The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-13
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GENERAL GOSSIP.

Tho total amount Of United States
currency outstanding at the close of the
year was 1902 1913, ,424.
On the 18th day Of February, 1928,
slcigling and skating were excellent
in New Orleans and vicinity.
JANUARY is mean month to be
born in and good one to die in. Who
would regret leaving such a world as
this?
Tho Western Union Telegraph
Company has for six weeks success
fully used, between New York and
Boston, an invention by which five
messages arc simultaneously sent from
each end ofn wire.
"A man named Whvmper has as
ccndcd ChimboraZo, -, 900 feet above
the sea, and found the temperature ut
the summit y degrees. He was told
that he would freeze, bleed at the
nose, etc.
The protest of Mr.. Edward Atkin-
son against establishing cotton mills
at the South has had tendency to in
crease the business. We hear Of new
mills going up in Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi and Kentucky. If Mr.. Atkin-
son will continue to protest, the whole
South will ere long be dotted with
manufactures.
Senator IIamlin did not wear M
ovcrcoat during the cold snap. Neith-
CT did Representative Tillman. Maine
and South Carolina meet across the
icy chasm. Tillman say he avoids
taking catarrh by discarling a wrap,
and Ilamlin rises to remark that lie
has worked in his shirt sleeves with
the mercury twenty degrees below
zero.
Eastern bankers agree that more
! than six hundred millions of dollars
OF three per cent. bonds will not float {;
that dcpositors will be forced to with
draw their deposits from savings banks
for investment in bonds or to remain
idle. These arguments will be urged
against three per cent. but not
against a three and half per cent.
| bond.
Hero is q telegram to the conduc-
tor OF an embarrassed New Jersey
railway train: "Usc all the fence rails
you can lay your hands on if your
coal gives out. Throw in barn or
two, If necessary, and if that fails
YOU, take al the pork offered at six
dollars per hundred. Keep your steam
up, and come through at any cost"
In 1875 the United States stood
sixth in the list Of countries from
which purchases were made by the
French. In 1879 it had lcapcd to the
first place, leading England, Belgium
and Germany by q large amount. The
exports from the United States to
: France were $3S, ,000, 900, in 1875 and
$l43 100000 in 1879. Such is the drain
of gold that France talks of lavinp
heavy import duties upon American
goods.
/ OF our points of punctuation the
period Is the most ancient. The colon
was introduced about 1885. the comma
about 1921, and the scmicolon 1870.
In Sir Philip Sidncy's "Arcadia," !"
published in 1887, they all appear rs
well as the note of interrogation, as.
terisk and parenthcsis. The ancicnts
do not appear TO have had any system
OF punctuation, and doubtless en-.
ployed arbitrary signs to distinguish
the parts Of a discourse.
/ The prediction that the years i'm.
migration would exceed all formc,
records has turned out to be true. Tho
prodigious aggregate Of 320 ,S0S arrivals
at Castle Garden surpasscs anything
before known there. and no doubt the
same is true regarding the arrivals
during 1880 at The other scaports o.
this country. The new year, never
the less, bids fair to outdo in this re-
spect even the unprecedented one just
, ended.