The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-03-30
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During the last year 273 cases OF
suicide occurred in the Prussian
army.
There are 100 per cent. more
divorces in Philadelphia yearly than
in any other city Of the Union.
In the House of Lords a bill has
oeen introduced excluding atheists
from both houses of Parliament.
The Emperor Of Russia wishes
Germany to distinctly understand
that he is as friendly as ever, and
does not like the noise of Krupp
guns.
The proposed reduction in inter
nal revenue taxation will decrease
Uncle Sans income about sixty
eight millions of dollars. He can
| aIOrQ II, however.
A Kansas man and woman have
been married to each other once a
year for four years, a divorce hav
ing separated them after every
union except the last one
Charles A. Reed, of Newton,
Mass, devised $4,000 each to his
own town and Salem, to be used in
picnics to children, scientific lec-
lures, and relief to poor widows.
The shattered condition of the
levees and the impoyerishment OF
the people give rise to the glooniest
apprehensions of disaster from the
spring freshets on the Mississippi.
The religious people of Clarinda,
Iowa, had a week of prayer for ex
emption from smallpox. The
scourge passed by the town, and
now e day of thanksgiving is ap'
pointed.
Jenny Lind advises all American
girls who are in Europe studying
music to return home, where, she
says, the instruction is just as
good, and the chances of getting
nice husband much better.
Florida railroads have had the
largest run Of business this winter,
in both freight and passengers,
ever enjoyed by them. This is
another indication of increased pop
| ulation in the interior counties.
Hazael's trainers say that he
drank nothing stronger than gin
ger ale during the week. The rest
| of the walkers tried to keep up
their strength on champagne and
| other liquors. It is not the first
! time that it has been proved that
| alcohol cannot be depended upon
to sustain men under long con
| tinued physical strain.
An exchange trembles with ap
prehension since it has been ascer-
tanned by German chemists that
'frstrate brandy can be made from
saw dust. we are friends it says
of the temperance movement, and
want it to succeed, but what chance
will it have when a man can take
rip saw and go out and get drunk
on fence rail
A drunken fellow belonging to
Bangor, in County Down, fell
asleep in the graveyard into which
he had wandered over night.
He was suddenly aroused from
sleep by the postman's horn or
trumpet which he mistook for the
archangel's trumpet on the resurrec
ton morn, and said: What mere
one risen here but me! It speaks
bad for Bangor.
Rather a good story reaches US
from the Black Country. A few
years ago the wife of q miner died,
and as she was being carried to the
grave the mourners tripped against
the steps of the churchyard and
the coffin fell. The woman re-
7ived, having, only been in a trance.
Recently she really died, and as the
mourners were ascending the same
steps the heart.broken widower
sobbed out, STEADY, boys there
Be 7ery-very careful
The bridge which is to span East
River and connect New York and
Brooklyn, it is now promised, will
be completed and open for travel
by March l, 1883. It has already
cost Sl4,00O,O0O, aud the board of
trustees have resolved that the peo-
pie of the two cities should stand
and deliver a cool million and q
quarter before the structure can be
completed. The total cost by time
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