The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-03
VOL. IV.-NO. Is.
N EWS IN BRIEF.

w tilc DilliSll CiOWn Ill 1919.
--Fayettc county, Pa, is out Of debt
and has $l2, 900 in the treasury.
In 1868 the ancient province called
Louisiana was sold by FraAce to Spain.
The tower of Babel is supposed to
date some 2,247 years before Christ's
| time.
One firm in Reading, Pa, tanned
2o,O5o sheep, goat and calf skins last
year.
Antioch was destroyed by an earth
quake about 10 years before the time
OF Christ.
AT the destruction of Jerusalem,
a. ID. 70, over l,OO0,O 600 Jews were pu I
to the word.
The immigration for the year end
ing with November amounted to ,34O,-
600 persons.
Professor Eliot wishes to establish
retiring annuity fund for tho bcneii
OF Harvard professors.
Victoria (Australia) had u short
supply Of wheat last harvest, amount
ing to 057 ,00C bushels.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul company has the largest mileage
OF any road in the worlG-2, 1863.
"A stock ranch and 300 head of cat
tie near Austin, Texas, arc cared for
Dy widow seventy years Of age.
According to the last census there
are l94 men in France over 100 years
| old. and 26l3 between % and 100.
-Senor Zamacona, the Spanish Mill
lister at Washington, Is building Il skat-
ing rink in the rear of his residence.
The total debt of Boston at the close
| of this year will be $42 ,359 ,Bl6.23 de-
crease during the year Of 50, ,720, ,624.
Henry Nj. Stanley is now ascend
the heart Of Africa by Il different rorte.
During July the exports OF petro-
leum were over $4,000, 600 gallons, Of
an aggregate value Of over $4,250,OOO.
Lord Derby is enormously rich.
having an income of $3,000,00O, with
an estate constantly increasing in value.
The deepest mine cn the Pacific
slope or in America Is the Belcher,
which has attained Il vertical depth OF
5000 feet.
--Rowcll has at length fixed on April
as the date, and London or Manches-
ter as the place, for the next Ashley
belt walk.
benjamin Kirby, of Frostburg, Md,
aged 81, has just been placed on the
pension list. He served in the navy
during the war Of 1912.
Two hundred flint arrow heads
were dug up on the farm Of George w.
Moore, near Lumbcrton, N. j.. on Ran
cocas creek, recently,
The dispensary established by Mrs.
IIburtuss in Berlin has recciacd ,lI0
persons In one year. These are gener-
| ally women and children.
"A curious sight was presented at
Lagrange, Ga, last week. In the midst
Of snow storm might have been seen
green grass and the peach and pear trees
| in bloom.
--Seventy-tive boys from the New
York Children's Aid Society have just
been supplied with homes among the
farmers OF NottoWay county, Va.
"A butcher in York county, Pa,
while cutting rounds from a Slaughter
ell steer, recently found in the beef a
gold dollar, dated 1852.
From the return OF the comparative
acreage under flax in Ireland in 1873
and 1879 shows that there was an i'll
crease last year Of l6 1877 acres.
Hon. Samuel II. Hunt, of Sussex
county, N. j., has in his possession
copy OF the sermon OF Rev. Uzal Ogden,
delivered before the Masonic Lodge of
Morristown, December 9th, 1774.
Think Of f'what an agricu ltural fair
must be in California, with cabbages
five feet in circumference, pumpkins
weighing hundred pounds, cucum-
bers yard long, and peaches and pears
AS large rs your head.
"A merchant Of Little Rock, Ark,
the other day indulgcd in novel bit of
advertising. Frozen in the centre of
block Of ice weighing 400 pounds were
two large fishes, a variety Of fruit and
big advertisement of fresh oysters.
1t is not often that man is killed
by meteor. David Mciscnthaler.
stockman, of Whitestone, Kansas, late
ly, while driving his COWS to the barn
early In the morning, was struck by an
aerolite and Instantly killed.
The treasurer Of the Monmouth
On. J.) Battle Monument Association
reports oyer $4,000 in cash Oh hand,
with some hundreds duo and not COL
lected. If ten thousand dollars cannot
be ecollected seven thousand monument
will be erected.
The uniform Of tho late Prince
Louis Napoleon IS stated to have been
found at kraal near Ulundi, the whole
front Of it having been pierced bv asse-
gals. The Zulu who actually inflicted
the death-blOw is said to have been
Abango, who was subsequently, killed
at Ulundi..
The church of the small town of
Saventhem, in Belgium, possesses
celebrated picture by Van Dyck, repre-
senting scene from the life Of St.
Martin. Van Dyck has protrayed him
self as the saint, and his master, Sir
Peter Paul Rubens, as one of the per-
sonages In the scene.
The Berlin papers describe sleigh
lately presented blythe Prince of Iohen-
zollern to his bride, princess of the
house of ,TurD and Sails, as marvel of
costly beauty. The body is shaped
like cockle-shell, and is Of polished
ebony inlaid with silver, and the cush-
ions are Of the richest volvet, adorned
with silver bells.
Paris has now over .nlne miles Of
tubing laid down under the main thor
onghfares for the purpose Of unifying