The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-23
Local BricfS.


Vaccination is the order orthc day.
The new council is getting cncr-
getically to work.
Mr.. Brice has an elegant luccrnc
patch near the college.
An Episcopal Fair is spoken of in
the not distant future.
"A light shower Of rain fell on Fri
day morning and has had refreshing
effect OIL everything.
Mr.. r.. M. IIucy has opened a
store at the stand formerly occupied
by p. Landcckcr & Bro.
by an inadvortchce the Gypsy
tent was omitted in the list Of attrac-
tons at the Methodist festival.
Blind TOMS concert will be given
in the Thcspian Hall Tonight. A large
number of tickets have been already
sold.
We are Informed that our friend
Maj. II. w. Woodward is luXuriating
these days in fresh trout taken from
his pond.
Mr.. Lorraine Walker was married
last week in Rock Hill to Miss Kate
Sadler, His friends extend hearty
congratulations.
"A mad dog appeared on the
premises of Mr.. A. S. Douglass on
Wednesday afternoon, and was killed
by his son before it did any damage.
The Grand Lodge of the |. O. y.
+. convened in Columbia on the 22nd
instant. DR.. r. =. Ilanahan was the
"'"1~.s"t" r""" N..".,l III" L..lx., az
this place.
by an error n This Office thc a
notice Of 'hc treasurer first gave the
aggregate as ten and five tenth mills
Instead of ten and one fifth mills, 1t
is corrected.
Treasurer J. Q. Davis settled with
the Comptroller General for Sl9,-
l43.86; the mullo bona for the whole
levy, State, county and special, being
only S240. A good showing.
-Mcssrs. McNTastcr, Bricc & Kctch
In and B. Sugcnheimcr arc hayino
large awnings put up in front of their
stores. They will afford delightful
retreats from the hot sun this summer.
The Perpetual Reporter and the
Begun Of Hhopal spend all their spare
time in writing letters to their rcspec-
tive friends. This is bad SIGN for
the bachelors, and the Union will not
tolerate such rcprchcnsiblc conduct.
Tho Archery club was out prac-
ticing on Thursday afternoon. The
young men arc becoming as skiIliul as
the Aborigincs in the use of the bow.
Get the girls out, too. and Cupid will
make more dead shots than whole
regiment Of fellows,
-Wc call attention to the new ad-
vertiscment of Mr.. U. G.. Dcsportcs in
this issue. Parties desiring good,
fresh beer. can have it delivered at
their houses. There is nothing more
delightful than cool glass Of beer.
Call and leave your orders with him.
Trial Justice Neil ahas had case
before him arising under the act passed
by the last Legislature against carry
jng concealed deadly weapons. The
party was charged with carrying and
conccaling razor, which is made a
deadly weapon by the recent Act
The Rev. Dr.. Harvey, of Howard
University, visited Winnsboro n few
days since. He says that Howard
University has eolorcd students from
twcntY-scvcn States and Territories,
and that tho Fairfield students are
holding their own very crcditably.
In our local about Sir Isaac New
toms treatise on Algebra, Geometry
and Comic Sections, tho compositor had
it"Algebra, Geometry and Comic Lee
turcs," and then laid the blame on the
editors handwriting. 1t WAS caught
in the proof, and the Immortal New
toms reputation as a comic lecturer
forever blightcd. y
The Reverend Expcridon, the Bull
garian priest, was, at last accounts,
fishing or Mr.. Gasoway TtowIer's
place OH Broad River. He has two
setter dogs, said to be marvols of intel
]igencc and training. Hc never sleeps
in house, but maroons at different
places, till the spirit moves him to go.
somewhere else.
Our esteemed correspondents and
knight of the quill "vidotte", while
not wholly forsaking the honors of the
quill driver, is Teaching out for those
that more approximately belong to the
pedestrian. He ''bad medicine"
in foot ras.a 'fs,SSon lato occasion
acep1ufd fdmake oldhIS of pedcstrianism
ffTT bis boots. For Ran O'Lcary quake
him, and if ho is too iFdctails, apply to
aamaWakcned c,TiosiHmodest to CRAFTY
nssiss Office, fifty, then apply at