The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-06-29
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On May "a Queen Victoria COM
pleted her SD year.
Gen. Weaver will 60 to TEXAS /
this month to make fifteen Green
back speeches.
A little North Carolina girl got
mold of a Jug of whiskey, and drank
until she fell dead.
Mrs Garfield has an income OF
$4,000 a year, and can now get
along pretty comfortably.
The saloons of New York City
placed side by side would reach a
distance of forty five miles.
Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer has
presented $4,000 building to the
New York German Hospital.
Atlanta has closed q contract for
fire alarm telegraph system,
which will be, in operation within
sixty days.
Washington busybodies are still
insisting that Mrs. Craig Wads-
| worth is to be the mistress Of the
White House.
Cincinnati Commercial: Mark
Twain served three months in the
Confederate army, under General
Sterling Price
The English civil engineer,
Douglas, is to be knighted for his
successful work in the erection OF
the new Eddystone lighthouse.
The State of Kansas boasts of
having a million and half of acres
covered with growing wheat and g
week ago the grain was four feet
high.
| The Richmond and Danville is
now building one thousand freight
cars. The work is divided among
six car factories. The cars are to
cost $3.50 each.
| At Nine. Murrietta's dance in
London the other night over $4,000
was spent on the presents or favors
| for the cotillon. Miss Chamber
lain 8 young American, vas re,
marked for her beauty.
! The Germans sre fast coming to
realize the advantages Of having
type like the rest of the modern
world. Fully. 40 per cent. of the
books printed in that country in
1880 were in the antique or Latin
type.
Gen. Grant is said to be worried
very much ever the discovery of o
flaw in the title to the deed of the
ground on which his newly finished
residence on SixSy.sixth street,
New York, stands. An aged negro
woman claims the ground On
which it is built.
| An oak tree was recently cut
down on ranch near Neville, Co.
lusa county, Cal, that measured
seven feet and four inches through
at the stump. There were cut and
slit 400 posts, seven and a half feet
long, and rs cords, two tiers to
the cord, OF 20 inch wood, out OF
| it.
Lieut.. Augustine Hewitt, of the
.. S. Army, was married to Miss
Katie Duncan, daughter of Col,
Blanton Duncan, at San Antonio
Texas, on Saturday. The groom
died in few hours after the cere-
mony, and the bride is at the point
of death. He was on his death
bed at the time.
Just as a girl was about to
drown herself st Athens, Ala, a
man caught her. She struggled,
but he held her fast. I'll give you
ten minutes to think it over he
said, and if you then want to die
I'll let you do it. When the time
was up he released her, and she
quietly went home.
The new Hotel de Vile in Paris
will be opened on July Il. a
grand banquet Of $50 covers will be
given in the hall of state. The
Diplomatic Corps, the municipality
and Government bodies, and the
Mayors of the chief French and
foreign towns, including the Bur-
gomsster of Berlin, have been in.
vited.
When Cyrus W. Field, the mil
lionaire, arrived in New York as q
boy, he found employment in the
house of A. T. Stewart & Co., at a
salary of 50 q week. He was OBJ
liged to be the first at the store in