The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-06-15
Various and all About.
Rain is much needed.

| Various and all About.
Rain is much needed.
So much time has been taken up in
harvesting of late that cotton is badly
in the grass.
Thursday. Goth instant. is the last day
for making returns of personal proper
ty to the Clerk of Council.
Court adjourned Saturday, and Judge
Cothran left by the afternoon train for
Laurens, where be is holding Court this
week.
The Commencement Exercises, in-
GLIDING Baecalaureate Sermon, Ad-
dress, &C., will be held in the Opera
House.
There was good rain at Prosperity
Sunday evening. 1t extended four
Iuiles below and two miles above the
vil!sge.
Prosperity deserves to have good
passenger depot and waiting room.
The present arrangement is very in
convenient one.
Sheriff Wheeler carried the peniten.
tiary recruits down Monday. Sadler
left off bis shamn1ing after sentence was
passed upon him.
Mr.. j. S. Nichols. Of the St. Luke's
section, brought 10 tins Office Tuesday
stalk of cotton knee high and having
twelve shapes on it.
There were two funerals at Cross
Hill, IIaurens Co, Sunday afternoon;
that of Mrs. Rich'd Brown, and that of
Mrs. Anne Boulware.
We are authorized to say that the re-
port that Liberty Hall man was hunt
ing for a mower last week to clean out
his cotton with, Is mistake.
Andrew jackson, colored, was tried
at Laurens Tuesday for murder. The
jary failed to agree, and a mistrial re-
suited, being the third mistrial in this
case.
Railroad Commissioner Bonham and
President Mclaughlin went up the
Laurens Road yesterday afternoon to
view the scene of Tuesdays wreck and
disaster.
A medicine of real merit, prescribed
by many leading physicians, and uni
versally recommended by those who
have used it as a true tonic is, Browns
Iron Bitters.
F. A. Schumpert & Co. have cut this
season one hundred and si1ty-fve acres
of grain with their two Mccormick
Reapers and Binders, besides what Mr..
Shumpert cut for himself.
The Marion Street Church picnic at
Helena last Thursday was largely at
tended. Over two hundred persons
came up on the excursion from Colund-
bia, and these were joined by good
" number Of Newberrians.
Mr.. Il. A. Samuels is in town. He
was at Rock Hill Monday morning
when John johnson was lynched, and
witnessed the execution from the hotel.
He brought with him piece of the rope
johnson was hanged with.
Miss Maggie Browns school at Kin.
ards closed Friday with an Examina.
tion of the pupils in the presence of the
patrons OF the school. The exauina.
ton was very satisfactory. Rev. A. A.
Gildert made an address to the patrons
and children.
At an oat threshing a few DAYS ago q
party was offering to bet that the yield
would be one hundred bushels to the
acre. A we'll known gentleman pres
ent, who thought the estimate too high
took friend off to one side and said to
him, I'm too prominent a member il
the church to bet, but if you'll bet Sl0(
it won't yield 100 bushels III 60 yor
halves"
We stated last week that Ssdler was
sentenced to five years in the peniten
tiary on two convictions for housebreak
ing in the day time, and Baxter De
Walt to two years for one ofense. The
Judge so announced the sentence: but
remembering that the law did not per
NIT a longer sentence than one year fol
this offence, he changed the sentence t
one year for DeWalt and two for SD
Ter.
The Clarke Bros, have not been abl
to get away vet, so popular are the,
among our fellow citizens as artists.
is whispered out loud that one of them
a widower, has succeeded in discover
ing q negative" of himself in the hear
of one of our young ladies'" So say
the Warrenton (Ga.) Clipper, and it i
just what we supposed to be the matte
all the time. Well, we don't blame bin
one bit. several other as good looking
fellows have been in the like fix.