The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-07
GENERAL GOSSIP,

Goneral Longstreet has boon
rendered, and will probably accept,
the postmastership Of Gainesville,
Ga.
General Sherman says this coun
try will have population Of eighty
millions inside of tho next twenty
years.
At st. Louis on Friday tho
Second Baptist Church, Rev DR..
Boyd pastor, was destroyed by fire.
Loss 100000.
! The French government is about
to appoint consul to the city of
Metz, which was takon from tho
Frenoh in the late war.
The mayor of Norfolk, Va, an
uounces his purpose to vigorously
enforce tho penalty against porsops
detected i'll carrying oo. .lcoaled
weapons.
The total debt of Tennessee, with
the accumulated interest for July 1,
1875, amounted on january LIST
1879, to more than twonty-five
millions Of dollars.
An unknown man was frozon to
death noar Macon, Ga, ON Thurs.
day night. He had been intoxioat.
ed. The thermometer was only 13k
degrees above zero.
The female chimpanzee of the
Philadelphia Geological Garden is
dead, and students of tho Darwinian
theory are interostedly watching the
strangely manlike expressions of
grief by her malo companion.
"A Jew directs the public affairs
OF Protestant England the most
important departments of the
government Of Catholio Franco are
administered by Protestants, and
the Sultan's Minister Of Foreign
Affairs is Christian.
Thore has been no such fall Of
snow in Switzerland for many years
as during the last month. Traffic
is greatly impeded, the omnibusos
are running rs sledges, and from
tho Jura to the Alps thore is ono
almost unbroken mass of snow.
Dempster Hall, at Evanston, ILL.,,
was burned to the ground Thursday
night. Loss $25,00O; insurance
$4,000. This building was tho
theological home Of large number
Of Methodist ministers of the
Northwest, being n branch of
Evanston University.
A Philadelphia dry goods NOR.
chant has added a children's room
to his store, where mothers may
leave their childron to be amused
with rocking horses, pictures and
toys while they do their shopping.
Babies in arms not admitted, lest
they should not bo oallod for again
The Lee Monument Association,
chartered by the Legislature Of
Virginia for the purpose of erecting
in Richmond monument to Con,
Robert q. Lee, proposes to take
up on his birthday the 10th Of
January-~a collection throughout
the South in aid of it's undertaking.
It is suggested also that entertain
ments .bo given throughout tho
South on the night Of tho 10th for
tho same object. The association
has a large sum- Oh hand, but not
enough to eroot a fitting monument.
At Dubuque, Iowa, ON Thursday,
ten convicts in the ponitontiary
broke out of the stonecuttors shed
and made a desperate effort tor
liberty, tho yard being enclosed
only by board stockade. Ono was
shot dead by tho guard and another
fatally shot. The remainder os-
capped from the yard. Two were
shot by the guards, both dropping
with broken log each. Five
others were soon reoaptured, John
Donohoe being tho only ono now at
liberty.
C1Nc1NNAT1's RA1LnoAp.-The SUI
prone Court of Ohio has affirmed
tho decision Of the Superior Court
OF Cincinnati, declaring tho $2,-
100000 Southern Railroad act
constitutional. This is a very
important decision for the city Of
Cincinnati and for the holders Of
Southern Railroad bonds. It effec.-
tually defeats tho plans OF the
advocates Of repudiation and OBJ
struction, and insuros tho carly
completion, of the road. which has
already cost tho people SIG, 900,
and ends in the woods OF Kontucky.