The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-25
ABOUT TIE Town AND COUNTY
The weather is ali right.

ABOUT TIE Town AND COUNTY
The weather is ali right.
Some one wants 70 know why so
; many strangers were in town last week.
! We suppose it is because it is the drum-
ming season.
! Short armed lovers will rejoice TO
learn that tight lacing is again coming
into fashion. We arc sorry for the girls.
, Love matches arc often formed by
people who pay for 4 month of honey
with live of vinegar
! Eighteen barrels Of assorted cakes
! and crackers Mt the Baltimore Corner,
and the tale is not half told.
Strangers remark that Ncwbelry is
tic busiest town in the State. The
compliment is highly appreciated, and
it is true.
Besides, it is quiet and orderly town,
; and i place where nearly everybody
minis their own business.
Yet ut times fool Is seen trying to
pick a fly from mules hind leg. The
wiser ones let such jobs ont to the
lowest bidder.
That was wise little girl, who in
quircd, Ma. when COWS die do they
90 to the milky-way?"
A more practical infant has already
asked if Santa Claus can be made to
bring candy like lie did last time?
BLESSED innocents.
Sunday is not tie time for horse
trading or for buying mules. Bear this
in mind.
The yield OF oats in this County next
Spring, if frost does no damage, will be
greater than ever it was before.
Have Your job printing done at home
this Office is prepared for anything
from Il visiting card to 4 poster. Spcci-
mems may be seen by calling.
Several parties we supposed dead,
and whose obituaries it was thought
necessary to write, have proved lately
that they are not only alive, but in their
right mind-by paying their subscrip-
ton.
There are 4 few we are still in doubt
about, but we sincerely trust they have
not gone where the woodbinc twineth.
Come and report.
NIarshall's oysters are large, fat and
tender. lie keeps mp q regular supply
Of them, together with fish.
What is better than promisingyoun
man? 4 paying one.
We heard man saya few days since
he was waiting for something to turn
up. It will be better if he turns up
something himself.
| It is satisfactory to notice 4 large lot
Of new I. iron lying near the Depot
The entire line will soon be in apple
pie order, the superstructure Of which
will be T.
Now if the railroad company would
erect shed .under3which passengers
might take refuge in bad weather we
would have nothing more to complain
ol-ior the present.
The celebrated Wilson Shuttle Sow
inc Machine received IN award ut the
late State Fair.
Cotton comes in plentifully. the late
fair weather enabling planters to pick
as never before. There Gun hardly be
any Of the 1eecy staple left in the field
now.
We hear of hogs and turkeys coming
into Grccnvillc in droveS, and would
like to see some of each coming into
| Ncwbcrry.
We have nothing of lively nature
to record this week, no fire, murder,
robbery, riot, not even Z case of drunk.
Mr.. Thos. Cook is now in Columbia,
in attendance as q juror on the United
States Court now IN session.
F. C. Aldridge, Trial Justice, brought
in i couple Of colored fghtists from
Prosperity on Saturday night and lodged
them IN Jail.
The number Of wagons in town on
Saturday was unusually large.
Several knights Of the order Of the
knife and fork sat at the Ground table,
of 4 distinguished citizen on Sunday
last. Mock turtle soup, turkey roast,
oyster pie, pig in Sausage, &c. Report
favorable.
Patrons Of the HERALD will please
remember that the Office is removed. II
is now over Mr.. T. F. Harmon's Store.
Entrance through main door.