The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-07-19
General News Items.

+, Willard's Hotel, Washington, is to be
/: :3isa,a ntled.
, Two hundred persons it is stated were
killed during the recent riots in New Yora.
Canbetta has been sea,ed IN the AS
sembly.
Deaths from lightning and sun.stToke
are reported in many sections.
Another lady has lost her life by blow
ing down lamp chimney.
A marrow gauge Is contemplated be-
tween Laurens ahd New berry.
Over four hundred Mornans have gone
west from Scandinavia.
90 The entire amount Of ivetwenties
of 1862 outstanding is st90,0C0, ,ooG
The U. S. A. is now reduced to thirty
thousand men.
1t is oppressircly hot in Paris and a
number Of sun.strokes have occurred.
Emperor William has made the Crown
Prince Of Sa1ony q field marshal Of the
Empire.
4 writ of superscdeas in the Ease Of Mrs.
Fair, has been issued; With resu!!es her
till October.
The s!aTe tT..le on the East coast Of
Africa IS sad to be aoursllins. no:with-
stand'Ts the efforts Of the English cruisers.
The sub. Committee in Sparlanburg have
/ taken evidence in three hundred cases Of
ou'ragcs.
There were fifty deaths in Charleston
for the week ending the Sth-eighteen
whites and tbirsy.two colored.
Miss Mary Franklin an amateur scalp.
treSs has executed life. like bust Of
Bishop Elliott.
Mrs. Cady Stanton and Susan &. An
thony paid visit Of sympathy and con-
dolence to Mrs. Fair on the 18th.
The Wilmington and Columbia r. R.,
have determined to extend their road to
Augusta.
The slaughter Of ffy-six Apache In.
dianS at Tonic Creek, Arizona, is con-
irmed.
The new route from Lexington C. Fl.
to Mt. Wiling, bv Rocky Creek, West
Creek, Germanville, Went into operation
| last week.
Thirty eight thousand claims for bounty.
arrears Of pay involving aboat $4,000, 900,
are now in the Office of the second Audi.
tor at Washington.
In the Commune fights the French wo-
men exhibited tiger-like ferocity. \ writer
asks what must happen were France na-
ton oil women9
The Honolulu Gazette states that during
recent difficulties in OvalAu one tribe
made an onslaught on another and capturing
about thirty ate them. q.
A shark caught off Charleston had pair
of boots, scalp, two cannon balls, and
package Of Sunda!-school tickets in his
stomach.
Martin Neara, the fend who brusally
murdered his own son in Illinois has met his
fate at the hands ola mob, who took him
from Jail and hanged him on tree. One
thousand persons witnessed the execution
Fearful explosions with loss of life
have occurred at Vincennes, caused by
the unloading of powder carts in close
proximity to the machinery used in the
preparation Of pr@ectiles.
Mr.. J. Mott Middleton, an "intclIigent,
brave, refined, hospitable and courtly
gen tleman Of Caroliaa's olden school,
died recently in Savannah. He was a
Charicstoniau by birth.
The Lexington Dispatch says: "All
the lands at the delinquent land tax sale
on Monday last, were purchased by the
State, according to the provisions os the
Act, there being no bidders.
A Convention of Kentucky Baptists,
I at Louisville, offer 100000 to remove
the Baptist University from Greehville,
S. c., to an eligible point in Kentucky,
provided the other Southern States raise
100000.
Pop Oxendine, one Of the negro out
laws Of Robson County, has been cap.
tured and lodged in jail at Wilmington,
n. c. lie belonged TO. a band Of the
most bloody ard defiant outlaws Of the
land 49,
Mrs. Fairs remark, "If poor, dear
Crittenden were alive, he would get me
off," is only pa~allelcd BY the youngster
who murdered .,.s father and mother,
and didn't think the judge "orter hang
poor orphlng. g."-Cincinnat Times.
Bella French is doing power Of good
to the village Of Minnesota With her lee
turc on "CorsetS, Tobacco andWhiskey."
All the men, it Is said, have given up
corsets, ard most Of the women have
quit guzzling whiskey and chewing to-
bacco.
Henry Berry Lowry has sent mes
sage to the authorities at Llmherton,
informing them that, if the wives Of the
outlaws are not released, they will make
reprisals by the capture Of white women,
and will fill the county with slaughter
and blood.
The Batopetiaz Mines Of Ghihusbub are
yielding fabulously. One mine yields $50,-
900 weekly. Masses of pare silver, Of sew
eral hundred weight, are extracted. The
leading journal says the ruin Of Mexico is
by the United States, which lay Me>ico
bare.
A foot race took place at Cincinnati one
day last week. which was participated in
by some three thousand citizens. They all
come out ahead Of the lunatic who was
after them with carving knife. Some
men who have not travelled fastsr than a
walk for many years are said to have beaten
the Tine Of the California horse.
The most heart.rending piece Of pa.
rental diaboliSm of which we have ever
heard. is that Of Martin Me7a, who whip
ped his little son and then roasted the
poor sufferers body upon the stove. FL
nally, the little fellow yielded up his
| life under the lash. He was literally
whipped to death while the mother lay
i'll in another room. We wish that the
man whom the world called unchriS.ar