Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-30
Items Of Interest.

lgcmS Oh lntcIcots
The Union Pacific has had no serious
delays from snow this winter.
An unknown brig went to pieces Oh
the Isle of Wight, and nine persons were
drowned.
An official advertisement OF property
10 be sold for unpaid taxes in Chicago,
Ill, occupied $50 columns In the Ch'ca-
20 Evening Post.
Aeassiz says That any full grown man
can live for ten days by chewing at q
pair of boots, and yet there are men
whe will growl if they don't have mincs
pie every meal.
The upper floors Of the granarg OF
the Lion Brewery at Lambreth, Eng
land, fell in recently, burying the man
ager of the establishment, the clerks,
and other employees in the ruins.
Rev. n. W. Beecher lectured recent
" on Compulsory Education, At AS
sociation Hall, New York, maintaining
that the State should provide Tree
schools and compel all children to at
tend them.
Asan Francisco man laughed until
he had the cramp TO see o woman fail
through trapdoor in his Sidewalk, but
he never smiled when the court inform
ed him he must pay i've hundrea dol
lars for his sport.
Henry Megs, the railroad king OF
Peru, recently presented President Bal
ta's wife with $50, 900 on her birthday,
and ut the same time sent her daugh-
ter S5O. .OOO-mere little tribes with
Megs-something that he does every
day or two.
They are driving piles by gunpowder
at baltimore. A small cannon isplaced
muzzle downward over Che pile, and
ram having piston fitting tho bore OF
the gun is propelled by small charge
of powder against the pile head. The
firing is done very rapidly, and good re-
suits are obtained.
At a recent Connecticut wedding, in
repeating the words, ''if You knew OF
any lust cause" ETC., the minister look
ed at nervous young man directly In
front of him. The fellow sprang up
with much haste and trepidation, ana
blurted out, "0h, no, bless me ! not
the slightest objection, SIR"
A Young man in Boston caused pho
tographer to jump out OF o fifth story
window the other day, merely because
the former had fixed up his face with
water-colors to represent o bad case OF
smallpox. which he wanted photograph
ed to send home to o girl from whom he
wished to sever his acquaintance.
A young man named Gill, OF Gaines,
Michigan. went TO bed and dreamed
that tree was falling toward him. In
his frantic efforts TO escape he jumped
into the middle of the floor and thence
through window over two tree-tops,
landing in snow nine feet fem the
building and thirty feet from his bed.
The window was badly smashed, but he
wasn't hurt at all.
A merchant in Springfield, Massachu-
setts, few days since, pulled out his
money drawer further than usual, and
noticed dollar bill hanging over the
back of the drawer. This led him to
investigate, and behind partition was
found between sixty and seventy dol
lars worth of bills and scrip, most OF
which had been badly mutilated BY
mice. Among the money was $2o bal
on State bank, issued before the bank
adopted the national system.
A terrible accident has just occurred
OF Hawick, England. A poor woman
who was employed in factory went
into the boiler-house to warm herseh.
She soon afterward saw the fireman
coming, and knowing that he objected
to any one being there, she ran INTO Q
recess to hide herself. In this fatai
corner worked revolving Shaft. The
clothes of the unfortunate woman were
caught, and she herself was dragged
round byittill mangled outof oil human
likeness.