The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-04
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trait, "My last picture,
Lawrence Barrctt, the actor,
began life as d printer. Poor
Edwin Adams was originally a car
penter.
Mr.. 7. N. Gloucester, O. wealthy
colored man Of Now York, has been
denied admission to medical lectures
in Bellevue College.
Vanderbilt gave his daughter a
$50,000 diamond necklace. Norfolk
gave his brido u pearl necklace once
worn by Mary Queen of Scots.
Thomns Jefferson thought toma~
toes, which he brought to America,
were fit only tor pigs, and yet Mr..
Tilden wishes us to love Jefferson.
1T has been discovered that the
higher up you 90 tho further you
can soc down into u body Of water.
Victims Of tho last steamboat OK
plosion will please write out their
observations.
A newspaper thus heads the re-
port Of iiro: "Fcast of tho Fire
Fiend-The Forl1ed~Tongucd De-
mon Licls with its L,rid Breath
Lumber Pilo AFRO tho Scenes of
Boston and Chicago to be Repeat,
ed d?-Loss, $150.'
"NTy wife" remarks one Ecncdict
to nnuthcr, "has just tho lovo;iost
he'd Of hair YOU ever saw. When
she lots it down it reaches to her
waist" "That's nothin.;," replied
tho other; "Whcn my wife let's hers
down it falls to the door
The Western papers learn that
tho laSo MI. Coolbnugh, WHO com-
mil ted suicide in Chicago lass week,
was to have been Mr. 'riilcn's
secretary Of tho treasury. Marked
copies of these papers ought 50 be
sent to Mr.. Tilden, 80 that he can
know what he intended to do.
On Saturday Tho President
signed 4 joint resolution of Con-
gross, the first since his accession
to office. The gold pen with which
he did this little deed was present.
cd to Representative Rainoy, Of
South Carolina, and the country is
still safo.
Mr. John II. Ingram, the biog-
rapher Of Poe, is said to haro
secured possession Of hitherto
unknown romance by Poe, entitled
''Tho Journal Of Julius Rodman."
1t is descriptive Of an imaginary
Journey across tho Rocky Noun
tains.
Married women arc contrary.
The colder the night is tho oftcner
they make the old man get up to look
for burglars. And that reminds us
that when Il man is prowling
around tho house in his bare teet,
half asleep, and carrying a lamp, it
would not DO hcrculean job for an
ablo-bodied cracksman to knock
him into the middle of next week.
Every young man who is so fat
ho can't tic his own necktio, md
whose face is as round and about
rs largo as dinner plate, wears q
helmet hat, and the burlosque sits
on the top of his head like a grape
on an orange. The spectacle of a
fat man in helmet hat is what
makes mon murderers.
While Senator Maxey, of Texas,
was speaking in tho Senate, on
Wednesday, Senator Davis, of
Illinois, who wants to hear every
thing that is said and see everything
that is done, loft his own seat to
got nearor the Texan. Forgetting
himself, he took the risk of sitting
down in one of the ordinary Senate
chairs. The result was That the
cane seating, as we'll rs the legs, OF
the chair gave way, and the next
moment four hundred pounds OF
solid Senatorial tissue were gently
dumped on tho floor.
They wont let Governor Hampton
alone. A Louisville correspondent
says it is reported that he is soor
to marry q beautiful wealthy widow
prominent as one Of tho lenders O.
Louisville society. She has two
beautiful daughters, the older O
whom, lovely rs dream, made hol
debut last winter, and is nov
LOuisyilles bripht partioulor he}]e