The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-08-21

PEN AND SCISSORS.

1 4s~N <A4ND S0NASSO1ISs
10000 people attended the Methodist camp
meeting at Sing Sing, N. Y, on Sunday.
1t is said that there are only FIVE genuine sig.
natures Of Shakespeare In existence.
The Srltar of Morocco has caused the pnaasa.
ere Of whole tribe in Augora because they
asked for French protection.
I The Boston Democrats are confident. bet
has been made in that city that Cleveland viii
there get two votes to Blaine's one.
cost from sa5 0O0, ,60O 10 ss5 oOO, ,OCo. The reser
roir will supply 4OO,OoO,oco gallons daily.
Blaine got his degree OIL. L D. from Bow.
10 known as the author of the Mulli1an letters.
1t is best TO feed young stock frequently, In.
stead Of 100 much at = single meal as they often
selves, which Is injurious.
hog over BY bucking him with his head. He not
only lost the bet but injured himself severely In
inc attempt. So much for Buckingham.
Mrs. Darlington Is three-score years and ten
10 age: The seyentieth birthday of Benjamin
T. Shillaber (mr. Partington) was recently cd
propriately observed at his residence in Chelsea,
Mass.
There are I'D Republican lawyers among the
boston independents who repudiate Blaine
Not = Democratic lawyer can be found in that
city who refuses to support Cleveland.
A Mississippi man, whose time hung heavy
| on his hands, counted the number Of grains In q
| busheI. He found 72l3) Of corn. $4,000 OF
wheat, 10000 OF peas, l64, ,466 Of cotton seed.
A lady in Barnwell County has never lost
ioEl rom cholera. She keeps q small bag OF
| lime in the water through all the year round,
and attributes theif healthfulnesa TO this cause.
The Republican ticket 10 made up ofa jobber
ana "siangwhanger;" the Democratic OF an
e1eeutiye reforner and great national states
! man. Honest patriots will have no difficulty
In making choice.
Dill Arp says "Morcy Is a right good thing
and no sensible man VIII turn up his nose at
! It. Money brings comfort and leisure, and
Solomon says, in leisure there 10 wisdom"
And we agree with Bill on the subject.
1t is now believed that drummers were com
mon In the world several Thousand wears ago.
The jaW-bone, over two feet long. Of prehis.
toric man, has recently been discovered. What
chesk the fellow must have had.
A man in New York was fined $500 Friday
for ATTEMPTING to kiss 4 pretty girl. Pretty
girls must be ut premium in Gotham.
1t is stated that Of $1,000 post-masters OF the
IHlGtO otAIeS LneTe are Z,UUU whose gaIGrle5 are
| below $40. thirty-four whose salaries did not
last year amount to the sum Of 81 each, fifteen
whose salaries were less than fifty cents, and
one-H. II. Forest. Redallia, Pitts County, n.
| C.-whose earnings TOR the lyear were nine
cents.
A despatch from Brighton, England,
gives the intelligence OF the death Of
the Duke OF Wellington. He dropped
dead while entering the train for Lon
don, of heart disease it is said.
One Of the most terrific thunder
storms ever known, swept over the
North OF England and Scotland on
the 18th. Many buildings were de-
stroyed by lightning, and several per-
sons were killed, among them the Earl
Of Lauderdale.
The Democratic Convention, we
learn, elected the warmest need of
praise from the Chicagoans, its MEM
berS being uniformly decorous and
we'll behaved, in contra-distinction to
to that OF the Republican convention,
which is said to have been unruly.
A feature during the Convention
was an immense German pic mic, the
procession OF which was two miles
long. This was on Sunday, and the
estimate OF the lager drank during the
march it is impossible Cor US to set
down in figures. A gun ship no doubt
might have floated on it.
Two brave Boston firemen were
burnt to crisp, while in the perform
ance Of their duty, at fire in that city
August 18th. They had carried hose
to the top Of the burning building,
when the roof fell through and they
were precipitated below and perished
in the flame.
Another radical has been gathered
| to his fathers. Robert B. Elliott, who
darkened the atmosphere in the halls
OF Congress in the days which tried
our souls, died in New Orleans on the
10th inst. Latterly he was getting a
scanty living as lawyer in the police
| courts.
The Greenville District Conference
convened at Walhalla on the Sth inst.
T. P. Herbert, presided. There are
sixty-seyen churches and ten parson-
ages in the district. The Rev. Jas. n.
Carlisle made All impressive discourse
on the Centenary Of Organized Ameri-
can Methodism. The Revs. Drs. o. A.
Darby and Samuel Lander addressed
the conference, and centenary COL
lection Of 1920 was taken ND for the
Columbia and Williamson Colleges.
A universal newspaper exchange has
| been opened in connection With the
Worlds Fair. Hundreds Of newspapers
are received daily from all parts of the
world and placed on file where all per
sons are cordially invited to inspect
them. The press has performed q
generous and kindly service to the
Southern people by keeping the public
mind impressed with the Importance
and magnitude of the great Exposi-
ton.
Womans' work will loom up at the
Worlds Fair next winter. Every.
thing that wonan's nimble fingers
can make will be made in the best
possible say and exhibited. Drawing,
pictorial painting, sculpture, carving,
needlework, plain and ornamental,
band every article of use or luxury,
and possible for the hand of wnman to
create will be reproduced in hundreds
Of beautiful or convenient forms. The
Southern ladies have been Industrious
workers in this enterprise aud they
mean to see how grand they can make
1t.
It has come out that the Arctic
heroes, 1t. Greely and others, did ac-
tually eat the flesh OF their dead COM
panions in order to sustain life. The
thought Is too horrible to contemplate,
and yet the act was justifable, and
pardonable under the circumstances.
The pity Is that it has been revealed
to the public-every man of the relief
party should have been sworn to a
lifelong secrecy, and too the caskets
should never have been opened, to
show the ghastly secret contained in
side. We imagine that these men forced
to cannibalism can hardly recover from
the horrible odium Of the act, It Is no
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