The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-08-31
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Ihe ReV. FREDERICK StOvener &C.
.uses the Rev. James Beard of
stealing sermons from old books.
Both are Indianapolis pastors.
The Railway Age says that more
than 5000 miles of railroad have
been constructed in the United
States during the past seven
months,
Ford, the young man who killed
Jesse James, is having a royal
time in Chicago with the $4,000
de received as a reward for MUIR
lering the outlaw.
Two circular saws had an en-
counter in o Saginaw mill, and
hey knocked each others teeth out
30 furiously that men were cut by
flying bits Of steel.
On q Denver mans door was
chalked, The handsomest man in
Colorado lives here, and the writer
Of it has been sued for damages be-
cause it was intense sarcasm.
The National Board of Health
has received. official information
confirming the report of the
existence of yellow fever at Browns
vile, Texas, and Matamoras, Mex
leo.
Texas has $4,000 acres Of school
land rapidly appreciating in value,
and worth probably S100,000,000,
and is expected to have in the not
distant future a school fund Of a
quarter of a billion dollars.
Nathaniel Baker of Lawrence,
Mass, is man who has fought and
bled for his country and doesn't
| want a pension. For conscience,
sake, he asks that his name be
stricken from the pension list.
They mobbed the widower who,
at Waterloo, Iowa, while erecting
Only a pine slab over his wife's
grave, presented a handsome piano
to the girl who had been very kind
to him during his sad affection.
There are no nice young gentle
men at Saratoga this season, and
parents who are paying S. day
all round at the hotels in hopes of
marrying off their daughters are
very much disguised at the condi-
ton OF affairs.
A marriage at Dover, N. e., was
Of couple who plighted troth
twenty years ago. He has been
after his fortune in Colorado gold
mines and she has been teaching
patiently at Dover, love letters 60
ing to and fro all the time.
It has been decided in England
1t the telephone business of the
cou1try shall not be exclusively
managed by the Post Office De
partment, which now controls all
the telegraph lines, and it will be
allowed to remain in the hands of
private individuals.
The presiding elder who went to
conduct the dedication of a new
Methodist Church at Grand Rapids
did not do it. The debt was not
all provided for, and he said he
had promised God not to dedicate
any more due bills, mechanics
liens and mortgages.
There is TO be a lawsuit over the
skeleton Of Guiteau. Scoville is on
his way to Washington to contest
the will OF Guiteau and get pos
session of the bones, for which he
is offered handsome price. Mrs.
Scoville has, however, a better title
to the bones than her husband, and
she has shown a disposition to
realize on them.
The Kershaw Gazette learns that
alittle son of Mr.Levi Moore, who re-
sides near the Kershaw and Fairfield
line, died from eating small quan
tity of concentrated lye on the 29th
ult. He was playing in the yard
where a servant was engaged in
washing, and innocently ate some
of the lye which was being used.
He lived only a few hours.
The minutes of the Southern
Presbyterian Church for the year
ending April, 1882, give the follow.
ing statistics: Number of minis
ters, 1861 number of churches
2,0l0; total number Of communi-
- 100 one &c o07