The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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numbers Of laborers into the Uuited
| States.
1t fs said there are 600 Chinamen
who have become Roman Catholic
priests, ....
Our four great timber states arc
Maine, NJ Michigan, Wisconsin and Mill
| ncSota.
Twenty mills to make paper out Of
palmetto are to be erected In Florida
shortly. .ag.
The Holyoke manufactory deliver.
ed 16,OU0,OOO postal cards in one week
! recently. ,
The Moravians have sixtv-tlve
churches IN America, and about loo 900
| members.
An aged female servant at Wind
ermere, Englan1, has fallen heir to
81 SOC, 900.
The foreign trade Of the United
safes has increased thirty per cent.
since 1879. ...- J.
The trotting horse st. julien has
made profit Of $28, 900 for his owner
this season.
Louis Napoleon was the ruler of
france from December, 1913, to Sep
tember, 1870.
The territory of China Is nearly
SIX times greater than that Of the
United States. p
The American Union telegraph
company has contracted for two new
Atlantic cables.
The Philadelphia mint has been
ordered to coin $40, 1000, 900 monthly In
50 and $40 pieces,
San Francisco has; newspapers
printed IN ten foreign languages, in
Guiding Chinese.
The first bankrupt law enacted by
an American Congress was In 1900: It
was repealed in 1903
The activity of Mount Vesuvius
Increases. Lava flows abundantly on
the side towards Naples.
10 the census bureau from Idaho
are reported 60 900 sheep, GO, 900 horses
and 100000 head of cattle.
On the 9th of August 1900, three hun-
dred of Frederick the Greats soldiers
d1cd or sunstroke In one day.
Queen Victoria Is having lonely
visit ut Balmoral, whence cold weather
has driven all but her household.
Two hundred and fifty different
kinds OF tacks are manufactured from
brass, copper, zinc, iron and steel,
Tho total value Of tho property oc-
cupled by the religious orders in Paris
amounts III all to ZIG 5000 frames.
The Furnish Diet has voted annual
subsidy of 5000 rubles for live years to
establish an Italian opera at Helsing-
tOrs.
Chicago has sensible ordinance
requiring the use Of iron vessels for
ashcs, under penalty Of IS for every
violation.
Nineteen persons are held in tho
Cook County Jail, Chicago, on the
charge Of murder, Of various degrees
OF atrOoity.
-Ihe annual production of kerosene
ls now about 100000 gollons. The
irst oil we'll was sunk nearly twenty
one years ago.
-Great Britain owns nearly nine
million square miles Of tho earth's
surface. The United States own about
three millions.
According to some statistics pub
lished In French journal there ure
l,bS7 800 married men In France, anu
l,5G7 ,0S0 married women. 49,. ..
The annual report Of the Commits
sloner OF Pensions shows that there
were on the Both Of juno last 25O, 800
persons on tho pension rolls.
Reuben II. Springer, of Cincinnati,
who contributed so llberally to the
foundation Of the Music Hall has Just
celebrated his S0th birthday.
What was formerly known as tho
Chicago and Pacific railroad, now a
branch Of the st. Paul, has been COM
pleted to Lanark, on the Mississippi.
During tho month Of October, the
day decreases in length hr. 81 min.
the sun rising on the 81 st 40 min. later
and setting 81 min. earlier than on the
1st.
The old wooden Putney bridge,
the oldest bridge on the Thames, Is to
be replaced with an iron structure. 1t
was opened for traffic In November,
1929,
1t Is reported that 100000 holes
were bored in the execution of st.
Gothard tunnel, 100000 pounds of
dynamite consumed, and 1.G5O,00O
drills worn out.
Estimates based npon reports from
all tho parishes Of Louisiana give the
total sugar crop Of the state as 237 900
hogsheads. and the yield Of molasses
US $4,000, 900 gallons. t
The population of Baltimore for
1880, as corrected, gives II total Of 332,-
1oo. 1HS HldlCS uuulDcI lD1 ,OOl IC-
males, ia .S20; native, 27G, l70 1oretgn
6G,0ll; white, 27S, ,4S7; colored, $3.50,
--rhere are 227 students In the col
leglate department Of Smith Female
College, at Northampton, Mass, Of
whom 80 are seniors, so Juniors, 70
sophomores and rs in the entering
class.
The population OF New York City,
according to tho olllclal census report,
is ,20G ,678, Of which 500, 1872 are males,
Gl5,al6 females, 727,743 natives, 49,
S34 foreign born, l,lSg,ll4 white, and
2O,433 colored.
The richest men in Germany are
the Rothschllds Of Frankfort; Krupp,
OF Essen, and Bleichbloder, Of Berlin;
and Prince Bismarck Is also reckoned
among the millionaircs. The number
of Prusslan milllonaires IS only 1876.
The house in Woodbury., Conn.,, for-
merly occupied by Elijah Sherman,
was shingled recently for the first time
| a; 1,rht In 1901 n q h | orla q