The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-13
NEWS IN BRIEF;

| Columbia has now 1873 students, and Is
very prosperous.
The school of Industrial Art in
Philadelphia received $19,013 In 1870
and expended $1S,504.
Germany has standing army of
10000 and wants 10000 more at an adj
ditional cost Of $11 100000.
the seals in San Francisco Bay are
fast killing of the fishes, and their ex-
tinetion Is loudly demanded.
The fir-tree flourishos in California.
1t starts easily from cuttings, and COM
mences to bear the second year.
There were l ,013 new novels pub
ltshed In England last year, and ir
wasn't good year for novels either.
Mr.. Fairchild, who is transferred
fEom the Consul Generalship of Paris
to the Spanish mission, has only one
arm. 0..
The revival in the slate trade at
northampton county, Pa, is very ac-
tive, orders being far ahead in ali the
quarries. ..,.~
The Cincinnati Odd Fellows have
contracted for a $40, 900 monument over
their unknown dead at Spring Grove
Cemetery.
The average amount Of opium con-
oohASN LII NulId 10 tUOuU lG,UUU,UUU
pounds per annum; probably 10000
pounds more Of native opium is pro-
duccd.
.-One-fifth Of the 100000 acres of
vine land in France will be unproduc-
tive this year. This means a loss Of
$50, 100000 49,.
| -Proylous to the Revolutionary war,
the English supplies Of tobacco were
derived chiefly from Virginia and
Maryland.
.-Spurzheim died Nov. 10th 1882. A
eulogy was pronounced over his re-
mains by Professor Follen, Of Harvard
University.
| In England, Scotland and Wales
thore IRE 2,2l1 Catholic priests, which
number shows an increase of f1fty-four
since the rear 1877.
-Autograph- olleottng originated In
Germany in 1860, and first took shape
III the forms of albums, though the
name was not then adopted.
John Lester Wallack has seld his
residence at Long Branch, near the
Rowland House, to Il. j. Dobblns, of
Philadelphia, for $35.09
During the past year the herrings
taken In Scottish waters and cured were
sufficient to fill 100000 barrels, each
barrel containing an average Of 700 fish.
The value of land is so depressed in
ireland that on Nov. 7, 1879, when
seven estates were offered for sale, but
four were taken, while for two there
was no bid.
The Suez Canal receipts are report
ed TO have decreased in 1873 $685., 200
from those of 1877, and 1879 showed u
still greater falling of. About three
quarters of the vessels passing through
arc British.
Ohio has a school population of L.
043,3 800. The number o. pupils enroll
Cd In the public schools Is 734, ,657; the
average daily attendance Is only 450,-
9oo: There are 1854 school houses,
and 20, ,4s7 teachers. r
AT the sale OF pews for 1880 in
| plymouth church, Brooklyn, Rev. Fl.
W. Beecher's, the total sum realized
from premiums was $27 ,437. The rent
ais are fixed at $l2,852, making the
estimated Income from pews for the
year $40,2s0. d.
The value of foreign exports from
tne ne oPp port OF Baltimore last year was
$6S, 600 900, which was large increase
over the business of 1878. The receipts
| Of grain alone we're Increased by more
than 1880, 900 bushels. .s3
The new Supreme Court Judge Of
Pa, Hon. Henry Green, of EastOn, is
| still confined to his residence at that
place with rheumatism, and, 1t Is
thought, will be permanently lnme from
this cause.
Five Of the Turkish officers who
! have resided for number of years in
Providence, attending to the interests
or the Imperial Ottoman Government,
left recently for Turkey via London
and Marsellles.
The gold belt of Georgia is about a
100 miles In breadth, with barron In
| tervais here and there. 1t lies north
east and southwest across tho entire
northern and part of the eastern section
of tho State, and loses itself In the east
| ern part of Alabama. A voln near
Goshen Is said to be yielding 81, 900 per
month at a cost of $115. ,!4
There are four Mlnts in the United
States at which money is ooined-in
Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Or
leans and Carson City, New. The Mint
at Denver ts' operated as an Assay Of
flee. There are also Assay offices at
New York, Boise City (Idaho), Helena
(Montana) and Charlotte, N. q.
The first steamships that crossed
the Atlantic were the Sirius and Great
| Western. The former sailed from Cork
April 4, 1888, and the latter from Brls-
tol April 8, 1888. They both arrived In
New York on the 28th of the same
month, the Sirius being only twelve or
fifteen hours ahead Of the Great Vest
| ern. MFaf.gi At@ s3ai# s@E' ~
IAN imperial policy is costing Great
Britain In increased military expendi-
ture, 50, 900 a month. The price of
empire In Germany is as heavy, al
though differently impressed. The
average number Of traInps In each
workhouse in 1871 was $50, now 1t Is /
889. In 1875 one person In 1874 of the h
population Of Berlin was a pauper, now
one In 74. ~ is3
The Statistics Bureau at Rome esti-
mates the population of the Eternal 6
City at the close Of the past y ear. at &
zoe, 8,232. The nnmbersof deaths In 1879 Y
averaged 24.7 per thousand, which goes
far to show that tho climate Is not SO =
unhealthy as Is generally claimed At