The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

earns about $40 900 per month.
The nail mills Of the United States
produce yearly about 81 600. 900 kegs.
AT Napa- -C'tv. Cu., a single firm
last fall made $50 200 gallons Of wine.
-Thiers was G5 when he completed
his "ConsuIate AMI Empire"
--Ru fus Hatch has sold his seat IN
the New York Stock Exchange for
denver City Is to be lightel by
electric light, at cost or $4,000 per
annum.
The organ'zed and unorpinized
G,393,3O5. ~
-in ono fortnight last August nesr.
" 2oo children In various parts of
England were sent to jail.
George Eliot left personal estate
valued at 5000 600. exclusive OF tho
property lii her copyrights.
A city Of London ofll ,lal estimates
the gross annual income Of that clty's
charities at $22 100000.
,...Chicago has 5,42O factories OF
Inherent kinds, employing 125. 900 per.
sons, of whom 1000 are females.
Paris, in the course Of It's history,
time In 90 b. q. and tho last IN 1870.
Tho gross income derived from
tobacco by the farmers Of tho United
States Is about $22 900 900.
There is talk of resurvevny the
boundary line between New York AMI
Pennsylvania.
AT recent poultry exhibition at
'he CRYSTAL Palace, In England, there
wore ooo exhibitors, showing 1865 pens.
The sum Of $3 600, 900 has been with
ara wn from the banks since the pas
sage OF tho refundtng bill.
The valuation of tho United Statea
is $32 900, 600 900, the country standing
thlrd Oil the list of all the great nations.
Mira. NJ. u. Kearney. of Eganyille.
Ontario, Canada, has just glyen birth
to her twentieth child.
Tho lIarpers have sold 80 900 comics
OF the Franklin Square edition of
"Enhymion."
-Flfty-ntne national banks were Or
gained In 1880, eleven passed into
voluntary iatton, and three failed,
There are 1000 people IN Chicago
| VINO wear glass eyes, one-third of tho
number being women.
1.-The wheat crop of OHIO IL worth
Tol ,00O,O0O, the corn crop $40. 900 900
ana the hay crop So, 900, 900.
Cologne wa.Ur was first SO callel In
A1oo, when an Italian citizen of Cologne
named Johann Maria Farina prepared
| 1t. w
-South Caroltna will put abont $25.-
ooo,OOO worth Of cotton and $3 OoO ON
worth or rice into the marked chis
yoar.
| o-Virgtnia has 1854 public schools.
or which 205 are graded. In these
SCHOOLS 22o,73G pupils are Instructed by
1873 teachers.
-During the year 1899 there were
deceased In the city OF B)ston 3}G par-
sons who had attained the age OF
eighty years or more.
"A company OF Philadelphia capital.
lists has been formed to buy the ever
glades OF Florida and drain them for
agricultural purposes.
| The statistics of ,ssachusetta
snow marriage rate Of l6 OS per l 900
OF population; a birth rate Of 2l7per
1'ooo' and death rate of 18 81.
American glassware to the amount
Of ST 500 worth was exported to New
South Wales In 1877; In 1878 to tho
amount Of SO ,735 wor5h.
| Cardinal Antonelli was very fond
OF canary birds, and at one time had
more than 200 Of then, which had been
presented to him.
An address to Queen Victoria hv
the women OF Cahaua, to be presen .eu
TO her next birthday, Is being ysrv
generally signed at Montreal.
| This is the first season that actual
iccbergs have been seen in Like
Mtcblgan. They have been formed
| With a base below tho water of fifteen
feet In depth.
-lowa's total losses by fire in 1880
are reported at 81, 1876, 100 against $3.-
| Zo2,ooO In 1879. The total losses to In
Hurance companies were $633. 800 in
| 1880, against 81 ,05S, 100 in 1879. IT
| -Taglioni, ,Che famous ballet dancer.
| IS living III London, giving less )ns in
dancing, and has had tho children OF
| the Prince CT Wales as her pupils,
Fanny Ellslcr Is living in Austria.
| 1t is computed that Great Britain
| derives an income Of $500, OOO, ,O0J a
year from the private inve stnents of
her people in foreign countries, which
she has $3.50, 200, ,OOU in American rail-
roads.
The value Of exports of provisions,
tallow anu dairy products In January
vas l5,2l0, 900; January last year,
$9,647 900. Value of exports of dairy
prodsc tor nine months ended Janu-
AIRY 31st, $2l ,l08. 900; same time the
previous year sid, ,656,U00.
An old farmer estimates the pro-.
ceeds of the O0U head OF game which
fell when last month the Prince of
| Wales visited Lord Aveland at $2,25
destruction OF produce involved In
rearing and feeding IL at $4,000.
Tho movement Of grain from the
westward has boon Unusually large
this year thus far. During tho five
weeks ending February 9Th. the ship
inents from the Western ports amount
cd to 8.Sl3.25G bushels in 1880, and
7,O3G .035 In 1879.
--Iho passage over the straits of
Mackinac, Mlch., is to be made by rail-
road trains unapowerful iron steamer,
capable OF Carrying Eighteen cars at
once, and crushing It's way through Ice
foot thick. During the season OF
thicker Ice, tracks viii be laid ON the
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