The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-06
pEIeSONiE NOTES.

! last week, has recovered entirely. :.
/ -"Pull-hair" Is tho translation of
the Indian name Of Chief Douglo ss'
wife.
--Leadville IS making arrangements
April.
DR.. Mary Walker has been refus-
cd the Office of police surgeon in
Washington.
.--Thurlow Weed is losing his eve
sight, and says that he can scarcely
recognize faces.
Cincinnati opened $500 bottles of
champagne forit Southern guests Tic
othor day.
:, Hayden, Of murder trial notoricty
finds that his book doesn't soll as
readily as was expected.
There are at present in Europe 712
:! princes ana prlnccsscs, each having q
cluim more or less remote to Il crown.
Senator Cameron has subscribed
$3.50 to the centennial fund of Wash
ington and Lee University at Lexing-
ton, Va.
Senator Blaine was addressed on
the outside of Il letter from the Uni
Vcrsity OF Tennessee, recently, as the
"Plumed Knight"
The salary Of the Rev. DR.. John
Hall, Of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York, has been increas-
eel from $4,000 to Sl5, 900 q year.
Count Potocki. in Paris, refuses to
pay his wito's cxtravagant bills, no.
5l2 francs for a years millinery and
10000 francs for half Il years lingerie.
Theodore Martin, who has inst
completed tho life Of tho Prince Con-
sort, has been knightcd by tho Queen
and also made Knight Commander of
the Bath.
Senator Logan has been confined
TO his room for several days with an
acute affection Of the throat. Too
much lame language in the throat, no
doubt.
Tho Albany Journal celebrated
its fitticth anniversary on Monday,
aud Thurlow Weed, its original edi-
tor, resumed his old chair long enough
to prepare the leading editorial article.
The wife ofGencral Sherman has
written letter to Washington news
paper defending the Pope against the
newspaper charges that he has given
nothing to the sufferers in Ireland.
jay Cooke has bought the entire
water power Of the ST. Louis River
from the foot of the rapids to Thom-
son, Minn. The Duluth Tribune SAYS
that this is one of the finest water
powers on the continent, and that it
will be improved and offered to
capitalists.
The picture " hion brought the
highest price ut the Dcmidotf sale in
Italy was tho large landscape BY Hob
Dcma, known as "rhc Windmills." It
was formerly in the collection of the
Countess of lloldcrncss, and attcrward
in that OF Mr.. Tracy, aud is sold now
to NJ. dc Rcynald for Sl2, 900.
Peter Cooper has two thousand
pcts-thc young men and women who
now go to Cooper Institute for in
struction in various practical things
numbering that many. The old gen
tlcman recently put his hand in his
pocket and handed over $4,000 for
further improvements in the build
ing.
The Boston Herald says that a
Republican nomination for governor
OF Rhode Island is worth $4,000. At
least that 10 what it was offered to
Lieutenant Governor Howard for, and
he declined it. The money was to be
! spent in paying registry taxes. This
is discrcditable to the State and the
party.
"A Mrs. MattoS, Of Centreville,
Wilkes country, Ga, has rare COL
lection of old newspapers, some Of
them dating anterior to the Revolu-
tionary War. They were the proper
ty of her grandfather, Governor Tai
pot, OF Georgia. In one of the papers
General Washington offers a reward
for the apprehension Of runaway
| slave.
An Atlanta (Ga.) dispatch says
the Christian Inder Of Monday all
nonnccd that Ex-Governor Joseph f.
Brown has presented to tho Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, at Lou
isVille, Ky, 100000 for the endow-
ment ofa profcssorship. The whole
amount has been paid and is now in
the hands Of Rev. James p. Boycc,
DID, chairman Of the faculty.
Ulysses Grant, Jr., and Miss
Flood, according to New York cor
respondent of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean, fell in love at picnic in Cali
iornia. The young lady went botam.
izing IN tho afternoon and Mr.. Grant
accompanied her. In trying to obtain
bit of wild gcranium for her he
poisoned himself with ivy, and Miss
Flood cured him with somo soothing
salvc given by an old lady.
p. T. Barnt,m was asked recently
If hc would be candidate for ,mayor
OF Bridgeport, Conn.,, if he could be-
assured of election. "No, sir,o was
the reply. eff should ever accept the
nomination again 1t would be under
the assurance that would not be
elected. l had rather be good show
man than poor mayor. Besides, I
am old enough to know better than to
accept any moro Offices"
-N1r. John Welsh has significd to
Rev: L. N; Porter, DID,, LID,
president Of Union University, his
acceptance of tho appointment lately
rendered him as chancellor of that Uni
vcrsity for tho years 1980-81. In his
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