The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-09
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Saturday, February 9. 1855
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New Advertisements.
Notice-M. A. Glazebrook.

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The south-bound Florida trains
were both about ten hours late on
Friday.
-Rev. 4. NJ. Dent being absent
there will be no services at the Metho-
dist Church On Sunday.
The union service will be held at
the Presbyterian Church by Rev. DR..
Law of the American Bible Society.
: The creditors of the assigned estate
of q. G. Desportes met on Friday
afternoon, and appointed Jas. O..
Davis, the assignee, their agent.
Mr.. J. D. McCarley's horse which
fell in the well is getting over Ais
injuries. The only thing that saved
the horse at all was the large opening
caused by caving of the walls.
The cold wave will not make a
faverable impression on northern
capitalists visiting the south. If they
will remain few days, they will soon
find that it is rare visitor with Us.
Misses Hattie E. Kennedy and
Clyde Clayton have contributed to our
educational columns among the first.
We are thankful to them for their con-
tributions, and We hope that others
will follow their lead.
ALI subscribers to the Tri-W eekly
NEWS AND HERALD will oblige us by
settling for their paper. There are a
great many who still owe us for it.
We need the money and cannot con-
Gnue the paper unless settled for.
Mr.. J. K. Henry, Of Chester, has
beea appointed Solicitor of this cir
cult. Mr.. Henry was candidate for
the place in 1892, and made good
race. We think that he will be gen.
orally acceptable to the people of the
circuit.
Prot. Ducello's entertainment at
the college was we'll worth the entrance
fee. The negro dance andsthe negro's
lecture on temperance was highly
amusing. Prof. D. travels in private
conveyance and camps out. He attends
to stock ranch in the West when not
engaged in the entertainment.
An agent for the Werner Pub
lishing Company, selling the Encyclo-
p@dia Britannica, says that the article
80 offensive to the South has been
omitted from the book as now sold.
We make this statement in justice to
the company having said what we did
in our editorial columns in the last
issue.
The big Columbia Gum has tsrned
ont to be miserable fraud. It will
be remembered that Gum came to
Columbia several years ago as a pro-
prietor, aud said that be wanted to
start s5,oOo.0Oo bank there. He
turns cat to be very impecuuious and
he seems not to have a very snviable
reputation.
-Winnsboro pays out in fire iusur-
aace premiums on an average of ten
thousand dollars year. This money
ought to be left in the community.
If the money that has been paid for
Western meat, horses and mules, life
and fire insurance companies in the
North and elsewhere, had been kept
in the South, it alone would have
built more cotton factories than are
needed to manufacture our cotton.
We believe that q thorough examina-
ton Of the insurance losses in WINS
boro and an accurate ascertainment of
the amount that has been paid out in
premiums would demonstrate that we
not only could have insured our own
property without any loss but that
today we would have had a large capi-
tai accrued, representing the excess Of
the amount paid in premiums over the
actual losses. Ten thousand dollars is,
we believe, conservative estimate Of
premiums paid in Winpsboro per
annum, yet the losses have not aver
aged ive thousand dollars a year.
In other words, Winnsboro could con-
tribute FIVE thousand a year 20 the
capital stock of fire insurance COM
pany. In ten years, with the accrued
interest, this would give capital
sufficient to cover any possible loss.