The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 585 Chinese children in the
San Francisco public schools.
Tho Comtesse do Chambord has lust
presented $4,000 to tho Pope.
--Prlncess Louise has $500, ,0OOinvest-
ed i'll new hotel in Quebec.
Queen Victoria will occupy villa
on the lake of Como this summer.
The mikado of Japan has determined
to become patron of horse racing,
Tho shah of Persia has sent the
czar Of Russia gilt sword worth $4,000.
The rumori is revived that Prince Am
adeus, Of Italy, intends to become a
monk.
Prince Leopold took his seat in the
House Of Lords Oh tho Goth, as Duke of
Albany.
The Irish census shows population
OF 8, 1853, $40, a decrease in ten years of
252,53
-Govcrnor Wilt, of Louisiana, who
has long been ill, is slowly recovering
his health.
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. is
reported to bo about to take unto him
sells wife.
The Cuban sugar crop of 1881. is
estimated at 464, 900 tons, against 529.-
500 tons in 1880.
The fish commissioners have spent
$99, 1000 in stocking the rivers of Penn
sy'lvania with fish.
Minnie Palmer, tho actress, is under
900 bonds to her manager not to
marry for five years.
Hon. Francis Eppes died in Florida
recently, aged Oyenrs He was grand
son of Thomas Jefferson.
Tho money owed in the shape of
foreign loans in default to England
amounts to 81 1,O50,000,
AT Cornell University all the stu
dents have voluntarily signed pledge
of abstinence from tobacco.
Tho only daughter of tho King of
South Abyssinia is to bo married to the
son of tho King Of Abyssinia.
OF the total production of steel rails
made during the year 1880. Pennsylva-
nia contributed forty per cent.
Tho Italian Parliament, by n vote of
220 to 10l, fcfused to confcr tho right to
vote on all who can read md writo.
SAN Francisco's now directory con-
tains Ill 900 names, 10000 more than
tho directory OF the previous ycar.
1T is estimated that 500, 900 copies of
tho revised version of tho New Testa-
mcnt hnve been sold in Philadelphia.
During tho past year 1,5O0, 900 bar
rels of apples were shipped from one
county alone in New York to Europe.
The British House of Commons re-
Gently rejected tho bill to abolish capi-
tnl punishment by a voto of ITS to 199.
M. Alexandra Dumas has become a
grandfather. His little defendant is
the son of his daughter, Mmo. Colette
Lipmam.
The net earnings Of the Sing Sing
On. " prison for May wero $4,054.20;
total earnings, $20, 0,388.32; expenditures,
SIG, 1884. 12.
"A bronze door, to cost $15, 900, which
is being made i'll Italy, is to ornament a
new residence near tho Central Park,
New York
Under tho present arrangements
breakfast is served in the White House,
Washington, ut $50, dinner at 2. and
supper at 7.
There Aro 600building associations in
Philadelphia, and |, 800 elsewhere in
Pennsylvania, with an aggregate capital
of $150,000.000.
President Grovy has selected Com
mandant Lichenstein, of his military
household, to represent France at tile
Yorktown centennial.
General r. A. Walker, superintendent
of the census, estimates the population
in 1890 at about 65, 900, 900 and in 1900
Mt possibly S5,000,000.
San Francisco has now about half a
dozen kindergarten schools, several Of
them being FREQ schools, supported by
voluntary contributions.
| Since the close of the winter season
Chicago packers disposed of 1906, 900
| hogs. During the same period in 1877
| the number was 7O5,0O0.
The agricultural college land grants
to the several States aggregate 9,600,-
900 acres, of which I ITO, 900 was taken
in place, and 100000 by scrip.
Now South Wales has 75O, 900 popu.
lation--240, 900 increase in 10000 New
Zealand has 489, ,691; Tasmania, 116, 900;
Adelaide, 277, 900; Hobart, 1000.
Mile. Alico Grovy, tho daughter of
the French President, is said to have
nice eyes and q Velasquez face, and looks
charmingly when dressed in white.
The existing cedars of Lebanon aro
only 900 years old. The cypress treos
at Montezuma, Mexico, according to
French botanist, are 5000 years old.
Each of the 80, 600, 900 people Of the
United States, discards an average of
five pounds of clothing yearly, which
makes 100000, 600 pounds for the whole.
The Duke of st. Albans, the Marquis
of Bath, Lord Carlingford and Lord
Derby are the noblemon considered to
have tho best claims on Mr.. Gladstone
for Lord Bcaconsfeld's garter.
--1ecent figures by Edward Atkinson
put $50, 900, 900 inhabitants to l,549, ,S02
square miles of territory in Europe. In
the United States thore are $4,000, 900
people and 3,034, 800 square miles of
territory.
Tho present value Of vineyards in CAL
ifornla is reputcd by President Haraszt-
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