The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-08-24
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A Methodist church in Attleboro,
Mass, has organized an Anti-gossip
Society.
r. B. Vance of North Carolina,
has been nominated for reelection
to Congress.
The Presbyterian congregation
Of Greenville are building a sl6,.
600 house of worship.
Work is going ahead rapidly on
the South Carolina Railroad water
connections at Charleston.
It is an i'll wind that blows no
body good. The war in Egypt
will raise the price of American
cotton.
California is rapidly becoming a
manufacturing State, while, her
wheat fields bring in more wealth
than all her mines.
Engineer Melville and two sail
ors of the Jeanette expedition
left Tomsk Tuesday for St. Peters
burg, enroute for home.
4 new Democratic daily is to be
started at Charlotte, N. c., on the
Goth, with ex Congressman A. NJ.
| Waddell, as editor in.chief.
Senator Hampton says he cannot
serve as President OF the South
Carolina University, even if he
should be elected to that position.
| DR.. G. G. Pritchard, we'll
known Charleston physician, died
on the 9Th of June, at the Sand
Hills, near Augusta, in the list
year Of his age.
Two merchants of Greenwood
say that the road saved in two
months forty-eight hundred dollars
to the citizens of the community in
the way Of freights.
Mrs. Scoville, in the Circuit
Court at Chicago, has fled a bill
for divorce against her husband, al
leging cruelty on two occasions
and passionate anger on bis part as
the cause.
Fifty years ago Chicago was a
village of 200 people, now it claims
a population of 100000 and is the
third manufacturing city in the
world, and keeps growing right
along.
In order to make a good bottle
of champagne at least two years
of constant work and care is ne
cessary,' writes John I. Fisher,
United States Consul at Rheims,
France.
Col. Abe Buford, the converted
Kentucky turfman, is lecturing on
the turf from a religious stand:
point, and maintaining that there
is nothing in conflict with religion
in high-toned horse-racing.
The climate Of Egypt in August
is represented as deadly to Euro
peans. Fevers prevail and the
Egyptian opthalmis, which renders
many of the natives blind. These
are allies that Arab Bey is count
ing on.
During the month of June twen-
ty two car loads of machinery for
cotton factories were shipped from
Boston down the Richmond and
Danville road for the two Carolinas.
Three hundred car loads are to be
sent to the South this Fall.
The Rev. Sylvanus Hayward, who
breaches in Globe, Mass, declares
bluntly that the increase in divorce
in that State is not due to greater
laxity in the laws, but to an enor-
nous increase Of wickedness among
the people, and he holds that the
remedy must be found in an i'm
provement in their morals.
Lyman B. Goodhue, q 81. Louis
druggist, is white, and his wife is
black. He is suing for a divorce,
not on account of the difference in
color, but because she treats him
cruelly. He bore with her lovingly,
he says, as long as she struck him
only with her open hand, but when
she threatened his life he moved for
separation.
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken announces
that competitive examination will
be held at Cokesbury on Tuesday,
Sept. 6, for successful candidate
to the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Nd. The candidate will be re-
quired to report at Annapolis on