The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-12

|hS VI ohC COliSlaO Ile lOWn OF
Monkey Wrench, Kansas, Is named
Hammer.
/ r. A. Pennell, an athlete Of New
, brnnsWick, N. j., for wager, lifted
lilo pounds.
Tho Methodists claim to have 40
colleges and 3 theological Summaries In
this country.
The ecclesiastical property in New
York exempt from taxation Is valu cd
at &ll0 200, 900.
MIR. Jay Gould, now controls 1884
miles of railroad, and will soon control
30f miles more.
The first gold mine discovered In
the United States waa struck in South
Carolina In 1890.
Over 1900 miles Of railroad, it Is
claimed, are under contract or actually
building In Texas.
Each employe of Lauer's brewery,
IN Reading, Pa, is allowed eighteen
glasses of beer day.
An effort is being made to raise
$40, 900 for a scientific building for
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn.
Alabama furnished to the Confed-
crate service 900 soldiers, one
fourth Of whom lost their lives In the
war.
I'm 1910 the debts OF the New Eng
land States were 81 $40, 900. The debts
OF the samet Safes now amount to $751;
O00,000.
Last year twelve perso ns in the
United States and Europe gave an
aggregate Of 50 600, 900 to tho cause of
foreign missions.
From 200 TO 400 new coke ovens
will be In operation along the sou tn
west branch Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road by tho lst Of June.
. The property of the CITY o, Paris.
which comprises all buildings devoted
topubllc use, Is estimated at one millard
0G0).
Covert u. Bennett, who was ao-
quilted Of n charge Of killing Richard
IL. Smith, will lecture In Jersey City
on his mental experience while under
sentence of death.
Tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company plarneda a relief society tor It's
employees, contributed 500, 900 TO Its
fund, and offered to conduct It's busi-
ness without charge.
AT late sale in Paris book BY a
modern binder, Tratz Bauzonnent, a
master OF the art Of inlaying. sold for
$1,000, OF which ut least 81 200 was paid
In respect of tho binding.
The NunDery at Ebstorf, Province
OF Hanover, Prussia, celebrated the
millennium Of It's foundation on March
". The church connected with 1t was
built In the twelfth century.
"A benevolent Detroit dentist an
nounced that on a certain day he would
pull teeth free fer poor persons and
provide laughing gas. He used 700
gallons of gas and extracted 27l teeth.
NOT drop Of water remains OF
what was once Ruby lake in Nevada,
which was, some years ago, twenty
miles long, varying from half n mile
to three miles III breadth and very deep.
-Krupp, Of Essen, has lately bought
G5, 600 Ions Of Swedish iron, which Will
be conveyed In thirty steamers to Pom.
cranian harbors for conversion into
killing machines, ,Germany's main man.
ulacture.
Temple Bar is to be replaced by
! handsome memorial, to be erected In
tho middle OF tue roadway, and adorned
with the statues of her Majesty and the
Prince Of Wales. The monument Is to
serve as a refuge.
! The required capiatl stock $500, 900
marks) for the "German Petroleum
Boring Association" has been secured.
The principal office will he ut Bremen,
and the field Of operation near Lune-
burg, Province Of Hanover.
Louis Watso, the Indian chief, who
| ts over 100 years old, and WHO lives at
Lake George, has Just received a long
expected pension from the British Gov.
crnmcnt for warlike services rendered
as chief Of tho Abcnaquls In the csn-
test Of 1912.
The Island of Jersey has been un-
der the dominion of England for 600
years, and yet a petition was lately re-
ject+d by the insular Parliament, called
the "States," because It was couched
In the English language, so strong IL
the love Of the people for the French
tongue.
| 1t Is reported that tho great Min
ncs0ta farmer, Oliver Dalrymplc, in
tends to cultivate 1000 acres OF wheat
this year. lie will llaYc twenty steam
thrsshcrs in operation with 1875 reapirR
machines. Last year he employed 8OO
laborers, and this year will increase
the number to 700.
beyond the fact that Queen Vio-
toria receives $l,025,000 year from
the Brltish nation, ana $2OO,OO year
from the duchy Of Lancaster, and that
the fortune left to her by the miser
Neild amounted to $2,500,O00 no one
knows except herself and secretary
| what her income is.
Tho largest number OF logs ever
put about on the upper Mississippi In
Minnesota is that OF last winter. The
, cut Of the season amounted to GAG. 900,
000 feet, to which Is to be added 81, ,2O0,-
900 old logs In the booms, which makes
total Of 27G ,000,O00 feet to be manu-
actrred at and above minneapolis
this year.
British imports since 1860 have
risen In value from 81 ,457 600 to 81 ,81C-
00U, 200, or about 20 per cent, while tho
imports Of the United States have ad-
vanced but 10 per cent. In the same
period, however, the exports from the
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