The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-10-05
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himself of watch and $40.
Only seven Gays elapsed after
she wedding of a man at Dubuque,
Iowa, before he eloped with the
brides cousin.
Pingree threatened to shoot his
wife at Saco, Me-, if she didn't
confess a fault of which he had
accused her, and then shot her be-
cause she did.
The famous big trees Of Califor-
MIA are only shrubs. Australia
comes to the front with a Vegeta-
bic growth 450 feet high and 60
feet in circumference.
The Iowa capitol, work on which
vas commenced in 1871, is nearing
completion. The cost of the edi-
ice will he about S2,500,000, and it
is to have a gilded dome.
The Rev. Andrew J. Rope of
Taylorville, Ill.,, is under arrest on
charge of forging a note for $500
with which money be paid the ez-
penses of his wedding tour.
The consumption of tobacco in
France during the past FIVE years
has averaged $4,000 tons: thrice the
consumption in 1882. The reVe-
nue. amounts to S50,000,000 a year.
OF the population of the globe,
12O,OOO,O00 are nominal Protes.-
tants, 2OO,0O0,OOO are Roman Cath
olics and 175.OOO,000 Mahomme-
tans. There are less than 10000, 900
Jews.
The latest composition by the
author of See that Ny Grave is
Kept Green is a petition to be par
doned out of the Indiana State
prison, where he is serving term
of two years for forgery.
Twenty grocers were recently
indicted in England for selling
coffee adulterated with chiccory.
The authorities failed to show that
the adulteration was injurious and
the prosecution fell through.
ITO Delegates representing the
5000 colored voters of New York
city met in convention on Friday
night and passed resolutions de-
manding represention of their race
in Office as condition of their
adherence to the Republican party.
A party named Patterson started
a fruit distillery in the Friendship
section of Anderson, and local SEN
timent Was strong against him.
Somebody destroyed his peach and
apple stands one night, and he has
had several of the best citizens ar
rested.
DR.. r. G. Alexander, writing in
an English medical paper, says that
neuralgia is a disease arising from
debility; that it is increased by
disease mental or bodily, but is re-.
lieved by food, and sometimes by
stimulants. Pure air, night and
day, and perfect cleanliness are ad-
vised.
Near Elkhorn, Ind, six years
ago, an old farmer was robbed Of
his hoard of money. John Elliott
was convicted of the crime and
sent to the penitentiary. Just as
his sentence is to expire, thorough
search OF the thief's old home las re-
suited in the discovery Of the swag
in his cistern.
A Massachusetts law makes the
owner Of a house liable for treble
any loss that may be sustained by
gambling therein with his consent.
A saloon keeper at Lowell has just
been compelled to pay $1,000, the
money going to a man who had
lost only $500 in playing poker on
the premises.
A traveller saw in Portland, Me-,
while waiting half an hour in a
railroad station, a barrel Of ale
rolled into a saloon, an intoxicated
man fight a hack driver, and two
men drink whiskey from bottle.
He concludes it possible that the
Maine prohibition law is sometimes
broken in Portland.
Adessa Wray appeared as an
equestrienne at fairs in Indiana,
riding horses in twenty-mile races.
Mrs. Owen spoke of these feats as
'brazen, shameless and indecent
Adessa has brought suit for S10,-