The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-02
NEWS or TIE D.4Y.

Intelligence received from St. Pc
tcrSDurss announces that one hundred
persons were arrested last Sunday en-
the estate of the Grand Duke Constan-
tine, brother Of the Car, at Pavlosll,
near st. Petersburg.
1t is given out at the Treasury De-
partlncnt that the public debt state
ment for lastmonth will show an in
crease of probably six million dollars.
This increase is attributed to the large
amount paid out for arrcaragcs of pen
sions.
Five ladics-Mrs. Persclls, of
Binghanpton, Mrs. Bostwick, Mrs.
and Miss Burkclew, Of 1Lirkwood, and
Miss Pollock, Of New York-wcre
drowned in the St. Lawrence River
near Clayton, N. Y, on Thursday by
the upsctting ofa pleasure boat.
john Kranz, of East Pennington,
Polk county, Wis, recently drove into
the lake with six children in his wagon
to water his horses. Tho horses be-
coming frightened ran into deep water,
the wagon upset, and Kranz and five
OF the children were drowned. The
boy escaped by swimming. The CID
est child was a girl of seventeen.
The pleasure steamer Leu Voz-
lace, together with the DWELLING of
James Cleveland and three boat houses,
was. burned at Gogncck Lake, two
milcsosouth of Battle Creek, MicRioan.
Oh Thursday. Mrs. Cleveland and one
child persisted in the flames, and Mr..
Cleveland saved himself and ono child
by jumping from the second story will
dow into the lake. The fire oirginat-
ed in the engine room of the steamer.
Tho Hamilton county (Ohio) Re-
publican convention on Monday was
something of q novelty. 1t numbered
one thousand membcrs--onc for every
twenty-five votcrs-and met in the big
music hall. Eighty-one candidates
were nominated for the lower house of
the Legislature, and it took four hours
and a-half for the first roll-call. Five
hours were required to elect the repre-
sentatives, and two hours to nominate
Senators. 4-@ .-a.-,.g -
Rev. Henry j. Munson, of Wor-
ccstor, Mass, after preaching a sermon
on the holiness Of matrimonY, steppcd
down from the pulpit, said that he had
been too long Widower, and request
cd Miss Matte Eaton to come forward.
Miss Eaton complied, and the clergy
man, to the astonislment of the cOngre-
CATION, married himself to her, cash
vowinS to be faithful to the other.
William Fl. Churchill, q respccta-
bic New York merchant, was arrested
OH Monday and taken to the Tombs
Police Court like common thief, on
tho charge Of robbing u Californian by
whose side he had stood while making
some purchases in q storc, but when
the prosecutor arrived at the station he
found the missing money in his own
pocket, which made 1t decidedly un-
pleasant for him. He will now proba-
bly, have to pay for his mistake as de-
fendanti in q suit for false arrest.
john Jenkins, diver, who was
lot down into water below tho New
York Battery on Wednesday in sub
marine costume to recover sunken
of the pipe which supplied him with
the signal was at first mistaken, md
whom ne was raised to tho surface and
the helmet removed he was dead, tho
blood having gushed profuscly from
his mouth and nose during his last
struggles.
"A disease akin to cholera is raging
at Centre Point, Linn county, Iowa.
Fully twenty persons have died from
its effects during the past two weeks,
and an equal number have beon PROS
trated by it. tits also raging In Wal
ker Littletown, seven miles from Gem
tire Point, several deaths having oc-
|curred there. An: order for forty cof-
fins was received from Centre Point
on Wednesday. The physicians OF
Centre Point are worn out and the resi-.
dents flying ftom the place. &