The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-02-24
The Ice crop will be short this Summer

slope.
Brigham Young's seventy wives are
quite indignant at the report that be is
sick.
A woman gouged out another woman's
eye in Cincinnati last week, and was
6ned 81 for it.
An Ohio farmer, aged 70 years having
attempted to marry a girl of l6, bis
children had him arrested for insanity.
Two men, in Dubois county. Ind, re-
swapped wives. one paying the
other three bushels of corn to boot.
Dr.. Mudd will be pardoned, and it is
believed that Spangler and Arnold will
also receive their pardon.
IAN E"Agricultural Locomotive" has
been built in California that runs 30
plows at one time.
Seven farmers in one Vermont village
= have l02 children. Jonathan Eddy's
It!share is l9. He heads the list.
81 : The Delaware Legislature is said to be
devoting its attention almost exclusively
70 divorces.
So The Elberton Gazette advises farmers
Z to cultivate Sorghum this year to make
sheir supply of,neat hold out.
The Gem of the Antilles will come
4 under the American Wing. We can
=: l then make summer trip to Cuba.
1T ''Barhamville,r near Columbia, was
destroyed by FIRE last Thursday after.
aoon.
A young man named Mcguire lcaped
q; from the fourth story. of a-house in
Charleston, last week, and was instantly
dashed to pieces. lntoxication.
- The House, recently, passed the
Greenville Railroad bill over the Gov.
ernorss veto, by vote of 81 yeas to "A
..e nays. So that 1t now becomes law.
a, The good people of Augusta are in
- ecstacies over the white Fawn." They
prefer the Leg Drama to the Leg islature,
sas'least 50 says the Savannah News.
=. It is estimated that there are nearly
$4,000 young men in Boston under mar
1iage engagements, waiting for better
| times. ..,,.
=. In some sections the farmers are tax.
ing advantage of the Spring-like weather,
Eiand are breaking ground and planting
3: corn. - -->.:..
Republican on dit.-That Dr.. Mackey
is to be ensconsed in the Washington
Cabinet and that O. Duncan will receive
:. . consulship some where in Germany.
,se Not having heard from the debating
societies in relation TO- the eonundrum,
N"Why do hens always lay eggs in the
day time pa contemporary answers,
Z Because at night they arc 'roos,ers."
..so The young men Of Chicago are said
TO be classified according to their skill
ss velocipediSts into the ",imid toddle,s,"
<i;.sthe wary yablers," the ''go it gracefuls'
and the fancy few" .-...
DIR. Mcbride has been found guilty OF
dealing faro in Kentucky, and fined $500.
t-Ia default Of payment, he was sent to
.zthe work-houSe to work out the fine at
Fifty cents per day. ~ ...,.. -. ..
a carpct-bagger, now in the South,
wrote 10 his father lately, in the North:
r.Ceme down here father ; mighty mean
men get Office here NOW. You could be
elected United States Senator without
any trouble ~" ..:. ... .-.
Five of the European sovereigns are
Bachelors. One has beea divorced with.
out going to Illinois Twenty-six of
them are married. especially the Sultan of
Turkey. Six have lost their royal con.
sorss By death. .-... T.. -.-....~ (.
SOUTHWESTERN RAIL ROAD BXNK-At
4 meeting Of the. Board of Directors of
athls Bank John @. Cochran, Esq, was
unanimously elected President, and j.
n. Harlestons Esq. Cashier and Transfer
CLERK, of said Bank. II
ga The Free Methodi>ts are new sect.
They believe in free churches, free pews,
q gospel for the poor, an entire sancti
fscation. and are warning especially upon
the worlAiness ofthe church. They are
. sort Of, PuIitanic host, bnt are In
creasing rapidly.-Chureh Union.
"a story is told OF a young lady. a
teacher in one Of our Sabbath schools,
who, one or. two Sundays ago asked
young ter what was matrimony. He
inistook the question for purgatory and
promptly answered: "A place ofpunish-
nant in this life where some souls suffer
for time before going to heaven"
General Wade Hampton says: "You
cannot go on cotton plantation in Ala.
bama now without hearing The command,
Senator. start right smart toyour cot
ton picking Judge. you 60 and bring
my horse around to the stoop; or, Col
onel. have shoe put on that mule right
along"
The English War Department have
thrown aside the Armstrong gun al
together, after expcnding unold millions
and knighting the inyen,or. The thing
is failure. The British War Office has
issued an order intimating its purpose
TO withdraw all the breech.loading rifled
guns and substituting muzzle-loaders.
The following is list of officers elec-
ted and duly installed in the Grand
Royal Arch Chapter: e..
-1sR. S. Bruins, G. H. p; N. Moses, ID.
CLIP. &c. G. Jaeger, G.. K; James
4. HoyI, G. S.; James R. Pickett, G. c.;
&. r. jackson, G. T E. Thayer, G. S. !;
W.H. D. GaiIlard, G. G of H. E. w.
Lloyd, G. R. A. c.; L. F. Myers, G. S,
"A young man while being married was
shot down by the brother of his bride.
on Tharsday evening, in the Town of
N.-....r;lIo C;l,e No,,nfv ToD,oscoo