The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-12-21


Georgia, have lately had their arm
cut off by gins.
The Grand Lodge of Masons TO
the State Of North Carolina is in sea
sion at Raleigh.
A number of cmigrants from Pike
and Troup countios, Georgia, SO
out last week for Texas. II ...-
A gentleman from Georgia has in
vented patent car-couplcr, and has
had an offer of3l5,000 for the paten
right.
Fifty-six settlers, with their luro,
and p:nuteS, have sailed from Maine
and Massachusetts, for Jacksonville
Florida.
Governor Vance made eighty-fiye
speeches during the late canvass in
North Carolina. Ho certainly earned
his reward. - '.,a ..
Belehue g. Co., large aegar doalers
of New York, suspended on tho 18th
inst Their liabilities are estimated
at 100000. ."'" ".' ."N
Tho North Georgia annual Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, is in session ut Spar
ta, Ga, Bishop Pierce presiding.
The latest dispatches from
Europe indicate probability that
the troubles there about Turkey will
receive peaceful solution.
The Mexican embroglio still con-
tinues. Ono Of tho three Presi
dents Of that country, wit his whole
cabinet, was recently captured near
the city of Mexico.
All tho ponds at Charlotte, N. c.,
were frozen over during the late cold
snap. Tho Louisville C'owrier-Jour.
nal says that even tho water is becom-
ing solid South.
A rumor is circulating that by an
arrangement between the city au-
thorities of Now York and 'sBoss"
Tweed, the lattor will be released
from prison.
Gen Joseph +. Johnston, of
Georgia, md Ex-Governor M. L.
Bonham, of South Carolina, have
a ,plied to Congress for removal of
thei political disabilities. ..
A highway robber in New York
Was lately sentenced to twelve yesr,
imprisonment for an exploit hv
which IL h"1 fnlnn;nnsly- ohtaina
twelve dollars. :
Jacksonville, Florida, is ono of the
hardest places known in wi ich to
get o july. Ono hundred talesmen
were examined in n case in Con I
there without getting single juror,
The gin-houso of Mr.. Edward
Poi. in, about four miles from Au-
gusta, Georgia, was destro Ell by
fire last week. Nine bales of cotton
were also consumed. ..
Two gentlemen living noar G.sines-
vile, Gi., are mining for precious
stones, nnar that that city, and have
a.roady succeeded in finding some
so:cnnid specimens ofrubics, garnots
md sapphires.
Atlanta, Ga., WAS ablazo on tho
\ ght of the 1871 inst, with torch
" I5 pro ;ns5 o1s, bonfires anl illu-
ninations, in II nor of Iildcn's cleo
non. Over 10000 visitors were in
The city. "'' II
The Democratic lawyers arc pre-
barring proofs and authorities to
snow that Michigan cast only ten
1otes for Hayes. on account of the
neligibility of Elector EIauckett,
Who was United States commissic n
L when elected 1'"'i
The Congressional committee have
! 'cldt d to investigate both the State
md National elections in Florida. |
lnda oil was made on the Secretary
If State for tho returns, which he
,as furnished
The tobacco crop in Mcdowell
county, N. G., was almost q failure
ast season. Early in the spring,
'ut few farmers could get plants,
md ih the fall u great deal Of what
vas raised, WIS caught by the frost
md almost ruined. .,lD# .G
Prominent Democrats Of Chicago
leld q largely attended meeting in
hat city last week. The speeches
we're mostly Of q pacific nature, but it
vas the general opinion that the
House Of Represents tives must be
n siptained in it's rights at whatever
,ost. a.. Il. a
A Connecticut man named Nichols,
yhile duck-hunting near Jacksonville,
Florida. sent a, load of shot into |
himself, instead of the ducks. He is |
low lodging at Jacksonville, and the |
ducks are flying about, not giving a |
single, thought to the selioua acci-
lent. Il IA y,,.
The report Of the coalition Of the
sottoa crop for November by the
Cotton Exchange embraces twenty
Eonr rfeplies from sixteen ,coun ties In |