The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-09-16
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On a church wall in Valparaiso
Chill, Bismarck and the Emocl or
William are pictured IS squ;.m;,: IL
the flames Of hell, while the devil !,
poking tho Chancellcr in the bac,,
with rcd hot fork.
1t is repoi ted that some people at
Port Henry, New York, use m;sro,-
glyceline for catching fish. It kills
everything within Atty feet, ait: f.om
hfty TO seventy-ivo pounds OF fish ai
taken at single explosion.
An old lady in Providence OF
eigbty-!our, offer using spcctaclcs
for forty years, has given them up.
and icad every word Of the Eecchei
correspondence without them. She
: says 1t has fairly s'opencd her eyes,
and no spectacle could equal il.
A man named Bye,s. Of Glover
township, ILL.,, while showing one of
his horses to q visitor recently. plac.
ed bis hanC on The animals hips, OBJ
serving: "Thcre's colt that's pcr-
fectly gentle" At the same in
! stant The colt kicked him a the side,
inflicting fatal injuries.
A Conan Catholic priest o; Darn
stadt, Germany, has 3cen .cntcnce d
to ei"ht days Imprisonment COR in:
Producing politics inso the pulpit.
Fifteen votes having been given in
his parish for the anti.Cathcl'c can
didate, he compared the fifteen vo.
ters to Judas.
The st. Paul Pioneer says that the
experiment of planting trees along
The line of the St. Paul and Pacific
Eailroad has been very succc, ,;fnl.
The trees planted were willow, cot.
tonwood, tombardy poplar. white
ash, and box alder. European la,ch
anG ash -leaved maple have also done
well.
An accident at wake in Dublin
illustrates the danger attendip; .leae
festivities, which arc still poprlar in
lrelcnd. The floor of room fell. in
which nearly thirty persons were as
sembled around the body of a child
only Two months old, and ten pei.
sons we're 80 seriously injured IN con-
sequence that they were removed 20
the hospital. whore they lie, come
with broken legs ard arms. There
has been no deo til.
Twenty-Five agricultural laborers,
marching through the north of .Euy.
lahd, were ordered into custody on
Aug. z by the chief constable of
Brsdford, when passing through ;hat
town. The chief constable. when :hc
men were charged before the MATS.
ttrate7, said he had ordered them
Into custody for begging. The meg
'>'ra' es discharged the men, 3rt said
they would be sent TO prison il they
were again seen in tie town with
collecting cords or boxes.
'The other day." says the London
correspondent OF the Cincinnati Com
mercial ga solemn group proceeded
to the basement of chu, Gu in Pengc,
near the Crystal Palace, and there
busted an old coffin. 1t was The
coffin of onc Mary Wragg, who loved
ncatncss. :When she died $40 left p
bequcst of lOs. Cd, annually 10 have
her coffin busted, one guinea to be
given to the clergyman on the oc-
casslon, and two gnihcas to procure
dinner for her coffin busters"
Forcing q man to commit bisamy
is the latest Kansas sensation, j
young Kentuclian went TO Clark
county for his health. aud won the
confidence of n farmers daughter by
promise Of marriage. , On leavibg
,or kentucky, he told the Gil that
he could not marry her, as he had
another wife. Thereupon the father
produced revolver, aid gave The
stranger his choice, death or o we'd.
ding. Th" Knot was tied, ard now 1T
turns out the Kentucl'ian has in fact
another vie. Ue hes settled the
question by rrn.ins away from both.