The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-12-22
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There are 26o,S3O pensioners ID
the United States.
The number Of ordinary postage
stamps issued in 1881 was 9A,l2S,-
440.
Gen. Noise, Of Sumter, had a
hog killed, recently, which weighed
966 pounds gross
Marvin, the multitudinously mar.
| ried, is making shoes in the Vir-
ginia Penitentisry.
| Miss Annie Louise Cary is cred
| tied with the possession of $780,
600, al earned by singing.
The Courier-Journal says the
Louisville ladies' trim their bon
nets on the congregation side.
! Fifteen hundred additional spin
dies have recently been ordered for
the Rock Hill Cotton Factory.
Sarony, Of New York, has paid
Patti $1,000 for the exclusive right
to photograph her in this country.
| Between nine and ten millions
Of the Moody and Sankey Gospel
Hymns had been sold up to July l,
1881.
The total number of emigrants
from Germany to the United States
from January l to October 81,
1881, is l14,7S9.
Sen. Anthony sent every mem
Der Of the United States Senate, as
well as every living ex-member of
that body, a Thanks giving tur-
key.
Van Amburg's circus and menag-
| erie was sold at auction in Duchess
Co., N. Y, the other day. An
elephant brought S7,1OO, camel
S625, and rhinoceros s2,400.
MIR. Comfy, who WAS sent to the
| Hawaiian Islands for the benefit of
his health by Mr.. Hayes, four years
| ago, desires another term. The
salary is $500, and the duties con-
| sist in receipting for it.
Pres. Gar6eld's memory is to be
honored in London by the found
ing Of q Home for Working Girls,
to be called Garfield House" A
lady has given s1,25O to a CON-
mittee for this purpose.
Mr. Salter, stone mason, of
Sherwood, Quebec, few into pas
sion because something was lack
ing on his table, went to a restau-
rant for his supper, ard choked to
death on a piece of beef-steak.
Mr.. B. b. Greer, of Anderson
County, hiss a COW from which he
sold between January 20 and No
vember 4 Of this year, 1879 pounds
of butter, in addition to furnishing
all that was necessary for home
consumption.
The total population of the Uni
ted States as finally determined by
the last census is 50,155,783, an
increase since 1870, Of about 80
per cent. So far the census has
cost S3,86O,068, and $4,000 will
be required to complete the work.
In the case of Edward Maxwell,
who was dragged out of q court
room by lynchers at Durand Wis,
the moose killing him before the
mob got him to tree, Coroner's
jury has declared that he fell from
the court house steps and broke his
neck
The Carolina Spartan is bitterly
opposed to the re-opening of the
Citadel and Arsenal Itsays: 1T
will be less expensive to create
about nineteen hundred more brig.
sdiers and colonels. That is
shout as much of the military as
the State now needs"
The Mayor of Richmond, Va,
has vetoed an ordinance for COM
| pulsory vaccination, the penalty be-
ing S.. His objection to the ordi-
nance is that the provision for free
vaccination is such that laboring
men and women would be forced to
lose a days labor in order to be
vsccinated.
A heavy rain storm prevailed at
the time sppointed for Frank Wells
marriage, at Crawfordville, Ind,
and it may be that the dampness
quenched his matrimonial ardor,
for he borrowed IS and an I'm
brella from the bride, walked of
hurriedly toward the railroad
station, and has not since been
eoa>, W. $ho %orn