The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-05-03
Items Of Interest.

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pay than the prime minister.
The Legislature of Virginia has pass
ed an act paying the members $54o per
session.
The druggists in Augusta, Me-, have
agreed not to sell or give away any
liquor, either for medical or other uses.
An Irish waiter, speaking of lady's
black eyes, says: "They are mourning
for the murders they have committed. "
In the village Of Stockton, Pa, eight
children were poisoned by eating wild
parsnip. Three died; the condition OF
the others is critical.
An advertisement in Boston news
paper is as follows Wanted, a young
man in the dry goods trade; to be partly
outdoors and partly behind the counter. ;"
A Chicago girl, who claims to have
proved it. by experiment, says that by
putting lover in the light of blue
glass window he can be made to propose
at one sitting. 81,
Some one said to parvenu whose
brother had remained in poverty: "fou
are. I believe, the brother Of NJ. Du-
rand ?" "No, sir; I am not his brother
he is mine p
A CODY of the first edition of the Nor
mon Bible is owned by Mr.. Henry OR.
Tucker of the Troy Times, whose father
owned the Palmyra newspaper Office In
which it was printed for Joe Smith.
The New Hampshire man who married
five wives and tried to defend his action
on the ground that Solomon had q thou.
sand, discovered that times hnd changed
somewhat. He got fifteen-year
sentence.
The latest report to the National
Grange shows that the receipts OF money
during 1876 were $50, 735. Of, against
S1O2, 143. OF for 1876. The loss in active
membership during the year is estimated
at It's, 900.
"Aw from Titusville I see," said the
magnificent hotel clerk to the guest who
had Just booked. "You are in oil, l
take it p SIN OIL" thundered the
farmer. emo! Do You suppose that I'm
sardine, like u?"
The Southern humorist known as Bill
Arp was recently killed in Texas by fall
ing from a wagon. He was not liter
ary man by profession, but was farm
er. His quaint ideas were put into shape
for publication by a newspaper friend
The history of the Second zouaves,
one of the most distinguished regiments
in the French army, has been publish
ed. It states that during the nineteen
years of it's existence no less than two
hundred of its officers and 8, 1000 privates
have fallen in battle. 80
Tradition says that years ago, when
the headwaters of the Chesapeake
swarmed with wild fowl, the hands en-
ployed at an iron forge at Havre de
Grace once upon o time refused to work
because they were fed upon canvas-back
ducks instead of bacon.
The Duke of Wellington was once told
that the late George Jones, r. A., look
ed so much like him as to be often stop
ped in the street in mistake for him.
"Indeed," was the Iron Dukes grim an
swer, "that is odd, I have never been
stopped in the street for Mr.. Jones'"
Minneapolis, Mimi, is not yet thirty
years old. More than ], ZOO, ,0C0 barrels
of -four were exported from that place
last year, and more ttan 200, ,000, 600 feet
of lumber made. One Touring mill
has forty-one run of stones, capable OF
turning out 1000 barrels Of -four day.
Woman's Words says: We are glad
that there are no women besieging the
White House, as claimants for the homer
of having been first to nominate Presl-
dent Hayes. The number Of gentlemen
now in Washington laying claim to that
distinction is perfectly surprising to us.
People generally will be glad to know
that charcoal has be en- discovered to bea
sure cure for burns. By laying small
piece of cold charct al on the burn the
pain subsidies Immediately. BY leaving
the charcoal on for an hour the wound ls
healed, as has been demonstrated on
several occasions.
Capt. Boynton has regretfully de-
clined to swim across the straits OF Mes
sina, having been prudently deferred
from the feat by good auth Jrities cn the
matter. who say that he would be most
likely to encounter shoals OF dog tish
while crossing. The king Of Italy has
conferred upon him the Cross OF Caya-
lier of the Order of the Crown OF Italy.
"Why do we live; what is there for us
in life ?" inquiries the Christian
Reqister. We don't pretend to answer
the question, but we do know that
when a man has walked four miles
through the mud to see girl and finds
another fellow sitting up with her, 1t
comes home, it comes home.-Noracach
Bulletin.
He was praising her beautiful hair,
and begging for one tiny curl, when her
Little brother said: "Oh, my! faint
nothin' now. You just ought to have
seen how long it hangs down when she
hangs it on the side OF the table to comb
it. Then they laughed, and she called
her brother a cute little angel, and when
the Young man was going and heard that
bow yelling, he thought the lad was
taken suddenly i'll.
The Nebraska Legislature has author
lied grasshopper war. Road super
vissrs throuchout the State are author
lied to order out all the voters in their
respective precincts to do twelTe days
work each in killing grasshoppers, for
which each person is to be paid two dol
lars day in county warrants. Besides
this, grasshopper "war clubs " arg gen.
orally forming throughout the State.
Disacreeable news for agficuturists
and the public generally has been re.