The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-07-12

Various and all About.
The weather is dry as dust.
And 50 are some OF the every day
Jokes.
These are the times which try mems
souls.
For business iseAill and money ex-
ceedingly scarce.
We advise our friends to wait for the
September wagon.
Mr.. Green, mill engineer, is expect
ed to-day.
Newberry has 4 number OF young
men who can sing if they will sing.
Mrs. Jno. r. Spearman and her chill
dren are visiting at Col. Leavell'S.
McFall and Satterwhite are out on
the war path and are going for the
public.
Little watermelons runts) have
made their appearance so have not
the chills.
A few days ago ten Of Mr.. Walter
Counts's hogs were killed by eating
young cockle-bur weeds.
As a medium for Advertisers the
Ncwberry HERALD cannot be eXceiled.
1t is popular al! over the State.
DR.. Fant's back is getting up on the
delinquent question. He is gentle
when stroked, but fierce when pro-
voked.
Mr.. A. J. Marchant. St. Georges S.
c., says II used Browns Iron Bit
tiers for decrepitude. 1t has made me
strong"
Reports from various parts of the
County convince us that the cotton
crop is good, though it may be little
backward"
We are sorry that we could not at
tend the Base Ball picnic at Herbert's
Mill on last Saturday. We return
thanks for an invitation.
The Auditor thinks that the returns
for this year show that there are about
thee times as many hogs in the County
us there were last year.
DR.. w. E. Pelham is expecting Mr..
James N. Nash, graduate of Ontario
College of Pharmacy this week, who
will assist him in his Drug Store.
The lawyers of Newberry are be-
coming too numerous, OF the Bar
chairs too few, or the loungers are
multiplying alarmingly, Which?
The Meas says that every time Flynn
speaks the spill tiers fly. Pretty good.
He is certainly not afraid to talk, and
is quite eloore':U in his remarks in the
HERALD.
We are in earnest when we say that
we want five h mdred new subscribers,
and we are bound to get them. The
HERALD being one of the best papers
in the State.
The net receipts from til barbecue
at Rikard's, Amounted to Just sI00.
Strange to say, the debt to which the
money viii be applied is just one hun
dred dollars.
A peck of worms have been known
to pass from one child. Shriner's In
dian Vermifuge was the remedy used.
Only % cents 4 bottle. For sale by
DR.. S. F. FAINT.
There were several other pic-nics
and barbecue or Saturday, but, like
the boys at a school exhibition, they
are getting too numerous for each to
receive special mention.
The tank which the Council is har.
inc. dug below the Court House, will be
10 feet deep, 42 feet long and 20 feet
wide. The capacity will be about
$4,000. Thirsty '':Young Johnn'
Prof. Felix G. Godsey, representing
the Union Pub. House, Atlanta. GA,
was in town last week, and appointed
Miss Clemmie Wilson, of Newberry,
to represent the house at this place.
Premiums are in store for five hun
dred new subscribers to the Newberry
HERALD. Will these premiums be
claimed, Or will we have to bestow
them on non-subscribers. Let us see,
Some thirty Lexingtonians were in
attendance upon Court, this week as
witnesses in the case of the State
against Jacob Uimber) Epting, charg-
ed with perjury. The case was put off,
and the time of the witnesses lost.
The measles were playing havoc in
the New Chapel neighborhood last
week. At one time there were six
cases on Mr.. Boyd's place. A negro
woman died of measles, in the same
neighborhood, week before last.
Miss Fannie Settlers school picnic,
near Mr.. Felix Graham's, last Saturday,
was a pleasant affair. Addresses were
made by Geo. B. Cromer and Maj. J.
K. Nance. The people in that neigh
borhood are awake on the subject OF
education.
The senior of the HERALD failed to
attend the Press Convention, and is
now at Glenn's Spring for the recuper-
alton OF his wasted energies. There
are several Newberrians there. New
berry ought to buy out the spring and
move it down here.
Last week the tank-diggers in the
rear of the Court House, unearthed an
old rusty bayonet. Now let the arch
biologists put their heads together and
Il.
will have to 60 farther back than the
days OF militia drills.
At the teachers examination last
week there were two white applicants,
both for second grade certificates.
Many of the white teachers have first
grade certificates running for three
years. There were fifteen colored ap-
plicants; five for first grade, eight for
second grade, and two for third grade