The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-07-17
General News Items.

General News Items.
| The present month July has FIVE Mon.
dsys, FIVE Tuesdays and fre Wednesdays.
! Grasshoppers five inches in length arc
taking the stumpin Wisconsin.
A dark colored red-headed fly is eating
! up the potato bugs in illinois.
Joe Corburn lost SO much or Bassett
| that Jem Mace had to buy him return
ticket.
In Catawba County, n. c., a Methodist
and Baptist congregation recently snapped
churches.
A Georgia editor refuses to support
Greeley, Oh the ground that it is as much
as he can do to support himself.
Col. D Wyatt Aiken organized a Grange
Of the Patrons Of Husbardry in Columbia,
on last Saturday.
Bonner, Of the New York Ledger, has
Sl45,C0O worth of horses, which he keeps
in 100000 worth of stables.
4 Chicago minister has so many initials
that the Press Of that city is reduced to the
necessity of speaking Of him as "the Rev.
alphabetical Rine."
Dobson says his friends seem determined
to give him the title Of Dr.. His butcher,
baker, and all the rest 90 so, but they put
the Dr.. after his name instead Of before it.
Rosa Calhoun, a faithful and valued SER
want Of the Calhoun family, died at Gen.
Hagood's plantation, Abbeville County,
on "Wednesday last, at the ad"anced age
Of ia years and FIVE months. o
Ifany person mas doubts whether adver-
tisements are read or nct, let hinc PCT sone-
thing he doesn't wish seen in e. obscure
PER. Of the paper.
4 ragged newsboy passed uhe most
creditabe examination for appointment to
West Point in one Of the New York Con-
gressional Districts.
General Wise thinks Virginia should
repudiate Grant and Greeley. Colonel
Mostly expresses prcferEece for the former
over the latter. The Conservative party,
generally, prefer Greeley to Grant, and all
have right to independence of thought
Parties from Fort Mill report movement
! Of all the wild tribes Of lndars upon
Texas. There are 10: available forces sutfi.
Gent 10 meet them, and serious times are
looked for.
4 despatch OF the 5th inst, via London,
from Constantinop!c, brings the news of 4
terrible confagation now raging in that
city. One thousand houses in the pororer
charters and srburbs of Scutar: are already
DESTROYED. When the telegram was for
warded 10 indication was given that the
FIRE Has under control.
Nessrs. Cover, Hills Il Co., are preparing
20 establish, at Greenyil!c, Slice Manu-
factory, These gentlemen, have large
Tannery now in successful operation.
Something new in this latitude is prom
ised at the next term of the Circuit Court
for the Sth Circuit, to be neid at Anderson
Cour: House, in the shape Of q breach Of
promise case.
THE SLATEs.-On OR visit to Charles
ton we were shown two tickets, made Up
for the State. The first was:
For Governor, Judge James l.. Orr;
for Lieut.. Governor, Beverly Nash; for
Secretary Of State, B. a. Bozelnan; for
Comptroller General, Benjamin Tomlin-
son; for Treasurer, +. l.. Cardoza; for
Auditor, Henry Sparnick; for Attorney
General, D. H. Chamberlain, for Super.
intepden; Of Education, F. II. Frost, and
for Adjutant and Inspector General, ".
i. Whipper.
The second was:
For Governor. +. J. Moses; for Lieut..
Governor, A. J. Ranser; for Secretary of
State,---Hain, OF Marion: for Treas
surer, Niles C. Parker; for Comptroller
General -- Smal!s, Of Beaufort; for
Auditor, NJ. Gary, the present incumbent;
for Attorney General Judge S. ". Mel.
ton; for Superintendent Of Educaton--
Jones, of Georgetown, and for Adjutant
and Inspector General, June Moblcy.
Orangeburg News.
4 WoNAN's TONGUE LET LOOSE
About FIVE years ago Miss Eliza Hite, of
Cumberland, Maryland, lost the power Of
speech entirely from the effects of a cold.
The skill of the best medical men was
obtained, but all in vain. On the morn
ing of Sunday, the 30th ultimo, as the
young lady was returning from Church
and vas thinking Of particular tune
sung by the choir at the services she had
ius, attended she found herself uncof-
sciously humming it. She was greatly
aston:sbed to hear sounds issuing from
her lips, but proceeded to make other
experiments, and found that she could
speak! The joy Of Miss Hite at thus
again finding her tongue is naturally
very great, though not unspeakab!e, and
s!Io will doubtless have good deal to
say after five years of enforced silence.
isow sic bore it is mystery.
The LAvyzss RAILROAD CAsE.-Th;s
case was brought before the United
States Court, yesterday. The assignee
reported the sale of the effects, and asked
that the sale be confirmed by the court.
Messrs. Presley, Lord {. Inglesby, Hayne
/; Son, Simonton & Barker, on the part
OF the creditors of the road, moved that
the sale be set aside, on the ground that