The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-20
VOL. IV.-NO. 9.
n EWS IN BRIEF.

| IcIcr ), III rome, IN repair.
Miss l.ccch Is another American
lady VINO is to marry nobleman. Her
bridegroom is Prince Galitzln.
Mrs. Fanny Kcmblc Butler, who
IS now nearly seventy years old, looks
very much like Queen Victoria.
In western Australia n new tariff
has been proclaimed, which, 1t is ex-
pcctcd, will yield 81 ,O00, 200 per annum.
"A thousand pounds Of powder was
exploded In quarry near Reading, Pa,
lopscning about 10000 tons of stone ut
one blast. ..."E.
One thousand shingles, laid 1 in
ches to the weather, will cover 100
square feet of surface, and pounds of
nails fastcn them.
in Alsaoc and is forty-eight years of
age. lie is Il brunette-dark-ey eyed,
Dlnck-haircd and bachelor.
On the 10th Of November Mount
| Vcsuyius was covered with snow down
to It's middle. The projected railway
TO its summit is not yet finished.
There arc In the English language
2o,oOo nouns, 40 pronouns, $500 adjcc-
tivcs, 5000 verbs, 60 intcrjeCtions, &c.
In all, there arc about 40, 900 words.
before leaving Vienna for Madrid
the Archduchcss Christina formally
renounced all rights Of succession for
herself and her heirs to the Austrian
Crown.
-Mr, John B. Clay, the only survlv-
ing son OF Henry Clay, lives at Lexinr-
ton, KY, where he owns a fine farm OF
Two hundred acres and many valuable
horses.
--Grapcs without seeds are raised at
Aiorrisvlllc, N. G., on the plantation OF
Capt.J y, a. Gray. The vine has been
known for eight years, and never has
there been found Il seed in any OF the
fruit.
Az the last census taken the pOpu-
latlon Of Paris was 2,037 600; during
III" last ten years it has increased aJ
the rate OF $4,000 Il year-a very modest
one compared with that of London or
New York.
--Madamc Ling-Tang- Pao, the wife
OF the Chinese Minister to Germany. is
now on her way to Join her husband
ut Berlin. She will be the first Asiutic
laay who has been presented ut the
German Court.
In the percentage OF average atten
uance at school of iler school population
massachusetts, stands first on the roll
OF States with percentage Of ~. rs and
Louisiana lowest with an attendance
of only 1906.
In New York city 100 persons kill
cd themselves in 1878. In Paris. the
number was an average OF GAG suicides
ior every one million f inhabitants.
London, the same time, had the low
average of % tor every million.
There are siXty-one national banks
III boston, with an aggregate capital of
foZ, 2oO,000, and surplus earnings Of
Tl2, ,G37 OIL. In Philadelphia there arc
thlrcy-one, with an aggregate capital
OF FLO ,793, 900, and surplus of 81 ,44O, 900,
-Thc Hickory tree at Madison, d.,
when, as a sapling, war transplanted
on thc inauguration, or James Madison
as a;s PRESIDENT Of the United States for
Inc second time, in 1881, is now a hand
sohlc ana thrifty tree over one hundred
feet high.
Mrs. Webster, widow of the late
Colonel Fletcher Webster and owner of
the Daniel Webster homestead at
Marshileld, Mass. will erect next spring
now dwelling on the site of the, old
farmhouse that was burned, ana as
much like 1t as possible. IN.
Tho surplus income of the Peabody
donation fund in London, amounts to
Tlo0,00O annually, and Is increasing.
IL Is TO DC devoted to new buildings for
working mems dwellings, and large
Dlock has just been planned in tile
Grosvcnor Road, pmlico.
"A live toad embodied for fifty years
IN the solid earth, under two large flat
stones, has just been released at Cor
nam, Me-, by Workmen digging for a
1ounaatlon- The toad croaked but
could not hop. The masons cementcd
him up In the solid wall.
1t Is becoming fashion in Europe
10 traVcl IN private railroad cars. The
baroness n: de Rothschlld owns one
that cost $50 900, and the Countess Po-
tocka has ordered one at $25, 900. These
vehicles are smaller than American
cars, but arc very elegant.
Upon the guarantee Of a state
bounty OF one cent per pound for :he
hrst 7O0, 1000 pounds OF beot sugar made
each season, Portland, Me, Company
nave expended $4,000 In machinery,
and disbnrsed $4,000 more among the
farmers for raising the beots.
--The Sandwich Island alphabet has
IL letters; the Burmese 81, the Hebrew.
Syriac, Chaldce and Samaritan % each:
the French %, the Greek 23, the Latin
20, the German, Dutch ana English &c
each, the Spanish 27, The Arabic %, the
Persian 80, the Russian ii, the SAM
'S' ~ w, tHc HtloplC 1UI. .ss
Tho postal carriers in the cities Of
rhe United States carried 500, 900 900
pieces Of mail matter during the past
year, being 800 900 to each carrier. : In
New York 224 900, 900 pieces were dis
tributcd; In Philadelphia, 10Y 200, 900:
Chicago. 90, 900, 900; Boston, 45 100000;
St: Louis, $4,000, 1000; Cincinnati, 2l,-
0UO,0O0. ~
A bronze statue Of Colonel sG.B.
Armstrong, the originator and first
general superintendent Of the Railway
Postal ystem, IS to be placed In the
Posta! Department. at Washington.
Contrib. tions are 80 rapidly accumu-
lating that 1t Is thought that the con-
tract for the statue may be made at an
carly date.
The Rev. DR.. Kirkus, rector Of one
of the Protestant Episcopal churches
Of Baltimore, having recently asked for
contributions Of ''gold, silver and jew-
clry" from the congregation for the
manufacture Of u new communion Scr