The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-05-18
Various and all About.

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A shower of rain would be very bcne-
fetal.
The average farmer plants cotton to
buy corn.
Mr.. B. H. Lovelace is ahead on the
new potato question.
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain
Love, faith, patience,-the three es-
sentials to happy life.
Cotton is growing off finely; larger
area has been planted this year than the
last.
Rev. d. L. White has been cutting up
largely of lste-an eighty pound green
turtle.
The season for fishing has COM
menced, branch minnows will now
suffer.
Mr.. R. /. Mclaughlin has been elect
ed Director of the Central National
Bank of Columbia.
A party Of fishermen caught forty
pounds of fish at the "cut off" on Saluda
Il few nights ago.
Our sister town, Prosperity, is rapid
ly improving. Her citizens are full Of
energy and enterprise.
DR.. j. L. Speake's steam mill is saw
ing lumber in Edge1ield County near
Saluda Old Town Ferry.
The order prohibiting freight trains
on the G. & G. r. R. from carrying
passengers has been revoked.
All points on the Greenville and
Laurens roads can get supplies Of ice
from A. G. Jones. just try it.
The breaking up of the Helena Car
Shops will cut Of, big slice Of the New
berry trade. 1t is to be regretted.
We are pleased to know that our
friend Jas. Larkin now occupies new
house, which he has recently built.
If you want to be happy pay your
debts, particularly what you owe the
printer. 1t will make him happy also.
There are a great many persons in
the world who are well enough to go
to ball, but too sick to attend a prayer
meeting.
Mr.. James Herbert one night last
week caught eleven fish weighing forty
pounds out of his fish trap near his mill
on Saluda.
After June 1st postal cards will be
absolutely unavailable with anything
but the address on the side intended for
the direction.
Mr.. J. w. NJ. Simmons has bought a
lot from DR.. Mayer in front of the Pres
byterian Parsonage, upon which he pro-
poses to build.
1t is suggested that the Town Coun-
Gil paint the tops of the street lamps
the sun striking them makes a glare
painful to the eye.
There has been very marked i'm
provement in Prosperity since the clos
ing of the bar-rooms. The streets are
far more orderly and quiet.
John sent 60 cents to firm that ad-
vertised a recipe to prevent bad dreams.
He received a slip Of paper on which
Was written, Don't 60 to Sleep
We saw a two hundred pound wo-
man hanging 10 hundred pound man
!. few days ago, and thought the thing
should be reversed. He did not look
right.
Newberry was largely represented at
the Cowpens Celebration. The visitors
returned Thursday delighted with their
trip and eloquent in praise of Spartan
tanburg.
A colored man was convicted before
Trial Justice Carlisle Wednesday for
hiring a laborer under contract with
another, and sentenced to pay 6ne Of
S25 or 60 to Jail for thirty days.
The signs indicate that Messrs. May
bin & Tarrant, druggists, are prepared
to attend to all wants in their line.
Their signs are to be seen on highways
and byways, and in the HERALD.
The prescription case of Messrs. May,
bin & Tarrant displays great taste. II
is entirely new-that is the bottles and
jars-all of them being large and hand
some, and filled with fresh prepara'
tions.
A. G. Jones got an order for six bun
dred and fifty pounds of ice for the Sun
day School Celebration at Clinton Sat
urday, which he filled. The managers
were determined that everybody should
keep cool.
The public are cordially invited tc
call and see the live Alligator brought
from Florida, and now on exhibition at
the HERALD Office. The curious are
warned, however, not to 60 too neal
the varmint.
Caesar had bis Brutus, Charles the
First his Cromwell, and every cough ane
cold in this country will find conquer
| or in Coussens' Honey ofTar, the unri
vailed cough medicine. Price SOC
For sale by DR.. ". E. Pelham. cow
At the recent Junior Exhibition a
Erskine College our young friend W
G. Brown, of Newberry, delivered al
original speech on the subject of "Wo
man Suffrage" We are not informed
whether he took the affirmative or neg
ative of the subject.
Some of the notices sent to subscri
bers last week have been responded to
but many have not. We know Lha
money is scarce at this season, but 1t
harder on the publisher than the sub
scriber. We cannot print the HERALi
without money, aud therefore ask tina
remittances be made promptly.
The hay in a COW house belonging t