Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-11
Items of General Interest.

Items of General Interest.
Striped snakes are the natural enemies
of the potatoes.
THE Republicans of Maine have re-
nominated Gov. Perbam.
ONE-HALF the slate pencils used IN the
world are made in Vermont.
ONLY three plural marriages were cele-
brated in Utah during the three months
ending June l.
A FARMER north of Wabash recently
killed 250 cut worms within space OF
three feet square.
COMPOSITE ships with an iron frame
and wooden planking are coming into
favor on the lakes.
The new directory of Brooklyn con-
tains 80, $40 names-an increase of 1856
over the list of 1871.
FIVE men were killed and others in
jured, by the falling of building at
West Conschocken, Pa.
In England the Tichborne claimant
has taken the stump, and is holding large
and enthusiastic meetings.
ONE of the forty suits against Jay
Gould on account of the Erie Ring: is to
secure six million dollars.
NEARLY nine million dollars worth OF
lard has been exported from the U. s.,
within the last six months.
AN apiarist at Aurora, ILL.,, has lost 90
out of 10 swarms of bees in consequence
of a civil war between them.
The Sheriff of New York last Year
presented bills to the amount of $780,
612.51. Who wouldn't be Sheriff u?
A FAMILY of thirty boarders were
nearly killed in New York, from eating
custard pie which had been poisoned.
THE Osage reservation Indians COM
planned to the Superintendent that they
were being stolen poor by their white
neighbors.
The famine in Persia is likely to be
followed by a season of plenty, as the
crops are reported to be in magnificent
condition. .-
Two men were killed and two wounded
in Corvelle County, Texas, recently, in a
difficulty that originated about the brand
ing of yearl1ng.
THE strikes in New York city are now
assuming a threatening aspect, as the
workmen are disposed to resort to force
in hopes of gaining their ends.
Mr.. WHITAKER, ex-Alderman, who
was indicted at Chicago last fall for brib-
cry, has besn ajudged insane, and the
indictment against him has been dis
missed.
A DISPATCH from Bagdad says that the
royal mail steamship Cashmere was at.
tackled at Bassorah by pirates, who killed
and wounded several of the persons on
board end carried off 43, 900 rupees.
The boy Justus Dunn, on trial in New
York for killing Samuel Calvert, his
keeper at the House of Refuge, was
found guilty of manslaughter III the third
degree, and sentenced to State prison for
one year.
The Park Lane London murderess,
Marguerite Dixblanc, has been found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The
jury, however, recommended her to
mercy, believing that she did not in
tend to slay her mistress.
THE dress for the grand international
ball in the Coliseum, at which Strauss
will direct the music, the public were,
officially informed that "the dress recog-
nized as in keeping with the proprieties
of the occasion was black dress coat, ve5I
and pants, white necktles and light kid
gloves.
In the case of Carl Vogt, the supposed
murderer and robber of Chevalier de
Bianco, of Belgium, Judge Curtis of
New York decides that the warrant issued
by Governor Hoffman for Vogt's return
to the Belgian authorities is unconstitu-
tional, and ordered him remanded to
await trial there on the minor charge of
larceny.
In one day New York papers described
the murder of a wife by her husband, -
"the murder of man by corner loafers, y
''the murder of wife by drunken
husband, "a woman about to become a
mother kicked to death by two men, %
ga man murdered by sailors knife" be
sides a number of arrests where the at
tempts were not successful