The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-13
NEWS or THE DAY.

II +" - no OF THE DAf.
Miss Roxanna Brigham, maiden
lady, Of Marlhoro, Mass, refused to cat
because sho got it into her head that
eating was sinful, and so, after nine
days ofst"ryation, died on Saturday Of
last week.
Tho glycerinc building of tho
Latin Rand Powder Company, at Oak
Ridge, New Jersey, was demolished
by an explosion on Thursday. Two
men were blown through tho roof
forty feet In tho air. and arc 50 scri-
ously hurt that they will die.
Tho Supreme Court OF Virginia
has affirmed tho Judgment of tho Rich-
mond Hastings Court in tho case of
,ino. II. FoindeNtcr, convicted some
months since of killing Charles &.
/ Curtis on tho 3rd OF March last. Poin-
ucNtcr was sentenced to the pcnitcn-
tiary for two years for voluntary man
slaughter.
"A Paris dispatch says the news of
Fdlson's discovery in electric lighting
| has produced somo sensation there.
Count Du Moncol, who is recognized
there as tho highest authority on cleo
tric science, writes to the Temps say
! ing that the new lamp is not new and
warns the public against the pompous
announcement from the New World.
The Senate committees on the
southern exodus organized for bust
ness on Saturday, and will begin TAX
ing testimony this week, when wit
ncsscs will be summoned from Indi-
ana and North Carolina, and later from
other States. The committee do not
at present contemplate going out Of
Washington for the purpose Of the in
quiry.
Tho HfSh Times states that Tho
government is determined to use
t2oo, 1000 of tho church surplus as n
1und to be loaned at an exceptionally
low rate OF interest to landlords and
local bodies for expenditures in the
construction of permanent works in
order to provide labor for unskillcd
workmcn, the loan to be repaid i'm
thirty-five years.
Tho National Grccnback Labor
party conference met at Washington
on Thursday with one hundred and
twenty-five delegates from twontv-
eight States in attendance. Hon, T.
II. Murch, Grecnback Congressman
from Maine, was elected permanent
chairman, and a committed was an
pointed to report upon tho time and
place for the National Convention to
nominate candidate for President.
A special from Cambridge, Texas,
says that OH Saturday Nj. A. Scav. who
was supposed to be insane, went fo fra
residence ofJ, N. Ladd, ten miles cast
oftherc, and shot him dead without
the least provocation. Thence he W. Mt
to Samuel Tubbs' house and shot him
five times. Tubbs is not expected to
live. Scay thcn went to Logan's farm.
informed Logan of what he had done.
and before he could be prevented
placed pistol to his own head and
blew out his brains.
j. B. Manncx, assignee of Arch
bishop Purcell, has filed in the Probate
Court schedule Of the real estate
which is claimed to be liable to sale
for tho benefit Of tho creditors of the
Archbishop. The schedule covers all
the property Of tho Catholic Church
III Cincinnnti-th Cathedral, churches,
parocilial school buildings and lots.
The property is to be appraised, but
Is now estimated to be worth over O.
million and half of dollars. The
attempt to make this property assets
for the creditors will be bitterly con-
tested.
"A Grecnvillo, Miss, dispatch saws
That last wcck. Oity Marshall Mcclure,
OF Lake Providence, while attempting
10 arrest number of fatboatmcn, was
shot and killed. Five men were ar
rested on suspicion and placed under
guard. a number of McGuire's rcla-
lives broke into the room and opened
fire, mortally wounding two, and
crlppling the othcr three. Tho Jury
OF inquest discovered that the man
who Killed the marshal was James
Brown, who escaped in skiff, and
the 1lVc men who were shot wcro in
nocent.
Frauds on the New York Produce
Exchange, said to amount to $31 900,
have been discovered. The dcfaulter
is Benjamin G. Bogcrt, who has been
treasurer OF the exchange for many
years, and was a highly respected
merchant in whom general confidence
was felt. Bogort did not appear at the
Exchange orat his office after the dis
coVery was made, and died suddenly
a friend. 1t is thought that being un-
committed suicide.
JANUARY.-The name Of this month
Is taken from the Latin Janua,i,.s, and
consists Of 81 days. 1t is said to have
been added with February, by Numa,
to the Roman year, which previously
nad but ten months. @It was named
from the double-faccd god, Janus, to
whom its first day, which looks back
upon the past year, and forward upon
that to come, was sacred. It had origi-
nally but 20 days, but two additional
days wcrc given to it by Julius Cesar
when he reformed tho calendar. It
was symbolized in Rome by consul in
consular robes, because those magis-
trates were installed into Office on its
first day. 1t correspondcd in tho Athe-
nian calendar with the latter half of
Poseidcon and tho first half of Game
lion. Among tho Scandinavians it
was called the month of Thor, and
latcr, Ice month. The French Revo-
lutionary calendar merged it in parts
of Nevose and Pluvoisc. 1t was not