The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-10-23
NEWS IN BRIEF,

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grade.
Russia has $50, 900 hereditary no.
bles and 100000 whose titles expire
with them.
Until the year 1910, cotton spin
ming was performed by the hand-spin-
ming wheel.
"A company with a capital of $685.
OO0, 900 has been formed in Paris to
buy land In Canada.
| up to July Is, there had been built
In the United States this year 2,22S
miles Of railroad.
Capt. Dick King, Of Waco, Texas,
has just fenced his farm of 353, 600 acres
with l70 miles Of wire.
| 0O-It Is said from SIS ,0O0, 900 to $2O,-
| O.0O0 Is invested in the telephone
business in this country.
IN. victorien Sardou, is said to
have already received 81, 900 as the
proceeds Of "Daniel Rochat."
Spite Dogs. were not allowed at
Ocean Grove this summer. Policemen
had orders to shoot them on sight.
Tho national cotton exchange of
| America, reports the total cotton for
the year ending August 81, 1880, to be
8. .780, ,16l bales.
The French revenue of 5000, ,0O0, 900
| Is said to be the largest ever received
9rom population Of thirty-six mil
lions.
TO June 30, 263,726 Immigrants
from abroad arrived at New York,
| against I'd ,224 the firnt ak months of
1870.
The Russian government has al,.
pointed N. Yadrintseff, Of Omsk, to In
Vestlgato anu report upon the condition
OF thR Qhnrirfno1 tril>
| Mr.. David Sinton has donated
Cincinnati, on condition that an equal
amount be subscribed by others.
michigan had 1896, ,19I acres under
wheat this year, against l COL ,7l0 acres
last year. This crop was an average
one. and the yield IL estimated at from
$1,000 600 to 81, 200, 900.
There are 20,14l persons who hold
registered United States four per cent.
bonds. OF these 1853 hold $500 each
or less than that sum; and Of these
| 5,687 arc women.
between 1856 and 1866 the Yose-
mite Valley had l ,022 visitors. In 1874
1t had 2,71l and In 1879, l, 1886. The
average expenditure of each tourist Is
| put at 5000.
| During the past fifteen months
about 10,000,0 900 acres of government
land were sold under the homestead
! laws--a more than usually heavy
amount.
Tho official return gives tho value
| OF diamonds exported from the South
| African diamond fields in 1879 as $l8,-
429. 900, the value OF those obtained In
1873, being $l5, BOO.
Paul BoYnton's next VOYAGE will
DC from Fort Benton, on the upper
waters OF the Missouri, to St. Lonis, n
distance of almost 5000 miles.
This years yield of tea IN India ,s
estimated ut 70,OOO, ,DGO pounds nearly
double that Of 1873. Ton years ago it
was under 14,00O,000.
There are In philadelphia 434
| churches; in New York city, 354; and
In Brooklyn, 80. In no other Ameri-
can city are there more than two hum
dred.
Editor Thorn, OF Notes and Queries
has retired from the Office OF assistant
librarian Of the House of Lords. at the
age or II, On pension of So, $50 year.
The farmers Of Illinois marketed
l,084,2 ,204 hogs In 1870, and will sell
about Q, ,103, 900 during 1880. In 1873
there was loss by disease of 100000
hogs, valued at 81 100000.
The value OF the breadstuffs expor-
! ted from seventeen different cities
during the month of July was $40, ,8O3.
6o4,; $40, ,55s, ,o46 from the same ports III
July, 1879.
During the month of August 49,
300, 900 bushels Of grain were shipped
from New York to Europe. The ship
mehts Of September, it Is believed, will
| reach 10 900. 900 bushels.
The number of cattle killed per
year In the United States Is IL 1926, 900,
the meats from which amount to 4,OSa,-
600 pounds, and their total value when
killed for food is $60s, 400 900.
-Ninety-on cities in the United
states have population of over 8,000,-
600 or about one-sixth of the whole
population, and this does not include
cities with less than 80, 900 population.
In 1860 the coin value Of all the
currency in the United States--gold.
silver and paper-was 1867 900, 900.
On the first of July, 1880. the coin
value Of the currency was 81 ,l6O, ,OO0.-
0@O, an Increase of $793 3,000, QUO.
"A grand sham sea fight is soon to
be fought at night by the German
navy Off tho coast at Rugen, III the
presence Of the Crown Prince, who
attends by special command of his
father, the Emperor. Electric lights
are to illuminate the sea for many
miles.
| The prince Of Wales rode all
through review at Windsor the other
day, In heavy uniform, under hot
July sun; got back to London to dine
with Lord Kosslyn, and then went and
danced at Mrs. Palmer's ball IN Gros-
venor streets till $50 A. NJ.
| -Meissonier has bound himself to
paint two panoramic pictures, ''Paris
during the War;" and "Paris during
the Peace" The pictures are to be
each eight metres long and five metres
high, and they are to be finished at the
end of 1882. The price Is 100000
| francs.
The centre OF population Of the
United States, according to the census
of 1870, was in Clermont County, Ohio.
1t IL certain the centre has been shifted
| North q ri Weat and th0t IT, ia nnyv IN