The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-01

--Thc recent prosecution Of ritualists
cost the English Government $21, 900.
Goal gas, for the purpose Of light
ing, was known ages ago to the Chinese.
The idea of fertilizing land with salt
was conceived by John Napier in 1898.
Australia has produced during tho
past twenty years, 81 1866, ,000,0 600 i'll
gold.
Since 1861 there have emigrated-
altogether from Iroland--2, ,637, 1877 per-
sons.
Blind persons are admitted free to
musical performances at tho Boston
Theatre.
Tho estimated valuo of railroad
property In tho United States is $4,-
416,510,847.
Tho money owed in shape of foreign
loans i'll default to England amounts to
$1o, ,050, 100000.
The last two steamers from China
to San Francisco brought nearly thou
sand Chinese each.
Mr.. Henry Irving has been elected
President Of the Shakespeare and Burns
Society of London.
Building is active in Baltimore, over
1000 permits having been granted since
the lst OF January.
One hundred and thirty-threG stu
dents have passed the entrance exami-
nation ut Princeton.
-Oregon's oldest pioneer, Anlra La
shapello, who recently died Mt 100 years
of age, was Canadian
The Miss Blood whom Lord Colin
Campbell did not marry is named
'Zulu" not "Gertrude,"
There is a chestnut tree in Ogle-
thorpe County, Ga., which is nine feet
in diameter ut the base.
- Smith College, ut Northampton, has
received gift of 1926, 900 fot the estab-
lishmcnt of nh art gallery.
The Newfoundland cod fisheries
promise to be moro prolific this year
than for the past thirty years.
1T is said Miss Dorothy Dix. the
great hearted nurse of the late war, is
slowly dying at Washington.
CONTRACTS have been made in Eng
land to carry sixty thousand Swedcs aud
Norwegians to the United States.
The annual expenses of the British
Government are more than one third
larger than those of the United States.
The number of deaths from starva-
ton, and Of deaths accelerated by pri-
vation in London, during 1880, was
101.
lin 1855 the planet Neptune was dis
covered, by which the solar system was
extended 1000 miles beyond its former
limits.
Mrs. Van Pelt, of Manuel, Rookland
county, N. Y, has just presented her
husband with sixth pair of twins in
succession.
Silk first came from China, and the
Chinese still have many important
secrets connected with it unknown to
Europeans.
Another monster war ironclad has
had it's keel laid Mt Naples. The Italians
say that the Mediterranean must be un-
der thoir supremacy.
In Nevada, within q few weeks, MI
Indian woman has been sacrificed Oh the
grave of man whom she was charged
with having bewitohed.
During the last six months there
were, according to the official statistics,
G3 murders and 533 robberies in the
beautiful island of Sicily.
During tho glacial period, the icc
III America, latitude 44 NJ, is supposed,
from evidences known to scientists, to
nave DCccn O,UUU 1eCt deep.
Louise, Victoria and Maud, the
three little daughters of the Prince of
Wales, had q narrow escape from serious
injury while driving out recently.
The young men Of milwaukee,,
Wis, are actively interesting themselves
in the proposed erection of q monument
to the late Senator Matt. H. Carpenter.
The increase in tho gross earnings
Of thirty seven railroads during the
month Of March, is stated by the Finan-
cial Chronicle at 81, 1862, or nearly
8 per cent.
The number of converts made in San
Francisco by Moody and Sankey during
twenty weeks of rcvivalism is placed at
$4,000. and the churches arc greatly
quickcned in vitality.
---Notwithstanding the unprecedented
immigration of the present year. it is
said, Mt Castle Garden, that tho demand
for laborcrs cannot be met and that
| 1000 mon arc now wanted.
| MIR. w. w. Corcoran, of Washing
ton, has purchased the Dinwiddio and
| Washington papers sold in London
this month, and has presented them to
tho Virginia Historical Society.
"A little daughter of Mr.. Wm. Fl.
Seward was baptized last week at Au-
burn, N, Y, with water which was
brought from tho River Jordan by Sec
retary Seward many years ago.
In Oregon no man il allowed to take
q drink Mt public bar without taking
out $5 license, and tho newspapers
publish interesting lists from time to
time of tho men who havo obtained IL
censes.
One Of tho choicest fans in tho
world is one that belonged to Nine.
Pompadour. It is made of lace, was
nine years in making and cost $50, ,0c0.
The ivory fan that was presented by the
city of Dieppe to Mario Antoinette, on
tho occasion of the birth of the Dauphin
is still in existence.