The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-08-16
General News Items-
Phoebe Gary is dr1d.

Phoebe Gary is dr1d. -.
M.sso6'afr,y s6'f, is increasing, =: :, Z; y
Miss c. L. valland'ghsm is dead.
Dog days end on the 2sth August. :,
Never 6nd fault. It il not worth .6nd.
ing. -s::.;:' -:
Signatures made witha lead pencil are
good in law.
Ifyou post yonr servants upon your Sf-
fairs they will one day reDd you.
Lake Superior has silver mine said
to be as rich as any in Mexico.
The western wheat crop Is said to be the
best in .95 years.
Contemporaries rail road from Lsurens
to Augusta.
The telegraph line is Dos complete from
Columbia 10 Granville.
An Atlanta + is the patient father OF
only ffty-six childre.I.
Charleston is said TO be the healthiest
city On the Atlantic coast
Columbia is to have q dramatic club.
The young men Of Sumter have organized
a brass band.
The ycuag men Of Se~berry have or
canized "thc star minstrel troupe and are
organizing base ball club.
Detectives say there arc sl0,O00,0 900 Of
counterfeit, national baNa notes in circula-
tion.
A bale OF new cotton-the hrst-was::con-
signed to George Trenholm, Charleston, %
the 18th.
The Mont Cents tunnel is complete sue
cess. The announcement is made formal,
that !. Will he opesed in September.
Fine wheat bread, sal. meat, grease
cheese and pastry are delese1ious articles Of
food.
There are two thousands seven hundred
and Fifty languages spoken, and where is the
lguist who has learned them ali
. It is said that new political party-the
third par,y-is on the tap:s. Mrs. Victoria
Woodruff, "the woman who dares," is also
in line, vi ct arnis, for the Presidency.
The cholera i, spreading in Europe, and
rho cholera Hy, a sure precursor Of the
dreadful testilcace, has appeared in New
York.
Recently penal COLONY, Australia Is nov
rapidly developing her vast resources and
advancing to empire with population to-
day 2,o0O,o 600 souls.
The aggregate capital OF the New York
banks is within q fraction of one hundred
million dollars The Bank Of Commerce
has capital Of $l0,O00,o00.
On Saturday last bear, weighing be.
tween Ere amt cix hundred pounds, was
killed by Mr.. Sebron Day and his two sons,
about Eve miles from Aiken, OH the Edge.
Geld road.
We learn that Mrs Davis, who WAS shot
b. her husband on Wednesday, in Colum-
bia, is lying in very precarious condition.
Her screams could be heard a distance. Of
several squares. -.
The Pope has written letter declining
the throne Of gold. He proposes that the
money subscribed for the throne be oppro-
pra,ed TO buying the exemption Of students
in Catholic seniuarics from military SER
vice.
LIMITED Wo2AN's RIGETs.-Sr. LOUIS,
August 1.-THE words ''secure the ballot"
after hot discussion and the withdrawal Of
thirty-eight delegates, were erased from
resolution affecting women, and tie Labor:
Convention adjourned to Nashville the Sec
ond Tuesday of September.
RAILROAD CossoLIpA7loS.-SAS francis.
co, August li.-The absorption of the Cali
fornia Pacific Railroad with the CeatFal Ys:
ciEc Railroad was completed yesterday by
the election of Leland Stanford, oskhe; ;Ger-
tral, as president, Milton Sla,ham, as .tress-
urer, and the old beard cf ;hc -ccatrsl Pc
citi, R~i,:oad &C directors: