The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-20
NItU.S or TIE DLIY.

week. Insurance light.
Il. B. Clark, resident Of La-
Grange. ILL.,, was shot and killed by
tramp horse thief on "Wednesday
night.
p. r. Waitt, aged sixty five, bout
his wiic's brains out ut Wyoming,
Mass, on Wednesday night, and
then shot himself three times.
! The signal service station at Capo
May reports that Professor Baxter,
of Harvard College, was drowned on
Friday morning while swimming.
Prof. Chas. E. Dwight, of Wheel.
ing, West Virginia, recently accom-
! plished tho feat of making thirty
nino consecutive bulls-eycs at eight
hundred yards.
The tug o. Henderson exploded
her boiler Thursday night opposite
Staten Island, N. Y. The crew of
six men wore terribly scalded, and
two have since died.
G. Il. g. G. E. Cutters grain cle-
vator and other property wero de-
stroy ed by fire at South Framing
ham, Mass, Thursday. Loss $780,
600. Insurance $4,000.
The United Statos steamer
Spcedwell left tho Portsmouth
Navy Yard,morc fully equipped than
ever before, to resume operations in
the interest Of the fish commission.
Potter McNIanus, II Molly Mcguire,
on trial at Sanbury, Pa, for the
murder Of Coroner Hesscn, ut
Shamokin in December, 1874, was
convicted of murder in tho first
degree.
A resident of Shenandoah county,
Va, paid, last year, $14.75 taxes,
the Is cents being on his property,
and tho $14 on his beloved dogs
The collector could not get him to
pay his capitation tax.
Wilson Childers, Fountain Banks,
Octave Sauvo and Aaron Caster,
negroes, were hanged last week at
Donaldsonvillc, Gu, for the mur
der of Narcisse Arrieux, u white
man aged sixty years, in December,
1876.
Postmastor General Key left
Washington last week on visit to
! Tennessee and through tho Wcst.
After Shcrman's return to Wash
ington he Will probably visit Ohio
to make II speech as an offset to
Thurman.
a way freight train on tho
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad
near Chillicothc, Ohio, on Wedncs-
day night struck horse, causing
the engine and twenty eight cars
to leave the track. A fireman and
brakeman wore killed, and tho
engineer was severely scaldod.
The examination Of candidates for
appointments as cadet engineers
will begin at tho Naval Academy,
on the 18th Of September, and that
for candidates for appointment as
cadet midshipmen on the 22d
Tho White Sulphur Springs pro-
pcrty was again offered for sale
last week under q decree of the
United States District Court. Tho
sale WAS indefinitely postponed
because Of inadequate bidding,
100000 being the highest offered
| Ten thousand pcoplo assembled
Thursday to witness tho unwilling
of q monument erected on tho scene
of tho massacre of November II,
ITS, at Cherry Valley, N. Y. Ex-
Governor Seymour delivered an
historical address.
Tho silk spinncrs in the silk mills
of Dexter, Lambert e. Co., and the
Dale Mills at Paterson, N j.,
struck last Thursday, and tried to
induce the spinnors in other mills
to Join them, but without avail. A
partial strike Of spinncrs in another
mill occurred, but they were induced
to return to work. Tt is said tho
striko will become general in few
days.
The question, "Who was tho
father of Zebedce's children 2" is
not q nero nonscnsical catch, and
the answer is that Thundor was
their father. See Mark ill.,, II,
where it is said that Zebodce named
his two sons Boanerges, which,