The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-05-10
New YORK, April %, 1883.

force and feathers to-day, to see
what bargains they can secure at
the great furniture sale, which has
been the talk Of housekeepers for
weeks past. The entire contents
Of the St. James Hotel are being
disposed of under the hammer, and
if the auctioneer at all understands
his business, he'll make the i'm
mense crowds that fill the hotel in
every hall and every room pay
pretty good price for the stuff.
The next, but noiseless, sensa-
ton here just now is dynamite.
What, with the scare in England,
of which we are informed by cable
every hour, the convention in Phila-
delphia, and the number of enthu-
siastic Irishmen all around it is
impossible to go on a railway car,
an omnibus, hotel or saloon, with
out hearing somebody talk ''dyna-.
mite" One ingenious fellow has
got himself intosprint by declaring
that this Internal stuff is great
promoter of civilization, that it will
lead to the abolition Of standing
armies, and that an engineer in a
balloon filled with assfew pounds of
the nitro-glycerine will do the work
of forty thousand men, and that
this very stuff, now SO much dread
ed, will lead finally to the saving of.
human lives, instead of their de-
struction, and will lead to assault
on property only, after buildings
have been evacuated. For the pre-
sent, however, this ingenious writer,
though he has numerous readers,
only raises a smile among the mass
es, and has made but few con-
verts.
Another controversy has arisen
in the public press, consequent up
on the numerous divorce cases
among actors, to which / called at
tention last week. A correspon-
dent protests, in a leading journal,
against more prominence being CIV
en- those of professional than other
people. He says the newspapers
are to blame for parading these
foul documents that are handed in
as evidence during such trials, and
the newspapers reply that the com.
munity wants to hear all about the
domestic doings of such characters,
and constantly cries for more, more.
Now the truth is the correspondent
is right and the New York news
papers are wrong. 1t is the latter
that most shamefully pander to
this morbid taste, which goes no
further than the silly girls, a large
number of whom are unfortunately
stage struck, and will write love
letters and send bouquets to an ac-
tor whose playing has enchanted
them.
BY the bye a good story is told
of Edwin Booth, while he was act
ing in Germany few weeks ago.
1t appears that in Hamburg he SO
enraptured the audience that, at the
close of the performance, several
gentlemen, in accordance with the
custom Of that country, fell around
his neck and kissed him on both
cheeks. Mr.. Booth got tired Of the
manly kisses and exclaimed. '|If
kissing is the correct thing for ap-
plause, then let the ladies come
forward
The first gathering of a coming
storm between New York and
Brooklyn, in regard to the big
bridge to be opened next week, al.
ready appears on the horizon.
Brooklyn trustees want to make
the bridge free to ali foot passen'
gers; New Workers say must charge
toll. and now for the first time
Brooklyn shows the cloven foot by
insisting upon making it free, and
plainly indicates that after all the
great structure is built to help
Brooklyn at the expense of New
York. If it be made a highway sc
that the mechanic and workingmar
can go across free Of expense, thu
cheap homes of Brooklyn will be
come in great demand, real estate
there will advance enormously, ant
that of New York will suffer
Granted that the toll will be only
! one cent, thousands upon thou
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