The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-18
NEWS OF. THE DAY.

Woodruff and Clailin arc going
to lecture in London.
The Bank Of England had only
two dcpositors with larger credits
than Brigham Young.
Two representatives of tho italian
press are supposed to have been
killed in tho lato combats between
tho Turks and tho Russian insur.-
gents.
Dom Pedro has completed his
tour of Europe, and is now ut
Lisbon, whence he will soon embark
on his return to Brill.
At Opalika, Ala, on Friday morn
ing, Ernest Doughty, aged thirteen
years, was run ovor by railway
train, and his head and body were
separated by the wheels.
Rev. Thos. j. Mooney, vol
known Catholic priest, of New York,
and former chaplain of the Goth
Regiment, died ON Friday, from
injuries received by falling from hrs
carriage on the 11th instant.
Mayor Parsons has dccampcd
from Burlington, Iowa. There is 4
heavy deficit in tho school fund.
The Merchants National Bank loses
fifty thousand dollars, and there are
other Victims.
The commissioners Of the Freed
mans Bank have funds. to, pay a
ldividend of ten per cent, and sug
! gost an organized movement to
induce Congress to authorize the
purchase Of certain property to
enable them to pay twenty per cent.
A colonization convention of four
or five thousand colorcd people was
lately held in Corinth, Miss. The
African scheme was not favored.
but Now Mexico, Arizona. and
northern Texas were considered.
At q meeting of the Anglican
Synod, at Montreal, Il motion en-
powcrinG the clcrgy to use at their
discretion certain prayers taken
from the prayer book Of the Amcri-
can Church was discussed and
finally voted down.
; The third boat belonging to- the
slip Forest, which collided with the
. ship Icaletnchc in the English
Channel, has washed ashore All
hope Of any more survivors is, now
\, Abandoned
There are further cases Of in
. timidation by tho striking miners
, reported in Pennsylvania. All
2tttfmgg}}if1 gg}i1KlHg II cHft mincrs i2e coprDtse
The operators announce that
nothing further will be done by
them to urge resumption.
, The Boston and Albany car shops
were burned on Thursday night.
Cause Unknown. Fifteen freight
cars and four locomotives were
burned, Loss, $4,000 to 500, 900.
Three hundred men arc out of en-
ploymcnt, fifty Of whom lose their
chests Of tools.
, In the first days shooting for the
Centennial trophy, at Crccdmoor,
the Americans led at every range,
closing 26 points ahead. The grand
totals arc: Americans 3,38I; British
3,242. The Americans win by 92
points This closes the intcrna-
tional match.
a son Of the late Hon. John Y
Mason, of Virginia, is a captain in
the Trench army. At thirteen
years of age he was the bearer of
dispatches from Napoleon's Court
to the Confederate Government, and
subsequently served on General
llampton's staff during tho civil
war.
A dispatch was received in Angus.
ta on Friday from Now York, am
nouncing the sudden death of Wm.
Hope Hull, Of the former city. Mr..
Hull was one of tho Oldest and most
prominent lawyers in Georgia. 1t
is thought by some that he was
poisoned, and by others that he
died Of apoplcxy.
1t IS transpil ing that all the
Cabinet speeches made in New
England were set, and Keys fellow
Cabinet officers, as well as the
PRESIDENT, arc not disposed to
all CIV him to palm off his uttcrancos,
aS Jokes frhn pinku;.1,;o,, ,o,>,a