The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-04-26

sent arounda runner and stopped the
invitation, telling the Faculty to
stay at homo until they were wanted.
NEWS'OF THE DAT.
Gen. John a. Dix, a. well known
Federal general, is dead. lie was buri, d
on Thursday.
On "Wednesday niglta large por-
tionofthc village ofCoscob, Conn, was
destroyed 6Wflrc. Thc loss is heavy.
CHARLES q Goiligs, brakeman on a
Virginia Midland freight train, fell u,-
ger the cars at Springfield Station, on
Monday, anti was crushed to death.
The New York Senate has adoptcd
the Assembly RESOLUTIONS rendering the
hospitalitics Of the State Of New York
to General Grant Oh his return from
abroad.
Thomas Kelley, of BROOKLYN, WHO
was bitten b. q dog on the goth of Eel
ruarv last was. sclZcd with hvdropho-
6ia OH Sunday last and died on Wcdncs-
day morning in great agony.
The April:tyturn to the department
OF rEriculture,Sat Washington, show
that the acreage of winter wheat is
about one and. onc:-halfS per. cent.
greater than last year. - ,'
DR.. w. G. Cabcll, nephew of Hon,
q; e. Cabell, shot and mortally wound
cd T.. w: Palmer, II desperate character,
near Collands, Pittsylvania county, VA,
on Tuesday,; No arrest has yet been
made. i, :
The Missouri Legislature has a
novel proposition before it to punish
voters WHO stay away from the polls
three clccaons;in:succcssion. with for
ielture of'thcitright to hoId:any Office
III the State. J, I'..t:.... '' :: =.
The Cfeli,atish Society ofEngland =
aJoint stock aff0iI, haseccivctl q check.
Secretary Ca'assj;.of the Home Office.
recently announced in the House of
Comnl9ns Jhat he will not sanction the
proceedings qfthe company until they.
arc uppEQyca By Parliamcnt.;. English
medicalapd legal, ,eirclcs, object to crc-
inatl1n Refans&t destroys evidence of
'ilc col dcath. :.. j.a.ra-,A .'s
-EX- Congressman Raincy seems to
hayoresonsidefJd llis intense ..indignn-
tlon and dfinally accepts the position of
asslstan6. appointment clerk in the
trcasurX.- Ibis. is. not. as goode. aposi-
ton as That of klfrfl' auditor, hut twas
the best that could be done, as the bet
tcr: Plact'NR NNptod for man from
Michigan, Where tho party has more
hopes thamin, Spstth Carolina.
In Miss A. NJ. Singlcton's beer
saloon in Nashville, Tenn, on Sunday
night, Thos:' r.: 'B,tkcr treated several
irlcnds. and, cllsing to pay,,h was
locked in by Miss Singleton, who at
tackled him with stick ofwood. Her
brother, "A NJ. Singleton, shot at Baker
slightly wounding him. Baker re-:
turned the fire aud killed Singleton.
The coroncr's jury returned verdict Of
ju>titiabe homicide.
An attempt was made at Chicago
ON Thursday to assnssinatc Edwin
Booth: the tr9gcdian. Gray, tho
Would-bc assassin, says he fired directly
at the traScdian, and wonders greatly
that hc missed him. lie regrets the
failure even more than he wonders at it.
lie says Inc has accompliccs back of him
and that Booth will yet suffer. The
opinion expressed by the attaches of the
theatre and others who saw him is that
Gl1yjs crazy. He: fired two shots,
snapped his pistol again, and was cock
ing il again when seized. -.
Tho Berlin correspondent of the
London hdndd,W says that Lieut.. Du-
Drown las been arrested near Novgo-
ROD on suspicion Of being ono Of the
members OF: the revolutionary commit
tee: The assassimtion' another sDy
who betrayed thewhcrabouts ofa secret
printing Offices Toprovo is rcporicd-
The Car, who until lately drove ont
unattended, now has. his carriage sur
rounded by Cossacks. a high court of
criminal Justice under the presidency
Of the .Grand', Duke Constantine. n
brother of the Car, has already been
appointed for the trial Of Solovictf, the
man who.shot at the Car. 49,.
"A terrible wife murder was pcrpc-
trated last Tuesday, at Pottonsviilc,
Scott county, Va. A young man,
named Sam Bishop, slaughtered his
young and beautiful wife; to WHOM he
!laG been married bu: short time. He
hadbccn otf at work, and after waiting
until late for her husband Ills wife sat
down TO the table and was eating din
ncr, when Bishop came in with an axe
III his hand. lIe,walkcd up to her and
sent tho keen blade Of the aXo crashing
through her SKULL literally splitting her
he9Gin half. tho axe edge only stopping
whcn 1t reached the trunk of: the body
itself. Bishop was arrested at once and
from his way of talking he is believed
to be Ofunsound mind. lie saws ho is
glad he did tho decd, and would do it
ovcrr again, and that he was forced to
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. A MUNICIPAL MUDDtI.E.-ThcT Pick
ems Sentinel of tho 18th says Tho gen-
tlcmcn who claim to obccm elected at
tho late municipal cletion for this town
have bccnswornin before Il noInryy pub
lie, and are running a town govern
ment on their own hook. The old
council ere holding over, and swo have
a dual government. We, understand
the gcntlomen claiming to have been
elected o.Itthe "Wetp tickctwiltassulne
to grant licenses and. opcn biflrooaIs.
This'dction will bd clearly against tho
will,ofa a majority Of hll tho voters, two
thirds Of THO white voters ;i:and all tho
ladios. Mr.. G. W. James refused to
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