The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-06-09
Various and all About.
Money is tight.

Pear and apple trees are showing
considerable blight.
What peaches escaped the frost are
falling off.
Newberry is fgless, at least we see
none.
He cheateth the printer who reads a
borrowed paper.
The stands of cotton are fine all over
the country. .
Dutch Fork, like other sections COM
plains about wheat.
The song of the Steam Thresher is
heard all over the land.
i The Town Council has extended the
time for payment Of town tax till the
first of July.
DR.. J. I. Bonner has returned from
Glenn Springs to Due West greatly inn
proved in health.
Thursday the weather turned sudden
ly cool, rendering fires and heavy coats
necessary.
The painting on the Newberry Hotel
by Mr.. Frank Hancock is equal. if not
| superior, to any in the State.
The pleasantest and most popular
place for quiet and cool sit down is in
front of the Newberry Hotel entrance.
The crop of Dog Fennel on our streets
is unusually large, and if allowed to run
to seed will take the town next sum-
mer.
The campaign will be a lively one,
and we advise the reader if not 4 SUBJ
scriber to the HERALD to give US his
name at once.
True enough the delegates TO the
District Conference did not get sur
felt on chicken. The supply was lin
tied, and then consider the price.
A boy recently hanged himself be-
cause somebody found fault with him" "
That boy was certainly not born to be
an editor.
The condor of the Andes is said to
kill his prey with its bill, and the MILL
ners of this country are trying the game
on married men.-OsUego Record.
"A man living at Rimmersburg. Pa,
is the father of thirty-four children,
twenty of whom are living; nine were
burned to death at one time.
The planters of Alabama and North
| ern Mississippi are more engrossed than
ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything else for it.
That man has no bowels of compass
sion who deliberately asks another just
after dinner, and while digestion is 60
ING on, to settle = little bill.
Our young friend, Mr.. Jas. T. Horns
by, has got into good company, having
moved into the neighborhood Of the
HERALD Office. Boots and shoes made
in the best style.
We learn that Mr.. Singley intends
renovating and fixing up the store now
occupied by DR.. FAINT, soon after reno
val. And next in order he will fix up
that occupied by FAINT s McWhirter.
A friend writes from the Colorado
Mountains to say that he got as raw
enous as a raven among the ravines,
and sat down in one of the gorgeous
gorges and gorged himself.
Mr.. McCarley, of Molloho2, showed
US Friday large stalk Of last years
cottoa with green leaves and branches
on it. Several other farmers in the
County have found similar stalks in
their fields.
A friend sent to Walhalla for coop
of chickens, and when 1t came, one was
dead, another had dropsy, another swell
head, three had pip, and two or three
were old enough to remember all about
Noah and the Ark.
Rev. E. J. Meynardie, DID,, Of Char
lesion, has been invited by the students
of Newberry College to deliver an ad-
dress in the Lutheran Church Sunday
evening June 20th, during Commence
ment week. He has accepted.
Edmund Yates IL hope that ladies
will soon get tired of thick bordered
wells now so much in vogue. They
form as complete q disguise as the
masks worn by our great-grandmothers.
The only consolation is that really
pretty girl is too sensible to wear one."
Mr.. w. D. Hardy says he doesn't
think the Convention made the mistake
in electing officers for two years; he
announced before the election that the
officers would be elected according to
the Constituticn-for two years. He
thinks the Secretary made the mistake
| in preparing the minutes.