The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-09-21
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4 West Virginia farmer sclI 8
black walnut tree for $500.
Bananas are one cent each in
Ocala, Florida, and are very fine.
There are between 1900 and
1900 blind persons in Tennessee.
W. w. Davis of Bristol, Tenn,
Just on the Virginia line, ships to
market about 5000 chickens each
week.
Tampa, Fla, raised a sweet po-
tato twenty-three inches in circum-
ference and forty-one and one-half
inches in length.
It's calculated that the splendid
grain crops OF the South will save
that section S1OO,O0O,oOO hitherto
diverted Northward.
Atlanta, Ga, has killed 1,5O0
logs during the present Summer,
and the supply seems not to have
| materially diminished.
Washington County, Texas, is
iilling up with Germans. AS many
| as 1900 Of them, all naturalized
| citizens, will vote at the Fall cleo
| tons.
The Rev. John N. Brisbee lent
his horse for a race at Madison,
Tenn, and for that is to be arraign.
before g Presbyterian tribunal.
His horse won.
The new Duchess Of Westmin-
ster, wife to one of the richest men
in Europe, was married in dress
of white foulard, costing seventy
Eve cents yard,
A St. Louis company issues in
surance policies on the lives Of in
fants, the parents paying five cents
a week and getting S35 if the child
dies, to cover funeral expenses
! Louisville, KY, has one whisky
or beer saloon to every thirty
houses, one lawyer to every eighty
houses, one doctor to everv l2O
houses, and one preacher to every
200 houses.
!. A Census bulletin giving the 70.
ting population of each State shows
that North Carolina has 189, 1872
white voters, and 105,01S colored
voters. The majority of white vo'
ters is S4,7l4.
The Democratic State ticket of
Texas contains the name Of but one
| native Texan. Of the other nom
inees three are natives Of Kentucky,
one of Georgia, one of South Caro-
lima and one of Tennessee.
A real estate dealer advertises
in a Dakota newspaper /: 7 can be
found either at the Gold Mine play
ing freeze out at Mitchelis Ex-
change betting on the age Of old
bosses with Brown, or st my resi-
dence on Oak street. perusing the
Scriptures
The facts are said to have been
with the speaker who said at the
Chicago picnic for the benefit of
John Browns widow: I am re-
jciced to say that I have seen to.
day colored men and white girls,
and white men and colored girls
dancing on this Aoor.'
Mondsy last was the last day for
the receipt of offers to take loan
of 100000 placed on the market
by the State of Arkansas. Her
credit is at so low an ebb that the
day passed without bringing to
the front a single person anxious
to become a creditor of the State.
The people Of York county, S.
c., and Cleveland county, N. c.,
have met and passed resolutions
significantly saying Of the Mormon
missionaries at work thereabouts:
'We earnestly call on them to de-
part" in peace before the indigna'
ton of the people become uncon.
trolable and they do them bodily
injury
Il is asserted that prohibition
was carried in Iowa through the
efforts of the women. They Or
ganized associations in nearly
every county, and, by diligent and
importunate appeals to individual
voters induced large proportion
of those who were ianguidly OPP
posed to the proposition to sup
port it at the polls.
Twenty Meriden men and their
wives have gone on trip to Cali.
fornia together. They have char
tered two hotel cars for q month,