The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-08-23
General News Items.

The potato blight it is feared will almost
destroy the Irish crop.
DR.. II T. IIelmbud attempted suicide at
Long Branch.
Atlanta IS causing tie arrest Of Sabbath
breakers.
New York women arg accused OF smoking
cigarettes
A good rule baci; ::our friends and face
7our enemies.
The Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise
will reside in Canada.
Louisiana will soon have tens Of thousands
of Chinese at work on its plantations.
The Columbia ,araG7csSes car.7 home
their clean linen or Sunday afternoon.
Thir,ec:i millions of money were repre-
aented at one Saratoga breakfast.
The Kn Kiux evidence now in the hands
Of the printer ftaSes 3,,faH0 printed pages.
"smi,h Oh the Evasion of debts" is said
to be tie :tt!e Of lew legal work in
press.
It X critngtcd that the corn crop of
Iowa this Year XII! amount to 100000, 900
bushels.
San FRANCISCO. August lS.-Twenty car
loads Of fresh Japanese tea were shipped
Eastward to-day.
There arc ahoG, one hundred and eight
teen Frcmason Lodges in this State, with
membership OF $4,000.
The beautiful Cerlctta, relict Of the H.
failed Maximii!iar, who WAS deserted by
France, is slowly dying.
The citizens Of GreenTille propose to es.
tablish Conrts of Arbitration, Sc Il. 20 avoid
the laws delays and costs.
Keep to the right az the law directs" is to
be observed on the grand highways Of old
ocean, owing 10 the immense travel and con-
sequcnt collisions.
An earthquake and a tidal wave recently
sw.pt every living thing from off the little
Island Of Tagoianda. The number Of per-
sons lost is estimated at four thousand four.
hundred and sixteen.
Miss Charlotte CuShman has returned to
tic stage and will appear at Booths theatre,
in Scptembcr, as Queen Catherine in Shak-
spearc'S Henry VII, and later as Lady ,fac-
beth.
Lord Courtenny has achieved an indebt-
cdness scarcely less than That OF his lor'lly
boon companion. the Duke Of Hamilton
He was declared bankrupt, with debts ex-
cceding s4,ll5,n0o.
A Young lady in Richmond commenced
CRYING on the Sd OF last month, and has not
stopped vet Her father says she can howl
forever, hut she'll get no fifty cents Gu, OF
him to buy hustle.
IgAru OF ". G.. TRENHOLM, Ese.-Ths
highly esteemed citizen, oi Charleston, died
at the residence Of his son, Mr.. 7. e. Trer-
holm, Thursday evening, il the sixty
seventh wear OF hisage.
SAN FRASclsco, August lJ.-.Thc Japan.
csc Government announces new system OF
national coinage Of gold and silver, t" cor.
respond with tie American system, the
yew, or dollar, being the unit.
The farewell services Of the Rev W.
Thomas were ceicbrltcd in Crccnrilc on
Sunday. MIR. Thomas will enter upon the
duties OF his new charge 1T Norfolk i'll
October.
The corner stone Of the new Methodist
Church III Grecnvic will be laid on Tues
lay by the Masuns The Rev. WhitcFnortl
Srlrh, D. D., vii deliver an address on the
occa sion.
Mary Kelly, removed to bellevue Hospital
with supposed choerA, died this morning.
Hospital physicians say if WAS case Of
Asiatic cholera while the Sanitary Inspector
aud his physicians, who attended thewoman.
say it was cholera morbuS.
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. July "a heavy
typhcon III koba, on the 4th instant. caused
the loss of 400 lives. Several vessels also
were wrecked, including the Prd' Of fTaames
The captain. two males and steward were
drowned The damagc"to property Is esti-
matcd at 5000
Mr.. John Calhoun Clemson. who was kill
ed at IIunncIltt, on the Is. Il. 4. r, lost his
sister Florida, TWO weeks previous. Size
was the wife of Gideon Lee. And thus in
two weeks the parents Of the deceased ar:
left chiliicSS-with i grief so great that Il
Sympa,h;Zing community cannot console.
The Republican party is marching fo u
Big Bethel defeat Too msny Buffers, too
many Simon Camerous, TOO many Mortons
and Chambers, TOO much stealing and land
grabbing have killed it; it is dead before j,
goes into battle"
Emperor Napoleon has given fete at
Chisclhurst, at which teieGrams were re-
ccived from the Gar Of Russia, King OF
~ L Ss,u nj
Portugal, King of Holland, Prince Of Wales,
and others.
The Rev. Dr. BroaGus was expected 20
reach Grcenvile to-day. The Monntaineer
learns that his recent European ;onr has
contributed much towards the improvement
o: his hcahh, although not resulting in its
complete restoration.
The Rev. Dr.. Fnrman fills the place Of
pastor Of the Greenvic Baptist Church,
made vacant hy the resignation of the Rev.
W. D. Thomas. lie will not, says the
Mouu5aineer, for the present at leas:, sever
his connection with the University.
A severe storm Of wind and rain, result
ing in unrooscd houses and inundated cell
lars, WAS experienced in Charleston last
Friday night. In addition the tides were
unusually high and destructive. Seven
inches Of Tain fell.
Judge Carpenter, says the Camden Jour-
nal, has gone to Pennsylvania to stump
that State for the Democrats in the fall!
campaign for State officers. The Dcmocra.
cy there have accepted the "Ncw Depar-
ture' as the basis Of their operations.
LONDON, August l9.-Thc Persian famine
is more terrible than has been reported
27,nOO persons died in I<pahan. The con.
ditioa of the province Of Magalderan is
still worse. The rice crop is a complete
iailure. The cattle plague, smallpox, ty-
phus fever a:t cholera prevail,
\ daughter Of Thomas Burnet Ewing,
aged te" years, living near Fulton Station,
on tic Paducah and Grand Gulf Railroad,
r..r lo1-oJ ortr, onI with tho aid oc II