The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-08
CRISP AND CASUAL.
The News Here, There and Everywhere.

The News Here, There and Everywhere.
A fire IN the lumber districts Of Chi
cago on August l made loss ofSl $780,.
900, with 200 men thrown out of EN-.
ployment.
Rev. Jno. G. Kilgo, financial agent
Of Wofford College, has accepted the
presidency of Trinity College, Durham,
n. g., where he was recently elected.
1t is reported that Col. V. f. McBee
is to be superintendent Of the Blue
Ridge road, and it is also rumored that
he has been employed by Vanderbilt
to develop some of his property and
build town on it in Western North
Carolina. The stories, together, look
like an extension of the Blue Ridge
through and beyond the Vanderbilt
holdings.
Chas NJ. Sherrard, a truck farmer
near Anderson, committed suicide on
August by banging himself in an out
house. He was SO years old and leaves
wife and nine small children.
The United States miDts are now
coming the seignorage in the treasury.
It is estimated that $1,000, 900 will be
coined this month.
The Democratic Convention of Flor
ida has endorsed Cleveland and the ad.
mipistration.
The Populists of North Carolina are
begging the Republicans to arrange a
fusion ticket on State Offices. Marion
Butler, president of the National Farm
ers Alliance, has been prominent in
arranging the conferences which he
says is to control the congress and leg
islative offices for the Alliance.
The Register says there is no truth
in the report that on Governor Till
mans return to Columbia he is said to
have bitterly censured Liquor Com
missioner Traxler for running about
and neglecting the dispensary.
The wicked flee when no man par-
sueth, but the offceseeker abideth With
us forever.
The plague IN China has swept away
10000 people in the Canton Districts
alone.
Mr.. w. B. Ryder, formerly of the
old Georgia Pacific, has been appointed
superintendent of the Columbia and
Greenville and other roads recently in
charge Of Capt. V. E. McBee, who re-
signed the same.
A cask with $1,000 in gold, one of
lot with $4,000 shipped by New York
bankers to bankers in Paris, was lost on
the way. The empty cask was found at
railway station near Paris last week:
showing that the gold had been stolen.
The railroad company is responsible for
the loss.
s. A. Nettles, who has been promi-
nent in State politics for some time,
has been licensed to preach by the
Methodist Church, ana will have no
more to do with politics.
The Georgia Democratic convention
has nominated VIM. Y. Atkinson for
governor. The financial plank of the
platform is ss follows: 1--WE demand
the immediate passage of such legisla-
ton ss will restore silver to its ccpsti-
tutional position as money metal, and
will secure at once the free aud unIim-
tied coinage Of gold aud silver on a
parity and give to every dollar in cir
culation, whether coin or paper, the
same debt-paying and purchasing
power"
A middle Georgia man recently
smashed the globe ef an electric lamp
in order to light his pipe. He had never
subscribed to q newspaper, but his fun
eral notice appeared in print just the
same.
The Southern Railway Company on
August lSt took 1ull coutrol Of the old
Richmond and Danville and the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail-
roads, and they are now known as the
eastern and western systems Of the
com npany, which controls more lines of
road than ever before.
Ex-Sherif Holley, of Aiken, a recent
convert to REFORM" has been appoint
ed chief State constable insl cad of Mr..
Gaillard. He says he intends to relieve
the service of the features which made
it odious and to employ only good
men.
E. M. Andrews has built forty-one
houses in Charlotte during the pas!
year.
Eugene V. Debs addressed large
crowd at Te1re Haute, Ind, last Wed.
nesday and declared that he was op,
posed to strikes and plainly stated that
the fight would be continued in a re-
form political movement, and declared
that the strike would be the last in
which he would ever take part.
Japan has formally declared wal
against China. The American mission.
aries in Corea and China are therefore
| considered in imminent danger, and
theGovernmentwill endeavor to protect
| them.
The Pullman car works started ur
on August 2nd, with $50 men, while
1000 strikers gathered about the build.
ing and good naturedly chafed the re-
| turning workmen.
A bill providing f6r pension Of S5(
month for General James Longstreet
on account of wounds received in the
| Mexican war while he was serving as
major and paymaster in the United
States army, has been introduced in
the senate by Mr.. Walsh.
Sapto Cesario, the assassin of Presi.
dent Carnot of France, has been tried
and Condemned to death.
No passenger has been killed on the
Georgia railroad since it has been in
operation, which covers period Of
nearly fifty years, but passenger on
leaving a car year ago had his foot
injured, and he is likely now to die.
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