The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-31
NEWS IN BRIEF

An Ashland, Ohio, wife recently
became the mother of q perfectly healthy
babe weighing less than one pound.
--EX-Secretary Columbus Delano is
spending his old age in luxury on his
large sheep farm III Knox county, o.
internal revenue collections for the
San francisco district for the year end
ing February 2Sth, aggregate $780,
- -Light-weight husbands are wonder
ing how David Davis viii get to his room
at "A. NJ. without making the stairs
creak. '
"A granite monument is to be erect
ell at Andersonville, Ga, in memory of
the Federal soldiers who are buried
there
II here were twenty-five contested
seats in the Forty-seventh Congress and
IL cost the country 100000 to settle
them.
France in 1873 produced II, 600 .Oo1
pounds OF cocoonS; in 1870 only II ,OOJ,-
pounds.
Alexander II. Stephens was Worth
about S3O, ,O0o-S}0, 900 of which he made
States.
In the United States there is about
Sl6, o00,000 of capital invested in p ,per
mills, the annual product being 10000
600 pounds.
-EX-Sccrctary Kirkwood has rect3y-
cred fully from the effects of his recent
accident, and is lccturing in Iowa onf>
"Educaton."
-TcNas now leads the southern states
III the production of cotton. The crop
OIL last year will aggregate 500, 900
bales, worth $75, 5,000,00O.
Gen. Francis a. Walker will deliver
the Grafton at the opening Of the Manu-
iartu and Mechanics Institute Fair,
III Boston, next September.
"A recent letter from Honolulu.
Hawaii, says that King Kaakaua's
'Army' consists Of 40 soldiers, exclu-
Slvc OF bands and attendants.
-!Thcproprictorsof the marble quarry
in Hawkins, Tenn, have for the last
year been realizing $300pcr foot for their
marble delivered on the cars.
The number Of hogs packed in Chi
cago for the year ending March 1, 1888,
was ,223, 600, Il decrease of S7S, 900 COM
pared with the preceding year.
One hundred and sixty active sim
gers and two hundred associate members
belong to the Mozart Society and Con-
HerVatoly OF Music of Memphis, Tenn.
The state of Nevada has for the past
sixteen years been collecting Il cabinet
OF minerals, and now has Il magnificent
collectlon, over two thousand specimens
in all.
The total amount Of 80 per cent.
hnn al, - .
date is S2)9, 600, 400. OF this amount,
-, lo0,o10 have been exchanged since
Fcbruaryl
1t is asserted that Minnesota con-
lalns no less than 10000 lakes, with an
average extent of 300 acres each. These
lakes, IT is said, cover onc-twenticth of
the surface of the state.
The curicw is still rung at many
towns in England, and at Ripon a horn
Is blown at 9p. m. in memory of the
presentation to the city Of Il horn, still
extant, by King Alfred.
Tile sand business in Albany, n. Y.
amounts tOquite m industry Molding
sand is shipped in large quantities from
That city to California. One man ships
about $4,000 tons yearly.
1T is said that the finest sleeping cars
in the country are those which run into
New Orleans, and that fully four-fifths
of them are equipped wallpaper wheels,
costing 500 each, or $1O90 a cur.
1t is found by r. Schneider that dis
tlnct traces Of silver are Obtainable in
many OF the commercial preparations of
bismuth. Pure oxide of bismuth, when
Tree from silver, is not affected by light.
"A young man died in Rome, Ga, a
few days ago, after an illness of forty
eight hours, and his physician said his
death was due to congestion of the
lungs, caused by smoking cigarettes.
"A dying thief was compassionately
released from the Rhode Island State
Prison and sent to pass his remaining
days ut home in Proyidence; but before
his deaih he crawlcd out and robbed
seven houses.
Remains Of Il mastOdom and a num-
bcr of curious bones belonging to vari-
Gus other animals have been found near
a salt mine at New Iberia, La. Among
them were some fossil teeth of horses,
and they have been presented to the
Yale College Museum.
The Treasury department has de-
cidcd that only $4,000 of the $4,000
Oregon for expenses incurred by it in tho
Modoc war shall be paid over, because
Oregon still owes taxes to the United
States amounting to $4,000.
The quaint old town of Boscawen,
n. H., is to celebrate the one hundred
and hfticth anniversary of it's existence
during the coming summer. This town
has given to the world Daniel and EZe-
hiel Webster, Gen. John a. Dix, Will
lam Pitt Fesscnden, Nathaniel and
Charles G. Green, and other distinguish
ed men.
of 3G2 houses inspected by the Lon
don Sanitary Protection Society last
year, six per cent. were found to have
drains completely choked up, preventing
all communication with sewer. In117
houses the soil pipes leaked, allowing
sewer gas to enter the house. Perhaps
it is no better here.
Statistics of suicides in Russia that
include every Province except three or
four, give q total of 1000 persons who
destroyed themselves last year, and 77l3
for q period Of five years. The greatest
numbers Of cases are credited to thedis-
tricts Of Moscow, st. Petersburg, War
saw and Irkutsk, In the Russian army