The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-06-10
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works was $367,5lO.
Tho London Times has telegraph
wire between London and Paris for
its exclusive use, and for which it
pays $4,000 a year.
A Missouri man who swapped
wivos with another Missourian got
COW, a cal, thirty good steel traps,
/ and four children "to boot"
There is new nursery in Boston
under the guidance Of charitable
folks, where working womon may
leave their babies during the day.
| AS an excuse for rejecting q widow.
or, fair young damsol informed a
friend that s'she did not want warm.
ed.over man."
| 1t is announced as nm evidence of
American influence over English
tasto that felt hats are worn for tho
first time in the House of Commons.
Lippman, tho "Cloakman," is one
Of the characters of Paris, having
boon for thirty years attached to tho
Opera Comiquo. He calculates that
during his "oareer" he has had charge
of l,523,039 overcoats; G35,OIO
oanos and l,3O0,5l5 umbrellas.
| A Goodlettsville (T'onn.) negro,
having ono day last week quarreiled
with his wife, secured o moooasin
snake, boiled it's head in his wife's
tea, and the woman was only saved
from death by tho administration of
antidotes.
Here you have him: Tho Car is
about 48 years old; he is six feet
hig h he has light whiskers and mus
tache, with clean shaven ohin; his
hair Is out short his complexion Ia
fair, and he has good color.
Queen Victoria showed her friend.
ly feeling toward her ox.Premior,
recently, By inviting Mr.. and Mrs.
Gladstone to attend, or rather oom-
1nanding thoir attendance, at tho
grand banquet given to the Gar at
Windsor Castle.
Some of the generals and other
officers engaged in tho Arkansas war
think they should bo entitled to re-
tire on half pay, instead of being
uncorcmoniously compelled to earn
a living by vending peanuts and can
dy.
A.hill composed almost entirely
of pure sulphur, with only fifteen per
cent. of impurities, has boon disoov-
ered 900 milcs west of Omaha. Tho
introduction Of this sulphur into
commerce will broak tho Sioilian mo-
nopoly, which for centuries has been
a flourishing source of revenue to
that island.
Tho Senate has passed the House
bill to rovise and consolidate tho
statutes of the United States in force
on December l., 1878. Tkis con-
cludcs one Of the most important
works undertaken since the formation
OF the government. The laws passed
by Congress have been revised and
so consolidated as to occupy two in
stead of seventeen volumes. The
oontliction and repeating acts have
all been simpliied and properly ar
ranged.
An incident occurred yesterday nc
the express Office in Chattancoea
which shows tho idea our oolored
brethren havo of tho civil rights bill.
An old African woman asked tho
money clerk if he bad O. package for
her. lle inquired her name and 70.
piled in tho negative without look
ing vcrhis book. "Why don't you
look and see 7" Inquired tho African
indignantly. "Oh," no replied, "I
know without looking" "Woll, we'll
you kin put on dem sassy airs now,
but in few days dere'If be q law
passed that I kin 20 behind that
counter and look for myself. Den
| wont be boholden to you at all"
| There is an apparent effort making
IN tho part Of the Republican enemies
Of tho Civil Rights bill, by little
sharp management, to defeat tho bill
altogether. 1t Is now on the Spoaker's
table. and can only DO reached by o
two.thirds vote, except in its regu-
lar order several weeks henoe. Il 10
intimated toward the last Of tho
session bill similar to that of tho
Senate will bo presented in the House
and passed. This will 90 to tho
Senate, and The subject will bo bo.
tween the two Houses, and may be
delayed from week to week on the
most plausible grounds. Thus each
. House will have voted for the bill,
but it will not pass.
Tho Paris correspondent Of tho
. Nation writes;G ''Viotor Hugo is
worry rich, Larmartine gained onor-
nous sums Of money, 90 did Alex
andor Dumas. The theater is, how.
eser, as o rulo. the only lucrative
province Of literature While suoh
D mon as Sardou, MellhaD, and Halovy
3 arc making large fortunes, Taine,
: who is very hard worker, and who
q | iuna with Tho nlaaaak haa