Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-06-06
Items Of General Interest.

A COW has died of hydrophobia in
Maysville, Ky.
THE richest tin mines in the world are
those of Cornwall England.
Four thousand men are engaged in this
country in the production of steel.
AT the Yarmouth mills, in Maine,
brown paper is made from spruce logs IN
twenty-four hours.
THE first theatre ever established IN
America was at Williamsburg, Va, in
September, 1852.
Two thousand women or girls are en-
ployed in Birmingham, England, in the
brass-foundmg trade.
DR.. WIN. Joos, wealthy Swiss, is to
visit Minnesota in search of 10000 acres
of land to locate a Swiss colony.
THE boss coopers of Boston and Vi
cinity have acceded to the demands Of
the jourDeymen for s1S per week.
A GLASS of cream, to be taken in the
middle of the day, is one of the remedies
now used by physicians for consumptive
patients.
1T will cost eighty-three million dollars
to connect the Caspian and Black Seas,
and occupy period Of five years of ac,
tive labor.
MAN-M1L11NER Worth is said to have
his hands so full of American customers
that he has only handful of French
clients left.
The latest strike in Great Britain that
has attracted public attention has been
strike of the servant girls in Dundee
for higher wages.
HIS Majesty of Denmark is reported to
have offered prize of 81, 900 for the best
history of the United States since the
close of the civil war.
A SAN FRANCISCO woman recently ap-
piled for divorce on the ground that
her husband had been for four years ad-
dicted to using opium.
CALIFORNIA papers speak enthusias-
tically of the growing crops. At least
double the average production IS expec-
ted from the agricultural regions this
year.
In Arlington, VT, dogs have destroyed
seventv-fve ewes, valued at S400, belong
ing to one farmer alone, and many focks
have been scattered and driven to the
mountains.
The total number of hogs packed in
the West during the past season was
4,7S2,413, an increase of l, ,159, Alb, over
the previous year. The cost of the hogs
was S65, 100000.
NEARLY every farm in Western Oneida
county, N. Y, affords bright clear
springs and fine streams for trout, and
there is nothing to prevent every farmer
from engaging in fish culture.
ENGLISH law com pels married woman
if she has money or the means of making
it and her lord has none, to support him,
be he ever so worthless, that the expense
of his keeping may not come upon the
parish.
Gov. PARKER, of New Jersey, has
issued proclamation on the fishing
question, claiming jurisdiction over that
part of the Delaware River between the
States of Delaware and New Jersey,
which IS easterly on the middle line of
said river.
THE master of the schooner Oliver
Bridge reported 80 miles from
Cape Ann. fell in with and boarded a
schooner from Yarmouth, almost under
water, with both masts lying across the
deck. The dead bodies of two men were
found in the cabin.
CATERPIL1ARs stopped railroad trains
at various points near Memphis by lying
on the track in vast numbers. The
woods on the river banks opposite that
city are literally stripped clean of their
recent green foliage, and the same con-
ditlon is reported of other localities in
that section.