The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-01-24
NEWS ITEMS.

Savannah has 512 liquor dealers,
and Savannah folks are not happy.
Florida Strawberries sell in New
York noB'for $500 per quart.
The Saluda River was frozen en-
tirely over during the late severe
weather.
..Rockinsaw' is the negroes prom
ised land.
Young Mutt, who shot Dukes, is
to plead emotional insanity.
Chicago on the 30th December
had 100000 fire.
Corn sold at late sale in Barn
well Co., from 6S to 73 cents per
bushel.
The number of students in the S.
G. College is one hundred and
ninety one.
In the present Congress there are
% Confederates, and s. Federal
Soldiers.
Who is Col. 81. Jownes Robert
SON. of Abbeville, who proposes to
enter the congressional race.
The new comet may now be seen
by the naked eye after sunset, near
the Star Vega.
All importations of hog meats
into France will be absolutely pro-
hibited after January goth, 1884.
A New York Lawyer shot himself
last week. No doubt he was con-
scientious fellow.
Greenwood is in trouble about
their Post-ofice. A good man is
about to be removed and a drunken
negro put in his place.
Congressman Reid of Maine
weighs over 800 pounds. No one
can doubt but that he has weight
in that body.
Col. j. Gadsden King Of Atlanta,
Ga. originally Of Charleston, S. G..
was in our city last week, looking
after insurance matters.
The cellars under the new city
hall of Philadelphia are the largest
in America, their area being four
and one half acres.
The New York World has tabu-
lated the .sStealings for 1888" and
finds the amount to be $30,3S0,00,
with Banks a little a head, State
Treasures coming in last.
A Pennsylvania man froze to the
nozzle of a hydrant the other day.
If any thing should freeze to some
of our peoples mouths, they would
hardly call it hydrant.
A Census of Southern Editors
| shows two Captains, seventeen
Mayors, seven Generals and 1926
| Colonies. No priyates and none
below the rank Of Captain.
The Chinese pay annually $154,,
$4,000 to quiet the spirits of their
| ancestors.-ButA Americans pay three
times that amount every year fol-
spirits, and the moro they get the
"worse quiet they are.
On Christmas Eve and about II
| o'clock p. H., Gen. Grant had q
severe fall on the sidewalk in New
York. If it had been an Irishman,
the cause would at once be sus
pected.
A Company has been formed in
Greenville to Manufacture Ice,
They expect to make ten tons OF
ice daily. They will keep cool
next Summer, but they will take il
| with mint, long straw and
something else.
The Chicago Times says: Hardly
greater evil can befall a member
of the human family than having
more money than he knows what to
do with. Well, that is one evil
from the effects of which this por-
ton Of the country is not likely to
suffer soon.
Tie fine steamer City Of Colum'
bus, plying between Boston and
Savannah, was wrecked on Friday
last while on her way to the latter
city. The loss of life is dreadful,
out Of q passenger list Of so cabin
and p steerage, one third of whom
were ladies and children, and 45
crew, one hundred and nineteen
were lost. Horrible to contemplate.
A wagon load Of butter that had
travelled from Allegany Co. n. G..
to Newberry, Columbia and Cam
den, in this State without finding a
purchaser, was sold at auction in
Charlotte the other day at from 81
to 8 cents pound. 1t is probable
it was nearly strong enough to
stand alone when it was sold. We
know it was pretty stout.
We are informed that the engi-
neer on the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad, discovered a three year
old child tied to the track of the
Railroad below Mccormick last
Thursday while on his downward
trip. By the greatest effort the
train was stopped just in time to
prevent the crushing of the child
into a shapeless mass. The child
was taken on board the train and
carried to Augusta, but it was too
young to give any information as to
its name or its parentage.
A colored citizen who had been
to school vas ,readino tba Ee7rs mad