The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-02-19
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; Sumter is speaking Of cotton fac.
tory.
Kershaw plants largely in cotton
this year.
: The Aikcnitcs arc organizing Is;
, BE Society.
y CharIcstcuian had his rocket
. ri:kcd Of $3.50.
! The losses in Abbov,;le by G:c lave
! been adjusted.
AbbcviIlc has niucty.Gvc dclin.
| qnent tax payers.
f. The Kitchen of Il. s. Logan, at
"ummcrvillc, was burned ON >IcHd. )
night.
Preparations are being made for
the establishment o. National Rank
in Augusta.
\ young man named lIcnuiny died
in Aiken Of meningitis, contracted
willie in Augusta.
Quite number Of persons left Ab
beville county for Georgia and Mis-
sisSippi, last Monday.
The Ahbcvillc Medium records: thc
death of Miss Annie Robinson, aged
seventy-onc years.
Tho meeting commenced in the
Methodist Church in N wbcrry week
,go is still in progress.
Rev. w. D. Rice has accepted a
call to Mount Zion and Bush River
Baptist Churches, in Newbcrry coun-
ty.
The Herald wants the Ncwbcrry
Council to "comc down handsomely"
for the centennial exhibition, in itui-
tation of Philadelphia.
Abbcvillc has an eve sore IN Che
shape Of number IF luaing vaga
bonds," and the Medium calls fur the
enforcement Of tho Nagrant Act.
The Carolina Spartan records the
deaths of Frnnklin poscy, \. II. Fos-
Ter and Washington Foster, all wi;hin
the last few days, in that county.
The Air Line Railroad i iIsc over
Pacolct river was completed Tuesday.
It is the highest bridge on the line,
being 40 feet from water 20 rail.
Two thousand dollars have been
subscribed, 4 lot has been purchased
and vigorous preparations arc being
made to at once build Baptist
church in Abbcvii,c.
~ citizen Of Lexington says, that
before the war lie paid taxes on lis
property with Il seven ronc,,' aha it
now requires $,S to pay the taxes on
the same property.
Tho bayn of Mr.. Wiley, living near
the Free E:idsc, on .%a!nda river, was
burned last week, together with GIN
and gearing, r00 au>h..s Of cotton
seed, five bags liui cotton, th> prvrcr.
IS Of his widowed mother.
The gin house ANA ali il contents,
consisting Of a now gin and gearing.
fifteen bales Of cotton and larg"
quantity Of Gotten seed, Of i. Il. ,e-
ter, on the Santcc river, were destroy
el by fire, caused hy saMll chiiI
playing with mat chcs.
The old seaport of Mar<ciilcS, 10
the south Of France, besides the ncAi-
trrrancun trade, has of late years hc~
come III crcSt,ng 20 the ladies' rn ac
count Of its being the chief depot in
tho world for tic trade in human
hair. Upward Of forty thousand
pounds arc brought there annually.
Italy and Sicily, and especially
RENE and Naples sending The greater
portion, while Spain AID France sup.
ply the rest. OF the pro.incc3 Of
France, Brittany and Auyclgnc send
the most. About three nnd half
ounces is tho weight Of a chiruon Of
tho usual size, and one Paris house
alone sells fifteen thousand Of them 4
year. Some four hundred lar.drcss.
crs in MarScillc' o,cnpy themselves
in making chigrons, and they pro
claims the Americans and EaHli>h to
be their best cuJtomrrs. 1t is cnri-
GUS to know that the most expensive
hair is rcd, and that nearly, if not
quite, all of it comes from Scotland