The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-20
NEWS or TIE D.lY.

king Alphonso, Of Spain, will
marry again in the fall.
Fifteen millions more of our four
pcr-cCnts. have been sold to u single
English banking house.
The intcrnal-rcvcnuc receipts up
to the 10th inst. cxccc led those for tho
the first half of last May S3,lOU,00O.
--Alsacc-l.orranc has been made
scparatcprovincc Of Germany under its
own legislature. General Alantcuilnl
has been appointed viccroy.
AT the last accounts from South
America The Chilean army had the
Bolivian army down and was sitting
on him, while the Peruvian army was
shaking his fist ut the conqucror.
The nihilists have adopted
a new dodge. They demand u
certain sum Of money from Il wealthy
man and threaten to asSassinatG him if
lie fails to comply promptly.
The Pennsylvania Senate has, for
tho fourth time, defeated the bill to
exempt persons who observe the
seventh day Saturday as the Sub
bath from the penalties of tho law Of
1904.
Mrs. John B. Floyd, widow ofex-
Abingdon Va, on We ,ncstlay, aged
Of Gen. John :. Preston, and sistcr-in-
law of Gen. Wade Hampton.
The bulletin of the public health
for the week ending May 10th, issued
by the Surgcou-Gcncral United States
Marine hospital service, shows an ave: =
age mortality in thirty of the princi-
pal cities OF the country OF III per
200 per annum.
Grant is coming home to write q
book. The Washington correspondent
ofthc Cleveland Leader has the news,
and l)n Gnti trnn q f'nns"ncsn,on, who
got IL Irom another man, who had
traVelcd with the cx-Prcsidcnt in
Europe.
congressman Carlisle, of Tcnncs-
see delivered in Tammany Hail on
w cdncsdny evening the great speech
t%, tic ',auc ,,am, III Congress against troops at
there viii be pub2iic' mf33nthivv" meetings
and speeches in Tammany Hall during
the summer.
james Gordon Bcnnctts yacht,
cisco for the North Pole in Il few davs.
The Sir John Franklin Of to-day is
Professor Nordcnskjald, of Sweden,
WHO sailed last summer to explore the
northern coast of Siberia, and has not
been heard OF since. Expeditions are
going in search of him.
Wallace Wilkcrson, who shot
Baxter in Tintic, Utah, about two
years ago, was executed at Prova Ci'y
on Friday. lie cvinccd great nerve
and sat in chair facing three guns,
distant about thirty feet, without cith-
cr bandaging or closing his eyes. His
wife spent the last night and up to
within half al hour Of the execution
with him.
M iss Rcbccca Wells, q pretty Jew
css, who sued Ludwig Blum in Il New
York court for $4,000 damages for
breach Of promise Of marriage, has OBJ
tanned IL verdict for $4,000. The de-
tcndant admitted tho promise of mar
riagc, but gave as a reason for not
marrying her that members of her
family had been insane, and his father
objccting to the match.
"A remarkable billiard match,
played in Chicago, Thursday night, be-
tween Jacob Schacter and Geo. +. Slos-
son, tor the three ball championship of
the world, ono thousand points up,
$4Oo side, resulted: Schaefcr, 5, 600,
800, total 1000, average 333a; Slosson
II, y, Il, total .li; average lag; time
G5 minutes. Schaetcr's average is un-
prcccdcnted. The largest previous
run was AGA, which his second run OK
ccedcd by 22G points.
"A white man and q colored woman
living together in Virginia went to
Washington and wcrc married. TO
evadc the Virginia law against miscco-
cnation. On their return home they
were imprisoned for violating tho
statute against misccgnatinn. On a
writ Of h06eos corpus Unncd States
Judge Hughes decided that the law
was not in violation of tho fourteenth
amendment, as it applied equally to
the two races, and it did not Interfere
with t. II; II sof citizens any more
than to say a man shall not marry his
grandmother. An appeal has been
taken to the Supreme Court.
A San Francisco (Cal.) dispatch
states that Kcarncy delivered himself
OF violent haranguc OH the sand lot
Monday last, in which hc denounced
several prominent men Of the working
mems party who had helped to sccnre
the adoption of tho new constitution,
rrepudiating all afllliation with them.
he is also against any association with
the political bummcrs, as ho calls
everybody outside Of tho working
mems party. His declaration is q ray
oi nope, as showing that u serious di-
vision has entered his camp, and that
his triumph cannot be permanent.
A special from Norwich, Conn.
dated May l8, says: "At tho trial Of
Wesley W. Bishop, for tho murder of
his wife, set down for Tuesday next, a
plea OF guilty of murder in tho second
degree will be otlcrod, and accepted by
tho States attorney. Frora lcast four
months tho State has had a Standing offer
from Bishops counsel to plead guilty
OF murder IN the second dcgrco il mat