The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-05
VOL. IV.--NO. 68.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Measure 200 feet on each side and
| you have asquare acre, within an inch.
milwaukee, packed SAC, 1888 hogs last
| winter, a loss OF lO3 .438 for the season.
Paris annually consumes about six
million Of cray1lsh, ut cost OF $70, 900.
The total number Of G ,rman immi-
grants to this country In 1879 was 3d.
The first steam engine on this con-
1853.
In tho summer of 1910, Daniel
| Boone was the only white man In Ken
lucky.
Over 03, 900, 900 pounds Of oleomar-
garine Is sold In tho Uulted States
yearly.
! -DAlrymple, the great farmer Of
Dakota, will seed 2G, ,000 acres In wheat
in 1880.
The Marquis of Huntly has sold the
81, ,165, 200.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is to
leave England next July for visit to
this country.
-Pennsylvania has 8 ,402 postofflees,
New York, 2 93l; District Of Columbia,
9, and Alaska,2 2.
Senator Elmunds' daughter will
soon publish book. She IS an artist
| as we'll us a writer.
Queen Victoria was married to
Prince Albert, of Sake Coburg, on tho
tenth Of February, in the year l84O.
The number of new works issued
In Germany In 1870 amounted to Id, ,l79,
as against 1892 in the previous year.
Last winter there were killed In
France 1923 wild boars, b,02G badgers,
6,77l foxes, aud 557 wolves and young
| wolves. i"t' oaiD
There are twin boys living In
Lowell who were born July d, and
christehed Fred Declaration and Frank
Independence.
There are 60 900 locomotives In the
United States, and each contains $500
different pieces, requiring renewal
every ten or twelve years. ST. !aa
According to the latest returns,
Copeuhagenha has population Of 235 900.
1865, ,000, and in 18f0rlSl, 900. feylA
-1'he whole number of Registered
voters in England is I, ,459 800 In u popu-
latlon OF % 764 ,30), OF a little more than
'one voter to ten inhabitants. ~ R''
e." 1.-The Romans were the first to bed
! oysters and tatten them 'byartifcIal
feeding. 1t requires about three years
for an oyster to get Its growth. ,.,'r..-
The cucumber is known to have
been cultivated for a period Of over
three thousand years, and was a com-
mon vegetable in Egy pt at earlleat his
t)rlc dates. ..... .'- .....
! AT wedding In Switzerland three
hundred people lost their lives through
drinking. Alta feast in st. Petersburg,
tnil770, five hundred died from the
same cause. - E}t.yjpI..l .r...4'...Tt y u
| "A Statue in bronze of heroic size.
representing tn e late udge Asa Packer,
will soon be placed before Packer Hall
In the grounds of Lehigh University at
South 'hethlehem,P Pa. g.rs ..... jI-,
" Paris has Coz painters IN oil, I93
miniatuIe painters, 507 pastel and fan
painters, l07 sculptors and 754 mould
ers. not counting the many photograph
ers, decorators, cOlorlsts, Sc. ..,I
The cost Of maintaining the Zoo
logical Garden in Central Park for the
year 1870 was SIS 900. There are now
,2OG animals in the menageria, OF
which numbcS GG9 arc additions ac-
quired during the year.
| The French vital statistics for 1878,
just published, show continual falling
or IN the rate OF increase Of population.
The births numbered 937, all aud tho
deaths 839, 9,036. leaving a gain Of popu-
lation from natural causes Of 99,l76.
The gain was 142, ,6G2 in 1877 and l32,-
SOB In 1876.
or the metals, tho following are
the degrees Of temperature required for
melting: Tin, 42l; lend, 59l; zinc,
740; anttmony, 05O; silver. 1850; brass,
1900; steel, $500; copper, 254s; gold,
2990; platinum. $3.50; iron, cast, 1919;
iron, wrought, $3.50.
Fall River, Massachusetts,, contains
33 incorporated companies for the man.
ufacture of cotton goods, whose oom-
binod capital is $l4, 600, 900, and who
own 45 mills containin e l,3G4 ,1l9 SPIN
dies and 80, 63l looms.
Sir Hugh Allen, the large Montreal
shtpowner. is seventy years age. He
started in life rs dry-goods clerk, with
capital of $l00. He has become
merchant prince, with accumulated
wealth repu ed to amount to $40 900, 900
or $l5 ,000,U00
| During the course of some excava-
tions and dwellings which have been
Carried out within tho historic lines Of
Plevna by tho Bulgarian Government.
l6 cannon and 10000 muskets have been
found. which Osman Pasha caused to
be buried before he surrepdered 10 the
Russians.
| ~ 'CoPto WIN nave a kouoEaL
| Idea OF the size OF C)loralo may yet be
surprised by the statement Of the Dem
yer Ne,os that 1t Is the fourth State In
the Union in this respect, and Is larger
than New Hampshire, Vermont, Mass
achusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
Now York, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland combined.
-Workmen on the Buchanan and
Clifton Forge Railroad In Virginia have
discovered an Inelan graveyard, and
about 20V skeletons have been dug In
making the road, some Of them In Il
good state OF preservation. The skel-
etons were not more than two feet be-
low the surface Of the ground. n,,
Two Of the Trustees of University
/ of Vermont and State, Agricultural
College have given $3.50 to be offered In
prizes to boys who raise the large 81
crops of corn or potatoes on "a certain