The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-22
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Newark, N. j., last year manufao-
tured 100000 kegs of beer.
Out Of 1856 pupils IN Charleston
public schools 6,444 are colored.
| Mrs. Abraham Lincoln gets q
Federal pension Of $4,000 year.
There are s AIS, ,O55 bushels of grain
| hold In the ice In the Erie Canal.
Queen Victoria danced several
reels at recent ball at Balmoral.
In the United States there are 532,
900 Freemasons In good standing.
The nail mills Of the United States
produce yearly about 4 100000 kegs.
James Gordon Bennett Is reported to
have contributed $25, 900 to tho Grant
fund,
The first American city to light It's
streets wholly by electricity Is Ogden,
Utah.
During November the mints coined
$4,o74 900 in gold and $2,300,O0O in
silver.
The total cost of the proposed Psna-
ma canal Is estimated at 600, 900, 900
francs.
The champagnes Of the vintage of
and 1868.
planted a treo which weighed thirty
five tons.
Madame Risrorl has not retired
from the stage; she Is still acting, and
In Scandinavia.
Queen Victoria has invited the
Empress Eugenie to spend the winter
with her at Windsor.
Chicago boasts of being the health
lest city In the world, Its death-rate
being 1871 to tho / 900
Great Britain manufactured last wear
l.646 100000 gallons Of beer, and the
United States 33G 800, 900.
The care OF Cete wayo and Other
kafhr chiefs will cost the British gov
erment about 10000 year.
A very handsome monument will
shortly be erected to the memory of
MISS Nelson At a cost $500.
-The u, 5. government has 700 light.
houses IN operation, and $50 small por-
table lights to be used on rivers.
1.-Two cannons have been brought to
charleston, s. c., which were evident
~ used In the Revolutionary war.
| The owner of an eighteen acre
Florida orange grove with three acres
IN bearing refuses to take $50, 600 for
Tho pay and mileage Of the men,
oers OF the United States Senate and Of
the Representatives amounts to 81, ,043,-
| 600.
| The Empress Of Austria has taken
Ormond Castle, Kilkenny, for six
| weeks hunting with the Kilkenny
hounds,
oo The population Of Berlin is 1,11s,-
| ooo' 1l'Llo lces tlian LlIuL UI.NeW Ork
v. 10
los the older.
India has s.011 miles of railroad in
operation, 1913 miles only belng mar
row gauge, and opened 395 miles Of
now road lasD year.
New Zealand has now over | .1o0
miles OF railways, all built within about
twelve years and all narrow gauge, or
| three feet six inches.
The first bank in the United States
was the Bank Of North America, char
tered by congress, at the instance OF
Robert Morris, in 1850.
Tho receipts of Booths Theatre
during the Bernhardt season of twenty
FOUR nights, closed Saturday, the 4th of
December, were $9s,000.
There has been an extraordinary
increase Of suicide in Switzerland. In
1876 there were $40 suicides; in 1877,
o9o, In 1878, G42 and In 1870, 7O1.
The Edgar Thomson Steel w orks. of
fennsylvania, have recently received
orders for over $4,000 tons of steel
rails, principally for new roads.
The Lancaster, Pa. watch factory is
employing 1S1 hands, and viii increase
the number to 200 before 1881. The
pay roll amounts to sc, 600 per month.
Tho New Orleans Chamber of Com
merce resolves that the Signal Service
saved the crop for tho sugar planters
this year by Its timely and accurate
warnings.
--The gifts Of the late Samuel Will
liston to the Williston Seminary al
Easthampton, Mass, will amount to
$SoO,OO0 when the provisions Of his
Will are fully carried out.
Tho losses by our three great fires
were estimated as follows: III New
York In 1885, about $4,000 900; in
1871, $l0O,000,000, and in Boston in
November 1879, $50, 900, 900.
lord Chief Justice Cam pbell and
hissuccesaor, Sir Alexander Cockburn,
each died suddenly of a Saturday night
AFTER retiring to bed and after having
passed the day in judicial duties.
-$2l ,804 ,763 were collected last wear
from 3,0GG,3 pounds Of snuff ard l72.-
ing tobacco. $l4 ,002 ,4S9 were raised
from cigars, chcroots anu cigarettes.
New Orleans Is now the fifth grain
market east Of the Rocky Mountains.
6eing surpassed by New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and Boston. Boston
has shipped 20, 200, 900 and Now Orleans
1000, 200 bushels this year.
In 1876 more than one-half Of the
marrlagaablo women In England and
Wales were spinsters. In 1850 five OF
our Eastern and Middle States had an
excess Of males, and four an exec 8 of
females, ranging from per cent. to z
per cont.
Sir Richard Wallace, who had a
coupon calling for $22O,00 annually,
used to be the largest creditor Of
France, but now M. Fnrtado drawsa
million francs a quarter, which repre-
sents an Investment of SIG .OOO. 900 in