The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-12-02

1oHoDOUS az f0ieA9e'
for keeping lady's hands free from
chaps. 4 report that she has no
money will do the same thing.
A colored man in Marion has made
and packed this year thirty-six bales
Of cotton, grown on tweuty-four acres
of land. Who can beat this!
Quite a number Of the leading ultra
Republican journals demand the pas
sage of the civil rights bill by the
next session Of Congress.
4 writer in the Augusta Constitu-
tionalist says the reason the planters
do not prosper better is that there is
too much cotton and too many pointer
dogs.
Louisiana Journalism consists chiefly
in exasperating somebody until he
calls the editor a liar, and then the
editor killing him in time for the last
edition.
"Ven some man slabs ME on der
shoulder und says: I was glad to hear
you vas so vell,' uod den sticks be-
hind my back his fingers on his nose,
I hef my opinion Of dat feller."
Miss Annie Rampey, daughter OF
Mr.. D. G. Rsmpey, of Greenville
County, picked two hundred and five
pounds Of cotton on Friday, 10th DC.
tobcr. She didn't go to the circus.
Jones: of Vermont, said on his dy-
ing bed that he had never written a
line which he cared to erase. The
whole State was proud Of him, but it
was found out that he could not write
his name.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks has re-
fused salary of $4,000 year from
Philadelphia, said to be the highest
salary ever offered to an Episcopal
clergyman in this country, and one Of
$4,000 from New York. He loves
Boston.
A heavy earthquake is reported in
| Chill. Earthquakes, tidal waves, ty-
phoons, eclipses and falling stars have
been the great events in both hemis-
pheres for month or two, including
our October and November State
elections.
Ouly one colored man will occupy
seat in the United States Senate, in
the next Congress, and his will be the
seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis.
Of the one hundred and seventy-6ve
Congressman elected this fall, only
four are colored.
A policeman in Chicago, passing
house one night recently, heard a
woman screaming, 20. Henry, Henry,
come here quick! Susan! Mother.
The baby !" Gallantly breaking in
the door and rushing up stairs, the
officer found that the baby had just
cut a tooth.
Terrible subterraneous rumblings
commenced on the 11th inst, at
Guanajuato, and was followed by a
trembling of the earth. Many edifces
| were injured by the shock. Rumblings
have since become so continuous that
the people are alarmed, and many
families are leaving.
The Ashcvile Erp0sit0r says:
Bald Mountain is again on the shake.
\ few nights ago FIVE or six terrible
shocks were felt at the distance of six
miles. Glasses on the tables were made
to rattle. The shocks were equal to
those of last winter. Maybe she will
burst at last.
It is stated that George Jones, pub
Usher Of the New York Times news
paper, has purchased from exGov.
Edward D. Morgan the whole of the
latter's stock in that paper at $4,000
share. Mr.. Morgan transferred
fourteen shares at this price; total,
s16S,0G0.
A Republican merchant in Cincin-
natl, having large business with the
South, stated openly last week, that
he considered his credits worth twenty
per cent. more since the recent elec-
tions. The packers attribute the ad-
vance in hogs to the same cause, and
the barley men swear it is so.
A tombstone at Saratoga lifts up
warning voice to single women in the
following manner: Emma, dau'er of
Of Abraham and Matilda c., and
wife of Theodore s., died August
10th, 1868, e 26 yrs, leaving FIVE
:ldren-married too young against
:.cr fathers will. Single women take
warning"
An Illinois farmer determines the
age of animals over nine years old by
the following method: After the horse
is niue years old wrinkle comes on
tie upper lip, and every year there
after he has olc well-defned wrinkle
for every year after nine. If, for in
stance, a horse has three wrinkles, he
is twelve; if he has four, he is tLir-
teen.
Mcssrs. Calnan and Roatb, of Co.
lumbia, purchased the Greenyille
Mansion House, on Saturday, 2lst ult.,
Of J. Walter Gray, Esq, for the sum
Of $4,000; possession to be given lst
of January. They contemplate spend
inc several thousand dollars in mod
crnizing the building, and making it a
frSt-class house in every respect.
Mr.. Jas. Puckett's cotton house was
burnt, near Trick EN-, last Thursday
night, together with its entire contents.
It contained lot of cotton seed and
several bales Of cotton in the seed
It was the work of an iucendiary. No
discoveries yet made, but active meas
urcs are in operation to secure the ap-
| prehension Of the guilty one.
[Abber:lle Nedium.
4 literary curiosity is now for sale
at Pcking. 1t consists of a copy of
gigantic work composed Of 6:l09
volumes, entitled "An Imperial Col