The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-02
BRIEFS.
-DetrOtt's population is l10,O27.

! -DetrOlCs population Is ll0 ,O27.
The total number Of horses In North
Carolina is 1877 ,l33, and Of sheep 6s2,-
TO make good solder for copper
use ten parts of copper and nine parts
of zinc.
philadelphia Baptist churches have
within year paid debts aggrcgating
$16l,000
In southern Europe olive oil is now
largely adulterated with the oil of cot
ton seed.
The late Do Witt G. West of Low.
100000. ~ " ''O"'
Constant cutting off just below the
surface of the ground will in time era-
dicate poison ivy.
| Tho demand for new Pennsylvania
"neat 1or Shipment as seed for Europe
exceeds its supply.
Italy imported, during the first
SIX months OF the year, 260,0 tons Of
| cereals OF all kinds.
Ohio grape growers are getting
somewhat discouraged owing to the
prevalence Of the rot.
died lately at Middleboro, Mass. Ho
was OF medium stature.
The agricultural school for girls at
Kouen, France, has 300 pupils, varying
In age from to lS years.
The gross income derived from to-
bacco by the farmers of the United
States is about $22, 100000.
st. Louis now has sixty xindergar-
tens, as instructing 520l children be-
tween the age OF five and seven years.
General Trevino of the Next
can Army, land his bride-formely Miss
ord-lhtend to live at San Luis Potosl.
Several of the expelled French Je-
suits have been Invited by the Duke Of
Norfolk to stay at his castle of Arun-
del.
The King of Siam has presented
the Grand Ribbon of the White Ele-
phant to the President of the French
Republic.
Sir Evelyn Wood, who accompa-
MED the Empress Eugenie to Zululand.
| collected, while there, materials for
work on tho Zulu war.
The latest estimate of the acreage
| devoted to wheat in India is 8,0OO, 600,
| against the outside estimate Of 38, ,0O0.-
600 In the United States.
-Vtctorien Sardou has bonght the
order to enter the cabinet where Ma
rat was sitting in his bath.
The report Of the National Bureau
OF Satisfies shows that during the
| month OF juno there were 72, ,587 i'm
migrants arrived in this country.
| The value Of the timber DESTROYED
by the recent forest fires in the south
west district Of the province of New
brunswick is estimated at $300.000
One half pound of salt to the pound
OF butter In the rule of sailing adopted
by the makers of the celebrated butter
which sells at fancy price In Boston.
| The American Baptists have two
churches in Stockholm, Sweden, and
are about to form third. S'There was
an increase of 200 members the past
year.
| The Edwin Forrest mansion, at tho
southwest corner of Broad and Master
streets. Philadelphia, has been pur-
chased by the managers of the School
of Design for women. ~
-Nlnety-one cities in this country
have population Of over 5000, 900, or
about one-sixth of the whole population,
| and this does not include cities with less
than 10000 population.
| Kansas is the geographical centre
|
and 404 miles in length, containing
81, ,000, 900 acres, or Is larger than the
whole Of New England.
Lewis Swift, Of Rochester, has re-
ceived another gold medal, valued at
about$7O from the Imperial Acadamy of
sciences at Vienna, for the discovery
of the comet 1879, No. 3. ~
General Walker has made ah estimste
OF the population Of the Uiifted States
from the returns already received and
he thinks there will be In the neigh
borhood of $4,000, 900 people.
NO member Of the British royal ia
mily, except the children of the Queen
and of the Prince of Wales, arc entitled
to be styled "royal hi highnesses," unless
they have been specially created so by
Her Majesty.
| MIR. Shiras, telegraphic engineer
for the International Telephone Com
pany of New York, is in Bucharest en-
deavoring to obtain a concession for
the establishment Of telephone busi-
ness In that city.
The number Of hogs slaughtered at
Cleveland since March l, was 176,8o4,
nearly three times the number which
have been slaughtered in Cincinnati in
same time, the number in the
| Iho IaU1oA CiGy 10 oo,oOOs
"A company to establish elevated
railways IN Paris, upon tho New York
pattern, is being organized under the
superintendence Of American capital
lets, and there are whispers Of Mmi-
lar scheme for London.
The tobacco and cranberry crops
of Wisconsin are larger than ever this
year. That State will receive about
81 ,000, 900 for Its tobacco and about halt
as much for It's oranberrles. Its wheat
crop turned out we'll, and its corn crop
ls excellent.
There was carrier-plgeon race In
Europe on July the 25. Forty-eight
birds st:rted from London at 6 O'clock
for Cologne. The winning bird reached
the Rhenish city at one second before
IL o'clock, or In five hours, 80 minutes
and b0 seconds after leaving the British
capital.
jacob and Mary Dampman, of St.
Mary's Warwick township, Chester
county, were married on the 9TH Of Ju-