The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-09-07
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now among the inn.pensioners at
Chelsea Hospital. He is 81.
The great iron strike has lasted
two months and the strikers have
lost about S4,O0O,000 in wages in
the Pittsburg district alone.
A pretty girl of Is, neat in dress
| and polite in manner, is a boot
black in Galveston. She has a
| chair at street corner, and makes
So to s6 a day.
A Philadelphia thief has been
arrested for robbing dying man.
The Baltimore Day moves that the
wretch be made Chairman of the
Republican Committee on Assess
ments.
A wife beater in Maryland, when
convicted, is lathered at the whip
ping post. One offender was duly
punished, g short time ago, and
more victims, we suppose, will
follow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herrick were sep
arated by divorce, at Corinth, n.
Y: Is years ago. Both married
again, and lived long distance
apart until last week, when they met
and Immediately eloped together.
The Iowa prohibition law will
compel some property owners to
begin paying taxes. The licenses
of the ten saloons at What Cheer
have heretofore yielded enough
money to pay the tax Of the town.
Blackwell, the Durham tobacco
man, began by peddling the weed
from the tail of a wagon. Now he
pays the Government 100000 an
nually for revenue stamps. His
yearly advertising costs S120,000.
| Pastor Love, of the United Pres
byterian Church at Harrisville,
| Ohio, was chloroformed and robbed
of $4,000 by his two sons, whom
he had reared to the ages of II and
Ia with exceeding religious rigcr.
The Washington Republican, a
Radical organ, attacks Southern
postmasters, says they are all
:Bourbons' or dough-faced Repub-
icans, and calls for sweeping
changes. It is indicated that the
call will be needed.
| A Boston paper is responsible for
the statement that the disgusting
habit of snuf-dipping has spread
among the female operatives in
Massachusetts factories to such an
extent that fifteen tons of snuff are
annually consumed by them.
| Miss Kreuger carried gun to
the wedding of Gottleib Summers,
at Canton Ohio, and, after the hus-
band and wife had retired for the
night, fred into their bedroom
through q window. Her excuse
was that sheought to have been the
bride.
The Lee Memorial Association,
after many years work, have ct
last made final arrangements for
the completion of the mausoleum
Of Gen. Robert E. Lee, at Lexing-
ton in Virginia, and the statue OF
Lee will be unveiled on Thursday,
June 28, 1883.
Secretary Folger is being press
ed by his 'Stalwart' friends in New
York to accept the Republican NOM
ination for Governor of that State.
Governor Cornell is candidate for
denomination, and Judge Folger is
looked upon as the strongest man
to oppose him in the Convention.
Mr.. George Dexter, an old resi-
dent of Albany, who is now in his
S4th year, is the sole survivor of
the fifty passengers on the first
trip of Fulton's steamboat-the
Clermoat-from Albany to New
York. He was only eight years
old, and was in company with his
father.
The Nebraska young man who
broke the leg of a rival in a combat
over a girl whom both were en-
couraged to love does not feel that
he was the victor after all, since
she has taken to devotedly nursing
the invalid, and has promised to
marry him as he can walk to
church.
A patent has lately been issued
which will be of great advantage to
those who are obliged to go through
life on crutches. It consists Of
crutches set on rockers which are
faced with q heavy rubber band.