The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-27
ARoUNn TIE WoRnD.
Minister Bingham Of Japan is
oming homo to run for Congress iii

coming home to run for Congress iii
General. Adams, having negotiat.
ed successfully with tho Ufes, will be
sent abroad III the diplomatic seAvice.
Tile New York Herald celebrated
st. Patrick's Dav by reprinting tho au-
thoritics which go. to SHOW that St.
Patrick was negro.
"A Capctown dispatch says tho
general post-officc there has been
robbed of all the diamonds awaiting
Shipment by mail, valued at $375, ,O00.-
They have failed to get a. Jury in
the Dc Kalb (Miss.) trial Of Virgil
and Hutson Gully for the murder Of
Gilmer, and the case has been con-
tinucd.
john B. Hawlcy, who has Just re-
signed the assistant secretaryship of
the treasury department., is Grant
man, and makes his canvass in Illinois
for the Republican nomination us gov
crnor on this Platform. -
-Ex-Gov. John NJ. Palmer, Of Illi-
nois, attended a meeting OF tho John
NJ. Palmer Club at Springfield We'd
ncstlay, and made an address accent
ing the position of q candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President.
The resignation of Col. Laterrc as
president of Uruguay has bccn accent
cd, and the House Of Representatives
has appointed DR.. Vidal constitutional
president of the republic. Tranquility
prevails.
-Vandcrbilt's restoration of ten Dor
cent. to the salaries Of tho employees on
The "fami! y roads" adds $50O,0OO to
the annual expenses Of those lines.
The Pennsylvania Company is about to
restore prices to their old standard.
Tho bill before tho House granting
large number Of officers permission
TO accept foreign decorations, prohib-
its their being worn on public occa-
sions, or as Queen Elizabeth put It. "I
will have none Of my dogs wearing
another masters collar"
Tho Gate City Guard, of Atlanta.
Ga., have decided to erect memorial, ,
which shall commemorate the reunion
| Of the States and the return of peace,
as distinct from many structures erect
cd in the North and South, commem-
oratiye of events which occurred dur
ing the late war.
Tho chancellor of tho British ex-
chcquer reports that the revenue this
year yields $10,975 700 less than was
estimated, leaving u deficit of $lG,-
780,0O0. The cost of the Zulu war
was $26 500 900. nearly all Of which
had been betrayed by England. The
estimates for next year are as follows: !:
Expenditure, $4o7 ,425, 900; revenue
S407 100000.
| SERIOUS complications and possibly
war between China and Russia arc
anticipated, through the condemnation
of Chung How, the late ambassador to
| Russia, to death. The Chinese charge
that their ambassador has corruptly
lined his own pocket at tho govern-
ment expense, and entered into un-
patriotic and prejudicial agreements
with the Russian government.
Tho Washington Post resumes the
Seymour boom, and draws from
Dccrficld, N. Y.,a prompt Seymour
dcclension, published by tho New
York World. There appears, how
ever, to be rs strong al Impression lin
the Democratic party that Seymour
| would eventually run as there is in
the Republican party about e. B.
washRarne: as A@.s me-, =, :, : ~, -,
rial OF Austria and Princess Stephanie
OF Belgium will bc an important Euro
pean event, as it will tend to bring the
last named country into the ring Of
States bismarck Is quietly forming
around France. The Austro- Gcrman
policy through this MARI iage will be
paramount at Brussels as at Madrid.
and the court of England will be
drawn more strongly to the side to-
ward which it leans.
Edwin Arnold, so well known as
poet that few know him as a news
paper man, has resigned his place at
tho mead OF the London Tel q ,opr.
and 1t has been offered to Mr.. Draill'
who declined it. The London Times
has also lost its chief editor, Mr..
Chcnery, who, having been more suc-
ccsstul in his oriental studies than III
journalism, has resigned.
Tho ocean steamer, Montana. tho
largest but ono of the Williams &
liulon line running between New
York and Liverpool, went ashore in q
tog i'll Churcbtown bay, on the Welsh
coast, early Saturday morning. The
passengers. were all saved. IT Is fear
cd that the steamer will be a total
wreck, but tho cargo, consisting of
beof, wheat. cotton, butter; olcomar rgc-
rine, oil and bacon may bo saved. o
MARK Sacia and Frank Ward
Alison, two Of tho .conspirators who
tried to swindle the government ont
OF the 81 100000 which. Joseph Lewis.
Hobokcn millionaire, wilied to It.
were each sentenced at Trenton, N. j..
few days ago to two years in the State
prison and to pay $4,000 fino. DR..
Parks sentence was postponed. The
alleged Widow Lewis was too i'll to be
in court.
The country received in the first
two months Of 1880 threo times as
many Immigrants as I'M the first two
months III 1879. The acreage of wheat
Is sixty per cent. larger than a year
ago. Ncarly twice as much iroi, ia
being made now rs in 1870. Railroad
building is going on from half to twice
as inst as last year. Week by week the
imports are from thirty to forty pcr
cent. greater than last year. The ex-
ports are little, if any, larger.
"A Cabul dispatch saws the general