The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-08-11
Brief Mentions.

nado passed over Union county, de-
stroying the crops iu several sections.
One of the great attractions at the
Centennial next year will be the cen
tenuarians. The country is being can
vassed for the huudred-year- -olders,
and they are watched and nursed with
more than usual zeal and affection.
Two years ago a Pennsylvania ser
want girl was sent to prison for stealing
$500 from her employer. The money
was found the other day where he had
hidden it, and now the man offers the
girl s6 as recoupense, while she is
willing to settle for ten thousand.
A certain patriotic young man who
intends to visit the great centennial,
remarked the other evening that he
had such love and veneration for his
country that he wouldn't mind en-
bracing the whole thirteen young la
dies who are going to represent the
original colonies.
A fourteen. .year-old girl in Sandy
Hill, n. Y, elopel with school boy,
cot married, and returned home with
him to be forgiven. She was soundly
spanked by her mother, and the has-
band, on his way out of the house,
was kicked eighteen times by her
father. They had never read anything
like that in novels.
John T. Grist, Esq, has been ap-
pointed special deputy collector of
Internal Revenue for the Third Col
lection District of South Carolina,
embracing the Counties of Abbeville,
Anderson, Aiken, Chester, EdgeGeld,
Fairfield, Greenville, Laurens, Lexing-
ton, Newberry, Oconee. Pickens, Rich
land, Spartanburg, Union and York.
"a Missouri judge has decided that
mother has no legal right to thrash
her daughter after the girl has passed
her eighteenth birthday That Judge
is quite right; When girl reaches
her eighteenth year the legal right to
thrash her becomes dormant, and re-
mains so until she marries, when it
revives and reverts to her husband.
TSee Blackstone on the Legal Thrash
ing of Girls.
Near Atlanta, Ca, last fall, negro
built a coop, six feet by seven, into.
which he put dozen parsridges, the
ground being first covered with grass.
During the winter they thrived, in
the spring they mated, laid eggs, and
hatched out several broods Of young,
and the negro now has about sixty
young partridges, all are doing well.
They are tame, healthy and seem to
be contented. s -
Henry Ward Beecher receives, with
one exception, the highest salary paid
in the United States. The exception
is in the case of the 'scredits man" of
H. B. ClaHin, the New York merchant,
who receives the same sum on account
of his wonderful knowledge Of credits.
The Viceroy of India receives ,aa aR-
nual salary of s25O,000, and the Gov
ernor-General of Canada S150,000.
All of these individuals ought to be
able to grub along on the salaries paid
them. s:.u- :,....2: -... ....: ~.
Ex-President Johnson's death Will
be regretted by none more deeply than
by the insurance companies. He was
believer in life insurance, and illus
trated his faith by his acts, to an ex-
tent that is rare indeed. even nowadays.
The aggregate of the policies on his
life is no less thar Three Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Dollars. His
happy heirs can well afford to say no
more about that little pile of seventy
thousand dollars, which the ex-Presi-
oent IOsG py Lne panklupscy Oh Jay
Cookies bank.
The Petersburg (Va-) Star relates
that on Tuesday last horse commit
ted suicide in James River. He walked
out to the pierhead of the wharf, and,
looking around as if choosing spot,
jumped into the river at the point
where the water was deepest. Persons
on the wharf, seeing that he was
drowning, got rope around him and
drew him into shallow water. As soon
as he touched bottom he got loose
again, and, wading out some yards
further in the stream, put his head
beneath the surface and kept it there
until he drowned.