The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-29
NI5YS or THE DlfY.

! The del: of the City of Paris now
! exceeds tiftymillion dollars.
The new interest law in Illinois,
limiting the cndcr to eight per cent.
interest, has :onc into effect. RI
The tria Of two hundred Russian
Njlilists by co,nt-martial will COM
mcncc ut Odssa in August.
The New York Democratic State
Convention will probably be called at
Niagara Fas about the middle Of
August. l,,,. ...
-Dissentcs from The Greek Church
hitherto unrcognizcd by the State in
Russia, arc pwto have entire liberty
OF worship. This affects 12,O00,OOO
Russian subjects.
-WilliamII. Vanderbilt purchased
last week for million dollars of United
States four pr cents, each bond Of
value OF $50OOp, as an Investment for
his family. ,. .v ''
The frs railroad in Palestine has
been contracted for between Jaila and
Jerusalem, brty miles. The contract
or is rcportcl to be G. +. d. Lowell, Il
resident ofGncinnati.
"A sever thunder storm passed
over Fcrmoit, New Hampshire and
! Maine last week, destroying much
! property. Several houses were struck
by lightningand burned and number
olpcrsons Injured.
Mr.. Mason, who polcd two thous-
and VOTES rs tho Grcenback candidate
for governor of Pennsylvania last fall
III 4 total Voc of seven hundred thous-
and, siMli!ic; his intention of taking
the stump il Ohio for General Ewing.
1t is said that Secretary Thompson,
OF the navy, tnvors killing the yellow
fever ga'm in infected ships bv some
process of supcrhcating. lis suggest
cd that the ships be first towcd oft to
sea, saturated with coal oil and then
| sci Oh fire.
Tho Mayor ofSt. Louis tclcgraphs
to the National Board Of Health that
the arrival OF fever refugees from
Memphis is becoming so numerous
that establishment Of quarantine
camp isncccs$ary. lie asks chat tents
! and ratDns for thousand persons for
thirty dhys be forwarded forthwith.
"A special to the Chicago I3ibune
from Quincy, Ill.,, says that band of
tlct 'rmincu men entered the Jail where
Frank Hobbies, colorcd, was confined
on the charge of. criminally assaulting
and nearly killing Mrs. Ferguson at
! BEDDING, Pike county, and shot him
dead, and dragged his body, riddIcd
with bullets, through the streets. Ills
victim had identified him.
"A Paris dispatch to the Times
says that the dislmion Of the Bonapart-
, lists is becoming daily more apparent.
Some Of them advocate the claims of
Prince Napoleon, and others are only
willing to accept him on certain con-
! ditions, ana now M. Grancr dc Cas-
sagnac urges in the IuyS that lineage
is nothing and that everything should
depend upon the result Ola plcbiscitc.
"A special dispatch to the Chicago
I1tJ2tne from Fort Peck, Montana,
says that Joseph Lambert, the will
known interpreter and scout, his
wife and four children, were killed
! by Sioux Indians, on the goth instant.
Three other persons returning with
him from Iankton Camp were also
killed and one little girl taken captive.
About midnight last "Wednesday
the farm house near ConcWaugo, n
y. Occupied byrao-aWfd couple named
|
Mr.. Crosby shot, but he is still alive
Suspicion rested upon two tramps seen
on the road, and the citizcns turned
out and now have them in custody.
On Thursday the house of Richard
Hadcn, ut MiddIctown, Nova Scotia
was struck by lightning and complete
ly wrecked. Mrs. Iladcn was instant.
ly killed. Mrs. John Mann, who hap
pcncd TO be in the house, was struck
and rendered inscnsiblc; hopes arc en-.
tcrtainrd Of her recovery. MIR. IIudcr
and II number Of children cscapct
without injury.
-AlaXey Gordon, (colorcd,) rcsid
ing on the truck farm of George james
near Bowers Hill, Va, n,ystcriousl,
disappeared Sunday before last, and on
Thursday his body was found burict
in a marshy part Of the farm, bearing
evidence or murder. His wife and {
man named Miles Whitclursi (alst
colorcd) have been arrested on suspi.
cion. The clothing Of the latter was
found spotted with blood.
The Mississippi State Convention
of The National Grccnback Labor part,
assembled at jackson last week, anC
was called TO order by John II. Hull
of lIinds county. Col. M. ID. l.. Ste.
vcns, Of Yellobusha, was chosen per.
mancnt chairman. a platform was
adopted and an executive committed
appointed. After an elaborate ad.
dress by Gen. Reuben Davis, the con.
vention adjourned sine die.
AT Philadelphia, last Sunday, a
boy saw the dead body Of man
emerge from the sewer into the Della
ware river, and notified the authorities,
who recovered the corpse and took it
to the morguc. Subsequently it was
identified as that Of Joseph Grasbachcr,
an Incorporate shoemaker, who had
been missing for some time. How he
got into the sewer is what the police
arc now trying to find out.
"A letter from Jefferson Davis, re-
ccivcd in New York last week by u
brother Of Mrs. Sarah a. Dorsey, WHO
bcqucathcd all her property to tho
former, culogizcs highly the character
of the deceased. IIo does speak with
surprise of the bcqucst, but it is, never
thclcss, positively stated that the will
| is to bo contested, without comDr0-