The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-08-14
Various and All About.

A column OF canQldateS can De 1OunQ
on our first page.
Broadbrim's letter on our outside
this week is very fine.
Next Tuesday the fate Of the candi-
date will be sealed.
Vote for the best men, Is the only
and best advice we can give.
To be or not to be elected, that's the
question, fellow-citizens.
Vexations and troubles have follow
ed us all the past week.
Who will bring in the first bale Of
new cotton? We anxiously wait.
The young lawyers nine got beaten
by the town baseball club Tuesday al
ternoon.
To get in on the first race, or even
the second, is consummation derout-
ly to be wished.
A cow with young calf can find a
purchaser at this office. A good cow
wanted. It.
Attention is called to the card OF the
Anderson Military School. 1t is pop
ular and worthy institution.
There are men working in the Fac
tory who never before were employed
at manual labor. Labor is honorable.
DR.. Robertson's new store is one Of
the handsomeSt and best lighted in
the town Of Newberry.
The Postoffice and the Ncwberry
Hotel have recently been much i'm
proved in appearance by fresh coat
of paint.
The interesting communication OF
our Smokey Town correspondent,
ANDREW j." is unavoidablY left over
until next week.
Mr. w. S. Carr, the polite and atten-
tive clerk at Wright's Hotel, Colum-
bia, has our thanks for late copy OF
the Newport Mercury.
We are might afraid that some are
destined to rea-.. Il undiscovered part
Of country from whose bourne no can
didate returns.
The greatest distance ever ridden on
bicycle without dismounting is stated
to be 250 miles. This was done in
London.
We have the consoling reflection
that we are not alone in money
scarcity. Look at the report made by
the railroads. We feel much better.
Henry Thomas, q colored farmer
living in Fort Pickens and straight
out Democrat, has five acres OF corn
that will make him two hundred BUSH
els.
What a glorious thing it is to be
free Of debt. Debt is an incubus more
frightful than Crusoe's man Friday.
We do not like it, and will have none
OF it in ours.
1t is indisputable, incontrovertible,
unmistakable, and almost indigestible,
that there is no money lying around
loose. Was it ever so scarce before?
We think not.
At our mast head we have raised
the names OF our standard bearers
National, Congressional and State.
We are anxious to put up our County
ticket.
The addition Of the sweet notes Of
Mr.. John TaYlor's cornet to the Meth
odist choir makes the music much bet
ter-still we think cornet out OF
place in a church.
Maj. J. P. Kinard has packed his grip
sack and taken it with him 10 Glenn
Springs. We did not learn whether the
grip sack needed the water or not, the
major does, however.
The cool nights and mornings are
very pleasant, yet not favorable to cot
ton, which is about two weeks late.
Sultry nights push the plant. We hope
. late and favoring fall may mend the
matter.
Mr.. C. C. Habenicht, the popular
Wholesale and Retail Liquor Dealer of
Columbia, honors the HERALD AND
NEWS with card to which we call par
ticular attention. Mr.. H. is the successor
of Mr.. J. G.. Seegers. He is also large
manufacturer Of Ice. Give him your
patronage.
Italy has 4,SOO,OO0 lemon trees
which produce 1890, 100000 lemons
per annum. You can drink lemonade
and eat the fruit with sugar yet longer
- ~
short.
It is now fashionable to eat pie with
a fork. This is because the crust Of
the pastry is often so tough that it
turns the edge Of the knife and spoils
it. Take heart, everything will be
righted in good time.
Mr.. Mcknight, the lively stable
keeper has done a good thing in re-
ducing his sbus' fare to and from the
Railroads in Columbia, to ten cents.
Three cheers and a tiger for the lib
eral Mcknight! We hope his receipts
will be large.
August the 9th was the happiest day
Of the life of Mr.. Allen NJ. Lester of
Prosperity. The reason OF which was
his entering into connubial bonds with
Mrs. Rosa Kibler. II it is possible for
the couple to be any happier than they
already are, we hope that such may
be their lot.
Again "when the swallows home
ward fly" it Is more than probable
that Mrs. Susan Montgomery, now Of
Topeka, Kansas, will return to New
berry. If she returns she will meet a
hearty welcome; the people Of New
berry have an abiding love for its wan
dering children.
Our people have the opportunity Of
making great saving in market ex-
penses now that vegetables are go
abundant. Save your small change,
that is if you have any, and put it
away in stockings until you have suf-
ficlent to buy brown stone front or a
steam yacht. Or, for the sake of va
riety, pay your debts.
It is pleasant to know that old and
tried public servants ere appreciated
in so far as to be allowed to summer
x6a cot,