The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-25
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~1.'Thc scales Of justice arc for the
weigh OF Tie tIansgressor. 3
:.-~A Mrs. Potts in Canada has invent
cd cold-handlcd smoothing iron. I
--Evcn the bootblack says his busi-
ness is Frightening up. -
Nov is tho time to put M Your
stove pipes and get your fall SCOT.
Tho lawyer may be man, but he
is fcc-malc all the samc,-Lnnpton
.-Cantlitlatcs in this country don't
Kiss peoples babies; they got tic rco-
pie 'sbabics' fathers drunk.
-Ci:cusproprictors mournfully con-
template tho cable dispatches stating
that go. 900 camcls wore lost in tho Al
CHAN war.
--."Evcry day brings its own trials"
said the conrt clerk, as he wcarily
closed the docket md lighted his ulii-
mae cigarette.
10 disintcct q room where there arc
smokers, bring ma plate Of boiled
cabbago. While the cabbage remains
the smell Of nicotine will not be no.
GccaDlc.
Smoking will not be allowed at tho
coming great walking match in New
York. That is TO say, it will be q
match That You cannot light cigar ut.
Dos. COM. BuU.
Among tho curiosites of the pa
tent office at Washington arc the locks
OF hair Of all the Presidents, from
Washington down to Pierce, inclusive,
safely incloscd in glass frame.
= lgnorant young man to Professor
Professor, how is u man to
tell mushroom from toadstool?"
PROFESSIONALLY eating it. Ifyou live,
it is mushroom; if you die, it is q
loadStool."
Tho editor who squaslicd q Juicy
cockrOach with tho butt end of his lead
pencil and afterwards torgctfullysucls-
cd the same while wooing COY cxprcs-
sion, suddenly found word, but it
proved to be foreign to tl,c subject un-
der consideration.
Tho provcrb, "Timc heals all
things" has been pronounced a base
lie by the old lady who laid away scy-
cral pairs ofhosc which needed heel
ing, and some months after found them
worse than ever, the moths having.
taken possession.
'What", asks writer, 10 "fcrccr
han the cyo ofa fighting animal at
bay" We'll, We don't know what, un-
less, maybe, it is the oihcr eye. Or
hold up! we won't give iG up yet--i,'s
the animal itself. Ask us another one.
-BuTiiagton UuWhcyc.
Hon. Horatio Seymour has cx-
pressed the opinion that the only way
to save the Democratic party in the
State of New York now is for both
Robinson and Kelly to withdraw while
their respective followers rally around
Il new man.
Mr.. Tallnagt says it is easier 10
serve God when The wind blows from
the southwest than from the northeast {:
that Christians often attribute to their
own depravi;v what is due to the
Gather, and that the devil mover rides
on thc west wind.
| -Thc Portland AryUS saws that
Blaine spent $50. 900 ofhis own private @
to:Nune and $r5O.000 in Rcpublican
| funds Is cary Maine last Monday. AT
! this raic, TO carry all the "doubtfup'
STATES, Tho -d'VuS thinks that the whole
na'ioial debt wouldn't begin to elect
James G. elaine President in 1880.
~ writer in The August Gentle
MANS Nog0zine says filaI it is true of
nations as Of individuals that sncer is
almost as unpleasant to bear as q blow,
an that he is moi sure that Dickens 2
"Anciican Noes" did NOT to more to
cstrangc for time tho two countries
than tho Alabama difficulty.
The Yonkcrs Gazette remarks that
lc negro exodus reminds il of the
s.oiy ofa Western man was describing
Inc advantages to be gained bv emiora-
ting 10 that country: 81 tell you, Bill,
when went West hadn't a. rag on
my back, and now LIN covered with
,hcln."
According 10 thc philadelphia pa
pcrs Pinaiorc has lost none Of its popu-
larity in that city. Mr.. Tord pro-
dured it at MS Broad Street Theatre
MondGv evening before acrowdcd and
cnthu>i >iaSiic audience, and the Drospcct
Is that IL VIII again have q long and
suct cssful run.
They arc warning over the Sunday
law n Ba',morc. In his speech on-
posing Puliianism, Louis Schate
proved bv statistics that tie onlv part
Of Maryland that had progressed was
where Foreigners mostly settled. Mr..
schade also said Ihat $4,000 people die
ia'cd laws 10 more ,nan 100000 who
q sa9:ccd " ia ,ncm.
--Sulc' man Pasha. the Turkish Cen
era: IS again reported 10 be dead.
we have already been fooled once bv
Su'c'man and will wait bit this time,
re my be "plavipy poSsum" in der
TO SC: ,or himself wi nat tnc BOYS will
ss?vot him. We bid Sulciman conGi-
fional f,rcwcll but prcfcrio await
conf nation Of his demise.
--Hcra|a: Justice Field, of the ST.
prcmc Court, is steadily pressing for
ward rs the Democratic dark horse.
lie is Itch. David Dudley Field is
powerful. So is Cyius w. Field, who
ABOUT This time is an;i-TiIGen. jus, ice
Field is large, is somewhat bald, has
hair curling little; and bis beard is
curly. Hc looks like cross be; tween
icnny.son and q bass-relicf of an old
Assylian.
"A Russian battery commander
having sent home by post upwaid d Of
twenty-five thousand dollars during
the ST n'G9lc with Turkey, was suspect
Ell that his wealth had been como bv in
some di>honcSt Wnv. IT subscnucn;Jv