The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-07-16
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NEWS IN BRIEF.


=, The colored Baptists in the United
States number about 1000.
- Mrs: Bell, wife of the inventor of
the telephone. is q deaf mute. ,
One of tho New York Broadway
mllliners nets $500 year.
1t costs 81 cents. to- rsendia bale of
cotton from N. Y. to Liverpool
Tho Italian army numbers /, zoe. 900
men II the militia are called out.
Col. Bob Ingersoll hes made 800, 900
from his lecture on the bad place.
Alma Tadcmn's t'Sappho" has been
bought by al American for $15, 900.
About 5000 dead bodies arc sent to
the Morguc in New York every year
-Four - million dollars have been
spent ~ improving the Tiber Mt Rome.
During May, tho Philadelphia mint
G91'ea S5n 4 24l' GAO pieces ps: worth $685.
One hundred. and one people died
last year in London from act,iai starya-
ton. =. s.r .rcr>~ Z
.--,1tis estimated that the acreage in
win winter wheat is 4! per cent. greater than
last year.; -, ,..,.
The number of New Yorkors who
VIII go to Europe this summer is said to
be $1,000. " ' "
The average ago at which students
enter American colleges is liza century
| ago it was ii.
The American Bible House issued
LOSS, G96 copies of tho Scriptures during
the past year. ,,-..,,Asr n..,
Tho Indiana school, fund to the
amount Of $1,03G, 405..2O has Just been
apportioncd. e ''' -. s"D
Tho new Texas Capitol will cost
81, 100000, and will be built by De-
troit architect. =
ALI tho nocks Of Merino sheep in
Addison county, Vermont, are assessed
Mt SIS per head.
The railroad mileage of ILL., is 1873:
it takes the lead, followed by New York
and Pennsylvania.
= There arc 1000 species of prapes
distributed over the world-all adapted
to special localities. j.a 49,.
In 1889 society in London. Eng
land, offered n premium Of G1OO for cocH-
incal grown III India.
1t is estimated that insects injure
crops OF the United States to tho value
OF $1O, 600, 900 annually.
The West front of st. Alban's
Abbey, England, is to be restored at All
estimated cost of 1926, 900.
-Cnlifornia's wheat crop for this year
IS cstimdtcd' At 40, 100000 bushels.
against $4,000, 900 bushols last year.
Andrew Johnsons heirs are now in
litigation over tho DISTRIBUTION of his
property, which is valued Mt $1,000
Over 4, ZOO, 900 bushels of grain have
been shipped down tho Mississippi since
tho opening of navigation in February.
Chicago live stock receipts for the
month of May were as follows: Hogs,
4GS,395; cattle, 122, ,413; sheep, 80, $50.
On tho first day of its issue 2, OOO. 900
copies of the New Testament were sold
in England and 1000, 900. in this coun-
try.
The tunnel under the Hudson river.
between New York and Jersey City, is
being pushed at the rate of five feet
dny
The Beaconsfield memorial to be
erected by the Conservatives in London
will consist Of fine statue of tho late
carl.
1t is estimated by good Judges that
tho mills Of Minneapolis will grind the
present year 2O,000,000 bushels of
wheat
The receipts of tho Cunard steam
ship company for 1880 were close on
81, l4O, 600; and the net profits about
G2O0,OOO .., .r., 81
There have been LAO buildings
started during tho present year in New
York, the united cost of which is nearly
$4,000, 900.
The Agricultural Department of
Ohio reports an annual increase in sheep
while the number of hogs has decreased
20 per cent.
The stamp duty of six cents per
pack was paid on 1904, 1928 packs of
ploying-cards in England last year.
amounted to $G5, $3.50.
IN 1868, when Jackson retired from
the Presidency, tho number of post
offices in the country was IL ,767; in 1880
the number was 42,98O.
The trousseau of tho Princess
Stophanic is worth $400, 900, but the
doyry voted for tho future Empress of
Austria does not exceed $50, 200.
Tho son of General Ord, Young
man of twenty, whose sister married
{ General Trcvino has been offered q
colonelcy i'll the Mexican army.
The 382,92O Congregationalists in
, tho United States gave Inst year for
their religious work 81, ,692, ,922.24 or an
average of nearly $40 per member.
The most magnificent head of hair
in Russia belonged to the Princess Dol
' gorouki, but she cut it all of, and placed
it in the coffin Of the Czar, her dead
husband.
"A stcam-tug drawing 10000 tons of
grain, equal to 333, 900 bushels of wheat,
equal to 1000 car loads, has just made
tho trip from st. Louis to New Orleans
in five and half days.
The Woman's Medical College, in
New York city, his, during 80 years,
graduated 276 women as physicians, of
whom 151 are now in active practice, with
average incomes Of $4,000 por year.
The 2, 586, 469, ,320 bushels Of wheat,