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"vpasmw* <r/7.'. ;v [Vi-,* Vol. 1 N ?'JS'MOVK IXDr.^OMIBLY FI KM: AXJ) NATVBK MD TUE SAME. ORAAT?EgirRCi, SOUTH CAIlOI^SNAl ?WEDNESDAY* OCTOBER 9, 1872. ... " - ?e#' ggf j THE OllANGEBUlfTUffiS In published every weDn e B']bnk y,' 'y 1 SU a.'*eioy W-^fva'acfcr?*-' *?F Wl1 Months. J<MT--WllftTlN(* in ha, altckpaitmenti^ neatly executed. CJiyc us a call. ;; . izlar & mmmME^i ATTORNEYS at law, * *'m tttT?SELTj1- street/ ? OrongeWai$ S.1 C. " ? ittj ?-:-:-?. -. ?u * {Kirk Robinson, UEAI.tfi IK L^ilvV) Music "and Stationery, and J^anoy ^.qraisgeburg, to,IL, s.,a,. l* ?,?*lolwi/, arris*! .ollivn -V.j int.^t ;.;-;it ftp rXiLa_ti! v ? - ^aMLest?n, s. I. Hamilton;' !"g; f. Alford & Ca., l.i'i yuit i > Superintendent.. Pro/victora, . mi. t. j^:k\vick legare, DENTAL s 1195? EON, Graduate, Bnltinioro Col lego Dental 1 ' * . Surgery. , ? . 'J/^rr, Market ttreet, Orer Store of./. y|. Hamilton leb 14 ? tw tt 4*4--rtrri?~rrf tV-rrr-- ! J. DeTrdvillo, ' i: A T t O r ?i e T.,A >%r h A W. Offioo at Court IIouso Square, Orangcbnrg, ,S. wchlH-Jyr ?*?". r: ?*-J^r;f:?--ruiis?ij?d:) ~. ? /. FERSNKR & DANTfcLER, r> k 1^; ,^,x*?,^F ? ? q ^:/Prangeburg, S, C., ] ! -Office over ntore of Wni. Willooek. :j^srj, P.A.DAXTZi.i:n,P.lX> men ls-3moa *KUftZH ll?;u>*. /.UlK,:j.tO ) rAUCTIOtf "SALES. ?n^lQ^fpAY, October (Ith, at: 1.0 .o'clock, A. MwI0w(ill*ell at, my auetioil room, one iloor east of ..Ve .I/aster's. jiOUSEHo\Li>' tcrxiture, ? . 7*.piiY aoom, ?a'v.i ~ at OC r-fill y, m a .4W . ; hosiery, & Afflrtt ftf Faury Good? ami Notions. ?guii>H inay l/e ex peeled 'j^rtfoodrt roeeivetl till 9 pVl?rk on day of wat"f Iii If 11 ( I 1 11 1/ !M J 1 Fi P. BKABl), Alict. and Com. Mereh'f jivo. c^ppc^^. CO., factors aoid CO:?I.mission INI ER ^IIA^TS,.CJIARI,ESTON, s. o. jntpj ^OMTOCK, THOS. II. COIXlKTf, 1- lUliOO? ^MlylC, 1872 -2* Sm ?lll?L. 'VI ft-? .(lift' I JrV>{j ??? ?"' J :ie undfrnigju'd ba.ti tliji'' day furnied a Part i1 rdiip for tlie purjKji*e of uniting tlielr nupa Ml" Sehoolii Into one, under t!m nnme of tlie OK VNGEBI UG ACADEMY, H.ivij^j iudjvidoally enjoyed a11brr.lVp.it Miiaifcat the r\aniH o/tlie't'onniinnily, logefbcr i'.- y-l^f' .tcr)ntliidan?-(.' ??f it to them" lllHltT tlie I'i.i. arrangenioiit, |iroiuixiug uiiiibated encr ;'>? ; ,i 1 it dMMfcryvIuutibe? with tbo furl her ad v.n (;:?. ' of MTOg^-Amdetl'nndertliecbmigt il < ir <'i:uiy.^i|'ten,,to .deyoto tltcinsulve?* inure excln rivi'fv iMi Co Iii? own partienlar braneluv. Tenlfl v?yablA a? bcjicfniiire, at tJie end of cai h MOlllV? p \ntc "I* . . ?. ... ^JS^^ff^t ~ ~ - 84.no rvntiU;iial\4 - 1 - - h.oo ^??*t OMUTOC1M? Olf t?V ftl'A Mon d.iiy :? (being the m-ond day 6(j Se}>lonilior next. ? ijrjljogn .bo obtained, in jirivai? families, .' ' o 'v ;mj<it'hit<t niti'm. JAS S. IIKY WA HI) ST1LKSU. MKLLIC1IAMP, Tears. Tcara, that trickle down our eye*; > They do not fall to earth and dry : They war like angeln to the skies, And like the angelt* cannot die. For, oh lour immortality, Flows through each tear, rounds in each eigh. What waves of tears surge o'er the deep Of Borrow, in our restless