The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-08-10
Various and all About.
Weather still warm.
Watermelons are abundant.

Come and pay for your paper and
ease your conscience.
There was no rain on Monday from
Jalapa to Kings Creek.
Simon johnson was taken down 10
the penitentiary Monday.
Next to love. sympathy is the divinest
passion of the human heart.
Col. Cash's pamphlet is pretty racy
reading, and is eagerly sought after.
! Spots lightly broken up now will
produce heavy crops Of grass by Octo-
ber.
One California raisin maker employs
fifty white men and two hundred China
men.
| Lovers are like armies; they get
along we'll enough till the engagement
begins.
/ VERY heavy rains below Prosperity
Sunday. A great deal Of corn was
washed down.
A friend called US out to look at some
large watermelons the other day, but
never gave US one.
As u religious institution the camp
meeting is a thing Of the past. 1t
ought to be abolished.
Col. T. w. Holloway and his son
O'Neall are building store at Pomaris.
They propose to merchandise.
Mr.. J. D. Smith bought fine pair
of Shepherd pups while in Tennessee.
He expects them in 4 few days.
In J very short time SOW plentifuily
of turnip seed. Put the seed III heavily
as everything else will be short.
The store of B. II. Cline & Co., has
recently undergone repairs. The over
head was changed from plasterlng to
ceiling.
Camp Meeting at Hopewell Church,
near Martins Depot, will begin Friday
night before the first Sunday in Sep
tember.
There will be Reunion Meeting in
the interest of Newberry College at St.
Michael's Church, Lexington County,
the 18th.
The scenery for the Opera House ar
rived Thursday, and was stored in the
Court House to await the completion Of
the building.
Two millions four hundred and sew
enty-fye thousand shingles have been
sold and shipped from Prosperity during
the past year.
If merchants make the exhorbitant
interest on liens that they are credited
with making, strange that they haven't
become n,illionaires.
Messrs. J. A. Cromer. Jenk Smith.
w. C. Sigh, Will Swittenberg and
others caught four hundred pounds of
fish in Broad River Wednesday.
Mr.. Smith says be has no doubt that
5000 pounds of fish have been taken
out of Broad River near LYles Ford
this season.
Mr.. Mike Bowers says Newberry is
a far better looking city than Green
vile; but she hasn't got anything to
equal Sandy Flat" on Sale-day.
MIR. T. II. Davis barbecue at Jalapa
Wednesday was decided success. The
dinner, especially the hash, was excel
lent. and every guest received good at
tention.
A young lady was kicked at the camp
meeting-by Il mule. She neither
screamed nor tainted; she only looked
to see if her dress were injured and
passed on.
Many Of the trees on the Ebenezer
Camp Ground are dying, not from
drought but from the effects of the sand
! and dirt piled up around their roots Il
year or two ago.
A Newberrian who went to Saluda.
on the A. & S. R. R., to spend a month
found both hotels crowded to overflow
ing and thirty-six young men sleeping
on the piazzas. He didn't stay.
The mountain visitors are gradually
returning. Nothing delights them more
than to surround themselves with a
crowd of the "cant-get-aways" and talk
about what good time they had.
Mr.. Cline, of Newberry, was in town
this week. He has completed his esti-
mates for the erection of the brick
. stores, and will begin work next week.
SalaldG (Grcenwool) Argus. sd.
A dog went mad on Mr.. NJ. W. Mil
ler's place week ago. He ran around
the yard biting and swapping at every
thing within his reach, and finally ran
into the dwelling-house. Failing to get
him ont alive he was shot in the house.
The following teachers from New
berry are attending the Normal Insti-
tute at Greenville: Miss 6. a. Doug
lass, Miss Laura J. Gaulden, n. O..
Pyles, Miss Fannie Wardlaw, Miss
Susan A. Wilson, Miss Maggie Browne,
Miss Arseneth Moon, Miss Mary Moon,
Mrs. NJ. Z. Hall, Miss L. r. Cofeld.
DR.. D. S. Pope, Assistant Surgeon of