The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-04-19
General Eevs Items.

Snow in the mountains of Utah has melted.
Col. D. L. Donnald died at Williamson on
Saturday, the 8:h.
Mr. John MarkleT, an esteemed citizen OF
Greenville, died on the S:h inst.
The thermometer on Saturday the 9th, at
Albany, marked LOO in the shade.
The women of Paris are to form a military
organization for the defence Of the city.
Over seventy war novels are now in course
of preparation in Germany.
One person out of every two hundred in
Memphis is lawyer.
Gen. n. B. Forrest has su5sided into co.,
ton planter in Mississippi.
In the Legislature, at Albany, n. r, last
Friday, two members came 10 blows aud had
10 be separated.
The pledge of the anti-Chignon Society has
been taken By over fifty thousand ladies in
Germany.
Miss Sarah Kilgore has been admitted to
practice at the bar Of the Supreme Court Of
Michigan.
The town Of Pickens has elected dry tick
ct, aud consequently closed up oil its rum
mills.
The New York Herald is inclined to think
that there Is more smoke than fire in the re-
ports circulated against South CLrolina.
The town of Walhala fortunately owns
the Fire Engine formerly belonging TO the
Independents Of Columbia.
A letter was lately dropped into the Post
Office ut Niagara Falls, directed to Schicha-
cough, IIinoyse.
I: is stated that all the sympathy of
foreign powers is with the Versailles gov
ernment.
The funeral Of colored drayman in A.
lanta last Thursday WAS attended by long
procession Of d-ays with their drivers.
The Purisian ladies are about adopting, in
view OF their country's misfortunes, al cx-
IRENE sobriciy Of costume
The three men named Gufln, arrested for
robhing the safe of the County Treasurer Of
Abbevillr. assert their innocence.
There is, comparatively. heavy fighting in
Cuba. The Cubans seem thoroughly organs
lied for guerilla war.
If all the food the dogs of this country eat
WAS fed 10 hogs, il would make $50 900, 600
worth Of pork. and link Of sausage besides
TO every IMAM, free Of cost.
WinS!ow Hamilton, who killed Captain
Geo. Butler, was arrested last Saturday, at
his faIher'S house. in Lincoln Co., Ga. He
will bc released on bail.
The remains of Mr.. John C. Calhoun, taken
up during the late war, have been returned
10 the original tomb prepared for them in St
Phillips Church.
The general amnesty bill passed in the
House, but tabled in the Senate. Robertson
gave notice that he would get the Senate 10
consider the bill before the session ended.
The small portion Of New Orleans which
does not belong TO Mrs. Gen. Gaines. is
claimed by the heirs Of one Madam De!ibi-
zane who died century ago.
A devastating gale swept over Lcavcn>
worth, Kansas. on the Oh, unroofnS houses,
up.ootiug trees, killing one person, and in-
jurinS many others.
A Georgia paper asserts that the low prize
Of cotton and the scarcity OF money have
given wonderful impulse to the newspaper
bu-inesS in that State.
Tie Supreme Court of Illinois has decided
that a note gwen for money lost at gambling
is void. even in the hands of an Innocent
third party.
The Messenger Franco American consratu-
latcS the Versailles government on its firm
ness aud determination in 81 successfully re-
sisting the insurgents.
The Supreme Cour, reafff"ms its recent
decision un,cr the Conf>cntion Ac:, holding
The &c, constitutional, and the form of pro-
ccduTe valid.
The family Of john Brown. the so called
martyr, whose soul is supposed to be still
marching. arr living in California. They arc
not very prosperous.
The Mississippi ku Nlnx wanta million of
dollars, they are asking for !, through ihr
medium Of circulars. How is that for high?
The RAIDS '!on't solicit funds, but in II I.ccuiar
way tee :Mm.
A magnificent, gold watch and chain mas been
presented by the officers and cmplnvccs Of
rhe Richmond and Danvile, and Piedmont
rtilro ads TO their late SIperin.end tnt, Col.
Thos. Dodamead, now Of the 6. & c. K K.
The Cincinnati Commercial says the mo-
mcEt curb is put on a rad and he j. pres
vented from stealing. he yellS rebel. And
that the Legislature Of Sou'h Carolina is as
corrupt rs SO many New York back-alley
cock-fgh'ers.
The Ku Klu1 are reported to have killed
. co"red man in Lancaster county, after
administering over hundred stripes TO a
white man named Long. The Union saws
for the reason only that he belonged to the
Republican party.
A marble cutter near Lockport, recently
received from q German an order for a tomb.
stone with the following epitsph: "My
wife Susan is ded; if she had life till mex,
Friday she'd been ded shu$t two weeks. As
\ tree falls so must she stand. All things is
impossible NIT God"
Californians report that many of their
small birds have been shot or poisoned, and
1hat, seemingly as a Consequence, many
kinds of insects, before unknown or unob>
served, have abounded in the coast valleys,
and have done much injury in the gardens.