The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1879-07-02
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for English ladies'.
Weston to his American friends:
No, gentlemen, your president
cannot be.
Charles Dickens last letter,
dated June 7, 1870, has been pres
sontcd to the British Museum.
-Ex~ Governor Seymour, of Now
York, will deliver u Fourth of July
Grafton to the Auburn convicts.
Tho earth making about 3G5
revolutions u year, tho Oil City
.Derric% says it is away behind
Mexico in that sort Of business
..Chess players should never
PGa,tronlze pawn -broiers.-[N. Y.
Ueroldl. Unless they expect to
pass their knights in a rookery.
The second sale of Queen
christmas jewels produced 81 BOO
600. A sapphire girdlo brought
SS,42o and u pearl necklace $ll,~
Tho Memphis Iyu1unche adj
m'ts that Ben. Hill IS right Just half
the time. Flo has boon on both
sides of every question for twenty
five years.
"Onc can overcome any bad habit
IT nc choose, says an old moral law.
Ncd llio to Hco any one overcome
The bad habit Of tobacco chewing if
nc chcws.
,--Gcnoral Wool will have u
monument costing $50,OO0 And
certainly ho deserves it. I[o was
nj Wool, and II yard wido, SO to
Fpcck.-Chicoyo 7ridunc.
Tho Straight Tip-Curate-I
wish to be measured for suit OF
clothes. Tailor-Cortnillly, sir.
May / ask your views, as we cut our
coats according to doctrine p
J"dy.
Tho fact that tho late ATr. Roth
childs will is not to DO contested
has cast II gloom over the bar of
London, tho like Of which was ncy.-
or seen bcforo.--i -ilbany Jownul
Tho Prince Of Wales has con
sentod to lend to tho corporation of
Glns&"w> Scotland, his Indian press
"nts, valued ut $2,5OO,OO0. Thcy
vii! no exhibited gratuitously five
days III the week.
There is romantic story about
tbo Princess Bcatrico and the late
Prince Imperial. 1t is sail that he
was in lovo with hor and she with
him, and that ho went to Xululand
to melt tho obdurntc heart of Ouccn
Victoria,
1t is reported by the Now York
'Star that Edison, after spending SO
much valuable time and means on
tho elaboration of his theory of the
electric light, has dropped it and
decided to adopt that Of Mr.. WAL
lace: OF Ansonia, Conn.
james G.. Flood draws SG2,5OO
from tho National Treasury four
hines year, that sum being tho
quarterly interest on $5,00O,00O in
vested in five. per- cents. 1t is said
that he recently put another five
millions in four-por~ cents
--Lccky Baldwin, tho San Fran
cisco millionaire, is u first class
bencfactor OF his race. Ho has
hobby for planting trees. On his
great farm in Los Angeles county
he has set out sixty thousand @. ca
llyptus trees of twenty seven vaii,~
ties.
-Scmo queer crooked things
were dug up in the Treasury yard
ut Washington tho other day, and
now they don't know whether they
are pctriticd signatures of OK >Troas-
arer Spinner that fc,l out Of tho
wlnuow, or a lot Of old sofa springs.
- BriIgepoH 4St0n001M
A correspondent writes from
Marietta. Penn. That Colonel james
DUTY, Hon. Simon Cameron and
Hon j. ID. Cameron have this ycar
planted and nave growing finely two
hundred acres of tobacco. Tic to-
bacco crop has become q most i'm,
portant one in southern and central
Pennsylvania.
Cultured citizons of Chicago
were very much torn up in their
minds on Monday night-tho qucs.
tlon being whether they should go
TO- bear Cary, McCmthy, Adams,
Comfy and the Beethoven Society
sing Verdi's Requiem Mass or ob-
serve the circus parade by moon
light and electric light. AS rsual,
the circus won.--Ehicugo Tlbuue
Flo lived ut Turner's Falls and was
told that there was lette' in the
postoffice for him. Flo called ut the
general delivery. II want that lot.
tet J. he said rs soon as no could
get his breath, which he had lost in
running. What letter? What
name 2" ashad Postmaster Mayo.
"The name that's on tho envelope,
You fool" said tho excited indivi,iu-
al,
The elephants Of all othor wild
animals transported by steamer, are
confined in the strongest kind o1
boxes, and the boxes th m ev 3 ere