The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF

The aggregate vote in PcnnsylYan-
Ia Is nearly 200, ,0C0 short OF what it was
In 1876.
The deficit In the French sugar
beet crop will be between 25 and 50
per cent. less than last year.
The rice crop of South Carolina
for the year Is estimated at IA 900 tierces,
and that Of Georgia Mt 600 tierccs.
1t is estimated that the little phyl-
loXera has destroyed about $8,0O0,00O
worth OF vintage In France this year.
Three hundred choice sheep have
been taken from Washington county,
Pa, to Texas, to improve flocks in that
State.
France had 81, ,9o2 vessels, with a
tonnage OF $4,000 tons, and manned
BY. S2,43l sailors, engaged In the fish
cries last year.
1t is thought that George Wright,
the famous baseball player, will not
play next year, but will go into busi-
ness.
Out of every 1000 persons there is
one born deaf, There are in the United
States between $4,000 and 10000 deaf
mutcs.
-Philadelphi has already expended
$4, GO,37O.42 on her new Post-otfice
building, of which amount 1850, 600
was for the site. '''
Thomas Jackson, an Albany,N. Y,
stone cutter, has just recovered $40, 900
Tor inJnries received in the Ashtabula
disaster.
Sarah Hardy, colored woman,
who had reached the age of 1O4 years,
died recently, III the Berks county, Pa.
almshOuse.
There have died of Yellow fever
at Memphis this year 4ol persons. Last
year, 3,O07 persons died Of the disease
during tho same time.
Within the past five years the
acreage OF cereals In the United States
has increased from 100000 to 05,-
100000. = -
President Robinson, of Brown Uni
versity, and his wife, have signed a Pc
titioh to allow women TO vote for Ot1i-
GERS of Providence school boards.
delaware county (Pa.) School d.
rectors have decided that the public
school children shall make exhibits of
their progress ut the next annual fair.
There has been imported into New
York by sen from California since the
beginning of this year ,l58.712 gallons
Of wine, and ll4,717 gallons of brandy.
Prof, Alexander Ayassiz OF Har-
ward College has given one hundred
dollars toward canceling the debt Of
the Redwood Library at Newport, r. l.
The model OF the equestrian statue
of Napoleon Ill grand work by the
'Chevalier Barzagalia, to be erected at
Milan, will shortly be cast in bronze.
MIR. Dwight Whiting, citizen Of
Boston, has gonc to South Africa to
purchase one hundred ostriches for his
farm III tho San joaquin Valley in Cal
ifornla.
Recent income-tax returns show
that ninety persons in Great Britain,
exercising trades and professions, have
incomes over $26o, 900, and 9o4 between
$50, 900 and $250,000
Illinois is tolerably we'll cultiva-
ted State, but, with 20,OnO, 900 acres
under cultivation, it has s 100000 acres
unimprovcd, an area as large as Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut put together.
Montana, during the past sixteen
and silver. This makes Montana rank
next to California rs a producer of gold.
There are already 10000 quartz mines
In the territory. - .g
DIR. J. J. Hayes, the Arctic explor-
or, at recent meeting Of the American
Geographical Society, said that he was
thoroughly convinced the Jeannette
would reach the Moth Pole successful
ly and return In safety.
One, hundred and seventy-eight
bags OF wool ,each averaging 600 pounds,
were received In Reading, Pa, recent
ly to be used In the manufacture Of hats.
This Ia the largest amount of wool ever
received In that city in one day.
The artesian we'll at the Paterson
On. J) Rolling Mill has reached a
depth Of more than l 900 feet without
meeting water. Sandstone has been
found all the way down, except one bed
of potter's clay.
The amount Of clover-seed anDu-
ally harvested In the United States is
half of which Is used at home, the re-
mainder goes to Europe, mostly to
Great Britain.
--Diphtheria has become terribl
epidemic IN Russia, 80 to 75 per cent.
OF the children being carried off, be-
sides large number OF, grown persons,
and In some districts the death Of chill
dren are far In exccs, Of tic births.
An old custom has been revived in
Adams county, Pa, Of demanding toll
from wedding parties. Ropes or chains
are stretched across road travelled by
a wedding party In carriages and toll
in money is asked from the groom.
I'm 1880 the royal library Of Paris
contained 5000 volumes and objects
Of every description. In 1860 the num-
ber was 100000. During the last
twenty years the increase has been more
sensible, and the actual number is es-
tlmated at 2,000,000., .l.i.4tar;sl
Her Britannia Majesty g ship; Opal
has been on a cruise to the Pitcairn
Islands, and placed In the church an
American organ, the gift Of the Queen.
The first tune played on 1t was rGod
8 We the Queen," in which the island
ers Joined heartily.
The Lebanon county (Pa.) Agricul-
tural Society having abandoned the fair
grounds J at Avon, have purchased
twenty-five acres Of the Karmany. farm
in South Lebanon for $4,000. Three
hundred shares Of stock have been is-
SUED at $50 per share, to raise the gum
Of $l5, 900 for fences and building,
n, IA giant white oak tree, beneath
which the last treaty with the Cherokee
Indiana Wa9 9iunad hv which thew