The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-10-12
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The Rev. William 4. Brooks OF
Hampstead, R. l., is accused of
having three wives. ,,
An Atlanta negro, aged 90,
,as 81 children. He took fourth |
wife the other day.
The new graded school at Char
lotte has opened with 333 pupils
and prospects for many more.
For coaching horses in England
hunters are now used, and the
price varies from $500 to S700. '
Two Boston boys bumped heads
80 forcibly that one died the next
day and the other was made dan
erously i'll.
A Boston girl attracted a multi
:ude by having her shoes blacked,
Just like a man, in front of the
Revere House. .--...1 a.-.
It is reported that the Green
hackers of North Carolina will NOM
mate full State ticket if they can
lind men enough to fill the Offices,
There are in Lucknow and Gavin
pore, India, As publishing houses
engaged principally in issuing anti
Christian books, tracts, and period
icals.
French artisans are now making
smoking pipes Of quality pro-
nouneed quite equal to the meer-
schaum, from celluloid obtained
from potatoes.
A man who is about to die at
Mishawaka, Indiana, has obtained a
solemn promise from his relatives
to bury him seated in an easy chair,
in q vault which shall then be her
| metically sealed.
There has been an unusual burg.
| larry at Streator, III. Some person
or persons, not yet detected, broke
open a window of poor widows
residence and-deposited sack of
| -four, a ham, and other provisions.
A recently superseded foreign
Minister, while passing through
London on his return to this coun-
try, registered himself at Bowies's
American Agency as Col,
American Minister. In rought
| for home
A German farmer near Depere,
Wis, reioices in an immense crop
of cabbages this year. He es
Inmates. that by the close Of the
season be will have sold over 10000
head, and will have cleared a net
profit of more than $500 per acre.
MIR. Hoffman and Miss Barr were
| married in the Gothic Chapel,
| which is a chamber in the Nam
moth Cave. It satisfied everybody
concerned excepting the bride, who
was compelled to wear an unbecom-
ing flannel sait, because the drip
pings of the cave would have ruin
ed the handsome bridal dress that
had been made for her.
The Chinese in California are
not displeased by the anti Chinese
law. The prohibition of further
immigration protects those already
here from competition, and they
are accordingly raising the price of
their labor. a dollar a day form
erly satisfied Chinaman on the
Pacific coast, but now he demands
$3.50, and usually gets it.
There were los men at a political
meeting in Grass Valley, California,
to choose twenty-one delegates to
a State convention. All wanted to
be appointed. To solve the prob
lem, their names we're put in a hat
and twenty-one drawn out; and
the delegates agreed that it was
the best representation Grass Val
ley has had of late years.
Mary Cooper. was so terribly
frightened by a drunkard, who had
ft Of delirium tremens in her
presence, in Philadelphia, that she
became dumb. During two weeks
she was unable to speak a word,
her vocal organs being paralyzed,
and she had begun to learn the
mutes' alphabet, believing that she
would never recover, when her
speech returned as suddenly as it
had left her.
It is ordinarily supposed that a
wound in the heart is Immediately
fatal; but after Tom Adams, a
prominent mining operator of Wood
River, Utah, had received a large