The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-10-05
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It's said Brick Pomeroy has made
S200,000 mining in Colorado.
Only l6 cadets passed at the re-
cent West Point examination.
Marvin, who is now in jail at
Richmond had fourteen bogus wives.
Why is Zulu like prophet Of
old? Because she has not much on
er in her own country.
Robert Bonner pays his horse
doctor a salary more than double
that paid any college professor
Whitaker, the colored cadet,
wants to exhibit his ears on the
lecture platform for $4,000 sea-
! son.
The total cotton receipts in
Greenville during the year end
ing August 81 amounted to 34,6OG
bales.
Messages of 20 words exclusive
of address, can be sent from any
one part Of Englond to another for
Is cents.
The price Of quinine has de-
clined from So to 81 an ounce in
consequence Of new discoveries in
Columbia.
The Georgia Legislature have
decided not to pass temperance
law, but are trying to get rid OF
whiskey by consuming it.
The moat beautiful woman at
Saratoga this season is said to have
been. Miss Katie Stokes, the bare
back rider in Coup's circus.
Georgia papers are saying that
possibly Senator Hills malady
may oblige him to resign bis seat
in the United States Senate.
The total value of the exports OF
| domestic bread stuffs from the
United States for the month of
August last Was S25,547,5 ,521.
The Maine liqnor law is still in
force, and Neal Dow is still in
Maine, and yet Portland alone
gathered in sixty one drunks last
week.
The notorious Josie Mansfield,
whose association with James
Fiske, Jr, is so we'll remembered,
is keeping gambling house in
Paris.
The privilege of selling tobacco
and cigars on the Exposition
grounds at Atlanta for the three
months of the Exposition has been
sold for $1,000.
Coy. st. John, of Kansas, was
elected President of the National
Temperance Union for the ensuing
year. EXPIRES. Hayes is the Vice
President for Ohio.
The members of the Methodist
Ecumenical Conference, which is to
meet in London next week, num-
Der 400, equally divided between
Europe and America.
4 Canadian who had shamefully
mistreated his wife was driven into
a pond BY number Of indignant
neighbors and kept in the water
until he appeared to be in re-
pentant mood.
There is trouble in the Ohio
Prohibition camp. The candidates
on the State ticket have requested
Ludlow, the head of the ticket, to
withdraw, because there is so much
being said about his cider mills.
In Massachusetts 117,250 citizens
are excluded from the privilege of
voting because they either cannot
read and write, or because fail to
pay taxes. And yet Republicans are
now declaiming against the school
tax qualification in Virginia.
In New York, at a wake, Owen
Mcfarland remarked that he was
sorry he belonged to the Irish race.
This angered a man named Quinn,
who struck Mcfarland in the face,
telling him to the floor He was
lifted into a chair, but died within !
an hour.
The dory Little Western, manned !.
by George H. Thomas and Fred. |
Norman arrived at Gloucester,
Mass, 18th, having completed a
round trip from Gloucester to Lon
don and back. She is 13! feet
keel: 2! in depth, S in width, and IS
the only dory that ever crossed the
ocean both ways.
She said she had g fattering tongue,