The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-17
VOL. IV.-NO. AZ.
BRIEFS.

NhIoi iCau SWccC pOlaLOeS ana cram
berries are becoming popular In Eng
lish markets.
The furnace Of smelling works In
Jersey City Is to be run with tar as fuel.
ms cad Of coal.
The Etna furnace at Rome, Ca, is
turning out al average Of IL tons Of
pig iron per day.
- The rolling-mills Of Chicago now
employ over 5000 men, and are rum
ming night aud day.
AIR: George w. Childs has mania
for clocks. lie has ten in his Office and
thirty in his house.
Boots and SHOES for dolls arc turn
Gu Out by one London house ut the rate
Of 900 pair week.
Robert A. Lamberton, Presidents
eject OF Hehi igh University, Pa, Is In
his 1lfty-siXth year.
-Cruclticatton, as a criminal punish
mcht, was very common four or five
hundred years Is. G..
Tho prospective bride ofUlysses s.
Grant, Jr.. Miss Flood, is to receive
$2,000 900 as Il wedding gift.
Prof. Tyndall has been delivering
scientific lectures to children at the
Royal Institute, In London.
The first building Of the Egyptian
pyramids is supposed to have been
about 1000 years before Christ.
Since 1860 the Pacific Railroad has
landed 472.Sll passengers in San Fran.
cisco and brought away 2s0,s8
The English Wesleyans are getting
up thanksgiving fund, to which no
less than $l,lU ,S2o has been promised.
Dir. Cutler Of the Nova Scotia Leg
islature has been a member OF that body
for forty-two years, and il now 90 years
of age.
-Alabama was originally a portion
OF Georgia. 1t was admitted into the
Union III 1870, with population Of
l2S,C00.
Iowa had 2,loo oranges with a
membership of40, 600 in 1872, but now
there are but 200 societies and 5000
grangers.
No wine was produced in France
IN III the time OF the Roman occupancy.
Tho art OF making wine was produced
from India.
Excess in dress was restrained by
law in England under Edward w.
l4Go, and again In the reign of Eliza
beth In 1874.
One firm in Baltimore has made
contract tor 300,O 900 tons of iron and
iron ore, and another tor lac, 900 from
English ports.
! Rome has abandoned the scheme OF
| its proposed Worlds Fair for 1882, as
Milan proposes holding great national
fair In The same year.
America imported from Europe
last year 20, 9,64ls30G gallons of wine, an
increase over the importation of 1878 of
nearly IL, ,0U0, 900 gallons.
---Michigan University has !, 1897 STU
dents, tho largest number of any
American college. Columbia pays its
| professors tho largest salaries.
The Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railroad Company has given
orders to Increase the wage, and salar-
les of tho 10000 employees per cent.
1t Is estimated that there are 10. 900
Well-educated young men in Paris who.
for want Of more lucrative EMPLOY
mcnt, accept franc per day as copyists.
Tho depositors in the Glasoow
bank, which failed In 1877, WILDE Bald
In full. the amount OF $45, 900 600.
The 200 stockholders are personally
liable.
between G,000 and 1000 seamans'
libraries are kept on the water By the
American Seaman's Friend Soolety.
the number Of volumos being over
800. 900.
"A stock company Is being formed
IN Rochester, with capital of $1O0 900,
to put down salt wells near Wyoming.
Ten acres of land have been leased. and
two large springs of fresh water.
Col. Wellesley. son-in-law Of Lord
| Augustus LOTUS, who created a scan
dial last year by. .eloping with danseuse,
has been dropped from the list OF A., u.
| C.'s. to the Queen. He is Colonel of
tho Coldstream Guards.
Over 100000 car loads of live and
dressed poultry are carried into New
York City yearly, and % ,O0O, 200 dozon
OF eggs to the Same market. Accord
| Ing TO best estimates the United States
produce 100000 Of eggs annually.
Michigan is good State to live IN.
Her debt is only $800,0OO, while there
Is $0c4, 900 in the sinking fund to meet
It,. Another evidence Of thrift Is the
building Of the State Capitol for SIS. 900
less than the appropriation for building
1t.
| The largest cities in the world have
the following populations: London,
3,600,000; Paris, 1851, 900; Vienna,
l,lSl 900: New York, without Brook
lyn. 1000, 900; Berlin, 1,044 900; Cam
ton, 1000, 900; Shanhowfoo, 1000, 900;
and Sigafoo, 1000.
In the reign of Louis XIV France
had a population Of 10 900 900, England
5000, 900, and Germany l9, 100000. In
1880 France had 28,000;00O, England
l2,O0O, ,00G and Germany 28,O0O, 900.
Under Napoleon l. France had 20 ,0OO,-
600 and England l0,000,00O.
The potato crop of tho country 10
estimated az ISL 800 900 bushels. Com
pared with 1878 there was an increase
Of per cent. In acreage, and the yield
is estimated by the Department Of Ag-
riculture ut 0S bushels per acre, against
50 bushels lost year, and Ok in 1874.
There Is rumor that Hon. Eu.
geEe Hale will be compelled to move
permanently from his home in Maine
and take up his abode In the State
Of Michigan. The great estate loft by .
Senator Chandler requires constant at.
tentlon, and Mr.. Hale will be forced
to devote all his time to 1t.