The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-17
NEWS or THE D<fY.

from Hayana OH Friday for Vera G uz.
There is contention in San Fran
cisco as, 70 Hvllo shallpny Con. Grants
hotel bill thSrc; s:,
| Miss Mary ADdcrson,. the actress,
has bought for $4,000 the house Of
Matthew Canning, at Long Branch.
Delegates from, ALBANY TO tbe Now
YorkStatc Republican Convention were
chosen last Friday. They arc solid for
Grant.
The unemployed laborers of Dnb.
lin held another demonstration on Fri
day. III their speeches they declared
tnat they were on the brink OF starva-
ton. -.
Tho Treasury Department at
Washington tho other day purchased
$50, ,O00O ounces Of silver for the use of
the mints at: Philadelphia and New Or
leans.
Washington Territory has elected
Blaine delegates to tho Chicago Cor
ycniion. but, unfortunately Tor Mr..
Blaine, territorial delegates cannot
vote.
Hon. Caleb N. Taylor, delegate
from Bucks county, Pa, to the Chica-
go Conycntion, will decline to obey
instructions, and will vote for Blaine.
The Richmond, Va. Irish Rclif
Society has collected SO .5S8, which will
DC sent othc Most Rev. Archbishop
McCabc and the Most Rev. Archbishop
French, Of Dublin, to be distributed
without regard to creed.
"A meeting Of the National Demo-
cratic Committee has been called to
meet at Willmd's Hotel. Washington.
-. e. on Monday, Il, brl lary 23, to
fix the time and place for holding the
noNt National Democratic Convention.
| Edward s. Palmer, President Of
the Louisiana Savings Bank and Safe
Deposit Company, has been convicted
OF cunbczzling on June 2S, 1879. $47-
i31 belonging to or deposited in that
| bank.
The President has issued a procla-
nation warning cvil-tlisposcd persons
contemplating intrusion upon the IN
dian territory that the government will
prevent such unlawful acts by the use
of military force ifncccssary.
Senator Lamar returned to Wash
| ington on Saturday. He is still ob.iy-
cd to use crutch, but otherwise an
pears to be i'll excellent physical and
mental condition and is in good spirits.
lie resumed his scat in the Senate on
Monday.
IS. II. Brummcl, editor of the En-
PRISE, was shot and fatally wounded ut
i!allistcr, CAL, last Thursday by. G.
W. Carlton, editor Of the 1elegiuoh.
brummcl had been called horsc-thicf
III ! arlton's paper, and Carlton, being
called to account by Brummcl, drew a
pistol and shot the latter in the head.
-Frcdcricll Warren has been arrest
cd ut Philadelphia, charged with swim
dling operations in coilusion with II
man named w. X. Wyman. The men
| established bogus commission houses
there and in New York, and swindlcd
their victims out Of forty or fifty thous-
and dollars.
AT Il meeting Of the PHILADELPHIA
Commercial Exchange last week, it
was resolved to- appoint committee
Of twenty-five to obtain supplies of
flour and grain for the Irish sufferers.
Ii was suggested that vessel be sent
from that port with the provisions col
lcctcd. =.
AT Columbia, Tenn, last Friday,
iial lInlcomb struck and knocked
down Milt Carter. Carter then shot
i1alcomb in the face, killing him. 1t is
said that Carter wished to marry Hal,
combs daughter, but that IIalcomb
had forbidden the match and ordered
Carter to leave, or he would kill both
him and the lady.
y. j. Powers, a wealthy manufact-
urcr of cotton seed oil, ofSt. Louis,
having factories III Vicksburg and St.
Louis, who went to philadelphia re-
Gently to consult medical authorities
in regard TO his health, accidentally
shot himsclf through tie heart on
Ihul lay afternoon ut his roums in tho
Continental Hotel. Mr.. Powers was
one OF tho commissioners from Nissis-
sippi to the Centennial Exhibition. -
Reports from Tennessee, Kentuc-
ky and West Virginia show that great
rain and wind storms passed oycrthosc
States OH Thursday night and on Sat-
urday; washing away bridges and do
ing great damage to the growing crops
and other property. The Ohio river
has risen rapidly at Frankfort, Ken
tucky. At Mayficld, Ohio, a family
Of nine persons were drowned while
trying to escape from house while
surrounded by water.
-IA' ilcctlhS Ol St. LOUIS Mer-
chants on Change last week, So, 500 in
money, 5000 barrels Of flour, and va
rious lots of pork, corn, beef bread and
other articles, were contributed to the
Merchants Exchange Irish rclicffund,
and twenty-five or thirty committees,
representing different branches ofbu-
siness, were appointed, and will can
vass tho city at once. 1t is. believed
that ship load of food and other sup
plies will be raised in Il very short
time.
Il TERRIBLE TORNADO.
Serious Damage in tho City OF Nashville