The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-09-06
General News Items.

The dipiheria has appeared in Columbiu-~
fatally.
Dr.. Helmbold will sojourn in Dr. Kirk.
brides asylum 1t Philadelphia.
The Howard Association Of Charleston
has been re-orga1iled.
In three years Texas has given S25. 900 .0oC
! to railroads.
DR.. Livingstone, the African explorer, is
making his way home.
\ fifty thousand dollar gold forgery was
committed in New York last week.
Nashville is getting frightened by report
that 4 large cave exists under that city.
Mexican newspapers are discussing the
annexation Of Mexico TO the United States.
The word negro is Spanish and means
black. 1t is descriptive and not u word OF
reproach.
Hon. Edmund Martin died at his residence
| in Beaufort county, on the 9Th ult., in the
18TH year Of his age.
EARTHQUAKES occurred on the 11th at Val
; parai>o, and on the 30th at Santiago, and
| apprchensions are felt at jamaica.
4 negro man and his wife we're recently
detected in an attempt to poison well near
Jacksonville, Fla.
A serious food in the Delaware has de-
stroyed much properly and interfered With
| travel.
The Mont Cents Tunnel is to be opened
this month. There will be grand flower,
cattle and Industrial show.
Thlrty-fve dead have been recovered from
the wreck Of the Mebile explosion, which oc-
CURED on Sunday, Aug. 20.
The oldest chief Of the kickapoos has been
killed by drunken half breed on the Kan
sas reservation.
Ten thousand pounds Of lime received by
steamer have been distributed for cleansing
purposes in the streets and yards of infected
places in Charleston.
The number OF emIgrants who sailed
from Liverpool during August WAS 1000
greater than the same month In any previous
year.
Reports North and South show thst Or
ganized burglars are working the towns
along the Hudson. They have humber Of
vessels in their employ.
Ten thousand Memphis children are to
take part in 4 great Sunday School celebra-
ton, to cone off in the future i'll that city.
The order of the Society of Jesus, with
their General at their head, have left Rome
to establish themselves in Sicily, principally
1T Palermo.
The first steam vessel that crossed the A.
lantic was the Savannah, in the month Of
June, 1919 from Charleston . Liverpool.
The military and civic hal at the Conti-
mental Hotel. Long Branch, was grand af-
fair Four thousand persons were present.
The full Ninth Regiment band, with one hun
drcd instruments, furnished the music.
4 "rcliable gentleman" Of California re-
!atcs that he picked up two dead water
snakes that had partially swallowed each
other Each snake had commenced swa!-
lowing the others tail and they continued
the operation until their heads met.
Mrs. Stowe told the history Of many house.
holds when she said that woman armed
with sick headache, debility, nervousness.
prescntiments, and all sorts Of imaginary
and real ailments, is a walking armory Of
weapons of sub}ugation.
Multitudes In their haste to get rich are
ruined every year. The men who do things
maiureIv, slowly. deliberately, are the men
who ottenest succeed in life. People who are
habi,ually in 4 hurry generally have to do
thugs twice over.
A Maryland paper improves upon the
usual style of death notices by recording that
an infant was born into the order Of fallen
nature, December 80, 1859; into the super.
natural sphere Of rcdceming grace, April q,
1870; and into the kingdom Of life cverlast-
ing, July S, 1871
a woman passed through one Of the streets
Of New Bedford, on her knees, the other eve
ming, hearing three lighted candles in each
hand and accompanied by 4 woman on each
side, the operation being religious penancc
in fulflment Of VOW for the safe return Of
her husband from whaling voyage.
The gold aud silver annually produced up
on the Pacific coast approyimAtcs $50 ,O0O,-
900; an amount that will be greatly increased
within the next two or three years. Only
little more than twenty years have elapsed
since mining for these metals began, during
which time there has been extracted and put
into crculation something over 81 200 ,Oo0,-
900; 70 say nothing Of the other forms o:
wealth created by the comparatively limited
population Of this region, meantime. Never
before, perhaps, have so small number Of
people built up and established upon 4 per-
manent footing such broad and profitable
business in so short period.