The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-01-06
Brief Mentions.

American dollar OF the year loU4 Is
said to have been sold for s700.
A Frcnchman has opened restau-
rant in Thomson street, New York,
where he gives piece of bread, Il
plate of vegetable soup, and plate of
vegetables to order, for FIVE cents.
Dr. Carpenter asserts that Newton's
law of gravitation is mere hypothe-
sis. This is an age of disenchapt-
ment. Even the man who falls in
love with beautiful head of hair too
often discovers it is mere hypothesis
too.
Miss Kellogg says that American
girls have the sweetest voice in the
world. When one Of them puts her
mouth to a hole in the fence and
"hollers' to the girl next door to
"fetch back them crimpiug irous," it
fills the air with melody.
4 daughter of DR.. Crosby, of Ches-
ter, on Monday last, while on visit
to her relative, Mr.. Atkinaon, some
miles from Chester, fell from the
sweep of a gin among the cog-wheels
of the machine, and was 80 badly
managed that death ensued.
In Mississippi it cost 100000 to
administer the government, before
the war; now, under radical rule, it
takes 100000. Before the war
81, $50 paid the expenses Of the Exc
cutive Department; $4,000 goes that
that way now.
Dispatches from Geneva state that
the now storms have been unusually Sc
we're throughout Switzerland. Many
mountain passes are closed, and postal
communications are suspended
Ayalanches are frequent, and many
chalets are completely covered up.
The Supreme Court of Maine has
decided that a woman cannot hold
the Office Of justice Of the peace or
any other Office mentioned in the con-
stitution, but that the legislature may
authorize women to hold any office
created by that body.
Two French savants have presented
to the French Academy of Sciences
the result of their experiments upon
fame produced by the mixture Of sui
phatc Of carbon and bioxide of nitro
gen. The light produced by it is 50
intense as to quite eclipse the sun.
By the help of it photographers will
be able to do their work at any hour.
of the day or uight, and in any con-
dition Of the atmosphere.
The only thing settled beyond
doubt as to the election which took
place in Louisiana nearly two months
ago, is the fact that the constitutional
amendments recommended by Gov.
Kellogg and approved by the Legjsla-
ture have been adopted by popular
vote. These amendments seem judi
cious; as four of them impose whole
some restrictions upon the eytrava-
gance of State officials, and the fifth
changes the day of the State elections
to that fixed by law for Federal cleo
tions.
= North Carolina paper says that
two negro girls, in want Of a new
bonnet placed Instructions on the
Wilmington and Weldon railroad,
near Warsaw, the other day, as they say,
for the purpose Of killing some ladies
on the train that they might secure
the bonnets. They have been tried
before a justice of the peace and sent
to Duplin. There would seem to be
good opening for a milliner in that
section.
| Hall century ago, family lived IN
Louisiana, in which were two sisters
very young. The parents died and
left them helpless. They were adopted
by different families, became perma-
nently separated, and went to other
parishes. Both married young, and
finally became neighbors in the same
parish, where they resided in the
same neighborhood and visited each
other for about thirty-6ve years be-
fore discovering they were sisters.
The discovery took place last year,
and was celebrated with family din
ner.