The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-01-29
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.NEWS or THE DAY.

A full-blown pond lily was dis
covered under the cinar leo by n
party of boys skating at North
Sandwich, Mass.
A fire occurred at Columbus, Ga,
last week, destroying six storcs-
the total loss being about twenty
five thousand dollars.
Whitelaw Reid has been unani-
mously reelected editor of the
Tribune by the stockholders, for
another term of five years, ending
january, 1888.
The Mormons aro building a
magnificent temple on the summit Of
a high mountain in NIanti, Utah.
Five hundred men are at work on
it, and it will not be completed for
four years.
A resolution has been adopted by
the Legislature of Massachusetts,
opposing the revival of any Scate
or sectional animosity, rs being
detrimental to the best interests OF
the country.
Judge Whitaker, of New Orleans,
has rendered his decision in the
case of the State as. j. Madison
Wells ct 0l., overruhng the motion to
transfer the case to the United
States Circuit Court.
A penny eating-house, at which
the price of each dish is only one
cent, has been started in Washing
ton, ID. c., by some charitable peo-
pie, and is already IL success,
hundreds of persons having been
fed there on the opening d1y.
Sixty four clergymen Of the Episo
copal Church died during last year,
and Of the forty-thrce whose agos
are given in the CNt&,.cAmu,t's
Almanac, the average age was over
sixty-one years. This is q very
respectable longevity.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company is ordered that hereafter
on all unpaid messages the words
"collect" should be charged for as a
portion Of tho telegram. On San
francisco dispatch this will make n
difference of thirteen cents.
The farm of Frank Leslie, the
publisher, at Saratoga, known as
Interlachen," and containing about
tifty-two acres Of ground, was sold
last week, at Baliston, by r. T..
Hamilton, referee, in foreclosure for
$2,250 to George and Mary Arnold,
the original owners.
Two Russian officers were tried
some time since for selling good
guns as old brass. One was con-
demned to be shot and the other
to be hanged. The former was
easily disposed Of, but no one in
Russla would undertake the execu-
ton of the latter, nnd IN appeal is
now being made in Poland
Tho silver craze in ST. Louis has
extended to the surgeons. One Of
these scientific gentry tho Other day
removed cancerous tongue from
man, and also large part of lis
jawbone. The tongue could not be
replaced, but silver juwbone was
inserted in place Of the diseased
maxillary.
A land slide, eight hundred feet
long, and distributed over three
hundred acres of ground, occurred
last week, at tho steep rocks, near
Rondout, in New York. A little
child was playing near the edge of
the bank when it began to cave.
The child's mothor saw its danger,
seized her little one and narrowly
escaped death. The land is still
moving and will probably fall into
the Hudson River by spring.
Experiments in driving by olec-
tricity have been made in France.
AN electromagnetic is placed be-
meath the coachman's seat, from
which ono wire is carried along tho
reins to the horses bit, and another
to the cropper, so that the whole
length of the spine forms part of an
electric current. A sudden shock.
which the driver can administer at
discretion, will, it is said, arrest tho
most furious runaway.