The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-05
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BY Pinetop United Leased GRAY
Wire Condensed to Herald and New
Things is Citing "rail" lively
Hon. J. A. Sigh is nominated b
Laurens for Railroad Commissioner.
The South Carolina Railroad is &C
vertised for sale November II.
4 free excursion for the merchant
along the line of the G. & G. will b
run from Columbia to Savannah tt
18th.
A. Il. Shaver challenges Tom Wat
I son to joint debate.
john w. Earheardt challenges th
printers of Newberry to type-settin!
race.
German and Austrian cavalrymel
are having friendly race from Beriit
to Vienna.
Little Ruth Cleveland is one year old
1t is still suap and anti-snap in New
York.
There is talk again Of an Angio-Rns
sian war. -...- .....
The French and the Dahomeyans
are fighting on the river Quime at Tar
houe.
The insurrectionists in Fenezuela
have overthroWn the government
forces, and the latest accounts at this
writing are that the rebels are march
ing GA Laguayra. 1t is not thought
that this will affect the pindar trade o1
Newberry. Hope not the coffee.
The hog market at Chicago is boom.
ing, and the little pigs of Pinetop are
suuealing beautiful soueal. 81
Gladstohe's Cabinet is busy with the
Irish eviction question and the evacu-
alton of Uganda. ...
Paris Simkins is nominated by the
Republicans of the Second District to
oppose w. J. Talbert. -...--..--..,,-. 49,. 3.
Mr.. NJ. F. Tighe is writing "The
History of the Reform Movement in
South Carolina"
Several members of the advisory
committee Of the Homestead strikers
have been arrested for treason against
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Colored Democratic Leagues are or
ganizipg all over the country.
Gen. Adlai Stevenson reached his
home with a rabbit foot. Thus has
our own Hugh Farley's vindication
come at last.
Albert Berry was nominated fo1
Congress from the Sixth District OF
Kentucky on the 372nd ballot. That
beat the devil and Tom Walker.
Dominick McCafrey will bet $4,000
that Corbett can't knock him out in
four rounds. Great wants to be Nc.
Cafrey.i - ~.
The price of paper has been raised,
but it is not known whether that will
affect the chances Of a new publication
for Newberry. = :ss:'..&>>:
Preparations are making for special
issue of postage stamps commend Grating
the discovery of America. Robt. NJ.
and James r. D. will answer all un-
necessary questions. z,,.
Last Thursdays national game; be-
tween st. Louis and Cleveland ct st.
Louis resulted 10 to 2 in favor of Cleve-
land-and still Beth Eden and Pros.
perity haven't met on Newberry's dia-
mond.. - .s:ss5
Nancy Hanks, with her fancy
shanks, continues to lower the record.
Long may her justly proud owner be
kept from sadly saying: ooh, where is
my Nancy gone?",
Senor Dupuy de Lone, the. new
Minister from Spain, has presented
his credentials to the President, and
Spanish potatoes will continue to be
served in the United States. i.
=, Yes, we are moving all along the line
Mars has.another moon; the lost art
of tempering copper. to the consistency
of steel has, bee1 rediscovered; the
power of the ocean wave is, being util-
lied, and the farmers have found out
that it is the minimum crop which
brings the maximum price. -
Beresford, alias Lord I4ascelles OF
England, who has been forging in
Rome, has. been sentenced to six years
of hard labor in the Georgia peniten-
tiary. 0 Lord, Lascelles, thy name is
mud now.
Stanhope, the Hamburg correspond
ent of the New York Herald, having
proved the efficacy of cholera inocula-
tion,. was discharged from the Neue
.Allgemeine Krankenhaus on the 18th
ult. as safe from the ravages of that
terrible seourge. H..
Mr.. A. R. Nicholson, of Turkey
Greek, Edgefeld County, mace $75
worth of syrup from one acre and a
half-one hundred and lightweight
gallons at 40 cents gallon.
Over forty thousand pounds of South
Carolina raised tobacco were sold in
Darlington last Tuesday at an average
price of 10 cents a pound, which showed
that ], ,0OG acres in that county produced
y, 900 lbs. per acre, bringing 81 ,0G0 and
demonstrating that tobacco at 500 an
acre beats cotton. !.
In former letter having said that If
man hadn't the courage of his con-
victions he shouldn't say anything, l
am now prepared to remark that If
cotton could only reach 10 cents, things
would be more lively still. Would that
it could. And it should.
Lille Johnson, accessory tG the mur-
der of Freda Ward by Alice Mitchell
in Shelby County, Tenn, has been re-
fused special venire, and the two will
be tried Jointly when the latter is dis
charged from the insane asylum. 1t
is said Alice Mitchell now shows no
symptoms of insanity. Her brain must
surely afford a shining example OF the
offended sanity and insanity. OF the
mind"
J. w. Bowden says that within the
next week the third party ticket Will
be put in the field-and then the ques-
ton will be not how to keep weevils
out of the corn, but how to keep Wea-
yer out of the political field of South
Carolina.
Having previously remarked that
Pinetop fairly blazed for Cleveland, it
is in further order to. say thai the