The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-02-12
General News Items.

Klux: has been pardoned from the
Albany Penitentiary.. =.
Beecher gets $4,000 a year from
the Christian Union for one article
week.
The Tokav Company near Fayette-
vile have made from last crop some
fifteen thousand gallons of wine.
The Savannah postofice clerks are
not happy. Their pay has been re-
duced to make mp the stipend of an
! intruder.
Thos. Scruggs was out hunting near
Winnsboro, and fired at drove Of
Of black birds, killing sirtAtvo at
oneshot.
josh Billings gives as one Of
his "Good Rezo!ushuns for 1873"
THAT wont slvise emmy body until
i kno the kind of advice they are
anxious tew follow
a horse died recently at carrolton.
Missouri, i'll his thirtieth year. having
been the property Of one man for
twenty.six years.
The Lexington Dispatch is inform.
ed that certain gentlemen ofColumbia
intend locating factory near the town
Of Lexington.
ATHENS, Feb. 4-Noon.-There
was an earthquake on the Island of
Samos. Great destruction ofproperty
and loss Of life.
LONDON: Feb /. The weather for
past three days has been intensely cold,
and hundreds of persons were frozen
to death in England during that time.
Meningitis is making sad havoc in
Washington county, several students
from Mercer having died since their
arrival from Macon, Ga.
Messrs. Gourdine and Burgess have
discovered some fine nuggets of gold
10 l-aurens county-enough to war
rant opening Of a mine.
The Savannah topers find it hard
to scrspe along. Every time one of
them gets drunk he is fined ten dollars
and costs Or two weeks in the house
of correction. They are crying for
reduction Of the tariff.
The Georgia Press Association has
adopted resolution TO adhere strictly
to the system Of advance payments on
all subscriptions to their papers, and
so advise their patrons from week
to week.
The Boston Board Of Trade has
passed resolution asking Congress to
amend the bankruptcy law so as to
allow the speedy settlement of the
affairs Of the insurance companies
nowin liquidation.
The engineers in charge of the ex-
perimental survey of the Greenwood
and Augusta Railroads have complet-
ed their survey upon the Carolina side
Of the Savannah River. and are now
engaged in running lines from some
point near Fury's Ferry to the city of
Augusta.
Clarence Lockwood, the printer,
who was shot on Monday, and has
since been lying in a precarious con-
dition in Bellevue Hospital, has be-
gun to show signs Of marked improve
mcnt. Last evening the intense pain
which he has suffered since he was
shot had almost ceased, and he was
able to be moved to another bed.
Though the bullet still remains in the
kidney, strong hopes are entertained
Of his recorery.-N. \. Star.
We learn that on Wednesday, the
29th day Of January: 1873, about II
O'Clock, Mr.. William Riley, living
near the Tree bridge on Saluda River.
had the misfortune to have his GIN
house burnt, and about 100 bushels IF
cotton seed: FIVE bags of lint cotton
(Which was the property ofhis widow
ed mother, Mrs. Susan Riley.) Her
hands were ginning at the time. The
fire is thought to have originated from
i match in the seed cotton. Loss es-
timated at 81 900 or s1,200.-AJJe-
uHle Press and Banner.
Me<srs. ". P. Russell and D. A. J.
Sullivan, as will be seen by this days
Courier, have entered into business
co-partnership for the purpose of erect
ing buildings, doing general house
carpentry, all kinds cfjobbing work,
fitting up stores. and putting in fronts,
and shipping ready-made buildings to
any point desired. They will furnish
plans and specifications at moderate
charges. Both Of these gentlemen
who have combined their talents and
skill, are we'll known first. class me-
chanlcs and master workmen. Their
establishment, at the end Of Hasel
street. is one Of the largest in the South,
and is supplied with every labor say
ing improvement known to the age.
The facilities of the firm are unsur
passed, and they are ready to do any
thing in their line in a manner to
give the most thorough satisfaction.
Charleston Courier.
THE ALDISE FOR FEBsUARY is in every
respect cqu.;. TO The sanguine expectations
excited by the January number OF this re-
markable periodical, Of which each issue ap-
49,