The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-10-11

OCCASION by the Charlotte Italian Band,
Nihnsboro must send representative
delegation to Chester on tho coming of
the 18th representative Of hor beauty,
Intelligence and culture.
ITEMS t7s0M TE.isTEnv11nE.
|. The Fcastcrvillc High School,
with Miss MaryV Fcaster as teacher,
has been rcopcncd.
Our cutorprising citizens, Mcssrs.
d. p. and j. IS. Crosby, havc erected
a saw and grist mill ut Herbert.
I've arc authorized to contradict
the rumor publicly circulated last win
ter concerning the elopcmcnt unfortu-
natcly reported.
Mr.. BEN James, who inspected tho
Corner roads few days since, reports
them in hotter condition than Mt any
previous time since the war.
The Crosby Institute has an attcn-
dance of about fifty Pupils, and still
they come. This is right. The young
must be educated, and our people are
too sparsely settled and too needy to
educate them properly without united
action.
George wasliiniigto5a5, wliiiitS55 coioirse1, near
Buckhead, at midnight on the 2Sth ult.,
lost OH clubhouse containing his old
corn, about fifteen bushels of wheat,
and fine lot of good Clothing. The
fire is supposed to have been the work
of an inccndiary.
Mr.. John Simpson, model farmer
Of the Sandy River cotton belt, has
picked only twelve hundred pounds Of
seed cotton from highly manurcd
| field Of five acres, which last year pro-
duced bale per acre. Mr.. T.. j. Gun
ningham has finished picking and eon-
vcrted his cotton fields into PASTURES.
DR.. j. L. Thompson, formerly of
tho Corner but now of Columbia, is
spending a portion Of his Honeymoon,
with his parents and friends in this
section, having married Miss Willie
Carter, of that city, on the 2nd inst.
The Corner tenders its congratulations
! and best wishes to the Doctor and his
, bride.
W" tcnr y" Cornrr man has Sc
crl'''' tho prize subscription to the News
AND iihRALD, so generously offered
~ n" editors, for tho largest water
'n";on. Mnon, sun, drought, molcs
maxi 'i::.'t 1::prc'aiorS-all conspircd
ae&jn-j u. iuc last roblctl Mr.. Cal
wa Ia"i:cH a: lis entire crop Of thirty
III Il single night.
| --1hc rri"rrd people here deny that
they have passed a resolution not to
! engage their w@AA AAa, us cooks and
washers The coming yca;, as has been
reported OF them. They do not think
| they ran be benefited by acting con-
trarily towards the whites, but kindly,
and this feeling prevails, Wo UNDER
stand, III their meetings.
Died of congestivc chills, on the
2Sth ult., Mr.. Jesse G. Boncy; in Ills
thirty-ninth year. He leaves wife
and six small children to mourn his
loss. Besides his many other excellent
qualities as IL citizen and ChrisLiai,
Mr.. Honey was a fine singer, and rs
| such Frequently led the cloirs at Beaver
Creek and other churches, where his
loss will be long severely felt.
1T has been noticed that no man
can possibly approach the editorial
tripod without getting wise beyond
measure, and being stuffed and ready
at the slightest hint to cachlc over any
subject regardless Of time and place
toi DE hcnrHi Of (himsclf antD lis
! tc!loWnien. Whi>, an lcclandic cdi-
tor wnulti i,ruvu 10 be tue most yUiuble
authority OIL uunana culture, another,
swcltcring under his broad Sonl6yer0
III the tropics, could explain to an
Exquimaux the best method of catching
seals. 1t was not, therefore, absurd
that we should have bGGil consulted
with regard to the m0lestation of
molcs, and that we should be able to
suggest al effective remedy hitherto
vainl y. sought for in pots, tai, horns,
rottef eggs and traps. That the family
has increased, notwithstanding this
formidable array Of dcath-dcaling i'll
strumcntsj proves conclusively that the
molcs prefer their flvoritc diet of
watermelon roots to the slow process
of starvation suggested to them by the
pots buried in their runs, and their
sleek coats to one Of star and feathers.
however strangely it may sound.
Moreover, that tlies have respectfully
declined tampcring with horns, simply
because they cannot "come out at tho
little ends' of them; aid, though at
first they did sec in every several rot
ten egg
"a devil in disguise,
And fled with quivering hearts and winged
footsteps homc,"
they have since then learned to laugh
over the huge joke practiscd upon
them by the human family, and to sec
these eggs with undistortcd imagina-
tfons. further on in our investfsan-
tons we discovered tho mole to be q
subtcrranean rpot-eater, and not bird