The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-05-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.


land % 1886 doctors.
Gold In the Bank Of England
amounts to &l5, 100000.
BOTTLES OF glass were irst made in
England about the year 1858.
The first United States Conpraes
met In Now York, March /. 1885
The New York street cars carry
"hhualiy hundred million passenger.
Shoe pegs require annually for
tnelr manufacture 100. 900 cords Of tim
1t is said that Col. Thomas A. Scott
VI Philadelphia Is worth about twenty
The celebrated Italian emha,mor
faoio Gorini, lately died at Lodi a ai
49,, ICanada o5a has 6.459 sailing yesse,a
a. asH ~ ViS steamers, with a gross tonnane
About 100 900 bushels Of bemnso o,,
are W annually consumed for bird f6oS DIV ~
The United States. .'oo III
,-George Aldridge, one OF tbc orr
wvors WV, OF the Light Brigade" p" ia now oo
running an omnibus. 10 ho"
-St: Louis acknowledges q rt.,o
eM1ooaaoaPai e1o aSa noo debt Of $l5 eO7, 900. It was
1f--)"'NbooO III 1O(4.
1.-The destruction by fires T., t,o ,,.
600 20 tseW s"o l ork last year averaged ehn';y.
S2oo,7S per month. "oous
The first tame sheen In tbe 11,,.,
Ve"tes W, were brought from ENGLAND ="
virginia in 1909. '"no 20
mere was in Germany In 1874 s.o
PapSr ) ino m mills which together prodnced
''ooo,oO0 cwt. Of paper. "'oo
The number of Roman Catbo,,o. IT,
Ehglano is estimated at one m;iIio,
III Scotland, at 800 900. A'''4'oh
The butter, cheese, epg. and wall
business OF this country ara estIn,a.nla
10 10 worth $40, ,000, 900. '1"'eo
=, "A city Of London official est,,o.o,
.ue gross annual income Of that oit,,,a
charities at$22, 100000. "' o''y b
-Ihe paper wheels Oh the new Nara
9i G Cnc New York, New Haven nns
hartford Railroad cost $lIO. "no
-1he presbyterian church In cs,o,,
mas mas a m membership of 1851. ra .rhara
"re 500 churches and stations. "oio
~, c,,tAacordlng to the late oa,o,,
CSaaniifornia, "a with populatio, ~ 1asas' as1'
ooo' mas only 75,025 Cnincsa. o'f'-
The London Sunday Schoo, 1r,,
nus ISSUED call for universal nuo mion
lor sunday schools Oc.. 18th and dHynf 1sth
.uoo MIhe cae British Governmen. an.n,,
$!oo,ooO annually on It's Oonsr,op ponua
Coo Caoo ana the United States onIv sam
- -oWitzerland was visited, accord,,n
70 70 statistics collected bv The aI,t.E
TIno 1a1n OF Italy, by 1,4o0,0)o tourists p'Io 10
,,,o 1.-The object Of King Kalako,.,.
Nslt TO Japan Is said to Be to ,r"'ns'
H. scneme OF emigration of naaivas i3o 80
the total value Of metals and MT,
Grais er produced In Great Britain an,1
ooo 0oo'Sma SGo IN 1879 was slightly over see.
The salt used by the paoleers o,,
butchers of San Francisco ia ohta,"ad
Dy solar evaporation from tho watara
of the ocean. WIZ ""'ers
-Ihe annual number of deoths
o1 oonromghout on the world Is at the rate ~
oI,19o Day; that OF births is at T tho Ha
T., tHer1 10 tax upon wedding r!nps
IN hngland OF II shillings an ounre
anu nn inc revenue a,No nus therefrom Ia about
The National debt reduction dnr-
ing haroh was $o,l9 $40, and tho min.
oo5; @ 1oo 05 III meshl .lol, nearly $lI,-
ooo''oo OF which was gold.
The tonnage of English sailing ves-
seis mas @ aeoreased by about SOC, 900 tona
since ,11O' put steam tonnage has in.
creased oy about 100000 tons. "
-Vinton County, Ohio, has a family
naHed reynolds, whose combined apes
amount sIt TO wv years. Tho father is
h'nety-one' the mother eighty-eight.
The hammer with which John
Paul Jones nailed the historic fau
to thcmast Of his ship Is owned bv =
gentleman In Indiana, Pennsylvania.
In Hungary 1t is said fully GOO 900
chlldreh OF school ago 90 not 90 To
school at all. while those who do po
frequently stay only three or four
years.
The English gold coin the guinea.
was so called from the fact that It was
made from gold brought from the coast
OF Guinea, In 1878. 1t was then worth
thirty shillings.
President Elliot Of Harvard co,-
lege, IL about to build a summer resi-
dence at Northeast Harbor, Mt. Desert,
Bishop Doane, of Philadelphia will
also build In the same locality.
In the last agricultural returns OF
great Britain the growth of woods and
Iores's ~ SHOWN to be going on very
fast, and In the last five years has in
creased by half million acres.
In 1871 the census gave Great
Britain 81 800, ,063. An estimate based
on births and deaths last June gave a
population Of million more. The pre-.
sent census Will, 1t ~ estimated, give
Great Britain 3G,00o,0OO.
There are now in use In New Zea-
land alone over 5000 reaping- m achin %.
from about 40 to so steam p1oughs, 80
steam -harrows, together with over
l,0O0 0thrashing-ma, chimes, Of which 374
are worked by steam-power,
MIR. G.. Phillips Bevan estimate tho
grand total of gold produced during
the historic ages to be G3. 3.517 ,O03, 500,
and that Of silver, G2, 1926 200, 900, max
ing the produce of both the precious
metals to be worth fG .343.343. 800.