The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-05-01

Ilc NON SI uOl VI -NSh AOAN H'tS
signed a bill prohibiting the man.
ufacture and sale of oleomargarine.
Good.
Can a mule driver be Chris
tian' is now asked. He might, but
it would evidently destroy his use
fulness as q mule driver.
The commission to revise and
simplify the tax laws Of the State,
composed of Messrs. r. ". Shand.
Of Richland, T. Q. Donaldson, Of
Greenyille, and L. W. Bacot, Of
Charleston, met in this city yester-
day to consult relative to their
work.-YeOm0n.
One of the sublimest things in
the world is plain truth.
And the stock of sublime things
in this line is getting very low.
Representative Tillman is OPP
posed to the Blair Educational Bill.
He would prefer to have any sur
plus in the Treasury divided among
the States and let them do as they
please with it,
Work on the pedestal for the
Bartholti Statue of Liberty is pro
crossing rapidly. In less than
thirty days the pedestal will be
completed, and then the masons
will begin laying stone for the col
umn. By October 1st the pedestal
will be ready to receive the statue.
Eight large iron rods will run down
through the column to prevent the
figure from being blown from the
stand. Funds are coming in at the
rate of about $4,000 week, and
there is now about $4,000 on hand.
Leap year gives the young ladies
a gentleman's privilege in making
love. Yes perhaps it does. But
no respectable young man will have
anything to do with a young lady
who takes q position on street
corner and squirts tobacco on their
coat tails. Nor would it look well
for dozen or more young ladies to
loaf around in front Of church for
an hour and a half on Sunday
nights, sparring and knocking one
another's hats off and dancing on
the sidewalk, in order to kill time
until the congregation is dismissed,
and then buckle up to young man
and escort him homc.-OcGla (Fla)
Banner.
1t is quite possible that ''Chinese"
Gordon is a crank. His religious
convictions are peculiar. He be-
lieves that this life is only one of a
series of lives which our incarnate
part has lived. He has little doubt
of our having pre-existed. In the
present life he believes that every
thing was settled from the very be-
ginning by the Almighty. The
doctrine Of eternal damnation
arouses General Gordon's intense
| indignation. He believes that
everybody will be saved, not on ac-
count of their worthiness. but be-
cause of the infinite goodness of
God. The creed of this strange
man is said to resemble that Of
Cromwell. but it is greatly tempered
by the humanitarianism and cathol-
lefty Of the age.
A gentleman of Baltimore who
recently spent some weeks at Chan
cellorsville. while wandering over
the battlefield where the battle OF
the Wilderness was fought. found
q ghastly relic of that terrible event
in the shape of the skeleton of q
Confederate soldier. The man had
evidently been wounded and crawled
into q thickct out of sight, and there
died. The clothing and accoutre-
ments had all yielded to the touch
of time, but the ghastly skeleton
and the belt plate bearing the let
ters &c. S. A told the story. There
was also the remains Of Catholic
Bible, but so much defaccd by its
| twenty years exposure to the storms
and sun that no name or line could
be found to identify the dead war
rior. The bleached bones were ten
dcrly buried, and the mystery will
remain unsolved until that great
day when wars shall cease and all
mysteries shall be laid bare.
A resurrection Of the dead, or
something like it, took place a few
DAYS ago, on the O'IIanlon place, in
lower Richland County. Glenn
Davis, q colored man, to all ap-
pearauc6s died suddenly. He was
prepared for burial, but had not
been pat in q coffin. The colored
people were sitting up with the
supposed corpse on the night pre-
ceding the day appointed for the
funeral. and while they were sing
ing and praying, to their astonish-
ment the supposed corpse rose from
the bed and sat up in the bed. The
men and women fed from the house
in terror, and it was some time be.
fore any of them could be induced
to return. The co!ored man re-
NAMED in a comatose condition for
over twenty-four hours, and the
people Of his race in that nelghbor-
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