The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

sas to help the colorcd refugees.
| "A fire occarrcd Mt Point Breeze,
| ga., on nFridey, which consumed, half
a million dollars worth. of property.
/ Tho cS>Gontcdcratc General Long
street had his pocket picked of q gold
watohand chain in Gainesville, Ga, a
few days ago.
MY. ira d. Sankcy is resting at
irlnnGsulnp,. Wales. lie will assist Mr..
Mood,Y IN d campaign Of six months il,
st. Louis next winter.
THO Cincinnati Enquirer SAYS the
the Ohio Democratic platform was
written by Mr.. Thurman himself, and
adopted by the convention without
changing n word Of it.
--OI.eary, tho pedestrian, has ac.
ccpted the challenge of Grassland, the
English walker, to walk Il ascventv-t,yo-
hour match for 900 and two-thirds
ofthc gate money.
New York physicians arc decplv.
Interested in the treatment ofa mah
whose heart has in some way shifted
from its natural place to his siyht side
and has becn doing duty in an made
quate fashion in this novel location for
two years.
"A cyclone passed ovST Sanders
vile, Ca, OH Thursday. The Catholic
church was blown down and many
trees were uprooted. Fencing antf
crops sustained considerable damage,
but no lives were lost.
Tho passenger coach which left
Sidney, Ncb., for tho Black Hills, last
Monday, was stopped by masked rob
bcrs on Tuesday midnight, tho four
passengers robbed of their money ana
valuablcs, and the mail ritlca. The
coach was then permitted to proceed.
LESS than two years ago q cotton
factory was built in Natchcz, Miss.
every dollar Of the stock in which is
owned by her own citizcns, and which
is yielding the very handsome return
ofncarly twenty per cent. on the in-
ycstmcnt.
"A law just approved by Governor
ltoolnson, OF New York, provides for
winding up the business Of failing say
ings banks without calling III q recciv-
CT, who, as far as these Institutions are
conccrncd, has gcneMlly proved rs
bad rs the thief.
There arc many indications that
Ben Butler will make another attempt
to capture the State convention of
Massachusetts Democrats and secure
the regular Democratic nomination for
the govcrnorShip. lie has already
captured number of township and
county organizations.
1t seems that the eleven school
children who recently died so sudden
~ at Jacobs Mill, Il little village i'm
Northern Vermont, were not poisoned
at the brook, as at first supposed, but
wtrc the victims ofdiphthcria, induced
by foul pools and sinks under and
around the school-housc. b.!
Tho cotton merchants of New York
estimate that they have lost S5O, 900
annually hW tho theft of cotton from
bales, amt they have tried to break I'D
the stealing by indicting John and
Nicholas Costello and other samplers
to whom the stolen cotton has been
traced,
-Kepots from nearly all parts Of
Northern Ohio, and some in Western
pennsylvania, show that there will be
about tWo-thirds Of the usual crop Of
whcat,' ala that the corn crop will be a
failure In consequence of tho drought,
| Oats arc better than corn, but there
viii not tAe.over two-thirds of the usual
| crop or ABy, aud fruit will be very
light; potatoes fair.
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill
to remove the political disabilities of
j. G: Pcmberton. Mr.. Pcmbcrton
was acknowledgement in the Con-
tcdcrate service, the personal friend of
lion, Jefferson Davis, Nnd will be re-
membcrcd as the Confederate general
who surrendered Viokshurg to Gen,
Grant. lie is now living in Philadel-
phia. ..,.
-"Bull Run" Russell, the well
known correspondent of the London
1imes, has gone to South Africa with
Sir Garnet Wolsoloy. Ho goes out to
represent the London Daily Telegraph,
having, after forty yoars' connection,
transferred his allegiance from tho
London Times to the Telegraph.
OF eleven female candidates who
presented themselves for the first cX-
animation for tho degrees of tho Uni
vcrsity OF London, six wcro placed in
the honor division, four wcro declared
entitled to exhibition, and one was
second In the whole list of candidates.
The standard of the London Universi-
is very high one. ..s ~.
Mr.. G. Washington Chlids de-
clarcs that Gen. Grant has no political
plans. Mr.. Childsinf orms reporter
that f'Grant really entertained any
expectation Of becoming u candidate
for the Presidency, he would certainly
have written to him on the subject. AS
Gen. Grant has "ncvcr mentioned the
matter in his letters" Mr.. Childs is
convinced that q third term is wholly
foreign to his thoughts. Fudgc!
-Manlcy Stephens, the night watch
man at Clark's saw mill at Hunters
Creek, Mich, went homo at an carly
hour Saturday morning and found
John House there. Suspccting him Of
criminal intimacy with his wife, he
shot him twice through the head and
three times through the Ghost. He
then shot his wife through the head and
himself through tho head, killing him
self instantly. Mrs, Stevons and
House were mortally wounded.
BANANAs.--Few people who SEQ
bananas hanging in fruit dealers shops
think of them aS moro than q tron;col