The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

20! 30 acIoliCe Ioll IN the SuDurb9
Oh Erie the other night.
The diving bell was first used in
Europe IN the year 1900.
The banana ripcns in Florida dur.
ing every month of the year.
The tobacco crop Of PENNSYLVANIA
this year, is worth $S,000,O0O.
-63O,OO0 cigars were made in Tioya
ana fotter counties last year.
The Princess of Wales has mat
passed her hirty-sixth birthday.
Tho Roman emperor Maximinus
was upward of eight feet In height.
The population Of Missouri ia
2'l0s 'SC4; that of Tennessee, I,542, ,4G3.
President Hays has on hand 400
unanswered requests for his autograph.
The Oldest monument In the world
| Is IN tile Ashmolean Museum &C OK
An attempt was recently made 70
lIayti. N'0n' VI
-ihe wealth of James G.. Fair. the
new senator from Nevada, is estimated
ut $l2 100000.
-hoe!iof Won Barren, poor Hollan.
ger, residing IN New Haven, has fallen
heir to $50 ,000,O ' '''''0"
-Hermann, the magician, has in
lerlteu S27 900 from an uncle Iateiv
residing in Germany. '
OF 437 persons employe1 in the
government offices at Toronto. seven-
ey families supply 1853.
-EgGs received at Now York IN
1851 amounted to 559, ,55I barrels
against 455.G In 1870.
From November 10Th to .T,.uor,
oth Cincinnati and Chicago have salt,
gu down 4,s75,00J hogs.
The national debt of Enolapd 10
neid ,Heid by about $4,000 persons that Of
france by about 4,O00,0 900.
.-Shanghal Pierce, the cattle k,ng Of
Jackson nak county, Texas, lately sold
''ooo cattle for SIG per head.
David Jones, a brewer d,od r.,
New York recently. Ho loft an ESTATE
valued at ten million dollars.
The Duke Of northumberland ia
ABOUT to introduce tho electric light In
Alnwlck Castle, his family seat.
Tho Rev. Henry Ward Roochar
SAYS that he has just declined an oft;sr
OF S3oo,Oo0 to lecture for one year.
-DAlrymyle, the great wheat far
,acn ,acn ol Dakota, cleared $3.50, 900 on his
nHoo 10 crop. lie marketed 500 100 bush
a., There are $1,000 professional
tnloves III 49, London, known to tho au-
tnorities. The police force number la'-
since Waterloo are equal in extent 20
AL the empire She had previously In
Europe.
MIR. Brassey,a member of Parliment
TOR Lasting, England, has recently
purchased 10000 acres OF land In
Colorado.
Vanderbilt is credited with an in
come Of $l0.000,000 per annum. jaw
Could with $4,000, 900 and Russell S4ge
with 4 900 900.
-Profossor Nlchard A. Proctor, the
astronomer, jJ expected In San Fran
DISCO this week on his way back from
Australia 60 England.
The Christian IntcUiqencer puts the
expense incurred for seeking Charley
Ross at 100000, and describes his
father as still ut tle task,
-Sli Nathaniel Rothschild has for
tho second time returned twenty per
cent. OF the half-yearly rents of his
numerous English tenants.
The painter, Manet, has in hand a
great picture, representing the escape
or R1chcfort and his companions from
captivity IN New Caledonia.
The finest portrait extant Of
oliver Cromwell is said to be that in
tho Baptist College at Bristol, for
which ~, ,625 has been refused.
Texas has 23G counties, OF which
but 1852 are organized. There were
0n|y liz organized In 1871, but they
count Oh having 800 eventually.
nf,..
Postmaster-C General show the number
of postcards used in Europe in tho
year 1873 to have been 342 900 900.
General Ord will be presented with
residence in San Antonio, Texas,
"where his services In behalf of tho
frontier are understood and appreci-
atcd,"
Out Of eight hundred and forty
seven Iires In the city of Philadelphia,
during the year 1889, one hundred and
twenty-five were occasloned by the
explosion Of coal oil lamps.
Tho manufacture of agricultural
Implements has doubled Within the
last ten years. In 1850 this industry
gave employment to 5,36l hands; this
year 1t gives employment to 40.8S0.
The Lake Superior iron mine, had
an output Of 1,075, ,O62 tons last year
and produced 49, ,5J2 tons Of pig motal.
The product Of ore since 1856 has been
l6, 3Oo, 1872 tons, and OF pig metal 790,-
277 tons.
Mr.. Obadiah Dawson, a farmer in
Laporte county, Ind, who died re-
Gently, had lived 6S days on water
alone, being unable to receive any
solid food because of q cancer of the
stomach.
The State Secretary Of the Illinois
department. OF agriculture has Issued
statement showing that the corn crop
In that State for 1880 was 250, ,697 ,O3G, a
decrease compared with 1879 OF %, ,2l6,-
3ll bushels.
Chicago IL the only one Of the five
largest CUES In the United States, the
others being New York, Phlladelphia,
Brooklyn and Boston, in which GIle
males are in excess or the females by
the present census.
The cultivation of tea in India has
greatly increased during the last 1f-
leau VaarH I'm 1874 thn tptoI pr0duo.