The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-11-02
Miscellaneous.

killed in McDuific, Ga.
Worry rough weather has been
lately experienced ut sea.
The Government has appointed q
Monetary Commission.
A $4,000 incondiary fire near
Washington, ID. c., is reported.
Attorney General Taft has gone co
Philadelphia, to rcmain several days
Abram S. Hewitt, Of New York,
has been rcnominatod for Congress.
The Car and tho Sultan nre
gradually approaching an under
standing.
A Chicago Judge, accused of parti-
san rulings, has bccn invited to rc.
sign.
Tho Sultan will be interviewed
again next Saturday by tho Russian
minister.
Races arc in full blast ut New
Market, Pamlico, Driving Park and
Baltimore.
German ml Austrian newspapers
arc having a var Of words upon the
political situation.
A now York scounircl, who con
fosseu an attompt to rape came worry
noar being lynchou few days ago
All tho hostile Indians at the
agency have given up their nrmsunl
surrendered their ponies.
Tho students of tho University
of Posth have l,cen Forbidden to hold
~ torch-light procession.
On the general result Tildcn
stands Is ahead, and on Now York
State 100 ahead ut Morisscya pools
A German miacr named Knittcll
diod last week of starvation ut Fond
du Lac, Mich. Tic left S5O,O0O.
During the late galo ut Key West.
tho wind attained Il velocity of Mn,
ty miles an hour.
A Covington, Ct;:., man went home
sober Oh election day for the first
aime in tive years. His family have
not recovered from the shock yet.
Corn is worth fifty cents IL buShcl,
and apples from twenty-five to fifty
cents u bushcl, in Ashcvillc, n. G.
A nugget Of gold was lately found
i'll Montgomery county, n. c.,
weighing forty-cight anu Il half pen
nywciyhts.
At the municipal election in Balti
more on the 24th inst, the: Demo
Gratis elected councilncn in cishtocn
out Of twenty wards.
The Sccrccrry of War has com
mcnccd signing the awards Of the
Southern Claims Commission. About
two hundred have been signed.
The operative cotton spinncrs
have decided to Withdraw their
notices, and the labor dispute in
north and north eastern Lancashire
is practically y ended.
The second annual fair Of the Ala
bama State Changers was opened on
tho 2ith inst. The list Of entries is
quite large, AMI tic stock display
very fine.
Charles Condit, II brooklyn lawyer.
was found dead in his room the
other day, from IN overdose Of
chloral
Two car loads Of cotton bcIcng-
ing to ~. II. Slocumb. of Favcti,-
VILE, n. g., were burned lately ON
tho Scaboaru and Roanoke Railroad.
The Columbus, Ga, manufactures
consume about thirty-hvc bales Of
cotton per day, or nearly eleven
thousand in year.
An authorized agent of the Eng
llsh Good Tcmplars will soon sail for
the Southern States for the purpose
OF organizing lodges Of tho order
among the colorcd people.
sazEllis, paying teller of Nationalpmk k
a. Bank, New York, is u tlcfnul;cr in
the sum of $GG,U1O and Nugurt,
l8cx-treasurcr OF tho Citizens Loan
3Ss Association Of Newark. n. j., in the
sum of$12,000
A collision occurred lately ON the
New York Midland Railway. bv
which two coachcs were tclcScopcd
and thrown down an cmbankmcnt.
One man was killed, and fifteen
othors were wounded.
"A telegram was received at the
war department few days ago.
stating that Sitting Bull desired
peace. y reply was semitic the effect
that peace could be obtained only
through the surrender of Sitting
Bull, who will be trerted as PRISON
er or war, and directing tho agent
ut Fort Peek, Montana, to issue no
rations until such surrender
Drank said an affrctionatc
mother the other day to promis-
i ing boy, 'if You don't stop smoking
and reading SO much, You will gci
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