The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-10
GENERAL GOSSIP.

no publIleSS mQlCatlOnS at oil tho
Florida hotels arc good.
An Anderson county, Koptuokv
aistl,ler q nn9 paysannual freight bills OF
They servo new asparagus and
green peas now at the Jacksonville
and other Florida hotels.
There are. only $1,000 real estate
holders IN New York city in popula-
tion of l 100000.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beccher
SAYS That ne has just declined an offer
OF $Soo,O00to lecture for one year.
Two thousand acres of land, COW
cred with fine timber, was sold in
Lewis county, Ky, recently at one
dollar per acre.
Iron is rolled so thin at the Pitts
burg, Pa., iron mills that 10 900 sheets
are al, required to make single inch in
'''oNncSs. 3La
MIR. Fair, Senator-elect from Ne
vada, represents rs much property in
his own person as all the rest of tho
State with its 1865 Inhabitants.
---Brewer Guntller, Of Paola, Kan
sas' mas committed suicide because the
strlngent state law has rendered his
brewing establishment worthless.
-AaIiabama, Mississippi. Louisiana
ana Iexas are all importing large
numbers Of Merino sheep-morc than
1or any season for ten years past.
A circuit of three miles in New
YORK is now lighted by electricity, and
the electric light is fast superseding
gas in many Of the large offices.
The Shaw University at Raleigh,
n. e., one of the Baptist schools for
freedmen, has sent out more than one
thous md teachers among the colorcd
people.
The most costly building in the
country, when completed, will be the
Mormon temple at Salt Lake CITY, the
cost OF which is estimated at $27 ,OOO,-
900.
An Arab legend says the feet of
pigeons are red because thoir anccs-
tors walked in the red mud which set
tied upon the face of the earth after tho
deluge.
The trinkct shops in Jacksonville
ana st. Augustine, Florida, arc rs
economical us those at niagara Falls.
The incest twenty-five cent shell bas-
kets can be bought at $3.50.
"A Hancock and English banner,
in tatters, still hangs from the liberty
pole at charlottesville, Va. No ole
VIII haul 1t down, and the purpose is
to let it float for four years.
The widow Of President Polk Is so
beloved and respected, that, by com
mon consent of all parties, the interest
on her little fortune in Tennessee
State bonds, all she had, is exempted
from reputation.
Build cotton mills. Five million
bales of manufactured cotton is
worth to the South 1926 900 900. At
Einson, OF Boston, says don't manu-
facturc it. We say, spun into yarn,
this cotton is worth $3.50, 100000.
-Crematory furnaces arc now in
operation at Zurich. in Switzerland,
and at Dreslau, Dresden and Gotha, in
Germany. Throughout Germany the
prejudice against disposing of the dead
by burning is rapidly disappearing.
In Illinois a total abstinence So
ciety of twenty members have adopted
{. r':..Si r'tethod for keeping themselves
straight. Eacn MEMBER has Aenooitod
5000, which is forfeited to the rest in
case he breaks his pledge.
The friends Of temperance in
pennsylvania are circulating petitions
to the Legislature requesting that BODY
to take necessary preliminary steps to
submit constitutional amendment
similar to the one recently adopted in
Kansas.
Judge Barrett, of the Supreme
Court Of New. York, has granted an
Injunction to Rufus Hatch, restraining
the Western Union, the Atlantic and
Pacific and the American Union Tclc-
graph Companies from entering into
any agreement Of consolidation, and
from increasing their capital stock.
"A young couple Of Fairfield, Iowa.
who had been long engaged, became
involved in lovers quarrel and part
cd in anger. The same night both of
them attempted suicide, and alike
made failures. Convinced that tbev
conld not live happily apart, Il recon-
citation and Iasty marriage took place
the very next day.
The Baltimore Sun gives the
Presidential vote for President as fol-
lows: Hancock, 1852, 1913; Garfield.
4,43O,427. Hancock's majority over
Garfield. 2,65l. Weaver, Grccnback-
cr. received 305,088; Dow, Prohibi-
ZIONIST, 9,644; scattering, 1,793. Total
vote, 9,l82,83 The SIN saws the
figures were obtained at the proper
sources in Washington and at State
capitals.
About 10000 bills have been in,
troduccd in Congress this session..
Among them is measure providing
for the payment of $5, 900 to one Cults
for manuscript Of treatise on logic,
written by President Madison. Tho
bill specifies that the work is ITO be
printed for the use Of members of Con-
grcss. They certainly need posting
on logic, but the people should not be
required to pay for their schooling.
The system Of preparing postage
by means Of small adhesive labels, to
be sold to the public and received by
the postofficc III evidence of payment
when attached to letters or papers,
was first advocated by Rowland Hill,
In 1897, and was adopted by the Brit
ish postoffice in 1910. The STAMPS
were first used on May tho 9th of that
year, and were intrOduced in 19d7 into