The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-17
NEWS IN BRIEF

| i"iiLoau VIII be DullC Ill michigan this
year. ..O T.
The estate of the late Nathaniel
| Ihayer, of Boston, is estimated at SIT,
000,0 900.
| AT the last Queens drawing-room
| tho Princess of Wales wore two shades
of green.
1t is estimated that 1000 persons q
year, mostly prisoners, take their own
lives in Russia.
| s.-SeVen Cinnamon have been killed in
Grant county, n. NJ, during the last
year by rustlers."
The British Misister. the Hon. Tio-
mel Sackville West, has engaged rooms
at Saratoga for the season.
The lighthouse at Sydney, New
south Wales, has an electric light of
over $4,000, 900 candle power.
New Zealand has introduced the
American common school system, and
mas S:}G schools and Ga ,40G scholars.
Some Of the Europcan steamers las,
year cleared from $4,000 to $50, ,OO6 0,
each round trip of four or five weeks.
A member of the Pennsylvania
legislature has introduced Il bil9 forbid =
ding the running of Sunday &railroad
trains. u
MIR. Gladstone would u3lize wet
lands by growing water cressc1 and i'm
prove hallway cmbmkments by planting
fruit trees. ~
Columbia college, which va started
III lio9 on the proceeds Of Il lott9ry, now
mas ,aS an endowment of $4,000, 10 and
1857 students.
Tho Delaware Lackawanlia sand
western company is reported buyihAg
large amounts Of coal lands in the
wyoming region.
The two court theatres at Vienna
PAID ~, 800 during 1882 to authors and
composers, and the two court theatres of
Berlin paid $4,000.
or the old five cent pieces there are
nearly l2S,OOO,O00 in circulation. of
three cent pieces 2S, 600, 600, and of one
cent pieces 500, 100000
1t is estimated that 2,5OO. 900 tons
OF clear solid ice have been stored along
the hudson between Troy and New
York during the winter.
The new depot to be built by the
tennSylvana railroad company at Uur-
rlSburg, and for which ground has been
broken, is to cost $780, 900.
Queen Victoria has signiicd her in
tcntlon of opening the international
FISHERIES Exhibition at South Kensing-
ton on Saturday, May II.
"A brilliant Anglo American ball
q syass y gty2asHEh. GENEVA OH the 18th Of
6by aSoag scolv,i oHS nG@Ss iy were carried
Secretary Teller has appointed Mrs.
llcien Hunt Jackson a special Inspector
OF matters relating to land titles among
The California Indians.
Il single book in the Earl of Ash
burnllam's library, known as the " AL
Danl MisSal," ali illuminated ancient
MS, has been valued at $4,000.
Fifty thousand pairs Of shoes daily
are made in the prisons of New York.
The outside manufacturers claim to be
unable to compete with the contractors
--During the past year there were
carried over the Pennsylvania railroad
ana lis branches, 5, ,26}, 800 tons Of coal.
and 2,SSS, !S7 tons Of coke, Il total of II,
81, Lii tons
FOR brutally whipping one of his
small pupils II school teacher i'll Ackley,
llaluill county, Iowa, was compelled III
resign, and was fined S25 and costs in
the Police Court.
--~Colorado mined and shipped during
The year 1882, 1900, 900 tons bituminous
coal, 2,OO0 tons of anthracite and 100,
oco iOiiS OF coke, producing Il revenue OF
about 81, AGO, 600.
The projected Scottish Temperance
Life Assurance Company of Edinburgh,
winch Is TO have capital Of .el00, 900,
Will insure the lives Of total abstainers
"at greatly reduced premiums"
There arc now doing business in
this country and Canada 4l5 street rail
ways, employing about $4,000 men.
They run $4,000 cars and more than 100,
0O0 horses are III daily use.
Senator Edmunds, who has been in
South Carolina, has gone to Florida,
where he will remain with his family
until very warm weather. Ills journey
Will then be across the continent.
The death is announced, at the age
OF 30, OF Mime. Ilummcl, the widow Of
the composer. Her maiden name was
Rocket, and, before her marriage, she
was prima donna at the Vienna Opera.
The United States leads the world
IN ltS number Of cattle, having 81, 900
O00, to Russia's 100000 and Indias
30,O00;OU0. But Russia has 2o,o00, 900
horses, /. Il the United States comes sec.
ond WITH lO,500,OU0.
According to recent speech in the
Cortes, the Spanish Army is surprisingly
"ovcr-gcneralled," having general to
every SIS men. In France the proper
ton is | to 1866; in England, / to /, ,750,
and in Germany to ,614.
The Spaniard drinks less wine than
his ncighbors--l4 gallons year only,
as compared with IL in Portugal and Is
in France. lie sends abroad yearly
about 17G, 900, 900 gallons, which may be
valued at is, 100000 sterling.
New York annually imports from
the Mediterranean about 100000
oranges and nearly an equal quantity OF
lemons, Of an invoice value Of over half
Il million sterling, besides considerable
quantity from the West Indies.
An Indian woman, said to be 12O
years Of age, lives near Fitzpatrick, in
Bullock county, Ala. She was on Gen
eral Andrew Jackson's staff as IL cook
when that worthy cut road through
the country to Florida and has some pots
and kettles in which she used to cook the
hero's frugal food. .a
of the million and a quarter of peo-
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