The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-17
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE.

icich*Ct " !'I)i'p'l lalo collllnlLIecS.
A number Of bills were introduced,
read by title, and properly referred.
The House then proceeded to tho
disposal OF the general orders, and
II number Of bills, Of local or limited
interest, were passed to a third
reading.
Adjourned.
THE THREE BIhLF GOATS GRUEE,
Once on time there were three
billy-Goals, who were to 90 up to
the bill >si1e to make themselves fat,
and ihe namo Of ull the three was
"Gruff.'
On the way up was n bridge over
Il burn they mad to cross and under
the bridge lived great ugly Troll,
with eyes as big us saucers, and u
nose us long us Il poker.
So first of all came the youngest
billy-goat Gruff to cross the brid ye.
"Trip, trap trip trap went the
bridge.
"Wh"'s that tripping over my
bridge 2" roared the Troll.
"Oh ! it is only I, the tiniest billy>
goat Gruf; and I'm going up to the
hill side to mike myself fat" sa1d
the billy goat, with IL snail voice.
"Now, I'm coming to gobblo you
up" said tle Troll.
GOA, no pray don't take ne. I'm
too iJtle, tn It [ tn, sli tae billy
goat !; ''wait bit till the second
billy-goA aruff comes he is lrucA
bigger.
well, be off with you," said tho
TROLL.
a little while after came the SEC
ond billy-goat Gruff to cross tho
bridge.
Tip, trap trip, trap! trip, trap!'
went the bridge.
"Who's that tripping over my
bridge ?" roa,ed the Troll.
''On it's the second billy-eoat
Gluff, and I'm going up to the hill
side to make myself fat," said tho
bllly-goat who hadn't suGG q small
voice.
'Now. Tin coming TO gobblo you
up" said ;he Troll.
"Oh, no ! don't take me, wait a
little till the big biily-goat Gruf1
comes; ne's mucn bigger"
"V.y wall !! b. oi vita you,' said
the Troll.
But just then came the big billy.
goat Gruff.
"rrip, trap trip, trap! trip trapI'
went the bridge, for the big billy
goat WIS so heavy that the bridge
creaked and grouued under him.
"Who's that tramping over my
bridge ?" roal ed the Troll.
Its 1 ! the big billy goat Gruff. Il
said the biily-goat, wlo hal an ugly
hoarse voice of his own.
"Now, I'm going to gobble you
up" roarea "roll.
"Well, come along! I've got two
spears,
And I'll poke your eyeballs out
at your ears;
I've got besides two curling
And I'll crush" you to bits, body
and bones"
That was what the big l,illy-goat
said and so lie few at tho Troll
and poked his eyes out with his
horns, and crushed him to bits, body
and bones, and tossei him out into
the burn, and after that he won't up
to tho hill-sile. There the billy.
goats got SO fit tn y were scarcely
able 10 walk home again and if the
fit hasn't fSlleno If them, why
They're still; fat and So
"o1ip, snap snout,
This tales told out"
PROBABLE MURDER.-At IN early
hour Saturday morning two colored
men were seated near q stove in a
bur room on Assembly street, kept
by eolored men. Harry Alexander,
q journeyman butcher who is woll
known in the neighborhood Of the
market, gave the lie to Cicero Will.
hams, another eolored man, when
the latter seized tho iron bar used
for the purpose Of fastening the
side door, and struck Alexan der
seyeral times over the head, the
last blow fract;,rino n his aku]l A1ov