The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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1879 was 234, 16S, 800 bushels.
There are only twenty-four match
factories In the United States,
-Mince pie was discovered in 159a
dyspepsia was discovered In 1897.
the number of Indians in the
oh'teo states Is estimated at 275 900.
The State Of Wlnconsin produoed
last year 1o,oo0.o0o pounds of tobacco.
-Rlchard III. was killed at the bat.
Cie OF bosworth Field in the year 1883
-Engllsh capitalists are goInS to
puliu railway through Syria to
-Ihe census gives Wyoming terri
sheep. wa" ''A'''0
There are engaged In the Conneo-
G"o G,HaC oyster trade 5000 men ana 81. 500
oOo Of capital. T0'0'''
The value of last years cranberry
oO0 to $350.O00. ~O'
In Lisbon, In 1865, 10000 people
OF SIX minutes.
,o-o nihere I!1 are over twenty-five sena-
than 5000, 900 each.
year by the protective tariff on otaoi
rails, was $2l 100000.
| ,,mIlhere was shipped from the Black
aan miiis DURING the year just closed AZ
1885, ,3oo worth OF bullion.
--The total numbur of Method,atc :,
Vhe United States Is 3,4o5, ,OO9. Tho
huulper OF ministers Is "a ,3U4.
~ takes $4,000 acres growth AT
twenty years old wood to supplv tho
"hhual demand tor railroad ties.
"a Darre. factory atSeymour. WIS.,.
e.npioys about S0J mon, and pavs ou5
e'o,ooo year for raw material.
me nrst railroad locomotive ran
Gt Tue niCh OF October, 1929, between
Liverpool anu Manchester, Enyland.
INC total number of persons who
ielt Irish ports In 1879 was ~. .364' al,
increase OF 1888 US compared win 1873.
In 1850 the number of lunatioo I,
hhxland was 3S,O5S. Now 1t Is 7I.19I.
Ill increase OF no loss than 81 Der cent.
Canada raised 10000 900 bushels of
barley lasJ season. Tns will afford a
surplus OF 100000 bushels for ship
menC. p
-iho chicago and Milwaukee, Tele-
Eraph company reporCs receipts for
Ine year OF 1880, $2O, 800, and dlsburse-
About $4,000, GOO has been expend-
Z" oil tlle III isslssippl river, aside from
The jettles, since the formation Of tha
government. 0
| ,n,, seven 3ye hundred thousand woman
| cocoon. AAot'A 'no
-North Carolina has less fore,gners
among nor population than any othsr
o1tte oi inc Union, The number being
only 3,G75. "'' ooihx
-" non Gen. Mcclellan rettres. New
"oisoy y VIII nave seven living ex-Goy-
ethors. O.ly four Governors have
| died since lS42. n"'o
ct, cine highest price ever paid for
omloaso real estate was $4l26 Der In.
PioVod 'front.' foot, and Lne sale was
recently made. WOO
s-onoe-pegs consumed 10000 cords
"a vllhoor, lasts anu bOOt-Jrees SOC. 900
Soius ol Dirch, and maple, anu the
handles OF tools as mucn more.
-Ihe Russian millionaire Maltseft
J"a. aece%seu, has bequeaGhed 500 ,ODtl
rouDies ($367 ,O00) toward esCablIsh;n~
'echnioal college &C Vladimir.
Tho military prison at L,aven.
worm, Kansas, Is reporCel as having
Sulheu S'. OUT Ill the last ii seal yoar 3b
@zo pair OF boots and 81. 22O of shoes.
-owltzerland produces 1900. ono
Waeohes annually, France 500. 900 tia
Uhiteu States 3UU,OOU 10 36J.UJU. and
hnslahd 2oO,00O-Dut these lust ara of
very superior qualify.
:-Iexas which Commenced ra,s,no
"ooi III 1915, has now 1000, ,OGO sheen
uho IL Is estimated Jnat Montana viii
ptoauce oO,OUJ,OUO pounds OF wool in
1881. "''A All
About ,oeo new telegraph poles
arc USED Tor additions and repairs
oYery year, each pole representing u
tree, While 2,OUO, 900 cords of weod
were burned up LII brick making.
The total amount Of letters passing
through the mails last year was 5l2..
93l ,o0o; postal cards, lG3, ,049 900; news
papers, 4oo 7o6 900; pieces oi all ciassos
l,6J6, ,6U3,VOO.
Ex-Governor Washburn, of Wisoon-
SIN, VINO has boon suffering from
stroke OF paralysis, Is gradually i'm
proving. It Is expected he viii leave
Lacrosse, Wis for Minnesota in
week or ten days.
80 .-0n { the 1st of January, of total of
men In the British army, l23,703 ware
English, l4,l5O Scotch, 50, ,375 Irish.
1.ooo were born In India or the colo
nles, 2,36l were foreigners, and 4,004
arc returned as "not reported"
The consumption OF beer in the
United States has more than doubled
since 1870. In 1870 it was 0,574, 900
barrels; In 1880 tax was paid on l3, 49,
600 barrels.
-Superintendont Walker SAYS that
the cost of taking the census Of 1880 is
probably $2,OS0,L00. This Is about four
cents q piece tor every man, woman
and child in the United States.
Last year $3.50, ,743 gallons of wine
and 133 784 gallons Of brandy were re-
ceiyed at San Francisco from the in
terror of California, against 3,204, COZ
gallons of wine and 93 500 gallons of
brandy In 1879.
1t Is estimated that there are l..
000,O acres cultivated in jute each
year In India, employing l 800, 900 per-
- ran and i,Stk ,,