The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-02
BRIEFS.

Wv Va ''oS"oi VI L lolu I'll Ctle year 1850.
-Chevaliear Kremer will be the new
Austrian Ambassador to Washington.
The debt of Massachusetts "a $88.
or 927, IN increase of $734, $50 over
1879.
The comet of 1912 is "a, idlv ap-
proachtng, and will soon make i,self
visible.
The Territory of Alaska has about
one lnhabitant to every 1000. square
miles.
Macon, Georgia, is to have $15.-
ooo bricd building for public school
purpo :es.
The total sum Recommended BY
al the appropriation bills Is $lS7,577,-
600.
The Canadians propose to increase
tue outy on pork from ~ to 81 per bar
rel.
Seven States are visible from tho
suhitnl6 o1 Koan Mountain In North
Carolina.
=, minnesota has appropriated $500 In
INC last hVe years to encourage tree
planting.
Senator Blaine is mentioned az
owning $4,000 in bonds OF the State
of Maine. "''"'0
-;Mr. Smart, the champion skater
o1 England, has skateu mile In Lhree
minutes.
The amount Of rent duo in Nav
$l20, 900. "'
From 1s4s to Jan. l, 1881. La,jfor-
I39 ,258 200. w.
There are $4,000 schools and COL
in
SoJ,0OO boys and girls.
IIne Masonic fraternity, according
TO the latest figures, has 46 QUO mnn,e
bers In Germany.
-Chlcago uses 67,412,00o gallons OF
'', %ater per Jay, or over III gallons for
oacH man, woman aud enid
o,o ~The city of London gives SIC, ,0oo.-
ooo every year toward the relief OF dis
tress, suffering and poverty.
-one hundred and fifty thousand
"o.Is VI lahu III mississippi have been
solu 10 Scotch land COMPANY.
Large cotton factories will be built
,nls year at V!cksGurg, New Orleans,
Louisville and Charleston.
The public debt OF Canada was in.
creased nine anu Il halt millions uurIny
the IL seal year ending June 8 !, 1881,
The number OF prilgrims who Wis.,
1ted the sacred shrlnes or Mecca last
year Is Stated to hayo exceeded 2UO, O,OUO.
Col. Drake, the disceveler OF
petroleum., Will have 3 $l0 900 monu-
menG erected 10 his memory nc rltus.
vile, Penn.
The gum on some letter enveloDes
Is said to have seriously poisoned a
physician in Orange county, N. Y.,a
few days ago.
An Indiana man has built a minia-
ture steamer twenty-five feet long. in
which he proposes to make trip to
New Orleans.
There are between seven aud eioht
hundred professional models in Paris.
Gntrty-three u, or whom are Americans.
iney are every age, from children of
Six 10 men anu women Of siXCy,
The sum of $l45, 200, 900 was per-
manently Invested III new railroads IN
tn s country last year. The inoreasn
IN mileage was 1921.
--Nhere are only three ladies living
whose husbands were Presidents of the
United Statee. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tvlcr
and Mrs. Lincoln.
Lieutenant Maurice O'Conne1 of
the Slxtieth Rifles, who Was killed IN
the battle In the Transvaal RECENTLY
was was grand nephew of Dannici
O'Cunnell.
- In Germany, including the froo
p, "Hes, about eighty-fve per cer.tlr,, ---
hoN ton hay" -. or p.
3Ho incomes nn,1on
~ u -'ofllns IL lmbury. ana Rro
SUI up to 900. oonios from
while the area of land u,ao
:, ouiti'aIlon In Great Britain 10,
eat nn" during the past ten uoams n"s
oot'oov acres, THAT in wheat has o.
,.al ne ~, canadian ladies are str;v,,
go soe too,ooo signatures to thar n
), '1o % ~ ~ presented to q lecn V,ctor,n
,ntin,oG wGIi,tnaay, ,y, and aOtest!ny thar
,,vea 10 ~ nritlsn @ Minister of Paris re
leaana, $4,000; at C,nst"n;';; tSov';Uoo; al
o,Voo; aG 81. Peters burr. $40 ople, nnop,
eriln, $4,000; at Pekin' $3I,'0U0, $3 0UO, at
adrld evon, $27 900. "'''ooo' a5
Tho Gran din Brotbers ~
SAD To have raised last vaor 11 111 %
ousheis OF wheat. The o,I o. 90
sa'd 60 have paid all cost Of cn,,iv ~, ,voo
~ ana marketing, leaving ian no
'noiS a1 10 cepts II bushel FOR pronr
LIhere are now $50 citias IN +ho
mto' ,rKa ooaGes supplied with water
mo M, thVoivlhg IL, 600 miles of njnn
ooo OF which are Of cast.1ron. p'po'
-l1ast year tho State of North r,,
produced 46,O00,0OO pomnGs or
'"cco, or nearly one pound for evor,,
H. woman and child in the conntrv MY
me registered tonnage Of the Rr,t-
- omp,re onptr1 now amounts to 7,533492
- ! &C contained in sc, ,035 vosseIs fuH y, {n
4, ny o5| ,o24 seamen. DARING In,
. year l,76G new vessels were bu,,r ,nr
l registered. "'o oo'iC
1Iho ,., Now York City prison, Oman
thett uoors last year to 80, ,825 por-
- VI Incorporate habits. IN. ntIino
''ois = n furnished lodgings to lS00SI
ieep. "' no o"here else
I'm i y, 1897 Chicago became a citv.
M ,,aam Is. Ogden being the flrSt
~. Inc population wa, 4 I7O
oHlCeu St8LoS Censua of 1871, ,,s