The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-08-18
Brief Mentions.

ne new OOnSClfutlOn OF AidD2ula
was carried by l6,500 majority.
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston has been
elected President Of the Arkansas Ia
dustrial University.
The goose that was struck by light
ming in St. Louis does not believe that
feathers are a non-conductor Of elec-
tricity.
The Richland Volunteer Rife Club
celebrated their 62ud anniversary on
the 9th inst, in Columbia, at the Fair
grounds.
1t appears from late Paris reports
that the ancient Roman reticAlum
(net) is to be the new fashion in hair
dressing.
TIE Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention will be held at Erie, on the
9Th of September next. Ex-Governor
Bigler is the most prominent candidate
iu the field.
A monster sperm whale, 50 feet
long and 35 feet in circumference,
was thrown ashore by the tide at
Rockaway. At the latest account
there was fight about the ownership.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith is now Chan
cellor of the State University of Nash
vile, Tenn, but thinks of leaving to
become Professor of Natural History
in the University Of the South at
Sewanee.
A Louisville saloonist has "Ameri-
can team cocktails" " "Remington cob
blers," and "Sharp's rife whiskey."
The first will kill at eight hundred
yards, the second at nine hundred,
and the last at thousand.
The Ohio inhationists are confident
of victory. Thus the Cincinnati En-
quirer says: "It is unnecessary to
argue the question. The election of
Allen is conceded by the most lntell-
gent men in this end of the State.
Against him there are no wagers worth
taking"
A statue of Lord Byron was exc
cuted many years ago by Thorwalsden,
which the poets friends desired to place
in Westminster Abbey, but the Dean
and Chapter of that day refused tc
admit it. The statue lay for some
time in the vaults of the Custom
house in London, but is now in the
library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
It is said to be a good likeness, and at
one time it was designed to procure a
duplicate Of it instead of a new statue.
A wonderful invention has been
patented by the Victoria Printing
Machine Company in machine which
can turn out, ready for the reader,
1000 copies Of work, containing
twenty-four pages bound together,
without any manipulative aid. The
machine has cost about $4,000, and
requires no feeding" as it regulates
its own supply, taking in sheet at
one end, and in less than a second
ejecting it at the other, printed, and
with the pages stitched together, and
ready for the booksellers!
Mr.. Jefferson Davis services seem
to be in demand among the colleges Of
the South. Having declined the
Presidency of the Texas Agricultural
College, he has been invited to become
Chancellor of the Georgia University;
and the Wilmington Star suggests
that he be rendered the Presidency OF
the University of North Carolina: and
says, "that he is perhaps the one man
who can give the University at the
start q guaranteed career Of brilliant
success on a basis of permanent pros
perity-''
The Rev. Father Remy, mission
ary, has just arrived in England from
Thibet. The Pail Nall Gazette says
that he has made a number Of CONVEX
sions there under rather peculiar cir
cumstances. He was condemned to
be quartered, and his legs and arms
were attached to four horses. But
either the Abbe's limbs were uncom-
monty strong or else the horses were
uncommonly weak, for he resisted all
their efforts. Struck with admiration
at his heroic conduct, his prosecutors
embraced the martyr and his religion,
certainly a signal triumph for muscular
Christianity.
His Emiuence Cardinal McCloskey
will sail for Rome at 9 o'clock this
morning to obtain the insignia Of his
high Office from the hands of Pope
Plus TX. His Eminence was at nome
all day yesterday, receiving visitors
and preparing for the voyage. The
Rev. Father Farelly, the Cardinals
private secretary, will accompany his
Superior to Rome.
His Eminence proposes to apply
himself solely to his ecclesiastical
mission, and will travel to Rome as
soon as his health permits, there to be
invested by his Holiness with the
beretta and ring, and in return he will
present to the Pope $4,000 in gold
pieces, as an offering Of the Catholics
of the New York diocese, whose
priests yesterday made final arrange
ments to bid his Eminence farewell on
board the Pereire this morning.