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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-07-11
AN AWFUL REQUEST.

De Smythe he-There was only one
tl;no ever asked of De Jones that he
refused. A..
for he's very generous. 1t must have
been something unreasonable.
De Smythe-I asked him for some
money he had borrowed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-07-11

The Justice-Drunk and disorderly.
What have you to say?
The Prisoner-Hic-take something.
The Justice-Thanks; I'll take $40.
-[Troy Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-07-11

Miss Gusher-I have just heard from
our mutual friend, Miss Joribanks.
She has married the Duke d dBellcorde.
Miss Crusher-Fortunate girl! Did
they take wedding tour!
Miss Gusher-The dukes employers
could not spare him. He drives horse
car on Tenth avenue brakes Maga-
zine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-07-11
KEEPING HER DOWN.

Mrs. Struckitt (who recently enter,
tanned Count}-Have you ever mao
any foreign noblemen as gnests1
Mrs. Manorborn (quetiy)-No; Only
as servants i Pack.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-07-11
A HEALTHY CLIMATE.

Easterner-Is Nebraska q healthy
State?
Nebraska Man-Healty Well sir,
there's an old man in Omaha named
William Shakespeare, and hang me if l
don't believe he's the original. New
York Weekly.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Heroic Act OF a Farmers Boy.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, October 23.-Van-
dyke Heyser, an eighteen-year-old boy,
who was injured in the wreck at Nollin,
ffty-three miles below here, on the.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, yes
terday morning, died in the afternoon.
Heyser was farmers boy, and was
coming to Louisville to get work.
When the mail train appeared and all
began to flee, Heyser ran toward the
coach door. He was almost out on the
platform, and in a second more would
have been safe, when frightened wo-
man reached his side, nearly fainting
with terror. She would have fallen had
not Heyser seen her condition and
nobly gone to her rescue. Supporting
her with one arm, he stepped to one
side aud assisted her to pass him, gently
forcing her out to the platform. Before
he could follow her, the mail train
crashed into the accommodation train,
and the heroic boy was caught in the
ruins and fatally injured. A few mo
ments later he was dragged out from
the dust and smoke of: the wrecked
coach, torn and lacerated by splinters,
and his body about the hips so badly
crushed that there was no doubt that
his death was only few hours off.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
An Interesting Family.

In the Western part of North Caro-
lima, about seven miles West of Hot
Springs, there lives family by the
name of Brooks. 1t is very interest
ing one, and many visitor to the quiet
little town of Hot Springs has had his
curiosity so aroused by stories of this
family that he has hired team and
driven seven miles to the Brooks resi-
dence. This consists of little low log
cabin in an unsettled district, and is oc-
cupied by father, mother and twenty
very handsome children. Every one
is a blonde, with yellow golden hair
and peachy complexion, and all as igno-
rant, wild and untutored as they are
beautiful. In addition to the above
family proper, the two Oldest girls are
married, and one is a widow with two
children and the other has three chill
dren and husband. Both these little
families are living with the old folks at
home, making in all family of twenty
eight, when none are missing. The
home or log cabin consists Of but one
room, and that is very small one:
The family sleep in berths, arranged
like those ON ship.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Everywhere the Same.
1.-THE Budget.l

Two men were chatting in Powers
Hotel, Rochester, last evening. "Let
me tell you something funny" said one
of them. "About two weeks ago my
watch got out of order. Of course
didn't know what allied it, so I took it
to q jeweller. The main spring is cut
of gear and it needs c.eaning,' said the
man who talked with me. AS I felt
pretty poor I asked what the price
would be. -Four dollars said he.
That hit ME pretty hard, and con-
cluded not to leave it. In "a day or two
1 dropped into another jewellers and
asked what he would charge to fix
the timepiece. He would do it for
$3.50. To make the story short, /
tried at least half dozen different
jewellers and got figures all the way
from 81 to $3.50. Wondering why there
was SO much difference in the value
men put upon their work in this par
ticular line of business landed in on
a fellow who kept an unpretentious
shop and asked him if there was any
thing wrong with this watch. Look
ing at it carefully through his glass be
said there was screw loose-that was
all He frightened it and charged me
fifty cents. Aside from this nothing
was wrong, and the watch didn't need
cleaning, he said. Funny thing, wasn't
it ?n
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Indictments Found Against Burke.

