The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-05-10
General News Items.

General News Items
CAPTAIN F W. Dawson. editor of the Charles
ton News, has gone to Europe.
Barnun' circus took in in one day, 81
5S)
The farmers of Middle Georgia are intro
ducins foreign laborers.
\ se"crc hail storm on the 81, damaged
North Mississippi.
The vintage this season, Of California, IS
estimated at Il. .0Oe, ,OC0 gallons.
The Insurgents arc cncircling Paris with
barrcalcs.
! The municipal elections Throughout; France
were quietly conducted.
Twenty thousand ho:>hcaiS arc said to be
the damage 10 the crops l'r the crcraSscS.
Two Judges IN the Supreme Court room. y:
| Havana. SLAPPED each Others faces.
Philadelphia !: ahout institntinc separate
; cars fnr ladies. with female conductors.
A little gill in Ohio, died last week from
excessive rope jumping.
Female Suffrage has been iI.'rcatel III the
English Commons by 50 majority.
DR.. Livingston is reported in Zanzibar,
| alive ard well.
The Connecticut Legislature has organizc cd
and the officers are all Republicans.
The Democrats have carried Virginia City,
| Nevada.
| Catorl.iilars in immense quantities have ap-
| pcarcd near Memphis.
Napoleon declines to listen % any propo-
sal to return TO France.
Both the military and civil departments
arc loath to take steps under the ku kluX
| law.
The Air Line railroad through Spartanburg
is going forward with energy.
Daniel Edwards Of Darlington, has been
ku k!uxcd by hanging.
An attempt has been made to rob and blow
up one Of the RothSchildS.
Malignant smallpox is raging il East New
| York.
! Three hundred and forty-cight men were
| arrested last year in Augusta for drunken
ness.
| The first blackberricS offered This season
| in Wilmington, \. G., brought 20 cents 4
quart.
A terrific tornado WINS experienced on
| Tuesday last at Baton Rouge. Loss $780,
| 900.
A London S,atistician has discovered that
there are just thirteen happy married couples
in England.
The City of Atlanta has voted unanimous
" for quarter Of a million to the Atlanta
and Savannah Railroad.
The American Woman Suffrage Aseocia>
tion will hold mass meeting in New York..
! on ihc 10;h
The African explorer, DuChailu, sails
from New York for Europe to visit North
Norway ard Sweden.
4 National Convention Of the police and
detective chiefs of tho United States is being
agi,atcd in New Orleans.
4 negro Of bad character was hanged near
Gral:?m'S Cross Roads, Williamsburg Co.,
las: week for using incendiary language.
The weather in San francisco is hot and
dry, and the prospects for crops not impror-
ing.
One hundred miles in fonr hours and thir-
tv-fnur inmates were ridden by Eugene
Webb, al Sacramento, for 81 900.
The merging Of all matters in dispute be-
tween this country and Great Britain INFO one
treaty is not regarded with much satisfaction
by several senators.
+. NJ. Rose. late Treasurer of Yorkvillc
County, has dcfaul:ed and fed the country.
Supposed 10 lie in Canada. Amount Of de-
faIcation not known.
Judge Orr has been selected by President
Grant, as one of the visitors 10 the Naval
Academy, 1T Annapolis. The examination
takes place On the 20ih.
Rev. Mr. Patty, Of Knoxville, while driving
q nail, last week. lost one Of his eyes by the
rebound of the nail, which broke his specs
taclcs, driving pieces Of the glass into the
eye.
TIE RnnghS attacked the polls in Greens
bush, y. \ on Tuesday nicht, and the fight
lasted some tine. during which several per-
sons were seventy beaten. rLe citizens put
down the riot.
In regard to tho Ku Klr1 law nothing has
been done. The question is nending whether
the ni'iatnry belongs to the Law, or 10 tie
War Department. aud both departments
seem Ioatt 10 touch where departments Or
dinarily are jealous ofjuriSdic:ion.
\ large Young englr, of the English spc>
cics, was killed on the farm Of w. Garrett /
Bro, in WALTON county, Gn. on the 27:h ult
It measured six and half feet from tip to
tip, and was in the act Of carrying of q
young lamb.
\ Rhode Island mans house was struck
BY lightning, on Sunday evening, while he
WAS standing near the maniel-picce in his pa:
lor. 1t threw him to the floor. and made Il
hole in each Of his boots, but he was not in
iured, and his stockings wclc not torn or
burned.
The Phoenix thinks it near.sightcd policy
in merchants curtailng their advertising
when business grows dali. We agree with
that paper. lhc best time 70 advertise is
when times are dull. This is the testimony
Of the most extensive advertisers and buaj
ness men Of the country.
In tho municipal elections il indianapolis
the Republican majority IS eight hundred.
Columbus is Democratic again. Grccncastlc
is Republican, Madison is Democrltc.-
LaFdyct,c is Republican an hundred and tif-
~. ShclhyvIlc is Rep! by al increaS-
cd majority. Fort Wayne is Democratic by
IN increased minority. Republicans carry
Tcrrc Iau,e, Indiana.
On time, as usual, is the The AIline for
May, and it is in every way equal ii not
superior 10 the former issues Of this superb
publication. Among the numerous illus
trations with which this number is embcl-
lishcd, VIC find three full page oncs-''Evc>
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