The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
Brief Mentions.

AiISAS 10 SSAiO ~ - - -kO" 80 w
,nand in Massachusetts, for society
for the protection Of husbands rights.
Mr.. Louis Bramlette, of Laurens,
an octegenarian. was dragged from his
home and robbed BY negro on the Sd
instant =
A lad, on Tuesday last in Columbia.
killed seventy-six robins with a sling
shot. The other damage done has not
been estimated.
BulHer calls newspaper :;the COM
mon reservoir into which every stream
pours It's living waters, and at which
every man may come and drink.
Three Chicago girls are about open
ing barber shop. One is to DO the
latheriug.apother the shaving, while
a third is 10 sit on sort Of THRONE
and play on harp.
A special despatch from A. c.
Kaufman. Esq, Says Union County
has, by a rousing majority, voted $780,
600 to the Spartanburg and Asheville
Railroad: Three cheers for old Union.
One hand made with one mule, on
Mr.. N. C. Roberson's Fairfield planta-
tion, seventeen bales of cotton, weigh
ing four hundred aud 6fty-four pounds
each, beside one hundred bushels Of
corn.
A woman living near the Richard
Mine, in Morris County, n. j., lost
BY the burning of the emigrant ship
Cospatrick eight brothers, two sisters
and her mother, besides several other
near relations.
Mrs. VIM. +. Astor, whose hus-
band pays s25O,000 in taxes, OWNS
s1.000,0O0 worth Of diamonds. She
wears rosettes of diamonds on her
slippers at parties. Mr.. Fitch's Khe-
dive gift is nowhere.
A circuit preacher in Missouri
prayed for rain one night at 3 far
mer's house, and the farmer, who had
a horse race arranged for the next
dav, was 50 mad that he turned the
good man ont of doors.
New Workers will have an abuu-
dance Office this year. Along the up
per Hudson River 100000 tons of
the article has been secured, valued at
$4,000, 900. The capital invested
in the ice business in New York is
s3,500,000.
Two negroes were arrested last
week at Ninety-Six and identified as
the parties who committed the MUIR
derous assault on Rev. r. S. Daniel.
They we're committed BY Justice Da-
Wis, and await the due reward Of their
deed.-Nee1 Era.
A white man in AbbeTille was mar
ried to white woman on the Both
December, 1874, and on the I'd Janu-
ary, 1875, (:hree days afterwards he
was again married to black woman.
He has been tried and convicted. and
sent to the penitcntiary.
Talking of doctors bills, the Mcdi-
cal Times urges that they be presented
monthly, iuasmuch as they would be
paid more willingly when the memory
of the recent peril and the physicians
skill is still fresh, than when time has
worn away the viridcess Of the i'm
preston.
Widow Phila Lambert. Of West
Georgia, Vt, IS years old, has for ft-
teen years supported eight children by
laying stone wall, harvesting, and
other heavy work, and has not only
made herself owner of house and a
few acres Of land, but has given her
children q good education.
The Kill Won Kull was firmly bridged
with ice between Staten Island and
Bergen Point, on the 10th instant.
Hundreds of people crossed or the ice
in order to reach New York, and a
great number OF teams also passed
over in safety. An event Of this kind
has not been known during the present
century.
Col. Parmele reports everything
quiet in Edgefield, and the surrender
ing the guns by the militia as pre-
crossing satisfactorily. 395 out OF
500 sent 70 that County have been
turned over to the Colonel. The rifle
clubs have all disbanded. Captain
Ogden's company Of United States
soldiers will hardly remain beyond the
present month. The ex-militiamen
are being employed by the planters,
and there sccris to be disposition to
let by-soncs be hy-gones.-PH@Hi1.
Miss Amanda Holland: daughter Of
Mr.. Aaron Holland, whose residence
IS two miles from Grove Station, on
the Anderson side of Saluda, was
burned to death. Saturday, 9th inst.
Her father aDd Mrs. Holland we're ab-
sent at Church. Oa reaching home
be found some of the nelghbors col
lec,ed there, and the shocking fate OF
his daughter. The remains Of her
body being found in the locality Of
her room, where the dwelling had
been, for it was burned together with
kitchen and smoke house. with nearly
all Of their contents. Ii is supposed
the clothing Of the young lady caught
FIRE first. accidentally.
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