The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-21
VOL. IV.-NO. %.
BRIEFS.

given for single buck.
Harry Brenneman, of Upton,
Huntington county, PENNSYLVANIA Is
llycars old, and weighs POI pounds.
"A convention of the trade and Ia
Dor unions of the State Of New Jersey,
was held at Trenton on January 6.
MIR. Algernon Surtorls, son-in-law
OF General Grant, arrived In New York
from Europe on Jan. llth.
| The Rothschilds Of Paris have
given $4,000 to charitable objects
within the past TWO months.
Tho cotton trade of Charleston.
). G., amounts to SIC, 0,000,OOO a wear.
and the rice trade to $2,O00,OOO.
The decline in gas stock sin Eng
land, on account Of the electric light,
1T Is said, causes depression in New
York.
Large droyes of antelope, herds of
wild horses and flOcks of ducks. geese,
quail, curlcw, &C., abound in Concho
county, Texas.
General Sherman had the pleasant
Christmas gift OF a fourth grandchild.
Ills daughter, Mrs. Fitch, has now
two sons and two daughters.
--The illness Of the Empress Of Rus
sia is increasing. The chronic affec-
ton of her right lung has been aggra-
waited by an attack OF pleurisy.
Chicago received 1877, 7G8, $3.50 BUSH
els OF grain during the past year, and
| claims that no other city In the world
could have taken care of such vast
quantity.
Advances In the iron and steel
markets continue to be recorded. The
year 1880 promises toa much more
profitable one than 1870.
1t is estimated that the value of
American agricultural products In
the year 1879 amounted to two thousand
millions $4,000. 900, ,oQ0] of dollars.
"A lie like wax figure Of Gambetta
has been placed in the sho W window
OF New York tailor. a figure Of the
late Prince Imperial is soon to accom-
pany it.
In the third quarter Of 1878 ia, ,S03
people passed to France via Dover and
Calais: In the corresponding quarter
Of 1878 ,GS9.-showing what exposl-
tions ITO for railroad companies.
Princess Louise Is having clear
ing made in the woods of Rideau Hall,
and vcritable backwoods shanty con-
s1ructcd upon it. 1t will be finished
by the time she returns to Canada.
| Iowa City capitalists have sub
scribcd $4,000 to build glucose works
IN that city. Dubuque has also been
investigating the matter and Will prob
ably build next year.
| The statistics of the B lptist church
in Pennsylvania for 1879 show the to-
tai membership to have been G4,S45.
winch is L ,20G more than 1878. Thore
are o02 Baptist churches III the State.
The number of domestic cards
| sent Uut from Ll,tt uy,,I,,y Hr,ly,,lr,
during tho year was 24G ,063, ,0G0, an in
crease Of 3G,s79 ,0UU over tho business
of 1873, when thcinumber was 200, ,1S4,-
600.
"A company of citizens of ALLIE
ghcny County, Pa, are arranging for
the erection of large hoo factory at
Monongahcla City, Pa. They will en-
ploy about 1000 hands and expect to
turn out l, 200 hoes q day.
The new beet sugar works at
Riverside Station, Del, which COM
running day and night. They have
not been as busy as ut present In a
number Of years.
Over COO persons are employed In
the Bloomingdalc N. j. rubber work
and fifteen houses have been erected
and thirty more will soon be neces-
sary to meet the demand from the ex-
traordinary rush Of business.
The total number of hogs packed
this season in Chicago up to Jan. 10th
was ,'ll5,O00, being greater than for
any preceding year up to the CORES
pond ling date, except 1870, when it was
nearly Il quarter OF million greater.
The Holly Water Works Company
of Lockport Pa, have just contracted
with the Tide Water OH Company of
Pennsylvania to put up an oil pump
and machinery, with Il capacity Of g.
COO barrels In twenty-four hours.
blight hundred miners of the Star
and Gotten mines ut Ashland, Ky, are
Oh strike to compel the operators to
acccde to the demands of tho railroad
, section hands, who have been on a
strike for sometime past for more
wages.
In the coops at canning factory
III MooresLown, N. j., arc 2700 chick
ems and GOO turkeys, that will soon be
dissected and encased in tin. Every
day they consume twenty bushels Of
corn, forty quarts ofpure milk, a large
quantity Of pork and two hundred aud
. eighty quarts OF water.
l AT Mount Desert, Me-, sea-gulls are
: caught alive in q unique way. A stick
l Is put through the tail Of a small fish
and then it is left upon the seashore
: where it can be seen by the birds.
They thon seize and attempt to swal-
o low it head first, and succeed remark
G ably we'll until they come to the stick,
II when a stop is made. They cannot
: swallow 1t further, and It'll equally
G impossible to raise it, and so they
G choke, strangle and fall over, when
h they are captured,
g MIR. j. G. Flood distributed Christ
G mas gifts amounting to $4,000 among
, seven charitable associations in Sai
, Francisco. lie sent $1,000 each to the
+ Protestant, Catholic and Hebrew Or.
o phan Asylums. .>t
: AT the recent Dairy Fair In Lon.
don IN American milking pail attracted
much notice. 1t has spout anG
strainer for the milk, and cannot be
kicked over, because the mixer sits on
8 q seat to which Is attached the cover
9 1.-The report Of the Bureau Of sta
u tiStiCS shows nm excess of exnOrts