The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-17
NEWS or TIE Day.


! General Grantnnd his party sailed
from liayana OH Friday for Vera Q w.
-|Thcre IS q contention in San Fran
cisco as 5to who shallpny Con- Grants
hotel; billtherc; :;'
Miss Mary 'Andcrson,, the actress,
has bought for, $4,000 tho ho,,sc OF
Matthew Canning, at Long Branch.
- Delegates from Albany to the Now
YorkStatc Republican Conv cntion were
chosen last Friday. They arc solid for
Grant.
The unemployed laborers Of Dub-
lin held another demonstration on Fri
day. IN their speeches they declared
that. they were on the brink Of starva-
ton.
Tho Treasury Department al
Washington the other day. purchased
800, 10000 ounces Of silver for the use of
the mints at Philadelphia and Now Or
leans.
-Washington Territory has elected
Blaine delegates to the Chicago Co..
ycntion. but, unfortunately for Mr..
Blaine, territorial delegates cannot
vote.
Hon. Caleb N. Taylor, delegate
from Bucks county, Pa, to the Chica-
go Convention, will decline to obey
instructions, and will vote for Blaine.
The Richmond, Va, Irish Rclif
Society has collected S3 ,58S, which viii
be sent to- the Most Rev. Archbishop
McCabc and the Most Rev. Archbishop
French, of Dublin, to be distributed
without regard to cree
"A meeting Of the National Demo-
cratic Committee has been called to
meet ut Willard's Hotel. Washington.
D. G.. on Monday, f, br lary 23, to
fix the time and place for holding tho
neXt National Democratic Convention.
Edward S. Palmer, President of
the Louisiana Savings Bank and Safc
Deposit Company. has been convicted
Of cmbczZling on June 2S, 1879. $47-
l37 belonging to or deposited i'll that
bank.
The President has issued procla-
nation warming cvil-disposcd persons
contemplating intrusion upon the In
dian territory that the government will
prevent such unlawful acts by the use
of military force Unnecessary.
Senator Lamar returned to wash
ington on Saturday. He is still ob.ig-
Ell to use crutch, but otherwise ap-
pears to be III excellent physical and
mental condition and is in good spirits.
lie resumed his scat in the Senate on
Monday.
S. II. Brummel, editor Of the En-
prise. was shot and fatally wounded at
Ilallistcr, CAL, last Thursday by G..
W. Carlton, editor of the Yeic0iuph
Brummcl had been called horsc-thicf
III I arlton,s paper, and Carlton. being
called to account by Brummcl, drew u
pistol and shot the latter in the head.
Frederick Warren has been arrest
ed ut Philadelphia, charged with swim
dling operations in colusion with u
man named W. X. Wylnan. The men
established bogus commission houses
there and in New York, and swindlcd
their victims out Of forty or fifty thous-
and dollars.
AT meeting Of the PHILADELPHIA
Commercial Exchange lust week, it.
was resolved to appoint committee
Of twenty-five to obtain supplies of
-four and grain for the Irish sufferers.
1t was suggested that vessel be sent
from that port with the provisions col
lectcd.
AT Columbia, Tenn. last Friday,
Hal llnlcomb struck and knocked
down Milt Carter. Carter then shot
l1alcomb in the face, killing him. 1t is
said that Garter wished to marry Hal
COMBS daughter, but that Halcomb
had forbidden the match and ordered
Carter to leave, or he would kill both
him and the lady.
j. j. Powers, a wealthy manufact-
nrcr 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 himself through tie heart or
Thur S lay afternoon at his rooms in the
Continental Hotel. Mr.. Powers was
one of the commissioners from Missis-
sippi to the Centennial Exhibition.
-Reports from Tennessee, Kentuc-
Ky and West Virginia show that great
rain and wind storms passed over those
States on 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
lucky. At Mayficld, Ohio, family
OF nine persons were drowned while
trying to escape from house while
surrounded by water.
AT n meeting of, St. Louis Mer-
chants on Change last week, $4,000 in
money, 5000 barrels of -four, 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 of5u-
sincss, were appointed, and will can-
vass the city at once. 1t is. believed
that ship load of food and other sup
plies will be raised in very short
time.
4 TERRIBLE TORNADO.