The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-10-19
Mis- ceIlancous.

III NoW 4oIk Ill alQ Oh tho Savannah
sufferers.
1t is rumorcd that cx-Sultan
Murad is dead.
There was considerable frost in
Charlotte, N. c., on the 11th.
Two masked men in Knoxville,
Iowa, overpowercd the county treas
urer, and obtained $4,000.
The cotton yield in Georgia is re-
ported rs about the samo as that
of last year.
Cursing church in Mount
Vornon, Ky, reduced the Radical
vote i'll that State by one.
Tho total cost of boarding Gen.
Babcocks dog, paid by the U. S.
Treasurer, has been $500 to date.
Cardinal Manning's Solicitor has
run away with $15O,O0O, which he
had ms trustee for Catholic charities
and associations Tho Cardinal
himself loses $4,000.
The most important single nilu-
cncc in the late elections in Indiana
and Ohio was that Of the Israclitcs
who almost unanimously voted
the Democratic ticket.
In the United States District
Court ut Boston, notice has been
given thut the suit Of the Govern
mcnt against the Union Pacific Rail
road to compel the payment of five
per cent. Of tho net earnings will
be brought on for trial
The heaviest run Of cotton ever
known over the seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad took place last
week, the arrivals in New York
averaging $500 bales per pay.
Donations for the benefit of Mrs.
Haywood, the widow Of the bank
cashier killed by robbers at North
field, have been received ut the First
National Bank Of st. Paul to the
amount Of $11,00O.
The steamer Southern Belle, was
burned two miles above Plaqucmine,
on the Mississippi, on the 10th.
Ihc boat and cargo were totally de-
stroycd, and several lives were lost.
A dispatch has been received from
Brunswick, Ga, saying that the
epidemic OF yellow fcvor at that
pi"ce m = be considered at nm end
/ a. lAr"rt set Of scales in the
world has been built at Ashley, Pa.
The platform is $50 feet lonr, Of
tho width Of n Railroad track and
tho scales can weigh one hundred
tons. The cost was $4,000
Two contlagrations occurred in
Mobile, Ala, on the night of the 9th.
Twcnty-ono buildings were DESTROY
oil. The loss is estimated at S2i,-
600, on which was $4,000 insur-
nnce, mostly in local companies.
The fires are supposed to have been
the work Of an inccndiary.
\ tiro bollc out latolynt Laubcr'src
taurant, which occupied the extreme
eastern end Of the Centcnninl
grounds. Tho fro spread with
great rapidity, and all thatwas saved
was the nnchroomand the drinking
bar. The building cost S52. 900. and
the loss is estimated ut half TINT
amount.
The Sublime Porte has t,rlily
consented to al armistico with tic
Scrvian insurgents, for q period Of
six months. This suspension of
hostilitics has been unwillinylv
forced from the Turkish govern.
mcnt by the intervention Of foreign
powers.
The Cincinnati gas companies havo
reduced the price Of gas to S1.2O
per thousand feet, and in Harris
burg, Pa, thny have reduced the
price from $500 to $3.50 per thoua-
and feet. Everywhere is heard
the cry for "chcap gas" and the
companies arc gradually yielding to
the demand.
At Beaver, Utah, John ID. Lee has
been sentenced to death for pnrtici-
patton i'll the Mountain Moadows
massacre, which took place nineteen
years ago The prisoner having the
right under the laws of tho Terri
tory to choose tho mode of cxccu-
ton, selected shooting, and tho
sentence was conformcd thereto.
Gambling has become one of the
most hourishinG industries in
Gotham. Over one million dollars is
said to be employed as capital in
bank faro and othcrgamcs of chance :;
and SO great are tho profits, that
whom " bank becomes, through any
ill-fortunc, "brokc," the gamblers
have less difficulty in raising fresh
capital in Wall street, than u first
class mercantile house in nncgotiatinr
Il note.
The dcfalcations under Grants
administration have 'bccn, by post
masters, S313,371 by marshals,
$2l9,2GO; by collectors of internal
rovenuc. $2,312,5l4 by navy Off
GERS, 1929, POS; by army oilicorr
S1S4,553; by sundry other public
officers, $2G5, 5,713; total dofnlcations
S5.5OO,595.
The dispute between tho cotton
operatives and the masters in Eng
land, regarding tho decision of tho
former to be,,no longer bound by tho
arrangements hithorto rorn1nt;n,.