The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-09-06

The Hampton GuQrdiqa, one OF our
liyeliest and best exchanges has
entered upon its fifth volume, with the
brightest prospects for its future. We
congratulate its enterprising proprietor
Mr.. McSweeny.
The Rev. r. D. Smart was full Of
pleasant surprise on returning home to
find the Parsonage so handsomely i'm
proved outside and in. A beautifulset
Of bedroom furniture added to the
effect. His chief surprise was-where
did the money come from TO pay for it
all:
Since the town cistern was filled
last Monday. there has been a gradual
Disappearance of the water so much
so, that il was rcfilled Monday. 1t is
supposed that the leaking is mainly
through the bottom Of the cistern-that
part not having been completed with
cement and plaster as were the sides.
SO soon as the other cistern is finished
and filled. this one will be entirely
emptied OF water: so that its defects
can be fully aScertained and ndremedied.
On Thursday Governor Thompson
committed the sentence OF Jas. Brown.
OF Walhalla, to imprisonment in the
Penitentiary at hard labor, for life.
Brown was convicted Of arson last
June. and sentenced to be hanged IN
August. a respite was granted until
Sept. 18th. and the communication saves
his neck.
HLa:t Friday morning teiegraphic
dispatch was sent from the Newberry
Office to Edgefeld Court House, and
answered as soon as it was received.
The answer reached Newberry on the
following Monday morning! Would it
not be well for the outside world to
employ donkey cart to bear messages
to Edgefield:
There is one portion OF the services
that was Systematically attended to
during the colored canlpmeeting-that
of taking up collection. During the
Sunday services, for instance, three
collections were had-one in the morn
ing, one in the afternoon and the third
at night. The average colored brother
or sister will pay the preacher at all
hazards.
Some days ago Mr.. VIM. Scott. of
No. 4, was. surprised by an unexpected
windfall. A gentleman from Florida
called to see Mr.. Scott and offered to
buy his interest iii an eighty acre tract
of land in that State, said to have been
granted to a VIM. Scott, nearly half
century ago. As Mr.. Scott knew
about the property, and felt
satisfied that it was never owned by
his ancestors, he sold his interest for
800.
For two or three mornings onr
nostrils have been agreeably tickled
with a delicious sense or smell of the
approaching money season. We smell
it in the early morning breeze, and we
inhale it with intense satisfaction.
That it is coming there is no question
of doubt. or our nose is not reliable
nose. The first man who brings in
any of the long-waited-for-and-hard-
tO-tO-WlGuOuGd dltlCiC Sh3ii DC td!ioil1ECO.
Last Saturday night when party of
darkies were returning home from
town in a one-horse wagon with their
the mule became frightened
by the lamp near the Presbyterian
church and ran away He turned
the corner at the church and went
down the lane between the church and
Mr.. Boxers. In turning the corner
in front OF Mr.. Ryan's house, the
wagon struck his yard fence, knocking
down two panels of the fence, ,upsetting
itself and spiAing its contents in the
yard. The wal of the woman and her
numerous offspring were loud and
most doleful, Icing heard far and near
the town. a crowd soon
gathered expecting to find the dead
and the dying. The victims continued
bowling until light was brought to
assure them Iaat they were not dead
but badly frightened. No serious
damage was lone them-only some
bruised limbs and bloody noses.