The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-08-28
NEWS In BRIEF.

! The new federal Blue Book of this
Country contains the names of 97,5O0
federal officeholders.
The present population of Ireland
Is just about 8 200, 900. There are more
Irish III America than in Ireland.
American residents in London pro-
pose erecting protestant Episcopal
Church In that City at cost Of So, 900.
"A cubic foot Of water weighs 900
ounces; cubic foot of milk welghs 847
ounces and foot Of cream 790 ounces.
A man in Blossburg, Pa, had the
delirium tremens, which the doctors
said was produced by inveterate smo-
king.
| Hans MakArt has completed his
picture Of "Diana at the hunt" and has
sold 1t to firm Of picture dealers for
$23, 800.
| This years yield Of tea In India II
estimated at 10000, 1000 pounds, nearly
double chat OF 1873. Ten years ago it
was unGor Ii, ,000,0 900.
The Empress Eugene, at the end
OF this month, will visit the Queen at
| osborne. and then 60 and spend tho
autumn IN Switzerland.
! The actual diocese Of London con-
talns z, 800 600 people. The parochial
clergy In tho cast end have an average
OF 4,0OO souls to minister to.
| Natural caverns Of large size, one
at least being 600 feet long, have been
dlscovered at West Harptree, near
wells, Somersetshire, England.
| Colonel Tnomas A. Scott Is yacht
| ing ABOUT the New England and Cana
dian shores, and will shortly 20 to tho
"nlte mountains. He Is much better
| in health.
The Soldiers Daughters Home In
| England has, in the twenty-five years
OF ITS existence, educated 800 soldiers
daughters and placed $50 in schools as
teachors or in families.
The total imports Of all kinds of
c9nee ior tho nine months ending last
March 81 foot up $48, ,723, ,O47, in money
value, against $50, 742 ,03S for the cor
responding months Of 1879.
The value Of the whole export of
wheat from the United States for the
ten months ending April 80, aggregates
$l67 1882 900, against $l0S,91 900 for
| the same period Of last year, showing
an increase Of $4S, ,464, ,0CO.
| Tho total number Of paupers In
| London, exclusive Of lunatics In asy-
lums and sS8 vagrants, OH the last day
OF the second week of June was 81. .O40,
OF whom 1878 were in warehouses;
and 3s,26o receiving outdoor relief.
The Mermons are still pegging
away at their new temple. 1t is now
twenty years since the building was
commenced, 81 900, 900 has been ex-
pended, 1t Is about one-tourth compile.
ted, and 1T is said $4,000, ,001 will be
required to finish it.
Two hundred and twenty five acres
were devoted to tho cultivation of
strawberries In South Carolina this
this year, yielding 1000 quarts per acre.
and aggregating 9OO. 900 q ,arts Which
AZ II cents per quart would give an in
como OF trifle over $l08, 900.
The acreage under cotton at tho
South 10 10 per cent larger than last
year, or IL, 1886 ,947 acres in 1880 against
l2,679 ,962 In 1879, anu the yield per
sore Is expected to average 200 pounds
instead OF 1872 pounds as last wear, and
l79 pounds the year before.
The population Of Pennsylvania,
according TO the new census, is about
4,226 900, an increase Of twenty per
centum In ten years. There is but one
county, Venango, which does not show
IN increase Of population, but there arc
dozen or more In which the increase
Ia inslgnificRnt.
In 1869 London had thirteen gas
companies, employing an aggregate
capital Of E7,s28,Sl4. Now there are
but four companies, but their capital is
$l9. .8Sl. .8lS, The gas sold per ton Of
feet. but 10 now 9,43l. Moreover, i'm
proved methods have also largely re-
duced the loss Of gas.
1t is stated in a French Journal
that tho average yearly expense of
maintenance OF roads in France Is
about 81 900 ,00O francs for 81, 900 kilo-
metres Of national roads, 10000, ,OUO
francs for Al 900 kilometres OF DEPART
mental roads, and 75, ,000, 900 francs for
280, 900 kilometres Of parochlal roads,
without counting bridges or large rec.
tifications.
Tho crown Of William Penn's hat.
which 10 to adOrn his thirty six foot
statue surmounting the lofty tower of
tho new Philadelphia public buildings,
will be just fyo hundred and thirty
ave feet from the pavement. The high
est towers which have yet been con-
structed are those Of the Colonge ca
thedral, which have at present hei yht
Of five hundred and twenCy-four feet
eleven inches.
40 oVhAOoNOu luc CHpltd-
tion tax Of 1877 show that there were
not then In England more than thirty
towns containing above 1000 inhabi-
tants. London had about 80 900; York
II, 900; Bristol, 9,60O0; Plymouth and
Coventry, 1900; each Norwich, 5000
Lincoln, 5000; Lynn, 4, 200; New castle
1000; Hull, 1890. The entire town
population dad not exceed 100000,
about one.ffteenth OF the total popu-
lation Of the kingdom.
There are about IL, 900 factories in
the Russian empire producing goods to
the value Of s0U, ,O00, 900, roublos $685.
0O0, ,OO0) year. At Moscow the whole
sale trade Is almost In German hands,
that is, either Russian subjects of Cor
man origin, or subjects OF the German
empire. Among tho manufacturers,
on the other hand, the Russian element
prsdonlnates. Imported goods, which
formerly came chiefly from Franco,
are now almost entirely Of German
production; year by year the French
| i'm nOrtQ arc lfminiahtnO whila tho