The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-10
VOL. IV.-NO. IA.
NEWS IN BRIEF,

| spelling reform pays. Josh Bill
lings has made 100000 by his writing.
Provisions and tallow to the value
OF $9.l90, ,O)O were exported in January :.
Five thousand eight hundred I'M
| migrants landed at New York In Jan
uary.
The debt Of Cleveland, O., is $685.
olS,O0O. $G03, 600 wero paid OH the deJt
last year. .-..s.N
There are made yearly In Rcuding
ana BcrkA counties, Pa, over G,O0O, 900
woolcn hats.
On his farm ut Beauvolr, Jefferson
Davis is preparing Tor u big cotton crop
next season.
The amount Of United States our
rcncy outstading ut tho present time Is
| $3Gl ,70S. .50l4l.
1t is said there are 10000, 900 acres
OF public lands i'll tho State OF Califor-
MA yot uasurveyed.
mississippi has decided to have an
enlomoloSist. The State loses sc, 0,OO0,-
QUO year by worms. ...Y
A company with capltal,of $780,
0CO has 'beel formed to work the petro-
leum springs In Germany. f"'
Spain pays her ministers plenlpo-
tentiary $G0,O00 year and her favorite
puil-HghteL $3O.UOO year.
The fifteen car manufacturing es-
tablishmcnts In this country turned out
~ 800 cars III eleven months.
The Marquis dc Talleyrand Perl
CORD, relative OF ;he famous Talley.
rand, Is visiting Washington.
The total value Of exports Of pc
trolcum and petroleum products for
December 1879 were $4,000 200.
During tho year 1879 three new
| Geographic lines were opened for SER
vice BY the GovernmenJ Of Persia.
The total receipts OF lumber at Chi
cago during 1879 were ,4G7 720, ,0oO teet,
an increase Tor the year OF 25 por GENT.
during 1879 more railroad acci-
dents occurred In the tran sportation Of
coal than OF any other kind OF freight.
1T Is estimated that the increased
cost OF railroad building aJ present as
compared with year ago Is $4,000 per
mile.
- In tho United States navy there
are bn: forty eight vessels OF all sizes
and classillcatiOns that are able to fire
Il gun.
The Habcas Corpus--the peoples
writ of right, passed tor the security Of
individual right--was made II law May
II, 1870.
Tho State of Mississippi is about to
establish college for young women.
mo State University now has 877 stu
dents, and Is prosperlng.
The new Cathedral at Edinburgh.
built by tho Misses Walker Is the
largest protcstant Episcopal church
erected since the reformation.
Tho revenue from Now York ca
~ q lS In ono
Ihis Is ascribeu 10 tho late opening last
spring. This year oughtt to compensate.
Connecticut has school fund OF
$2,Ol0,Go0, or which about three uar--
tcrs are invested conservatiyely In
mortgages Oh property Within the state.
AT the end Of tho present fiscal year
tho commissioned OF pensions cstl mates
that there will be $50, ,0O0 applications
Tor pensions pending and unacted upon.
The treasury Of tho State Of North
Carolina has funded between Sd, 900 600
and $G 900 ,003 OF old bonds In new four
per cents, bearing Interest from July,
1850. '..' -E'h"
Capt. r. +. Burton Is now in Egypt,
ana ls about to proceed, with n survey
ing party, to the gold mines which he
discovered near the shores Of the Gulf
Of Akaba.
There are ninety five lakes in Iowa,
these lakes dry up, as some OF them arc
doing, the land viii belong to the Gov
irnn.ent.
Tho trotter Rolla Goldslust, valued
in his prime ut $40 900, was sold 1T Eden
farm ut auction tor 500! He Is old and
crippled, and is Valued chiefly for what
ho has done. 44.y I'D
The St. Gothart tunnel was oom-
pletcd In less than seven years--:hat Is,
half the time consumed IN piercing the
Mont Gents, which 1t exceeds In length
by 2,70O metres. gas silsa
The gross earnings of tho Northern
Pacific railroad for tho year 1870 are
reported to the railroad commissioner
ut 81 1881 ,03l, upon which the tax paid
the State is $27.9sl. rAyr
-Four thousand flg-trees, imported
from Europe, z Asia'Yand Africa, were
planted on Fairnie Hill. near Pensa-
cola, Fla, last autumn. Ayneighbor-
Ing hk orchard contains $500,
There arc about 293, 900 Indians Of
all tribes. or these 10000 can read and
write, 80, ,O0O are members OF churches,
and there are about 250. 600 acres Of
land cultivated by the different tribes.
The Belgian Queen still 80 fondly
chcrishos tho memory Of her oply son,
tho Duke of Brabant, who dletl'in JAN
nary, 1860, that she has never since
perinitted any Court festivities to be
neld during that month. @
Lyons. France, is about to- erect
statue to jacquard, tho inventor Of the
well-knOwn loom that bears his name.
Ito was born In 1852, and dled1in 1884.
Lyons had the first use Of his loom,
publicly burnt. 20"
The life Of the late Marquis of An
glesey was insured In various COM
panies for an aggregate amount of not
less than G750,000. The present Mar.
quis will come. into magnificent and
unencumbered property, WITH an In
come of ElO0, 900 ayear. aEY
AN enterprising American shipped
| some wheelbarrows to Rio de Janeiro,
and the natives filled them with stones
and carried them On their heads. They
said 1t was a capital cohtrfyance, and
wondered how they managed to get