The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-11-03

OSuSIal 1sOeh, CA0 1sSe
candidate for Governor of Wiscon-
sin. began life as a stage driver.
Man wants but little here below,
And is not hard to please;
But every woman that we know,
Wants everything she sees
An ex slave in North Carolina is
the owner OF a plantation OF 1,2C0
acres, upon which he has Is ten
ants.
The deepest we'll in the world is
at Buda Pesth, Hungary. It has
depth of $500 feet, over three
6fths of a mile.
Bud and Henry Barret. brothers,
of Louisville, quarreled over 25
cents. Henry was fatally wounded,
| and Bud is dead.
Gen. Longstreet, of Georgia,
Judge Tourgee, OF North Carolina
and Judge Settles, Of Florida, are
the Southerners mentioned for
Cabinet positions.
A pretty answer was given by a
little Scotch girl. When her class
| was examined, she replied to
question, What is patience?' Wait
| wee, and dinna fret.
An Indianapolis man broke
matrimonial engagement with q
| plain woman in order to marry her
pretty servant girl, and has been
sued by the former for damages.
Austin has a female deputy sheriff,
and when she tells q man she has an
attachment for him he don't know
whether to blush and try to look
sweet or to light out for the
woods.
Friends of Mr.. Malone say that
President Arthur has personally
assured him that the whole infu-
| ence of the administration will be
exerted in behalf of the readiuster
ticket in Virginia.
| A farmer in Stark County, ILL.,,
measured off an acre of corn in one
of his fields and gathered it. It
yielded S,100 pounds, which, at so
pounds to the bushel, made lOl
bushels and 20 pounds to the
acre.
It is estimated by the Agricultu-
raj Department that the corn crop
will be short 511, 100000 bushels.
It is ascertained that the cotton
crop of 1880 was 6,582,329 bales
or 151 per cent. increase, or $751;
O23 bales of average weight.
It is stated that the longest
drought which this country has
ever known was in the year 1852,
when for 123 days in succession,
ending September 1st, no rain fell
over considerable part of what
was at the time settled territory.
A Judge at Erie, Pa, has just
decided that Spiritualism is re.
ligion, and it's ezponents. are en-
titled to all the privileges enjoyed
by ministers. A medium who had
been arrested for giving exhibitions
without a license was accordingly
discharged.
A negro went home from a Geor-
gia camp meeting in a state OF
ecstasy, declared that he was going
to heaven by the way of tall tree
that grew in the dooryard, climbed
to a height of seventy feet, and
then undertook to fly the rest Of
the journey. The fall killed him.
At the meeting of the Methodist
Conference in London, James Cal.
vert of FIJI said that the greatest
blot of the Fijians was their can
nibalism. One Of the natives stated
that be had feasted on 972 different
persons, and six or seven Of the
missionaries were eaten when they
first commenced their labors in
FIJI.
Ihe First Baptlst Churcn OF
Macon, Ga, undertook to benefit its
members temporarily by means OF
a cooperative society, the members
of which could buy goods at 8 re-
duced price while they lived, and
be buried free when they died.
Deacon Jeremiah Pounds was elect
ed President, Secretary, Treasurer,
aud general manager. As soon as
the fund reached S1,500 he stole
it.
No line in England carries the
same number of passengers, Or car
ries them so cheaply and pays so
large a dividend, as the under
orronnd railroad of London. The