The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-05-22
VOL. IV.-NO. 62.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


--Dcadwood's assessment Is onlv
81, 900 less than before the fire.
! Rich iron ore and marble beds have
been discovered near Talledega, Ala.
Senator Thurman Is limited to two
cigars day since his recent Illness.
| Napoleon l was proclaimed EN-
peror Of the French nation, A. D. 1904.
Major Reno's dismissal from the
army has been approved by the Cabinet.
| Nova Scotia Provincial estimates.
$4oo,2i0; estimated expe ndture, $685.
705. '.t.. :" 7 I'T7 t'T'
| --Julias Caesar was assassinated bv
Brutus at Rome 44 years before Christ's
time. =, ....,..
"A boy In Kenny county, Texas.
has killed forty three bears the past
winter.
The first gold mine in the United
States was discovered in South Carolina
In 1900. n,.'-.0 - .''
France In 1878 had 936 900 births.
OF which 67 900 or about one In 10 were
illegilimatc.
DAN O'Leary, the pedestrian, Is
now worth 100000. He earned ir all
with his legs. Is ,.,
1t is said that there will be moro
sugar cane planted In Alabama In 1880
than ever before.
---Galileo was the first to observe and
comment upon the fact Of ice being
lighter than water. .r
Louis PhIlippe's abdlcation took
place In the year ls4s, the royal family
escaping to England.
The late Leonard Case. of Glove
land, left for a school of applied science,
property valued at 81 l,50O,00v!
-sllk-worm culture T., Some OF the
pari shes Of louisiana Is sucEessful. It
promises to be II prominent business.
The city Of Ottowa, Canada, still
complains Of hard times. ,Thore are
said to be 700 vacant tcnements there.
There are l,4S7 licensed places
whore liquor Is sold in Buffalo, and
723 saloons where nothing but liquor is
sold. r..n' .'.t. .s,,,'
Georgia has 2I3, 3,157 spindies run
ming In her cotton mills, OF which B4,-
$40 are at Columbus, and Al, 4,448 at Au-
gusta.
-Tllero are nineteen bachelor farm
ers In Walnut township, Pike county,
Iowa, who are farming and doing their
own cooking.
-Forty-two thousand acres Of min
eral land In Scott county, Va, have
been pnrcha scd by company Of North
ern capitalists.
Tho National Conference Of Char
ities will meet In Cleveland, Ohio, ON
Tuesday, June 29th, and continue III
session four days.
Tho American Social Science Asso-
citation will hold Its general meeting In
Saratoga from tho 7th to the llth OF
September next. .,-,,s ....
The total population OF Greece Is
,G70, 900 souls, against l ,457 900 In 1870.
Ihc increase per annum has according
ly been 1.G0 Dcr cent.
-Horatlo G. King, Of New York, will
deliver the alumni Grafton during Com
mencement week at Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa, In June.
Tho number Of fires causing loss
Of 500 and upward in 1875 was s, ,3Ol.
In 1879 1t was $40, an average of
about ono fire every forty minutes.
Mr.. Jay Gould has purchased tho
magnificent white marble mansion or
the George Merritt estate, q short dis
lance south Of Tarrytown, N. Y, for
Mr.. Parnell boosted at his late
Cork meeting that he was the only for
eigncr who had ever been allowed to
address the American House Of Repre-
Bentatiycs. .''!'
Two men In Altoona. Pa, claim to
nave found an abandoned gold mine In
the mountains along Mill Run. Copper
picks and other copper tools were found
in the mine.
Tho rumor that the Empress Eu-
genie has made Prince Victor her heir
is untrue. Her Majesty's heir is the
Duo d'Albe, her nephew, the son OF her
only sister.
From his Investment Of $31 ,O0O, 900
IN four per cent. bonds Mr.. Vanderbilt
derives an Income OF four cents $50
ond, S2.40 minute, $l44 an hour and
$3,456 day.
The heaviest eighteen-months-o old
bullock. of which there is any record,
showed a live weight Of I 1000 pounds.
and yielded, when slaughtered, 94b
pounds of beef.
Reducing all the milk and cheese
sold together with ,buttor, to, q butter
standard, the average product of all the
cows In the country Is leBs than 70X
pounds per COW. ftnuy g.ssis
During 1870 twenty,new asteroids
were discovered, as against twelve In
1873, so that there 1s not the slightest
encouragement to hope that we are
coming to tho end Of the list.I ~
The statistlcans estimate that che
population OF the country as shown by
the coming census will be between A.
COY, 900 and Is, 600, 900, OR, a gain OF o.
000, 900 IN the last ten years.
Columbus, 8. c., has seven print
ing offices, giving employment to four
ty-twOS journeymen printers, besides
the usual number OF ofapprentlces. There
is also a book-DinderY In the oity,
r. ---Remarklng on tho fact that the
Hartford Skating Rink used over Ave
gallons Of castor oil for olling skates the
plstseason, the DanbGry Ne,os Is thank
tul that a now market for tho stuff has
opened up. aas, b;ta p rHtss
/ 1.-The remains of tho late General
Jefferson G Davis are to be finally In
terred In Crown Hill, indianapolis,
nearlthe grave Of Senator Morton, and
hi Spyisl fvnk o,l ~ .a., 80