The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-11-21

BcfOrc this years political contests
are fairly over those Of 1879 have been
begun. The Kentucky Democratic
State Convention has been called to
meet at Louisville, May /, 1879.
Twcnty-siX million dollars is the
amount charged against Chamberlain.
At least the ring Of which he was the
head centre piled up that amount of
debt, and left nothing to show for it.
Mrs. Lula Lang, a Nashville widow,
saw her lover walking with another
woman, borrowed his watch and
paWncd it to buy a pistol with which
to shoot him, and not finding him shot
herself.
Two interesting burglars have been
arrested at Adelaide, Australia, who
dlstrlbutcd tracts on Sunday in order
to become acquainted with tho prcmis-
es they intended to work, and whom
captured ate up E3o0 in $50 notes.
1t is calculated that tho Democrats
have elected to the Fortv-siXth Con-
gress eighty of the members of the
present Congress, while about seventy
Republicans of the Forty-tlfth Con-
gress will hold seats in the Forty-sixth
George Il. Holland was in his usual
place on last Sunday rs superintendent
OF the Baptist Sunday school, in Da-
vcnport, Iowa, and OH Monday he was
arrested on a charge of stculin" 81 500
from the railroad company that en-
ploycd him as agent. ,....s :.
The Crown Princess of Germany
about to send her son on a yoyarc
round tho world, and she has packed
with her own hands each one of his
trunks, besides selecting his library,
which contains, among other things,
Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott.
The New York Witness, "the only
religious daily" proposes that the best
clement OF both parties unite to elect
Bayaru III 1880 on platform devoted
TO ian unaltcrablc gold Standard" and
several other things not necessary to
mention.
There were one hundred and eight
murders last year in Switzerland, in q
population Of less than 5000. 900.
Capital punishment has been abolished
III that country. There were five hun
dred and nincty-scvcn suicides, a
greater proportion than obtains in anv
other European country.
Alfred Wolstcnholmc, Sheffield
Quaker, has been severely ccnsured bv
coroncr's jury for ncglecting to puil
a child out ola shallow brook in which
1t was drowned. Instead of doing so
ne went off to Il house at some distance
for aid, declaring that he "did not wish
to spoil his trousers" =:
a Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press tclcgrauhs that
Blaine is looming up RAPIDLY as tho Re-
publican candidate in 1880. Uc sovs
many Republicans who opposed the
Senator's nomination at Cincinnati
now confess their mistake and tlccIarn
their purpose to work for him in
1880. -"
Judge Abbott, recently Democratic
candidate for governor Of Massachu-
Sctts, expresses the opinion that fully
Zo,oOo Democrats voted for Talbot,
the Republican candidate, as the surcst
means OF defeating General Butler.
lie rldicules the idea that there was
mtimldatlon in the election, as assert
ed by Butler.
The sentence passed upon Edwin G.
hayden, convicted at Montpelier, VT,
OF the murder Of his wife, is indeed
fearful one. lie is to endure a servi.
tude Of nearly two years at hard labor
IN the pcnitcntiary, then three months
IN solitary confinement, after which
nc is to be hung on the first FRIDAY
AFTER after the first Tuesday in January,
1881.
The business of robbing graves has
Dcen carried to such an extent i'm Ohio
as TO become public disgrace and to
call Tor some vigorous preventive
OF course, tho crime ought
to DC severely punished, but beyond
thls ONO would find it well to remove
somo of the temptations to bodv-
by taking the provision Of
subjects under the protcc-
ton and regulation Of the law.
= a. Washington correspondent of the
SSprlnighcld (Mass.) Rcpu6Iicom tells
now the managers of tic 1880 camnoion |
VII commence the Grant programme:
"EXactiy at the proper moment he viii
Probahiy arrive at San Francisco. Ho
VIII duly receive q splendid ovation.
ana ne Will then proceed to receiyo
oVations all along the route across the
continent, winding up with Philadel-
phla's eager ovation at the last. On
the heels of this last triumphant reccn.
ton will follow the Republican nom;-
mating convention" -'.... ."l.7l
~: c. Wilson and Haley Jefferson
OF PIttsylvania county, Va. who Ind
previously had q difficulty, met in tho
pnbic road last Thursday, when vii.
son drew pistol and tircd throo +;,,,n, |