The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-05
BRIEFS.

Cihe total indian population of
Queen Victoria has an Income of
$3,00O,000 annually. II
In Germany the ladies take their
Knitting to the beer garden.
An outbreak Of rinderpest is rep >rt-
Cd III DerbyShire, England.
john Clay, brother of Henry
Clay, Is living in Kentucky.
-Gambetta is a liberal host ond
keeps open house all the time.
-Petri1ied grass is found about the
mineral springs of Calistoga. a.
All prosecutions against Cuban in
6urgonts arc to be Abandoned. .,
LORD Bcaconsfield's "Endymlonn
Pald him about 90 cents a word.
-Chicago consigned 81 ,OOO, 900 worth
OF wild game to Europe last year.
Pittsourg is to have a $500 900 hotel,
stock company being tho builders.
The state debt of Wisconsin ia $2.-
2o2,Oo7 that of Maine Is 50, ,S95 800.
| On single rancho In Texas / 600
lambs wcro killed by this winters cold
snap.
There are 35,613 900, 900 matches
consumed annually In tho United
States. .,
Our Indian wars from 1865 to,1s7o
arc estimated to have cost the govern.
ment $22 ,0S0,00O. 0%
The balance of trade in our favor
on last years business with the world
ioots up $4,000, 900.
"A female salmon as a rule carrie;
about nino hundred eggs to every
pound OF her weight.
New York saloonkeepcrs, of whom
there nre 10000, are said to control 75.-
ooo votes III the city.
kellogg Is to get 5000 per night for
twenty-night engagement at the
Grand Opera III Paris.
The mines Of the United. States
have produced during the past seven
years $3.50 900, 900 in gold. ~
1t Is estimated that tho British
army the coming year, will COST thu
treasury over 500, 900, 600. .-
The Greeks have for 200 vears h,d
Il monopoly Of the trade in dried cur
rants In the London market.
Walter Scott was born IN Eddin-
burgh August 10Th l77l. His father
was II lawyer or convcyancer.
In Missouri last year 1872, $50 of th,
children attended school, leaving 2I0. :
Ioo who received no schooling.
An Indian farmer deposited In q
bank last woek $4,000 that ho had had
buried In the earth for II years.
-Philadelphia has forty-two night
srhnnls In tin", .",ti~ ..i.tss.
! attendance OF over three thousand.
The increase in the population OF
pennsylvania, as shown by the present
census, is 7GO, 906 over that of 1870.
Or the sevcnty-six United States
senators only thirty-thrco were born
III inc states which they representa-
The Parker Memorial Chapel, In
Boston, which cost $4,000, will be
sold to leading SpirlCualist for $l5,-
900.
At recent paper exhibition In
Berlin, artificial teeth made of paper
were shown. a German Invented
them.
1t Is estimated that the cost OF tho
whitaker court OF inqu uiry and of the
whitaker court martial will be about
$4,000.
The expense Of the White House
ana It's occupants last year was $ll0,-
064, or which the presidents salary
was $4,000.
Tho first complete translation Of
mo Bible In English was printed in
io22. Apertect copy OF it was sold IN
1888 for $3.50.
The annual sale of pews Cf)Ply-
mouth Church took place recently.
Ihe'lirst pew was bought by Horace
Is. Clailin for 500.
During tho year 1880 $32,293,270
worth or gold coin was turned out OF
the United States minis, and $27, ,400,-
700 worth OF silver. a.,
"A harp, discovered in Egypt in
1923, had several remaining strings
which responded to a touch, and awoke
from rost of 5000 years.
The journal Onloial of Paris has
been purchased for 100000 by the
french Government, and will, here
after be the official organ.
FREDERIC II. Guernsey, OF The Bos-
ION Heratd, Is preparing tor the estlb-
llshment soon OF an 'Anglo-SDanish
commercial paper at Boston, ~;
They arc very exact in Russia. The
wcllted government officials report
that 70l ,O2S peasants are starving in
certain district in that empire.
Public schools In Tennessee during
1880 numbered 6,522, against 3,402 In
1875. In 1880 the teachers employed
number 6,o54 against 4 $40 in 1876.
The University Of Berlin during
this winter has more than 1000 stud
ents, the largest number ever yet
reached by any German university.
The Manhattan Elevated Railway
Company has orderod twenty-five new
Baldwin locomotives, similar to those
now in use on tho bird avenue line.
Tho Paterson On. J.) rolling mill
has spent $l6, 900 in boring an artcsian
well through 2l00 feet of red sand
stone, only TO strike stream Of salt
water. .#' ~
Wade Hampton no longer, COOS
about on crutch. He has wooden
leg to replace the ono lost by the klck
Of mule, and Is able 10 walk without
a caneo ..h
Connecticut has 500, 900, 900 inveat-
cd in manufacturing establishments,
employing GO.0O0 persons, tho annual
product OF which Is estimated at $780,
100000.
Lord Wentworth, grandson OF
Byron, was married December 10th,