The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-03-28
q EN- ER.fL GOSSIP.

| Tho people of Lancaster nre taking
steps to buy fire engine for The town.
~ temperance society lus been or
!anlzcd by the co!or"d people III Aiken.
| --frangcburg pays one hundred and
| fifty dollars IL month for the support of
| pall,crS.
The total value Of all the taxable
property in Aiken county is s. ,SSl $50
| and ,hc total taxes paid for all pur-
pnScs S53,l3O.59.
Col. Samuel Wnllingford, the
Glrcnbnck Apostle. was announced TO
peak at Hodges last Saturday aud at
Ninclr-siX on the first Saturday in
April.
Miss Hattie Gale, Of Montreal,
Canada, has been added to the faculty
OF the Deaf and Dumb and Blind In
Stiin'i"n ut Limestone, Spartanbury
county.
The Richmond and Danvllle COM
bination will sell tickets to the dele
gates to the Baptist Convention, which
meets in Grcenvillc. for five cents &
mile the round "trip.
There are forty-Iwo business
stands in Marion, six of them being
hnrroomS, illrcc drug Stores and the
'IhcfE ls'Ghe store to Mcry stwciity-tlrc
inhabitants of the town.
The Richmond aud Danville Rail-
road having absorbed the line of road
connecting Charlotte and S.atcsvilic,
iralnS OF the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta RaiIr,ad arc now running
through TO Siatesvillc.
The Democratic executive commit
~ Aiken county met on the 18th AMI
adopted il resolution. c:lliuyu cu.,vr:,
ion on The 10th OF May, for the purpose
Il clcctinG Il county chairman for next
wa years, and such ether business ~.
might properly come before the con-
vct,iJn.
AT a meeting Of the State Board Of
Agrirulturc. held last Wednesday, Mr..
ID. =. Duncan introduced u resolution
providing for the abolition Of the Office
# Superintendent Of Inmigrati M
|"ow held by Col. e. NJ. Boykim) and
'"v"'vin.! its duties upon tie Cnmmi>
| innrr of Agriculture. The rcSoln.in.
w''s laid over for consideration at In,
Ma" meeting ofthc Board.
~ Grccnback club has been organ.
'Zcd at Wise's Mills, ili Ricl,lanu c0un
| : '''' 'oli WIFI IL reporter !
lac columbia Rp1i1nr. who was pres
G #, Mr.. Wise, President of the elm .
declared that the organization was H.
tndcd 10 break down the Drmocraiic
''artv in this State. and for hiusr,f hr
"nrhnSizcd the fact that nc was n r..
'uhlican and he wonld send his soul l,
hell before hr orId vote the Demo
cratic ticket again.
a female missionary has been
nrcarh"& among the rolurcd people o.,
N'Whcrry. The UernN snys: "Shc ia
ra1'rr good locking, about twenty-fivc
years or age, and her name is Miss Ella
brennan. She is ii'pu Minnesota. a.,
j.; sent down South. bc tho Wo,na,,
! missionary Society North, to W,,:
'.mHGg the colore,l people. Her chic.
'':!rct IS 10 organize sewing sncictjc.
q l;G !h" coi.,rcd women md Girls. sn
n l".cli them how to be good ho,,sc-
4 'r"rS: She combines wits fflfy worl.
h'> ru"tions "ll religion aud temper.
in"r."
"A terrific fsurd;~r uas committed
10 lie plantation Of ilc lion. W. u.
Jr:''.>''n. ai Savage Landing, ON Pee
D. River, in Marion county. on Sun.
g." II gi,t. Sukry Blaine, colorcd, was
"lnt to death by an unknown party
while in her cabin, the gttn bciug lfirt;;
through the logs Of the wall. A Negro,
man anR his vii" were arrested, sus.
nlrion pointing strongly TO tlItiS ynit
Tie m II was caw d. but lhc wnma!
was safely lodged in Jail at Marion
Ono Snpposilion is that The negro mai,
Killed the woman, who was abrut tu
br confined 10 hide his gull. Anolhc,
suspicion is that his wife fired the fatal
shot while her husband was in the cab.
in with the murdered woman, or ac-
count of jealousy.
"A comNril Of the Catholic bishops
Of the Province of Baltimore was held
af tho Archepiscnnal residence in tha!
city on Wednesday to nominate three
persons from whom the Vatican will
select Il successor TO the late BisRoI
lynch, OF Charleston. Archbishop,
Gibbons presided over the council.
me snffragans present were Kcan of
Richmond, Kain OF Wheeling, Becker
OF Wilmington, Nopthrop of North
Carolina, Gross Of Savannah and Moore
of st. Augustine. The names selected
by the council are preserved i'm invio-
late secrecy, and the choice of one ont
OF the three will not be known until il
comes from Rome. Those who indulge
IN speculation Oh The subject mention