New ORLEANS. Oct. 23.-The grand
jury to-day resumed the State bond in
vestigation and returned three more
indictments, two Of them being against
ex-Treasurer Z. A. Burke for forgery
in uttering, as true, forged bonds of the
State. The forgery is understood to con-
sist in having numbered constitutional
bonds that were negotiated by Maurice
Hart for Burke. They were pledged to
various banks of the city, and when
their fraudulent character was discov-
cred they were returned to Hart and
he refunded the money he had bor-
rowed upon them. Consequently Hart
is SIC, 900 out of his pocket. In obed-
ience to a mandatory order of the court
calling for dispatches sent from this
city to Major Burke in London since
the bond investigat n has been going
on, J. T. Alleyn, m' ager of the West
ern Union Telegraph company in this
city, has been befor the grand jury,
and it is understood, submitted the dis
patches specifically called for. 1t is
believed, however, that they did not
contain anything of Importance to the
State.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31

TGreenville News.

A News reporter was yesterday
shown a small specimen of the sisal
hemp, plant that is now being grown
in Florida and which is expected to
some day do away with jute and is now
looked upon as an article that will
down the jute trust.
Aaron Cannon, of Laurens County,
obtained the specimen from person at
the Atlanta Exposition, together with
pamphlet giving description of how
it is grown, etc. The sisal hemp is
species of grass something like the bear
grass that is abundantin the lower Sec
ton of this State The stems areiike the
Palmetto tree and these with the
leaves are what are used in max
ing ropes, cords, ETC., and what is ex-
pected will make the best and cheapest
of bagging. A gentlemen of Florida
now has a machine at work which is
developing the manufacture of many
articles from the plant and 1t IS claimed
that all that is needed now is a machine
for making bagging and persons are at
work with this idea in view.
Sisal hemp isa native of the Bahama
islands and is grown In great quantities
in Yucatan, Spain and Cuba. The ex-
ports from Iucatan to this country in
1888 amounted to over $4,000, 900. It
was introduced into Florida forty years
ago and had been grown on a small
scale there until recent years when
prominent planters began to plant it
freely. 1t is we'll adapted to any warm
climate.
The fibre is strong and tough and is
claimed by experts to be better than
that Of jute. The hemp is planted in
rows and the first few years does not
yield much. 1t is sold by the ton, and
the average amount realized from an
acre is said to be about $50.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Presbyterian Boycott on Professor Wood
row.
[Southern Presbyterian. ]

The opening of the present session Of
the Columbia Theological Seminary
has been signalized by the renewal Of
the boycott" which was instituted
year before last by the faculty, then
consisting of Professors Tadlock, Gil
rardean and Hersnan. Last year, so
far as we know, no case arose to test the
views of Drs. McPheeters and Beattie,
who were then associated with Drs.
Tadlock and Girardeau. But this year.
we have learned from different sources,
an event has occurred which shows
that the present faculty unanimously
concurs as to the boycott" with the
faculty which instituted it.
Ayoung gentleman who had recently
graduated at the University of South
Carolina, where he had studied geol-
ogy, astronomy, physiology aud physics
under Professor Woodrow, presented
himself before the faculty of the Semi
nary, desiring admission to the junior
class. There were present Professors
Tadlock, Girardeau, McPheeters and
Beattie. During his examination he
stated that he desired to pursue the
study Of mineralogy at the University
under Professor Woodrow, and asked
whether he would be allowed to do so.
TO this DR.. Girardeau replied, urging
him not to press that request as it
would be opposed; that permission
would be readily given to attend the
instructions of any other professor in
the University but not DR.. Woodrow's.
To this statement no objection was
made by any one present, all by their
silence giving their assent. The stu
dent, seeing the state Of affairs, for
bore to urge his request, and so the
matter ended-the faculty unanimously
acquiescing in this ending and thereby
became parties to it.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
The Daughters Of the ConSederacy.

