The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-08-03
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II her penltentlary.
Harvari University got $4,000
70 bequesSs last year.
Queen Victoria is fat and hearty
weighing 200 pounds
Georgia yields over a million
'loliars per annuIn in gold bullion
4 museum Of Confederate relics
8 TO be established in Raleigh,
\. c.
For the frat tine since 1851 tie
Post O@ce Department is SELF
sustaining.
Charleston, S. c., is shipping
phosphate rock, used fox fertilizirg,
10 England.
The prospects Of the Louisiana
rice crop were never better than at
the present time.
The estate Of the Tanderbilts is
now valued at about three hundred
Millions of dollars.
West Virginia produces nearly
rae-fuu.th of al the nails used ip
.le United Suites.
Louisiana mas l72,O05 registered
..,ter3, o! which 1851 are wfite
.nd o6, ,O24 colorcd.
The total land area OF the United
,tates, not including Alaska, is
100000 square miles.
A factory at Augusta, Ga, has
just shipped an order Of 1000
bales of goods to Africa.
A little boy at Charlotte, n. c.,
swallowed q Quart and q half of
cherries, seeds and all, and died in
great agony.
The reduction of the National
debt during the fiscal year just
closed foots up the handsome total
of s151,s8435I.
The first appearance of cotton
as an article Of commerce was q
shipment Of seven bales from
Charleston, S. c.. in 1857.
A statne of Rouget de Lisle,
author of the :Marseillaise, at his
native place, Choisy-e-Roi near
Paris, is to be unveiled on July %.
Robert Bonner, the New York
Ledger man, las S382,000 in
vested in horse flesh, for his pri-
7ate use and to crafty a personal
ambition.
II the Atlanta Constitution speaks
correctly, more reapers have been
sold in Georgia this year than the
entire cotton belt possessed one
year ago.
Richard Paulk, white, Of Union
county, S. c., has been sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary or
to pay a fine of $500 for marrying
negro woman.
John Turner, of Savannah,
Ga, after serving out eight years
of a life-service for murder in the
penitentiary, has proven his inno-
cence and been released.
Willie Morris became Joyous at
a Wilmington, N. c., camp meet
ing, and fell over Annie Wi!liams
while the latter was kneeling in
prayer, and broke her back.
thomas Ferguson, of Weldon,
n. c., carelessly pointed an empty
SHOT gun at his three-year-old
brother, but it went off just the
same, and the child was torn to
pieces.
Sixteen smallpox patients in San
Francisco, while being conveyed in
boat recently, were all upset and
drcnched with cold salt water. In
spite Of their exposure they all i'm,
mediately recovered.
Sergeant Mason says he can't
complain Of the treatment he is re-
celVlng ID the Albany Peniteni-
tiary, only he would like to get
out. Being imprisoned is the
meanest feature of the whole thing.
1t is estimated that the South
has this season paid to the North
S55, 100000 for wheat, S5O,OO0,-
600 for corn, $4,000, 900 for meats,
and about S25,O0O,o00 for hay,
butter, cheese, oats, apples, pota-
toes, etc
The population Of Alexandria has
increased from 5000 a century
ago to 100000 at the present day.
The modern city is built on the
isthmus connecting the mainland
with the island Of pharos, and on
The leland ;tce1f