The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-26
BRIC-A-BRAC.

President Mac Mahon reJolces IN
his eighth Cabinet. Bring i'll an
othor horse!
Some Southern editors complain
that tho President is not ridding
the Offices of that ''alien element"
Pho Mono is said to be the only
man in the tide of time who can
boast of an cpisoopate Of fifty years
duration.
The knowing ones say that if
Postmaster General Key should re-
sign, his place you'd be filled by a
Republican.
Ladies now array themselves in
bunting. They are st ,rs, and they
wear the stripes Oh their stock
ings
-Four and half yards of cashmere
will make q woman Il dress. But it
takes eleven and half yards to
build the pocket.
Tho two Bourbon Prctendcrs,
Don Carlos, Of Spain, and Count de
Chambord, of France, arc said to
have formed an alliance.
1t is rumored that Comm odore
Vanderbilt's young widow will soon
marry Il Virginia physician who was
hor first lovo. She will bring him
s irsat dowry.
Tho bishops Of the Reformed
Episcopal church arc to be bishops
ut large, instead Of being limitol to
particular diocese, us in the Prot
cstant Episcopal Church.
The Phrc,,oiogicm Jouwm ad-
viscs young men to be guided by
the shape of the chin in picking M
Il wife. Inattontion to this rule is
probably why - many husbands are
icd by the nU~c.-LONdoM JuIy
Kate Field corrcsp,ndcd from
London with the Xura1d and made
thereby $4,000 per annum. A
woman like that need marry for II
support.
An ''cx-Gencral Of the Confeder>
ate army and mutilated hero Of a
hundred tiGhts,' at New Or,e,ns.
made 500, 900 speculatinw in State
of Louisiana consols. Is General
Hood the happy man?
The Providence Or. I.) Tool
Company are making six hundred
gnnsa day FOR the L urls. andhavo vet
100000 to make before the contract be
completed. Mr.. Peabody, the in,
vcntor of the rifle manufactured.
receive q royalty of three hundred
dollars day.
The New York 7ri1u,.c puts it
thus: ''Ir. Hill, Of Georgia. can
resist gold and silver. He actually
declines an offer of S25.OO0 and
expenses to lecture in Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit /"
1t was $4,000 a week ago. Even
Mr.. Hill would hardly refuse S;25,-
900.
George w. Williams is the name
Of an intelligent colored man Of
Cincinnati. He is now engaged in
the pious task Of calming Wendell
Phillips with soothing syrup and
assuring the God and Morality
saints that Stanley Matthews will
never vote to admit General M.
@. Butler to the Senate.
The change from tho Polish to
the Russian language is TINS dc.
scri bed Where man would have
said "Oischski willski givslti yonski
a punchski in the snootski,' the
poor fellow is: compelled to say,
"Oiskvitch will'itch givivitch youa-
witch a punchvitch in the snooti
vitch."
Alexander of Russia has been
lavishly eulogizcd for freeing the
serfs. But Alesksceyeff, NIusco-
vitc peasant. puts the matter in
another light when he says: We
were given little land tlat was
of no use to us. Evidently we are
still serfs. If we are obliged to ask
for rise of wages we are punished
by banishmcnt to Siberia"
On the Western n. G. r. r.,
near Henrys, there is specimen of
railroad engineering which is both
novel and unique. The track passes
over culyert, and winding around
for one and a~half miles in loops
sh2ro returns to the same culyert