The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.


port its almshouse patients.
-Gustave Dore is working hard at
illustrations of Shakespeare.
-Gotha In Germany has a crematory
where cremation cost but SIG.
| The grain crop of Italy is this year
larger by one-third than in 1870.
| In the United States there are 532,-
oo0 Freemasons IN good standing.
| In the international billiard match
Vignaux beat slosson by 80 points.
Texas is adding about ono thou
sand persons to It's population daily.
Fine specimens of pure plumbago
have been found in Cherokee County,
| Ga.
One hundred and forty. eight mil
lion copies Of the Bible have becn
printed.
An ordinary elephant eats five
bushels Of corn and 400 pounds Of hay
per day.
Kansas made 16,905,344 pounds
OF butter and 703 AL pounds Of cheese
last year.
-Pittsburg glass factories send their
wares to China and Japan in large
quantities.
The territory of China is nearly
United States.
Louisiana has set aside $40, 900 to
supply her crippled soldiers with
| wooden limbs.
1t is proposed in Allegheny city to
school director.
The American Union TELEGRAPH
Com pany has contracted for two new
Atlantic cables.
"A vigilance committee is forming
at Nevada City to rid the place of no
torious characters.
Over one thousand print ting presses
nave been shipped from Philadelphia
to France since 1876.
christian X. Ross, father Of the
missing Charley, has spent 100000 In
trying to find his .on.
John Mccullough, it Is said, sent
Miss Helen Tracy a Christmas present
in the shape Of 81, 100.
-Senator Hamlin Is ono of the oldest
and Senator Bruce the youngest of tho
members Of the Senate.
The Duke Of Aosta. once King Of
Spain, now lives in Turin, and is 4
widower with three little sons.
-Thc Canadians are startled by an
increase Of 80 SOC, 900 In the public debt
OF the Dominion for the fiscal year.
-During the fiscal year ending June,
1850, 76,430, Canadians crossed the
Dor1"r and settled in the United States.
Our national debt, In silver dollars.
could De removed by rail only with tho
ana OF o,obo cars, carrying 10 tons each.
Queen Victoria has erected memoir
,al 10 her daughter the late Princess
Alice In the mahso oleum of FrogmOre.
jay GOuld's latest acquisition aiyes
him control Of 900 miles Of railroad.
onc-ninth OF all we have In the coun-
try.
The disturbed condition Of Ireland
has induced the empress Of Austria to
give up her hunting box IN the Green
iSlo.
..-Conncautville, Pa, shipped thirty
s1X thousand pounds Of cheese to Pitts.
burg the week ending December 81.
1890.
Tho fund of $4,000 raised by tho
Philadelphtans for General Grant Ia
completed and awaits the Generals
order.
Tho now Academy of Music at
Shenandoah was opened by Woods
dramatic combination, from Philadel-
phla recently.
The large number Of II ,115 head of
American cattle, cnroute for English
ports, were lost at sea, In three months
ending Ostober 81.
Mrs. Jessie Fremont has organ-
lHcd classes IN history among the
grown up sons and daughters Of poor
settlers in Arizona.
Notwithstanding the ticket war,
the Illinois Central road has paid into
the State treasury $202. $50 % for the
six months ending Oct. 81.
Joseph Seligman, tho New York
banker, gave away $4,000 on Christ
mas day 81 900 each to ten public chari-
ties, and 5000 each to thirty.
The Wesleyan Conference Of eng
land reports 4SS,7ll members, ,245
on trial, 1923 ministers, besides 3al
supernumeraries, and 329 on trial.
Young Wilhelm Blsmark, the son
Of the German chancellor, is about to
marry Countess Irma Andrassy, the
daughter Of the Austrian statesman.
"A rough estimate Of the extent of
the trade in wild game Of st. Louis
for the past year places tho total
amount Of transactions ut 81 100000.
Los Angeles County, with 5,673
acres Of land In vines, raised In 1880,
53, 600 900 pounds of grapes, making
c,cOoSoco
brandy.
--For the week ending Dec. 18th
1880, the number of standard silver
dollars distributed was 418, ,002. For
the corresponding week in 1870 tie
number was 434, 900.
Largo cotton factories are to be built
at Charleston, VicksbGrg and Louis.
vile, Southern capitalists are becom-
Ing convinced that they can manufac-
turc as well as raise cotton.
The British Postal Telegraph Ser
vice, which was estimated to produce
net revenue Of E45O,O00, Is now likely
to turn In at least 100000, which will
yioId per cent on the whole invest
mont.
The annual savings Of France are
estimated at 5000, 900, 900, and those Of
Great Britain and the United States at
81 zoo, 100000 osch, making for the
three countries $3,000,0OO,OOO pcr
annum.
Preparations for the coming GEN.
>f SQ1 in I o.a hnfn1r N aotfua.