The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-10
BRIEFS.

, iuouiliS were nrSC known In
spain, France and Germany in 1899.
The Empress Eugenie's voyage to
Natal has greatly improved her health.
The quantity Of cotton consumed in
1878 was tifty-four times greater than
1878.
Maine vessels are carrying great
quantities Of ice to all the Atlantic
ports.
The seal catch of Newfoundland in
March and April was 100000, worth
$260,0G0.
State Senator John N. Hudson, Of
Amerlcus, Ga, has been sent to luna
tic asylum.
MIR. George w. ChilCs has bought
two large farms in Chester county, Pa,
for $3.50 per acre.
plymouth, Mass, gets $4,000 or
$4 ,0O0 every year for the May flowers
it sends to New York.
The Mayor of Wilkesbarre, Pas
lined man ten dollars for drawing
revolver IN the street.
The first building of the Egyptian
pyramids Is supposed to have been
about 1900 before Christ.
$4,000 have been subscribed in
Shickshinhy, Pa, toward starting
iioi iaCIoIy Ut IilaC pace.
during the last forty years the Ap-
pletons have sold 40,00O.O0O of "Webs-
tors Speller," or 100000 year.
-Four million slaves are packed in
the cooper shop yards of the Standard
VI Company, near Sharpsburg, Pa.
"A leading hotel in Dundee, Scot
furniture made In Grand Rapids, Mich.
Vo1o MI rf
hrst exile home, has been devastated
This spring by M army Of locusts from
Africa.
Seven hundred and fifty trout.
weighing over eighty pounds, were
caught IN Forest county, by three boys
in one day.
The French Government has an
propriated $40, 900 toward encouraging
the propagation Of American grape
vine stocks.
-EXcess Is dress was restrained by
law in England under Edward w.,
i4oo, and again In the reign of Eliza
beth in 1914.
Boston has seven cOlored lawyers.
six OF whom arc in active practice, one
OF them being a graduate of the Harvard
Law School.
The money spent for tobacco in
the United States, according to The Re
tditcr, exceeds in amount the exDendi-
turo for bread.
The ''salt" song Of "Nancy Lee,
has brought its owner $4,000. A
clergyman might work fifteen years
anu write 7S0 sermons without making
80 much money.
-Wheat sufficient for the food of one
hundred men for one day, was worth
bnt one shilling IN the year 1139, and a
sheep cost but tourpence.
Bishop Kerfoot and his entire fam
ny, with the exception Of Mrs. Ker-
foot, are down with the scarlet fever ut
their home in Pittsburg, Pa.
Gen. Robert Toombs has bought
what was once the Presbyterian par
sonage ut Clarksville, Ca, anu will fit
1t up Tor his summer residence.
IN l7G0 combined Austrian and
Russian army marched to Berlin and
laid 1t under contribution, also destroy
ing Its forts, magazines and arsenais.
The champion deadhcad Is Mr..
George Augusta Sala, who has travelled
26,0OO miles on American railways
without the purchase of single ticket.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt
lives In pretty house In South KEN
sington, within a few doors OF Madame
Albani. 1t is surrounded by trees and
flowers, and furnished with the modern
art.draperlcs and quantities OF pictures
and old China.
Tho survivors Of the Yale Class Of
'20, eight or nine In number, are to
Celebrate their siXtieth anniversary at
the coming Commencement at DR..
Woolsey's house. The class graduated
5S members.
The Empress Eugene, during her
stay ut Durham, was to occupy the same
room In Government House which her
son occupied year ago, was to ride in
the same carriage and cat IRON the same
table that he did.
-Dennis Kearney's Youngest
brother, William, is dead. He was a
membcr Of the Christian Brothers, was
called Brother Luke, and was % Years
old.
Over three million feee of lumber
and vast amount OF valuable timber
land have becn destroyed In Pike
county, Pa, by forest fires, within the
past rev weeks.
1t Is said that the widow of the late
John q. Green has given 100 900 to the
American Sunday School Union, to be
used In developing Il higher order Of
Sunday School literature.
The South Carolina Legislature has
appropriated $50, 900 for Il bronze statue
OF General Daniel Morgan, the hero OF
Cowpcns. The Committee Of Arrange
ments are anxious that Mr.. j. @. A.
Ward should do the work.
The average annual attendance of
colorcd pupils at the pdblic schools In
South Carolina, from 1869 to 1876, was
46,G01, while from 1876 to 1880 the
average attendance was 80, ,723-an in
crease of little more than torty-fvo
per cent.
1t is said that the Rev. Edward
Ever cit Hale has withdrawn his name
from the list Of members OF. the st.
Botolph Club, Of Boston, giving as the
reason that he cannot approve Of the
furnishing of wines and liquors to It's
members.
Tho Commission Of the Universal
Exhibition Of 1878, at Paris, has just