The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-02-18
NE WS OF TIE D,iI.

tflcltY has Da9n successfully tried in
England
A bill granting Tho right OF euf.,
frage to tho womon Of Dakota has
been introduced in tho Legislature
of that Territory.
A revolution has broken out in
Hayti, and negro disturbances Of an
alarming character have occurred in
the Island of st. Vincent.
Capt: Dmglcy, of tho ship Conn.,
per2o'o>e, at New Orleans, going
aboard his vessel on Thursday night
fell from the gangway into tho rivor
and was drowned. Hc was native
of Nova Scotia.
J. w. S. Parker, merchant ut
Greensboro, N. c., was knocked
down and robbed near his home on
Thursday night, and died from his
injuries. Joe Mondenhall has been
arrested on suspicion of the murder,
and is Threatened with lynching.
Chas. McGll was hanged in Cleve-
land, o., on Friday for the murder
Of Mary Kelley on the 2d of Docem>
bor, 1877. The only words the con-
demned man said on the scatfold
were "Don't make any mistake
about that rope"
The next President of the United
States, according to the st. Louis
Post Despatch, cannot be West.
ern man, but will bo Thomas Fran
els Bayard, the big yost Senator
from the smallest State"
The romantic story that the
plague vas brought into Astrachln
in q silk handkerchief, the dying
bequest Of q plagno~stlicken Co.'S
sack to his sweetheart, is said to be
Il "malicions and silly hoax"
a German doctor has prop0unded
the doctrine that veSetnrians and
meat Gators are both wrong, and
that the real means to health and
life nre to eat al food raw, whether
animal or vegetable.
A bill has been introduced into
the Legislature Of the Island Of
jamaica in which tho cat o nine tails
is the punishment allotted for
nearly every sariaus offence. inciud-
ing libel. The bill is likely to Be-.
come q law.
| The prosecution Of tho corrupt
Russian army contractors, Cohan,
Gregar and Horwitz, has been aban-
doned by order Of tho Car, because
the proceedings Threatened to COM
promise SO many persons in high
official position.
John Edwards, who murdered
Kader J. Ballard, II peactable citizen
Of Johnston county, n. c., on the
9Th Of October last, was hanged Fri
day in Smithfiold, Johnston county,
N. G.. His execution VAS ordered
for January l7th, but Il respite had
been obtained.
Jefferson Davis has declined an
invitation to deliver tho annual
address at the next Commencement
Of the Mississippi University, be-
cause Of the precaiious condition of
his health. and Senator Gordon has
bcen selected as the orator in his
stead.
Prince Louis Napoleon ia report
ed to Le lying dangerously i'll ut his
mothers residence, Chiselhurst. It
is said that he has, for some time,
led an irregular and dissipated lifo,
and has been wholly regardless of
the admonitions Of his mother and
NJ. Rouhor, and other devoted
adherents of the Imperial family.
JamesiBeck, a baggage mnstor on
the ST. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railroad, between st.
Louis, Mo-, and Columbus, KY, was
arrested last week for robbing the
mails. He pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to three years in tho
ponitentiary, the entire business
being accomplished within four
hours.
Wilmington is evidently tired Of
elections. The Democratic votors
in four out of five wards Of the city
unanimously adopted resolution to
request the Legislature to continue
the present board Of aldermen in
existence for two years, and tho
dissenting ward appointed Il CONF
mittee of three to confer with the
executive committee rs to tho best