The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-05-17
General News Items.

Trains on the Air Line Ra:... Dad are running
nearly TO Gainesville.
1t is thought Atlanta in ten years will have
q population Of l2O,JG
Thirty-onc marriage license: were issued
at Wilmington last month.
Wilmington has had q ccored tourna>
ment, and i: is sail that some Of the knights
were successful. Indeed.
Possums arc Gnotcd in the lIilIsDoro, Y. c.,
market as dull al 50 c:S. Dear ar half the
price, At this season, we should say.
\ special train from Atlanta to Nashville,
made the trip, 2oS miles, in thirteen hours.
\ col1rcd preacher in Line In Co , n. c.,
has been warned by tilc ku kluX to either
omit preaching or stealing. lie has not yet
decided which calling he will abandon.
Mr. Gary, chief clerk in the Treasury De-
partmcnt, Columbia, wLS shot on Monday
evening, S:h inst, at the NickcrSon Hotel,
supper table, br Il Young rlan named John
Harris. / severe woun. Ill tho thigh was
the result
The Richmond i:rGr;rcr thinks that the
South has seen tho wurSs oi' the ku kluS out
RACES, and The Columbia Union contests the
pom. and maintains that these ugly white
r0bcd arc rs bad rs ever.
By the passage recently Of an act the mar
ricd women OF Massachusetts can sue and DC
| sued in the courts Of that State.
In Utah there arc 500 more men than wo>
men.
Great Britain collects an annual tax on II,
900 dogs.
Il is suggested bv writer in 4 Boston pa
per that cats be taXc,l, 10 facilitate payment
! Of the public debt II j. to be hoped that
! Congress Will net notice tie Srgsc>tioa.-
; What Il ca;-;lS-trophc such Il tax would prove.
! Tic Tu:I'crcS has been turned into an
! asylum for The widows and orphans Of the
! National Guard.
Felix Axiom, Of Inlians. loohcd into 4 gun
| to see if il vas loaded. The co.oucr's jury
were of opinion that the gun WAS loaded.
Henry and Spencer Hoffman. coIored, are
! to b. hanged on the 26,h, at Winn>b3ro, for
| the murder of 1 colorcG man in December
| last.
The jail, poor house AMI town hall of
Fayetteville, y. G., have been sold for debt.
The American Colonization Society an
nounccs that thousands Of people Of color
arc pressing upon il for passage to Liberia.
In Elizabeth City, \. g., Frccdnan'S Eml.
! rr,nt Aid Sociciy has been formed in aid Of
! thi: ID ly:In"ut.
Judge Ewing. If tic I'nitrl States Court,
! Cincinnati, Ec!l in = case tried before him
Ma, . that Z di$tiIcr was not liable for 4 tax
on tic full capacity Of his disti!lery according
to sur .cy, when 'hc Whole amount WAS not
actually produced.
Snow fell on EDr;l: Mountain, Harrison
burg, TO the depth Of three inches on the
tenth Of May.
The Cotton States Fair and Horticultural
exhibition opened in Augusta, the 10th, with
! 4 large attendance.
The President has signed the treaty be-
vccn the United States and San Salvador.
Whooping cough and chicken pox arc pre-
! yailng TO an alarming extent in the neigh
borhoOd of Marion Court House.
Clouds Of graSshoppers are destroying crops
in Los Ange.os, California.
The citizens Of Arizona have killed eighty
five Indians, and capture, twenty-five chill
d!cn. They had been stealing property and
numbering ci:IzcnS.
Coburn and Mace, prize fighters, have
! been prevented by the Canadian authorities
from making beasts Of themselves. Thcy
were preparing for 4 pugilistic fit
A letter ckcd up in the yard Of Mr. VIM.
Lee, in HE Wax laws, on Thursday last, dis
closes most wicked plot to murder white
citizens OF The neighborhood. Ii was signed
| bv Il well known culo4 cl man. and directed
to and mentions Others lis wei known in the
community.
Eight hundred thousand prnjcctics, chiefly
Shells have been sent to Ealcricn, ready fol
tIc Dombanlment OF Paris.
Thicr, circular conc'u,lcS the reign CT the
! Infamous flcion as drawing 10 1 close.
| A whole family in Diuwitidic County, Tir,
gina, WIRE recently poisoned ly some noN
ious weed.
The crrcn0nics Of decorating the graves OF
; the Conir'lcra'e dead were appropriately Oh
served i'll Columbia Oil Wednesday, last.
The Labor Reform League held It's session
! in Stein Huv Hall, New York. About tou,
| Hundred were present, E:ns;ly women. Wen
dell Phillips. in>;anc:nS the execution oi
! Mu!;nri hy Eutlrr. invoked the President to
follow E";!cr's plan. (Arpl&u5c.)
james Fix, the cilcn>man. the p'ddlar
The dry goods merchant, the Erie king, the
! theatre and opera manager, the colonel of a
regiment has added new laurel, TO his Off.
cial fame. lie has become trustee of Rev
Mr.. llepworth'S Unitarian Church, New
York What mex; Jimmy?
Weston, tie pedestrian, has been walking
! for three days. ten hours 4 day, on a wager
! that be can walk two hundred miles in forty
one hours.
Mrs. Henry Wood, the English novelist, is
reported TO have realized not less than G20.
| 900 hv the sale Of her sensational stories,
which ut first She could not induce any pub
| Usher TO look ut.