The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-13
VOL. IV.-NO. 1853.
BRIEFS.

anu hllleu Ill LONDON last year, and
2,9SO persons injured.
st. Louis has sixty klndergartens.
lnstructing 5,201 children between the
ages Of five und seven years.
John NJ. Mauger, Of Pottstown, Pa.
who Is eighty years ofage, uses razor
that has been in tho family 2OU years.
Two thousand acres of land, cover
Ell with fine timber, were sold in Lewis
county, Ky, last week at 81 per acre.
There were one hundred thousand
barrels or apples frozen by the cold
snap at Sodus, Wayne county, New
York.
The Emperor William, old as lie is.
killed us deer and wild boars during
his recent hunting excursion at Let
zingen
Iron Is rolled so thin at the Pitts
burg (Pa.) iron mills that 10 900 sheets
are required to make IL single inch In
thickness.
--Gencral Won Goeben's death Is men,
TONED as an irrcparable lost to Ger
many. lie was looked upon us Moltke's
successor.
Spain, with only II, ,000, 600 inhabi-
Wnts, turns out yearly twice as much
wheat as does Italy with rs, ,OO0, 900 of
Inhabitants.
In 1870, 35,500,0OO pounds2of tea
were exported from India, and ia 1880
IL Is believed that the yield will be TO-
0OO,O0 pounds.
AIR. robert Lincoln son of the mar
tyred PRESIDENT, received more votes
tilln any other candidate for Presi-
DENTAL Elcctor III Illinois,
Or IL, 10000 quintals Of grain i'm
ported INTO France during the first
eight months of the present year 9, ,OOO.-
oOo quintals came from America.
There is In London dogs board.
ing mousse, where canine pets NAV be
sent to be taken care Of during tho
absence Of their owners from town.
Since the sale of liquor was pro-
nlDlCeu IN Carroliton, Ga, five wears
ago, the annual trade of that place has
increased from s2OO.O00 to $500 900.
The Matrimonial Benefit Association
Is Cincinnati institution. There are
2ol members, and each get 81 900 at
marriage, all the rest being assessed $5.
Nineteen mules in a drove Of
thirty were killed by flash Of iiyht.
ming in Washington county. Kv, re-
81, ,444. 'o'
Tho death was lately announced of
Gen. Low, son OF Sir Hudson. Nano-
icons custodian at st. Helena, whose
VIE was one Of tho New York De
Lancys. ~
Ihe total banking capital of the
'hltcd States Is, In round numbers .six
nuIured and fifty millions; the ami de-
millions. ."
-Ine hrst coins of the United States
were W., struck with the portrait of Martha
washington, A1r. Spencer who cut tha
hrsG uie, copying her features In his
medallion. "''
-Ihe Southern Pacific Railroad, it
Is said, Is now 100 miles from San
ranclsco, having crossed Arizona.
ana IS being rapidly con ,tructed to-,
wards Et Paso. W
The British Secretary of War has
issued orders obliginy all subaltern
mlllCla officers to join the military COL
lcge at Sandhurst before competing for
commissions III tho army.
-Chocolatc, the flour of tho cocaa-
nut, was 1lrst introduced into En- gland
rom Mexico In the year 1520, and soon
aiter became a favorite beverage IN the
London coffee houses.
The ostrich hunters of South
i;' ii iiiS III Hlillu Inc wonderful
ulgestlVo powers Of the bird. extraot
the pepsins from its stomach and soil f.
ior lts weight in gold to dyspeptics.
-Asor Ward, a>vctcran of thc woro,
1912, who saw General puckonhon,
killed at New Orleans, died. ot hia
nome In Fort Scott, Kansas, tho other
oay, aged one hundred and three voars
mir. William Bucknell. of Philado,-
phia, has recently presented to the
library Of the Bnghamton IN. w
blplc College one hundred new books.
llaiy oI which are said to be works of
great value.
the People Of Turn are very fond
OF inc Queen of Italy. She has no
guard OF soldiers when she arrives IN
lhat city. Her smile is everywhere
Welcomcd with cheers trem an admir-
ing populace in Italy.
-Ihe foreign business of the Bos-
ton ana Albany railroad now ocounias
shcds ana warehouses at the IGa st BOaton
terminal covering 100000 square feet.
besides the grain elevator with q eo,
paclty OF l,0D0,OUO bushels.
-rorest county, Pennsylvania, Is
now the great field for the hunters Of
that state and New York. Bear. deer
clk' foxes and small game OF all yarie
lies are more plentiful there than In
any other part of the Middle States.
statistics Of the British wheat crou
snow that, while it will exceed thn
yield OF the disastrous season last wear.
IL Will fail short OF the average for the
last hltoen years and will require tho
importation OF at least 10000, 900
bushels.
during the commercial year end
ing September lst, 1880, 1,l34 ,OO4 bales
ol COTTON wore carried out or the cot
ION States overland, tho bulk of il by
l''ll. Something like 10 per cent. OF
me crop crossed the uhlo and tho
Missouri Rivers.
Great Britain ana Ireland pro-
duccd $33O,OOO,OOO worth Of minerals
ana metals in 1870, smelling 6,OOO, 900
tons of pig iron and mining 1874 ,UUU, 200
IONS ot coal. There are 3,SI7 coal
mlnes In the United Kingdom, or which
only AZ arc III Ireland.
Tho Marquis of Butte, who has
just returned IRON his villa in Jeru.
salem, intends to establish a Roman
Catholic mOnasterV for EnuIi,b b ,no,,I,,