The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-05-28
NEWS or THE DAY.

Subscriptions have begun in New
Orleans for monument to Gen.
Robert e. Lee, which is to be ono
hundred and six feet high.
Jasper, the colored theological
astronomer, of Richmond, Va,
wasn't O. success as O. Northern
lecturer on ''de sun do move," and
has gone home.
There are fresh rumors that
Hayes and Conkling are going to
make up by now nomination for
the New York collectorship that
will please both.
Tilton sailed for Europe on
Saturday and refused to be inter-
viewed about Elizabeth or Bcecher
before starting. Thanks for his
silence and departure,
j. Milton Turner, the colored
minister to Liberia, wants to como
home because he believes no Las
been in Africa long enough to de-
serve q good Office somewhere
else.
Judge Rightcr, of the Sixth
District Court of New Orleans, has
refused a mandamus to compel tho
school board to admit colorcd chil~
dren to the schools designated for
whites.
In Now Orleans, last Sunday
night, William Martin, runner for u
sailors boarding-houso, on q wager,
drank a quart of whiskey amid the
applause of his companions. He
was left in a stupeGed condition, and
next morning was corpse.
Congressman Beverly Douglas,
of Virginia, seems to havo forgotten
his rather unique pledge not to
drink enough to get drunk. We
read that on Friday he "rolled into
the House in his usually maudin
condition, and began to exhibit his
natural pugnacity."
Edison is now at work upon an
apparatus to enable the deaf to
hear, and says: 81 feel suro that T
will produce practical apparatus
within six months" The wish may
he farther to the thought with the
inventor of tho phonograph, for he
is measurably deaf himself.
Chris Kaysor's distillery, running
three hundred and fifty bushels Of
grain per day, situated on Cost
street, Cincinnati, and the wholesale
liquor house Of John Izor at
Sedamsville, suburb Of Cincinnati,
have been seized by government
agents.
Although the report that the
Canadian government had been
notified from London that war be-
tween Russia and England was
:inevitable, was printed in the
canadian papers, it is now undey~
stood that there is no foundation
for the report.
Tho elegant iron screw steamship
Columbus, of the Clyde-Havana
line, has been purchased by the
Russian Government, and is to be
delivered Immediately at Philadel~
phia. The Columbus is swift,
nearly new, built at Cramps yard
near Philadelphia, and is in every
aspect a.frst- vessel, and cost
riginally ,S350,000.
The Rev. Thos. Bowman, I'D, of
st. Louis, one Of the bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, sailed
in the steamship Noderland from
Philadelphia for Antwerp on Thurs
day. Bishop Bowman is to make n
.tol1r around the world to inspect
the missions Of the church.
Peralto, who started early on
Thursday to ride three hundred ard
five miles in fifteen hours at Fleet
wood Park, New York, finished his
last mile in fourteen hours and
thirty-one minutes, being twenty
nine minutes ahead of time. At the
finish Parelto appeared as fresh as
ever.
The Russian government through
its agent, Capt. Grippenburg, has
opened negotiations with the South
Boston Iron Company for tho
manufacture of heavy ordnance,
and a special price list with full
particulars as to capacity Of works
as at present run or under the
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