The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-02-25
The NRWBRR&Y HERALD.

were not to be found. He searched till
daylight, and then returned home
wards expecting to find 4 state Of chaos.
Strange to say, the house stood erect,
in the same plan; inside, nothing WIS
disturbed. Grundy was cold, for in
his haste to have the robbers arrested
he had forgotten to put On his clothes.
He dressed-made fire-by that time
Smith came for the skillet, and Grundy
told him all about it. Smith is Of IN
enquiring turn and wanted to see the
place where the scratching was heard.
Grundy consented-thcy went into the
other room and singular to relate the
noise was still heard-and seemingly to
proceed from :: clothes press. They
opened it and the old house cat came
out. She had gone in there to have
kittens. Grundv says if the police had
been on duty he would not have suffer-
ed so much from the cold
DON'T you fail to come to us with your
Cotton. We always buy.
8 WM. C. CHASE & co.
ABOUT THE Town AND COUNTY,
Tho clerk of the weather says tlog-on
his buttons-he has failed to reconcile
the seasons.
The buds on the trees hardly know
what to do; they arc ready to burst.
An imp CT the law inquired of us the
other day if we had i devils printer
NO" said we, "but we have had sew
cral devilish printers"
Speaking Of printers, why is it that so
many people labor under the delusion
that printers live on air We think it
an idea born of the devil.
Those potatoes and turnips sentus by
good old friend the other day were fine.
he labol ed under no such delusion.
The mud and slosh for the past week
has been fearful.
Are pigeons birds? If they are, then
the law which prohibits the killing of
birds during certain months of the Year
should be enforced against malicious
boys who shoot their ncighbor's pet
pigeons.
Does man enjoy genuine religion if
he has no charity? Verify, no.
Several parties have promised to pay
their back dues to this Office in wood
If they do not comply soon Tlial JUS
ticc will collect the amounts due.
Merchants Of Newberry listen to rea-
son. and adopt the cash system at once.
The times imperatively demand it.
Credit will surely bankrupt you.
Our terms are strictly cash in ad-
vance, and -four patrons want the Her
aid, come prepared to pay.
A safe, small, cash business will re-
suit in happiness: but large one on
the credit plan will end in ruin.
Cooing is we'll enough before mar
rilge, but the billing doesn't come till
after; and then it comes from the
tradesrlan.
Smith remarks that when young
widow resumes tight corsets it IS to
show she is so-laced.
4 Western paper is dead. In its last
gasp it E,intly whispered, Two hmn-
dred subscribers, and thirty one of them
paid up.
An editor says he has given $4,000
for race horse to catch delinquentsub
Scribers with. Another, having heard
that drowning men remember every
event of their lives, advises his subscri-
berS to battle in deep water.
Mr.. J. \. Bass, for some time en-
gagged in the saddle and harness factory
of Webb, Jones & Parker, has opened
business for himself over the store of
Chase & Co. Success attend him.
What is the difference between far
mer and a bottle Of whiskey ? One
husbands the corn, and the other corns
the husbands.
A man was boasting that he had been
married for twenty years and had never
given his wife q cross word. Those
who knew him say he didn't dare to.
When young farmers wife made
her first boys pants precisely the same
before as behind, the father eNclaimed:
"Goodness!he won't know whether he's
orr;nrr to cohoo1 m. corninr r bon,n -