The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-03-29
General News Items.

King William is reported seriously i'll.
A Western editor represents money as
'tclose. but not close enough to reach"
The Kentucky papers are filed with Ku
kluX operations.
There are twcnty-one murder cases await
ing trial in Jonesboro, Georgia.
The recen, surrcndcrs leave but two small
bands of Insurgents To C!eniueSos District.
Peaches are formed anI growing quite rap
idly. in New Orleans.
There are now about 2Go postmis:resses in
the United >:ayes,
The new hammer in tue Bessemcr Steel
Works af Ila shu:G. P4 weighs 1000 lbs,
aud cost S92 OUt.
A legal ger,!t,n,.r calls LIS morning cock
tall Scire Fucias, because it "revives his
judgment"
A thsler, or German dollar, Is equivalent
to about seveury-'hrec cents Of orr money
q millisri is thousand millions.
A lad erawId into sugar ho9shead and
his first exclamation was, ooh, tor thou.
sand tongues.
"Do you see anything ridiculous in this
wig?', Suid brother barrister TO Curran.
"NOthing bpt the head. he replied.
St. Petersburg is said TO be slowly bnt sure
ly sinking wiki the swamps upon which 1t is
built.
1t costs $4,000 coo to build and 1915 900 a
year 10 run 8 tirSt-cIass American nayal-YeS-
gel.
There are jus, 100 Democrats in the House,
with Conuec icut, California and Texas un-
represented.
1t may not be generally known that editors
get one important item Of Subsistence IT d
low pricc-they get hored for nothing.
Nakocon having invested largely in
American stocks, it is rumored that he Will
bring his famil; TO reside on this Continent.
Arnod's self-ac,ing washer is saiG to he
the best thing invented for house>keepcrs,
since Noah came out Of the ark.
In the absence Of anything else just at pres
eut 10 pitch into poor St. Louis about, the
Chicago clcrgynen are preaching on The
lessons of the recent tornado.
The Old and New Magazine says: "a poll
tician Is u man who thinks Of the next cleo
tion; while statesman thinks Of the next
SenelutloH-
The African Repository sayR that large
nun berS of colored people have left, and are
preparing 10 leave, toS Liberia. The RepoSi.
tory believes thar they arc "diyneIy moved -
The Phenix says that white hen laid a
very large egg in Columbia the other day,
with The letter 4 upon it. Said hen died
soon after LAYING the Ku K!ux egg She is
stuffed and on exhibition at Barry's Saloon.
The second regiment of Prussian Land.
wher, composed almost entirely of married
mrn, left over 5000 chi!,ireu at home. That
-he heads Of these mcI were level, cannot be
doubted, for had they not left them al home,
confusion wouId have resulted.
The latest proposal for marriage WAS donc
by releg,aph 4 gentleman sent message
to the father that he wanted his daughter,
and the reply was received that he could
have her. The next train brought swain,
when the couple were made twain, and left
Immediately on q tour. Report says they
went by telegraph.
a lady residing in a German city, which is
very heavily taxed for men and money by
the war. writes 10 her friends that the cost of
living is so much increased in consequence
that she has TO pay 65 cents for pair OF KID
gloves "wiIh TWO buttons" that 4 new silk
bonnet costs nearly dollar il gold, cab
for TWO persons TO the opera and back 81
cents. and washing is charged for ut the ex-
travagaut rate Of - cents dozen pieces.