The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-22
GENERAL GOSSIP.
--sonator-elect Garfield began life as
wood chopper and conol dr;yn,.

--Senator-elect Garfield began life n
Wood'cloppcr and canal driver,
MI. John Mccullough, tho actor
has already earned 800 600 this seoso,
as his own share clear Of expenses.
The first time Adelina Patti SANE
Marguerite at Convent Garden las
season the receipts were 81 400, OF
about $1,000.
Miss Nillson, Miss Mary Andcr
son AND Miss Lotta will shortly be act
ing IN Boston, simultaneously, at differ
cnt theatres. 1890
Miss Nancy Smith, who was lately
anmiltcd to the bar at Kcokuk, was
entertained at Il banquet upon the oc.
caslon by her brothers in the law.
Tho annual races over the Ten
Brock course at Savannah, Ca, will
begin on Tuesday. A large number of
fast horses arc on The ground.
,--Gen. Grant and party have cnean-
cu passage on the steamer "CitV of
AlcXandria," which is expected to
leave Havana for Mexico February Is.
Mrs. Margaret Tumy, whose case
has created widespread interest, died
IN Cincinnati on Tuesday. She has
lived since Dcccmbcr 10 with no food
excepting two beans.
"A report which had obtained cir
culntioN in New York that the Hon.
Charles O'Conor was about TO NAVY
Mrs. Hicks-Lord is cmphatically de-
MED by intimate friends of that gentle
man.
M. Jules Favrc, the eminent
french statesman and Republican
mcmpcr OF the Senate, and also q mem
Der OF the French Academy, died on
Monday night at Versailles, ut the age
Of sevcnty-onc years.
"A dispatch from Rome to I,on-
don paper says the Pope is surprised
and indignant at Cardinal McClosky's
reception Of Mr.. Chas. S. Parnell in
New York, and has ordered Cardinal
Nina, Pnpal Secretary ofStatc, to tcle-
graph to Cardinal McClosky for infor-
maiion OH the subject.
-Twenty-six deaths have occurred
lms month in Dcadwood, Dccota, and
TIC helghhoring camps, twenty -four of
which We're caused by the prevailing
throat and lung epidemic in that Sec
ton. With population of less than
seven thousand persons this death rate
is very high. WV
The colored people, headed by
Elijah Barker, who arrived in Philadrj.
phla on Saturday from Arkansas, yiu
New York, where they failed to catch
the steamer for Liberia, have been
taken in charge temporarily by the
pennsylvania Colonization Society.
"A detachment of seventy New
3ork policemen made q descent Satur-
day night OH the dance house and con-
cert saloon kept by Theodore Alien,
and known as the "Hotel Mobile"
and arrested three hundred men and
one hundred women, who were dane
ing, drinking and smoking.
1t is announced that the lines Of
the Amorican Union Telegraph Com
pany will be opened early this week
tor general business. A contract with
the pennsylvania Railroad Company.
by which The telegraph company has
been admitted for long term of wears
TO all the tclcgraphic privileges Of that
company, has been completed.
Tho widow ofcx-Presidcnt TYLER
has asked Congress for pension. on
the ground Of the immense depression
IN the value of her real estate, the
mortgages Oh her Northern PROPERTY
having been forecloscd, and those on
Il her S9Yt!G!Ar!A! .Nr9pGGtEy: ~copsttsqi%atlY sttsqi%at
have scarcely anything whatever loft
to live upon"
Tho Republicans Of Congressman
Voorhis' district have asked him to re-
sign, in consequence Of his alleged
crooked work in the Bergen County
Bank and in forging water bonds.
Not without some difference of opin-
ion, however, was this conclusion
reached. II was freely acknowledged
that in the event Of his resigning,
Denacrat would be selected in his
place, and that would make the New
Jersey delegation Democratic instead
Of Republican, and, in the event of
tho Presidential election this
year into the House, might decide the
result.