The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

levy gets 5000 week for blowing
his cornct.
The demand for heavy horses, not
only for breeders, but for work, con-
tinues.
-rwenty-three thousand quails from
England have been set at liberty in
Pennsylvania.
The eldest son of Professor Alex
ander Agassiz will enter Harvard Col
lege this year.
The rice crop Of South Carolina is
estimated at d. 900 tierces, and of Geor-
gia at $4,000 tierces.
Tho New Jersey Fish Commission
ers have deposited 5000 trout in the
Passaic and Saddle rivers.
New Orleans boasts of blocks of Ice
with natural flowers frozen into them
ut It's own Ice manufactures.
"A Providence woman. admiring q
bust In shop window, stepped in to
inquire who Terra Gotta was.
Pearl millet which has not gem
orally succeled in Massachusetts Is
grown with good results In Kansas.
Rye straw is now extensively used
In tho manufacture of paper, and is
worth as much as the best timothy
hay.
Professor Huxley will deliver the
inaugural address at the opening of the
Science College ut Birmingham on Oc-
tober !.
One or more large sorgum sugar re-
dncries arc to be established in Minne-
sofa, ready for working the crop of
next fall.
-The British Mercantile Gazette re-
ports an increase Of 649, 400 acres In
four years devoted to the culture of
beeC roots in France.
The Canadian Senate lately reject
ed, by 80 to 81, the bill logalizing mar
riagc with Il deceased Wife'S sister or
deceased brothers. wife.
-Stonewall Jackson's widow and her
daughter, Miss Julia Jackson, unveiled
monument to StOnewall Jackson at
Winchester, Va, OH tho 9th OF June.
General Grant is reported to have
sent to the Emperor of Japan several
handsome horses, and the Eastern 20
tentatc frequently uses them in his
rides.
The will Of Lewis, the Hoboken
On. ~ miser, bequeathing LOO, 900
to the Government toward payment of
the National debt, has been admitted to
probate.
Minnesota fruit growers arc look
ing to some varieties Of apples In Rus
sia with the hope of finding some that
will endure the severity Of the winter
climate. Il ,s,..
1T Is stated that there projedt8d this
season In Ohio twenty-one new roads,
thirteen Of them narrow-eauge and the
prospects arc good that fifteen of4them
will be built. ""@
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, Of Bos-
ton, Will soon visit Europe, to be absent
several months. He will go to Eng
land with Dean Howson, Of Chester, as
his compan ion.
STRAUSS, the musical composer and
director, still lives In Paris. He Is III
possessed Ola competency. Strange to
say, his ruling passion Is not music,
but bric-a-brac.
-Alsop. the brewer, who has lust
secured baronotcy, Is discovered to be
descended. on his mothers side, from
Richard Piantagenet, father of Edward
w. and Richard III.
In England the marriage rate was
lower In the last quarter Of 1870 than
IN any since civil Registration was es-
tablished In 1887. The birth rate was
was lower than In 1860.
M. Henri Says now yacht, now
bcing built In Maryland Is to cost
nearly $500, 900. 1t Is expected to reach
speed Of cightccn miles an hour, and
1t will be finished In the autumn.
-I1oratlo Seymour, on the I'd of
June, which was his seventleth BIRTH
day, planted two trees on his BROTH
er's lawn, In Utica. Ills Albany ad-
mirers sont him a handsome library
clock.
Mrs. Polly Jerome died in New
London, Conn.,, recently, at the age of
l02 years and months. She was born
In New London and has always lived
there, except brief period during the
war Of 1912.
The Tennessee Historical Society
has presented Q gold-headed hickory
cane to Clark Mills, ana increased his
delight by informing him that 1t is the
first testimonial eyer given to any man
by tho society.
-Garihaldi, who is In excellent
health, is at present repairing and en-
larging his house on the island of Cap
rcra. Tho engagement Is made in View
OF his recent marriage with the nurse
OF his children.
1t is said that Gov. Andrew, Of
Connecticut, has appointed State de-
solve the mystery of the murder Of
Mary Stannard, for which the Rev. II.
III. Hayden was tried.
The rank of distinguished Generals
In the late war at the time they were
graduated from West Point IL officially
given rs follows: Sherman 9, Rosecrans
s, Gilmore |, Mcpherson l, Grant 81,
Sheriden "a, Custer 81.
Tho old car shops near Borden
town, N. j., formerly occupied by the
Camden and Amboy Railroad Com
pany, have been leased, 1t Is said, by
parties from Wilmington, Del, who
intend starting anew car manufactory.
What is said to be the first pound
of coffee raised in the United States
has been grown by Mrs. Atzeroth on
her plantation on Indiana river, Flor
ida. The plants we're furnished by the
Agricultural Department in Washing
ton.
Great Britain and Ireland sent out
2l7, 1853 emigrants last year, against
l47,e63 in 1873, and received 53,073 i'm