The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-02-22
NEWS IN l,RlEE

i, -There are now %. 1856 volumes IN
. the New Jersey State Library.
-Gambetta's brain weighed a few
grains less. than forty-six ounces.
The reserve IN the treasnrv o,
, washington has fallen to less than $l II. :.
, 00O, 900. '' W
The Washington mine nt Port
Dram is worked out and has been aban.
doned.
millionaire Vanderbiit's. check for
fourteen cents has been framed Dat Aa.
Mr.. Chaplin, the Speaker Of tha
New York Assembly, is only 81 wears
of age.
"A fox was recently discovered asleep
ia nh old crows nest III high pepper
ldge trea near Middletown, Oonn.
millionaire Ia; IL, OF Colorado. has
been granted divorce from his wife.
whom he gives $500. 900 in hard cash.
Colonel M. Il. Jlark, the presidents
Oh the Louisville Jockey CLUB, is urging
the organization of national Jockey
club. '1
-For the first time within iyino
memory the Potomac is frozen solidlv
across from Washington to the Virginia
shore.
"A rich and eccentric Californian
mas paid seventeen different John
SMITHS i'll the State $500 each to change
their names.
Suicide is said to be increasinp in
russia, the figures having risen from
10 per lOO, 600 population in 1869, TO
| -Ihe butter tree was discovered in
the central part OF Africa from its
| kernel is produced nice butter Which
| will keep a. year.
| There is al 8,00O.aore ranch in
Texas entirely devoted to the breeding
of ponies for children.
The Duke of New Castle is Mt
Jacksonville, Florida, taking q rest
| from travel.
Twenty live thousand dollars are 70
be expended this year in improvements
to the Oil City.
An almest inexhaustible supply of
emery stone has been discovered near
Schimersville, PA.
The Erie cnr works have in their
yards 10, 900, 900 feet of pine lumber
to bemade up into oars.
| The total cost of fencing the land
III most OF our States exceeds the cost
OF all the buildings"
1.-Two years ago there were but seven
cotton mills i'll the Dominion now there
are twcity-one, with an aggregate cari-
N1"Tie IA 2es paid by the turner's III
New York are 33 cents per aore. The
annual taxes that fences occasion is
81. IL per acre"
-The new railroad construction Of
this year IN reported ut I0,o2l miles.
making tho total i'll the Uutei States
at the present time 112, ,G34 m les.
Hallway President Garrett has pre-.
sented the Johns Hopkins Hospital at
Baltimore with marble bust Of AZ ,cula-
Plus, executed by Mr.. Kcyser in Rono.
The humber Of arrests made by
the Mayors police of Phladelphla.
during 1882 was 46 1870. The stolen
property recoverd was valued at $685.
768 46, OF which sum $31, ,3I7 35 was
! credited TO the Detectives.
AT stem graphic exhibition in
Paris twenty-four different systems Of
short hand were on vlew. Among other
curiosities there was a post CART con-
tanning 44 900 words.
The age for marriage of q European
prince ls from twenfy.four TO forty for
u princess, from eighteen to twenty
eight. There are at present thjrty-one
marriagehble princes, and only twenty
four marrlageable princesses.
1t is said that Mrs. Frank Leslie.
with number Of artists and personal
friends, will make tour OF the South.
She will herself write tho descriptions,
which the artists will illustrate.
Three thousand London policeman II
followed the remains Of one of their
number to the grave ono day recently.
The London force now consists of H.
600 men, not counting special officers.
-Texos has 81, 100000 lying idle III
her treasury, bnt is unable to apply it
to tho reduction of her debt, $5, ,OOO,-
900, because her creditors nsk 81. 40 for
the bonds, and she is unwilling to pay
that premium.
The assertion is made that from m
annual cotton crop of 6.6O0,000 bales
| seed can be obtained TO yield $1O0, ,00O,.
600 worth of oil. It is assumed that
every 400.ponnd bale gives 1900
pounds of seed.
---Gray squirrels are so troublesome
in Connecticut that the farmers have in
vited sport.men to exterminate them,
and they are being killed in great num-
bers. A party of three recently bagged
106 squirrels in day.
The Judge in one OF the courts of Vic
toria, British Columbia, when Chinese
witness was being sworn, said that he
had not yet met Chinaman who could
not write, and oomplimented the witness
on the neatness OF his characters.
The total exports of petroleum and
petroleum products from the United
States during the eleven months which
ended on November 30th last were $41,-
$40, ,l60, against $44, 416, ,673 during tho
corresponding period Of the preceding
year.
The report Of the Census Bureau
shows that mon In the United States
spend more money in dress than women.
The figures are ;$428, ,0OO,O for mon
and $3l7, 900, 900 for women. The aver.
age lis $45 year for mon and $27 for
women. sl
There were tons of postage stamps,
81 tons of envelopes, 1133 tons of pos.
tai cards and II tons OF newspaper
wrappers sold at the New York Post
office in 1882. The sum altogether de-
70 r.a :, :, OIL