The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-10-25
AFFAI6s IN GREENviLIE.---The
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I&N,NCthe Sute W"ik& c0mncncrd.
.Eiisg WIS NOS 90, ARG 4 cfowd uf bid
.dcrs'prrSrnt as WE expected to see, and
many Of the articles offered were knock.
I'd down at rather low prices. There
was son.e competition for 25.horse
power engine, which finally brought
about Sl,545. The State is very wisely
rescrving portion OF the machinery for
use in the proposed ppnitentiary. The
sale will Continue 10 dnv.
At y public meeting ofihe citlzens Of
Tie Disric'. held on Monday, the fol
lowing resolutions we're adopted:
ReSolJed That we dn respectfully
recommend that the Legislature of this
State hr pe'iri"nrd, through our resppc.
tive members to call convention at an
early day, to take INTO consideration the
conailionand wants Of the people, and,
it practicable, to provide some adequate
and certain menus ofrellrf; and to Ircti.
fy any imperfpc,ons which experience
and sober second thought may, slow
10 he wrong and unjust in principle, and
aud injurious TO the general welfare and
good uf i'll cirihns thereof. a.,,
Raso'ved, That we do further recon-.
mend that similar preliminary meetings
be held in this and other. Districts
,hroughou, this State, and thai a gene
raj meeting to carry into effect tlI. fore.
going objects, be held at eaci, Court
HOUSE on the first Monday in Novcm
Der next.
Resolved. That we heartily approve
Of the Efforts used hy our Senator, Hon:
q. f. Town"s, to introouce some meas.
ures Of relief Tor tn" people, at tho lasL
meeting df ;hc Legislature, and in advo
eating the same. r..
q. Audiger, a French chemist, has
invented or discovered new mode of
embalminc, which dispenses with all
the repulsiyc details of the ordinary
system. 1t consists in pouring down
the throat'of the corpse two glasses of
a liquid, whose composition is still a
secret. The operation lasts bat twen-
ty minutes, and in two months the
corpse becomes as stone. Expert
ments have'been made with this new
method at Marscilles and Algiers, in
the public hospitals, with complete
success. '..t
An Austrian chemist, NJ. Leinel-
brook, has discovered way of enclos-
ing electricity in small glass s-capsules,
which will explode under the, infu-
ence Of the slightest shock. The cap
oule Is enclosed in steel cone, so that
if shot from a rife it will enter the
flesh, and the explosion which follows
is sufficient to kill man. Expert
ments have been made on oxen and
horses with perfect success, these ami
mails having fallen down as if struck
with lightning, ..s.,
"THE REBrL DEBr." World
says: "The radicals are making a
fgreat noise about rebel debt. We
should like to know with what course
of reasoning they make out that there
is any such thing as rebel debt. The
bonds issued bF those who tried to cs-
tablish the Sou hern Confederacy were
made payable bne year after the inde-
pcndento of iho Confederate States.
There is, therefore; no Such thing as a
rebol debt, and cannot pNssibly be any
to pay, unless ths radicals intend to t
recognize tue independence of JEFF.
Davis exploded Government"
I Aietter 10 the ST. Fxnl Press from
For Benton, Srn'"mhrrl. says.
may mention tlrat artv or Co.,
men who came 70 Mnntaih moor, Two
Vars ago, cam" down fran Me mohn.
M'n last evening with twentyNwo hun
(dred pounds cover one ton, Of yold os
lh'lr pile the resnltm one yeas aia.
g'ng in "C"nEmltrale Gnlch." Thev
have guard "f fiGern.m"n, well armed
and paid Tor heir time and fallhrnlneA,
ana are now preparing 10 50 below b.
the steamer. mGsa.
~ A ~ 49,. d. 4 ~.