The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-05-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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-Pennsy)varia's total debt Is $22.-
29o, ,6GS, Of which $900,7l8 bears no Ia
terest. ..,a' 3 ~ ~
The first Protestant church In
America was built at bingham, Mass.
in 1871.
shipments of American hay TO
England have resulted in remunerattve
returns. -,
DR.. II. j. Glenn, of California. re-
allied $2,2l0,000 from his wheat CROP
last year. ~ 'I0T
The coinage at tho United States
m,nts during January amounted to
$9,576, 800.
Norfolk, Va, was burned by the
English, under Lord Dunmore, In Jan
eary, l770. - s
| Henry Abbey will make over $Ib.-
o00 as his share Of the Lotta business
this season. .... -
An immense glucose factory Is soon
| to be established i'll Chicago wish can
ital Of $5,00o,000.
mississippi was the banner cotton
State last year, having raised $4,000
bales more than Texas.
During the eight years IN which
Ihos. Jefferson practiced law, he was
employcu III 94S GASES.
The oil producers contribution to
the Irish relief fund at last accounts
aInounted to 5000 barrels.
butler, Butler county, Pa, has a r
cheeso factory, and the milk OF 500
COWS ts converted into cheese.
The Independent Catholic church,
blsnop MacNamara's, III said to have
z'ooo members In New York city. N :
Edison sold his patent on the olec-
trio motograph to the Western Union
Telegraph Company, for $lU0,0OU.
-Seventy-six towns in Connecticut
(aDout one-half the State) have voted
against licensing tue sale of liquor. a
Work has been begun on tho sec-
0nd shaft OF the Hudson River Tunnel.
ut the foot Of Fifteenth street, jersey
City.
The number Of building permits
issued In Boston since the year opened
Is twice that issued in tho same pcrlod
of 1870.
From the Whitsell peach orchard.
near Lebanon, KY, there was sold
year before last $83,OOO worth of
peaches. ... -. -
2O,000,0t0 will be r.sde this wear
ny Southern planters by tho Rise in
crops over what they expected to get
for them. }. i.
--Last year twelve persons in tho
tJr5tgA HtA,as and. ,Enrona pnva an ar.
--Ialmago has asked all his friends
In all parts of the world to send him 81
to pay his church debt OF 800, 900. And
they are doing 1t. ...... .jH,
-Deadwt oG counts up Its mortality
during 1879 at l32, OF whom ~ were
killed ny accident, In quarrols, while
committed suicide. ..1'
Kansas claims a population of L.
000, QUO. and that immigration will in
crease 1t to ! 100, 900 before the census
Of 1880 Is completed.
1t Is estimated that sc, 900 men and
women arc employed In Philadelphia
in the manufacture Of clothing. making
2O,OOO, 900 suits a year.
The packages Of tomatoes put up
in 1870 In the United States reached the
total Of 10 ,06S,UOO, OF which New Jer-'
sey put up 6,502, 900 cans. I y" 'f
A collection OF portraits of tile Sec
rctaries OF tho Treasury has been begun
III Washington. For each Of these
portraits theGovernmcnt pays about
5000. nj.
1t Is said that In order to secure
Princess Stephanio precedence Of all
other crown prlncesses. Prince ,Ru-'
dolptl will be annointed king Of Hun
gary after tho wedding.
"A Maine paper says that $4,000
tons Of Ice have been stored this winter
from the Kenebec River, between Hal;
lowell and Merrymeeting Bay, and
below the bay 200, 900 tons more.
The Agricultural Department osti-y
mates the Increase In the value Of tho
crops raised In 1870 over those Of the
previous year at $4l6,000, 900. The
price OF real estate has been enhanced
during the same time about 81 900, ,0O0.-,
600.
According to the last census, Japan
has a population OF 4,303, ,404 inhabi-
tants. The capital or tie Empirs,
Toxic, or as ir Is otherwise called,
Yeddo. had at the end Of 1879 popu.
lation OF; l,ooo,77l. o,,
The first horned cattle brought 20
America were imported by Columbus
III 1902. In 1850 the best dairy farms
Of Rhotle Island contained upward Of
100 COWS, and sold $4,000 pounds OF
cheese, besides butter, builocks aud
calves. .oN,
personal right and Al by election, ,l8 by
the Peers of Scotland and 28 BY the
Peers of Ireland; while the l43 peer,
ages OF which tho holders are not log-
islators at present are @distrlbuted
among the Peeresses and the Peers Of
Scotland and Ireland. enia 3pfrtH
The Duke Of Newcastle, the Mar
quis of Anglesey and the Earl of Fife,
.vho flial wlthin tho voar wGra tha