The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-06-21
General News Items.
Schneider has married q noblcman.
In Galveston. Texas, gambling is forbidden

1wSntV>fOur clrcu>feS are duIlouuCeu lot iue
seasonin the United States. More the pity.
The Emperor Of Drazil is on visit to this
country.
Report from the diamond fields of Good
Hope are encouraging.
There is but one Chinese in Sonth Carolina.
{Ec, she o. it must bc very lonely.
A few more gaps closed and a continuous
telegruphic iels Will surround the world.
Oil of peppermint is said to relieve neural>
gia and other pains.
Weston walked lf2 miles III twenty
three hours and forty-tirc minr:cS.
Emperor William congrafu i.rs the Pope
upon tie crcSrrcnce Of the flbilce
About 50, nUD acres Of land are advertised
in Oconee, and about 22rnUn i'll George
Town, for non payment OF taxes.
There is sshism in Utah. Mormorism is
opposed. But tie faith spreads rapidly in
the Sandwich Islands.
Terrific cyclones. tornadOS; au1 foods of
rain, are reported in various sectons-dc>
s,ructivc of life and property.
Brick" Pou,c:oy is about to marry q
Cleveland lady, who, like himself, has had L
divorce.
When President Grant reached Long
Branch lie was met by Murphy alone, and
let alone by every one also.
Cumulative voting, said to be in accor-
dance with the letter of true democracy; is
going into operation in Illinois:
Nine colored lunatics were sent from
Charleston last Wednesday, to the State
Asylum.
Six or seven miles Of New Orleans have
been dreadfully inundated six or seven feet,
and nearly 5000 houses standing in water.
The Tchauntcpcc Canal is not considered
feasible. What Of the Nicaragua and slori'
da Canals?
Anderson gives $50 900 to the atlanta an
Richmond Air Line f. r. provided the Road
pass that locale and locate depot.
Mr.. Jacob Cohen, 4 venerable and highly
respected Israelitc of Charleston, died ou the
18Th inst.
The Brazl lillian Government presented to
the Chambers 4 bill for the emancipation OF
all slaves belonging TO the Crown.
All available negro recruits in the Eastern
Division have been ordered to the 25ih ln$
fautry in Texas. They 90 via Newport, Ky
Harvest prospects in France and Prussia
are discouraging. Much seed perished In
the more Eastern portions Of Europe, how
ever, crops promise an abundant yield.
The magnetic brake, which safely stops q
passenger train running at the rate of forty
miles an hour, in thirteen seconds, will soon
be extensively used.
Claf1in & Woodhul, the female brokers
have sued Hcury Ward Beecher and the
Christian Union for libel; damages $780,
900.
An unprecedented thunder storm passed
through Oregon. Tclcgraphers were shocked
to insensibility.
| lIu>baud-kiliing scrape-this time in Chicago
She will have q more difficult job now, as
her paramour Eckel, is dead
'Tt is ordained" says Burke. "in the eter
! nal order Of things, that men Of intemperatc
minds cannot be free. Their passions forge
| fheir fcttcrs."
Sherman says that if either party should
nominate him fer the Presidency he would al
once decline, and if unanimously elected
he would not serve.
Won Moltke is engaged in recognizing the
| German army on the regular peace footing
Of 100000 men. This is nearly twice its
former strength.
City of Mexico, June lI.-Tampico was
stormed, and all the insurgents were killed,
wounded Or Captured. Yellow fever is rag.
ing .Gt,Tera Cruz. ,.
Tlor:e r. Bird, of " asington .. c., was
arrested at Richmond, Va, on Monday
while on bis br7t.: tour, charged with bisa'
my. The present lady. name was Godwln,
said TO lie well connected in -fcA nond.
4 parson, reading the funeral Services at
the grave, forgot the sex Of The deceased,
and asked one Of the mournerS, in Emeral-
der, 'ls this brother or i sister," Ma
ther," replied Pat; "only cousin.
A letter from Father IIyacin,he, in :hc
Gauloi$, acknowledges the sympathy of IL
aly for France, and advises union Of tie
Latin races, as The balance Of urope is
mcnaccd by the prpcndcrance OF Germans
and Sclavoni;ins.
David Royster, Sr., one Of the oldest cti-
zens OF Raleigh, who died short time since,
left, at his death, siXty-nine grandchildren
anu thirty-tive great grand. children. They
all live in Rlleigh or the immediate Vi
ciIi,v.
A negro, named Gus Bycrs, who COM
miited rape in Charlotte, n. G few
weeks ago, on negro baby. aGed fifteen
months, was arrested on the Nor.h Carolina
Railroad on Monday night. 1t was with
difficulty that be was prevented being lynch
cd by the colored men present.
During a thunder storm, 4 ball Of cleo
trici;y struck the ground near the entrance Of
the Hoosac Tunnel. Massachusetts, and fol-
lowing the iron rail into the tunnel exploded
several charges of niro-glycerne, blowing
four workmen into hundreds Of pieces and
fearfully injaring two others.
On the 18th Of June, Pope Plus occupied
tie chair of ST. Peter IS years. 2j9 Popes
iia9c rc:gsed, and the present Pcntif is the
only one, since the days Of St. reter, who
rcigncd IS years. The n. y. Herald asks the
curious fact, is the Papal Cycle complete
Is Pope Plus the last Sovereign Ponttf?
From liberal he became ultramontane. lie
has established the dogma Of infallibii,y
and seen his temporalitics removed!
CaroffSa has a native artist of great merit
in Albert Query, of Grecnville, 5. &. He
has already executed elegant and truthful
portraits OF the lamcntcd Richard Yeajon,
Esq and Rev. Jas. e. Furman, but "like all
artists Of true genius, he is u gentleman of
great modcsty and difidcnce, an! reticently
waits for bis beautiful and lifc-lke paintings
to make him known 10 the world and eStab-
lsh his famr."
LEBANON, Ohio, June l7.-IIor. C. L.
Vallandingham, while illustrating to his
fllow counsel in murder case how dead
| man might have shot himself, accidentally
discharged the pistol, wounding himself i'll
the bowels. At two o'clock this morning,
he was still conscious, bat in great pain. IN
tcrnal hcmorrhagc is probable. Physi'
clans pronounce his condition very serious
There seems hardly possibility Of his re.
covcry.
Lalcr-ValIand;rg'Sam IS dead.
The bigamy trial of cx-Congressman C.
Bowen, of South Carolina, was concluded
recently BY a verdict Of guilty" Mrs. King
! Bowen WAS much overcome by the reSul;
and had to be led TO the Marshal!'s room
Judge DIN announced that as the case