The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-10
VOL. IV.-NO. Is.
BRIEFS.

-Meigs county, Tenn, will ship this
year nearly $4,000 bushels Of peas.
Cork solcs have become an impor
tant industry in Williamsport, Pa.
The Bordentown, n. j., blast fur
haces Will soon be In running order.
Texas is larger than either tho
German Empire or the Austrian En-
pre.
-Miss JOsophcnc Mccker now occu-
pies position in the Interior Depart
| mGnt.
| THE tobacco crop Oft Connecticut
valley Is greater than in any other
year since 1861.
The South raised $4,000 900 pounds
more OF tobacco the present season
than ever before.
The contractors Of the West jersey
anu ATLANTIC Railroad offer ten cents
an hour for laborcrs.
>-Nlilllons Of dollars are invested il,
stock farms along the Hudson river, II,
the breeding of horses.
Senator Jones, Of Nevada, is rnpor-
ted TO have increased his fortune sevc-
raj millions last year.
The mines at Salincville, Ohio, are
all llrunning on full time. but complaint
10 hittaC VI lilc liCk OIL cars.
Sixty rails were rolled in fo-ty-six
minutes In he Superior Rolling Mill
IN Allegheny, Pa, recently.
"A machine for making paper boxes
Just introduced at Cleveland, produces
lo,oOO complete boxes in Il day.
--Another large cot ON mill Is in
course OF erection at Lancaster, Pa.
which will employ about zoe hands.
Mrs. Tlbltrtius, wife of thesurgcon
general of Germany, is a leading den
list OF Berlin and attends the royal fam
lily.
Within tho past five years the
acreage of cereals in the United States
has Increased from n 200, 600 to 95, ,OOO,-
600.
The rain annually pours into the
SOIL quantity OF nitrate OF ammonia
lniiy equivalent TO three pounds per
acre.
The Regents at the Univcrsity Of
California have entered upon Il crusade
against The undergraduate secret socle-
ties.
The Sisters of Charity in the Uni
ted States numbered ut Il recent cnun-
Grafton ,l79, in charge of l0G cslab-
lishmcnts.
Tine lead mines near Phmnix gillc,
Chester couhty, Pa, are again to be
put IN operation after having been idle
for twelve years.
MIR. Joseph Jefferson, tho actor,
now owns the best orange orchard in
Louisiana. There are five thousand
orange trees on it,
There arc now ut Yale ,O03 STU
dents. 0Sl Of whom arc in the Academ-
itsu 1 ,l,n, ~ q,
field Scientific School.
There are to-day more than 242,-
o0o Government pensioners. The
amount Of the years pensions to all
pensioners Is $25, ,493,7r2.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany is TO erect Il monument to the me-
highest point on the line Of the road.
The Land Department ut Wushlng-
ton reports there are over 900, ,O6O
acres of public lands open to entry
south OF tho Al Missouri River in Missouri.
The average butter yield of the
Ayrshire COW Is one pound from 20 to
20 pounds OF milk; from the Jersey 1t
Is one pound Of butter from Is pounds
of milk.
MIR. ". w. Corcoran says that the
tnIl.icngth portrait OF Washington in
the White House i3 only n poor coLy
Of the original by Stuart, which is at
Newport.
According to official statistics. there
were, from 1888 to 1866, no fewer than
OF persons buried alive, either through
accident or ignorance, in various parts
Of France.
-Onc-fltth more siding and flooring
IS needed than the number Of square
feet OF surince to be covered, because
OF the lap In the siding and matching
of the floor,
When the three furnaces of the
Edgar Thompson Steel Company are
hniShed,> Pittsburg, Pa. will have flf-
teen blast furnaces with nominal Ca
pacity Of $50, 600 tons of iron year.
IL. IL. Russell, of So IA Sprins, San
Diego county, Cal, catches deer who
raid on his garden ut night, by means
of steel trap and q bell attached.
which bell calls him to the field of ac-
tion with his gun.
Last year tho English railwnys
added $l26,0O0,000 to their capital ac-
count, but the gross earnings were less
than In the previous year. Neverthc.
less. there was a saving of So, 300, ,0O9
In. working expenses.
OF large British estates. that of the
Duke OF Bnccleuch Is 45O,2G0 acres;
Lady Willoughby pErcsby, 1872, $40:
Earl liam, 49, ,0G8. Those of 44
other gentlemen and noblemen vary
from 10000 up to 81 ,425 acres
The largest grain elevator in the
world has just been completed in Chi
cago, Its capacity being $500, 900 BUSH
els. There arc twenty -onc elevators in
Chicago, having total capacity of 49,
055, ,0O0-say $4,000, ,005-of bushels.
Over 10000 carloads Of live and
dressed poultry are carried into New
York City yearly, and %, 900, 900 dozens
OF eggs 60 to the same market. Ac-
cording TO the best estimates, the Uni
ted States produces 100000 600 eggs
annually.
Although It is generally known
that the staple crops Of tho past year
have been unusually largo, the acsual
figures arc Of magnitude that is as
tonishlng. Tho value Of the product
amounts to 81, ,904 ,4S0,669, or nearly
$4lG,C00, ,00O more than last year.
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