The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-03
GENERAL GOSSIP.
A bill forbidding pool selling has
passed. the Now York Senate.

A bill forbidding pool selling has
passed. the New York Senate.
The proclamation convoning tho
extra session of Congress is being
prepared.
Chattanooga is to havo supply
of puro water from cavo in Look
out Mountain.
Flour has taken q tremendous
Jump upward in consequence of tho
European war news.
Two young girls in Cincinnati
hired room in n hotel, and CON-
mitted suicide. No cnusa is assign
ed. .....
Russia has made contract with
q Maine factory for q quarter of O.
million dollars worth of powder.
A very large panther was killed in
the woods near st. Augustine, Floli.
da, few weeks ago.
The PUBLIC printer has notified
the postmaster general that the
appropriation for printing postoffice
blanks Is exhausted.
The Louisiana Commissioners
have made a report to the Presi-
dent They are satisfied with the
result Of their mission.
The population of Maine has de-
creased sixteen thousand since tho
census in 1870. The falling off is
largely due to emigration to the
West.
President Hayes will not hereaftes
announce the appointment of a
postmaster until he forwards the
commission. This is to prevent
trouble from contending aspirants.
With regard to the solicitor of the
treasury the RepudHcau says: "It
seems now that the announcement
OF the change in the solieitorship of
the treasury was o little prema-,
ture"
Mr.. Hayes is glad to know that
Georgia is getting along so we'll.
This is good news for q people who
gave nearly eighty thousand majori-
ty for Tilden.
China furnishes much labor to this,
country, and nine hundred and fifty.
cases of smallpox at one shipment
will give a general tone to the.
market in San Francisco and raise,
the price of healthy vaccine.
The Black Hills were barren
waste two years ago. But they
found gold there; and now it is
proposed to form q new territory of
it called 'Iincoln." The population
is rapidly increasing.
Secretary Thompson, of Hayes
Cabinet, has been interviewed and
states authoritatively that the object
of the Administration is to found o.
Wing Republican party that will
destroy the other two.
A fire last week destroyed q por-
tion of the Office Of the New York
Journal Of Commerce, the files
since 1928, and valuable library.
The loss Of these files is irroparable
as they contained the only complete
chronicle of events in the commer-
cial world for nearly fifty years.
The Louisiana case has been def
nitely settled Nichols supplies the
hungry Legislature out of the con-
tingent fund, and Hayes gives
Packard his pork and beans in tho
Now Orleans Custom House. All is
we'll that ends we'll.
Some time ago, Mr.. Gunn, Of
Georgia, who is o stone cutter,
bought piece of land. On that
land was an immense quantity of
what had been considered granite,
but it proves to be the finest black
or gray marble. The supply is in
exhaustible. .
The State of Georgia has sold the,
labor of tho convicts in it's State
prison for $25,O00 year, which is
at tho rate Of about $11 year for
each convict. Tho State appears to
have been badly swindlod, as the
contractors are now successfully
''sub- b-letting" the convicts at $50 o
year apiece.
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