The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

than in 1880. M, =
"A full kit Of bank burglars tools
is said to be worth 50 900.
There are $4,000 colored Baptists
in Tennessee, with 15O churches.
In 1880 only one-thirteenthi of all
the manufactured products used came
from abroad.
Anthony Trollope left his family
$12o,OoO. and the copyright of fifty
The Marquis OF Lorne saws the
Pr1ncess Louise was ordered to Bermn.
da by her physicians.
The director Of the mint states that
ne coinage of the new FIVE cent pieces
will be continued. ) = 81 .tt,f /, II !,
Boston reports an increase OF $50
oUo, last year, in the amount received
from fees for liccnses
The cable system of street. car
traction IL about to be introduced into
England, at Highgate.
-.Pennsylvania made 85O,9OS tons.
Illinois. 362. 250 tons; Ohio, 113, 800
tonsi New York, los, ,021 tons.
The semi-annual dividends psyable
IN Boston i'll March will amount to a..
231, 1881. w ~f'
"A resident Of Woodbury., Tenn. but
~ years Of age, has just been married
for the fourth time.
80 80 florlda orange grower has order
ed 2OO barrels OF snuff from Conneotiout
Tor use as fertilizer.
-Charles Maokay, LII. d.. the Eng.
llsh lyrical poet, is justrecoverina from
long and dangerous illness.
-Russia had last year 77G pcriodica,
publications, including newspapers.
The largest circulation was II 900.
-Canadian papers report the arrival
OF new bird in considerable number,
which pfeys upon the English sparrows.
Sir Moses Montefore, the Oldest
English baronet, will be one hundred
years old on the 25th of October next.
-The production of Bessemer rails
was l, ,438, l65 tons iron rails. 227. .847
tons open hearth steel rails, 22.765
tons. W.
OF the 700 mules employed in the
Philadelphia and Reading compnnv's
mines but few see the light of day once
year.
The value Of our farm products for
!ooA' are estimated at 81, 500, 900, 900.
Exports OF same, 5000, 600. 900, or eight
per cent.
The ioe harvest from the Kennebec
river ls now estimated at CAT, 900 tons,
and there were 100000 tons left over
from last year.
.---isenator. SAerm0n hes lpresaryad oil
ing the last twenty years, and they
number nearly forty thousand.
Mrs. Augustus Hemenway. OF Bos-
ton, las given $4,000 to the permanent
fund of the Women's Educational aud
Industrial Union Of that city.
The total production of iron and
steel rails last year was 1858, 794 net
tons, or ], ,507, ,851 tons gross, a falling
OIL as compared with 1881, of 8 per
cent.
MIR. Dennis, the British ANTIQUARIAN.
has bought the site of the temple oil
Cybele, ut Sardis, Asia Minor, and great
hopes are entertained Of the discoveries
among tho ruins.
Saint Gaudens, the well.known
sculptor, has modelled colossal bas-
relief OF DR.. Alexander Vinton, to be
placed IN Emmanuel Church. Boston,
where he has so long oiiiclated,
Lords Wolsely and Alcester have
been presented with swords OF honor
by the Egyptian people. The weapons
have line Damascus blades and hilts
studded with jewels, and cost $3.50
each.
William Beach Laurence bought a
farm at Ochra Point, Newport, forty
years ago, for $4,000, which having
been cut up into building lots and sold
has Noted the Laurence family $780,
900.
During 1882 over 1900 electrical
patents wero ISSUED. The electrical
division is the largest in the patent
office. Considerable attention is now
being given by inventors to secondary
or storage batteries.
The Moody Church, in Chicago,
built during the Moody excitement in
that city some years ago, has Sunday
school which, perhaps, Is the largest in
the country. Two thousand names arc
enrolled on the school register, and tho
average attendance is fifteen hundred.
In 1881 there were examined in the
Municipal Laboratory, Paris, 3,00l
samples of wine, Of which 27l were
found to bs good, 991 passable. and L.
| fOA obus LII tllo ATbt uVo uOuCuS OI
1882, 1860 samples were analyzed, OF
which 372 were good, 683 passable, and
814 bad-145 Of the latter being very
injurious. .G
The Census reports show that dur
ing the census year, the railways of the
country transported 200. .897, ,395 tons
freight, for an average distance of 112
miles, at a cost Of 0,76 cents O ton per
mile. The passengers numbered $780, 2
5S3, $40, carried an average of twenty
throe miles, at an average cost Of Ill.
cents per mile.f s5
The moving bog in tho vicinity OF
Castlerea, in Ireland, is advancing rap
idly toward that town. Several thousand
acres OF land are submerged, mills are
stopped, bridges are ch6ked up, and
traffic on the road from Ballinag CORA to
Castlerea Is now suspended. The bog
OF Bastlick, which moved some time ago,
is also breaking up in seyeral places.
The SCOTCH production OF pigiron. for
1882, as elsewhere quoted, amounted to
] .126, 600 gross tons, d ldectease Of So.
600 tons FROM the figures OF 1881 !. There
were liz furnaces In blast at the close
Of the year, which was Q, gain of seven