The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-01-20
Lent begins the 10 Feb, prox.
An quiet along the Ogeechee.

Lent oeSlnS tue ~ eeo., PIo"'
An quiet along the ogeechee.
The Chicago word for divorce is family
Dismemberment.'
Qaeen Victoria has fifteen grand
,ehildssa, and it is said expects more
shortly.
. The. sneblest sight on earth is man
TALKING reason and his wife listening to
him:
90 Another New Cotton-tbe Brazilian
Silk Cotton. Who says Cotton amt
King? ---
aSs-.-lYark-- It has -hesa- -a;--A-A-e1
that the beef tongues and beef tea sold
there are made of horse.
Acolored club in Mississippi has passed
resolutions declaring that "the carpet
hsggers cannot be trusted. ~ d"
- The Darien Canal will beaabout thirty
miles In length, including seven mile
tnnnel, and the estimated cost S65, 900, 900.
4 Christmas goose, sent by friend
to two prisoners in Canada Jail, was
stuffed with files aud steel saws. 3
: A New Yesk hair dealer, it is said, has
the longest switch of human hair ever
imported. 1t measures five feet one
inch.
The next regular meeting of the Demo
cratic Club will take place in Columbia
on the Goth instant.
It is stated that Commissioner Rollins
has prepared new tax bill, excepting
newspapers. . '-s....
> Philadelphia can boast of tall police
mao 10 the person of John Rollins, who
is six feet seven and three quarter inches
&in height.
How to make noise in religious
circles Walk into church late with q
pair of creaking boots, blowing your
nose violently.
The baby Prince of Greece is i'm
menseiy popular there, because an old
tradition declares" that prince born
upon Greek soil, and named Constantine,
Shall restore the ancient glory Of Athens.
On Thursday afternoon last, stranger
entering the station at Fond du Lac,
Wis, for the purpose Of taking the train,
was set upon and murdered at the gate,
his watch and money stolen, his body
left, while his assassin took the cars.
a negro outraged married woman
eand.stranglcd her little daughter, IN Mis-
ssissippi, on Saturday night. and was
hanged by the Ku Klux. The husband
, OF the outraged woman, on coming home
and bearing of the affair, cut down the
body and burned it-dapcing around the
flames in the meantime like maniac.
An Intoxicated man recently laid doVs
on the railroad track near the Covington,
Ky, depot, and fell asleep. A little dog
belonging to house close by, seeing a
train approach, ran and jumped upon his
face, and barked and scratched him until
he awoke, just in time to get out of the
way of the cars. The man, believing
this to be divine warning to abstain
from drinking, took the pledge forth
with.
The President sent to the Senate, yes
, terday, January Is, a. protocol in full,
recognizing the naturalization of the
United States, and aboiishing the legal
3; principles heretofore maintained in Great
Britain, of the indefensibility of native
allegiance, and treaty for the adjust
-ment Of all claims, including the Ala
bama claims, by commission to sit at
Washington, with a stipulation to refer.
when necessary, individual claims to the
head of o friendly nation.
Gen. Sherman telegraphs from St.
Louis letter from Sheridan, represent.
ing the destruction of the Camdnche
village, on Christmas day, as breaking the
back bone of the Indian war. Eight
chiefs came to camp, begging for peace
and permission for their people to come
in-asking no terms beyond a paper
protecting them from the troops while
coming. They report their people starv.
ing, all their dogs eaten and no buffalo.
Sheridan denies that Black Kettle was
friendly. or that the fight occurred on
; bis reservation.