The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-02-02

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appropriating $4,000 from th,
phosphate royalty to tho feteuta
of the lazai'etto on Morris ISLAND.
MIR. Meetae moved to lay tho bil
on the table. Not agreed to-. f'
Pending n motion to strike ON
the enacting clause Of tho usur,
bill, the hoaeo adjourhods
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" january 10.
The senate was ,os ill session.
HOUSE OF RhpNEsxHTArIvxS.
After tho usual nimbor of!noticoi
otc., Mr., Ferguson introduced T.,
resolution to authorize tho COVER
nor to offer reward Of $500 70,
the apprehension and delivery III
any jSil in South Carolina Of one
Sullivan, who killed j. N. Cox, il
areonvillo, last October. Aftsl
somo discussion Is Vas adopted
Inter i'll tho session, Hayne Intro
! ducod a similar resolution In regard
; to one j. NJ: Powsrs, Who killed
Alick Purse iii Marion.
Leslie introduced tho following
resolution
Whereas, Il copy Of affdavits pur'
porting to have boen made by Alfred
! Aldrich, charging @. J.. I.oslis, e4
land coinmissioher h;ith breach ot
| trust, with fraud,,loit Intent, atid O.
+. Leslie, being now member OF
this house, demands that they dc
tako cogniznnco Of said charge and
Investigate the same therefore, be
/ it
| Resolsctt, That o committee be
appointed, to consist of thrco mem
bets from tho minority side of this
house, and that they do forthwith
investigate said charge, and report
the evidence and facts in regard
thereto, and that the said committee
have power to send for persons and
papors. Adopted, yeas, So nays
ID. Mossrs. Livingston, Wallace and
Johnson were appointed on tho com,
lnittee by tho speaker, who selected
all democrats at Leslie's request.
A bill to amend IN act to divide
the state into five congressional dis
tricts WIS taken up, road, and or.
dered to be engrossod.
The house then wont through the
private calendar. Aftor voting
down an Adjournment until Tues
day, G2 to Q, tho house adjourned
until Monday,
! DELIBERATE SUICIDE or A BRoKxN,
HEARTED ROOSTER. ---Thomas Roach
keeper of q chicken ranch on the
San Jose rond, purchased several
months ago, lot Of hno oropplo.
crowns, which he kept aloof from his
less aristocrotic fowls in a small
ynrd Tho chief of this family wax
Il largo blncll bird of an exceedingly
naughty disposition. Ho WAS mon,
arch of all he surveyed till about
u week since, whom Roach procured
q white bird Of the samo breed anG
turned it into the yard of cropplo
crowns. The two mnlo birds soon
joined in battle, which, aftor gal
liant display of courage by both con
testants, resulted in tho defeat Of
the black cropplc. The ,msuccoss
, flll bird took it's dcfeat sorely tc
heart. In fact, life was no longer
worth possessing, since honor had
departed. Tho bird was seen trying
to kill itself with it's own spurs
Not succeeding, it tried to jam its
head under gnte, but again failed
It flow upon barrel half filled with
rain wutor, and carefully surveying
tho situation, plunged into the cask
Roach ran out and found the bird
with its wings closely folded to its
side, it's hoax open, and apparently
endeavoring to rcpross the natural
struggles of sclf-preservation. II
was estily rescued from it's dan
gerous situation, but it refused tt
take any further interest in life, and
after fow days of mental torture
and physical suffering it died.---.Sa,
Francisco Bulletin.
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Hg KNEW HIM.--"Do you know
the prisoner ut the bar 7" demanded
the judge. "Know him Mt the bar
judge ?Know him at the bar Well
you're jest shoutin'; no is very
peculiar in his way Of drinlin', and
no one as has over seed him ut q
bar would forget as how he poura
out his Ticker in an absont minded
sort O way till tho glass is ready to
run over, then raises 1t even with
his eye, sights through it sighs like
Q grave yard, takes stop BACKYARD
sings out his torbacker, saya, &c
yor, old pard, shuts his oyes, throw,
back bis head and swallows the bit
ters with groan. Know him Mt the
bar ?--yon'ro mighty right, judge
you're mighty right.
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General Sherman, it is intimated
will go to Europe next yenr, where
he conternplates visit to the Pope
1N1,bt will Id Gbor,t,o =, "a soooy5 Il ~, rol