The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-09-14
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Toms Cabin.
A member of the Board of Trus-
tees of Millville, Iowa, advocated an
ordinance to compel every adult
resident to go to church once every
Sunday.
In Texas, according to Western
exchange, the State Legislature has
put a tax of $500 a year upon
newsdealers who sell the Police
Gazette.
The Kentucky penitentiary mum.
bers among its inmates ten chill
dren under the age OF Is. These
children associate, as do the other
prisoners, with the abandoned and
the vicious.
The Chicago pic mic. to raise
funds to build q monument to
John Brown was g. failure. About
three hundred persons were pre-
sent, but the expenses consumed
the receipts.
. .Canonchet, the famous Sprague
mansion, from which Conkling
made his mastery retreat from the
ex-Governor's shotgun, has been
purchased by Frank Moultcn, OF
Beecher-Tilton fame.
Emma Voller of Red Bluff, CAL,
was so mortified by her sweet
hearts appearance as an aesthetic
at an entertainment that her mind
became disordered, and she died
after suffering intense mental ago.
ny.
The sale of Walt Whitman's s
Leaves of Grass proved a dead
failure untl some good folks tried
to have it prohibited in the mails
on the score of indecency. Sales
have been rapid and numerous
since.
A brother of President Garfield
has lived for many years in north
ern Michigan on a small and
sterile farm. The Grand Haven
papers say that he is now building
a fine house and barn with money
given him by Mrs. Garfield.
The wearing of jewelry is going
out Of fashion in England. It is
regarded as vulgar to be seen with
display of jewels, unless it be on
great occasions. Bare arms and
throats are the rule in fashionable
society, the wearing Of bangles.
bracelets, and chains being left to
those who do not follow the newest
styles.
Gen. Chalmers wants. some ot
Jay Hubbell's sugar as well as
revenge against Senator Lamar, SC
he deliberately puts himself on re-
cord as anxious to vote for a Re-
publican Speaker of the House.
and adds that this will be ia,
more effective Cancellation than
eulogizing Sumner or pensioning
Grant.
An Indianapolis girl, forbidden
by her parents to marry the man Of
her choice, pretended to be abun.
dainty consoled by the promise Of
grand birthday party. When all
the guests were assembled on that
occasion she walked in on the arm
of her lover, who had within the
hour been made her husband by a
clergyman round the corner.
George Bennett bought dying
horse for SIS, and drove into Mays
vile, Va, at slashing pace. After
telling several persons that he had
paid 5000 for the beast, which did
not show it's condition to casual
observers, he managed to get it
killed By a locomotive. Then he
sued the company for 5000. The
scheme failed, and its protector is
in Jail.
Professional etiquette is strictly
insisted on at the Belgian bar. At
a recent session of the Appellate
Court at Brussels a young advo-
cate who was about to address the
Judges was interrupted by the pre-
siding magistrate with the remark
that it was a violation of precedent
and propriety for counsel to ap
pear before the Court with a
moustache. 4 was under the i'm
preston replied the advocate, that
my moustache was of such micro
scopic magnitude as not to be
likely to attract the attention of the
Court 1T is not a question of
quantity said the magistrate, but
one Of principle