The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-01-01
.NEWS or THE D1 Y.

several minor engagements.
Russia has ordered twelve hun
dred Krupp field guns.
The regular weekly failures of
savings banks are reported.
It is rumorod that tho Pope
wishes to make friends with Ger
many.
Bccchor has been sucd for 500, 1000
damages for not completing his
"nife of Christ
Hayes and his Cabinet arc con-
sidering the question of recognizing
the Diaz government in Mexico.
Fifty Of the largest manufactures
in America have already begun to
prepare for tho Paris Exposition.
Mrs. Chisholm, Of tho Kemper
county, Mississippi, tragedy, will
have an Office in the treasury and
educate her son at Washington.
The troops have had fight with
Indians III Arizona, defeating them
and killing about twenty, besides
capturing u number of horses.
The case Of Monzo Bell, assistant
secretary of the interior Us, the New
York S,u, for $100,000 damages,
resulted in u verdict for the defend
amt Tho libel was that Bell en-
tered his wifo under her maiden
namo as u clerk in tho department.
a duel was fought near Colum-
bus, Ga, OH tho 9th, between G.
W. Guslin and w. H. Dosan, two
young lawyers Of Macon, Ga. After
exchanging two shots with pistols
the affair was amicably arranged.
Ncithcr hurt.
A Ne'os Bucharest dispatch says
tho blilge across the Danube at
Nikopolis was totally destroyed by
ice on Wednesday. The destruc--
tion Of the bridge at Sistovn must
follow, unless it. be Immediately re-
moved. Tho weather arrested tho
Russian onward movement. It
begins to look rs if tho campaign
is over for tho year 1877.
Wm. e. Chandler tho ssRepubli,,
can Statesman" who went to
Florida to watch the count" has
written letter dcnonneing Hayes
bitterly. and alleging that Sherman
and others plc13cd support both
to Packard and Chamberlain and
Hampton and Nichols. Rcpubl-
cans and Democrats mentioned in
the letter both give it tho lie, and
say that Chandler is merely trying
to make capital SO as to succeed
Wadlcigh in the United States
S>nltc from New Hampshire.
The Tennessee Legislature having
reached no result in the settlement
Of tho State debt, has adjourned.
The Senate bill to compromise the
State debt at fifty cents Oh the
dollar, with graded interest at four,
five and six per cent, was defeated
in tho House after an amendment
to make the interest four por cent.
for the first fifteen and six per cent
for the next fifteen years-high tax
men voting against it hecanso it
was not in compliance with the
proposition of the bondholders,
which was fifty cents at six per
cent. interest.
Mr.. a. Oakley Hall is described
by the Boston Ueruld as talking
thus to its reporter "After my
lecture season is overland T an
booked to deliver lectures through
out tho country tho coming winter
Il shall probably take charge Of a
Now, York daily paper us managing
editor. [ may say that like the
cXhilaration arising from the con-
sciousness Of the power that man
possesses who is in n position to lay
out plans for the operations of an
able staff of writer's for q public
journal, and to watch the effect of
his policy upon public opinion, and
I mean to try it. My friends arc
averse to my going back to law, so
that l shall probably settle down
permanently to tho life Of q journal
ist-a lifo that, moro than any other,
has always had q fascination for me-"
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HIs DREAM.-Somo days since q
citizen Of Detroit named John
Wilmer had rino stolen from his
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