The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-19
BRIC-A-BEAC.

Sheridan's twins have boon bap-
| tised Irene and Louisa.
General Joe Johnston is received
with great enthusiasm in Texas.
The Venus Of Milo having had
her arms restored to her can now
scratch matches.
! Alexander II. Stephens finds his
obituaries a great help in writing
his autobiography.
Ballard Smith has been made
managing editor Of the New York
World and d. \ Curtis city editor.
The Hon. Matt Carpenters law
practice is reported to profit him
sevcnty-ivo thousand dollars a year.
General Pryor is going to deliver
an oration on Patrick Henry before
the Long Island Historical Society.
Camden Po&t:-::Wc cant all be
born in Ohio, but we can cuss
those who are.
Senator Conkling's recent invest
mont in Washington real estate was
! S2G,000.
y Canada woman cut her throat
with chip, and SO had the dead
wood on herself
The Philadelphia Times mourns
because the Mormons did not kill
Elijah Perkins.
The Grand Duke Nicholas saws
he shortly hopes to have bear in
Constantinoplc.
! Secretary Thompson has accepted
an invitation to take part in an old
fashioned ''possum' hunt in Cul-
pepper county, Va, next autumn.
Mr.. William Fl. Vanderbilt re
duccd the rent of ono of his railroad
eatipg-houscs from $4,000 to $1,000
on the lessee promising to give up
his bar.
If you want to find q Newark
policeman strike the first trail of
peanut shells YOU come ACROSS and
! follow it up.
, 1t it rumorcl that Richard Grant
White, the great grammarian and
purist,will become professor in the
College Of New York.
Jonah, We feel constrained to
declare, was certainly the first and
o great success in the emotic line.
-B'.falo L,prcss
Fleming, the dcfaulting o,larter-
master at San Francisco, saws it was
his passion for gambling which
wrought his ruin. He played mum
blctypeg when only seven years
Old.
Gar is pronounced as if it were
spelled Char / jIush,ny:on Star.
Then his wife is nothing more than
a charwoman. f Ci.c;nnaN ca,
zctte.
General Lorine, now of the
Khcdives army, has been decorated
with the orders Of the AIcdjidie and
Osmnnic, which are especially swell.
It he had only stayed al home and
gone into the Centennial business,
he might have got whole lot more.
4 dog with n tin pan attached to
his tail is rarely willing to depend on
the slow process Of evolution for
progress. He will usually take the
middle Of the road and spread him
self, no 1nattcr what happens to
science or to the basin. .-Rouec
Sentinel
That Maryland tramp who stalkcd
into homely looking m~house
and demanded dinner and a suit of
clothes didn't sec the dog. The
dog saw him, however. The doctor
reported twenty eight different bites
and considerable denudation Of the
epidormis.
Another legal decision on ritual is
announced in England. The judicial
committee Of the Privy Council, in
the Ridsdalo appeal, has given iudg,
mcnt cohdomning tho cucharistic
vcstmcnts and tho uso of water
bread, but allowing the eastward
position Of the cclcbrant.
Colonel Pat Donan, who ought to
know from experience what q il1m-
bug is, says that Proctor Knott is q
humbug because he delivered in
I Congress n speech written by
Donan. If Knott has ever spoken
Il