The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-04-17
General News Items.

General News Items.
Over $4,000 worth Of horses have been
bought in Fayetteville since the 18th of
December.
1t is reported that there are seventy-fve
counties in Texas in which there is not
single Sunday school.
The Texas papers report good stands of
corn all over the country, aud that the
planters will put their cotton in this week.
This is the last month of oysters, and
they will no; be in season again until Sep
tember.
B4rnum's cannibal from Fiji says, "Be
jabcrS, he'll not stand being stared at for
tin dollars wake g; dye moind now?"
1t is estimated by good authority that
the Northern people ~ho visit Florida Il is
winter will spend in that State not less
than $2,000,00o.
There is Said to be eight hundred differ
eut washing machines patented at Washing.
ton, three-quarters being of New England
origin.
Ifyou want TO find out a mans real lis.
position take him when ne is wet and hun
CRY. If lie is amiabe then, dry him and
ill him up, and you have got an angel.
Dir. Enoch West, one Of the Laurcns
prisoners, who has had dangerous attack
Of pneumonia in Jail from exposure since
his arrest, is better.
The largest rope in the world has been
completed in Birmingham. 1t is about six
miles long, Eve and quarter inches in cir
cumterence, and weighs over sixty tons.
The last Palatka Herald has the follow
ing: "The orange groves are just as full
Of blossoms as they can be, and the air is
perfumed with their delicious favor.
A man played dead with laudanum, etc.,
at his side, in order TO test his affections
She, to test his vitality, ran a cambria
needle into his leg and brough, him to.
A man named Atcheson Wells, while
wadins in the river at Brownsville, Texas,
stepped into a quicksand and vanished from
sight in second.
An artesian we'll has been sunk twelve
hundred feet in Chicago before indiag
water. Bat the water now comes at the
rae Of one thousand gallons per minute.
Dover, Tenn, has two-tailed COW, and
jackson boasts of a musical mouse, whose
, notes remind one of all old fashioned music
box.
Thirty fat, stock and passenger cars, in
cluding one Pullman palace car, have been
built at Cincinnati, for John Rob:nSou's
circus and will accompany his travels for
1872.
4 man in New York recently blcd to
death after having five teeth extracted.
Every effort was made to stop the bleeding
Of the gums, but proved frlitleSs. and the
patient gradually died from exhaustion.
No man ever gets his moneys worth out
of a newspaper unless he reads the adrer.
Using columns a,tentivelr. They inform
| him who are the live business men Of the
town, and he also finds out where he can
obtain the best bar gains.
Agassiz is easily satisfied. he says Il
| am satisfied, since ! have examined the
tomocsris pei,cei, that trilobi;es are not
any more closely related to the phyllopods
than to any other entomostraca. We
| submit that this is 100 thin.
The Mormon Conference, by unanimous
vote, has selected Brigham Young to be
| president Of the church George 4. Smith,
first, and Daniel Fl. Wells, second council
lors ard OrSon Hyde, president Of the quo
rum Of the twelve apostles
The fremen Of Charleston are preparing
| for grand tournament, 20 take pla'e on
the sth Of May next The affair promises
to be one Of 20 ordinary import, and the
fremcn of our sister city are deeply inter
ested in its success. The programme Of last
year will govern the occasion.
In Tahiti society is divided into sects,
the white merchants and shopkeepers who
have fair faced wives, and hali.castes and
their friends The former have been
christcned the mean whites. and the latter
the dirty browns. The first have ell the
virtue, and the latter all the charms.
Dr.. JOHN B. Cunningham, young and
rising physician of Abbevilie, was acc;.
dentaly shot and killed last Tuesday morn.
ing. lie was sitting in his house and, tee-
ing some birds. he took up his gun TO shoot
then. when BY some mischance, it went of
| aud lodged the charge Of ball and shot in
his neck. He lived but twenty minutes
after the accident.
The Marion Crescent SAYS: eve are ir.
formed that cattle are dying by the hun
drcds in the lower section of our county.
| 4 gentleman who gave us this Information,
expressed the opinion that it vas a kind OF
murrain. The disease seems to be incura.
ole. I: attacks old and young alike, and
seldom fails TO produce death. Alreadr
the number destroyed by this epidemic is
estimated to exceed one thousand head
SUPREME CorRr.-Exparte jefferson
Greer, on hcbeas corpus to the Marshal
Of the District Of South Carolina. Greer
is held BY the Marshal under bench
warrant issued by the Circuit Court for
felony. under tie provisions of the en-.
forcemcnt act of 1870. The United
States maintrin that the Supreme Court
has no Jurisdiction to discharge the
prisoner, even though it enquire into
the cause Of commitment. BrIstow
opened, and was followed BY Stanbery,
ex. Attorney General. Reverdy johnson
will close Monday,