The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-18
PERSONAL NOTES.


The Cincinnati Guzctte calls Ben
Butler tie King Lear of New England.
lie is rather the Dick Deadcyc.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has
given thirty-two "llistory Talks" to
the larger pupils of the public schools
OF PrcScot., Arizona.
IL YOU wanted to go from London
to SEQ land YOU could do it for less
than $50, yet every one of Queen
FictoriH's journeys to Balmorul costs
the nation $4,000.
"A young naval lieutenant named
Thackcray is engaged to marry Miss
Ellie Sherman, third daughter of Cen
cral Sherman. Young Thackcray is II
distant relative Of the great English
novelist.
Mrs. Clemens, the mother Of Mark
Twain, lives with her daughter at
| Frcd0nia, n. y. Mark and Ills wife
amt little daughter have recently made
4 trip from Elmira TO visit his Ercdon,l
friends.
DIR. Peters last evening baggcd
another astcroid. This makes POP. If
Congress does not presently pass law
prohibiting the ting Of asteroids
at certain season, Peters will soon
put an end to tia. sort of gamc.---
I'bony Jou.Wo1.
Tho London IiWh saws that when
Ialmagc was in England he was "a
dead failure, as he deserved TO be, for
his lectures were wrctchcd, and gcu-
orally in very bad taste" But some
OF the London religious papers print
and praise his language.
DIR. Petersen, a German tourist,
lately reached the highest point Of tho
; Jungirau, 1888 feet. lie was re-
wardcd by hour ofclcar sky. lie de-
| clarrs that he could sec the whole
chain of the Alps, from tho farthcst
Iylol to Dauphinc, including Mont
Blanc and the other southern giants.
When rip Van Winkle is asked
what he would do if Gretchen were to
fall into The Hudson and call on him
for help, hc says he would answer,
"Ncll, now, slIust go home and tink
about dot" This was the manner in
which Col. Sellers acted when re-
qucstcd TO defend the suit his wife
brought against him for divorce.
John went home and thought about il
until she gained the suit.
The death is announced of Mr..
Chapman, the leading ctomologist of
Scot land, after lingering illness,
accelerated by the failure Of the CITY
OF Glasgow Bank, of which he was Il
shareholder. An account Of him saws !:
ITO Alr. Chapman this world was Il
paradise OF natural wonders; TO him
about the blackcst spot was the re-
hgious prctcnsions which SO largely
aldcd TO compass tho catastrophe which
brought him to ruin.'
Prof. Norlcnskiold is man of
few words. When he got to Yoko-
hama the other day he tclcgraphcd his
congratulations to the patron of his
rNpcultion, the King of Sweden: then
he sent this pithy little message to his
proud wife: Gamma Nordcnskiold,
Stockholm. All well. Adolph. Gu
riously enough, both tclcgranIs arriv-
cu at Stockholm at exactly the same
hour MS they were handed in at Yok o.
hama, the seven hours which the
trlnsmsSlon occupied representing
exactly tho difference of time at tho
r.spcct.vs places.
-Charlcs Pattis0n Fish, aged thirty
eight, died in New York last week
lie was a newspaper man, being
meteorological reporter on the ,Sial'.
and he also supplied news to other
city papers. The Ueruld says of him {:
ellis was Il bright, social disposition,
and he was we'll thought Of bv the
journalistic profession for his manly
qualities. The body was moved to
the morguc, and if not claimed will be
inferred in Pottcr's Field" 1t is
doubtful if the Journalistic protcs-
sion" of any Western city would allow
the body of brother journalist to be
taken to the morguc and then buried
in the Potlcr's Field.
AWFUL AND APPALLING ALLITERA-
Tl0N.-Ne want to weller in the blood
OF the blamed blathcrSkiics who per-
cnniallv persist in aiming at can't
allitcralion's nrful aid" in all articles
appearing in their particular papers.
we want to welcome all well wishcrs
oi our common country, of our cor
ruptcd commonwealth, and our be-
loved Boston to our aid in sciZinv
upon this sign OF sensationalism and
drcadLully drubbing the drivcling,
drcary and drooling draft, and driving
II rom the columns Of contemporary
| collorntionS Of composition. How
diretully and dis'rcsSingly disgusting
to the lover of light or lofty literature
to he prrtinaciouSly and pcrpctually
pcstcrcd with some such sentence as
Dear Daniel Drew Dead" or "Thc
Boston Battcrs Beaten Beautifully, :"
or "Thc Fire Ficnd Furious" or
"Murky Murder Nlanglcs the Mortal
Names Of More Massacrcd Men ."
There is meaningless, musical mad
ness about this literary lunacv that
decidedly dcccivcs its'dcvotccs. They
think they are doing doughty deeds
with their queasy, qucrulous and
qlixotic quilts, whereas they but me-
chanically manipulate meaningless
maundcrings, marrying mcrctricious
mouthings and mounlnl muttcrinus
with mcndacious and mediocre mat
ter. Out on the 0Utrc and outrageous
outponrings Of these outcasts, these
outlaws. Gust them if you can, outdo
them it you can't.--Boston Iyun-
script.
EDlrORS HOME AGAlN.-All the New
York editors arc ut their posts again.
Mr.. Jones, Of the Times, returned