The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-11-27
News Items.

News Items.
CHICAGO, November 2l.-A St.
Paul special approhends that 800
track layers on the extension of Vino.
ma aud st. Peters Railroad may
perish. They arc beyond civilization,
aud the severe storm of Thu, sday has
detained their supplies. No prspara.
tions were made to uvcrt such n On.
lam'ty. a train Of cols with two To-
comotiyes started, but they have not
reached their destination. Two ad.
dltlonal locomotives wore attache d
half way to the relief train, but the
snow drifts and intense cold checked
the train which when last heard from
was stuck fust in tho snow forty miles
west of Sleepy Eye, and eighty miles
west of the suffering men. 1t is fear
cd the men at the end of the track
have starved.
Twenty storeo, shops and saloons
were burned hero to-day, Involving a
loss variousl Y estimated at from three
to five hundred thousand dollars. on
which there is an insurance of $l75..
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New York, November 2l.-The
Times states that General Mcclellan,
President Of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad, has seized the books
OF the manager at Meadville, Pa,
which show persistent stealing. The
manager disyorged seventy FIVE thou.
sand dollars and resigned.
Mckcrr, Gerry and Daley have
abandoned the Stokes case. a new
counsel will defend him in the next
trial for the Fisk murder
The Board Of Underwriters have
advanced the rates of insurance from
twenty to forty per cent.
Two firemen were killed and auoth-
or wounded by falling walls in Brook
lyp, yesterday.
New YoRK, November 23.-Jay
Gould has been arrested charged
with malfeasance in the Erie Railroad
management. One million dollars
bail was given. All the morning pa
pers agree in tue opinion that GouId's
arrest was planned to effect tempo.
rarily E.ie stocks. Watson, Prcsi,
dent of the Erie Road, asserts, how
ever, that stock jobbirg operations
have nothing to do with it.
BALTIMORE, November 23.-In the
session of the Synod of Virginia to.
day, report was submitted on Sun.
day schools. Rev. DR.. b. Smith, of
the Union Theological Seminary,
Chairman of the Committee on Secu.
lar Education, appointed at the last
meeting of the Synod, submitted an
elaborate report on the subject, &C
companled with resolutions to the
effect that it is the duty of the church
to found and control educational in-
situations OF all grades, wherever such
action is required for the full dis
charge OF it's spiritual fuuctious
Pending the consideration of tn.
report aud resolutions, recess was
taken.
At the afternoon session, the sub
jet OF tho sustentation OF chu,cucs
and salaries Of ministers was cous,6.
cred.
AsHINGToN, November 23.-Th,
November report of the statist,ci.n ~
Department of Agriculture, Civ, :
~ cotton prospects substantially the
same Interpretation as tue Octobc.
statement.
The November returns giys the in
dloated total product 10 comparison
with the small crops Of 1871, aud the
average made is about l6 per cont.
increase, with an area in cultivation
larger ny IL to l3 per cent.
The total production as indicated
ny the returns of the first week in
November, is made nearly three mil
lion four hundred and fifty thousand
commercial bales. At that date 25
to 81 per cent. of the crops or nearly
one million bales remained to be
picked, and was subject to the vicisi>
tudes of the weather.
Reuben G.. Young, of Alabama,
sentenced to ten years in tho Albany
Pententiary. was pardoned on the
petition of the citizens. The policy
seems to be pardon when the neigh.
bors apply.
CINCINNATI, November 23.-W. p.
Cutter, who is largely Interested in
railroad buildings, has suspended.
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