The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-03-16
News Items.

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LARAMIE Cry, March 8.-The
grand jury is partially composed of
women.
KEY WEST, March 8.-The barge
Forge, from Havana for Copenlagc en-,
with sugar, was burned at sea. The
crew was saved
New YoRK, March 8.-Therc is q
stampede to sell gold. Continued
cheering at evenings dcclinc. Many
business firms have resumed specie
payments.
CoNconp, N. H., March S.-Thc
election is progressing quietly. The
temperance candidate has received
but five votes in four wards.
RIcmMoND, March 8.LThe Lcgis.
lature received a message from tho
Governor on finances. He shows the
debt Of the State to be $45, ,972 900.
This debt he thinks can be reduced
by selling out the States interest in
the interest in the railroads, which
would bring to the treasury over $l0,-
OO0,OO He recommends funding
all the liabilities of tho State except
the foreign debt, and the issue of new
bonds, to run from ten to thirty years,
with tho interest payable semi-annual-
ly in New York. Taxation should be
so levied that the interest on the fund
ed debt should be paid with unvary-
ing regularity.
Referring to the proposition for
relief from tho debt, he recommends
that no sales of property, for debt
incurred before the close of the war,
shall be made under execution, unless
the property shall bring its value.
He recon- mends that the money ac-
cruing from the college land granted
by the United States shall be divided
between colleges for white and COLOR
ed equally.
BALrlMoRE, March 9.-Aziel Lew
is shot his son, aged seven, to day.
Lewis was found by the police speech
lessly drunk.
RICHMOND, March lO.-The Legis-
lature passed the homestead exemp-
tion bill, cxempting $4,000 in pro-
pcrty from execution. Also, bill
requiring office holders to take an
oath to support the State and Federal
Constitutions.
RICHMOND, March l2.-The rcven-
uc officers at Fredericksburg, cstcrday
seized $4,000 cigars and 20 barrels of
whiskey, for alleged violation of tho
revenue laws.
CINCINNATI, March l2.- Many Ohio
distillers refuse to- pay, while others
pay under protest, with view to
bringing suit, under the forty.cight
hour fermentation assessment.
RICHMOND, March l2.-Confcrcncc
of the three Republican State Com
mittoe, held to day, agreed to call a
conference for reorganization of the
party,sto meet here April 6.
C,NcINNArI, March l2.-Religious
revivals are progressing over 1900
have been added to tho churches re-
cently--not embracing all the con-
verts, many of whom havo not yet
joined.
New ,YoRK, March l2.-Tho
Smidt reports that, while crippled and
lying to, unable to mako the least
headway, off the Azores, the captain
saw large three-masted steamer. 1t
was a dark, stormy night, and he was
unable to make hcr out.
New ORLEANS, March l2.-Samuel
e. Wilson, of the Picuyune, is dead
aged sixty-6ve.
Brevet Brigadicr. G eneral Morris s.
Miller, Deputy Quartermaster Gene
raj Of the United States army, died
suddenly, yesterday, aged fifty.six.
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Market Reports.
New YoRK, March l2, 7P. M
Cotton heavy and lower, with sales OF
l,4oo bales at Sl4. Gold l2a.
CHAaLEsroN, March l2.-Cotton
quiet and steady--middllngs 204 re-
ceipts 4l6 bales sales 100.
LIVERPOOL, March l2.-Cotton quiet
and dull--uplands lo5; Orleans IA
o III sales 5000 bales.
REGULATIONS TO ORDEn.-It is
pretty generally understood, says the
New York Democrat, that portraits OF
"eminent Americans" with their BIZ
ographies, which are published in the
illustrated weeklies, are merely ad-
vcrtisomonts. Anybody can go down
to posterity, illustrated with cuts, and
be an eminent American" if no has
got money enough,' though he cam,
spoil his name.
Special Ns1tioe -.
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