The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-02-27
GENERAL GOSSIP.

,-Richmond complains of an unusu-
az hulnbcr OF bcgg0rs who porambu-
late the streets and invade business
offices anil residences.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is
asked by a committee of physicians to
pass law appointing 4 board for tho
distribution and delivery ofdcad bodies
to the medical colleges.
| -Mahonc is reported as threatening
that unless ilo shall get a prominent
place on the Senate Finance Commit
tee, "Mc and Kiddlebcrgcr will raise
hell with Republican calculations whcn
tho new Senate is organizesi."
-Senator-e1cct Colq,itt, of Georgia,
lectured IN Cleveland, Ohio, last Sat
urtay evening, and was introduced to
the audience by eX-President IIaves.
(Which reminds u.s." says the Mobile
Register, "that party named Haves
was once President OF tho United
States"
The savings banks Of Now York
, are embarrassed by the restrictions as
TO the Investments they may make-so
vast have their deposits become. Some
OF them have been compelled to dis
courage further deposits, so difficult is
. 1t to find use for the money.
The Chiramen Of San Francisco
are buying property in tho suburbs and
moving thither, because tho owners OF
property occupied by them in the city
will not make repairs, although dcriv-
ing large revenue from the Eentals.
The Chinese Six Companies arc aiding
the movement.
Some Maine officers attcmptcd TO
seize a carload Of beer in Portaud tho
other dav, buta locomotive came along
and carricd both beer and officers TO-
gethcr to- Portsmouth, N. H., fifty
miles away, where it is not unlawful
to hole beer for sale. 1t is not related
how the officers got back to Portland.
Hannibal iIamlin addressed the
students of C6lbv University, in Water
vile, Me-, on the "'I":purtanee of
Practice in Extcmpore Speaking." at
the conclusion Of the address he pre-
scnted to the college All oil ",ainting, a
copy OF tho portrait OF 4. ristonhcr
columbus in the Naval Mrscum ut
Madrid, believed to be the mos authcn-
tic likeness of tho great discovcrcr.
Tho portrait will be placed in the
library for the present.
Judge James Dawkins died at his
home in Gainesville, Florida, Monday,
the 18th inst. He had an attack OF
apopleXy few days before and never
rallied. lie is the last Of q notable
family Of brothers, some Of ,relnark-
able another in her day and time. Mrs.
Gen. Rogcrs, Of Union county, is the
only Surviving mcmtcr Of the family,
and she lis advanced in years and quite
infirm.-Cu1Uiinu Spartan.
Abraham Lincoln was really q
modest and selt-distruSting person, as
many things show. The latest pub
! lishcd fact in proof or it is the slate
mcnt that he wrote q letter IN 1859 to
aias friend II. j. Pickett, Of Rock
Island, Illinois, in which he said: Gas
to the other matter you kindly mcn-
ton, [ must, in cand0r, say | do not
think myself fit for the Presidency" :"
The letter is now in the possession of
4 gentleman Mt Lincoln, Nebraska.
Macon. Ga, YeicgraDh: "Whcn
free trade Senators move to put up the
duty on certain articles, in which their
constituents are Interested, and protec-
tion Senators favor putting on the free
list articles in which their constituents
are not interested, it will not be su, =
plIslnE tnaC sInGcre, IuuItGr-OI-Iu; q
people look at tho whole business as a
regular catch game for mere political
advantagc-w;th painful evidences OF
uncertainty AS to the direction in which
tho advantage Lies"
-The will Of the late William T..
Dodge disposcs Of an estate valued at
five million dollars. lie had for MANY
years fund from which he educated
Young men for the ministry, and this
iai'i is c"iitinuc,i, $SJ0 500 being sci
apart for that purpose. The Amcri.
can Board of ofComn.issioncAs for Foreign
Missions receives an additional Gift of
$40, 900. The Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions receives 300. 900.
The Syrian Protestant College, at Bcv-
rclst, OF which he laid the corner stone
III 1871, has a prominent place. Tie
American Tract Society is a lcgatcr,
and so arc the metropolitan Museum
OF Art and the Museum OF Natural
History in Central PaRls. The Chris
tian Homo for Incorporate, Men was
recently given al 900, and is not men
toned in the will. The rest of The
beqncAs relate to Southern iusti,u-
'tions. The University at Atlanta,
Ga, Lincoln Univcrity,. and ITampion
and CaEMSlc Institutes receive consid-
cradle sums. The whole amount given
to benevolent objects is about S,60,-
O0O, in sums ranging from - 900 10
! $4,000.