The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-10-26
miscellaneous.

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Hog cholera prevails in Tennessee.
There was recently q slight earth
quake at Louisville, Ky.
Francis p. Blair thejournalist and
statesman died Oh the 10Th instant.
Hon. James G. Taliferro, Judge of
tho Supreme Court of Louisiana, is
dead.
Not u single Radical ballot was
cast in Miller county, Ga, at the last
election.
The Eastern question seems likely
to resolve itself into a general Eu-
ropean war.
Thieves relieved Montreal pawn
broker of $4,000 worth of diamonds. !
Il few days ago.
Mrs. House, who killed her hrs
bend, the famous divorce "a Hyer, has
been acquitted.
The Georgia Raibc ad is in better
condition tn1n it he's beeen at any
time since the w.sr.
Martin T. upper, the poet and
pmlosophc :, arrived in New York
from .: gland on Thursday.
d. %, Morgan the RepublicaH
can Aiaate for Governor of New York
le d largo stakeholder in Cuba.
The European war excitement has
caused general advance in wheat of
from two to four cents bushel.
The Society Of the Cincinnati late.
ly met at Philadelphia, to commemc-
rate the surrender of Lord Corn
wallis.
The Rudisill mine, near Charlotte.
N. c., is shortly to be re-oponed bv
a company of wealthy gonuemon Of
that city.
The largest single roof in tho
world is shat of the Midland Railw,sA,
station, at st. Pancras, which has a.
span of 24O feet.
The general convention of Univer-
sallsts from all parts of the United
States IS i'll session in the city of
Rochester, New York.
An apparatus has lately boon in
vented, which produces, in the re-
ceivin1 office, fac-simile of the hand
writing of the sender Of telegraphic
message.
There was a scvorc hurricane at
Key West, Florida, on tho 18th inst.
1t IS feared that the steam tug God
frey has been lost with all her crow.
The Northlield bank robbers have
been captured by the citizens of
Dakota, after desperate fight in
which one was killed and three others
were severely wounded
Five cadet midshipmen have latoly
boon dismissed from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, for refusing
to tell the names of those who had
boon hazing the freshmen.
A terrible boiler explosion occur
red at Carbon Hill coal mines in
Vnginit ON tAe 18th of October in
SAINT. Two men were instantly
killed, md ono fatally injured.
TIE Centennial has boon great ;,
hast. ne: of marriages throughouk2
the c,untry. Poople htve rushed
into matrimony 80 they could 70 t.,
tho Centennial Ola webbing tour.
The loss to shipping on the lakes
n Is been particularly severely this
Sc tson. a large number of vessels
htye not been heard from, and are
supposed to be sunk with all on
board.
On Sunday night q fro occurred
in the cotton yard of tho Georgia
IL ,ilroad depot, mt Augusta, in which
"Dout ono hundred and fifty bales
o. cotton we're destroyed. Loss,
$4,000, two-thirds insured.
The government property at
Hnper's Ferry was sold on Thurs
dly last, under u decree of the
United States Court The property
WAS bought in by the governments
agent, with the exception of two
dwelling lots, purchased by citizens
Of the place.
Two men of Atlanta, Ga, had q
little pistol practice in Peachtree
street OF that city, few days ago,
and one OF them succeeded in bring
ing down an outsider very neatly.
This method of settling difficulty
is purely original with Atlanta, but
is likely to meet with great favor
everywhere. :,
Half dozen railroad negrJRsS
undertook to mob Democratic
darkey, ut Greensboro, Ga., last
Saturday night, but ran against tho
sharpest kind of snag, and were
glad to give up tho job as soon as
they found the white people were
taking hand in the fun.
Gen. B. T.. Butler, in his soeoch