The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-26
NEWS IN DRlEF,

mated at 10, 100000.
The king Of P ,rtugal receives the
salary Of $40, 900 year.
In Now Orleans cucumbers are
selling at cents apiece.
"A company at ST. Louis turns out
200 dozen shovols day.
"A closely contested election in Eng
land costs about $4,000.
Brooklyn has added several chemi-
ca engines to its department..
Montana claims to have l 900, 900
cattle grazing on her plains.
About one-ffth of the area Of I,G.
Reis II SAID to be marsh lands.
-Pere Hyaointhe and his wife intan,l
10 visit America during the summer.
Ada Gary Sturgis, the sinoer :,
seriously i'll at her home in Durham ma
AT the beginning of 1882 107. 7.112
miles OF railway were open in Europe,
-dovernor Boynton, of Georoia
high. A1one'
-Ex-Governor Talbot, of Massaobu.
setts. has gone to see the wonders Of
Texas. oA' "a
The Earl of Dudley, whose income
Is 10, 00O,0O is said to be losing his
mind. lid
-Ihe Malagassy Embassy visited the
tomo OF Washington, at Mount Vernon.
recently.
The Canadian port of Sarnia ahinnod
l,ooo'ooo eggs to Now York in one
Tho thirty eight savings banl.. IN
huOO9 Island h0va
and S18 ,320,67 deposits.
Professor Z. s. Daua, of Yale Col.
lege' mas resumed his college duties
after severe illness.
-Alllgatols are becoming suuros in
riorloa and their extinction is consider
cd only question of time.
-Iho tremen of lie Roy have oroan.
iHeo benevolent association for disabled
iiromeh with a capital of 81, 800.
,u-Charles N. Marsh has been chosen
Clerk of the town of bingham. Mass
lor twenty eight consecutive years.
-Colnage at the various mlnts in tbe
-. .: Tor February, 81, ,548, $50. of which
81, 1000 was standard doIlnrs
Owing to the unreasonable aut,,,,,
III France between s, 600. 600 md 4 0on
QUO OF acres of wheat remain still to h..
sown. ''A-- w 10
Sir William Armstrong, the Eualisb
gunmaker' has given $3.50, 900 to New
years. '"on'S
-,
tl1e noo cotton crop for tho paaoh ar $685.
IN 1860 not hundredweipht of
wheht was exported from India; last
year .379.226 cwt., wero consigned to
tho United Kingdom.
baltimore, Nd, has abolished her
board OF fire commissioners. and has
glycn the control of the department. to
II fire marshal. "
-Ihe hreman's fund of Rochester,.
now amounts to 81, 900. It is for the
Deneht OF disabled tiremen and their
families. 'Ao'i
during the month of January there
were throughout the country twenty
threo fires involving q loss Of at least
$100, 900 in each instance.
The Chinese are going homo. More
tnnh o'Ooo departures and only twenty
arrivals arc recorded since the restric.
ton law won't into foroe.
The deepest sen soundines vet take,
III the Pacific shows q depth of 81 93h
feet, or about five and one third mia.
366. t'Ao ~
. -The armament OF Germany has been
completed. It was begun in 1873 Tha
expenses have amounted to S132 00o nm
paid out Of tho French war indemni,v
The amount of deposits and cash
balances in the ioint.stock banks of
Ireland in June, 1882, was ESQ, ,667 900.
MI lncrease of more than two millions
ovor the previous year.
There are 1886 school buildings in
Arkansas, valued at $264,217, 129 Of the
number were erected during last year.
The school teachers number 2418, of
whom 471 are colored.
1t is announced that the late Prinoe
Charles OF Prussia left q fortune OF moro
than SIX million dollars, Of which three
millions Is bequeathed to his son.
,-Chauncey Warner, of Cambridge.
" hne nc, ,x.ada~ onsan9 9a!oauta -, nreae,,t
tho town of st. Adams with $50. 600
house for use as o free hospital, He
will provide $25, 900 endowment fund.
| also.
-Servia is dependent on foreign
countries for her salt supply, and to
stimulate explorations the Government
offers prize of$80, 900 to the discoverer
OF workable salt mine in the kingdom.
A large oonoe in excellent condition
has been found near Bex, 1000 feet
aboye the soa level and nearly 8, 900 feet
above the valley of the Rhone. No
Laoustrine relics have ever before been
found in Switzerland at such an eleva-
| tion.
The daily earnings in the cotton
factories of the United States are nearly,
double what they were in 1910. The
total number Of spinning splndles is
4O,663, 435; OF looms, 225, 75O. The
actual consumption OF cotton last year
was 1, 760, 900 bales.
1t is estimated that there are 20O.-
600 vagabonds and beggars i'll the Ger
man Empire, including thieves, pick
pockets, and other swindlers, and the
authorities estimate the annual loss to
honest people by their operations at the
enormous sum OF $26, 100000.
Until the latter part OF the sixteenth