The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-03-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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extra session of the Louisiana Leg
islature.
A Paris journal estimates at fifty
thousand the number Of American
visitors who will spend freely the
dollars Of their daddies ut the Paris
worlds fair.
A Berlin dispatch says that the
Russian minister of finance will
send agents to the United States
to study the American system Of
tobacco taxation.
Henry Ward Beecher was duly
installed chaplain of tho Thirteenth
regiment of New York militia on
Friday night last. He appeared in
plain citizens dress.
Mr.. Morgan, who designed the
new silver dollar, has been in this
country but short time. He came
from England, and was formerly
employed in the Royal Mint at
London.
Judge J. B. Kershaw, of South
Carolina, has accepted an invitation
to deliver the annual address before
the Virginia Division, Army of
Northern Virginia, at Richmond,
Va, October, 1878. His subject
will be "Phe First Maryland Cam
paign."
Every editor of paper in Madrid
has received the grand CROSS of
the Commandery of Isabella the
Catholic, and among other res
cipients of favor commem orative of
the royal marriage are a musical
critic, painter, and a large body
of professors and inspectors of
schools.
In the Vanderbilt will case,
counsel for the contestants offered
rs testimony of the Commodore's
unsound mind his statement that
numerous young ladies came in and
bought railroad stock of him for the
purpose of getting his picture, as
the portrait engraved on the stock
certificates was q very good one.
A little boy was convicted of
murder by his playfellows in
mock trial in Madison, Ind, and
sentenced to be hanged. They put
a moose around his neck, threw the
rope over the door, and hoisted
him up. He was fast choking to
death when woman stopped the
foolory but he was SO badly in
jurcd that he soon died.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the widow
of the late President Lincoln, is
living secluded life in an interior
town in France, and declines to
return to America lest she may
again be placed in lunatic asylum.
It is said in France she still in.
dulges, to q moderate extent, in her
propensity fof buying things for
which she has no use, and filing
closets with articles wholly un-
necessary.
Kate Claxton, tho actress, who
was lately divorced from hor hus.
band, Dore Lyon, was married on
Sunday before last to Charles Ste
venson, formerly n member of Wal.
lacks Company, who was the cause
of her quarrel with her husband.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. e. G. Hougton, at "The little
church around the corner" not
withstanding tho recent stringent
canon of the General Convention of
the Episcopal Church concerning
the marriage of divorced persons.
The Anchor Line steamer "City
of Chester" was burned at Memphis
on Friday. The boat and cargo
were total loss. Only two per
sons perished, the mail agent and
colored barber. All the others
were taken off, or jumped overheard
and were picked up. The boat had
a cargo of three hundred tons of
general merchandise and large
number of mules and hogs, all of
which we're lost. About four o'clock
the boilers exploded, jarring the
whole city. The boat was valued at
$4,000.
The difficulty in connection with
the keepership Of the Erie county,
N. Y, penitentiary,w which has created
a great amount of political excite
ment since February l., eliminated
by Samuel N. Bakor, the Republican
nominee, taking fOrcibla nossassinn