The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-02-10

were read the third time and returned
TO the Senate with amendments.
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EseWatermelons are appearing in Florida.
Legislatures are in session in twenty
stwo States =. 10.
go "a bride in Washington lately intro
duced the style of having her train borne
by three pages. -.
Mush and milk festivals and sardire
ssluS are among the novelties proposed
sin. .Meriden CT. '-..... ~ - J.
81 1t is reported thatthe Mills House, in
Charleston, is to. be reopened soon under
Messrs. Purcell and Horbach, .......
4 waggish editor on the frontier says
that Bis town is lighted up at night with
red headed girls. Our Devil says he
would hike to hug the lamp-posts! "
.. Intthe Georgia Legislature yesterday
motion to consider the vote refusing to
refer negro eligibility to the courts was
-lost-yeas 56, nays rs. II ,@
s!rsFhe Texas Convention has submitted
& Constitution to the; people, and ordered
an election for ,Congressmen and State
officers on the first Monday of July.
T7The New York Times says: "Messrs.
slfason and Siddell will shortly return
te this country in companyzxith Jeffer-
Son Davis" -. ....,..
The entire Village of Craigville, Or
sannge county New York, with five hun
sdredsacses of land and a cotton factory,
has been sold for $40, ,0oo.! ,-.-.a -:
There are . great many names for
masrimony. A new one has recently
Been sprung upon the public: Some
ipunster denominates it 'twoicide.' .s.'.1
saIager beer containing eopperas and
ale idoctcred' with salt, lime and alnm
are among the latest adulteration dis
seoyerfes IN New York. (. =. -, =. > !
,z- -. aai i6s augusta Ga. Chronicle and Sen
-finef says that the cotton crop of that
State. will. yield from thirty TO- forty
million dollars in gold. ,l,I,7,-:E. =
In Minnesota, it is said, every night
the skies fame with auroral lights. and
the days are warm as October: These
paeaomena excite wonder. =. --..@.s -
:, Dabuqae has farmer in its suburbs
who, one night last week. had seven
ikmbs, one calf, seventeen pigs and
baby all born on his farm.
-7sjNrs. aBufum advises the women Of
Chicago TO '.5e careful Of contact with
men, to olive on fruits and vege-
tables, avoid meat and stimuiaats, and
book To- the lord for help"
Spring Hill College, near Mobile, was
destroyed by fire on Thursday night.
The students lost their clothes and barely
escaped With their lives. Loss, $100, 900.
Insurance, $s5,o 900. :.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that, sas a general rule, the merchant
Who doesn't advertise, lacks the sagacity
and discrimination to tuy stocks of goods
worth advertising" IL ..>s1..,,.-,. .
,Women are said TO have stronger at
tachments than men. 1t is not so. A
man is often attachedsto an old hat, but
did you ever know a woman having on
attachment for an old bonnet ?-Echo
answers, No, neYerP -. - =
High authority says that the price Of
cotton viii certainly go down next fall
ewing to the large crop that is to be
planted the coming season. If so, We Of
tke &wheat region !" should deal more
largely in spring wheat. =. .,
IA negro girl, aged eleven years, eight
nenshs and eighteen days, living near
Pulaski, Tennessee, a short time since,
gave birth to female child. TIE mo-
ther aud child are both living and in
perfect health. = =. g *. x
Sitka is said to be nearly depopuiated.
Every one who went there wanted to
keep ssloon. There being no one TO
pay for drinks, where all were barkeep.
ers, Sasiness became dull, and now the
emigrants sre going back to San Fran
cisco. ........
The population of Memphis, ,Tennes-
see, was established at sixty thousand
tssFee years ago. A late census returns
but thirty.nine thousand. The decrease
IS attributable to the terrible condition
Of Tennessee under Brownlow and the
negro rule. ,..-. s,.........-.
aRETuEN sDAY.-Wednesday last was
Return Day for the Court of Common
Pleas for this County. We learn, from
the Clerk, that about two hundred writs
were returned. No cases were issued
under $50, magistrates being. conceded
exclusive jurisdiction in demands to that
mount-Laurensville Herald. ii.
- writer in a western paper says Wig
fall, of Texas is somewhere in depressed
circumstances, and advocates his return
to Texas. We had supposed Wigfall
dead; but if he is alive let him return
with other exiles. We hope soon 10 see
the day when there shall not be solitary
Involuntary exile from the country.
Our Local takes q stroll about the
city every day, to pick up items. He
says be picked up several good ones last
Sunday. We suppose be did-at any rate
weaoticed q very interesting item hang
ing on his arm at church Sunday night.
Cans exactly say that it was local
thoagh-it had black eyes News.