The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-04-15
Rrief Mentions.

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The. last prisoner has becu discharged
from the Spartanburg County Jail.
It is proposed at an early dhyy TO hold
convention of school teachers at Chester.
Maryland was the first State -ou,h Of MAJ
son & Dixon's Inc that put sop 10 the
lottery business.
The express Office at Greenwood VAS rob
bed last Thursday evening Of forty eight dol.
lars and seventy-fve cents.
About 81 900 bales of cotton lave been
sold in Charlotte since September l. 1873. a
considerable increase on the sales OF last
season.
Only i've students huve Withdrawn from
the Theological Seminary in Columbia, and
fifty-;wo remained. The report Of the troll
BILE was much exaggerated.
President Gran: has nominated II. c.
Johnson to be C nni.Sioncr Of Custom1.
and G.. II. Baldwi, 20 he Assistant United
States Treasurer i! Charleston, s. {.
The following municipal ticker in Due
West has been r!rc;ed: Rev. J. y. Young,
[ntcndant: Rev J. I. Bonner. Dr.. T.. II. Ed
wards. F. ". L. Nance and Isaac Lindsay,
WardcNS
Seneca Ci!y is no: eight months old. vet
two coMmo .iuul Hotels, Il capital Livery
Stable. Carriage, Smith and Harness Shops,
besides several Sturc- AMI private residences,
steam mill &c. have been erected there
Native Christian chapels have heen so far
constructed along the two thousand miles Of
ScacOaNt Of China that for eight hundred
miles Of that coast fooiman mly put up Ut
Christian chapel each night Of the journey.
Females are 10 be allowed TO vote by the
Michigan LeSisature-thatb body has agreed
to strike ont the word male in the new
constitution concerning the elective fran
| CRATE to that State.
A Chicago man lately received telegram
| from his wife, who is in Germany. saying
| she had given birth to daughter. He WINS
80 pleased at the news that he gave orders 10
baker to distribute 500 loaveS Of bread TO
the poor each day for ten days.
A cotton factory is to be established At
High Shoals, Anderson County, s. C.. Fifty
| thousand dollars have been subscribed. and
much larger subscription is expected. A
mecting Of the stockholders will take place
at High Shoals on the 25.h inst.
Female suffrage is increasing in popular
favor in England. Its advocates cluim 27l
members Of tue new Parliament. and the
hostile majority against it is reduced from
! 1O7 to 5 Disrael and several mrmbers OF
his cabinet voted for the measure i'll the late
Parliament.
Mr. A. P. Bently. Of Mouut Pleasant, Iowa
is writing 4 story founded on the abduction
of Morglu, OF Masonic memory. He is as
sisted by the Hon. J. &. Gill. of that city,
who was accused of and tried Tor the nbduc'
ton II viii give, it is said, true and -eli-
able account of the historic event.
There are ifty missionaries. with one hun
| dred and tweniy-cight native ministers, 10
boring Ut present in Turkey. There are seY-
rn:y-ei2hi churches established, und nine
thousand children in their Sabbath schools.
The commencement Of mission work in I'ur-
key is so recent, thut these results arc more
surprising.
The Marion Star says: 4 fearful outrage
was attempted on the line of the Whining
ton. Columbia and Augusta Railroad. last
Friday night, near Lynch creek. by the re.
moval Of rail eighteen feet long from the
| track. The entire train, with its cargo Of
| human lives, passed over The gap, and, by 4
mcrciful Providence, was saved from wreck
ard disaster.
The Constitutionalist, of Tuesday, men
,ionS that the Augusta cotton pool, inaugu-
rated by the Augusta Exchange. closed on
Wednesday, April l,t. 172 estimates were
given in. the lowest being 3,9lS.203 bales,
aud the highest ! .40S, ,234 while the average
is 4,17S 1888 bales. The estimates and mun-
cy were sealed up and deposited in the Sa-
tional Exchange Bank, Augusta, Gu. until
The crop is decided by the figures of the Fl
n;nciAl ana Commercial Chronicle in Sep
tcniber.
The Raleigh News thinks the earthquake
on Bald Mountain has been pro bono publi'
co. it says: It has caused tifty-fve conver.
sions to religion. broken up twcn,y-scvcn il
licit whi.key di,tlcries. drove from the
county two >ub-reyenue officials, rid the
mountains Of Il sorry preacher and furnished
Us several columns Of reading matter. On
the other hand, the damage is slight, for had
it broken up ull the crockery in the noun
| tans, the cos: would not have been SO,
while Mrs. Nannie'S chimney would have
tumb.ed with the first strong wind.