The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-04
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photographic department of the govern
ment, proposes to reach the open Polar
Sea and the Pole itself bya route never
before tried. The project has been well
received, and subscription has been
opened. AS soon as 60O,000f. are ob-
! tanned the enterprise will be carried out.
Among the fifty names appended to the
announcement are those of Ellie de Beau
! mont, Chasseloup Laubat, Michel Cheval-
Jier, Drouyn de Lhuys, Guizot, Emile de
Girardin, De Quatrefages. Leonce de
Lavergne, Leon Say, Alfred Maury and
Milne Edwards. The Emperor Napoleon
has given his full approval to the project
The people of Java have rather live
" time of it. -: According to the latest of.
-fcial statistics contained in the Tidis-
ohrift Eor Nederlandsch Java, the tiger
has, in one sirgle year, consumed exact
ly one hundred and fvrty eight human
beings, and in another year one hundred
and thirty-one. The crocodiles cleared
an average Of fifty people year, while
serpents accounted for between twenty
TWO and forty three But the Dutch
seem TO accept their fate with character
istic equanimity. The Governor Gene
raj, long while ago, offered as prize
for every tiger that was killed the, mu.
ni6cent sum of twenty two gilders f$l0).
His subjects apparently prefer being
eaten by the Tiger.
HANDLING FIRE Arms CAREEEssLY.-
On Saturday last, as two lads-G. M.
Goodwin and NJ. Shelton--were watching
for -bull-bats, Goodwin raised bis gun and
pointed it at bis companion, when the
piece was accidentally discharged, Shell
ton receiving about fifty small shot in
different parts of his head and body.
The wounds are painful, but he is not
considered seriously injured. We are
informed that another shooting affair be.
tween youngsters occurred few days
agn, in which, luckily, nobody was hurt.
Guns are dangerous weapons in the
hands Of boys.-Celumbia Phoenix.
A loving father in Brooklyn, under
took to ''eorrect' one 1of: his daughters
with horsc-whip, as she was retiring
for the night. He carried the punish;
ment so far as to drive the poor. girl
frantic, and breaking from his grasp she
ran screaming through the street. Her
eldest sister followed the half.dressed
girl just in time to see her caught,
thrown down and brutally outraged by
an officer who met her on the corner
The mau escaped, the girls gotShome.
without further accidents and the fa-
ther, we trust, soon, after died. = :
"A most extraordinary, If not sanguipa-
ry, duel vas fought at Eeehawken few
days since by an Englishman and
Cuban, to settle quarrel arising from
the claims of each to the hand of a beau.
tiful young heiress: Three shots were
exchanged the Englishman had the tip
of his ear shot off, and the, Cuban was
shot in the left posterior. The seconds
then interfered, the surgeons attended
to the wounds, and alt returned to their
homes. ...->.~ =, .
a man is now lying, in the St. Jean
Hospital IN Turin, in a complete state
of fethargy. He is quite insensible to the
prieks from needles, and the soles Of mis-
feet are also. without feeling, Some
shocks of electricity have alene produced
any effect On him. He is twenty-four
years of age, and for the last few Days
has liEed on milk passed through bis nose
into the !oesophagus. .-. Z:
j., Con1Ns .ELEcFfoSs. California
election is ,hefi on the first Monday of
September; Maine on the second Monday
of Septc,n Der; Ohio, Pennsylvania and.
Iowa on the second Tuesday in October {;
and, Massachusetts, Minnesota aud Wis.
.consin ON the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der. ~. Z, r:
- The bugs took possession of the Des
Monies Register Office last Monday
night, forcing everybody to leave the
premises. On account of their visit to
the capital all the stores and places Of
business we're closed. "A similar occur.
renee transpired at, Mnscatine a few
weeks since. =,
The Lincoln county (Tenn) News says:
Never in the history of this county has
the prospect been so promising for an
abundant corn crop. In some localities
the stalks are falling 70. the, ground from
the actual weight Of the ears of corn.
+ The Greensboro Herald says awe
saw stalk efcotton On Capt. p. Poul-
laine's place that contains 500 bolls and
shapes. He has an acre that will aver.
age five. feetin height and, 100 bolls to
the stalk.
One NJ. Bureau is said to have fed to
France with $50, 900, abstracted from the
Government funds at, Vera Cruz. The
pecufarity OF the operation suggests the
probability that this N. Bureau belonged
to the Freedmen's Bureau family.
Mike Lipman, the circus man, is com.
ing to grief financially. At Wiikesbarre,
Pa, the other day, the Sheriff took com
mand of his show, and sold six of his
finest horses for debt. They brought
$4,000.
He will need "more horse"
1t seems to be supposed that General
Gordon Granger is the ''oficer of the
Regular Army" who is to be appointed
to the charge of the Freedmen's Bureau
in case General Howard is displaced.
New York is getting up fair for the
journeymen mechanics throughout the
Union, to exhibit the products of their
ingenuity and industry. 1t is proposed
for next spring.
A thousand young ladies. between the
ages of sixteen and twenty, left New
York early this week for the Western
frontiers. They go in search of gold and
silver and nrecionS stones