Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-10-24
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An Indiana boy has been poisoned by
eating castor beans.
All the Illinois villages are making
cities of themselves under a general law.
Milk even at ten cents quart, is the
cheapest animal food that can be used.
A Cheshire, Conn. farmer expects to
harvest 5000 bushels of apples this year.
A society has been formed in Indian
apolis to assist girls in finding employ
ment.
The new way of dressing the hair on
the top of the head is called the
Josephine"
a stable-keeper in Chelsea, Mass.
was lately bitten by spider and died
from the effects.
A number of French priests are said to
purpose following Pere Hyacinthe's mat
rimonial example.
The popular preacher, Stover, of Ken
tncky, has been an "elder" since he was
thirteen years of age.
The mother Of a charming Dubuque
girl would not let her marry conductor
because she didn't want her doors
slammed off.
The average salary of eighteen Bap-
tist preachers in North Carolina is
trife over one hundred and twenty-five
dollars year!
sInsults," said modern philosopher,
"are Ike counterfeit money; we cannot
hinder their being offered, but we are
not compelled to take them"
In view of the style of political warfare
prevailing IN the present campaign, q
sermon is promised from the text, "Con.
slider the lie-lies, how they grow"
A man in Charleston, s. c., has been
relieved of Guinea worm which bad
taken Judgement in his leg. These mon
Sters will grow all through man.
The celebration of the beginning Of
the year according to the Jewish calen-
der, 1888, was continued this year by
appropriate services in all the syna-
gogues.
The Strasburg Gazette says that 500
Alsatians are now serving as soldiers IN
the German garrisons, OF whom 125 are
volunteers. The latter will be liable TO
military service for only one year.
A farmer in Concord, Michigan, has
kept an account of the potato bugs he
has gathered this season from an eight
acre piece, and he says they amounted
to twenty-one bushels, actual measure.
"Of all the reverses experienced by
me- said penurious Cresus dwelling
in fashionable avenue, ''the only one
that gave me satisfaction was my discov-
cry that could reverse paper shirt col
lars.
One of Hartford's popular dry goods
merchants was asked the other day how
he spenS his evenings. His reply was,
cat night l store my mind, and during
the day mind my store" He was
alive at last accounts.
Alsatians are preparing to take up their
residence in Nancy, and numbers Of others
will go TO other places. DuIins sLo l.-st
fortnight $4,000 have left Metz to seek
homes under French Jurisdiction, and the
city is already reduced to population Of
onl 10000.
The celebrated Spanish monastery Of
the Escurial was struck by lightning, and
enyeloped in flames. The Royal Palace,
the rare old books, paintings, and costly
manuscripts have all been destroyed, and
it was expected that the mausoleum and
summer residence of the Spanish kings
would be consumed also.
A passenger train from London to Edin-
burgh came in collision, while running at
full speed, with a freight train near Car
Isle. Cumberland County, causing the in
Simultaneous death of eleven persons, and
injuries to many others so severe that it
is feared several will die. Such an acci-
dent is almost unprecedented in Eng
land