The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-01-19
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A young man has just died in
Philadelphia from hydrophobia, who
was bitten three years ago by a
cur that bad strayed into his Office.
A Boston dispatch says that
$4,000 has been raised for a Gar
field professorship at Williams
| College, and $4,000 more is want
ed.
| President Arthur keeps his dead
| wifes portrait, which hangs in his
| room at the White House, wreathed
in flowers, which are renewed every
day.
The marriage service uniting
Chicago couple was, it is asserted,
performed by departed spirits, a
medium acting under their con-
tgol.
1t is no more the business Of the
| State to provide what is called the
higher education than it is to sup
ply everybody with homes and oc-
cupations.-NeW York Sun.
| Miss Davis, the daughter Of the
President of the late Confederacy,
is a tall Young woman, with dark
hair and eyes, an extremely pale
face and an expression of intense
| reserve.
The military authorities at San
Antonio are non commital in re-
| gard to Lieut.. Flipper's sentence,
! but, as previously reported, it is
| understood that be has been dis,
| missed from the service.
When First Assistant Postmaster
! General Hatton was asked if be in
| tended to appoint any Democrats
| to post Offices in the South, he re-
! piled with more force than ele-
gance; Not if I know myself
| Benjamin. Philibert has just died in
st. Louis. He was worth 100000.
His other notable distinctions were
| that he had not been out of the
city in sixty-three years, and had
| never ridden in q steamboat or
steam railroad car.
A woman caused a commotion at
Wadena MINI, by wildly chasing
big dog and crying: Stop him he
has swallowed a twenty-dollar bill. ;"
An obliging butcher promptly
caught the beast, killed him, and
recovered the money.
A member Of the Vermont Leg
islature has been fined, under a
statute which his vote helped to
make, for keeping an unlicensed
dog. He is now convinced that
the law is unconstitutional, and
will test it in the courts.
If the Baroness Burdett. Coutts
survives her marriage ten years
she will have paid, without interest,
S3,750,0OO for husband, taking
her loss consequent on marriage at
S75,000 year-an expensive lux
ury, but she could afford it.
After wedding party had as
sembled in q church at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, the father of the girl Of
fered her $500 if she would back
out. She took the money, remain.
ed ct home, and sent word to the
minister to dismiss the assembly.
Stammerers are commonly worse
off among strangers than when
talking with friends, the difficulty
being in part a nervous affection
but there is o peculiar case of an
Ohio boy who can speak glibly at
home, while he cannot utter q word
anywhere else.
The United. States Agricultural
Department reports that the con-
dition Of the cotton crop is lower
than in any season since 1866. The
December return for South Caro-
lima, as compared with last year, is
II. The total crop is estimated at
100000 bales.
+ Guitesu's violence in court was
exceeded by that of convicted
murderer at Yankton, Dakota, who
cursed the prosecutor and jury,
made a dash for the bench to whip
the judge, and fought so desperate.
~ that at one time be was under
a heap of marshals on the floor.
Cincinnati proposes to face cold
weather in decidedly practical
way. Her aldermen have appro-
priated $4,000 in the purchase
of coal at wholesale prices, which
is to be sold to private consumers
at cost. The coal dealers remain
to be heard from as to that method