The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1879-12-31

0. OF churches, 56S; value thereof, S5U3,
= lo3; number of fparsonages, 80; value
S91,325; colleges and high schoo
v property: S92,2l0; number of Sunday
If schools 1877; officers, and teachers
: 3,Oll; scholars, 81 ,9l7; number of vol.
= umcs in library, l7.770; amount paid
y pastors salary. $67 ,32i.77; paid pre-
;, siding elders, $4,000; domestic mis-
! sions, $5,095.70; foreign missions,
y $2,G64.9l; Conference collections,
= Si,S6S; education, $4,000; bishops,
, $40; minutes. .$'63.72; building
, churches, &c., Sl9,S7I.Ii, and for
other benevolent enterprises, $7,2S2.
SHOOTING CLrH.--A Shooting Club
was organized last week by the cleo
ton OF The following officers; Mai.
L. w. Woodward, president; j. II.
Cummings, vicc-prcsidcnt; j. i. Nc
master, secretary and treasurer. Ar
rangcmcnts were then made for Il
shooting-match on Christmrs The
prizes will bc as follows: First, val
uc 500, shooting Jacket, ora pair
OF hunting-boots; second, value 81. so.
Il bag ofshot, or a six.pound kco Of
powder; third, value $3.50, game
bag, or cartridgc-bclt. The cntrancc-
lee, emitting each contestant to ten
shots, was two dollars. The first prize
was won by Mr.. G. X. Rabb, !
wh' broke nine balls out Of
ten; the second by Mr.. W. r.. !
Do'y, and the third by Mr.. ID. V. !
Walker. We would gladly have pub
llshcd the full score, but did not obtain
copy. There is to he another con-
test tomorrow, which we have no
doubt will be very entertaining.
CONFERENCE APrOINTMENTs.-T
South Carolina Methodist Conferences
which met in Charleston last week has
made the following appointments for
the columbia District: a. NJ. Chrictz-
berg, L. E.-Columbia: Washington
Street, W. II. Capcrs; w. Martin.
financial agent Washington Street
Church; Marion Street, j. T.. Stokes.
w. "A. Clark, sub; City Mission, l.. t
NJ. Little; Columbia Circuit to he SUD- '
pllcd by >. W. Dickson; Ridgcwav. |
MI. ii. Iooscr; Winnsboro, G.. w. s
Chester A UIn',,.. co.,, w. N'u'"c.i'
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NE" fcbLlcATIoNs.-We arc in re- -;
c'pt OF the December number Of the ",
'H":HGIM Sc nII ne; -mn$.cnt Monthiy. which.
inc. is we'll filled with good music a'T
..l -..,-.----- -tr',o -. 80.
Monthly is published by Mcssrs. l'ltd- a,
cn ~ Bates, OF Savannah, la, at TIC
DW price OF one dollar q year. Each
receives IL premium in sheet el
music to the amount Of the subscrip- ~
ion price. -
We acknowledge the receipt from
Ord. G. Aver u Co., Of Lowell, Mas
Of copies of Ayers well r.
Known Almanac for 1880, in English, y y
french, German, Dutch, Norwegian, !,
Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese, the S
whole forming a collection well worth d
The publication ofthcsc y
carclully-prcparcd and really valuable
books, at tho rate Of ten million copies 1
per annum, all for gratuitous circula-