The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-07
NEWS IN BRIER.
-Buffalo, despite her proximity to
Niagara, Is threatened by q water fam

world, ~g va N+ .-ss'. A.#'.,
--Over 5000 Northern school teach.
ers have visited the New Orleans expo
sition. ~ ~. :. - - :, - :
lin 1884, 21S New York men mar.
RED under 20 years of age and 2,9I9
women. ~ N - St4 8 :, *
AN ancient Egyptian idol sold at,
auction In New York recently for seven
dollars. ~ 60 ~ -
.s--Theslinest wines arc made from tho
grapes that are grown at the highest ell.
ovation. s,,saIS., (.E5, -. f.ltlSD. -
-Sicilan brides arc compelled to nave
their eyebrows shaved off previous to
marriage. XII ~
Congressman Rosecrans' son is a
catholic priest and his two daughters
arc nuns. -
Electoral messengers to Washing
ton received $S4GS. 80 and travelled 33.-
674 miles. - -.
"A tramp is said to be tho impor-
ter OF tho smallpox now raging in
Thomson, Ga
"A necklace composed Of II orna-
mented pearls brought G320O at a recent
sale IN London.
Fifty eight per cent. of the power
exerted i'll driving the propeller of q
steamship is lost
LII Southern California the pomegran-
ate hourishes as it does in Italy or in
the Holy Land.
"A cremation society has been
formed in Buffalo with capital Of ton
Thousand dollars.
There was an interval Of nearly a
years between the last two marriages In
Haverhill, N. II.
"A garden seed war is lowering over
Athens, Ga, and in consequence prices
nave been reduced.
There are seventy eight women
studying medicine at Paris. thirteen of
whom are Parislans.
There are 6, 6,239, 1853 persons ia the
united States above the age Of 10 who
cannot read and write.
Eggs, in some parts of Montana,
are reported to command ten cents each
J or dollar by the dozen.
Australia boasts of cave larger
than the Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky.
1t is called the Genoian.
-Four hundred omnibuses pass a
given point In London every day, &C.
cordlng to recent computation.
In Th1bet one woman may have
two three, or even four husbands, but
never more than the last number.
For sixty-six years a boatman at
Newport, II. l., has been in the employ
OF the United States Government.
-t-The Juveniles have been thought of
in Montreal, and toboggan slides foi
their enjoyment have been prepared.
The Prince of Wales has expended
Sl,0OO,O 600 on his Sandringham proper.
ty, exclusive Of the purchase money.
Six brothers who reside in Wal.
palk township, N. j., aggregate 81 feet
IN height and 1900 pounds in weight.
"A young man Of New Haven,
Conn.,, has a collection of 1000 BIRDS
eggs, embracing nearly 1000 varieties.
According to a Montreal paper
more fires occurred on Friday in that
city during 1884 than on any other day.
For publishing translation of one
of Zola's novels a Dresden publisher
has been sent to prison for one month.
Complaints of the dearness Of the
New York "cheap" cabs are frequent.
ly written to the newspapers of that
city.
"A young lady acts as sexton of a
LaWrenceville, Ca, church and is said
10 DC the only one Of that sex in the
State.
Russia will not build the projected
network of railways throughoutS Siberia
Just at present, owing to a lack of
funds.
What is claimed to be tho only bent.
wood factory In the United States has
been established at Charleston, South
Carolina.
--Senator-elect Leland Stanford was
student in Cazen0via Seminary With
Joseph r. Hawley and Henry w. Slo.
cum in 1884.
-SiGnor Rotoli, one of the most pop.
ular musicians in Rome, will presently
come to this country to flll q prOfessc =
ship in Boston.
Several varieties of birds have an,
peared along the sea coast Of California.
which were never known before to leave
the mountains.
The elder duck does not take her
young Into the ocean, as ls generally
supposed but remains with them among
the islands along the coast.
--Orville d. Baker, tho new Attorney
General of Maine, a Bowdoin graduate
OF '6o, was an extraordinary good first
Daseman when at college.
james Z. Jamison, the new Adiu-
tant General, Of Missouri, was ''For-
ty-niner" in California, and a follower
Of Walker in Nicaragua.
Twenty Partisan duelists are organ
izing a club under the name Of La
Flamberge, whose members must all
have fought at least one duel.
The editors, bookkeepers, type-set-
ters, collectors aud agents Of the Free
nan, the colored organ published In
New York, are all colored men.
An Indiana husband has been seal
ded eighty-one times with hot tea byh his
wife, and has now come to the conclu.
clusion that he is entitled to divorce.
AN English lady, Mrs. Hayward,
has been engaged as professor of elocu.
tion in the Cincinnatti Law School and
the innovation has been received with
favor.
Cheshire, Mass, has two large bald
eagles, which have their nest high up
on the side Of rocky Cliff. The hun-
ters ana citizens generally, with sense
OF pride and patriotism, leave them un-
molested.
--ChristODher Beckett Danison haa