The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-30
BRIEFS.

IN Sullivan county, Pennsylvania.
-Braztl supplies the United States
with 100000 bags Of coffee annually.
Chicago is to have a sugar refln-
ong company, with capital Of $780,
Switzerland gave 70 per cent. of
its total immigration to this country in
An elephant tusk, ID feet in length,
mas Deen unearthed near Palouse, Wy
oming.
Six hundred and one Masonic
lodges IN Illinois have membership
of $3.50.
james Gordon Bennett is to have
Of 100000.
Over $4,000, 900 worth Of dried
yeast was imported by Great Britain
In the year 1919.
The empress Eugenie has sold her
mouse at Blarrltz for 100000 to a
Spanish company.
There are six cotton factories in
petersburg, Virginia, giving employ
ment to 700 operatives.
1T is estimated that the amount of
batter made in Ohio creameries is co.
ooo,Ooo pounds per annum.
-Sarony pays Sara Bernhardt 81. 800
tof the exclusive privilege Of taking
her photographs in this country.
The Government Lighthouse
Board ask for $4,000 to test the cleo
trio light for lighthouse purposes.
Mics Calhoun, grandniece Of j,
q. Calhoun, made a successful debut
Oh the San Francisco stage recently.
The diameter Of the earth bears the
same relation to its distance from, the
sun as The breadth OF hair to l25 feet.
The wheat crop of this country in
1851 Is over 400 ,000, 900 bushels, and is
worm an average price of a dollar
The italian cmigrants landed I'm
Gae United States during 1850 number
i2.527, of whom $500 were men and
a,78l women.
The total number OF immierants
VINO landed In the United States dur
ing the month of September 1880 was
nearly $1,000.
Only about 100000 of 4ecrgia's
81, i20,O00 acres are under cultivation.
whlch leaves four-dfths of the state
unproductive.
In 1879, 36,boo, 900 pounds of tea
were exported from India, and In 1880
1000 pounds. ' ~ w.
The Methodist spent $a7e, ,e22 last
year on foreign missions, and some
oa cnihg less than that sum, or $a54, 1904
Tie smallest sized sewing silk
manufactured measueres about 8. 400
yards. or over one and onn.fo'yth
miles to the ounce. -
The total value Of iron and steel
mr. NNp.ka g.
is $62, 544 ,272 against $12, ,573 $3.50 for the
same period in 1879. 0
Tho Bank Of France holds s1ao
900 In gold. The Bank of Enoland
has $l2S,3l2, $50. The United States
Treasury has $135. .244 ,S39,
Mrs. Seguin- w allace, the sinper boo
purchased a lot In Woodruff Place.
indianapolis, and will erect a honse
thefe Tor her summer home.
From 1744 to 1880 the deaths :,
London exceeded the births by 287,-
600. while from 1901 to 1880 tbe births
exceeded the deaths by 102 1916.
or ID ,500,O 900 quintals OF grain i'm.
ported into France during the first
eight months Of the present.year 8. 600
Ooo quintals came from America.
Patti bought during October six
.cen thousand dollars worth of art OBJ
Jects IN Paris. She has of late deyeloped
Taste FOR painting and sculpture.
queen Victoria has assigned to the
widow Of Lord Mountmorres a suite of
apartments In Hampton Court Palace
vacated by the death of Lady Gore.
-Baroness Burdett Coutts, In ameIi.
Grating the condition Of the poor and
deserving fishermen. Of the United
hhgdom, has spent more than $780,
Tho fish hatchery at Spirit Lake.
Utah, Is finished, and Is ready for the
reception Of eggs. The building is
good one and has capacity of 2,0O0, 900
1t is said that tho heirs ogaCoru-
planter" the famous Indian cheif, pro-.
pose testing their claim to certain
tracts Of lands embraced in the limits
Of Oil City, Pa.
Two hundred millions of dollars
are spent annually IN the consumption
OF liquors in the United States. and
sixty-hve thousand persons die wear hV
wear victims Of drink.
'"...IIiithe w Il g year 1881 there will be four
eclipses-tws,oo - s,oH,t.1e & y. sun and two of the
moon: A partial eclipse ss !, the !e.sss.,.. sun.
May ~ and total eclipse Of the mooS.
June ll-l2, will be visible In North
| America. W. o'A
The great German General Won
Moltke reached his 8lst birthday on the
2oth OF October. lie received on the
occasion most magnanimous conera-
tulatory telegram from the Emperor
OF Austria.
Tho United States uses in the arts
ana In manufacturing about $40 ,OOO.-
ooo orth OF gold and about $6, GOO, 600
woreh OF silver annually, Or about one
lourth OF the entire amount Of both
metals so used.
| "A prominent miller of Minneanolis
states that the mills OF that olty will
grind 100000 to $4,000, 900 bushels
ei wheat during this cereal year, and
m'Inesota n,,I @ mills outsl de Of that city
Will grind as much more.
There are 3,752 manufactures IN
chicago, giving employment to 49,
oo7 operatives, and representing a api-
tal OF over $sO,O00,000. The value of
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