The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-06-15
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signed the bill to fund the State
debt at sixty cents, with interest at
3, 4, S and 8 per cent.
James Gordon Bennett has given
the widow of Lieutenant DeLong,
the brave commander of the i'll fated
Jeanette, S5O,0OQin United States
bonds.
The London Truth says that the
rumor of an engagement between
Princess Beatrice and the eldest
son of the Landgrave of Hesse is
not true.
The New York Institution for
the Improved Instruction of Deaf
oIutes has discarded entirely the
use ofsigns, the pupils being taught
to understand what is said to them
by watching the movements Of the
teachers lips.
The Rev. ]. T. Tichener, D. D.,
President of the Alabama Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, has
accepted the position OF correspond
ing secretary of the Home Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention, to enter upon work
July LIST.
A Boston widow married an
English clergyman, few years ago,
and gave him outright half her
fortune of S5OO.000. He at once
retired from the ministry, became a
drunken spendthrift and gamester,
and abused his wife so much that
she has sued for q divorce.
George Knickerbocker, a Min
neapolis furniture dealer, set table
in front of his store, with placard
on it stating that it had been taken
away from DR.. NJ. E. Woodling
because he would not pay for it.
The doctor retaliated by slash!ng
the merchant and a clerk with a
knife
Kate Claxton, the actress, had q
lady visitor at Cleveland hotel,
and the head waiter, mistaking her
for q maid, placed her at the SER
wants table. After an explanation
had failed to rectify the error, the
waiter was thrashed by Kate Clax-
toms husband, who was fined S. in
q police court.
4 miserly farmer of Litchfeld,
Mass, has been buying broken
down horses every spring, working
them hard all summer, and killing
them in the fall. As he paid hard
ly anything for the beasts, and
avoided the cost 4 wintering, the
plan proved profitable, until q
Bergh society had him heavily
fined.
The Cincinnati Commercial tells
this story of g big walnut tree: In
1864 an Indiana man, as the story
runs, bought the tree for 81, and
be subsequently sold it for S65.
The buyer sold it to a Cincinnati
lumber dealer for 500. The Gin
cinnati dealer sold it to a New
Yorker for $4,000, and be cut it up
into veneering, which he sold for
$4,000.
Bishop Paine is 90. In asking
the Methodist Conference at Nash
vile to relieve him from further
active service, he declared that six
ty five years of ministry had not
shaken bis perfect belief in the
t-uthfulness of the Christian doc
time Of salvation. The modern
forms of scientific skcpticisu had
not raised the shadow of q doubt
in his mind.
Some scandal has been excited in
Washington by the performance of
President Arthur's son Of the races
the other day. He appeared on the
quarter stretch in q costume so
lond as to excite remark. He wore
a tight-ftting pair Of pants, COW
ering tong-like legs, padded on the
side with buckskin, a red necktie, q
Ia. de dab English plug and an
Oscar Wilde sunhower.
a Vermont girl corresponded
with a stranger in California, made
a marriage engagement, and went
across the continent to get as she
supposed, young and wealthy
husband. She found instead a
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