The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

.-Bradstrcet's estimates the total
Yield Of the cotton crop of 1881 at
6,2S3 ,403 bales.
The gold coinage at the Philadel-
phla mint amounted to over 81 ,250, 900
In March, 1881.
"A granite monument is to be erec-
TED on the spot in Mexico whore Maxi
milan was shot.
:. between 300 and 400 Hndoo fami-
lies IN Belasore, India, have recently
aDJured heathenlsm.
No moro five cent nickels will be
coined aC present, the country having
absorbed all 1t will bear.
"A French engineer proDosscs tha
construction Of railway yiaduot
across the English Channel.
Miss Clara Louise Kel]oou b,o
made contract to sing twenty nieh ts
In Paris, and receive $I2 900.
In London there are said 70 be 100
200 householders Of Scotch blood. Or >,
Scotch population of 400, 900.
New York lights 400 miles of
street, Two and a halt miles Of p,ers
and slxty-one acres Of parks.
-Abram johnson, a survivor of t,o
war of 1872, died in Wayne county re.
Gently at the age of los years.
The beautiful city of Florence
Italy, was founded about q cantnn,,,
before Christ's time On earth.
Ireland was first called the Emor,
aid Isle by DR.. w. brennan IN bia
poem entitled "JGrin" 54.l83O).
+,,o -lhe Inc Ceylom ~ Observer says that in
cinchona and 10000 acres in tea. -
ana died peacefully among frienIs ~ ~,
wedding feast April s, 3Is d. G. ~
-The conscience money sent to tho
cnancellor OF the English excheona,
i"s' ye"r amounted to oyer $50, 900.
-Thirty-tilree thousand buffaloh,des
were SOLD at Miles City. AIontana
alone, during the past fall and wimto~'
The State of Ohio has IN its Con,
Col l9o 1ags, 1877 banners, and O. nan,r
ers, all priced relics to the Union enI'1
An order has been Issued doo,,r
ing postal cards unmal able viii a,
tning put the direction on the addrays,
-Some freight from Boston reoc,,o,
Madlson, wis after being fortv.souoa
oays on the road owing TO snow bIonI
allCSs
n-Egoert was the first KING of 81,
England, and William the Cann,, 81
land. is oI Eng-
.,Ihe crowns of England and sos.
lalld were united In 1903. MA ,,'I NGot-
y! Gfeag Britain and Ireland WIS on ~
The California VINTAGE for 1901 :.
estimated at over ten and h.I, ,,,;I,, lily 40
gallons, gallons, Dy tue State V,,iculturaI 1,ol nnW
~ Vame We deposits In the savings banks
q. vermont have Increased $G65 11s nhs i.
sho s1o M pasG Jhree months, and nmn,'n, tii .i
no,s nwGolonel Thomas A. Scott l.to,,
oought, at a sale in Northum bar,o,y ICY
THG;unty, u fennsylvania,a "a clock mada u ~
his uncle in 1900. 'A n"oe py
Ten million Of cattle oro on
slaughtered in this eountrv :" tuualty a,y
ene nome demand tor meat whiappy
valued at 100000 ' "nich Is
-Ihe late Senator Carpantor,s o,4
- salo TO amount to $GI. .oOm - HeC1te @
,nhin, iiie insurance except $io nnn
"hloh Is In real estate. ~i~,ooo
pA poohy 10Y fell over tho prec,nico o+
NocheSCer into the GeneSre rf,ou ~
o,H"a o,' uLop Oh l2o feet, and was tnto,'
OUT OF the water unhurE. ""' '"heh
, @ ne NUMBER OF burglaries In To,
uoi Ioco nas increased 2G per cent. aInnn
ioov whlle 1t has decreased 30 mar on,'t otm1o
III the rest OF England. p0A 'eiit'
-lhlrty-four thousand nonn5, s
tooacco were raised on twentv anro, "
senator Caneron's farm in pa"n VI
'ahl". 1t sold for 5000. Si-
The silk Industries IN tho 1r:
2i'tHs 81 HtS last year gave employment to
aggregate of SO, l07, ,s35 in wages p"'o wi
,1,,. MIho school population Of tno
on,S omi'so nIaGes n. IS Ii, ,696, ,1S3. or thjs
ns' nnnioer 1913, loo were enrolled In 1879
ara amere were In that year 27I, Ia tescH
,The Baldwin locomotive worhs ~
ihllaaelphla, Pa, have just recejven ~
nh oruet from Mexico for two hundrod
d0Gomo1lVes. noG They Will cost 81 500 ~
In the year 1000 February vii,
naYe out twenty-olght days. althomoh
once ono only In 2Oo years, and alwavs eors rs
the odd year. ""ys III
ooo oorRoughly COMPUTED, about 100 600 :
ooo OF the worlu's inhabitants snosir
English; about 60,0OO, 900 Gorma". a"n
abont OF, ,00O, 900 French, and ahnn;,
100000 Spanish. "'o"'
An International convention of
hebrews from all portions OF the worId
Will, VIII DC held In Paris, September 1Otn.
under the auspices OF the Ailianc',
lsraelite Universelle.
o., tine Prince Of Naples, Crown
l'rlnca OF Italy, is 80 sick and nnnv
mat 1t 1s feared he will never asrsnI
the throne of his father, His fnthor
ahd mother were double flrsr coustne
, o on1dhotyerpool 1do reports tho arrival of
!G,7oo head of American cattle from
New York, Boston, and Balt,mora
daring the past three months. The
number lost on the passage was Lib
head. -'A'"
-Mlllions OF. bushels of wheat are
iylng unthrashed and in good condition
in. the Northwest, so that even in case
Of a partial failure Of tho crop this sea-
son there Will be no special scaroitv nf