The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-04-06
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Governor.
Mr.. Tilden is building resi-
dence to cost half a million. Does
that look like dying?
Several well known ladies of
Boston have signed a memorial
against female suffrage.
Out of the half million ilnml-
grants that landed in this country
last year, the south received only
$4,000.
The Auditor of the city Of New
ark has been sent to the penlten-
tiary for twenty years for his recent
forgeries.
The Third avenue car stables IN
New York have added to their
hospital for sick horses all the con-
yeniences for giving the invallds
Russian, Turkish and electric baths.
A Chicago petition for the par
don of Sergt. Mason contains l2O,-
900 names and is 2,400 feet in
length. The sympathies of the
country are undoubtedly with Ma
son.
Probably the largest COW in the
world is owned by Martin S.
Stakes of GRANVILLE, White county,
III. She is seven years old and
weighs 5000 pounds, l73 hands
high.
Seventy-four citizens of Sumter,
Barnwell and Richland counties
will be tried at the approaching
term of the y. S. Court in Charles,
ton for alleged offences against the
election laws.
Reports from the inundated por
,ions of the Mississippi valley IN
dicate an unparalleled degree Of
privation and suffering among the
victims of the disaster. Over So
900 people have been reduced to
actual want.
Finley McKenny, supposed to
be very poor, was dying at Nor
gantown, KY. With his last breath
he told his wife to break an old jug
that had long stood in the CRIME OF
the smokehouse. She did so, and
$1,000 in gold and silver rolled
out.
A New Orleans octoroon girl
named Lydia Montrose is to be put
forward conspicuously as tragic
actress. She is described as super
latively beautiful, with deep, mu,
sical voice. She learns readily, and
is being carefully drilled for a tour
next season.
The State now has TIA convicts.
Of this number 4l3 are in the
service of railroad and phosphate
companies, and 36l are within the
Penitentiary walls, of whom 100
are employed in the Dibert shoe
factory. This leaves 26l at the
disposal of the directors.
Leila J. Robinson, Bostons wo-
man lawyer, is said to have &C
quired a fair Office practice, but is
denied the right TO argue cases ct
the bar. In order to let her voice be
heard in public, she has delivered a
lecture before a large audience.
She maintained her cause in a
manner that made the newspapers
praise her.
Tourists are clamorously beset
by hotel runners at Jacksonville,
Fla. A consumpti7e traveller, be-
ing surrounded by an unusually
turbulent throng of these people on
his arrival drew O revolver and
drove the crowd out of the railroad
station. He was then allowed to
20 undisturbed to the hotel of his
own selection.
A man in Wisconsin barroom re.
marked that he was glad thatGuiteau
murdered Garfield. The biggest Of
the listeners undertook to knock
him down, but got most thorough
ly whipped instead. 1t turned out
that the utterer of the unpopular
sentiment was bruiser spelling
for fight, and took that way Of
bringing one on.
The Astors pay taxes in New
York on Sll,5 100000 worth of
property; ". H. Vanderbilt on
S3,25O,0OO; A. T. Stewards widow
on S5,250,O00; Amos r. Emo, S.
100000; J. G. Bennett, Sl,2OO,OOO,
and so on. The bulk of their
wealth, however, consists of &C.
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