The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-07-03
NEWS SUMMARY.


Kentucky Legislature.
Government will take oil tho telegraph
lines inEngland for the postal service.
Barnum pays Tom Thumb $4,000 for
five weeks engagement. That Thumb pulls |
out extraordinary plums.
The potato blight has appeared in Ireland
and whole fields arc affected by the disease.
Fifty-onc iron.clads remain unsold, stick
ing in the mud Of tho Delaware.
number Of new post Offices hayc been
opened in the South The department. in
tcnds perfcoting the service as speedily as
possible
A Paris chocolate vendor has placed upon
the cover Of his chocolate, "Imitators Of
this chocolate will be punished with death. f."
The gun which Gen. Seth Pomcroy, of
Northampton, used at tho battle Of Bunker
Hill, is OH exhibition in that town.
A party Of convicts attempted to escape
from the pcnitcntiary at Millcdgcvilo, Ga,
thc balance wcrc captured.
The Now York World states that Southern
millcrs had made arrangements for selling
handsome family flour in New York for S;l3
per barrel.
Arthur Rosc, who thinks he smells sweet
Ward" announces that no is coming hurc
next winter TO lecture.
business is dull in Rhode Island. In the
vicinity of Providence 100000 cotIo SPIN
dies havo been stopped lately, and The cur
tailment is still going on.
Tho Atlanta (Ga.) rolling mill has com.
mcnccd rolling railroad iron, and will soon
bc able to roll fifty tons per day.
Tho grasshoppcrs hayo stripped u hun
drcd miles Of country in Missouri, and arc
still hopping and hungry.
The present income from tho Peabody
bcQucst to promote education at the South,
which it has hccn determined TO devote
principally to primary school education, is
but $G0,000.
They have f'nny way Of doing things
out Wos,. In Missouri, lately, n Judge
had before him his own application Tor
divorce. After hearing testimony enough
to satisfy him, he granted the application.
Twenty four thousand five hundred and
twenty-five white voters, and Grty.rour
thousand seven hundred and seventy nine
oolorcd voters, arc registered in I.ouis-
ana.
Tho number ofrcrsons who Grc now en-.
rloyod in tho Treasury Department is be.
tween 2i00 and 25oO exclusive or those
engaged in tho Printing Rurcau, undcr Mr..
S. NJ Clark OF these fyc hundred and
fifteen arc ladies.
The Nashville Prc%S 0H1 TJmr& states that
tho prospects for The wheat crop in Middle
Tennessee are extremely encourage ng.-.-
Much ground has been put into wheat, and
should the weather be propiions for the
noxt month the harvest will 10 hountcoua
ono.
Two lads named Wheeler, only ninc and
twelve years Of ago respectively, publish
little sheet at Evansville. Ind, which they
call Young dmerica. They do all the cwork
OH il, with materials bought and paid lorby
thcir father, who is q merchant. ltdspluys
remarkable aptitude for boys 80 young.
King William Of Prussia who is now at
tho French Exhibition, as the guest of tho
French Emperor, it is said has been in
Paris before. II was in 1871, when he rode
by tho sidc Of his father at the head Of tho
victorious army which was driving the First
Napoleon into exile
When Mons. Ratazzi took possession Of
the Italian Ministry, ho found 10000 petit
lions, 85, ZOO from Ncnctin alone, asking for
the ordor of st. Maurice and I.azcrc. Poo
pic of Europe think themselves unlrcsscd
if they havo not q bit of ribbon in their but
tonholc 1t is tho fg-lcaf Of continental
civilization.
Brighams msYoung was splcndidly received
upon his return to Salt Lake city from his
tour through his broad dominions. With
two dozen Of his wives. u council Of twelve
snints, and escorts, secretaries, outridcrs,
&C., &c.-formng a suite almost rs brilliant
rs the Sultan Of Turkey's-ho devoted two
weeks, to examining tho various settlements
and Salt Lake determined to celebrate his
return in an appropriate manner.
Tho Fom,h Of July is to be celebrated in
different parts of Mississippi by white and
colorcd people, for tho part Of giving mutu-
al assurance Of q cordial, good understand.
ing between tho races. According to tho
programme in Perry County; tho whites arc
furnishing tho supplies and tho blacks are
to do tho cooking
Among the Sultan's presents to tho Em.
press Eugcnic was solid gold model Of the
Imperial kiosk at the Sweet Watcr Of Eu-
rope, with the surrounding trees in green
onamal and tho river flowing past in bril-,
lian.s. The value of the river, and of the
ioTa which is TO surmount the entrance to
tho littlo buildings in rubics, will, it is stat
cd, he 100000.
The fastest steamboat iimo ever made
between Memphis and Cairo is that Of The
Robert +. Lee, which recently completed
the trip, making all her landings, is sixteen
hours and thirty minutes. The distance is
two hundred and forty miles Allowance
should be made for the fact .ha, this rapid
passage was made agoins! four milo cur,