The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-11-23
GEN. JOE JOHNSON'S IDEIS.

! "We Ask to be Judged Only by Our
Works"--The Conservative and Son
siblo Policy to ba Observed by the
Southern Members.
A correspondent of the Washing.-
ton Post has interviewed General
Joseph T.. Johnston, who will rep
resent tho Richmond district in the
next Congress. A painful, though
not serious accident, resulting III u
bruised knee, at present confines tho
General to his residence, in tho city
Of Richmond, but aside from this,
his more than thrco scoro and ten
years have loft him straight as an
arrow, and rs full Of vitality as many
q nun of fifty years. There has
been such cry already raised by
the vindictive Radicals of the terri
ble disasters to be brought upon
the country by Solid South, that
the views of General Johnston, who
will naturally be q loader, will have
an interest for people Of all parties.
Replying to question as to tho
probable financial policy Of the
Southern representatives, the Con
eral said:
"Spoalling first for myself, T an
unalterably for honest money. If
my views were otherwise I could
not have stood upon the platform
upon which 1 was elected. Upon
this question 1 stand with the in
telligcnt and patriotic men of the
South, who are not to be deluded
by fiat sophistries. The wal taught
us the value Of currency whose
issue was illimitable, and God knows
we are now too poor to try arepeti-
tion of the experiment"
"What is your opinion Of the
attitude that the Southern majority
will assume in shaping the policy of
the party?"
"Without any advice at ill upon
the question, will venture to say
that the attitude of the gentlemen
from the Southern States will be
such rs to disappoint the recon
cilablcs of the opposition, who have,
[ see, already begun OH effort to
array n Solid North against a
Solid South. We will probably
have little to say in reply to Radi-
calls of this stamp. Our acts will
speak more emphatically for us.
Sectionalism was killed last Tues
day, and long before 1880 the
"Solid South" and the "Solid
North" will DO forgotten terms.
The people Of the South have known
for thirteen years that war was at
an end, but these long~range Radi~
Gals and latter-day warriors cannot,
seemingly, be brought to a realiza>
ton of this fact.
"The revival of the charges that
it is our settled policy to saddle the
war debt Of the Confederacy upon
the country is absurd-contempti-
bly, so-and it passes my compre-
hension how any intelligent reader
can receive such reckless inventions
with patience. Tho South is now
rs close part of the Union as is
New England, Virginia has the
same interest in the general pros
perity of the country as Massachu-
setts and her representatives, and
the representative of the South
will be found to be as active in
support of all measures tending to
the general good of all sections of
the country as tho gentlemen from
Maine or Vermont" ...
A SHOCKING OCCURRENCE Wed-
nesday morning Otto Montgomery,
living at the St. Paul House, st.
Paul, Mimi, attempted to commit
suicide by shooting him self, inhict-
ing q severe wound in his head.
His son, about twenty years old,
ATTENDED him last night, and while
Ctanding at his fathers bedside
fainted from exhaustion and drop
ped the kerosene lamp in his hand,
which exploded, setting fire to the
bed. The father was burned to q
crisp. The son revived and rushed
into the street, where his burning
clothes were extinguished, after
severe injuries had been inflicted.
A WoMAN's TERRIBLE REVENGE
A special dispatch from Cincinnati
Saws Mrs. Gntharina Stn1l. who pyoe