The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1881-01-26
NEWS or TIE DAY.

up the Queens speech.
Tho House committee is still con-
sidcring the question of canal charters
| for the Isthmus.
The "unkn0wn assassin" is still
abroad in Texas. lie has fatally shot
Dir. Bryan.
-The hand-to-hond fight between
Skobcloff's forces and the Turcomans
was bloody but vain for the assaultcrs.
The naval appropriation bill
passed tho Senate very easily. No
amendments.
The gillant David Davis seems to
be IN charge of tho woman's rights
bill in tho Scnutc.
The Jewish agitation has resulted
! in numerous challenges to sword
ducls IN the Berlin University.
"A morocco manufactory was
burned on "Wednesday at Lynn, Mass,
and one or two other tuctorics de-
stroycd.
The capital stock of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company has been i'll
creased by an addition of ten millions
of dollars.
General Scwcll, Republican, will
be sent as United States Senator from
New Jersey to succeed Mr.. Randolph,
Democrat.
Justin McCarthy's amendment to
the Queens address ia the House Of
Commons WAS defeated. 1t received
the votes Of most of the Home Rulers.
The National Woman's Suffrage
Association is in session in Washing
ton. This move is gaining ground in
some Western States.
The fire seems to have gotten the
best Of Milton, N. H., yesterday.
Some towns further south arc suffer-
ing from the other element.
The Tennessee Democrats are still
at a deadlock in the Legislature, mean
while Republicans are gradually work.
ing up plans to unscat them.
Tho Hon. Philetus Sawyer has
been nominated for United States Sell
ator by the Republicans of Wisconsin,
succeeding Angus Cameron.
Representative Loring, of Massa-
chusctts, has made an argument in his
own behalf upon the floor Of the
House. His seat is contested.
An important cotton tic decision
has been recently rendered in New
Orleans. ~ distinction is made be-
tween the hook and cyc-thc tic and
buckle.
The funding bill has finally passed
the House Of Congress by a vote of
l35 to 1875. The Senate may now
throw aside its private calendar and
"takc Il whack att the three per cents.
The right Of national bank di-
rector or stakeholder to vote on the
funding was questioned on Wedncs-
day in the House. Congress should
summons all such challenged capital
lists and begin to take testimony.
-Tclegraphic shares were tluctua-
ting on the goth in the New York Stock
Exchange. The progress Of Mr..
Springcr's resolution has toned down
the giant shares.
The New York Supreme Court
have granted an injunction restraining
the telegraph companies from entering
into any agreement of consolidation,
and from issuing script to increase
stock, sc.
Bolton and Blackburn, masters in
England, refuse the advance in wages
asked by cotton operatives, and threat
Gil to close up their shops. This Is
another element OF the rent troubles
in the United Kingdom, though not so
apparent as in Ireland.
Sunset Cox is happy. lie was in
the speakers chair on Thursday pre-
siding over the committee Of the whole
House on the appropriation bill. We
trust the committee will make the
navy whole.
Tile deadlock over tho Pcnnsyl-
vania Scnatorship continues. Oliver
is rccciving tho Cameron support, but
this Pittsburgh iron champion does
not seem like succccdly. lie is q
machine man, and Grow. his oppo-
ncnt, is poorer and ill-vcrscd in the
ways Of a politician. Senator WAL
lace, Democrat, leads the race.
A WOSDERrrJ. SwALLOwER,"--C1cO leo.
Wilson, more tamiliarly known as the
"frog man," died in StraiIorl u few
days ago. Last July he caught n frog
and swallowed it alive. This was In
the forenoon, and in the afternoon he
complained ofn severe pain in his
stomach. He was sick several weeks
under the care Of a physician, and got
better. The first of last month he
came back to Straflord, but had work
ed but few days when he was taken
sick with inflammation OF the stomach
and bowels. There is no doubt but
his death resulted from the swallow.
ing of that frog. Wilson seemed to
have mania for swallowing living
things. On one occasion he caught q
green snake more than a footlong, and
swallowed it alive. At another time
he caught q black snake, about five
feet long, cut it open, took out its
heart, and swallowed it while pulsA-
ing. AT the time nc swallowed the
frog thcpiirst time, his frogsliip, not
liking his quarters, turned around and
came back. 1t was not until the Soc
ond or third time he swallowed it that
he succeeded imprisonimg him in his
stomach DOUer Democrat.
StCKNEss.-A New York letter says:
"Malaria is becoming the terror Of
New York and all tho surroundings
In the city the poison comes from de-
fcativc sewerage, while the country
suffers from railway cmbankncnts
and other impcdimcnts to free over
tlow." This is the first time we have
seen such u charge brought against