The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| Cu"loh ~ NeWtohs W., lh3S Deen usoU
liz years.
In 1873 the tax on armorial bear
tngs In England and Scotland pro-
duced $4l0,000.
Tho citizens Of Lebanon, Tenn,
nave subscribed $4,000 toward the
payment Of the State debt.
! Tho French sea fisheries were more
SUCCESSFUL last year than the year be-
fore, to the extent Of $22l ,e25. -.
1T 1s estimated that seventy years
and 81, 100000 will be required to com
plete the excavations at Pompeii.
"A company with 500, 900 capital
has been organized to open a swim
ming school in Boston next April.
"A white oak tree in Washington
county, Pa, when sawed produced one
thousand and eighty feet Of lumber,
There are more than 10, O,000, 900 car
wheels In use ia the u nited States. The
average life Of wheel is eight years.
Plus TX. prescribed in his will his
burial place and that more than $500
should be expended on the monument
above 1t.
"A now university has been founded
In Liverpool, England. Subscriptions
to the amount of $4,000 have been
received.
Three hundred and two thousand
seven hundred and thirty-nine per-
sons visited the Pittsburg Exposition
this year.
The gold yield in New South Wales
In 1873 was not one-tenth of that OF
twenty years ago. The yield Of coal
increases.
An International Sanitary Con-
gress will be held at Washington In
January, 1881, under the auspices Of
Government.
Two AMI half million Of tropical
oranges were received in the past six
months at San Francisco from the
French Islands of Tahiti.
An estate in Australia whloh for
merly supported 10000 sheep, has
been abandoned on account OF the
devastation caused by the rabbits,
The Massachusetts, Historical Sooi>
ETY. has given 500 toward the erection
Of monument in London oyer the un-
marked grave Of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Jerusalem existed 700 years befere
Rome was founded, 800 years before
the siege Of Troy, and 500 years before
the hanging gardens of Babylon were
built.
The value Of the textile products
produced in the United Kingdom IL
$76 ,000, 600; United States, 420 900, 900;
$240, 600, 900.
The Baroness Burdett .Coutts' sis
ter. Mrs. Clara Maria Moneys son,
nave been allowed to use the surname
Coutts In addition to and after Money
anu to bear the arms Of Coutts.
Two American army officers, Lieu
tenants Birnie and Bixby, have re-
ceived the Cross of the Legion Of Honor
at Paris, for assisting at the recent
Vancouver Of the French army.
There are now over 10000 sheep
In Laramie county, Wyoming, which
is an increase Of 35 per cent over last
year. The clip of wool in that county
for 1880 amounted 100000 pounds.
Professor Watson, the astronomer,
Is erecting an observatory, to cost $4,000,
at his own expense, at Madison, Wis.
He proposes to search particularly for
the inner Mercurial planet Vulcan.
John Wannamaker, the rich mer-
chant of Philadelphia, Pa, Is the super
intendent Of the largest Presbyterian
Sunday-school in the United States,
containing more than 10000 children.
The Marquis of Salisbury's brother
Lord A. Ceoll, has been appointed Loco
motive superintendent Of the Great
Eastern Railway. He has been in the
engineering department Of the Great
Eastern Railway for some years.
The consumption of cotton has i'll
creased In the South from 129, ,189 bales
in 1875 to 22l 1887 bales in 1880. The
capital invested in cotton manufactures
in the South receives larger profits
than in the same line in the North.
MIR. Simon Cameron, who Is
hufn nNfo =,
theran congregation in Pennsylvania
house and land for parsonage, as \
memorial of his wife, Margaret Brua
Cameron, who was 4 devout Lutheran.
On Michaelmas day, Sept. 80, the
Count de Chambord was 90. 1t was his
hftieth birthday on foreign soil. Last
year 200 persons on his natal day
dlned of dishes boarlng legitlmlst
names. This year the celebration was
more quiet. .... ..... .,-u
M. Lecard, who has bean explor-
Ing in Africa, has discovered on the
banks OF the Niger plant which bears
grapes, which he proposes to send to
France to take the place Of the vines
which are being devastated by tho
phylloxera.
"A carrier pigeon belonging to John
G. Haines, OF Toms River, N. j., few
AoS0AUJ tAo NAoloASo Va Ou ulllcb ia Ill
| air line In tWenty-four minutes. Ten
| other pigeons released at the same mo-
ment reached home a minute later than
! their leader.
sir Henry Bessemer has taken out
no less than ia patents. The freedom
Of the City OF London has just been
conferred upon him. Before his steel
process was introduced into Sheffield,
the entire make Of steel was 81 900 tons
year; now it Is $4,000 tons.
| Great Britain and Franco consume
each about the same quantity
OF wool-380, 900, 900 pounds year.
Germany consumes about l05 100000
pounds; United States, 26O,OO0,000
pounds, and Russia, Austria and other
countries, 4O0, 200, 900 pounds.
The wool-clip Of the world has In
creased five times since 1880, when it
was about 800, 900 900 pounds In weight.
In 1873, the latest year for which there