The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-05-04
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on Friday. Sixty passengers. Six
robbers. Twelve six shooters. 81 300
secured. No resistance
A boy of FIVE months is astonish-
ing the people of Madison, Ohio,
by walking and talking as well as
most children of as many years.
The New Orleans Times Demo-
crat estimates the loss of property
| md the losses, direct and indirect,
consequent upon the present food,
ut nearly s5O,0O0,000.
A. T. Stewart & Co. announce
that thet they have determined to
discontinue their dry goods and
manufacturing business and offer
their stocks of merchandise and
mill properties for sale.
Two large steamships are on
their way from Hong Kong to
British Columbia, loaded with Chi
nese immigrants. The latter are the
vanguard af about four thousand
more who are looked for later in
the season.
We hear, says the Lexington
Dispatch, that many farmers in the
Fork, who were opposed to the
Stock Law now say, since they have
completed their pasture fences,
that they think it will prove ben
e6cial law.
| Three sisters at Philadelphia
died within twenty..minutes of each
other of natural causes, in the same
house, at Philadelphia, on Sunday.
| The event is said to be unprece-
| dented. Neither of the three was
sick two hours.
So far as Nh. Longfellow had
any distinct religious creed he was,
like his brother, Samuel Longfel-
low, liberal Unitarian. He was
not a church.goer, but his family
have usually attended the College
Chapel at Cambridge.
A Western man feared be was
| going to have the smallpox, and
believing whiskey to be preVen'
tive, he drank nearly three quarts
of it. He escaped the smallpox,
and is not likely to drink any more
whiskey in this world.
Although Samuel D. Evans OF
HaTerhill, Mass, was 70 years old
and had buried two wives, he put
himself into such sentimental rela-
tions with Nora Hurd, aged 40, that
she has obtained a verdict of 81, 1000
in 6 breach Of promise suit.
General Newton will give He'll
Gate another hoist this Summer,
using dynamite enough to crumble
eleven acres Of the obstructing
rocks. It has cost six years OF
labor and S2,6l6,000 to get thus
far into the work, and four years
more will be necessary to complete
it.
George Scoville, the Chicago
lawyer who defended Guiteau, now
speaks of that person as an IN
grateful brute and the champion
liar, supplementing the observa-
ton with: ALSO the meanest man
I ever knew Mrs. Scoville does
not share her husbands opinion of
her brother.
The millionaire of to-day be-
comes a bankrupt tomorrow. This
is strikingly illustrated in the case
of Gov. Littlefeld, of Rhode Island.
When Sprague was Governor Of
that State, Little6eld was a COM
mon workman in a cotton mill.
The turns of fortunes wheel have
made Littlefeld a Governor while
Sprague is q bankrupt.
a committee upon the medical
education Of women at Harvard
College has presented report, up
on which it was voted, 13 to II, that
in the opinion of the board it was
not advisable for the university to
give any assurance or hold out any
encouragement that it will under
take the medical education of wo
men by Harvard College in its med
ical school.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has, with the approval of the Sec-
retary, decided to issue five dollar
national bank notes upon a new
plate, the principal feature of
which will be the engraved head of
the late President Garfield, with
new charter numbers in various