The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-11-10

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The average annual crop Of an
orange tree is from 5000 to 5000
oranges.
Twenty churches in New York
use the revised version of the New
Testament.
twenty-five gin houses have been
destroyed by fire in Georgia 80 far
this season.
John Kelly is proposed as a can
didate for Congress to the vacant
seat of Fernando Wood.
Mrs. DR.. Tslmage is the success
full teacher of a Bible class, mum
bering two hundred ladies.
Alabama is considering the mat
ter of changing her capital from
Montgomery to Birmingham.
A tree full of birds was struck
by lightning at Owensboro, Ken
lucky, and $50 of them killed.
The suggestion that there is
danger Of fire from the electric
lighting apparatus, is little start,
ling.
There are more Presbyterians in
Philadelphia than sny other city OF
the United States. It has 27,346
to New Yoss's 1885:
The flag. Of the rebel pirate
steamer Alabama is on exhibition
in Boston. It's possessor says That
he values it at $4,000.
A Connecticut woman was ap
pointed constable, the other day,
and the first thing she said was
Now I shall catch i man
The largest sheep ranch in the
United States contains 100000
acres, and is situated in. Dimmit
and Webs counties, Texas:
The Iowa Methodist Conference
severely reprimanded a minister fol
going to circus, and made him
promise never to do it again.
One firm in Virginia, with 81
acres of land, has produced $500
gallons Of wine in a season. Two
counties III that State this season
will make $4,000 gallons.
Franklin J. Moses, the e. carpet
bag Goyernot Of 1Sonth Carolina
who issunder arrest in New York
for sWinding, is wanted in Newark.
n. j., for similar offences.
Secretary Blaine's face is IN
changed in it's expression of force
and acuteness, but his hair and
whiskers have whitened 80 rapidly
during the past summer that he
looks much older.
The Marquis de Calino's last
They were talking before him about
cremation, and asked his opinion
of it. 1t is horrible-repulsi7e :?
he exclaimed. AS for myself, ]
would be cremated.'
Washington correspondents es
innate the expenses of Pres. Gar
fields illness at 100000, Of which
the doctors bills are expected tc
be $4,000. DR.. Bliss is accredited
with a claim Of $4,000.
There are 4O,l0O breweries il
Europe, and all of the houses IN En-.
gland and Wales the formidabl {
number Of 113, 900, or one to every
40 are devoted to the sale of liquo,
in some form or another.
A.:mammoth. tree cut down in
Lewis county, Kentucky, recently.
and believed to Be 800 years old,
produced 80, ,4e2 feet Of lumber and
rs cords Of irewood. It was 16
feet IN diameter and 120 feet high.
George I. seney, the New York
banker and philanthropist, has
shown his faith in his success OF
future Southern manufacturing by
subscribing $4,000 in stock to the
King Cotton Mill, at Augusta, Ga.
Bob" Harlan, the only colored
Republican candidate for the Ohio
Legislature, at the recent election,
was badly defeated. The Republi.
cans are. -singulsrly averse to being
represented by negroes in the
Northern States.
The Detroit Post and Tribune es,
Inmates the loss by the Michigan
fires at S2,S46,3l3 of property, in.
cludiDg l,147 dwellings. % school
houses, eight Churches and "a
mills. The insurance on all this
property was only S623,632.
The Boston and Maine Railroad