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

NEWS Items.
CHICAGO, November 2l.-A st.
Paul special apprchends that 500
track layers on the extension of Vino.
ma aud St. Peters Railroad NAV
perish. They are beyond civilization,
aud the severe storm of Thursday has
detained their supplies. Noprepara.
tions were made to avert such q ca
lamity. A. train Of cars with two 10.
comotives started, but they have not
reached their destination. Two ad.
ditlonal locomotives were attaches 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 the snow forty miles
west of Sleepy Eye, and eighty miles
west of the suffering men. 1t is fear
ca the men at the end Of tho track
have starved.
Twenty storeo, shops and saloons
were burned hero to-day, involving o
loss variously estimated at from three
to live hundred thousand dollars, OH
which there is an insurance of $l75,.
600. ~
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,
whloh show persistent stealing. The
manager disgorged seventy five thou
sand dollars and resigned.
Mckcrr, Gerry aud Daley have
abandoned the Stokes case. n 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 fremen were killed and anoth-
er wounded by falling walls in Brook.
lyD, yesterday.
New YoRK, November 23.--Jav
Gould has been arrested charged
with malfeasance iu the Eric Railroad
management. One million dollars
bail was given. All the morning pa
pers agree 10 the opinion that Goud's
arrest was planned to effect tempo.
rarily E1ie stocks. Watson, Prcsi,
dent of the Eric 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
companied with resolutions to the
effect that it is the duty Of tue church
to found and control educational in.
stitutions of all grades, wherever such
action is required for the full dis.
charge OF it's spiritual functions.
Pending tho consideration of tn.
report aud resolutions, a reoess was
taken.
At tho afternoon session, the sub
Ject OF tho su,tentatiou of churcucs
and salaries Of ministers Was couslt :.
cred.
WAsHlNGToN, November 23.-Th,
November report of the statist,ci.u ",
Department of Agriculture, gives
to cotton prospects substantially The
same Interpretation as tue Octobc.
statement.
The November returns give the in
dloated total product in comparison
with the small crops Of 1871, aud the
average made is about l6 per cont.
increase, With an area in cultivation
larger by II to l3 per cent.
The total production as indicated
by 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 80 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
Penltentiary. was pardoned on the
petition of the citizens. The policy
seems to be pardon when the neigh.
bors apply.
CINCINNATI, November 23.-W. p.
Gutter, who is largely interested in
railroad buildings, has suspended.
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