The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-22
NE VS. or THE DAY.

Turkey desires peace but says
sho is not whipped yet.
Bixby & Co., of blacking fame,
havo failed. People aro too poor to
shine their boots nowadays.
Tho British Parliament will meot
in January, instead of in February,
owing to possible complications
growing out of tho Turkish war.
j. II. Farley, Dcmocrat, has been
elected United Statos Senator, from
California, to succeed Sargent, Re>
publican. He takes his seat in 1879.
A poor fellow, named Charles
Hoffman, was shot in New York,
recently, while stealing horso~rad-
ish, which ho intended to sell to
save his family from starvation.
The Georgia lawyers arc divided
in opinion as to tho effect of the
constitutional homestead Just adopt
ed in abrogating the homestead laws
already existing.
The death of Bishop Marvin, of
tho Methodist Episcopal; Church
South, will require tho election of
three Bishops by tho General Con-
ference, which meets at Atlanta, Ga.,
in May.
While Lord Derby and another
gentleman wore driving at Turn,
bridge Wells, England, on Sunday,
the horses ran away, and the coach
man was instantly killed, but Lord
Derby and his companion escaped
with slight shaking.
The governor OF Georgia has de-
tcrmined not to call tho Legislature
together, and as the now constitr.-
ton makes no provision for q vacan-
cy ot casioned by the death or resig-
nation Of tho governor. uncasiness
is felt rs to what will happen in such
Il contingency.
The Administration at Washing-
ton has taken into serious consid~
Grafton the grievances Of tho Chinese
III California. Should necessity dc.
nand it, the naval forces at San
Francisco will assist the local all
thoritics in preventing u recurrence
of serious trouble.
The twelve years feud botwoen
Senators Blaine and Conkling end
cd with the formers generosity to-
ward tho latter in the Senate, tho
other day, in his speech against the
Presidents New York nominations.
Mr.. Conkling has buried tho hatch-
ct. "Anything to beat Hayes"
The New York city chamberlain
has received from the State attorr ey
general ch !cl1 for SILL, 9S2 l8
bong amounts received from Peter
B. Sweeney and Albert A. Wood
ward, in settlement of suits against
them to recover part of the money
stolen by tho Tweed Ring.
Two hundred girls and boys en-
ployed in tho cigar manufactures in
New York, where the cigarmakcrs
arc on strike, were maltreatod on
Sunday by a gang of strikers. The
police went to their assistance, and
The assailants fled. The girls and
boys wcro badly beaten.
The House Commi ttce on Indian
Affairs has substantial y agreed to
report bill, on tho roassombling of
Congress, allowing five Indian tribes
in the Indian Territory to be repre-
scntcd by a delegate in the House.
The business before Congress re.
J ting to the interests Of the Indian
Territory, i'll the opinion of the subs
committee to whom tho subject was
re ferl ed, is such as to make it advi-
sable that tho Indian tribes should
have official representation. AS it
is, they can only be heard by attor-
neys, and the custom has grown of
calling eve:.y effort of their friends
Il steal or q job. The committee
therefore concludes that Justice to
tho Territory as we'll as the credit
OF Congress demands tho admission
OF an Indian doleg ate.