The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-07-01
Brief Wcl,ti0nS.


deliberations.
Brief Mentions.
The Kingstree Star has suspended pub!ics-
:ion.
T. c.. Andrews, eN-eltnr OF The Union
Herald, has taken charge Of the OrAncchu'g
News.
Paper barrels, said to b" stronger than
wood. are l manufacturers novelty 1t Port
Byron, New York.
An appropriation OF 100000 has been
made by Congress for the Improvement Of
Charleston harbor
Don Piast says: "Hrmcr is to . newspaper
what II tail is 10 kite-vcr.' ABSURD, but
very necessary to its ascension"
The Medium says that Sunday is Il great
d,y with AhbcviIlc people. as they have
| their fortunes told on that day
1t is estimated that the reduction Of Il e
area planted in cotton fhis season through' ut
The Chester Reporter has changed hands.
| McssrS. j. C.. Hardin and J. 4. Buchansn
| now coNduct it. Success TO :hem.
One farmer in Monmouth county, \. j.,
who has six acres in blac kberTicS, sold last
season fruit to the value of 5000.
! Rev. Dr. FalScn.hal, l learned Jewish rab-
| b:, says that "a drunkard among the Je;rs is
q very rare and very exceptional person.
Brigham Young recently said 10 q meeting
Of Mormous: II pray for our enemies,
brethren. bu. always pray that they may
so to hcI.'
The factory girls Of Lowell, Mass, turn
out 739 miles Of paper cellars per month,
and weep 10 think Of the countless vouug
/ men whose necks they will embrace.
"Oh, ma! ma! Johnny's got the urn and is
spilling pas ashes over the hoor!' ooh,
what 4 naughty Johnny! Get the feather
duSier and sweep Your poor father right up"
Scot; County, Minnesota. contains an ex-
teuSive Lipburgcr cheese factory. The
cheese is declared TO be ''ripe" when piece
the size of bean will drive a dog out Of a
lanyard.
Ds. Parker of AbbeyiIlc, while crossing O.
river, was engulfed by the quicksands and
came near losing his life. Wafer and sand
covered the horse to his neck, and only by
the greatest exertionS WAS an escape made.
Richard Bewlcy, d colored man in Georgia,
now in his 10th year, cuts his own wood,
and raised last year nearly hundred dollars
worth Of tobacco, besides his ":ruck patch, J"
and much voun ry labor abont the farm.
An accident occu ID June @ on the New
! York Genital, near-St. louisville, y. \. The
freight trains coldcd. killed 81 inca and in
| turing several offers. One of the killed VAS
Peter Oregon The name Of the others un-
known.
Raleigh News: The annual reunion Of the
aSSocia! ell veterans OF the Mexican war viii
be held in Raleigh on July 4, 1874, AMI not
at Asheville, as at first proposed. IhlS
change has been found cxpc'licnt after ma
turc deliberations
John Mangum and his mule were Killed by
| lightning in the upper part 0! hcrShaw
county Fearing some accident had beialen
him in his protractcd absence, his mother
caused search to be made. He was found
dead in The road beside his mule.
Mrs Audubon, widow Of the celebrated
naturalist, died al Kellysvile, Ky. last week.
aged lightweight. She was 4 lady of unu-
sual attainmeurS. and was the constant com
pauion O: her husband, in his laborS aud
| travels, and visited the principal courts OF
Europe in lis company.
Mr.. D. T..Barr, of this County, shipped
| eight crates Of peaches, from his ''ntrcr fail
| in-" orchard, on the 10th instant 70 the
| Charleston market. He has also been ship.
| o;nr apples for several weeks pas. We
| think LcXnstonai if it is called = State" will
| stand along side Of the frs, Of the >caSo2 IN
the frui; line this ycar.-l-cxingtou Dispatch.
Gen. II. P Bee, native of Sontb Carroll
MI, is nov i resident Of the Stale OF Durango,
| Mexico, where nc has 4 fine cotton plantation,
| with prospects Of making this season Soou
crop. Gen. Bee resided in Texas for many
wears before the war. He WAS I brother Of
Gen. narna:d T.. Bee, who WAS killed II the
first Manassas.
4 young hoy in Athol. Mass, is exciting
no little intcrcS and speculation among the
physicians by displaying an Irresistible pro.
pcnsity 70 cat himself mp. He has pursued
this habit with SHch fatal pcrSiStcncy during
the four years of his life as 10 reduce all the
fingers OF both hands 10 raw and bleeding
StumpS, while Of the ihuub Of the left hant
nothing whatever remains.
1t may interest the "champion baggage
smasher' 70 learn that 4 New Yorker, who
last season had 5000 worth Of trunks de-
StroycG has had five new ones made to order
and supplied with compartments containing
five pounds each Of nitro-sIyccrine He pro-
poses to travel from Maine TO Texas, cover
ing ill the watering places, and will have
coroner along 10 hoid inqaests ON. The VIC
;imS.
We are informed by a friend who visited
the plantation Of Col. Nathan Mcdaniel. on
Thursday in Jones County, between Trenton
and Kinston, that npon that plantation was
about forty acres OF cotton, much OF which
was two feet high, and over one hundred
and forty acres OF CO; :. Which was from four
10 six feet high. This, VIC think, IS fully
coua: to any in this section Of counh|.
iRcpublic- Courier, Newbernc, \. G.