The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-10-13
Brief Mentions.

MdFGua hULcHluSOu, VI Do>tou, H3s
recovered 1880 damages from the
Boston Gas Light Company for per-
sonal injuries received when her house
was blown up by gas explosion during
the great 6re<of 1872 49,
An exchange tell US that the amount
of money in circulation in the United
States would give sl9.12 to every
man, woman and child if equally
divided. We wish to goodness, then,
tnat they would hurry up the division.
A large crowd assembled at Tam
many Hall, New York, lately, to wit
ness an advertised spirituslissic sesnce.
The operators decamped with the pro-
ceeds. The rough portion Of the
audience broke the cabinet and other
stage furniture.
Since the year 1900 England has
waged forty-nine wars; France thirty
eight; Russia twenty-five; Austria
twelve; Prussia einht; and in spite
of all the peace societies and inter,
national conventions. they all appear
anxious for another.
A Cincinnati corpse rose in its coffin
and quietly remarked: Il feel very
queer The two young men who
were sitting up with it had important
business down town the next moment,
and did not hesitate to pass cut
through the window to attend to it
either.
The Philadelphia girls are so filed
with patriotic ardor as to propose
stockings decorated with the Star
Spangled Banner for wearing during
the Centennial season. Well, girls,
that's all right. But doa't-but don't
stuff sthe old flag" with saw dust.
The St. Louis Republican says Bos-
ton capital is about to be invested in
St. Louis in the shape Of twelve
stery' "fat''> hotel containing two
thousand rooms. II viii, in its way,
be absolutely without rival in the
country in poiut of magnitude and
elegance Of finish. .
There was once sea captain who
declared that in all his experience he
never failed to meet bad weather when
he hadzea board his ship man who
parted his hair in the middle. e
don't know howvit is,"' said the an
cient mariner, Fbut the elements can't
seem to tolerate the habit"
The Republican papers Of New York
are dreadfully Indignant because the
Patronsof Husbandry Of Pennsylvania
have been captured by the Democracy.
Well, if the Grangers are to fall into
politics, and it is very hard to avoid
that contingency. it is grateful to
know that they are graYltating towards
the { le fold. $50: - ~ -, =. --'S'
tt is painful sight to see sweet,
Innocent child crushed to death BY; a
railroad train lit is painful sight to
see whole companies OF, ones country
men moved down in battle BY tenn
pest Of shot and she'll; and it is
painful sight to see ones greatgraud-s
mother blown ont : Of a. seventy:two
nounder: but to the man of refined
taste. what are these compared to the
sight of: a beautiful girl meandering
forth ia striped stockings?
A Missouri family history runs
thus: SaIlie White ran away some
years ago with her :bsothes-in,iaw,
Aaron Davis; be, however, returned to-
his wife, and she. narrieda a Mr.. Nicely,
who eloped and left her. Two years
ago her cousin. Ezekiel, ran away
with: Mrs. Winland,, both parties
leaving families. Last month Aaron
Davis son, Marion, a boy of nineteen,
ran away, With his mothers sister, a:
woman of. thirty, and to complete
matters his father has again eloped
with his sister-in-law, Sallie. -.
The Constitutional Convention Of
North Carolina has refused to remove
the disabilities Of Ex-Governor Holden,
now postmaster at Raleigh, who vas
impeached and expelled from. the
Gubernstorial chair. This depriyes
the Republicans of one candidate for
Governor, and keeps out of Office
friend to Grant, who wants the Presi-
dent to be President again. During
Holden's administration the State debt
ran up to s35,0O0,000, and few good
citizens of North Carolina will mourn
because Of his continued exclusion
from places of trust.
Itis proposed in England to organize
a workingmen's excursion to America
and back, leaving London early in
June next year, via. Liverpool, and
during an absence of six weeks to
visit the Cities Of Philadelphia, New
York, Washington, Baltimore, Brook
lyn, Chicago, one day at the Niagara
Falls, returning home through Canada
to see some friends from the ''old
country" in their homes at Windsor,
Hamilton, Kingston, London, Toronto
and Montreal, and, after q little excur-
sion 10 the Falls of Montmorenci and
the Plains of Abraham, to embark at
the port Of Quebec for Europe so
as to reach London about the middle
of August.
Governor Kemper, of Virginia, has
issued a proclamation announcing that
the ceremonies Of inaugurating the
statue of Stonewall jackson, recently
received from Europe, will take place
in Capitol Square, Richmond, on Tues
dow the 2S,h dap of October. phe