The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-07-25
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An official bulletin announces in
Berlin that Emperor Williams 3
wounds are now healed.
Newspapers are used in many
public schools of the West instead
of books for reading lessons.
The first passenger over the first
railroad in the world, W. N. Found,
OF Birkenhead, England, has just
died.
Gas from a cargo of decomposed
fruit killed two sailors who de-
scended into the lower hold of a
vessel at Quebec.
In Massachusetts, large numbers
of birds are found dead in potato
fields, killed by Paris green scat
tered for the destruction of potato
bugs. It{t' "a,
Neal Dow's latest iitterance on
the liquor traffic: "B1t for it thole
would be no vagabonds, no tramps,
no dangerous classes in the country.
A young woman in Sacramento
has become raving maniac through
a single years use of arsenic for
the Improvement Of her complexion.
Old Marshal Baraguey d'Hilliers
met death like q soldier and a
Frenchman, his last act being to
send cards with up. p. c." to all
his acquaintances.
Senator Sargent, of California, is
said to have been the only member
Of the Senate that attended every
days session from December to
June. a.Si u .'Iy. .'.
Arthur Roper, a Snowman, who
eloped with Alice Brown, a Wor-
cester girl, has been sent to Jail
for three months, and the girl to al
industrial school.
Milan has had another cremation,
the body of Mmo. Adelaide Olivier
of Paris having been reduced to
fine ashes in three and three quar-
ter hours, and returned to her
native city in an urn. ..
Chicago claims a population of
nearly $4,000, and Bishop Cheney,
in discussing charch failures to
reach the masses, declared that
only $4,000 were habitual worship.
pers in sapctuaries. jD
General Grant is friend of
mino, and I am his friend and ho
can rely upon my support, if
nominated for Il q third term," is
what ex Secretary Robson. told a
reporter. !
On the voyage to Liberia of the
Azor, with colored emiyrants,
bird took refuge on board and was
fed and petted. It was considered
a good omen until the captains
black cat ate it, whereupon the cat
was considered bad omen. ~
Some Of the smaller New Eng
land colleges are still living beyond
their means. Dartmouth is before
the State Legislature with m ap.
poal for aid, and Williams closes
the year with an income of $4,000
to meet expenses of $51, 900.
If the Indian Sepoys do not see
their Empress they can console
themselves with the reflection that
she sent her first cousin, the Gem
era] Commanding in Chief, to Malta
to review them. There has been
no Commander~in- Chief in En- gland
since Wellington.
A London weekly gives this un-
gracious opinion Of the beautiful
Mre. Langtry: ''She is very hand
some; but SHE always reminds me
Of Jersey COW, with her creamy
face and great black eyes If she
had only black nose the resem-
blance would be complete.
Loud, the Boston pitcher, has
been saving money for years past,
and next fall will attend the Holy
Cross College, at Worcester, Mass,
to begin thorough collegiate
course. Little pitchers have not
always long ears.
The Washington Post, apropos
Of the fact that the huckieberrv
crop of Massachusetts, is reported
to be failure, Eemarks that it Is,