The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-16
BRIEFS.

"A pih9 VA "dbCl COHHcTl6U luSO
steam fills space Of about 1900 pints.
I'm the last fiscal year $4,000 600
acres Of public lands were sold to set
tiers.
The total number Of horses In
North Carolina is 1877 1873. and Of sheep
3s2 ,46s.
-Scientists says that one.twelth Of
the human brain is composed OF phos-,
phorus.
New York has 90, 900 school oh,ld-
rem to educate whom one year costs
So $40 035.
-Utah's mineral output from 1871
down to the close Of 1879 Is placed at
$45 ,O34.Sl4. - I."'"
The number Of optic nerve fibres is
43S 600, and Of retinal cones in each
human eye $780, 900,
The gross Income derived from
| tobacco by the farmers Of the United
States is about $22, ,000.0
The Shoshones and Bannooks have
Agreed to give up 325 900 acres Of tho
| reservations at Ross Fork.
The Agricultural School for Girl
at Rouen, France. has 300 pupil 8, vary
ing In age from to 1s years.
There are 5000 fugitives from
Justice In Texas, 1000 Of whom have
had the misfortune to commit murder.
Those sixteen Indian girls of Mr..
Moody's have been sent to him at Jay
Gould's expense from the Indian terri
tory.
Iowa has 1000 school districts 10.
0Oo schools, 2l,000 teachers, 385, 900
scholars, and a school fund Of over S3,-
500,OO0.
-Amasa Stone is the man who pro-
proses to give $500, 900 to the Western
Reserve College If 1t Is removed to
Cleveland.
| -Duluth blast furnace, the only ono
| In Minnesota, has gone into operation.
1t uses charcoal, and Its annual capae.
| ity Is IL 900 tons. ..
| According to Professor Read of
London the world, by geological evil
dence, has reached the mature age Of
600, 900 900 years.
| Spain, with only II 100000 Of in
habitanta, turns out nearly twice as
much wheat as does Italy with 28, ,G00,-
600 Of Inhabitants.
| The latest es innate Of the acreage
devoted to wheat in India is 5000. 600
against the outside estimate Of 80, ,OOO.-
600 In the United States.
| .-Estimating the entire grain crop Of
the United States Mt 4sC, 900 1000 bushels,
Dakota aud Minnesota will produce
one-tenth of the amount.
From 1873 to May, 1880, it is .esti-
mated that 1866 stoam and sailing
vessels have been lost, and that 1O,827
persons perished In them.
The third and youngest daughter
OF General Rosecrans, took the black
veil recently at the convent Of the
Ursulines, st. Martins, Ohio.
The railroad up Vcsuvius has done
such a flourishing business since 1t
opening last spring that the value OF
tho stock has Increased fifty per cent,
Donald Mackey, who died in
hamilton, Mass. fe W days ago, WAS
the pioneer builder Of clipper ships IN
this country. He was 20 years of are.
During the quarter ending with
the 50th Of Juuo, 1880, 5000 emigrants
States. of whom 7 were females and A
boys.
Edward Cushman, the naphew and
heir of the late Charlotte Cushman.
has Just erected a monument over tho
lamented actress grave in Mount Au-
burn Cenetary. b..
There are at present in this country
} ,053 national, 923 state, $50 savings,
and 2 1878 private banks. OF these, 283
havo been organized within the last
twelve months.
--rhe total number of houses within
the district Of London water companies
} ut the close Of 1870 was 573.702 being
, an increase of 81,787 houses since the
} close of the year 1872,
-Messrs. Drexol and Chllds, OF
: Philadelphia, have bought a large tract
OF land at Wayne station on the Penn.
| " 4 MI ~nt ~~@lt L..
, making town there.
The finances Of I.aly are In de-
plorable condition. The treasury owes
} $94G, 100000 to bank syndicate, be.
sides number of other debts, and has
to pay annually $174, 1000, 900 for inter-
est.
There Is a piece Of pine in the
, British Museum supposed to be 1000
, years old. 1t come from Thebes and it
Is OF blood rod color, supposed to be
caused by age or some preserving ma
terial. .'
Z "A boy only II years old has been
, sentenced to death at CullOden, Ga. His
| name is Clayton Hillsman, he Is black,
and his crime was the very brutal MUIR
| der OF an infant, whom he was set TO
r watch,
Teresa Tua OF Turin, a young girl
OA IIliIIcCHS UoIo Ou Ili0 nESG DrlGo NJ u
viOlintst at the Paris Conservatory last
year. She has been offered $40, 900 for
five years tour through the United
States.
The aggregate earnings of the rail-
roads Of the United States have been
', computed by somebody with head for
. figures, and he finds that they were
over 1920 ,000, 900, or almost double the
, entire revenues of the government.
1t is estimated that the coal. fields of
india extent over an area OF 35 600
square miles. Some Of the seams are
100, 100 and 160 feet thick. DR.. Odel-
ham believes tn 9re are not less than
20 ,000, 100000 tons Of coal in that en-
pire, !, l,,gs4. ,s,,-ig
Mr.. r. II. Mcdonald, of San Fran.
I oiso, offers el00, 900 toward an endow-
mont fund for a Christian University
on condition that an equal sum shall