The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Secretary Sherman is collecting
gold, preparatory to specie ro-
sumption.
Tho Kansas City (Mo) Times
oilers choice lot of young ladies as
wives, instead of chromos, for new
subscribers.
Miss Mimic Warren, sistor-in law
of Tom Thumb, died somo days
since in Washington. She was ono
OF the smallest dwarfs that ovor
lived.
A Mr.. Bennett has given $4,000
to the Free,lman's Aid Society of
the Northern Methodist church for
the erection Of u college at Green's
boro, n. g.
Major Reno, Of the United States
army, has been suspended for two
years for rudencss to an officers
wife during her husbands absence,
Fifteen thousand Sioux who ro-
Gently surrendered arc becoming
restless again, and fears arc enter
tanned that they will soon resume
their war paint.
The President has ordered con-
tlnuancc Of the prosecutions against
the whisllcy thieves, and they hayo
joined Bhlne and Ben Wade in
dcnunciations Of tho Admiaistra-
ton.
Rev. f. T. Baird, Secretary of the
Presbyterian Publication Committee
IN Richmond, is Il defaultcr in tho
sum of S21 900. He was g North
ern man, but had long resided in
the South. He has been deposed
from the ministerial rank, and in
dlctcd in the Richmond court. His
whereabouts are unknown.
Fred. Douglass delivered lecture
in Baltimore somo nights since, in
which he uttered q TRADE of abuse
against the people of Washington
and now tic Washingtonians are
clamoring for his removal from the
Umtcl States marshalship. Langs-
ton and other leading colorcd men
dcnounce him.
Mexican affairs arc in the condi-
ton which would seem peculiar any.
where else, but natural enough in
our sister republic. Diaz is reported
to have been elected president by
the constitutional method. and &C
ccpted with general approval but
TWO generals arc quietly gotting
ready to "pronomco" in favor Of
cX-Presidcnt Lcrdo.
In accordance with an opinion
given by the attorney general on the
l7th Of April last, in which he holds
that u banking house purchased and
used for banking purposes, either
with part of the authorized capital
OF corporation or association, or
the personal fund of q private bank
er, must be deemed capital employed
IN that business, the commissioner
OF informal revenue has addressed a
circular to collectors, revoking for
NOR orders ON this subject, and
directing assessments, including not
only tho returns for the six months
ending 3lst ult., and all periods
subsequent thereto, but also on all
returns hereafter mado for periods
prior to that ending upon tho day
above named, to bo mado in con-
formity with this opinion of the
attorney general.
A RELIC OF TIE WAn.-Mcssrs.
Cameron, Rarklcy & Co., of Charles
ton, have an interesting relic of tho
"lato unpleasantncss. It is
wrought iron riAcd cannon, tho first
forged in the Southern States. hay
ing been mado by Mr.. Archibald
Cameron in 1861. 1t was bought
and presented, as the inscription on
tho gun will show, to the State of
South Carolina by Plowdcn G. j.
Weston. The gun was effectively
used by Col. Edward Maniga,,lt on
the Waccamaw, i'll the protection of
that section from the raids of Uncle
SANS gun boats. Having been sent
to Columbia subsequently, it was
captured by Sherman's bummers.
1t was bought by the present own
ers at q salo of government property
since the war, and it is their inten,.
tion to present it to the Marion
Artillery as soon as they areroyived,