NEW ORLEANS, October 19.-Scarcely
any young lady in the country is bet.
ter known by reputation than Miss
Winnie Davis, daughter Of Jefferson
Davis, but more generally known as
the daughter Of the Confederacy.n
This young lady leaves on Tuesday
next for New York, whence she will
in a few days sail for Europe. Miss
Davis goes as the guest of Mrs. Pulitzer,
Of New: York, who takes her abroad in
the hope of restoring her to health.
For the past year, or, intact, since she
made her tour Of the Northern States,
Miss Davis has not been in good health.
Her. .eyesigbt troubles her. seriously,
and she suffers from a constant pain in
the side. ALI literary work and even
reading has been abandoned. Tt is
thought that six months at the health
resorts of Germany, prefaced, by a
winter on the Rivera, will restore her
to perfect health. Her mother is in
New Orleans to-day making arrange
ments for Miss Winnie's departure for
New York.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
SyInptonS OF Catarrh.

Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of
the nasal passages, discharges falling
from the head into the throat, some
times profuse, watery, and acrid, at
others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purul-
ent, bloody and putrid; the eyes are
weak, watery, an infiamed; there is
ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking or
coughing to clear the throat, expector-
alton of offensive matter, together with
scabs from ulcers; the voice is changed
and has a nasal twang; the breath is
offensive; smell and taste are impaired;
there is sensation Of dizziness, with
mental depression, hacking cough
and general debility. If you have all
or any considerable number of these
symptoms, you are suffering from Nasal
Catarrh. The more complicated your
disease has become, the greater the
number and diversity Of symptoms.
Thousands of cases annually, without
manifesting half of the above symp-
toms, result in consumption, and end in
the grave. No disease is so common,
more deceptive and dangerous, or less
understood, or more unsuccessfully
treated, by physicians. Five hundred
dollars reward is offered by the manu-
facturers Of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
for case of catarIh which they cannot
cure. Remedy sold by druggists, at
only so cents.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Big Lumber Enterprise for Oconee.
1Keowee Courier.

We made mention in our issue of the
10th instant that Mr. John Mitchell, Of
Marquette, Michigan, in company with
our Mr.. G. Wanner, were en- route to
the mountains of Oconee and adjoining
sections of Georgia and North Carolina
to buy timber trees for the firm of
Powell & Mitchell, large furniture
manufacturers. They returned Last
Saturday for few days rest. We learn
that they have been successful in secur-
ing nearly all the timber, such as pop
lar, ash and white pine, on both sides
of Chatuga and Tugaloo rivers, for a
distance of over fifty miles. They have
procured a suitable site for the boom
and mills, near the Air Line Railroad
bridge on Tugaloo river, and in the
near future Messrs. Powell & Mitchell
will begin the manufacture of this in-
mense body Of timber into useful arti-
cles of furniture and husbandry.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Woman's Modesty.

Many women are prevented by feel
ings of delicacy from, consulting a ply
sician in those disorders arising from
functional arrangement Of her pecu-
liarly delicate organism, and the most
serious results are often caused by this
neglect. To such persons DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is an especial
boon, as it offers sure and safe cure
for all those distressing disorders to
which women are peculiarly subject.
while it saves modest girl or woman
from the embarrassment Of a personal
consultation with physician. Favor
ite Prescription" is the only medicine
for woman's peculiar weaknesses and
ailments, sold by druggists, under a
positive guarantee from the manufac-
turers, that it will give satisfaction in
every case, or money will be refunded.
See guarantee on bottle wrapper.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
A Colored State Fair.

