The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Five hundred persons have been
drowned by the floods in Mesopotamia.
It is said that the relations between
the German Empress and Bismarck are
strained.
The Emperor of Brazil, who is i'll at
Milan, appears to be stricken with
paralysis. He has lost the powers Of
speech.
A st. Louis dispatch states that the
river is steadily but slowly rising at that
point. Steamboat men. however, do
not apprehend big freshet.
Col. Frederick D. Grant, talking
about his fathers 'memoirs," is quoted
as giving the profits thus far to Mrs.
Grant from that source as S4l1 900.
Augusta, Ga. has grown in popula-
ton as follows: 1860, 1888; 1870. l5,-
3SG; 1880 25,000: 1883, 1915. Since
1880 the limits of the city have been
enlarged.
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly
declined to consider prohibition at the
present session, but committee on
temperance was appointed to report at
the next Assembly.
The Hon. Robert NJ. McLane, minis
ter to France, and Col. f. &. Bell min
lister to Netherlands, have arrived
home. Minister McLane went direct
to Washington.
The President has approved the joint
lt,tin hn nf
the French Republic to take part in an
international exposition, to be held in
Paris in 1889.
Two hundred and forty citizens of
Farihault, Mimi, have sent to Congress
petition asking the United States to
take measures for the purchase of the
Island Of Cuba from Spain.
DR.. +. Stone Virgins predicts an
earthquake in California between now
and October, saying it will move across
the Pacific from Asia. There is, how
ever, no grounds for the people of Cali
fornia to quake.
The great debate on the tariff was
closed on Saturday, Mr.. Reed speaking
for the Republicans and Mr.. Carlisle
for the Democrats. The final argu-
mcnts are said to have greatly improved
the chances of the Mills Bill.
The new Inman steamship. the City
of New York, is warranted by her build
ers to be ullSinkahle. That is, one con-
dition laid down in the contract by the
company was that she should be un-
sinkable, although she is of iron and
has 4 capacity of 800 tons.
Master Workman PowGcrly has writ
ten letter to the Order of Knights of
Labor, declaring that under no circum-
stances would he consent to 90 upon q
labor ticket as 4 candidate for President
of the United States. He wouldn't
accept any political office, he says.
From leading editors in all parts of
the country the Cincinnati Enquirer
has obtained answers to the question,
who will he the nominees Of the Repuh-
lican and Democratic National Convell-
tioaS? The opinion seems to he unan-
imOus that the contest will again be
between Cleveland and Blaine.
"Thc hardest rains for many years
have been falling in Arkansas in the
last two days and the streams are all
overtiowed. Immense cotton fields and
corn bottoms are ovcrtlowed and the
country is suffering general inundation.
So quick was the rise from the Big Frog
and Clear Creek that the people were
forced from their homes, and some
We're compelled to swim for their lives.
Many women and children are stand
ing on the tops of houses crying for
help, with water ter feet deep around
them and still rising. 1t is feared that
several lives have been lost