The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-17
POLITIC.lL NOTES.

Secretary McCrary, it is said,
boomS for Eluiilc.
Illinois has almost as many Prcsi-
dcntial candidates us Ohio.
The Ohio Republican Convention
to nominate Il State ticket meets on the
2Sth inst.
General Butler is said to be prc-
pairing 10 head tho Grant movement in
MIR. Seymour is thus far the only
one who declines the honors of Il
Presidential candi,laturc.
-llcrschcl Y. johnson is named as
a candidate for The Nicc-Prcsit.cncv bv
Il Savannah paper.
-According to The ST. Louis Globe
Dcmoc'ut, it is The Ohio Senate. ship
that MIR. Sherman has MS eve upon.
Illinois proposes 70 amend her
constitution SO that the Legislature
shall mcet only once in six years.
MIR. Ncy, i; is said, believes tnat
his picture would look we'll with that
OF Grant on the campaign banners.
~ contemporary mouniullv re-
marks thai The Monroe doctrine is one
Of the lo,t principles uf American
The 81. Louis Globe Democrat, n
st'ong Giant organ, wahts ,hc Hcpub-
lican Federal Office holders kept away
from the next convention.
The Memphis -iro'unche is not
for Tildcn. If the Democratic Da:,y
owes him anything it urges that q
subscription be taken up and empticd
in the "3arl.'
Indiana, The Republican organs
maintain, can be carried bv their Darty
next year. The recent elections. 1hcv
say, point to n revival OF the old Re-
publican spirit.
There is proposition before the
Louisiana constitutional convention to
prevent any minister of the gospel
from becoming member of the State
Legislature.
General Beatty a stalwart Rcpub-
lican Ohio politician, predicts that
secretary Sherman will be nominated
ior orgoVernor by acclama.ion by the
Republican convention.
Congressman Barber, of Illinois,
believes Grant and Tilden arc the
coming men. Bayard has the disad-
vantage, he says, of being compelled
to go away from home to get support.
The principal Democratic candi-
dates for governor in Indiana arc ex-
Congressman Landcrs, Lieutenant
Governor Gray and Mr.. Holman, who
was known in Congress rs tho "great
objcctor."
In the opinion Of the Cincinnati
Comm ercial the Democratic team i'm
Washington is dashing along at a rat
Ting pace, and they don't seem to have
Judgment enough left to lock the
vehicle.
The three prominent candidates
for the DeInocraic nomination for
governor Of Georgia are Governor
ColQui't, who is backed by all. Of
Senator Gordon's personal aud po!i.i-
cal influence; Col. Thomas Hardeman,
who was defeated for the nomination
III 1876, and Gen. l.. j. Gartrcli, who
was a member of Congress before the
war.
~ ScHOoL-BoY SroRY.-A corrc-
spondent of the Boston .Saturolav
Erentn9 Gazette tells the following
anecdote Of his school days: "IIonor-
able liars are scarce. I remember a
few, and they were high school boys,
Of course. a squad Of them, pelting
each other with snow balls as thoy
went over the Common and up Jov
street on the way to school one after
noon, were not such good shots that
one of them did not hurl his missile
through a parlor window pane. Up
went the window and out popped an
angry lady's head. (Which of YOU
boys broke this pane of CLASP Il did
IT. promptly replied tho real offender,
stopping forwardto apologize. whats
your name, and where do YOU live p
The boy responded truthfully; but his
companion, to save him, cried out: !:
No, no! / didit!T. He didn't do it,
and his name isn't what he said, and
he didn't live there anyhow. My name
is So-andso, and live No. something,
I'm such a street, and my fathcr'll payl'
The confusion oftongues and counter
statements so perplexed tho lady that
she concluded they were all pack OF
liars, aud in rage she shut down the
window witha bang, and broke ano other
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