The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-09-28
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A Sumter County, Alabama,
planter has a cow with two tails.
The Tredegar Iron Works at
Richmond, Va, employ 1900 hands.
A firm in Eufaula, Ala, shipped
$4,000 pounds of rags the other
day.
St. Augustine, Fla, is manufac
turing and shipping large quaint
ties of orange wine.
LIE Petit Journal of Paris has a
daily circulation of 560,O00-the
largest in the world.
George W. Swepson, with a
property worth s2,OOO,0OO, is the
richest man in North Carolina.
Professor McBryde was elected
Chairman of the Faculty Of the
South Carolina University and will
act a. President until permanent
one can be elected.
The New York Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children
has disappointed the hopes Of two
hundred mothers by preventing a
baby show at Bunnells Museum.
Gov. Foster,in arecent letter,says
that the admitted profit on liquor
sales in Ohio is fully so per cent.
No wonder a brewer laughs at cot
ton mills and Government bonds.
4 soldier at Carondelet, Mo-,
kicked horse to death. A Police
Justice fined him ST. but court
martial took more serious view Of
his crime, and sent him to prison
for six years.
It is stated that ex Senator John
| j. Patterson, of South Carolina, has
| recently madea sale of railroad in
terests in Kansas by which he re-
allied profit Of a quarter OF a
| million of dollars.
Over 100 women are on trial in
| Hungary for poisoning their hus
bands. The guilt of thirty-fve has
been proved. The state OF society
| in which such atrocious crimes are
| so common must be frightfnl.
There are some comfortably-of
colored men at Washington. Worm
ly is worth 100000, Bruce $4,000
and Fred Douglass S150,O00. It
is safe to say that these negroes did
not put any money in the Freed
| mans Bank.
On his big Dakota farm ez-Presi'
| dent Hayes has, it is said, this year
265 acres Of wheat, 275 acres of
| oats, and 10 acres of miscellaneous
crops. From the present outlook
| be will harvest not far from 10000
bushels of grain.
Rev. W. NJ. Grier, D. D., and
General Stephen D. Lee, are spoken
of in connection with the Presiden.
cy of the South Carolina Universi-
ty. There will be no election until
the regular meeting of the Board Of
Trustees in December.
A female lawyer of Milwaukee
would not cease repeating ques-
tions which the Judge had ruled
out, and was threatened with i'm
prisonment for contempt. Then
she went out of the room in tears,
and refused to reappear in the trial.
Mr.. Aycock, a farmer living near
Wedge6eld in Sumter County, has
field Of 900 acres planted in cot
ton, from which he expects to
gather 1000 bales of cotton. He
has other fields aggregating 500
acres in cotton and nearly a thou
sand acres in corn.
Mr.. Smith, a Scotch laird, has be-
queathed the whole Of his property,
about S500,00O, to his servants, a
shepherd receiving the bulk. This
fortunate legatee has agreed to
pay $4,000 to the heir at law and
other relatives, who would other
wise attempt to break the will.
Guiteau's skeleton is now at the
National Army Medical Museum,
but will not be exhibited to the
public. The final disposition of the
bones Of the assassin has not yet
been determined upon, and cannot
be until Judge Hagner decides as
to the validity of Guiteau's will, in
which he bequeathed the body to
DR.. Hicks.
According to the naval system
there are 10000 men in that branch
of the service. There are enough
officers to command q navy Of the
fret neonitr16a Thero are 10