The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-11-19
NEWS OF TIE DfY.

icIloN StoFlllS ol exceptional severity
for this time Of the year have been
prevailing in the north and northwest
Of England and throughout Scotland.
A. B. Farquhar, president Of the
Pennsylvania Agricultural Works,
writes that the yellow fcvcc epidemic
this year costthc country Sl75 900, 600.
a new lodge Of the knights of Hon
or has been organized in Augusta,
under the name of "Bcnncr Lodge
in honor Of the late Lieutenant II. ii.
Bcnncr, L. S. a.
The homGopathists '''point with
pride" to the success of their methods
in yellow fever practice; only 80 of
their 3,GOOpatients at Ficksburg, Miss,
died, while 94l were lost of ,hc 1867
under allopathic and other treatment
IT. G. Srcrcst who was to be cXccu;-
ed at Marion, y. g., on Friday, for
tho murder Of his wife and step
daughter, has taken an appeal through
counsel, and the execution therefore
did uottakc place.
The Mobile Register ofFridav even
ing, by authCiity OF the board of health,
invites all abScntccS to return, and
states that Mobile is rs safe as any city
in the land, and rumors to the contrary
arc untrue.
The archives Of the State department
show .but T.. l.. Martin, congressman
elect from Delaware, was pardoncd by
President Johnson, and thereby re-
! lirvcd from his alleged disability to
claim his seat for having aided the
South III the late war.
From careful estimate Of the
moneys collected in the North and
West for the benefit ofthr yellow fever
sufferers ofthc South, it appears that
the total amount was : ,32O, 900. The
amounts forwarded from Liverpool
and other foreign cities aggregate
$50 900.
Some c0lnmOtiOn has been caused in
Paris by the arrest Of twenty eight
persons condemned by default some
six years ago for participating in the
Commune. In one case Il publican
named Finct has remained mnOlcStca
i'm his shop for the last seven years,
and was not aware Of his having been
prosecuted.
Edison has ceased his experiments
on the New York Metropolitan Elc-
waited Railway, which were intended
to discover some means of dcadcning
the sound, and has severed his c0nncc-
ton with The company. 1t is also re
ported that he has discontinued his
experiments with the electric light in
consequence of i'll health.
The Rev. Dc La Matyr, the Green
back congressman elect from the
General Indiana district, is in Washing
ton preaching the Gospel. lie has an
nnouneed to EeP2r$;gE, 2f,he l!s, RtHW hsis ei
the line is drawn On hard and sot,
money.
In Now York, on Friday, Lawrence
Riley, q labo:cr, aged sixty years, vino
occupied a room with his wife, aycd
'o'ty-llVe, Ill Il paroXySm Of Jealous
rage seized an axe and lrlcl her 70 the
floor. believing her dead, he cut his
own throat with Il razor. Mrs. Rjley's
injdricsa,c not fatal, but the husband
has since died.
Two parties of medical students in
vermont recently went out alter the
same corpse. The first to arrive on
the ground alnbushcd themselves and
lct the second party cNhumc The corpse.
then rushed upon them with wild
shouts or "body snatchcrs" and car
rest them - and when their rivals had
He'd carried of the coypus dc'icti at
their leisure.
Since the ghouls stole A. IT. Stew
arts remains, a strict watch is kent
over the vault in which the BODY of
Commodore Vanderbilt rcposcs. The
vault is believed TO be secure. There
are two iron doors to ii through which
person must pass, and these doors
are secured by heavy bolts, locks and
chains. William II. Vanderbilt has
had the coffin in which the remains of|
the Commodore are incloscd walled in
with mason work.
n fire on Thursday morning broke
out III the grocery store orc. E. Adams
on Atlantic Avenue, opposite thc
United States Hotel in Atlantic civ
destroyed that building, E. $. Reeds |
drug store and residence, Lewis Reeds
dwelling and stationery store, !. II
Skinncr's boot and shoe store and thc
residence of James Reed The loss is
from $4,000 to $5O,OOO Edward S,
Taylor, Il printer, fell dead from cx-
citcmcn.
a special from Bradford, Pa, saws
that the recent fire burned ont tivc
acres of the town. The Thcairo
tomiquc, the Riddle House and
ten buildings south OF the Thcatrrc
Comiquc were DESTROYED. Soon of3nr
nine o'clock, Thursday niDht, fhc
Oleau Fire Department arrived. md
shortly alter ten o'clock the cXprcss
oliicc, ten buildings on Davis Street
NORTH OF the Riddle House. thc RovorI