The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-08
NEWS or THE DAY.

-Four hundred Nihilists were ar
rested at Kictf on the night of Juno 26,
and IL great qut.ntity Of weapons was
seized.
Up to the 1st inst. there had been
coined $35, 100000 in standard silver
dollars. Tho amount now in the
is S2S, ,147,351.
--Clark's cotton factory and mill,
sixteen miles cast of Atlanta, Ga, has
been burned; Insurance $50, 900. The
property was valued at $4,000.
Secretary Thompson directed that
all employees Of navy yards should be !
allowed Il holiday on tho Fourth Of
July and the day following.
Mrs. Frances ID. Ross, Il wealthy
old lady, was sitting in her carriage in
front Of her residence, in New York,
Tuesday, when she suddenly dropped
dead.
-Rcv. DR.. John Cumming, the
celebrated writer on the millennium,
has been medically ordered to re-
nOuncc all mental work. lie is about
to retire from the ministry.
Tho failures in New York during
the first six months Of 1879, are one
hundred and forty eight less in number
and $28, 200, 900 in liabilities than those
which occurred in the same period Of
last year. ,. Ju ..... "..''
Visitors to tho White Mountains
within the past few days have been
treated to the novel summer sport of
snoWballing. Many SUBMITS and
slopes wcre covered with snow six
inches deep on the 1st inst.
The miners at Seneca Colliery,
near. Pittston, Penn, numbering three
hundred, struck last Thursday owing
to Il dissatisfaction with the docking
boss Of weights. The collicry is oper-
ated by the Emira Coal Company.
Thirty men were killed by q
colliery explosion on the High Blan
Tyre Pit near Glasgow, last Thursday
morning. -Four Of tho victims
wcrc burned alive. Twenty
one corpscs have been recovered.
patch SAWS tl.at &imGaQ SQpttephAhaeaE;, Ma phfllA4lhaa;,
there on Friday morning.
Tho Louisiana Constitutional Con
vention has adopted an ordinance pro-
| nlo'tlng the sale of alcoholic or malt
liquors on Sunday, and providing that
Inc next Legislature shall pass O. law
ior tho punishment Of the violators of
this ordinance. n., -
Its stated that Salem, N. c.. n
small town, has shipped, during three
years, over three millions Of bounds
OF dried btacEbcrries, for which it re-
cc1Vcd S450, 900, equal to ten thousand
oalcs OF cotton at ten cents per pound.
Henry White, fifty years old, was
!cadin9 bull into slaughtcr-houso at
west Somcrville, Mass, on Tuesday.
With rope around the crcature's
horns,L when the knot accidcntnllv
sshppcd and tho animal caught White
below the naval with one Of its horns
and ripped his body completely open.
causing instant death.
Miss Lou Boiling, aged twenty.
daughter OF Colonel Thomas Bolling.
OF Richmond, Va, died on FridaV
cVonlng from the, effects Of burns 70.
ceiived the night before by her dress
catching fire from piece of burning
paper thrown by her on the floor Of
her chamber after lighting tho GAS.
MISS Roiling was one Of the LEADING
DellcS or Richmond society, and her
SAD death causes great sympathy in
the community.
Tho Signal corps station at Fort
Macon, North Carolina, reports that
Capt; a. Oaksmith, Of Carolina Citv.
North Carolina, with four daughters
ahd one son, started in a small boat
Tor beaufort from Washington at 2D.
m. OF the Fourth. When half way
across Bognc Sound tho boht capsized.
inc father, son and three daughters
we're rescued, but the recovery Of tie
'ther daughter is doubtful. The BODY
u the eldest daughter has not been
AT Lake Quinsigamond, Mass.
IN Friday afternoon, as the steamer
isaac Daris, with two hundred nos-
'cngcrs on board, drew up to the land
ng, crowd ofnenrly one thousand
people, on shore, whe were waiting to
mDark, rushed tlmultuously on
'oard in such numbers rs to cause tho
'csscl to violently carcen. The hulri-
ane deck gave way with tho weight ,,
'pon 1t and precipitated hundred or
norc people into the water. Seven !
we're drowned, five injured, and three
re missing.
The Interior Department is in re-
clpt OF official information that dnr-
ng tho past few weeks white men .
ave stolen about seventy horses from J
lic lndlans at the Red Cloud agency :,
ma ne run them across tho Nebraska !
nc. The State authorities arc doing !
ot1nhg TO prevent similar raids upo1 !;
ne Indians property, and the military :
uthofltlcs, on account Of tho law or =
'st year, stand by without. intcrcept- .
ng or pursuing tho maraudcrs, al =
;aough ;", the stolen horses wore driven =
,ght past camp Sheridan and Camp y
.oplhson on the way to market or to y
10 horse thieves corrols. !, b ~ "
"A fi'ightful accident occurred on |,
10 metropolitan Elevated Raijroadj G.
'st wednesday morning. .rlleI re~u- II
" up trains had stopped running { ,at Ep
aat time, and several Ttrackmen on O a /,
a,an .nl,. car started down tho lcast sido !.
'ack y@ TO make some needed repairs. IM
Ihen Franklin street station was I,,l
'iached, /, they discovered an engine u
'ltn some cars coming mp tlieF roadIl I,
avis Stadl6y, one Of tho oldest en-. y