The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-01-20
Brief Mentions.

cents on the dollar.
The Baltimore Sun says Gov.
Chamberlain is on the righ. track, and
if he steadily persists in the course
marked ont his admi nistration NAY
prove blessing to South Carolina.
1t is reported that by the FIRE at the
Western Hotel, Sacramento. January
II, twenty men were sufocated in
their rooms, and that the frcmen and
police were searching for ;heir bodies.
We learn, says the Abbeville Press
d: Banner, that Trial Justice Hughes,
on Saturday last, performed the mar
riage ceremony between Col. T. Brice
Houston, white, and Carrie Davis,
colored.
The New York Herald of Monday,
speaking of Southern State bonds in
that market, says: "South Carolinas,
under the new administration, are
actively dealt in by private parties,
and better uudertone exists"
The largest indoor meeting ever
held, was held at Albany On the l4th.
to express indignation about Louisiana.
Indignant utterances of orators were
wildly applauded. The resolutions
were emphatically denunciatory, and
adopted by acclamation.
A white man was sold at public
auction in Petersburg, Va, the other
day, because he had no visible means
of support. If the poor wretch had
been a negro, the northern heart
would have been fred clear to the top
of Mount Washington.
The pews in Plymouth church sold
on Tuesday for 100000, against $685.
900 last year. Whatever and who
ever else it may have damaged, the
great scandal has not CLEARED" Ply
mouth church stock in the market of
New York and Brooklyn.
1t is to the interest Of missionary
societies to diffuse the statement Of
NJ. Moca, French savaot, that ';the
flesh of the Caucasian is bitter and
salty, while that of a negro is Of a
finer favor, and will keep much lon
ger.
The time last appointed for the Mil
lerites to ascend came and went the
other day, and again the show was
postponed. We can see no chance
for these poor fellows to s;go up ua-
less they csn each be persuaded to 60
to Arkansas and steal horse.
A snow slide occurred near Alta
City, Utah, January 11th, bury
ing two persons to the depth of
thirty feet, and four teams, which were
engaged in carting ore. No particu-
lars as yet have been received, but it
is feared that FIVE mel have been kill
ed.
The Administration organs are very
anxious that Congress shall order q
new election in Louisiana, and thus
lift President Grant out of his trouble.
They are already weary of defending
Sheridan's bulletins, especially since
it is so evident that the more the peo-
pie think of them the madder they
get.
Gov. Chamberlain, on the l4th,
says the Ne0s d Courier, signed the
bill to abolish the Inferior Court of
Charleston, which is now law. Des-
perate efforts were made to induce
Gov. Chamberlain to veto the bill but
they failed, and Charleston breathes
more freely. One more stride towards
security and rest has successfully been
made,
The refunding of the cotton tax, re-
ferred at the commencement Of this
session of Congress to the Committee
Of Ways and Means, has been referred
by that committee TO subcommittee,
consisting Of Fernando Wood, Shell
don, of Louisiana, and Mason, Of
Iowa. Mr.. Wood will have charge of
the subject.
The Courier-Journal says: The
Northern States may well look with
concern, if not with alarm, at the
action of the Radical returning board
in New Orleans. If this spirit Of
fraud and oppression is allowed to
grow, their time will come too, and all
that they can expect is the promise of
Polyphemus to Ulysses, that he would
devour him the last.
A female justice of Wyoming was
married last week, and, true to ber
professional training, she previously
notified her frieuds to be present by a
printed form, as follows: Il am
about to marry Mr.. j D., of
this county, and he will be qualified
and sworn in at my Office on Wednes-
day morning next, at 10 \. N. You
are invited to attend"
The New Orleans Times: 1t now
transpires that the Republicans, since
the retirement of the Democrats, hay
ing ouly 6fty-one members with GER
t;icates. have admitted three members
who occupied precisely the same posi-
ton as the FIVE gentlemen who were
elected. The question arises, why
don't tic military again interpose and
put those men out as they did the FIVE
Democrats?
Sheridan teleg aphcd on Friday to
the War Department that he finds
himself misrepresepted in the North
ern papers, as their comments are
telcgraphed to New Orleans, and
smarts under criticism. He says he
was Instructed to report the actual
condition of affairs in the Sonth, and
that he did so briefly. If necessary he
will send the names Of 1000 persons
who have been murdered in the South
since the close of the war, and that he
can readily give as many names Of
murderers unpunished. When the
dispatch was read BY the President ha