It seems that the colored people of
the State are going to emulate their
North Carolina brethren, and have a.
State Fair Of their own.
Cola p. Butler, commissioner of
agriculture, has received a letter from
A. e. Hampton; president of the Col
ored Agricultural and Mechanical Ex-
position. stating that his company is
desirous Of holdings a eolored State Fair
during the first week in January, 1890,
and asking leave to use for the purpose
the State Fair grounds and buildings.
Col. Butler has, of course, no authority
in this matter, but has referred the re-
quest to Secretary Holloway, Of the
State Fair Association. The commits.
sioner will give the eolored people all
possible assistance in their enterprise
and has written the railroad companies
asking them to give reduced rates Of
freight and passage to the proposed
fair. AS soon as he receives the answers
he will make them public. .z
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
What's the Matter with P:
boston Globe, I

A pious and prosperous old deacon of
Portsmouth. n. H., had been specu-
lating in pork on margin" and for
some months was very successful in
his ventures, so that he saw visions Of
great wealth in the near future. But
after a time pork did not pay SO we'll,
and still he kept speculating, until
sudden panic in pork caused him to
loose heavily, and to square himself he
placed an attachment to the amount
he had lost on his brokers, and sought
to recover by law what he had lost by
luck.
This sudden catastrophe Of course,
noised the secret of the deacon's spec
ulations abroad, and his unseemly
haste for wealth became the talk Of the
town. But the deacon braved it down
and went about the streets with bis
head as high as ever
One evening he attended prayer
meeting at his church and the pastor
called upon him to lead the exercises
by asking Divine guidance. The invo-
cation was after the deaeon's usual
style. Beginning with the president
and his cabinet, he besought prosperity
for all the rulers of the nation, state
and city in order. Then branching off
into lesser affairs he was praying elo.
quently for the financial success of all
Portsmouth enumerating every trade
and calling in succession, when sinful,
mirth loving boy in the back part OF
the church called out: whats the
matter with Porkw
A large sized hush fell on the con-
gregation then and there, during which
the good deacon made haste to "boil
down" his remarks and take his seat.
Next to having his investments pan
out proftably the deacon has an ardent
yearning to. find that wicked boy. He
wants to talk with him.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
DISAPPOINTED ADvENTIsTs.
They Gathered and Looked for the Final
Judgment Last Thursday.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct. D.
The Adventists of Virginia have been
holding series Of meetings in Spottsyl-
vania and Orange Counties for the past
two years, under the leadership Of
R. c. Brown, of New Britain, Conn.
The widest excitement now exists
among certain classes of people in the
vicinity of Screamersville. All day to-
day and tonight the believers will as
semble, to watch for the coming of the
King of Kings. Should these predic-
tions fail, and the Lord not appear, the
meeting will close, and the members of
the union retire to their homes until
called to assemble to again listen to
the teachings of three leaders.
This is the forty-ffth anniversary of
the going out of the church to meet
the Lord, in October, 1874. Delegations
from Connecticut, Massachusetts,, New
York and Virginia, are now in attend
ance, under the leadership Of Elder
Brown. The meeting will close at sun
rise Wednesday.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Modes Of Execution.

A contributor to American Notes and
Queries summarizes the modes of exc
cution in different countries as follows:
Austria, gallows, public.
Bavaria, guillotine, private.
Belgium, guillotine, public.
Brunswick, axe, private.
China, sword or cord, public.
Denmark, guillotine, public.
Ecuador, musket, public.
France, guillotine, public.
Great Britain, gallows, private.
Hanover, guillotine, private.
Italy, capital punishment abolished.
Netherlands, gallows, public.
Oldenburg, musket, public.
Portugal, gallows, public.
Prussia, sword, private.
Russia, musket, gallows, or sword,
public.
Saxony, guillotine, private.
Spain, garrote, public.
Switzerland: Fifteen cantons, sword,
public; two cantons, guillotine, public;
two cantons, guillotine, private.
United States, other than New York,
gallows, mostly private.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
A Motion Squash"
lHarpcr's Magazine.


