The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-06-26

III the Democratic Convention of Pennsyl-
vania resolution thanking Gen. Sheridan
was tnmultuously ruled out Of order. Of
course
French agency for international mar
riagcs adds to its advertisement, "Bonhcu
yar"nic I'm an"-hsrpincss guaranteed for
one year.
Peat charcoal is twenty per cent, more
combnstiblc thnn that Of onk 1t has been
applied to softcning steel plates and dies
with remark able success.
The season is extremely backward in
Northern Vermont end New Hampshire and
farmers have not yet finished their plant
ing. Hay is high and scarce.
The household effects Of Mrs Lincoln,
wife Of tho President, nrc TO be held at
public auction at Springfield The furni-
tnrc is valued at $4,000. Mrs. Lincoln's
income is stated to be only $4,000.
BY the death Of her father, in Bath, Eng
land, the wife If Col. G. l.. Ebcrhardt, Of
Macon, Ga, hos fallen heir to an estate
valued at over $1,000, 900 which viii be
divided between herself, q brother, and Two
sisters.
1t is announced from Ncwburyport, Mas
sachusctts, that " merchant of that city
recently received n telegram from Calcutta
and had been two days and five hours on its
passage. This dispatch cost 5000, and had
travelled over $4,000 miles.
Mr.. Charles Rcadc, IL appears, has aotu-
ally commenced his threatened action
against the Round Table, for its review of
the novel, GriNh Gaunt. According to
tho Pail Mall gazette, the complaint covers
forty four pages Of foolscap, and if pasted
together, end to end, will be fifteen yards
loug.
diamond weighing between twenty. one
nnd twenty-five cara!s has bccn found on
the Orange River, in South Africa. The
Colonial Government has taken tho matter
in hand, and VIC shall soon know whether
that is to be, rs is predicted, one of the
diamond-producing countries Of the world.
y colorcd clergyman, in prayer meet
ing in Virginia, while engaged in supplca-
i;on u few weeks since. after praying for
the divine blessing upon tho Governor of
that State and all others in authority there,
continued: "And o Lord % Iord.-O Lord,
if it will not exhaust thy compassion, have
mercy upon Andrew Johnson."
new method of improving tho roads
has been projected in England II is pro.
posed to lay two pairs of nearly fiat rails
with n slight depression in each rail, 10 that
wagon wheels will keep tho track, and alsc
to lap guide rail in tho middle Of cac
track for The driver to sight with the pole OF
his carriage, 50 rs to he able to keep The
wheels in the depression. This system
it is claimed, will materially lessen tn,
power necessary to draw heavily laden wa
CONS.
We were shown yesterday relic Of Tire
late way. which Is, perhaps, the most rare
and curious to be found. II consists oftwo
bullets, ono iil cd from tho Confederate and
the other from tho Federal lines, which met
so full as to be mashed Hat, the one into The
other. Being the conical shaped Minnie
balls, they must have mel on precisely the
Same line Of axis, and both being mashed
equally nat, they must have bccn going
with tho same velocity. Such m amicablc
meeting between such deadly missiles from
opposing forces would hardly take place
once in ten millions Of times. The ball.
were picked up between tho picket lines in
front Of Petersburg.
~ Convention Of Jews hns been in ecs
sion al Philadelphia, nearly every syna
goguc in tho United States being rcprcscn.
cd II was resolved to co operate in tn,
removal Of the Jews of tho Turkish Prov
vinccs and the harbnry States to Palestine
aud to encourage the dcyclopcmcnt of agri
culture and tho arts thorc. a paper rcn,
by Rev. Mr. Lesser claimed that tho Falla
chinux tribes Of Abyssinia and tho people
of the int cror of China arc the lincal dc.
sccndaDts of tho lost tribes Their man
ncrs, customs, and forms Of prayer, SHOW
this to be the case. AS efforts aro making
| to convert them to Christianity, q mcsscn
ger is about to be sent out by tho Universal
lsracliish Alliance Of Paris to couutcract
the movement.
Tho Saunton, Va, TInaieaior. Of the l4tl
says "a kind of catcrpillcr has been raya.
| ging tho forests on tho northwestern side OF
the town TOR somo days past. 1t was ut
first supposed to he tho army worm, but
those who are acquainted with tho opera
tons Of tho army worm inform us that they
destroy ovcry spear Of grass, the blades OF
growing crops, &C., over which they pass,
but do not disturb the foliage oflargo trees
in thcir track. These, however, destroy
the foliage OF trees and pass by the growing
crops We learn from gentlemen who went
out to examine them on Wednesday morn.
ing that they had disappeared, from which
no argues that they are caterpinars, which
operate only whom the sun shines, and on
account of The cloudy morning could not bc
seen. The forests over which they passed
arc left perfectly bare Of leaves.
an lrishman carrying q heavy bundle
upon his shoulders, was riding Oh tho front