The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY. :

wheat is estimated at 80 800, 900 bush
els and the spring wheat crop ct
$500, 600, or Al, 100000 bushels ID the
aggregate. 81
The great granite monument to the
Ames brothers, builders Of the Pacific
railroad, is nearly completed near 0g.
den, Utah, at the highest point of the
road. It is a red granite pyramid
sixty feet square at the base, sixty feet
high and will last as long as granite
will hold together. A medallion bust
of Oakes Ames has heen hewn on the
west face and one Of Oliver Ames on
the east. The cost is .s90, 0,000. L
A house was burning at Oshkosh
Wis, and a woman was left inside.
Her husband cried, :. Five thousand
dollars to the man who saves her r
A fireman dashed, in at great personal
risk! and brought her out alive.
Althopah the husband is very wealthy,
he reid to give a dollar OF the
reward; but the supreme court de-
eides that the offer of 5000 was valid
and that the money must be paid. s
Preparations are active IN England
in regard to the great ational fish
cries exhibition to be held in London
in the early part Of 1883 Arrange
ments have been completed to hold the
exhibition in the gardens of the Royal
Horticultural society. With the exist
ing buildings and such additional space
as viii be covered the total area pro-
vided for will be some 220,3Gos square
feet. The United States VIII be extern
sively repI esented. I.
The Prussian government, alarmed
at the continued state OF emigration,
has been seriously considering what
means to adopt for checkingthe steady
drain upon the population and re-
sources Of the, country; and it is RoWs,
proposed totake the ground thatper
so1s who intend to emigrate must hIsssl
prove that in doing so they viii not.
violate any contract obj cation, pubic
sor private. express cor implied Ike
those that may be construed TO exist;
coward municipal and xzllage commas
mites, famines and employ yers fhsrs
ever it is impossible to infer the exist
ence of such obligations, the official
authorities will doubtless be ingenious
in spelling them out, and measures
viii be taken to prevent emigration IN
all such cases. :,.ssss5
Bands Of gypsies wander about in
large numbers in some parts OF Ger,
many, and occasionally, embohened
by their numerical strength, and
rendered reckless by their necessities,
they do not hesitate to- make serious
inroads upon the farms that they come
across. Lately band counting over
200 encamped near small Yillagezin1
the IIessian territory, and turned
their horses loose to Craze at Will over
the meadows and farming lands of the.
neighborhood. The exaspereted farm
ers and peasants thereupon armed
themselves with pitchforks and other
weapons, and attacked the intruders.
A pitched battle followed, and it was
not without severe struggle that the:
native population remained masters Of
the field. The interference of the
government Will probably be required
to put an end to the growing evil.
From alately published work by Cen
eral Strelbitsky it appears that Europe.
IS $4,000 square Hlometers, or about
$4,000 square miles, larger than was
supposed General strelbitsky has
founded his calculations on the most
careful measurements, and ascertained
that Europe has asuperfcies Of l0,eie
4S6square kilometers, of which $, ,346,O2S
belong to the continent and 6e4,465 to
the islands, calculation which differs
considerably from those hitherto made.
If General Strelbitsky be correct, the
sizeof Scandinavia, France and Hungary
has hitherto been underyalued, while
that Of Italy, Great Britain, Spain ansi
Portugal have been exaggerated. The
three smallest European States have
the following size: Liechtenstein,
l5e; San Marino, IS, and Andorra, p
SQUARE kilometers, the, latter being
about one-third as large as the city OF
Berlin, which has superfcies Of
6O.6 square kilometers.
aWhy, my dear. said poor little itls
.Mr. Penhecker, with a ghastly smile,
awhy would the world, without VIC
man, be Like a blank sheet of paper999
Mrc who. had inst been giving the