The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-02-23
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spent $500 for terrapins alone for a
recent dinner.
During the year 1881 there were
twenty-nine railroads sold for in
debtedness, comprising total OF
2,617 miles.
The sheep industry seems to
pay in Texas. There are in the
State 100000 head, their value
being S13,sO0,OO0.
Hon. James G. Blaine is to de-
liver before Congress on the 9th
of February, his memorial address
on James A. Garfield.
An Italian colony has been es-
tablished near Gainesville, in Flori-
da, for the cultivation of oranges
and lemons on a large scale.
A Washington lady has engaged
rooms at Wormley's for her dog, and
has it's meals served to it as regu-
larly as any other dignitary there.
Mr.. Arthur is in mourning still.
He dresses in deep black, uses let
ter paper with broad black mar
gin and nominates Stalwarts to
Office.
The loss to England by the last
three years bad harvests is esti'
mated at from hundred to q
hundred and fifty million dollars 8
year.
President Arthur has adopted a
rule which prohibits postmasters,
the salaries of whose Offices exceed
$1,000, from being members Of
State Legislatures.
The latest phase in Partisan sui
eide is to shoot yourself in a hack
It is apt to damage the. l;;nGings, but
enables the suicide to be promptly
conyeyeaas 80 the morgue.
Carter q. Harrison, mayor of
Chicago, has received an offer OF
marriage from a lady living in the
sHub' who is worth 100000, is 3S
years old and quite pretty.
A colored preacher and three OF
his congregation are under arrest in
Montgomery County, Nd, charged
with tearing down and hauling
away their meeting house.
The State of Georgia has one
| town-Macon-in which there is q
| queer superstition. The merchants
| say that when an organ grinder
enters the town the price of cotton
falls.
A workman was examining a
| hole which he had just bored in q
factory floor at New Britain, Conn,
when his eye was destroyed by a
| red hot iron thrust through from
| the other side.
France and Italy have hitherto
produced sugar only from the beet
root The sugar cane has lately
been introduced in both countries,
and it's rapid growth threatens the
beet root industry.
There is gold in thirty.three
counties in Georgia; copper in
| thirteen; iron in torty.three, dia'
| monds in twenty-siy and whisky in
| all of them, and the latter gets
| away with all the rest.
Mr.. Barnum has just had his new
| baby elephant insured for one year
for 100000, paying premium OF
$1,000 week for the insurance
Should it live, the baby will be put
on exhibition in New York early in
| March.
The laborers living in the small
town of Pennomene, near Panama,
and working on the De Lesseps
canal, refused to be vaccinated.
During the past three months up
ward of one thousand deaths have
taken place there from smallpox.
The celebraEon Of Daniel Web
ster's hundredth birthday was
made the occasion at Franklin, N.
B., of proving his church connec-
ton. An original register was ex'
hibited; in which his membership
in a Congregational church was re-
corded on Sept Is, 1907.
The. only msn in this country
who ever had the honor of being
decorated with an order, and at
the same time occupying cell in a
penitentiary, is MIR. David Mouas,
of Philadelphia. He was one of
the '306' at Chicago, and is entitled
to his medal weighing one pound
The question of convict labor is