The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-11-30
Miscellaneous News.

Governor Tilden's engagement is
denied.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina is session. .
A large gang Of counterfoiters
have been arrested in Indiana.
Snow fell in Charlotte, North
Carolina, last week.
The wine crop in France is one
third larger than tho vines promised
at tho end of the season.
A party of gentlemen from the
North purpose to start n vinegar
factory at Augusta, Georgia.
Three engines have been disabled
on the Georgia Railroad, since tho
recent engineers strike.
London papers say that Cairo,
Egypt, will be quito a fashionable
resort during tho coming winter.
A solid vein of coal has been
found Oh tho farm of u Mr.. Clark,
in Rockingham county, North
Carolina
The historically famous Old
South Church in Boston has been
converted into u historial museum.
-Four Catholic priests died in
Savannah of yellow fover contracted
while they were nursing the sick,
during the terrible scourgo.
Tampa, Florida, shipped G3,912
oranges i'll one week, and the orange
merchants still do large business
in tho samo direction.
The Georgia State Board of
health intend to meet in Savannah
on the 18th of December, to investi-
gate the cause of the yellow fever.
Hon. Alex H. Stephens has
promptly gone on to Washington to
take his scat. His general hoalth is
Improving, though ho has to walk
on crutchcs owing to rheumatism.
The famous Ferris Nline in
Mccklenbcrg county, North Carroll
na, has bccn sold lately to II. FL.
Crumllsh, of Wilmington, Delaware.
The two bank robbers who con.
tcsscd to having killed Haywood.
the Northticld Bank Cashier, have
been sentenced to Imprisonment for
life.
The epidemic Of yellow fever in
Savannah, Ga, is ut last at an end.
and travellers need no longer fear TO
visit that city. All absontees have
returned, and business is resumed.
BY tho late fearful cyclone in
In dla, one hundred and twenty
thousand people lost their lives.
and an enormous amount of proper
ty was destroyed.
-Four masked men robbed tbo
mail coach ten miles north of Los
Angeles, California, short time
since, stole tho express and moil. and
cut the telegraph wires.
Mr.. Joseph Seymour, an cmplovcc
or tho Augusta. Georgia, factory,
had one Of his thumbs so soyerciv
cut by the machinery in the weay-
lnG-room. that nmputation was
found necessary One of the leud-
or" CT hls arm MAS pulled out fully
eight inches.
Anonymous posters havo been
pun up III Putnam county, Florida,
notifying colorcd Democrats thnt
II they GO not leave the county in
Ten days, they will be compelled to
90 SO: Yet only whito Democrats
practise intimidation
a revolution has broken out in
lower California; Jose Moreno bos
collected a force, declared himself
governor, and seized tho custom
house at Rio Joana. Ho has i'm
prlsoncd Gov. Villagrana and his
secretary, dcposcd the collector in
Office under Eillagrana, and put in q
favorito OF his own.
The curious of Charlotte. North
Carolina, have been gratified by the
sight of two real live Turks, who
breakfastcd there, while on q Journey
from New Orleans to New York
Their singular appearance and their
efforts to mako the cook understand
thor wants afforded much amuso-
mcnt.
A white man named Henry
Ictcrskln came to tragic end at
k1ttrells. on tho Raleigh and Cas-
ton Railroad, last week. Being
under tho influence of liquor, he
lmd down and fell asleep on the
kailroad track, and u material train
winch passed by shortly after, ran
over him and cut him to pieces.
In Sacramento, CAL, during q
performance at Mooro's ODera
House the floor gave way, killing
seven and wounding about ono
hundred spectators. The fire alarm
was sounded and in u few moments
the flre department and the police