The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-03-08
NEWS or TIE D1Y.
At last accounts Hardy Solomon
was in Havana.

At last accounts Hardy Solomon
was in Havana.
An explosion occurred in Deep
Drop Pit, near Wakefield, England,
by which nineteen persons were
killed.
Final arrangements have been
made for the grand international
walking match at Gilmore's Garden,
New York, next week.
Murphy, Democrat has been re-
elected mayor of Troy, N. Y, by
over 1000 majority over the Repub-
lican and Greenback candidates,
and 1854 plurality over the Repub.
lican candidate.
Unusual rainfalls on the Pacific
slope have insured large crops Of
cereals. The wheat crop of Calls
fornia is becoming more valuable
than the product Of the p recious
metals.
An American company is playing
"Uncle Toms Cabin" in Vienna, and
announces as one of the attractions
Of the performance, trapeze per-
:ormances by an Indian girl "AIiss
Zenobia."
The Cuban government has advis-
ed the municipalities to establish
public schools for colored children,
and wherever this cannot be
promptly done, colored children
sdould be admitted to tho white
schools.
A Council Bluffs girl, on suicide
intent, asked for morphine in drug
store. The clerk suspected her
purpose, and sold her powerful
emetic. She returned an hour
afterward, expressed her opinion of
a man who would deceive distrect-
ed girl in that way, and 4 emanded
her money back.
In the tenement house sections
of New York there are 5000 per
sons to the square mile, while in the
other portions of the city the
average is only $50. Scientists and
humanitarians are trying to devise
some practicable mode of relief from
an evil that is terribly destructive
of life, health and mortality.
The statement that President
Tildon is afflicted with partial
paralysis should not be taken to
mean that he is suffering from a
paralytic stroke, or that he is in any
immediate danger. These symptoms
have existed for many years, and
though they have not grown worse,
it was thought best that he should
undergo careful medical treatment.
The principal measures which
recently became laws during the
session of Congress, in addition to
ten of the regular annual appropria-
ton bills, are the bill reducing the
Tux on tobacco and otherwi SO cmond~
ing the internal revenue laws !;
the census pill; the bill toprevent the
Introduction of in fectious and con-
tagious diseases, and the bill pro-
viding for the payment of arrears
of pensions for service during the
late war.
A report has been received at
Richmond of a premature explosion
of nitro. .glycerine at Dutch Clap,
James Riv,r. which resulted in the
killing of w. G. Haggerty, govern
ment contractor for widening and
otherwise improving Dutch Gap,
and five or six negroes engaged on
the work. It is reported also that
Elias Hall, who has charge of
of operating the glycorino, WAS
either killed or fatally wounded.
MI. Haggerty's body is said to havo
been blown,into the river and not
recovered.
On Saturday night about ten
o'clock, party of six or eight
masked men called at the cabin of
an old negro, Abe Wootten, living
in the Ninth District eight miles
from Manchester, Tenn, and
demanded admittance, which being
refused, they set fire in two or more
places. Finding that he and his
wife and four children would be
burned if they remained, the old
man rushed out, and was seized by
the maskers, who carried him about
one hundred yards and shot him to
death.
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