The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-12-07
Miscellaneous News.

Miscellaneous News.
tits estimated that 100000 ele-
phants are annually destroyed for
the sake Of their ivory.
The city of Atlanta, Ga, has just
completed two thirds of milo of
sewers, at a cost Of 100000.
Tho Southerw Home records
cases of maltreatment of colored
Democrats in North Carolina, by
the Radicals. of their own color.
Goorgia's Congressional delega
tion will be composed entirely of
regular Democratic nominees the
Radicals and Independents having
been everywhere beaten.
J. w. Poe, q colored Democrat of
Charlotte, has been appointed q
messenger in the House of Repre-
scntatiyes at Raleigh.
The cotton crop of Egypt
shows d decrease this year us com
pared with last year, of at least
10000 bales.
Gen John Il. Morgan has been
elected as Democratic United
States senator from Alabama.
| Wild ducks are plentiful in Au
gusta, Ga., at prices ranging from
fifty cents to one dollar and qual-
tor pair.
The wonder is that man feeling
rs big MS Gov. Stearns of Florida
does, was not around to save tho
country in the place of George
Washington.
+ The main building Of tho Centcn-
nal Exposition ut Philadelphia has
been purchased by tho International
Exhibition Company, for q quarter
of a million dollars.
The big cotton factory of Atlanta,
Georgia. will commence operations
on Christmas day, md the opening
will be celebrated with duo
festivities.
In the case of the United States
VS.. 3. II. Claflin & Co., for $3.50, 900
tor smuggling, the Supreme Court
of the United States has affirmed the
decree Of the Court below, in favor
of the defendants.
A fire occurred in Chicago, last
week supposed to have been caused
by tho spontaneous combustion of
liquor. -Four blocks were destroyed
and four lives were lost, The VIC
Tins seem to have been suffocated
! Water. P. Shemwell, Radical AS
sistant postmaster at Cedar Keys,
Florida, was lately arrested and
brought to Jacksonville, charged
with stealing thirty dollars from the
mails.
Licut Col. Fred Grant was al
rested in Chicago last week for as
saultng a reporter of the E'neuing
Journal, and was held to bail in the
sum of four hundred dollars. He
denies striking the reporter.
The-post Office at Hutford, North
Carolina, was broken into lately
and robbed of about four hundred
dollars. The valise, which con
tanned the money, was afterwards
found, empty, near the river.
Bummers passing in the wake of
Robinson's Circus, picked up q good
deal of Bank Of Mfeckienberg money,
at Charlotte, N. c., which they in
tend to pass Of rs good iii other
localities.
At the present rapid rate of pro
gress, one parish counted in two
days, the vote of Louisiona for
Presidential Electors will be com
pleted in sufficient time to allow the
people of that State to cast their
vote for President in 1880.
1t is reported that Tweed contem-
templates compromise with the
State authorities. The fact that his
former counsel have not seen Tweed
since his return would seam to give
probability to the statement.
The Governor elect of New York
is hard at work completing his re-
port as Comptroller, and preparing
his first message as Governor. Thee
is great deal of speculation at
Albany about the appointment ts
under the new State Government.
jefferson Davis. cx-President of
the Southern Confederacy, returned
from Liverpool, by the Adriatic.
last week. He went Immediately on
to Vicksburg, where, it is stated, he
had an appointment on the LIST Dec.
inst.
Last week the residence of Mr..
}. K. Wimberly, thirteen miles from
Augusta, Georgia, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. All the furniture
except that in the upper story was
saved through tho efforts of the
Changers, who wero holding q meet
ing in the vicinity.
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