The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-09-18
BRIEFS.

has been postmaster at Groton, Mass,
for thirteen years, has resigned.
Sir Henry Allsopp's employees have
| presented that brewer with splendid
plate on his being created q BarOnet.
| -Three-fourths Of the Parisians are
poor. There are in the city 884, 962
lodgings, of which 468, ,841 are let for
less than $50 year.
| The value OF timber destroyed By
forest fires in the south west districts OF
the Providence of New Brunswick is
estimated at $500, 900.
The last words Of r. L. Davenport
the actor, "Our Father who art in
Heaven" are to be inscribed on q mon
ument over his grave.
Senator Bruce, OF Mississippi, Is
reported to be the possessor of two
large plantations in his State, and has
a fortune also Of 100000.
| Professor II. NJ. Paul, of the Naval
Observatory at Washington, has gone
to Japan to become Professor Of Astro-
nominy at the University Of Toxic.
| The leading French agricultural
Journal asserts that the harvests IT
Europe will be very poor this year,
and Americas entire surplus will be
needed.
1t was found in Manchester, Eng
| gland, that the draining and paving OF
twenty streets diminished the mortality
to the extent of 20 in ITO.
"A Chicago firm Will employ 100 men
picking up cobble stones on the Lake
Michigan and Pine Lake beaches, IN
Charlevolx, Mich, aud will ship 1000
cords of them to Chicago.
Mr.. George Bancroft began fifty
five years ago his "history Of the
United States," and in few weeks he
expects to celebrate its completion at
his Newport country home.
There is mission among the lepers
In India, another at Jerusalem, and
third In the Sandwich Islands. The
India Mission cared for l40 lepers in
1879, receiving some $4,000 therefor.
The property standing In the name
of the Accountant-G General Of the En-
glish Court of ChanCery amounted In
1860 to El ,668, 900, in 1840 to E41 ,000,-
O0O, and now reaches far greater sum.
Herr Won Wurtegg, says, that the
Desert of Sahara was never connected
with the Mediterranean, and that the
attempt to make an inland sea would
result only in the destruction Of tho
cases.
Two of Bishop Spaulding's sons
having been rescued from drowning at
Erie, Mr.. $. presented the rescuers,
one with copy OF Shakespeare
works, and another copy Of Spenoer's
works.
1t is asserted upon good authority
that the census OF 1880 will show our
National wealth to be not less than $780,
600, 900, 900, against $42 200, ,OoO, 600 for
Great Britain and $40, 900 900 700 for
| France.
Lexington, KY, has the oldest llv-
ing graduate OF West Point Military
Academy In Wright Merriok, Of the
class of 1892. He is a native of Massa-
chusetts, eighty-three years OF age,
and is the only survivor OF his class.
The total number of both written
and printed copies of the bible at the
beginning Of the present century did
not exceed 10000 but since that
time 10000, 900 have been printed by
the British and American societies
alone.
The total bonded debt Of the city
of New York, according to the comp
troller's July report, Is $1O2, ,59S, ,999,
besides about $lG,350, ,442 OF revenue
bonds Issued In anticipation of taxes
for the current year, or $l1s, ,94o, AL IN
the aggregate.
The committee appointed by the
l
that the prize Of $10,O 900 be awarded TO
Prof. Graham Nell for his invention Of
the telephone, and that prize of $1,000
be given to Nj. Gramm for an magnetic
electric machine.
The Manor House, Stoke Newing-
ton, England, where Edgar Poe and
other celebrities went to school, 10 now
being pulled down to make W4H.far =
row of shops. The buildjtlwinkcd thc o;,
AZ traditions Of the thnesu. -eto he don
and the C.aumvlrNos.ith. ao,,.i uU
The South Florida Railroad fias'r.
been completed to Maitland, distance
Of sixteen miles from San. ord, on the
st. Johns River, and travellers can
now 20 by steamer and rail direct from
Now York, Boston, Philadelp LA, or
Baltimore to Lake Maitland.
Charlotte Cushman's monument,
about to be placed in Mount Auburn,
near Boston, is an obelisk Of beautiful
Hallowoll granite-a copy In form of
Cleopatra's Needle. The only inscrlp.
tion the monument will bear iB the
name, "Charlotte Cushman.'
| The Rev. John Cotton Brooks, q
brother Of tho Rev. Philips Brooks,
lately preached in England from the
pulpit onue occupied by the Rev. John
Cotton, afterward the first minister OF
'oston. The brothers are defendants
The Rev. John Cotton, Of the eighth
neration.
, Prince Victor, the oldest son Of
Prince Napoleon, has just attained his
eighteenth year, and with it his MAJOR
ity, according to tho custom Of his
house. He is still studying at the
Lycoe Charlemagn, and next year
will probably present himself for ad-
mission to st. Cyr, the famous school
of France.
| The Austrian Emperor's silver
wedding is to be commemorated by tho
Austrian Alpine Club IN strange
fashion. They propose to erect on tho
summit of Gross Glockner a GROSS more
than eleven feet high. On each eide
of the pedestal are to be solid gilt
reheotors which will refeot the suns
rays to a great distance.
The Duke Of Westminster gave
Archer, who rode Bend Or, five hun.
dved nOunda and 0avo hie trainer