The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-04-27
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Elections will be held in twenty
three States during the present
year.
The New York Herald, Tribune
and Times praise the Presidents
veto message.
Jumbo, the largest elephant in
the world, brought from the Lon
don Geological Gardens, arrived at
New York on Sunday.
The sale of it's old buildings to
the government will give the
Freedman's bank depositors a final
dividend Of 20 per cent.
The anti-liquor men have l2O OF
24O members of the Massachusetts
Legislature and are making mat
ters warm for the Republicans.
The manufacture Of oleomargarlne
in st. Louis has been Investigated
By the Board of Health, and proof
was obtained of the use Of fat from
horses and dogs. =
Representative Thomas Allen OF
Missouri, who has been i'll at the
arlington Hotel, Washington, for
several weeks, died at 3 o'clock
Saturday morning.
Wm. Walton of Kentucky has
decided to visit the capital OF every
nation on the globe, bearing
United States flag, and earning a
days wages in each Of those cities.
The smallpox has taken fresh
start in the vicinity of New York.
There were many cases among the
lunatics on Wards Island and in
the nursery. In the. city the dis
ease is steadily decreasing.
The wife of the Chinese minister
will remain at Washington while
| he goes to Spain to present his
credentials. She is said to be
very beautiful, but is seldom seen
| except when she takes a drive.
A Georgia planter hires negroes
who play the banjo. He says that
negro riding the plough while
playing and smoking will do more
work with two mules than three
men who do not play but who have
three mules.
It is proposed to erect in the
| central hall of the new Cotton Ex.
change in New Orleans statue OF
Eli Whitney, inventor OF the cotton
gin, mounted on a pedestal OF
| granite from Massachusetts, Whit
ney's native State.
| The immense proportions OF the
ocean passenger traffic last year is
shown in the report OF tie landing
agent at Castle Garden, from which
it is learned that the number Of
cabin passengers landed at the port
| of New York last year was 492, ,293,
of which 1929 were cabin passen-
| gers and All, ,064 immigrants.
The Vicksburg Herald thinks the
| Southern people should 60 into the
culture..of silk. The climate is ex-
| actly what is desired, and the null
berry and Usage orange trees, the
leaves of which are the best food
for the silk worm, grow spontan-
eously in many sections, and can
be grown anywhere in the South.
OF the FIVE Bishops Of the South
ern Methodist Church, Bishop
Paine is not expected to do much
more active service. Bishop Pierce
feels the weight of years. Bishop
Kavanaugh is over four-score, and
Bishop Keener, though not old in
years, has not robust health. Bish-
op McTyeire is strong and active.
The decision of Judge Nelson, of
Brooklyn, as to the right of ad-
mission of colored pupil to. a
white school, sustained the board
of education and the teacher who
had rejected the applicant. The
judge puts his decision on the
ground that there is not discrim-
ination against the colored pupil,
but in her favor.
Half the silver half-dollars cir
culated in Montana are alleged 70
be counterfeits made by the Chi
nese in San Francisco. They are
described as of exactly the weight
of the genuine ones and one thirty
second part Of an inch larger in
diameter. They contain only six
teen cents worth of silver, which is
all on the surface.
A Vermont matchmaker has en-
riched the world with a clock
which acts out the assassination Of
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