The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-26
P,INTs FROM PINEToP.

All sorts
and in every direction:
State Fair Nov. 14-lS.
Gala Week Oct. 81 to Nov.5.
B.T. has returned from n. 7.
Two weeks only till Growers elected
They now manufacture wild men IL
China.
! The women work on the railroads il
Holland.
j Henry George has a head Oh hi
Forepaugh's circus was in Charleston
yesterday.
N(ex)t-President Cleveland is nc
"light weight"
The yankees have invented an India
rubber fshworm.
A counterfeiter was recently ar
rested in Atlanta.
The present is the last letter from
! Pinetop-this month.
! Columbia is making arrangement
for an electric railway.
J. F. EDsor will again oppose G.. ".
Shell in the 4th district.
New York and Chicago have just
been united by telephone.
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ready to fight Jim Corbett.
Paris Simkins declines to run fol
| Congress against Col. Talbert.
It seems there will be two State fairs
for the colored people this year.
Mrs. Lease denies the charge that
she sold out to the Republicans.
| l25,0O0 persons can be seated in one
of the buildings of the Worlds Fair.
Indian Summer Carnival in Atlanta
from the 18th to the Goth November.
The Christians and Turks in the
Island of Crete are having a religious
| war. -..l, - s'.rs-
Julian Hawthorne is to take charge
of literary expedition around the
world.
It is proposed to run an electric rail-
way from Washington, d. c., to Phil
adelphia. .-... ..-..... .-...
Rev. Mr.. Schaefer will preach his
farewell sermon Sunday night. Go
hear him.
"Paris, from the Empire to the Com
mune," will be worth seeing at the
State Fair. ...-..
Frederick Warde will be in Charles
ton Monday and Tuesday nights of
Gala Week. ...s -:
A society has been formed in Phila-
| delphia to promote the eating Of
horse-fesh."
w. w. Russell is running as an in
| dependent candidate for Congress from
| our deestrict.
The Archbishops of the Catholic
Church of America will meet in New
York next month.
The greatest forest fires in years are
| raging in the ''wild and woolly West" !"
| They are immense. --...
Employees of the railroads of the
Southwest threaten to join the strike
| of the telegraphers.
The males between the militia ages
| in the United States number a fraction
| over thirteen millions.
The needleis little indisposed this
| week from an attack of the weather
| and is unable to do much.
The Georgia Ham is the latest from
that wonderful State. It reads like it
"mout" be an electric ham.
! John Smith and Pocahontas ought
to have had more showing in the re-
cent Columbian celebration.
They say, DR.. Holland preached a
| fine sermon at the Lutheran church N
| Newberry Sunday night last.
Seven new Bishops have been added
| to the Episcopal Church by the Epis-
copal Convention in Baltimore.
There is baby in Philadelphia that
was only four inches long at its birth q
year ago. It now weighs II pounds.
The State and the News and Courier
say the Prohibition fight in the Legis.
lature is going to be led by Representa-
tive Cole l.. Blease.
A teacher in Illinois hung a boy by
the neck in school Until he was black
| in the face. The teacher was expelled
| for his crue, punishment.
The Columbia Register says that the
sweetest thing in that town is candy
from the Candy Factory. Candy is
not the sweetest thing in this town.
| A reformed gambler is exposing the
tricks of game, among them the finn
fam. What kind of a time would the
finn fans have with the Jim jams.
A steamship was wrecked on the
night of the 10th instant on Sand
Island in the China Sea and one hun.
dred and sixty persons were drowned.
To see John, Eddy, Asa Oxner and
Tom Jackson all running on one train
on the C. & G. road looks like Newber-
~ is in it largely. They are under
Capt. Fielding.
Mr.. Tourgee-that same old Tourgee
lin q late lecture in Detroit abused
Columbus as fraud and everything
else not good. And we have some anti
Columbusites in Newberry, but they
are in ''large" minority,
The news from Russia is bad. They
have had famine and cholera along
| with nihilisn, and the Car and most
of the other high officials are sick. "a
series of events of terrible importance
! is likely to take place in Russia"
On Saturday afternoon last in School
Commissioner Kibler's Office applicants
| for teachers certificates were tussling
through the intricacies of the "direc.
| ton of the aesophagus" from the wind
pipe and descriptions OF the epidermis.
| While water famine is imminent
in Altoona, Pa, the floods are raging
across the water in Island of Sardinia,
with hundreds of houses washed away;
and the Yellow river in China has
again overfowed its banks, to the
depth Of fifteen feet, drowning fifty
thousand people.
| Since you come to think about it, il
| does look little out of place to be run
| ming a railroad from Joppa to Jerusa'
Hem; but as the thing has been done
there may be no harm in betting here
that there was a gents furnishing
goods drummer on the frat train, an6
that Newberry could supply fagmar
on the shortest kind of 8 notice.
/ Don't know how it is in other places
but the last thing heard by night anc
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