The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-17
BRIEFS.

The Ohio Central railroad will
build a 81 900, 900 rolling mill in Toledo.
president Hayes was tha guest OF
the Baltimore Press Club on FEBRUARY
~.
Father IIennepin discovered coal
IN 1869, In what il now called Ottawa,
Tho new ceusus shows the total
number Of Chinese In Califor MIA to be
75,025.
The richest man In the United
States Senate is said to be Mr.. Fair, Of
Nevada.
Mrs. Thackara, General Sherman's
daughter, is now considered out of
danger.
Tie value of the tobacco crop in
Gu nton county in 1880 is estimated at
100000.
The most durable woods in drv
places are cedar, oak, yellow, pine and
chestnut.
Sound ice, ten inches thick, will
bear pressure Of 200 tons to tho
square foot.
-Wisconsin's railroad facilities have
increased from ten miles In 1851 to 81
133 miles III 1881. .,.
-Senator-clect Sawyer bestowed
Sl00, 900 each on his two daughters as
1t Is estimated that DC, 900 cords of
wooa are annually consumed by the
people of Dubuque. -,
In one grove, in California are
1880 trees, none measuring less than
six feet in diameter. .'
Tho average deposits in the Salt
I.ake pahKs IN l9SO, were more than
double those of 1876.
-(i I0 1tOo
O00, 900 which Is equal to ct lO,. per
head Of her population.
Ten vlneyardlsts In Napa county.
California, produced last year ovcr
,lO0,O ,O00 gallons of wine. ..~t
"A sister Of the King of Sweden ia
missionary Ia Laplanh, and has sold
her jewels to aid her III her work.
Mrs. Thomas, the widow of the
General, is now living quietly at Troy,
N. York. She receives no pension.
The salary of that noted horseman,
Joseph Cannon, rs "trainer to Lord
kosebery,' Is said to be $40, 900 a year.
Pope Leo, who has been very Ill
Tor several weeks, Is now recovered.
| ne will be seventy nine years old in
March. -
Mrs. Leopold dc Rothschield has a
new necklace which, although it is
only single row of pearls, is valued
nj $l00,00O.
The theatres and other places Of
amusement In st. Louis arc open on
Sunday evenings, and some Of them
give matinees.
The st. Louis and San Franeisco
railroad has sold 1900 acres Of land
III Barry county, Missouri, to a colony
Of Scotchmcn,
The late e. A. Sothern, the actor.
it Is said, left only about SIC, 900, al
| tnought he had carried an ANIMAL in
come of $4,000
ben Butler sends his yacht to Nor
folk In February, and will embark
| from that port for three months'
cruise in the West Indies.
LORD Suffolk has sold his famous
~ Verge aux Kochors, by Leonardo
ga V Incl, to tho National Gallery, OF
London, for the sum Of $40 900,
The New Mexico and Rio Grandc
railway, incorporated, capital 81, ,OOO,-
600, from Arapahoc county, Colorado.
to Soccoro county, New Mexico.
The net cost of the war in Afgha-
nistan, including that of the frontier
| railways, was about twenty-one cr0res
OF rupees, or El7 10000 sterling.
According to tho recent census.
SWitZeriatld has population Of 2. $780,
o00, or l20, NOPE than In 1877 when
the last previous census was taken.
up to the close Of the wear the
Lake Superior copper mines have pro-
dlced since their commencement 3OO.-
oOo tons or ingot copper, valued at $14O,-
O00, 900.
Abraham Lincoln, tho grandfath
OF the great PresidenC OF that name.
was killed by Indians on Llnkhorn's
Run, as the stream In Kentucky was
then called.
School attendance in Georgia has
had remarkable increase. From 49,.
o76 In 1871, 1t ran up to 22G, ,G27 in 1870,
VI the latter number 70 ,435 wore Color
cd children.
The peach orchard Of John Par
nell, In Troup county, Ga, Is tho
largest In the world. 1t covers $50
acres of land, and Will probably Yield
SIC, 1000 this year.
| An ounce Of silver Is worth 81. .O4:
a pound (sixtccn ounces)$lG. 80; a ton
2,24O pounds) $37, ,G33. A cubic inch
Is worth $ll; u caDlc foot, l9,005;
cubic yard, $6l3,2lG.
The number Of the Doe hives IN
this country Is estimated at 2,00O, 900,
anu INC annual product at SID QUO 900,
or seven dollars to the hive. The boo
Keepers number 10000.
The racing fund In the United
States for the current year Will ap-
proximate 81 100000. Nine English
horses have reached New York, TO be
entered In our summer contests.
The Nordenskjold, the largest tor
pcdo boat In existence, was recently
launched at Copenhagen. She meas
ures 2l6 feet In length and ~ feet in
breath, She can make fifteen miles an
hour.
-Shipbuilding on the Clyde was un-
usually active last year. Two hundred
and lOrty-one vessels Of all kinds were
| launched, OF total Of fully 239, 900
tons, an excess Of II 900 tons over 1879.
Their marketable value represents an
outlay OF about $50 900 900.
AT Steycr, which Is the largest rifle
mandatory in Austria, one thousand
additional workmen were recently en-
gagged, and all the shops are IN full