The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-29
Various and al! About.

Various and all About
The Commencement season Is over.
Are you borrowing your reading? If
so, quit it.
Rosemont Cemetery needs cleaning
cS very badly.
Gardens are nearly played out-so
dry is the drought.
Good rains in the Longshore section
Friday and Saturday.
Gen. Kennedy and daughter were
the guests of Gen. Y. J. Pope.
A good dairy farm in the suburbs OF
Newberry we think would pay.
Mordecai Foot's pigeon boz is mar
vel of architectural beauty. Go and see
it.
Commencement brought the usual
crowd-hotels and private houses were
full.
erea'~a.ss~ neople had pleea =
The young {S1i~H~>Kn"casanl
chop" at the Newberry 44otel Friday
night.
Blackberries are scarce in Conway
boro-the price being 25 cents per
quart.
Ice Cream and Soda Water enabled
the visitors to Commencement to pull
through.
News, news, news, give US all you
know, friends, Of what transpircs in the
County.
The strain on the housewife is now
oyer-for the present at least-andtaey
can blow.
The track of the Spartanburg, Union
& Columbia R. r.. is being put in first
class order.
Newberry has a factory at last-it is
opposite the HERALD Office, and manu-
features cigars.
The new comet is evidently stray
one, and the astronomers are very much
puzzled over it.
\ friend says be started after the war
on nothing, and that he has il yet. He
hasn't lost ground.
Look out for the little colored slip;
we mean business. "If you like the Sc
curity, down with the dust"
Tie brick work of the Opera House
has been completed, except the tower,
and the roof is being put on.
Much provisions were consumed
during Commencement week, and the
poor are now on half rations.
The agent for JEFF Davis Rise and
Fall of the Confederate Government" is
distributing the book to subscribers.
Six million glasses Of lager beer were
drunk in this country in year. We
were not there to report the whiskey
drinks.
We do not like to see pretty little
girls dressed up like miniature women,
nor the women dressed to resemble
butterflies.
A Reception was held in the Female
Academy building Thursday evening,
which proved delightful occasion to
all present.
The industrious boy will make the
right kind of man. The lazy, indif-
ferent boy will be pretty sure to develop
into a loafer.
Between FIVE and six hundred glasses
of ice cream. more or less, were eaten
at the two Receptions, and 1t was not
warm either.
"Are you the mate of this ship" said
a newly arrived passenger to the cook.
mo, sir, am the man that cooks the
mater said Patrick.
A delightful odor pervaded our town
last week. caused by the use of Maybin
& Tarrant's Cologne. The Court House
is particularly sweet.
A gentleman from the country told
us the other day that he saw no less
than three threshing machines together
in one neighborhood.
The degree Of favor shown our ALI
gator, has determined US to add a first
rate specimen of the Guyascutis to the
HERALD's collection of curiosities.
The young man in search Of his sis
ter at Wednesday nights reception, to
our knowledge never had one-it was
a sweetheart be was in search of.
The HERALD is published with the
view of making its proprietor living,
and not so much as a convenience to
the public as some people imagine.
Will our subscribers please exert