The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-04-27
Various and all About.

Various and all About.
Calhoun Street is the Fifth Avenue
Of Newberry.
We have had varied assortment of
weather for the past week.
| The Telephone apparatus has arrived
; and will be put up in short while.
Mr.. w. E. Higgins has one Of the
finest oat crops in Moons Township.
Mr.. W. G. Abrams has turkey COB
bier that has been setting two weeks.
The Council publishes this week a
full report Of the municipal indebted
ness.
Mr.. Wm. Zobel has the finest lettuce
in the County-and we thank him for q
mess.
An Edgefelder brought in one hun
dred and seven dozen eggs one day last
week.
The net profits of the Graniteville
Factory for the past year was twenty
per cent.
The past week has been so dull that
a dog fight would have created the
widest excitement.
The Debating C!ub held no meeting
Monday night, rs the members desired
to attend Mr.. Cree's lecture.
May 10th is the day usually observed
in Newberry as Decoration Day. Will
the day be observed this year?
Mr.. D. R. Phifer informs US that the
report of the death of his brother Robt.
F. is incorrect; that he is alive.
Nothing has been heard lately of the
proposed Cotton Factory. Surely, the
matter will not be allowed to fall
through.
DR.. Mofett's Teethina (Teething
Powders) will cure your child. For
sale by all Druggists and Country Mer-
chants. oUEly
A colored man named James John
son, living on DR.. Carlisle's place, lost
bis house and all its contents last Satur-
day by fire.
Justice Packer sent two colore'. men
up to the Circuit Court yesterday on the
charge of malicious mischief breaking
cows leg.
Treasurer Wheeler expects to have
his bond ready by tomorrow. when the
County Commissioners will meet to take
action upon it.
Joseph /. Keitt. Esq. has bought a
lot of four acres from Mr.. Fowles, next
to Mr.. McCrary's lot, on Pratt Street,
at 5000 per acre.
Jas. Y. Culbreath, Esq, brought
US in yesterday fine mess Of. new
Irish potatoes and asparagus, for
which he has our thanks.
A good many farmers are planting
Jones Improved Cotton Seed in small
patches. They obtained the seeds from
Mr.. Jno. R. Spearman. Jr.
The Governor issued a pardon yes
terday to the old negro VIM. Williams,
alias Wm. Wallace, convicted, at the
last term of Court, of hcg stealing.
DR.. W. E. Boggs. of Atlanta, has ac-
cepted the chair of Church History and
Church Government in the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Columbia.
Mr.. J. W. 81. Simmons house on
Calhoun Street is nearing completion.
When it is finished Mr.. Simmons will
have one of the prettiest places in town.
In the Bush River settlement two
weeks ago farmers wife had baby,
bis mare a colt, his cow calf, bis SOW
pigs and his cat kittens-all the same
night.
Mr.. VIM. Watkins horses ran away
with his buggy in town Monday. The
buggy was upset, and Mr.. Watkins was
bruised about the head. He made a
narrow escape.
The Newberrians who attended the
| Floral Fair in Charleston last week had
good trip of it. One young man says
there were 'dead oodles Of pretty wo-
men" down there.
More Lucerne should be raised. Mr..
Christian says that an acre Of it has
been worth 500 to him the past year.
1t needs only one planting, and it gets
better every year.
The Columbia Xconaan of Monday
contained the following piece of start
ling information; Gov. Hagood was
among the worshipers at the Baptist
Church yesterday"
1t is gentle and soothing in its action,
and restores the bowels to their normal
functions. No gripping pains can exist
when Pelbam's Blackberry Balsam is used.
Price 25c. per bottle. 1872
The police are looking for a young
negro Of literary tastes, who has stolen
4 Swinton's Reader, Towns Analysis,
| Lie OF CnrlSt, an Arltnmellc ana
Patent Office Report of 1853.
The police are trying to invent an
apparatus that will enable them to catch
dog without the dogs catching them.
A long pole with loop on the end of
it might fill the requirements.
Good rains throughout the County
the past week. and vegetation is boom
ing. Wheat and oats are the best for
many years; corn is looking well; and
cotton is beginning 10 come up.
The candidates are coming to the
surface in Edgefeld County. Last
weeks papers had the cards of five:
three for Clerk, one for Probate Judge
and one for School Commissioner.
A farmer was in town Saturday brag-
ging about his high corn. If he wants
to see real high corn let him 90 to a
store and be will find it-at $3.50 per
bushel, cash. How is that for high?
The Smyrna Church building has un.
dergone pretty thorough repairs, and 8