The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-14
BRIEFS.

| >"SS' va i.lhC AlSb Ol MAY.
There arc l, 700, 900 Baptists in the
United States, and only 100000 in
England.
The colored population of Arkan-
sas has increased from 1872, $50 in 1870
to 2l0, ,G22 In 1880.
There are thirty-eight Agricultural
colleges In the United States, $3.50
teachers and 3,9l7 students.
-President Eliot says that in the
near future Harvard will have need of
.G3, ,000,0 ,0u0
| Vermont has 475, 700 sheep.
-lhere are 4S9 churches in New
York. A>0"
In Boston Sunday School there
IS class which contains fifty Chinese
youths.
Tho Pullman Company is said to
earn OH each OF its IA cars about 400
| a month.
The dividends paid by the Lake
SO 3,O55, 900. W w
80 Minnesota has appropriated Sd
ooo III the last fiyc years to encourage
tree plating.
.-Ot the 600 members in the House
OF Commons, England aud VALE. have
$50; ocotland ", and Ireland lO5.
sixteen steamers and two hundred
ana three sailing vessels were lost in
December.
dead cattle by thousands, frozen
~ ueatn. are seen along the line of the
Union Pacific. '''o
"A statue of Beethoven is TO he
erected In Central Park, New York.
ny the philharmonic Society.
AIRS. j. j. AsUor has sent 913 home-
iess chlldreh to farms in the West and
oooCh' at All expense Of $ll 900.
The thread for glass cloth is spun
rom bar OF molten glass aG the rata
OF 20c0 yards IN minute.
The shortage of pork in Chicago
TINS year from what it was last II ia re-
ported will be ut least lOO, 900 barrels.
The consumption of coffee in this
country last year was 300, COO bags less
Chah The preceding year.
"A man has been offered $2o. 900 for
lot In minneapolis, Minnesota, that
he purchased for $ll.
One of the leading chemical MANN
a"ctorles OF Germany employs six
regular chemists, with salaries yarv.
ing from $l,5o0 to $4,000 yearly.
,,-Wlthin the last ten wears the
hlcthodists Of Cleveland, Ohio. have
pullC over twenty church editices. At q
cost Of over 100000.
Last year the South raised GOO =
600 ,OO0 pounds Of tobacco, which ex.
by l2,00O,OUU pounus. = -. -
The salt istrict Of Saginaw, Mioh..
has about ninety-tve companies at
work, with an annual capacity Of
1000 900 bushels.
The State of New York has in its
various public schools, 49,, ,7G5 puDils.
IN its common schools iL had last wear
"o,13o teachers, of whom 22,73S arc
wOmen.
A bill has been introduced in the
Texas Legislature fining a man 5000
ana SIX months Imprisonment for
carrying n pistol.
There are $500 shoemakers in
Chicago %. The average of wages is a
81 day. In the making Of shoe
Ihere are sixty-four parts.
Louisiana has So ,45l white and sa-
va colored voters officially registered.
VI the whites 1913 cannot write: of
tho negroes l ,4J3 can write.
New York has a police force of
2,b7o men, but only l, ZOO men are
available for night and 1885 for day
duty.
--Lieutenant Schwatka is writing a
oook ABOUT his Arctic experiences. He
ID guest Of General Hancock on Gov
erEor's Island.
Mrs. Garetlld says that her hus-
band may do as he chooses about hav-
ing wine ut state dinners, BUT for her
private hou.chold she will insist upon
total abstlnonce.
"A copy Of Gilbert Stuart's protrait
OF washington, now in the Boston
Athenn I'm, was presented to General
GARFIELD recently by the students Of
Obcrlin College.
1T is said that eighty-seven per
cent Of the American emigrants who
| nave recently arrived at Paso del
| Norte, Mexico, are professional gam
blers
- other GohZaga of st. Joseph's
Orphan Asylum, Philadelphia, makes
ana g.Ves away What most Of the
Catholics Of that city believe Is a speci-
llc for smallpox.
| line number Of vessels belonging
TO- or bound to or from ports in the
United States, reported totally lost and
missing during the month of January,
1881. Is Al.
The TWO facts that America con.
sumes ~ per cent more Ice water than
any other nation, and has rs per cent
more OF Bright's disease have been put
together.
Canada imported $4,000 worth OF
oheesc twelve years ago, but now she
exports $l0,O0O,0OO worth year, and
her exports OF butter and cheese are
$4,0O0,OO0 larger than those OF wheat.
DIR. Abraham Senseny began the
practice of medicine in Cnanbersburg.
Penna., In 1871, and his son, grandson
and greatgrandscn have continued tho
same practice in the saD,e place ever
since.
Tho Massachusetts Institute of
Technology at Boston has an unusual
pupil In cx-Judge Grant, who Is near
ly 70 years old and has a large lazy
practice IN Iowa. He is acquiring a