The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-10-27
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Annie Muller committed suicide,
n Detroit, because her sweetheart
rave his trousers to another girl to
mend.
The Government bought IS miles
IF black cloth with which to drape
The department buildings in Wash
ngton.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts,, re.
nominated by the Republicans
without opposition, is a woman
sufragist.
Though Mr. Arthur is the son OF
Baptist minister, he attends the
| Episcopal service, to which demon
nation his wife belonged.
Over S2O,OOO,OO0 is now lying in
| the United States Treasury waiting
for the holders of past due and
:alled bonds to ask for it.
Guiteau wishes a suspension of
public opinion for one year, and
| public opinion wishes a suspension
of Guiteau for about twenty min
utes.
Rev. Monroe Hawkins, member
Of the Arkansas Legislature, SEN
fenced to State prison for horse
stealing, has been granted a new
trial.
The 13 trees which Alexander
Hamilton planted on his grounds
in New York City, in honor Of the
13 States of the Union, are still
standing.
In the case of Sergt. John A.
Mason, who shot at Guiteau Sep.
tember II, and who is to be tried
by court martial, his counsel will
plead insanity.
Death having removed all dan.
ger of misconsruction,' telegraphs
Minister William Walter Phelps
from Vienna, let me subscribe S5,-
900 to the Garfield Fund
At Charlestown, Ind, Charley
Ruddle, aged 19 years, took six
grains of strychnine, because his
sweetheart rejected him. He was
bailed out and will recover.
While Texas minister was bap-
tizing a man, and just as he raised
him from the water the candidate
said: Better souse me again par
son, for I've bin purity tough cuss
fur the last 10 years.
A weeping widower fell into his
wife's grave during a funeral at
Decatur, ILL.,, and as he climbed
out his language was so shockingly
profane that the clergyman felt
compelled to reprove him.
Miss Margaret Hicks, a young
lady now living at Syracuse, is an
accomplished architect. She took
the architectural course at Cornell
University and afterward studied
her art for three years in Europe.
A colored man near st. Louis,
hearing that Garfield was dead,
cried like a child, and then declar-
ing that he did not want to live
any longer, went to the woods and
committed suicide by hanging him.
self.
The Appletons say they have
sold over twenty thousand copies
of JEFF Davis book in the South,
and still have many orders. AS the
books range from ten to twenty
dollars per set, this sale is unpre
cedented.
Senator Hill, few days since,
wrote to a personal friend: I have
had terrible ordeal of suffering,
but I am now free from pain, and
there seems to be a fair prospect of
permanent recovery. My gen.
eral health is perfect
The New York Sun suggests
Blaine for Secretary of State and
Conkling for Secretary of the
Treasury. The lion and the lamb,
the horse and the ass, would then
lie down in peace together, and
Gen. Arthur would be the great
leader and trainer of them ALL
The theological faculty of Yale
College has decided to use the re-
vised version of the New Testa-
ment, voting it better than any
other English version because it
follows more exactly the Greek
text as originally written, and is
more clear and correct translation"
It having been charged that the