The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-09-04
BRIEFS.

ord was observed by the Chaldeans, at
Babylon, 72l B. G.
1t is said that each naval cadet on
board the Britannia costs Great Britain
at least s., ,260a year.
Eek Governor kemper of Virginia
has become so paralyzed that he can
neither walk nor stand.
Pennsylvania produced in 1870, 2e.-
l42 $50 tons Of anthracite and IA $780,
O0O Of bituminous coal.
1t is estimated that over SIC, O,OO0,-
O0O year are expnded In private hor-
ticulture In Great Britain and Ireland.
The Empress Eugenie is about to
visit Queen Victoria at Osborne. The
autumn she will spend at Arenenburg.
The French revenue Of 5000, 900, 900
is asserted to be the largest ever re-
celved from population of thirty-six
millions.
The gross revenue for the United
Kingdom for the year ended June Both
Is tS2, 100000 against f83 3,250, 900 last
year.
The boom at Williamsport, Pa, has
less logs In this season than it has con-
tanned at the same time for many years
previous.
"A pair Of white crows frequent
wood near Greencastle, Pa. Unsuccese-
ful attempts have been made to capture
them alive.
There are 10000, 900 acres of land
within the boundaries Of Montana,
three-fifths of which is available for
grazing or agriculture.
Two million four hundred thou.
sand gallons Of cotton seed oil have been
shipped from New Orleans to France
and Italy within year.
About 10000 volumes were con-
sumed at the burning in Paris of the
library of Professor Mommsen, the DIS
tinguished historian Of Rome.
Napoleon, Ney, ami Wellington,
were al! born In the year seventeen
hundred and sixty-nine, and all fought
their last battle ut Waterloo.
The original wagon in which John
Brown emigrated from Pennsylvania
to Kansas is to be presented to the
Historical Society Of tho latter State.
Dental authorities estimate that the
$4,000 dentist in this country are pack
Ing into the teeth Of the people not less
than half atom ofpure gold every year.
-The Chicago hotels had good time
during convention week. The Palmer
took $l05,0UO, the Grand Pacific $780,
0OO, the fremont $50, 900 and the Sher-
man $4,000.
The contract to build the iron
bridge over the Monongahela rivnr at
Plttsburg, Pa. which will cost $500, 900,
mas been awarded to the Iron City
Bridge Works.
--Schuylkill county, Pa, is overrun
by New York artists sketching. The
Hudson river shore has been s'd0ne" so
n rf 10 tu
seek other fields for subjects.
The brio 60 Of St. Angelo, which
crosses the Tlber at Rome, is substan-
TALLY as the ancint Romans Ileit 1t.
There were seven other bridges; only
four are now entire, though the others
can easily be traced.
According to the last census, there
were q ,0OO, 900 of agriculturists in the
United States, and by this time, as the
new census will doubtless show, there
must be at least 100000 with their
families.
The returns Of French imports
and exports for the first six months of
1850. as compared with the returns of
the corresponding months of 1879, show
an increase of III 900 900 francs In tho
imports, and of So 100000 francs in the
exports.
Tho gross rcvenAe of Great Britain
for tho fiscal year ending June 3Oth
was Gsl ,062 1853, against ESQ, 1926, 1927
last year; for the last quarter, El9, 9,6i9,-
05S, against 1902, $50 for the same
time In 1870.
Cards were invented in France
about the year 1890, to amuse Charles
vi. during the intervals of melan-
oholy disorder, which finally brought
him to his grave.
The slave trade, from the coast Of
Africa, was first begun by the Portu-
gese In 1a4l. England was engaged in
Lhls traffic up to the year 1S07-quite
modern date.
The potato is a native of Chill and
Peru. they were originally carried to
England frt m Santa Fe, in America by
Sir John Hawkins, In or about the year
1868.
"A single blackberry bush in a gar
den at Truro, Mass, has produced soy
EN- hundred berries, and single branch
one hundred and fifty. This demon
stratas That small fruits can be success
fully grown even upon the sands of
Cape Cod.
The total number of paupers in
London exclusive Of lunaCics in asy-
lums and SS0 vagrants, on the last iay
Of the second week Of Juno was 85. .O49
Of whom G,703 were in warehouses,
and 3S,26e receiving out door relief.
The cotton crops of the United
States, for 1873 and 1870 were the lar
gest ever raised. The ten crops from
1862 to 1861, raised by the slave labor,
numbered 34,095 ,440 bales; the ten
crops from 1870 to 1870, raised by free
labor, numbered Al ,454 ,742 bales.
There are 64 cities In the United
States with population exceeding 3O..
900; there are a. cities with more than
~, 900; 3D. with more than sc, 900: AZ
with more than 10000; "a with more
than 5000; 20 with more than 100 900;
with more than 100000; and l with
more than 100000. b
The now leaden roof that is being
placed on the cupola Of St. Peters at
Rome Will be complete in two years.
This roof was begun seventeen years
ago. 1t is divided into sixteen sections.
each of which requires 900, 900 pounds
Of lead.
1t is reported with authority that
P6 per ton for ice has been refused 10