The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-11-24

4 lady OF Pekin, ILL.,. has given
birth to boy on every Fourth of
July during the last four years.
Learning is well enough but it
hardly pays to give five thousand
dollar education to a fve-dollar
boy.
A quarry of variegated marble
equal to any in Italy was recently
discovered in Fluva1na County,
Virginia.
Augusta, Ca, has now in opera
ton 175,000 spindles in her cotton
mills, representing an investment
of S5,000,000.
The Patent Office the other day
granted Edison % Patents, mostly
for electrical purposes, making 209
issued him up to date.
L. ". Boynton, of Hartford,
Conn, now owns the flag Of the
Rebel cruiser Alabama. The
bunting is insured for $4,000.
A Chattanooga man has invented
a door-lock, which at the least
pressure fires cap, lights taper
and still holds the door secure.
A Missouri church organ is loan
ed out at one dollar per night to
play dance music, and the dollar is
used toward paying the preacher.
Emmett, the author OF the song
Dixie, which was composed in the
North, was an Ohio man. He
made less than $500 from the sale
of it.
There are 100000 COWS in the
United States. This is more than
are kept by any nation in Europe,
Germany having the nearest
S,062,22
At the Atlanta Exposition a
South Carolina firm proposes to
distribute S5OO,0OO in Confederate
money, with their advertisement
stamped on the back Of the bills.
The late Governor Witt, OF
Louisiana, left his widow and five
children in poverty, and commit
tee Of leading citizens has appealed
to the people of the State to pro-
vide a fund for them.
Senator Hills articulation is in
distinct, his tongue not having re-
gained elasticity after the serious
operation lately performed upon it.
The Senator, however, expects in
time to recover entirely.
A Rockland man saw advertised
"a sure cure for drunkenness" He
forwarded the necessary dollar, and
soon received, written on valua-
bic postal card, in beautiful violet
ink, the magic words-''Don't
Drink! :"
Chief Justice Hunter, OF Utah,
has decided that the naturalization
Of Delegate Cannon was a nulilty,
thereby sustaining Governor Muir
rays position in refusing to certify
that Cannon had been elected to
Congress.
The French government has is
sued a circular which prohibits the
importation into Frsnce of canned
goods in tin, soldered on the in.
side: the Board of Health having
recognized the feet that such may
lead to more or less poisoning
Railroad building has begun at
last in China, where the telegraph
pole is already planted. There is
to be a road from Pekin to Tien-
tsin, and thence to the Yangtse
River, $40 miles in all. Here is a
new chance for Vanderbilt and
Gould
William Tay shot and killed his
son Thomas, in Whitfield county,
Ga., on the 30th ult They crop
ped together, and some bad feeling
had arisen between them. While
Thomas and his wife were in the
COW pen his father shot him with
an army musket. The murderer
fed.
Blaine wants to get out of poll
tics for the next two years, and
make money. He is now worth
nearly s750,O0O. He has sold his
interest in the Richmond and Ale
ghany Railroad for something more
than 100000. He is in enter
prises now developing that will
make him more money still.
Query, the artist, OF Spartan
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