The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-05-29
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Pa, has, offered to give .$25, 900 toward
building >homDopathic hospital in
that city. ! ! Hn7."' lhIi.
-lbash Is lighted by fotir,Sle6trlc
lamps, which are suspended at a height
OF 100 feet. .I,,
Chicago papers are predicting that
l,O00, 900 strangers, will visit that city
this Summer.
An eccentric old Georglah, h,William
Wilson, of Newton county, recently
died leaving his estate, worth SIC, 900,
to his former slavns.
Queen Victoria was married to
Prince Albert, of Sake Ooburg,on the
tenth Of Februafy, in the year 1910.
The city of Boston Is asketlsto ap-
proprtate $50 900 for the celebration Of
the 2oOth anniversary Of Its settlement.
| Gen. William X, Fuller has given
$40, ,00oto the City ofScho Dectady with
which ITO erect building for town
purposes. 50! ~ 81 "a a. Ia
Bismarck and Metternich, the two
greatest German statesmen of this
century, are afflicted with very large.
sized hands. &C. '''
For every ,thousand Inhabitants
this country contains 1924 cattle, sheep
and swino. In European countries
the average IS only llo6.
"A steamship company Of Genoa has
started n regular line Of steaniers be-
tween that city and tho United States
for freight and emtgrants, ~. s,
| In 1902 Cuba bore tho name Juana.
In honor of Prince John, son OF Fordi.
nand. ana Isabella, Cuba Is tho origl-
nal Indian name Of the island.
With a newly-invented tsBack''
rifle target ton feet square WAS hit at
dlstapce Of mile, with thirteen out
of forty shots, at Stafford, Conn.
Tho gross expenditure for five
years Of the Gladstone Government
was e35S 100000; for five years of the
present Government 1t ia E40l ,000,0
The capital employed in railway
undertakings In Great Britain and Ire
land Is E5G0, 900, 900. That employed In
America is El 400, 100000, in Germany,
t200, 10000 and In France S240, ,000,-
| 600. ., ..f-.r
The Hon. Trenor W. Park has
given 81 900 for the purchase Of books
for the Free Library In Bennington,
vt. The library nov contains upward
Of 5000. ~
-George Wright, the famous base
ball plsyer, has announced in, q card
that he will not play base ball this sea-
son, but Will take charge Of a Boston
cricket club instead. ..N.
To raise beef In Montana for ex-
portation to England is Lords Dun
mares object, and iflhe succeeds he Will
have done more for himself and his
country than than most Of his order.
The American war vessels in the
Mediterranean are ridiculod by the
45alIllaylv 8BHsss .wyhaIch. CLAIMS that the
the Strait Of Gibraltar, or sink them at
short notice.
New steel works are to be erected
In Chicago Mt a cost, including seventy
five acres of land, of $2,00O,0 900. They
arc t. be completed within a year, and
will consist Of four blast furnaces, Bes-
| senior converting works, and, steel rail-
mills. They will employ 1000 men,
consume l50, 900 tons Of ore yearly and
turn out 0O, 900 tons OF rails.'h}'
The Dome of the Troy Polytechnic
| Institutes observatory Ia tWenty-nine
feet In diameter, aud made of paper,
reduced by pressure to THO hardness Of
wood, and 6ne-sixth Of an inch III thick
ness. 1t weight Is only onc-tenth of
| tho usual material, and it iB So nicely
adjusted THAT Q child can turn, II.
Tho corn crop of 1873 ofor the
United States, removed in the grain
alone 213,785 tons Of phosphorio acid
from tho soil, and l28,271 pounds of
potash. Or this there"was exported
1888 tons of phosphorIo acid, and 81
ll6 tons Of potash. We export about
six and ene-third per cent. Of our corn
crop.
The workmon wh6 boredGthe St.
Gnt ri t,1r al ALL T.. 4
paid at tho. rate Of five and six dollars
day. Many lost their limbs or lives
through accidents, but altogether they
sc cd tile heat and were less frightened
In handling dynamite than the Swiss
and Germans. For such enterprises
they are classed next to the Chinese.
Augusta Victoria, the betrothed Of
Prince William OF Germany, and the
future Empress OF that COUNTRY, is the
niece Of that Princess Henrietta of
SlesvIg- Holstein who married Cor
man physician, plain Herr Doctor
Esmarch. The children of the good
Herr Doctor will thus some day, be
able to!speak' abouttheir suCousln, the
Empress" I. al
President, Jewett. Of the, Erle rail.
way, receives $4,000 q year; Col.
Scott, president of seven railroads,
draws 500, 600 salary. Thero'are ff-
teen general managers ofAryilways in4
the United States whose salaries rum
from SIC, 900 to $4,000; nine general
superIntendents with u aalaryo $1,000;
to 81 900 yearly, and number of off,
GERS in tho samo rank who receive over
$1,000. 9N#. ia.
| The United States Government has
ordered that twelve girls and twelve.
boys OF the Cherokee Indians, residing
in the western couhties Of North Caro-
lima, be educated at the expense Of the
| Government t at the. Ashville Female
and the Weavervlle Colleges, the girls.
to be taught at Ashvllle and the boys
ae slWeaveryille, for the purpose OF
enabling them to toinstruct their own
people. aMd i,s3,ja. 5if
! The gross earnings Of 80 railroads
In the United States for the month oil
March show 4 net inoreasc df $s,724,-
702 over the same month In Is 879--t the
totals being $18, ,900, ,308 aud $13.175, ,8Qa. i
! Of these so roads 4S report on increase