The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-06-05
PEN AND SCISSORS.

PEN AND SCISSORS.
Charleston had 100000 fire
last week.
Russia has $50 female physicians
in practice.
Hincley the paying teller of the
Savings Bank of New York, made
defalcation of 100000 on May
oath.
A little child of Mr.. S. B. Rod
gers of Marion, S. G. was killed by
a dose Of laudanum, which the
nurse gave it to keep it quiet.
A little negro boy in Laurens
Co., was so badly bitten by sow
last week that he died from his in
juries.
S. W. Hunley, Editor of the
Wadesboro htelligencer, has gotten
up a history of the Cashes of South
Carolina, and will soon have it
before the public.
A Kentucky girl treated a gray
haired tramp kindly and he left her
snug fortune. Some tramp, dis
guised as a gentleman, will now
probably want to marry her.-Er.
1t is said, when Redmond left the
Penitentiary he received check
for 800, and a contribution from
several ladies of Columbia, amount
ing to so in silver, a trunk Of
clothing and other gifts.
Mr.. T. J. Pometree, agent of the
Port Royal & Augusta Railroad at
Robrus, S. G.. was fired at while in
bed last Thursday morning about
? o'clock. They mistook his feet
for his head, and did no damage.
The Piedmont Institute of Pick
ems has postponed its commence
ment, until next fall when the
school opens, on account of the
measles, which have broken out in
that town.
A fatal disease resembling British
or summer cholera, which in short
space of time destroys its victims,
prevails in Abbeville Co., to an
alarming extent in some places, es-
pecially among the darkeys.
Last week q colored man and
woman of Chester Co., were struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
Three others that were in the same
house were so badly shocked, that
they were insensible for an hour.
N. F. Dorun, one ofthe keepers of
the Eastern Penitentiary, at Phila.
delphia, was killed Saturday after
noon by being struck with an iron bar
by one OF the inmates. The keepers
skull was crushed and he soon
died.
A man named Borden was killed
by q fellow named Linebeck, near
Plum Tree. Mitchell County, n. c..
in dispute as to the ownership Of
a mica mine. 1t was near the place
where the murder of Kay and An
derson about a mica mine occurred
lst Febru ary.
Malcomb Calder, aged about thir-
ty-two years, died a few weeks ago
from eating too much -four. It is
said that he had not eaten any
-four for some length Of time. When |
he purchased ten pounds, and had
them made into large biscuits,
he devoured seventeen, which con-
sumed about all Of the flour.-Er.
Last Friday afternoon two boil
ers in mill belonging to Messrs.
Wood & Thayer, Of Detroit, ex-
ploded, demolishing the building,
instantly killing three men, and
wounding four others. 1t is said
that the wife of one of the men
killed, crazed by the sudden death
of her husband committed suicide,
by cutting her throat, Saturday
night.
Cyrus II. Mccormick, the inven-
tor Of the reaping,machine, died
last week at Chicago. His great
invention revolutionized agricult-
ure all over the civilized world and.
as is not often the case, enriched
the inventor. He was q Virginian
by birth, Of Irish descent on both
sides of the family. Being Prot
estant Irishman, the inspired idiots
who deduce race from religion call
him ,'Scotch.Irish" in their obituary