Colonel No, commonwealth
for -- County, had unbounded in
fluence over the presiding justice of the
County Court under the old system.
B, young lawyer, had been re-
tanned to defend prisoner, and dis
covering what he conceived to be a
fatal defect in the indictment, SUBJ
mitted a motion to quash. He was
proceeding to sustain his point as best
he could when the presiding justice, a
fat old fellow, settled himself in his
chair and fell asleep. The argument
proceeded, and at its close "the Squire"
reused up, and rubbing his eyes, said,
"Squash'er."
Colonel N was on his feet in
moment, and inquired, with much
asperity, "Do I understand this Court
as sustaining the motion to quash my
Indictment ?"
"Oh No, Kurnil," said the Squire.
"I squashes the motion to squash"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
He Fooled the Widow.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 23.-F. NJ.
Hoyt, fine looking, middle aged
stranger, was arrested this afternoon,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses. A warrant was sworn
out by Mrs. Julia Hunt, a widow from
Defuniak, Fla. He went there two
months ago, representing. himself to
be detective, and promising to marry
her, he got possession of her entire es-
tate, which he sold and came to Louis
vile. He also secured SSl5 in cash from
her,
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Deafness Can't be Cured

by local application, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con-
dition of the mucus lining of the Eus-.
tachlan Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an
inhaned condition of the mucus sur
face.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
that we 'cannotcure by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars,
free.
F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Making the Sun Work.
Youths COMPANION. |

OuS Ol GtlS lliOSG uOldUlS luSSAIIOAS
displayed at the Paris Exhibition is an
apparatus for transforming the heat of
the sun into motive power for pump
ing water and other mechanical uses.
It is the device of French inventor
named Charles Teller.
This apparatus is of great interest as
foreshadowing the time when solar
heat, in combination with electrical
transmission of force, will be made to
furnish motive power for all engines
and take the place of coal and steam,
change which will vastly cheaper man
ufactures and travel and greatly en-
h;.nce human comfort the world over.
The heat which comes to the earth
in the suns beams is, as has long been
known, the equivalent Of from one to
five or more horse powers for every
square yard of the earth's surface, ac-
cording to the latitude and the season
OF the year.
The utilization of this waste heat, its
conversion into usable power, has long
been the study of inventors, and much
time and grent sums of money have
been spent upon it. NJ. Tellier's con-
trivance aims to accomplish this object
by means Of water saturated with am
monia gas.
At the freezing point water will alb
sorb one thousand times it's volume of
ammoniacal gas. But as the tempera-
ture of the water is raised this capacity
for absorption rapidly diminishes, till
at 60 degrees c., 40 degrees Fahrenheit,
nearly all the absorbed gas is driven
off.
ANY one who has observed the force
with which the cork sometimes pops
forth from a bottle of ammonia water
when taken ,iato the. warm hand d-will
readily understand this fact, and also
the principle upon which NJ. Tellier's
invention rests. For the ingenious
French,nan has adapted this rapid ex-
pansabilitv of ammonia to generate
power and drive piston head in a
cylinder in way similar to the use of
steam.
The water, saturated a thousand fold
with the gas in cold cistern placed in
the ground, is carried in pipes to an
other very shallow, but specifically
wide cistern, consisting Of bIackened
iron plates placed close together. This
cistern is exposed on an ordinary shed
roof, covered with glass, where the
SUMS rays fall warmly upon it. The
solar heat thus brought to act upon the
ammoniated water rapidly develops
pressure, which in the cylinder of NJ.
Tellier's engine is transformed into mo-
tive power.
In the apparatus at present on exhi-
bition in Paris the exposure to the sun
of a roof cistern, eighteen feet long by
ten wide, generates sufficient power to
raise three thousand liters, or about
seven hundred and fifty gallons of
water, to height of sixty feet in one
hour. The mechanism is automatic in
its action, and the present cost of a
solar engine of this description and
capacity for work is about $500.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31
Lynchers Get Left.
Especial to the Greenville News

CHARLOTTE, \. c., Oct. pa spe-
cial from Chester, S. c., to the Green
Vile News bureau says: The Sheriff
received reliable information last even
ing that an attempt would be made
last night to lynch Joe Foster, colored,
charged with an assault on E. G. Cham
ber's little daughter some time ago.
The information was telegraphed to
Governor Richardson, who immedi-
ately telegraphed back ordering out the
Lee Light Infantry to guard the Jail,
which was done all night, but no at
tempt to lynch was made.