The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-03-01
New YORK, Feb. 16. 1883.

New YORK, Feb. 16. 1883.
If Wiggins hadn't been SO des.
perately previous in explaining
that his storm came on time, but by
slight error in calculation had
dropped into the Pacific Ocean, he
might have save his credit as a
prophet. For by all odds the mas
tiest storm we have mad Tor years
has deluged the land. Chopping
down our forests is getting to be
quite too expensive a proceeding
for our people at large to put up
with, however it may suit certain
selfish persons. To say nothing OF
the direct loss Of such disasters as
have engulphed Cincinnati, Louis.
vile and other important seats of
industry, the delay in mail, in ship
ping goods has cost the country
many millions of dollars. Right
here, the storekeeper who pays
$4,000 year for rent and looks
at the rushing torrents which bar
the way to his customers, while
salaries, rent, gas bills, &C., go on
all the same, feels blue, and tais
is quite a large village, full of
busy men who all feel the same. A
week of such weather is as bad as
a fire. Our friends at Cincinnati
seem to have found it worse.
Perhaps our Street Commissioner
has an interest in numerous cloth.
ing establishments. It is difficult
to understand why on any other
hypothesis, such an excellent chance
for cleaning the streets as was pre-.
sented by the thaw and down pour
was neglected. The snow was soft
and very little labor would have
assisted Nature to excavate the long
forgot ten pavements. There is the
less excuse as the Commissioner
has shown that he can clean the
streets when he wants to, and what
he has done not once but often he
ought to be made to do again. There
was some excuse for some of the
rascais who preceded him, as, con
sidering they never cleaned the
streets, a charitable view might be
taken and they might be supposed
not to know how.
A Hebrew hero has been devel
oped in q mild merchant who EN-
ploys a number Of girls in the man
ufacture of gimp and other MILL
merry fxings. His place caught
fire, when, like a general or the
captain of a sinking ship, he guided
his bewildered help to the means
for escape and judiciously hurried
them without excitement or furry
from the danger. He had just
passed the last one safely out when
the supports of the fire escape gave
way and he was cut off. Through
the volumes of smoke and fame he
managed to get to a awindow and
then was scorched till he had tc
Chamber out and hang on to the
sill. Every moment was an houl
| and an extension ladder became
enmeshed in the netmork Of tele
graph wires which disfgure the city
and the moments were prolonged
to minutes. Every ear was listen
ing for the sickening crash on the
| sidewalk of the exhausted man nov
hanging for dear life by his hands
FIVE stories above them. Finally .
fireman got the ladder clear afte,
some desperate acrobatic work ant
got the man down. They both re
ceived an ovation and if tina
comparatively poor manufacture
doesn't become rich pretty soon
will be remarkable.
Fitz Hugh Lee and his chiyalr,
have gone. The old raider got Of
one very capital thing in the cours
Of one of his numerous brief, jolly
soldierly and sociable speeches
He remarked that this was grea
country, bounded on the north b.
ice and on the south by bananas
and any one who tried to slip il
against our will would be apt t
slip up. / fancy these sentiment
will be very generally endorsed.