The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-02-26
NEWS or THE Day.

Kentucky has decided to restore
the whipping~post.
Barnum has now accumulated
eighteen elephants for tho next
biggest show on earth.
Gen. Joe Johnston has been ap-
pointed commissioner from Vir- !
ginia to the Paris Exposition.
Eighteen hundred revolutionary
ladies have boon tlogged by order
Of the Russian government.
A bill to abolish actions for
breach Of promise of marriage has
been introduced into the English
House of Commons.
The number of Cinnamon who
arrived at San Francisco in January
was only 22S, while 882 returned to
their native land.
The sheriff of New York is said
to mako q very good thing of keep
ing boarders in Ludlow street jail.
Some of them pay as high as thirty
dollars week.
Somebody recently proposed to
get up subscription for the
parents of the lost Charlie Ross,
but Mr.. Ross declines to counten-
ance the movement.
A tax of ten por cent. is levied in
Paris upon MI tickets taken at
theatres, public balls, music balls,
or any other place of amusement,
for the benefit of the poor.
Wm. N. Stevens, q full-blooded
n egro, is said to be one of the most
eloquent speakers in the Virginia
Senate. He is graduate of two
colleges, and was born slave.
The Hon. Alex. n. Stephens says
he wants to die in harness, and
that, if his health continues reason
ably good, he will he candidate
for election to tho Fortv-sixth
Congress.
The London Standards CORE
spondent at Berlin says that Prince
Bismarck considers Cardinal Pecci's s
election to the Papacy the most
suitable one at the present time.
Col. Forney writes from London
that he does not anticipate q
general European war, because
"Russia is too strong, Turkey too
weak, England too prudent.
The Irishmen of the North are
making preparations on large
scale for the celebration of the CEN
tenary of Ireland's favorite son,
Robert Emmett, on the 4th of
M rch.
vania girl of q lively disposition.
married Mr.: Joseph Stock lust in
Iun. by and-by she married O. Mr.
Loveridge in dead earnest, where
upon Mr.. Stock turned up aud had
Carrie arrested for bigamy. Carrie
is now in jail, and she is trying to
see where the fun is.
The Democratic State Convo.,
ventlon Of Indiana elected ex Gov
ernor Hendricks president noseod
resolutions strongly in favor of tba
retirement Of the National Ronl
notes, 1S and bitterly dcnouncing the
Electoral fraud by which a free m
people were cheated OUT of their
choice. irA Sw'o = '''oii
A deaf mute recently died in
Florida, after gaining the reputo.
ton Of being mOst thorpunh
telegrapher. He made use >of
sounder of his own constrnct;on
and received by placing his hand
over 1t in such a manner that he
could feel distinctly every yibration
of the armature. ~
When an estate is sold in Ireland |
the Irish board of works is emno,s.
cred to advance certain s,,m 10
help a person who has been q tenont
on the estate to purchase his form
the money being first cEsrpe on
tie land sold. Lately, when an
estate was sold in Tyrone, five -sixtha
OF it were bought by former ten
I its v, 0.l 10 80
It's now stated on good author;-
ty that Pope Leo xiii was not
chosen by adoration, but bv tbe
requisite majority Of the votes of
the Conclave that Cardinal Bilio
haYif10 6ec1inad to .IO