The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-08-07
VOL. Nv. mo. 95.
BRIEFS.

The population Of Gettysburg, Pa, /,
Ia two hundred and seventy-nine less
than 1t was ten years ago.
In the South there are Id blast
furnaces, 80 rolling mills and steel
works, and 48 forges and bloomeries.
The total value of the tobacco crop
of the United States ls about $22, ,O0O,-
000-that is what tho farmers realize.
The annual tribute paid as rent to
the landed aristocracy Of England by
the farmers is estimated at $500, ,00O, 600.
Asa left, of stockton, N. Y,
makes al average of over 800 pounds of
butter per annum from each Of his
COWS.
Mr.. Gladstone's expenses in the
| Midlothian elecGion are returned at
g2,70, and those of Lord Dalkeith at
| "a, ,07S.
The average pay Of the Protestant
Episcopal ministers III the elghty-one
Episcopal Parishes in Virginia Is
1901 ~.
-rLo income Of the Duke of Wost-
Minister Is said to he nearly $l5 900 a
day. Most of his wealth Is in real es-
tate In London.
Along the Northern Pacific Rail-
| road, where last year the Weld Of
o.
ise Is now 10, ,0O0. 900 bushels.
Tho first printing office established
IN Russia In 1860 was destroyed by the
supcrstitious populace, who though the
process one involving necromancy.
The revenue OF the Imperial family
Of Russia Is s$l2, ,500,00 About 81, ,5OO,-
| 000 is set aside for charities, schools,
| etc., under the direction OF the family.
The fruit and vegetable business
from Florida to the Norther States has
grown from $4,000 boxes III 1874 TO
9o0,0 900 In 1879, and Is still Increasing.
ireland expended for beer last year
$40 1915, 900, which sum would feed all
her hungry population If properly ap-
$3.50, 1896, $3.50.
Quantities of walnut timber, OBJ
tanned in southwest Virginia and East
Tennessee, are being shipped to Eng
land by agents employed by British
cabinet makers.
Mrs. Flechter Webster is building
a handsome house Oh the spot where
tho OLD home stood at Marsh1leld. The
great elm which Webster valued so
highly Ia still standing.
Although the Commissioners tor
tho Melbourne Exhibition had stated
that tue total cost would not exceed
81 ,260,O 900, it will cost 81, 900, 900. 1t Ia
10 be open in the evening.
Considerable cranbury land was
devastated by the lato New Jersey
fires. The flames swept over single
meadow of thirty-ive acres, occasion-
Ing the heavy loss Of about $4,000.
-. he number of cattle killed per
year In tho United States Is II, ,S25, 600,
the meats from which amounts to A.
oaS, ,300, ,OOO pounds, and their total value
when killed for food Is $60S, 200, 900.
james II. Dodge, in his investtga-
ttons OF sheep husbandry, says that in
the South more than 100000 were
killed by dogs Ia 1879, over five per
cent, OF tho entire number in that sec
tion.
The capital employed in railway
undertakings In Great Britain aud Ire
land Is 1850, 900, 900; that employed in
America Is El 200, 900, 900; In Germany
E200, 0,000, 600; and in France e2IO, O,OOO,-
600. :
"A Frenchman has on his estate
near Paris mule aged 73, goose aged
81, I! COW Of 30 years, a hog 27,a bull
finch OF 2S, and u sparrow of 81. lie
makes 1T his pastimc to give home to
old animals.
Among the passengers on the day
boat from New York to Albany recent
iy, was Ar. G. Jones, of st. Louis, who
is 10 years of age, and who sailed up
the river with Robert Fulton, on the
steamer Clermont, In 1907.
The youngest brother of tho Prin-
cess Of Wales, Prince Waldemar of
Denmark, has returned to Copenhagen
after a years cruise as lieutenant on
Danish corvette. His royal father
orders that the youth shall have two
months vacation.
The number of burglaries in Lon
don has Increased 2G per cent since
1860, while 1t has decreased 80 per
cent. In tho rest of England. 1t is as
serted that since the death Of Sir. Il.
Mayne tho London police force has
been steally deteriorating.
There are but nine perfect tones in
the human voice. However, out OF
these we have no loss than 1852 ,O44.-
4l6 different sounds, thus: fourteen
direct muscles, alone or together, pro-
duce G,3S3, $50, Indirect muscles, l73,-
74l 1923; and altogether produce an al
most incredible number first given.
Lord Roseberry has stirred a tu-
multi In the veins of "White's," the
fash htonable club of London, by intro
duclng his jockey, Constable, to dinner
there; but he is too great a favorite to
touch, and the Duchess OF Westminster
has set the example by dining Archer,
the rider Of Bend Or, ut GrosyenoI
House.
Great numbers Of American oys-
ters have bee n obtained to replenish
the European oyster beds. Recently
l,26O,OO American oysters were laid
down on the coast Of Little Celt, from
Gravenshoved to Rolkhoved, and
5000, 900 more on the Schleswig- : II OILS
teln coast.
The Half Way House in Weehaw-
ken, N. D., has a clock that was made
by Martin Lopis, of fStrasbourg, in 1908.
1t is six feet tail, and is protected by II
handsomely carved case. The clock Ia
in perfect order, and is wound up
every thirty-slx hours. 1t never
strikes, but constantly plays success
sion Of pleasant airs, the names of
Ixyb 30 ont LS,n