The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-01-15
NEWS or THE DAY.

Congress re assembled on the
10th inst.
A number of vessels went ashore
during the gale on the New England
coast on Thursday night.
The people of California are to
vote at thoir next general election
upon tho question Of con tinuing or
prohibiting Chinese immigration.
On receiving tho news of tho
death Of Victor Emanuel, the Pope
said: 81 expected it, and I had par~
doned him. Let us now pray for
the repose Of his soul"
The Dizzy Blondes, burlesque
company which appeared somo
weeks ago in Charleston, S. c., were
recently marched from Woods
Theatre, CINCINNATI, to jail.
At Nashville on Friday meeting,
with fifty counties of Tennessee rep>
resented, adopted resolution to
memorabilia Congress to reduce tho
whiskey tax to fifty cents per gallon.
The tobacco dealers Of New Or
leans hold meeting on Thursday
and adopted q memorial to Congress
asking reduction Of tho tobacco
tax anda drawback on the tax al.
ready paid.
Three forged drafts, for $1,000
| each, OF tho First National Bank of
Charleston, S. c., were discovered
on Thursday ut tho National Park
Bank in New York, where they had
been sent by the Bank Of the Re-
public.
Tho board Of managers of tho
Robert e. Leo Monument Associa-
ton have issued an address asking
tho people Of the South to mako q
special effort on the 10Th of january,
the anniversary of General Lees
death, to raise funds for the erec-
on Of the memorial.
John Z. Henry, Curran & Co., of
New York, dealers in patent medi..
clnes, have suspended. The con-
Germ is ono Of the largest patent
medicine firms in this country, and
in the Mercantile Agency books it
was marked rs having q capital of
S500,000 to S750,000.
A disastrous fire occurred at
Laluinburg, Richmond county,
North Carolina, on last Wednesday
morning. Ten ! stores and the
post-cflice were destroyed. The
total loss is between $4,000 and
$4,000, with but little insurance.
The fire is thought to have been of
incendiary origin.
Robert Bonner has recently pur-
chased tho young trotting mare
Maud Macy, which is said to be the
very best ono that ever left Ken
tucky. The price paid WAS S1O,-
600. Maud Macy is now six years
old, chesnut in color, 15a hands high,
and has record as n tive-year old
Of 2.274.
Tho outspoken uttcrances of
Governor Holiday, Of Virginia, on
the question of the public debt,
leads the Richmond Dispatch to
say that it is mere hypocrisy to say
that Virginia cannot pay her debt.
1t adds that she is amongst the
least taxed of tho States, and that
her means and ability ore constants
ly increG sing.
Wm. S, Pontin, of Now York, q
young man, only twcnty-four years
Of ago, who was to be married to q
very beautiful young lady last We'd
nesday night, committed suicide
that afternoon by shooting himself.
No cause could be learned other
than that Pontin had invited his,
father to his wedding, and the
latter had refused to attend.
K is now an acknowledged fact that
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. It has
been cured in very great number
of cases (some of them apparently
desperate ones) by Schenck's Pul>
monic Syrup alone, and in others
by the samo medicine in connection
with Schencks Sea Weed Tonic and
Mandrake Pills, one or both accord
ing to the requirements of the case.
The old supposition that "Con.
sumption is incurable," for many
years deferred Physicians from at
tempting to find remedy for that
disease, and patients afflicted with
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