Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-02-10
Items OF Interest.


More than one quarter of the brewer
les in Wisconsin have suspended for lack
of patronage.
Rabbits are so thick on the lower por-
ton of Beaver river, Utah. that no crops
can be raised.
Are your words of more weight when
you PROFOUND anything than when You
announce it3
India has not single port on the vast
sea coast line between Bombay and Cal
cutta where vessel could discharge her
cargo atpier.
The total bank note circulation of
Germany at the end of October was 81
800, 900 thalers, including four millions
of small notes,
Col. Emby, who shot D. r. Anthony
at Leavenworth, Kan, several months
ago, has just been acquitted of the charge
of murderous ASSAULT.
On the body of q suicide of Browns
vile was a letter which read as follows
"Dear mother-Eere's a goodbye.
Liquor has done the work."
Trying to do business without adver-
tising is like winking at pretty girl in
the dark you may know what you are
doing, but nobody else does.
The number of convicts in the Arkan-
sas penitentiary and the number of hang
ings last year are double that of any
year in the history Of the State.
A negro boy was driven barefooted on
O Gold day from the house of farmer
for whom he worked in North George,
N. Y. The boys feet were 80 frozen
that they had to be amputated.
The San Francisco Bulletin bemoans
the use of narrow carriage tires, which
are rutting their streets badly, and
points longingly to Paris, where tires
are taxed, the narowest paying the
largest license and the largest almost
nothing.
A Stratford school teacher got the
boys down on him by taking their apples
away from them when they had them
around during school time, and eating
them himself, but he looks at chem very
carefully since he ate one charged with
red pepper.
Whentwoyoung Cinnamon, now being
educated in Lowell factory, made ap-
plication the other day for permission to
cut off their pigtails, for fear OF their
catching in the machinery, the request
had to be first forwarded to the authori-
ties in China.
Paisley, near Glasgow, is probably
the greatest thread manufacturing CEN
ter in the world, its exports of sewing
cottons for last year amounting to near
5000, 900. The United States is the best
customer, taking last year 2,314, 900
pounds, valued at 81, $4,000.
Forest and Stream describesa curious
race of sheep living on an island in Eng
lishman's bay, on the coast OF Maine.
They are nearly as wild as deer. Their
principal winter food is seaweed, chiefly
dulce they also eat the branches OF
trees which grow on the island.
A Western correspondent b: g inter-
viewed young Joe Smith, SOM of the Nor.
mon prophet. Young Joe is described
as broad d-shouldered, good-looking and
forty-three. he is opposed to poly
gamy, but says the Mormons of Utah
will not give it up without fight.
One of the young men employed lii
Danbury hat factory discovered brass
collar button in piece of mince pie he
was masticating the other day. He is
looking for q new boarding place. He
says what he wants are the comforts OF
home, and not the excitement and con-
fusion of dollar store.
Two gamblers have been converted In
Portland, Oregon. One of them, upon
his first attendance at class meeting,
handed to the leader worn dice box and
the dice. "Those have been my means
of livelihood for years." he aid, "and !
have become SO expert with them that l
can beat game in which loaded dice are
used against me. T haven't any other
trade, and it is like trading competence
for poverty to give up my TOOLS"