The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-02-21
General News Isa.ns.

General News Items.
Tie Methodist book store in Nashville was
destroyed by ire on Thursday.
There are FIVE hundred Baptist Churches
in Sou:h Carolina, distributed III every part
Of The State.
Josh Billings says: "Succcss don't kon-
sist in never making blunLcrs, bHt i'll never
making tho same one the second time.
The poStmaster-general has issued c:rcu-
lar 70 poStma>terS urging that the maine Of
the county be pl:ccd upon mail matter.
thereby saving delay, confusion and loss.
The town of Lawlew, Iowa which three
years ago was patch Of hazel Lush, with
only one hcuse in SIGHT, shipped 100000
pounds Of railroad freight last year.
Among. the competitors for the daruiDg
prize Jatc!y offered III Georgia State fair, ":Ic
lady presented a stocking so neatly mcnded,
that The judges couldn't find the malk Of
needle about The darucL thing.
The House adopted resolution to adjourn
or the 25ih snhjcct TO the call of the speaker,
who may convene the flou>e IN Spcc'"l ses,
sion upon thu demand of d nlajorty Of the
members.
Mr.. Samuel Maron"v, Of Bolton, S. c,
jumped from the second Story VT house IN
that place on Sunday night last while N 4
s,a.e of iutoXica;ion, badly i,rac:urils IN
arm aud hip.
Eorty-four thousand three hundred and
nine iy-lIine years from now the SIN will
buru out, SAYS the Monthly Scientist. Per-
SulrS Of nervous temperament are advised
10 get ready.
A Boston physician says he has patient
in charge, married at fourteen, and who at
thiriy-scven had been The mother Of twenty.
five living children, and never llorr than one
child 4, birth.
Tie amount Of snow in the mountains OF
Upper Inst Tennessee, Southwestern Eir-
gina and NcStcrm North Ga Olina, is said 10
hc unprecedented. Since that time When
Dau!c! Boone first penetrated that country,
The Ike has never been known.
The number Of .!2nthS in Phill lclplia, last
week, from smallpox. MAS one hundred and
eighty three, which! is = considerable increase
over the previous week report. The whole
number OF deaths from all c. u-cS lat week
was .cveEtv-three more than tic previous
orc.
The total assets Of the Methodist Book
Concern oi Nr:i lo:h ci'y are - SJ0, ,3lJ SO.
and It's liabilities S735, 1853 Tnc gross
earnings in 1871 were Ss3 04j 92 The re-
porE oI the expert appointed last year 20 cN-
alniEc the a!fI!rS Of the concern IS not
ready.
The fact that over six hundred personal
applications. mostly b. girls b'.:wccn fifteen
uud twenty were made in one afternoon late
~ III the Grand Opera ElOu.c. New York, 20
ill places in 'hc ballet OF :: new spcc;acuI"r
play is noted Is an evidence of Il fearful hack
OF employment ",aong The gIrI> Of that city.
When Whoo-liaur- Soon, Il wealthy Chi
nanan of Sun Frauci>cn. vas buried the
othrr day, they buried with him five wagon
loads Of baked I,igs AMI chickens. Unless
il was he intention Of the old fellow TO open
! tirSt.cl.<S boarding house ut The start, it
strikes Us that he ought TO have taken the
PROVISIONS along raw.
The storm which prevailed in California
las; month WAS mn r. cGenteG even in The his
tory of tic Pacific slope. M"av instances
are given hy exchanges from that region
where whole towuS were alnoS; entirely sub
IN, rgc>l, tue ,di:or Of he .iroy Advocate,
is he workc! in his rf;i"c nn ;hc lS.ii alt
SIT wiki his legs in :wo feet Of wafer.
ST PAUL, February l4.-rhc sevcrc>t
storm Of the season. The thermometer has
been below zero all day. Railroads west are
blocked and it is feared Tie Canadian sp--
ycyiIg party, numbering twenty-five men
Uadc- Colonel Nc. Nab, which left Dulu:h
for the WrP"r >npcriUr has persisted. The
last heard Of Ii.cIa WAS on January 9th,
then in i "icn boat in the lake, which WAS
fuIi OF ice a::t; I storm prevailing.
rr.5 :b!g ,i!H Oldest rosc-bu>h in the world
is one t"i;c.i n?om a Side OF Iiillc>hcim
Car'lc'.ral in Grr:n&uE. Tie root is buried
u'.Gcr :i:c crypt. below the choi: The stem
is foot ,hcl, and half dozen branches
nearly cover ihe eastern side O. i!tc c!lu:ch,
h2arin., cuu:.t,c>S flowers in sumner. Is
age is unknown, hui documents cXis'
which prove tl.;.t i Bishop llvziso. nearly Il
thousand years ago, projected it hy I stone
roof, which is still! cXtant.
CHICAGO, February II A fearfu+ Storm
prevails in the vicinity Of Sioux Ciey. TIC
mcrcurv Gt!l forty degrees is two hours. 4
hurricane with binding snow followed. Sew
craI deaths are reported from the sudden
cold Trims Of this division of tho Central
Illinois road are all showed in. The thcr-
mu,nter this morning Is eighteen degrees
below zero. II Is reported that Spotted
Tail and his band have been F'Zc7. n'd il
: ;s",;c,-'':t hu;tc pio>ia'i"n "t:::c fri'"r"Fi!
nr >'"rtu u'a."-..'> -. v.t:i ;':1: .: - r.
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