The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

--Ino rose gardens of Adrianople coy-
er IA, 900 acres.
-Coachcs were first let for hire in
London in 1926.
Richmond voted $751; for York
town festivities.
-Parpyrus was used until about tho
| seventh century.
First gas works established at West.
minister, 1902.
-Pliny mentions twenty-three differ
ent kinds of apples.
a parrot in Harlem, N. Y, speaks
25O different words
One person out of every 246. .532 il
struck by lightning
Cotton has beon used for garments
in India for 5000 years.
of the 6S9 missionaries in India.
ll7 arc from the United States.
The profits of Mapleson's opera sea-
son III this country are $150,0G0
1t is estimated thQt the cotton crop
OF 1881 will yield 1000, 900 bales.
-fhc value of the taxable property of
Iowa increased SIG, 600, 900 in 1880.
A strip of land one inch wide and
800 fcct long was sold in Milwaukee for
81 800
The late Asa Packer, it has Just been
discovered, left M estate of $6,413,-
849.74
1T is proposed to tunnel the Thames
between London and Poplar at cost
of 81 100000.
In l779 tho British poerage contain
ed Il dukes, and in 1879 precisely the
Same number.
Tho Orkney Islands have exported
during tho last twelve months more than
II, 900, 900 eggs.
Texas expects soon to have q school
fund of 500, 900, 900, derived from tho
sale of public lands.
1.-The coinage of the United States
mlnts in July was 1852, 900 pieces,
valued Mt 50. .S9G, 200.
Tho amount of common salt in the
sea is estimated to bo about five times
the bulk of the Alps.
There are said to be 1874 Baptist
churches in the Indian Nation in popu-
lation of about 10000.
There is said to bo thirty-six Me-
| thodlst churches in Baltimore, with
membership Of II, 800.
Forty Indian prisoners have been
sent from Vancouver barracks. w. T..
to Fort Hall reservation.
The two church of England Foreign
Missionary Societies report this year O
total income of 81 $3.50, $40.
Professor Charcot, n Paris doctor.
IS said to have been paid $1O,O for q
consultation in st. Petersburg.
Pennsylvania now holds third plaoe
rs tobacco growing State, having "ad-
vanccd from tho twelfth since 1870.
| Tho revenue collected on cigarettes
| the past fiscal year was $993, ,00O-an in
crease of 5000, 900 the preceding year.
Judge Watts, of Dallas, Texas. re.
Gently named 4 little daughter "Com-
missa Appclla," in honor Of his court.
A thermometer plunged into the
| snow to tho depth of four inches will
mark nire degrees more heat than at tho
| surface.
| Mr. George 1. Senoy, of Now York,
has recently added $50,000, to his
endowment Of Emony College, near Gov
ington. Ga.
| Eight bushels of good lime 16 bush-
els of sand and one bushel of hair will
mako enough mortar to plaster 100
square yards.
| There arc in Great Britain and Ire
land %, 1886 doctors. Of these there are
1888 lin England in Scotland, 3,454:
i'll Ireland. 1864.
| Concord, N. O., has organized cot
ton factory and 100000 of the stock
takcn. The company has the privilege
to increase it to 5000, 900.
1T is admitted that tho Royal
Irish" received the greatest amount Of
appreciation of MI the regiments recently
paradcd before tho Queen.
Chicago has one single rolling mill,
the capital of which is SIS, 900, 900, and
tho annual output is 470, 248 tons of iron
and steel, valued at $12, ,297 ,246.
| Ono thousand shingles laid four
inches to tho weather will cover 100
square feet of surface, and pounds Of
| shinglc nails will fasten them on.
| "A salmon, supposed to be tho largest
weight when dressed, of eighty-four
pounds, and filled sixty-nine cans.
| California has shipped to Europe
since the beginning of tho present cereal
| year, in round numbers, 225, 900 barrels
of flour and $4,000, 900 centals Of wheat.
| From Cairo it is learned that, in q
| single catacomb III Upper Egypt, thirty
six wcllprcscrvcd sarcophagi Of ancient
royal personages have been brought to
| light
In 1870 the cost Of moving a ton OF
bread stuffs from Chicago to New York
was $1G.05. In 1881 tho same ton can
be moved from Chicago to Liverpool,
via Montreal, for So.
From brick from the pyramid of
Dashour which dates between 33OO-34QO
B. O. remains Of animal and vegetable
life and Of the manufacturing arts OF the
time have been obtained.
The German Government have an-
bounced that, commencing from Feb
riary, 1883, English will be compul-
sorry subject Of examination for the en-
trance of officers into tho army.
Tho city of Boston is tho owner Of
Apple Island, containing 81 acres, pur-