 to Gen.
Grant, of whom he has long been near
and Intimate friend.
-Keen, the English bicyclist. offers
to wager 81 900 against 81 900 that he
Will beat the best American trottiny
record for one mile.
France has just been able, ten
years after the event, to figure up tho
cost to her Of the Franco German war.
1t was $4,000, ,C00,000.
"A young man at Canton, Ohio, has
sued his own mother for $4,000 for
slander. She circulated report that
he was drunken and thievish.
Tho salt in tho oceon Is estimated
by Schaf hautl Mt 4 4,051 ,342 cubic geo. y
graphical miles, or about four tines
! more than tho mass of the Alps.
The German Government has re-
Gently re-cl.ristcncd no less than $50
places In Alsace- Lorraine, giving them
German names In the place Of French.
The grape islands Of Lake Erie
have 900 acres of vines, and the yield
In 1879 was lG,000,O 900 pounds. The
wine production was ,526, 400 gallons.
The French Assembly refused to
gradt full and complete amnesty to all
Communists who were arrested and
convicted III lSG0-7O by Il vote Of 1l5 to
313.
During the past year Massachusetts
has instructed 3l1 ,65S pubic schools.
The teachers numbered 9,740. There
were ZIG high schools, having 1881
pupils.
Thirty thousand eggs of the Attain
tic salmon have been placed in hatch. 4
Ing house at Bloomsbury, Pa, whore
there are already 100000 California
salmon.
More cotton is passing through the
looms and splndlcs Of New England
than at any time since the beginning
OF the business. Tho English con-
sumption is about 80, 900 bales week.
The number of slave vessels cap
tured by British cruisers in the years
1574-7S was l52, Of which liz were oon-
demned and 81 restored to their own
ors. Tho number Of slaves captured
was 2,1s5.
king Cetywayo Is said to be man
of simple and abstemiOus habits. He
| does not drink to any excess and does
| not smoke, his reason for not doing 80
being that cit would spoil the color OF
his tceth.'
Tho Hawaiian Legislature has ap-
propriated fifty thousand dollars to
build palace for the king, whose
home has hitherto consisted Of mum.
Der Of wooden cottages enclosed bya
high stono wall.
Mr.. Peter Sprague, of Boston, IS
said to be the oldest member Of Con-
gress now living. He was Repre-
sentative from Maine from 1924 to 1920,
| when he was chosen Senator, and acted
In that capacity until 1886.
MIR. j. G. Flood has just bestowed
pleasant little amount of pin-money
upon his daughter, Miss Jennie Flood;
he has registered So, 5000 In UAited
States bonds In her name. This gift
provides for her an income Of 100000
a year.
Joseph Brandt, the famous chief of
the MOhawks, the half-breed savage
who led the Six Nations as British al
lies In the Revolutionary War, is to
have a monument costing $50, 900 erect
ed to his memory In Brantford, Canada.
| Where ne d1ed IN 1917. II
The total value Of the imports for
the fiscal year Of 1870 amounted to
$408, ,073 ,776, Of which 1914, ,115, 1862 were
imported into New York. The total
domestic exports for the same period
amounted to $717,003, TIT, Of which
$33S. .Sl7 ,648 were exported from New
York.
Matchmaking was first .Sgun In
Danbury, Conn, In 1880, the factory
there employing three workmen and
turning out three hats q day. There
are now employed ] 800, persons, and
they make IL 400 hats day. The ray-
roll Is $4,000 each week. In 1850 1T
was under $40 a week. II s.
The fNew-York Methodist Book
Concern has net capital of ST ,080. $685. d
The net profit for the year were $7T.-i
155. The sales OF publications amoant-
cd to $925,834, against $012,720 the
! previous year. The & Western Book