Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-07-10
1890 PER ANNUM.
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Facts and Fancies.

The Mammoth Cave is for sale price,
halt million.
The best scholar in the Princeton, ILL.,,
high school, is colored girl.
James Carruthers was hanged at
Barrie, canada, for the murder OF MS
wife.
An Indiana schoolmaster declares
that the use of tomatoes as food INDUCES
insanity.
An unknown metal has been found
ON an old Indian camping ground near
Kemper, Ill.
The Illinois river at point between
Peoria and Spring Bay is W feet oeep
at low water. =!
ASt Louis woman took the veil re-
Gently She was caught and had to give
it up though.
A fellow in New Orleans is said TO
have eaten box of CASTLE soap to get
rid of freckles.
Frank q. Walworth has pleaded not
ouilty of the murder of his father, 1or
which he has been indicted.
By way of consolation, the next time
ven are hard up, reflect that the BANK am
Of England has capital Of $50, ,OoO,ooo.
OF the 45, ,OOo, 900 United States three
per cent. certificates outstanding NOV;
/. 1870. all but 0,0O0 have been called
in and redeemed.
A New Albany, Ind, Judge has de-
cided that if man gets drunk eveIy
other week, and stays drunk week az .
time, he is not an habitual drunkard.
Seventeen persons have been arrested,
fifteen tried. and fourteen convicted
and sent to the State Prison In new
York for circulating immoral hseratuse'
Two girls at Athens, Ga, were made
ouite sick by swallowing the poisonous
| flowers of heartsease, under the roman,
tio notion that whatever they wished
then would come true.
A yery sensible law has been passed
in Massachusetts and should be copied
in every State in the Union. IL pro
hibits, under severe penalties, the de-
facement of natural scenery by quack
advertisements or otherwise.
Aveteran proprietor OF summer hotels
declares that whenever landlord mas
had two prosperous seasons in success
sion he should always retire from ousi-
ness. since it is the result OF his exPeri-
ence that the third season usually loses
what the other two seasons have made.
Az Steubenville, Ohio, at the house
~ a miner named George Edmonds, o
can of gun powder weighing 125 pounds
exploded. killing three children and
fatally vounding another. The can had
been placed in q cupboard, and IN the
absence Of their parents the children
had set fire to it.
Gov Austin, of Minnesota, after serv-
inc two wears in the Executive once,
declines a denomination because it costs
him s3. 900 year more than his salary
To live. "This," he says with some
show Of reason, "when man has made
what little he has by hard knocks, is
not very satisfactory"
A nicely-dressed gentleman applied
for a marriage license at Dover, Tenn.'
bnt when he spoke the lady's name the
polite County Clerk suggested that,
# IL was all the same to him, he would
prefer that he should name some other
party. as the one mentioned had be-
come his wife the previous evening.
Here is an instance Of mothers love
from Rhode Island paper: "a New.
port woman recently discovered thas
her children, seven IN number, showea
unmistakable signs of having the scarlet
fever. Being unable to procure any as
sistance, she worked, watched, and al.
ministered medicines day and night 70
her children, until her system gave out
and she became insane, in which condi-
tion she still remains"
On one Of our eastern trains the other
day, a newly married couple starting on
their wedding tour, gave vent 70 thelr
emotions as follows:-Husband Qean-
ing over very tenderly toward the part
ner of his joys and sorrows)[" oose
little pet lamb is 'ou?' Wife with re-
sponsive tenderness GUS. hus'
band-"Oo does 'ou love?" Vile
"Ou." I. g., being single man, was
completely overcome at this point OF
the conversation, and joined the euchre
Ito, orovd in the smoking car.