The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-10-13
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A highly devout Baptist woman
At Shetland, Ontario, ceremonious-
ly baptizes herself every day.
As regards the Governorhip Of
Georgia it is understood that Gen
eral Gordon is in the hands Of his
friends.
Gen. Beauregard will 60 in Oc-
tober to tho Yorktown celebration
| as the invited guest of the State of
South Carolina.
| A girl slid from the arms of her
! partner in waltz at Davenport,
! Iowa, and died instantly. The
| cause was heart disease.
During the year South Carolina
| has put two new cotton factories in
| operation and six more are being
built with Southern capital.
Gambling houses are licensed in
New Orleans, and the revenue from
the gamblers is used to sustain
| poorhouse, which the system helps
| to fill.
On British railroads the guards
| are sworn in as Constables OF every
| county through which the line
| passes-an obvious convenience in
| case of a row.
The close and continued hang
ing on of Grant to the new Presi-
| dent is exciting comment. It evi-
| dently means something, but what ?
| Time will tell.
Mrs. Burke. of Omaha, made
$1,000 at the Nebraska State Fair
| by riding ten miles in 20 minutes
and 81 seconds. She used four
| horses, and made six changes.
The Green7ille Ne,1s states that
farmers in that section are not
trying to evade their fertilizer
debts. It adds that the poorer
| they are the more honest they are.
The New York Selgmans had a
| clerk named Settheimer. He spec
ulated in Wall street, lost $4,000
of his employers money, fed, was
hunted down and captured and is
now in jail.
DR.. Marion Sims says that the
President had the best medical
men in the world-that there are
no superiors in the profession to
Drs. Agnew, Hamilton, Woodward
and Barnes.
It is announced that twenty-four
white women have married negroes
in Boston in one year. They
wanted something unique in hus-
bands, and Cinnamon are very
scarce in that city.
The Atlanta Phonograph comes
to the conclusion that the man who
pursues farming for q series
Of years without accumulating
enough to carry over seasons
crop is not a success, and never
will be.
You may have heard of the busy
bee. Well, it's all bosh. In thir-
ty days he lays up enough to last
through the Winter and then loafs
all through the rest of the Summer.
Bee.keepers have watched and dis
covered this fact.
Newspapers published at great
market centres announce almost
daily an advance in the price of
some article of food. tits going to
be dear year for the table. Cloth
ing will remain cheap, and wages
are not likely to advance, but food
and rent are going to be higher in
price.
Boston has a lady barber. She
is blonde and very pretty. A re-
porter who was shaved by her
speaks in glowing terms OF her
skill. The lady herself says that
her work is light and easy, re-
quiring just the dexterity that
women possess, and she wonders
that more of them do not 60 into
the business.
General Burnside was lone leaf
on the tree. His wife died some
years ago, and he had no children.
His father and mother were born
in South Carolina and moved to
Indiana in 1913, where they were
subsequently married, and where
the General was born in 1924.
There were few kindlier gentlemen
in all the world than this childless
widower.
A Chinese witness in a PhilaGel.