The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-11-01
GleaninGs.

in the old land yet.
The Boston Herald says that gentle
man in Stoneham, Mass, has obtained
evidence establishing his claim to the
great Townley estatate in England,
valued ut some fifty millions.
There are forty Eve applications for
divorce at the present term of the Supe.
rior Court now in session at Hartford,
Conn.
The Hon. Ezra Cornell returns an in.
come for the past fiscal year of s1O3.373
probably the largest in the State outside
of New York city.
at fire in London, Ohio, on Thurday
morning, venerable negro called {" Old
Derrick" rushed into one of the burning
buildings and brought out keg of pow.
der.
An editor out West says: "If we have
| offended any man in tie short but brilliant
couase of our career, let him send to us q
new hat, and say nothing about it."
paragraph has been going the rounds
concerning an old lady who has a NOUS
tache on her lip, to which hateful cotem.
porary adds that it is not uncommon for
young ladies to have moustaches on their
lips, but it is rarely that they grow there.
The Duchess of Marlborough was press.
ing her husband, the great duke, to take
medicine, and said, with her earnest usual
manner, "Ill be hanged if it do not prove
serviceable." DR.. Garth, who was present
exclaimed, "Dotake it then, my Lord Duke,
Tor 1t must be OF service one way or the
other.
A man inquired at the post Office in
Erie, the other day. for a letter for Enc
ry Hogden.' He was told there was none.
Look ere,' he replied, little ansrily,
you've hexamined hodd letter for nv
name. 1t don't commence with q hatch
1t begins with ho! Look in the ole
that's got the hos!
A college officer tells the Christian In.
el:igsncer that thirty clergymen petition.-
ed the Board of his College, this year, for
the title of ID. ID. The way in which this
honor is now sought and electioneered for
is disgrace to the profession.
The French sardine fishery has been
more successful this season than it has
been for the last ten years. At Donar
nenez and Goncarneau, the principal CEN
ters of this species Of industry SS4 boats
caught upward of ITO 900 900 sardines in
the month of July alone. the sale produc.
ing 7O7 ,64S i.ancs At the end of the
month, 1000 sardines could be bought for
two francs only.
The editor of the Harrisonburg Ga.)
New Era says he is crediby informed that
DIR Montgomery, living below st Joseph,
hired two negro men who made the mum.
Der of his place forty, and that shortly
after the arrival of these two on his plan
tation they were attacked with the cholera.
1t increased rapidly and SO fatally that
the whole number, including the doctor and
his wife, fell victims to this dread disease.
A good story is told of Western far.
mer, candidate for Congress, whose neigh.
Dor was in the habit Of stealing his hogs,
and was finally caught in the act. Anx.
ious To secure the mans vote and his own
pork ut the same time, the farmer went to
him and said: Now, make this propo-
sition: 1T you will let my hogs alone in the
future, ! will not only say nothing of the
past, but when | kill in the Fall I'll put
into your cellar five barrels Of rs good pork
rs | make The fellow reflected a mo.
ment and replied: "Well, Squire, that's
fair proposition, any how; and seeing as its
you, III do it But vow I shall lose
pork by the operation
On Monday, the oath of Sept. last, an
elderly man, apparently between 50 and
10, threw himself from the column OF the
Bastile, Pans, and falling on the tarpaulin
stretched at the basement of the column
to protect the workmen employed in repairs,
rolled thence to the ground, without receiv-
ing any apparent injury. He instantly
scrambled on his legs. picked up his cap,
and was deliberately walking off, when the
guardians politely requested him to accom-.
pany them to a neighboring guard house,
to give an account OF his sensations Dc
voyage.
Some persons are asking if the little
vessel Red White and Blue is the proper
ty of Barnum. 1t is known to have left
New York, and to have been again seen
off the Start; but there seems some doubt
whether between those wide points rhe
sailed or was carried. Such feat as ocean
navigation by very small vessel is not
unprecedented Seven years since, threo
Cornish fishermen, in an open Cornish
loI Al Ia