The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-11-29
ESTABLISHED 1865.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

49, " ~ ~-' AA.2I4.
! -Liszt is sick with dropsy at Wei
? mar.
The water III Great Sal. Lake is
twenty-five per cent Salt.
Paper is being made from sugar
canes, after the sugar is extracted.
The coronation OF the Car will take
iplace in April next.
Seven thousand Morwomen are di-
vided among 1900 Mormen.
-Ba,sam tuiu, combined with crsos
+sote, are new German remedies for con-
sumption.
The French Government encourages
smoking by its priso.4ers, and, it is said,
the profits are great.
The leaves from the trees in the
Paris boulevards and gardens are dried
and used for stufing mattresses.
ALI the White Mountain hotels are
closed, after what his bean o.. tsa'sSaols
a prosperous season.
A memorial window to Lord Bea- :.
consfeld has been dedicated in Hughen-
den Church.
On Hospital Saturday nearly 900
charge of tue collecting boxes.
The President Of the French Re-
public receives salary Of 5000, 600 per
anrum.
There is land enough in Texas to
give four acres to every man, woman,
and child in the United States.
-Pen1sylvaria is said to supply
nearly one-haif the eggs that New York
eats.
A leading Chicago builder calculates
that 2 ,O0O,G brick are being laid every
day in Chicago.
Large deposits Of gold have been
found il the bed of the Little River,
Blount County, Tenn.
! -Four barrels Of water Of the Great
Salt Lake will leave, after evaporation,
nearly barrel of salt.
The annual production in the
United States for several years past has
been about 1000, loco, 900 pins.
The total area planted with tobacco
in the United States is 639, S41 acres,
producing 472, ,661, 159 pounds.
Six valuable marble quarries are
now giving employment to many hands
in Hawkins County, Tenn.
A new street railway company i'll
Chicago will charge only three cents for
fare and expects to make money at that.
The Grown Prince Of Prussia has
, reached his hftieth year. HIS birthday
was celebrated with much splendor.
The well-known popular tree plan
ed by Marie Antoinette in the garden OF
the Petit Trianon at Versailles has been
9 blown down.
Japan has enacted-a code Of crini-
. nal procedure and a penakcode baseden
the Code Napoleon aaa eamed ds1gsS
s French iurist. -
6!,s,,isias, gasvss1 e. si 51itssdrt}
; Of the finest in Illinois.
Mrs Barney Williams, the actress,
/ lost SO; o;ee9- Worth of property-cos-
W tunes, manuscript, etc. sne siaee
i storace-house fire il New York
: in 1859 Nantucket Island was deed
O ed by Thomas Mayhem to ten purchas-
s ers. for thirty pounds and two beaver
o hats.
- britain. At least three other States ID
Il the Union neutrality-suspicious., ONO
. and Illinois.
5 Senator David Davis IS the most ex-
d tensiye land owner in Central Illinois,
: his wealth being set down at s., 600, ,00O.
g His yearly taxes amount to s27, 600.
Somebody estimates that the recent
- heavy frosts did $1,000, COO worth OF
|: damage in the territory within ten miles
d Of Boston.
Is The completion of the canal around
5. NTussel Shoals, which viii happen within
r. two wears. Will render the Tennessee
! nayicable from Paducah to Knoxville, a
~ distance OF 500 miles.
III A London journal records that the
l. annual poisoning OF children by the eat.
IS inc of toadstools has begun, and that
,e now there are cases of their dying from
I'd the use of homemade vine.
50 -Four hundred Hungarian families
vi with capital of some $500 each, nave
W. notified the American Vice Consul al
81 Pesth Of their desire to find homes II
this country.
on OF lO6 ministers OF the Northern
ro- PRESBYTERIAN Church who died Last yea
, were over 80 years old, l9 were be
lis tween 50 and 80, IS were between q
Ike and so and so were under 70. i
Oh The King of Bavaria has made MI
nd Lothar Won Faber, proprietor of the Is
.7,o M nous pencil factory OF ca. W. Faner,
.he at Stein, near Nuremberg, heredltar
'en baronet.
'w- The first American flag used by CIT
md zens of California is still in exlstenc
the The people made it themselves, and ha
,an to buy a seaman's shirt in order to g
,.d. the blue.
~: The revision of the war treasure
~ - the German empire will shortly be mad
re This treasure, which is said to anaou
snd to l2o. 0O0, 600 marks in gold coin, IS
oes, pcsit, / in the Julius Tower at Spanda
Records show that in l3 Septemeoe
Ito in the past 81 seers no rain fell IL ) ):
" as Francisco. The rain in the remain
lis. sertc,pbers ranged from o.. OF
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