The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-17
NEWS IN BRIEF,

The Frankstown iron mill at Pitts
burg, Pa, which was idle for year or
more, resumed work on full time re-
Gently.
"A hundred years ago the Moravians
baptized the first negro convert inDutch
Guiana. Now the mission has 23,3Ol
members.
An ordinary sized man, supposimg
his surface to be fourteen square feet,
Sustains the enormous pressure of 30
$40 pounds.
The city Of London has the cxclu-
sivo right Of holding a market within
seven miles Of st. Paul's and of collect
ing tolls for the same.
The extensive ironsore mines at
ll''mmclstown, Dauphin county, Pa,
after long suspension.
AT Millyille, N. j.. the factories
are hampcrcd for lack of glass blowers.
At the windOw-glass factories the de-
liand is loud for more help.
Iron ore In the Ottawa district il
being taken to Ohio to be smelted, the
hity cents per ton duty on coal being
fatal to smelling in Canada.
The officers of Christ Church.
alexandria, Va, are cndeavoring to
sell the bible used by George Washing
ton. They want to pay church debt.
The total number OF recruits of the
German army for the year 1S7S-70 was
l43, ID, of whom 2,b74, or N per cent.
could neither write their names nor
read.
The Franklin Woollen Mills at VII.
mlngton, Del, are very busy. The
| employees are working overtime to sup-
ply the demands for their warps and
hosiery.
Tile estimated receipts for the pro-
auce OF the coal, metallic and salt mines
belonging to the Prussian Government
for the next fiscal year are rather more
than $l2,000,0OO.
MIR. George +. Jenncr, who was
Tor some years an attache of the British
Legation ut Washington under Lord
Lyons, has been appointed English
Consul-GeEeral to Cuba.
In Upper Alsace the cold has made
wolves ana Doars issue from their CO.
Vercs. The former are prowling round
the villages near Mulhouse and several
poars nave been run over by railway
trains.
More than 20,000,OO0 of people IN
habit The river system tributary to the
mississippi Valley. The total product
Oh THIS immense population, which re-
quires cheap transportation, is ST ,5O0,-
900 annually.
-Kyc straw is as valuable as the
grain III Pennsylvania in the manufac-
ture of paper. With tho increased
acreage of the season closed (3,5OO, 900
bushels) the yield is not equal to the de-
mand.
Tho English Grenadier Guards are
dcscrlbeu AS ordinary-sized young men
with light hair, blue eyes and very
rosy cheeks. They are said to resem-
bic young curates dressed ND in bob
tailed red coats.
1t Is stated in a French paper that
Rosa Bonheur has bought magnificent
lion from the Geological Garden at Mar
selllcs Tor 1000 frames, and is painting
its portrait in picture intended for
next years Salon.
clesfield, Coventry, and other English
towns have emigrated to Patterson, N.
D., lately, but there arc large additions
from the French and Swiss silk centres.
over 900 operatives have been added
within tho year just closing.
The recent published records of
York Castle, England, formerly for
tress, but now for Il long time used as a
prison, show that in 1919 Isabella Bill
lngton, ~, was sentenced to death for
! crucifying her mother and Offering n
cock and calf as burnt sacrifice.
The hat factories in Adamstown,
Pa, are buster now than they have
been for ycaLs. Woolcn goods have
| advanced In price, and four factories
are kept running day and night to fiji
the orders on hand. About 900 opera
tors are employed In these factories.
The winter palace at st. Peters
burg has been recently protected by a
| continuous change of policemen. Upon
the rare occasions when the Emperor
| drives out he Is surrounded by nu-
mcrous escort, and tho line Of route Is
| cleared OF carriages and horsemen.
The Carbon Iron Company at Per-
ryvillo, Carbon county, Pa, arc 30
| pushed with work that they have got
TO build another foundry. so as TO turn
out the work that is required ut short
notice. About 500 hands will be en-
ployed when tho foundry is complete.
LEO XIII has ordered tho removal
Of tho seats and screens Of the Ecu
menical Council Hall in st. PETERS.
Visitors will be able once moro to see
| st. Peter's IN Its entire yastness, for
the screening of the transept, for tho
Council Hall detractcd much from the
| beauty Of tho Basilica.. aH
1t is stated that in the United
States on tho simple aryicle OF shoe
| pegs and shoe-peggers there are SIS
patents, and there are 1900 or these
patents on machinery. One GLASS of
machines last year sewed, It Is estima-
ted, 46, ,0O0, 900 pairs Of shoes, and ano-
ther GLASS pegged 65,000,0 900 pairs.
The production of steel effected by
Great Britain last year was S07 ,527 tons.
In the same year the United States
made 73a,228 tons of steel; Germany,
100000 tons; Franco, 100000 tons;
Belgium, $4,000 tons; Sweden, 10000
tons, and Austria, $4,000 tons. The
aggregate steel production of tho world
was thus something over 2,000, 900 tons
last year. ,S4l ~.
"A plan has been invented by men,
Dor of the commissioners to let che ocean
Into Wesley Lake, at Ocean Grove, N.
j., changing tho water at ryltide If.
necessary. He claims the work will,
| not cost more than So. 900. ana. If the