The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-12-29
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Message, the State debt of South
Carolina is now $6,642,321.
The State of Georgia has 40
cotton mills, and they pay from 8
to725 per: cent. net on the capital
invested.
A hot campaign is anticipated in
Georgia next fall. We have no
doubt the. same may be predicted
in South Carolina.
DR.. Giles Z. Glazener, a well
known physician and druggist of
Greenville, died on the 7th inst,
of typhoid fever.
Almost without exception the
Democrats in the Kentucky Legis-
lature have refused to accept free
passes from railroads.
The coffee house recently estab-.
| ished by the ladies of Spsrtanburg
is pronounced q success, socially
as well as financially.
A bill to place Gen. Grant on the
/ retired list of the army, with full
| pay, was introduced into the Sen
ate as soon as it organized.
Ex-Gov. English has placed in
his opera house at Indianapolis,
beside an array of classic statues a
ful-fgure marble statue of his late
| wife.
An Indiana paper says: Senator
voorhees,, of this State, will be a
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for President in 1884. That
is settled
The Edsefeld Advertiser has just
completed its forty. sixth volume,
and enters upon it's forty-seventh
full of life and vigor. Long may it
live and prosper.
A company has been organized
in New York, with Jacob Lorillard
at his head, to build ships that will
make the run to London in five
days They are to be built OF
steel.
The United States Army lost
inearly ten times as many soldiers
by desertion as by death last year
The death rate among colored sol
diers is twice as great as among
white.
A young man of Delano, Mimi,
scsrried bottle Of deadly poison in
the same pocket with his chewing
tobacco. The fluid escaped, i'm
pregnated the tobacco, and killed
the chewer:: % - 90 = : --''7
In Knoxville, Tenn, the sale ol
parlor matches has been strictly for
hidden by the City Council and in
Charleston, S. c., all matches ex'
cept the old lucifers' are condemn
ed as dangerous. ~
| By q vote Of the Baptist deacons
at Mendoza, Ind, a figure of We,
! nus, which had been embroidered
on a screen by the pastors daugh'
ter, was declared unfit to be sold
at the church fair.
! It is pleasant to note that the
poll-taxhas been paid more prompt
ly this year than ever before. Peo-
pie are beginning to see that te
pay this tax is the cheaper and less
troublesome course.
The small amount of interest
taken in amendments to State Con
stitutions has just been illustrated
in Massachusetts, where, with 300,
600 voters, only 10000 ballots were
cast on such an issue.
The finest railroad station in tbs
United States is said to be the new
one OF the Pennyslvanis Company Il
Philadelphia. It stands in the hear
of the city, and is described as s
/ magnificent specimen of Gothic
architecture
A flirting belle OF AKRON, Ohlo
has. caused 8 social excitement by
having all the love letters she has
received bound handsomely in
morocco volume for her parlo:
table, in place Of an ordinary auto
graph album.
Capt. S. N. Williams, a faithful
employee Of the Columbia ant
( Greenville Railroad tor over thir
teen years has resigned his position
as freight conductor. He goes t.
Williamson, his home, to ente
into other business.
1t now appears that Mr.. Gar6el'
died comparatively rich. His estat
is worth abont S125,000. This, il
a3difion IN the nnhlic subscriotion