The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1885-02-26
Various and ALI About.
Spellbound-b-o-u-u-d.

Wednesday last, 18th inst, and will las
just forty days.
1t is in vain for man to be born for
tunate, il he be unfortunate in his mar
riage.
King Street, Charleston, is to b.
adorned with another Bar-room. The
attractions daily increase.
Flowers are the sweetest things tina
God ever made and forgot to put sou
into.
Negro Tenantry-Southern Ruin,
from the Cultivator & Dixie Farmer, vii
be published in our next issue.
There is said to he not single youns
man within the corporate limits OF Ogle
thorpe, Ca, who chews tobacco.
The story # George W.'slittle hatchet
could now be told the children with
thrilling interest.
A negro child, in Ebert County, be.
came enraged because its mother in.
sisted on washing its lace and held its
breath ratil it died. ......
e Interesting information can be OBJ
tained. by hooking at the dates opposite
your names on the HERALD. Examine
them.
The Ocala, Fla, Item says that DR.. J.
u. Mcintosh retained from Hernando,
Thursday last, who ne had been on buSi-
aess.
Lat Friday, says the Marion Star,
was a dull! day with tue merchants. We
heard one say he took in 25 cents, an
other. 1926, and another $3.50 cash.
Saturday was almost as bad.
Mrs. Cameron, the mother of the cor
respondent recently slaiH i" battle, has
been given life pension by the London
Standard, in the employ Of which jour
nal young Cameron was.
In dry goods fight at Chambersburg,
Pa. one firm put the price Of calico
down to onc-quartcr Of cent per yard,
>where-upon the rival concern offered
calico at onc-eighth of 4 cent. or eight
yards for cent.
Life is made up. not Of great sacrifices
or duties, but little things OF which
smiles and kindness and small obliea-
tions given habitually, are what win
and preserve the heart and secure the
comfort.
Surely those Of our citizens who have
visited the New Orleans Exposition
must have been disappointed in the
trip, else they would have given their
friends through the HERALD an account
OF it. Not too late yet.
Do youwant a bargain in steel pens?
Do you? Well, come right along to the
HERALD Book Store, and you can get it
and no mistake whatever. A whole
gross, one hundred and forty-four steel
pens for only 50 cents.
The latest on dit IS the rumored mar
riage Of Gen. Tom Thumbs widow to
'Count Rosebud" one Of the magic
brothers. The wedding viii be Of pr;-
vate character at the willows home. af-
ter which they 80 on bridal tour Of six
months through Europe. -.
Khartoum is the chief city as we'll as
the Capital of theSoudan country claimed
by Egypt. It is located on the pennin-
sula formed by the junction Of the Blue
and the White Nile. This is where Cor
don fell. And we advise citizens think
ing Of emigrating not to 60 there, they
may also fall. ..... g..
IN population spartanburg County,
says the Herald, stands fifth ia the State,
but in wealth second only to Charleston,
and in eduestion, number OF schools,
average attendance, it stands first.
These facts speak much FOR the intelli.
gence. thrift and enterprise O; the peo-
pie o; this county.
Notwithstanding the asct that kissing
Is pronounced by the medical fraternity
as injurious to health, there are rash
boys and girls who osculate every op.
portunity afforded them. We have time
and again given advice to the young
people on various subjects, and now we
say kiss not unless under particular cir
cumstaneea, ~.
Five huadred dollars for pair Of shoes
seems q high price,, but it has been paiG
by one Of the society bellies Of New York
They were Of white satin, and were EN-
broidered with pearls 49,. .-~~~-- .
I'VE are almost deferred from inserting
the above, lest some Of our lady reader:
order shoes Of the same quality and price.
- Srolenski, OF Erie. Pa, the POE whose
wife was murdered few days ago, last
night married her sister. A banquet
was spread upon the table upon which
two weeks ago was stretched the corpse
Of his wife. Stolenski's son, who killed
the woman and escaped hanging by s
technical flaw in the indictment, wal
present and danced with his mother-in
law.
cat the rink q young maiden named
- Kate,
Was quite rapidly learning to skate;
When becoming too rash,
She went down with crash,
And the ''dull thud" was heard in the
next State"
Now this lamentable accident did no
happen in Newberrl for the reason tha
We have no rink. Our young meI
should revive it.
The total number Of banking !nstitu
tions that failed in 1884 is l21, eleven o
which were national banks, ~ stat,
banks and77priyate banking institutions
Nineteen of these failures are traceabl
10 the fraud OF bank officers; twenty-fiv,
Of them resulted from unfortunate Cd
erations in stocks, disconnected from