The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-11
BRIC-A-BRAC.

Secretary Evarts will introduce
to Washington society, tho coming
wintor, eleven beautiful daughters.
Mrs. Gaines has offered to com.
promise hor claims with tho Now
Orleans authoritie s.
A man in q Western town has
named q hog Maud because it comes
into the garden so much.
The State of Vir ginia wants tho
scalps of foxes ut tho rate of ono
dollar for gray and dollar and
half for red foxes.
The Peruvian government wants
to borrow $24, 100000 for q few
years, and will secure the lender
with q bank Of guano one hundred
and fifty miles long and mile
wido.
In the pampas of Buenos Ay l'cs
thoro aro 100000 COWS and
100000 horses that have owners,
while thoro are also great numbers
of wild herds.
Steam seems destined to super
sede horses Oh tho street railways
Brooklyn has just adopted tho
dummy engine on ono Of hor street
lines and it seems to give abundant
satisfaction.
Belle Boyd, who figured so OK
tonsively during the war as scout
for the Confederate forces, is now
living at Calvert, Texas, and sup
ports herself and sister by sowing.
Last week twenty-three tramps
were put off tho train between Nash
vile and Chattanooga, distance of
nearly $50 miles. They would got
on at noarly every othor station.
only to bo put off at the next.
Among tho inmates of the Vir-
ginia penitentiary ore man and
woman who stolo one hundred
dollars from the latter's mother
upon which to get married md set
up housekeeping.
Those mon who expect minister
to give them 81, 800 worth of grace
for $500 salary are the. same ones
who domaud local notices from q
newspaper for nothing, and do their
advertising on novelty press" hand
bills.
A pair of lovers woro wandering
in the moonlight. "Ah, love" she
murmured, "why do summer roses
fade?" He was young chemist
and practical, and he replied: "I
suppose it's owing to deficiency
of nutriment in the soil and an in-
sufficiency of oxygen in the atmos-
phero."
The Hasokeye notes the fact that
the boy who docs not know that the
gun is always loaded is nevertheless
always to be found at the safe end
of tho gun. Providence ought to
look after this little arrangement
and reverse it occasionally.
John w. Young, the Prophets
son, is q pleasant, modest appearing
man, who might be taken for
busy, quiet, bank cashier. Ho
dresses plainly, is unostentatious,
but wears heavy watch chain, rs
San Francisco men do.
The voters Of Connecticut, on the
first Monday in October, will pass
upon two proposed constitutional
amondmonts, forbidding extra COM
pensation for public officers of all
kinds, and also prohibiting city or
town aid for railroads.
A worry pretty bonnot of silver
gray straw is hat shaped, projecting
over tho face 1t has broad binds
ing of gray velvet and is lined with
the same. The trimming is of gray
velvet, faille and IN exquisite un-
curled ostrich feather, which sur
rounds the whole.
The death of Ben De Bar, the
actor, afforded q beautiful illustra
tion of simple faith. His wife and
daughter, who were at once at his
bedside, testify that fow minutes
before his death and after he had
ceased to speak, he raised his arm
and pointed his finger upward, a
smile at the same time wreathinp
his face.
During July there were thirty
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