The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-05
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The population of Oregon is:
Males, 103 1888; females, 1879 total,
ia .76S. -.
-DetrOlt reports the erection of
twelve hundred buildings during the
past year. .'
| The President Of Buenos Ayres of.
fers free lands to fifty Thousand IRISH
cmigrants.
-Messrs Moody and Sankev have
refused to 60 and labor in Virginia
City, New.
The Edgar Thomson steel works
arc said to have orders for 80 900 tons
Of steel rails.
! The old home Of President Lincoln
IN Springfield, ILL.,, is now cheap
lodging house. -
Speaker Randall has had an acute
attack of gout since Congress ADJOURN
cd, but is better. ..
The motive power of the Pennsvl.
yania railroad is now working to its
utmost capacity.
Utah has populatiou of l43.0O7,
OF whom 80, ,43G are females and l3 033
Of foreign birth.
Eighty million dollars worth of
hogs arc sold every year by the U, s.
to foreign lands.
In Pennsylvania there nrc 81 daily
newspapers, Gil weekly and 1877 others,
making total OF S35.
The Car has placed E3OO 900 ster.
ling In Berlin bank in The name OF
the Princess Dolgorouki.
The fund of $13O, 900 tor the HaI.
vard Divinity School, ut Cambridge
Mass. has been mado up.
The amount Of butter now mazda
IN iowa crcameries is estimated at 60.
900 pounds per annum.
Only 81 for each $25, ,0Ol of nerson.
al property is said to have been given
1or foreign missions last year.
The consolidation of the New
orleans, Pacific and Texas Pacific rail-.
roads has been consummated.
Two or General Garfield's soma mr..
TO enter Williams College next wear.
One is seventeen, the other ii fifteen.
B "azil, covering nearly half of
south America, has population of
lS'ooo,ooO, OF which over 4 million are
slaves.
The imports of Great Britain up to
aaIe exceed those OF last year by over
$2oo 900 900, the exports by over $780,
900 900.
There are more than 5000, 900 wo.
men IN England and Wales trying to
earn y1RSS II se f4e ta tXHF12%s fyaSateS 81 aRa
Niackey, the bonanza king, live in
Paris at the rate Of nearly 81 900 900
per annum. ...
hate LlWler, who manages the Roy
atty theatre, London, will forswear the
stage aud wed youth with a fortune
of G250,000.
-lp 1879 the gain to the revenue Of
the U. s., from the Increased classin-
cation or sugar was $3)3, ,367, and In
1880, 81 ,239,s72, -
The value of American exports for,
the year ending Oatobcr3l st was $S87.,
oll,227, against $7l2 500, ,5Gl for tho
year proceeding.
j usUice Hunt of the United States
Supreme Court has learned to write
wlCh his left hand since his right hand,
became plralyzel.
MIR. Thomas Carlyle has Just COM
pleted his eighty-ilfCh year. His
friends show much anxiety about tho
state of his health.
The annual pro luction Of kero.
sene Is now about Ii, 100000 gallons,
The first oil well was sunk nearly
'"oiIy-cic years ago.
The Bank Of France Is govern
ment institution. Its circulation is
S4GG, 7oo,0 900. Its capital is $50 500, 900
and it has G2 branches.
1t Is estimated that the sugar-cane
crop OF Louisiana will yield this year
SO, ,ooo hogshead of sugar, and l3,000,-
900 gallons Of molasses,
Milo. Bcrnhardt proposes hereaf-
tn
false reports about her life, whether
lie be clergyman or other. -"
Berlin, the German Capital. has q
increase Of IL per cent since 1878 ana
OF over 100 per cent since 1860.
minneapolis boasts Of a growth
from $500 in 1860 to 1903 IN 1880.
Her bonded indebtedness Is $I00, 600.
Only onc-tcnth OF her water-power
has been utilized.
The average price paid tor silver
bullion OF standard hneness tor the
past year, by the Treasury Depart
ment, of the u. 5. Was equivalent to
OF pence per ounce,
director Burchard, Of the United
States mints, estimates the annual con-
sumption of gold and silver in manu-
factnrcs and the arts at $l2,000,000,
$1,000, 900 Of which is gold.
The population Of Berlin, includ-
Ing the military element, now num-
bers 1850, or an Increase Of l54,-
800. or IL per cent. on the fingures Of
1875, which were only 0Gl ,2t0.
There were 23,7G7 applications to
cntor the United States regular army
last year, wnen only 5000 men were
wanted. OF the 5000 who were accepts =
cd 3,1ll were born in America.
Thv indianapolis, Peru and Chicago
road In the ten months ending Novem-
Der ], 1880, received ana forwarded at
indianapolis G),24l cars, while In the
year 1879 but ol ,4O2 were handled.
The number OF people rescued from
wrecks by tho llfo-saving service Of
the U. S. during tho past year was 700.
besides which l29 vessels with their
crows wore aided out Of dangerous
positions.
"A handsome obelisk has been COM
pleted at Berlin and sent for erection