The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-02-19
of tho world now know as Constan-

of tho world now know rs Constan-
tinople.
John r. Brown, an cx~lcgislator
Of Davidson county, n. g., while on
spree recently, fell into creek
and was drowned. Tho body was
not found until it was in stato of
putrefaction.
The city of Montgomery, Ala,
pays tramps twenty-five cents u day
for working on the streets. The
discovery has boon made that some
who are not tramps arc willing to
work for that sum.
Capt. NIalcom, r. n, lately sent by
the British government to assist
Egypt in the suppression of the
slave trade in the Rcd Soa, has boon
made u Pasha-the fourth English
Pasha i'll the Egyptian service.
A "Congress of Beauty" is what
cxcites New York now. -Four hun"
dred women arc on exhibition at
one Of tho places of amusement,
and the attraction is fondly an
nounced rs much superior to fox
chase or baby show.
The body of Mrs. Jane Pittman,
of Cincinnati, was conveyed to
Washington, Penn, and cremated
by DR.. Lemoyne, in accordance with
her will. Her husband, Ben Pitt
man, the well known stenographor,
went with her remains.
Tho seventh congress Of tho Nation
al Association for The promotion Of
the interests of the American Trot-
ting Turf, began in Now York ycs-
tcrday. There are 14G tracks en-
rolled as members of the associa-
ton, and the number af Delegates
present Was over sixty.
The remains Of the Indian Chief
TomiclAichi, who was buried in Sa-
vannah in 1888, were disinterroa a
few days since in renewing the
foundation Of an old house that ha d
been built on the sito of his grave
some eighty years ago.
NIr. Isaac L. Barker, of Pittsfeld,
Mass, who had bccu in Jacksonville,
Florida, for about three weeks, and
had not heard from home in that
time, recently became low spirited,
and cut his throat. He loft a wifo
and two children in Pittsfeld.
Two tramps recently robbed Mr..
Bachelor, an old gentleman who
Keeps tho postoffice vt Bellair, near
Augusta, Ga., Of over two hundred
dollars in money, and between three
and four hundred dollars in notes,
postoifice orders, anl other valuable
papers.
The governor Of louisiana is in
favor of licensing gambling houses.
lie has presented a bill to that
effect to the Legislature. His idea
is that games OF chance ought not
to be forbidden, but that Gloatiny
ought to be guarded again"t bv
close official inspection and severe
penalties.
The French artillery has re-
re solved to discard tho bronze field
pieces with which it is armed, and,
like Germany and Russia, to adopt
steel breech~loaders instead. Herr
KrupP, however, will not gain any
additional customers by such stop,
for the French war department is to
mako its own guns.
Tho memorial fund to raise q
monument to Sir Rowland Hill, tho
inventor of the cheap postage sys,.
TEN Of England, already amounts
to more than eight thousand dollars,
which was con tributed by more than
one hundred thousand persons
tho largest number ever given to
any national memorial
William Moul, colorcd. who had
been porter in dry goods store in
Savannah for eleven years, was re
Gently caught in the act of CARVING
off goods in boxes which he had
bought from his employer as empty
boxes. Ho had made SO much
money in this way that he was
about to build a house. His real
estate enterprise caused him to bo
suspected.
Mrs. Kate Southern. who mn,