The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-07-06
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The population of Q. S. by the
last census, 50,155,783.
Mr.. Ex Secretary Blaine is said !
20 be worth S10,000,000.
Cheraw, S. c., is organizing a |
Joint stock company for cotton
factory.
The q. S. Senate Committee re-
port favorsbly on the woman's
suffrage bill.
Texas reports forty one CON-
oleted railroads 1ith a capital
stock of S247,000,0O0.
4 divided hygienic skirt is the
lew garment recommended to En-
,Iish women by the advocates OF
scientific dress.
The ragpickers of St. Louis have
organized society for mutual as
sistance, and to prove to the world
that a 'ragpicker can be a gentle
man
There is now no colored student
at West Point, and the authorities
hear Of none likely to come up for
examination with the incoming
class
The National Mercantile Travel
lers' Association at Cincinnati re-
solved to drop the term drummer
and adopt that of commercial
traveller
| The Maysz Of Savannah, Ga,
fined one bar room keeper $500
| and another $3.50 for keeping their
establishments open on Sunday, in
violation of law.
Mr.. Brand has been Speaker OF
the British House OF Commons for
| nine years, at a salary OF $3.50
year, and q pleasant residence
| within the precincts of Westminis
ter, looking out upon the river.
A Tennessee girl agreed to elope
| with her young man, but as he
didn't show up she jrmped from a
window, walked Eve miles in the
| rain and mud, woke him up from
| sleep, broke his jaw, and returned
home to be forgiven.
Keely, the motor man, has at
| last decided to divulge his Secret
| but only to one man. The lucky
individual is MIR. Boekel, an expert
| Philadelphia nschinist. tis to be
hoped: Mr.. Boekel will survive the
wonderful secret in store for him.
The Rev. John Jasper, of Rich
mond, says that a boy in his con-
gregation has been struck dumb for
telling lies. With this awful warn
ing before him, be dsres not stop
preaching the truth aboat the fat
earth standing still and the sun
revolving round it.
A wife at Boone, Iowa, got a
divorce from her husband solely OF
| testimony volunteered by her sis
| ter, who then professed to detest
| him but within a month the sister
| married the man, and confessed
that she had schemed to part the
couple for that purpose.
At a Connecticut memorial day
celebration, according to the local
newspaper, a brisk zephyr sung
its symphony through arborean
harps, and shook the green ban
ners of the stately elms.' But fol-
lowing this outburst comes the in
formation that the name of the
PROFESSIONS marshal was Tubbs.
A new opponent to the Western
Union is announced, called the
Postal Telegraph Company of New
York, which starts with the special
idea of transmitting ordinary bust
ness letters between the larger
cities by wire at very low rates.
The authorized capital is s21, ,OO0,-
900, and of this it is said that
100000 has already been sub
scribed.
An extraordinary tricycle. journey
has been accomplished by the
Vice-President of the Lyons Bicycle
Club, accompanied by his wife, on
a two seated machine. The trav-
ellers went from Lyons through
Nice, Genoa, and Rome, to Naples,
returning via Florence and Turin,
the whole journey representing a
distance OF some $500 miles, being
accomplished at an average of
about fifty to sixty miles day on
the road.
Mrs. Miller procured a divorce