The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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EaP Postmaster~ General Key will not
resign.
Congiess will meet on the 18th
of October.
E. p. Stanton, son of the late Secre-
tary of War, died on Saturdy in
lunatic asylum
The people of Georgia seem gem
orally tory woll pleased with the
proposed constitution.
The Tammany and the anti~
Tammany Democrats are getting
ready for big fight this fall.
Alvin Adams the founder of
Adams Express Company, died in
Watertown, Mass, last Satur day
night.
Brigham Young left nj in etcen
wives, seventy three children, and
property of seven millions.
An imperial edict has been issued
prohibiting the smoking of opium in
China, the order to take effect three
years from dato.
The Chicago Iribune says that
Admiral Raphael Semmes, who re-
Gently died, was kind husband, q
fond father and an estimable pirate
It is stated on tho authority of q
Washington dispatch, that General
Longstreet has filed his application
for tho Marshalship of Georgia.
It is estimated that the lato strike
will cost the State of Illinois 5000,
900, which is cheap compared with
what it will cost tho State of Penn
sylyania-$8,00
A negro woman of Waynesboro, Ga,
whilst violently whipping her child
last Tuesday evening, burst
| blood vessel and died soon after
wards.
A London correspondent says
that the Pope has definitely resolved
to restore tho Roman hierarchy in
Scotland Cardinal Manning will
shortly 60 to Rome on confidential
mission in that connection.
The postoffice department has
received letters from number of the
principal newspapers, refusing to
publish advert rtisements at the rates
allowed by law.
The railroad rioters convicted ut
Harrisburg last week have been
sentenced to the county jail for
from two to eight months, and fined
from $40 to $500
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany having been for five years
within six miles of the Cumberland
coal region in Maryland has decided
to extend it's tracks 80 as to COM
pete with the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
Sergeant Bates, of fag~carrying'
notoriety, attempted to commit
suicide the other day. His family
are living at Saybrook, Illinois, in
perfect destitution-the objects of
public charity.
A boy, supposed to be Charlie
Ros was brought last week all the way
from Ohio. The resemblance was
50 great as to puzzle members of the
Ross family, but tho parents did not
identify him as their lost child
The governor of Wyoming Terri
tory has issued a proclamation for
the election of members of the ter
ritorial Legislature, September II.
The women vote in that Territory.
Wendell Phillips has been nomi
mated for governor by the Massachu-
setts greenbackers AS there will
be four other gubernatorial candi-
dates in that State, it will be seen
that Wendell is running for princi-
pie, not for Office.
| Senator Conkling's fri ends vehe-
mently contradict the report of q
Western newspapon that tho next
Republican State convention in New
York, under his dictation, will con-
denim the policy of the administra-
ton and place itself in antagonism
to OWL service reform.
j Justice Bradley, in a letter to the
, editor of the Newark A0uert;sey
denies In toto the charges against
him in connection with the Electoral
Commission. He says he did not
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