souIb ! And tbey arc Btrong,not weak, who weep Those'drops from out the sea that rolls, Within their hearts for evermore; ^Without a "depth?without a shore;. V ? But ah ! The tears that are not wcpff. . The tears that never outward fall.? The tears that grief for yeare ban kept Within us, they are best of all: . The tears our eyes shall never know, Are deeper'than the tears tliat flow. ? '. ? [ilAXuaonirr. DY II. VICKKRY DUMONT. He thought, I suppose, if ho thought at all. that he was doing no harm. It is a fallacy upon which men of his stamp of: ten act, and often,, nlas ! commit man) and many a wrong. Not that I Mould for a moment nsscrt that in his inter course with Trix Uanby, Lindsay Kirk had been guilty of any actual or positive wrong. Sho was n scion of the lowest family their low mining district contained. He had first met her during the second week of Iiis superintendence over his fa ther's mines. Qld Jim Dauby was lying ill aijditch las.-drunk. na )iquor could make him, and' Lind; not being sufficiently ac quainted with the old wretch to under stand that that was his normal condition, Was drapging him out when Trix camo alohg. Another girl would havo boon Overwhelmed with mortification, hut she I was not. She stood fur a moment regard ing his operations, then said, in a voice, whose pathos was unnatural tit sixteen:? j ''.'Tjaiut no use get tin' him out ofthat. He'll only tumble into the next one he comes abro?t." Lind l?o'icd up and laughed. "Well, I'll drug him out if he does. Do you know who he is?" "Yes, I know him. He's my father." . "Oh, I beg your pardon," he said, con fusedly, then added, "but we must get him out of this, for tho sun is so hot it will kill him." " Twouldn't he no great loss," .she answered, taking one of the helpless arms that lay so disgustingly low, and helping Lindsay with his burden. It was nothing new for. her to lean under it, and she look the experience quito naturally ; but Lind, looking over the ragged old back'that divided them, felt a strong thrill of admiration. Not the chivalrous, respectful admiration he tendered generally to tho sex, but the curious pulse-thrilling one feels when looking at any beauty fresh front the hand of nature. Not that poor Trix was strictly beauti ful, but there was a power in tho firm young mouth, an honesty in the dusky gray eyes, a pat both grace in the badly <lre?sed figure, that appealed more power fully to his senses than all the dainty, welkokid loveliness that had ever flashed across Jus eves. She thanked him when they reached the hut, dignified by the sweet word home; thanked him \)\ words that were migrant luaticaJ ju)d badly expressed, but which were sweet in their very humility. After that he met her very often on the ronde and by-roads, stumbled across her ns she sat through the purple dusks of gloaming watching the tide roll up the gray expanse of shore, came upon her as she lingered around the mines waiting to see whether JiVu was sufficiently sober to care for his dinner, Miuntcrcd pa>t their habitation ami saw her time alter tiinc, stuuding in bor dusky beauty at thedoor way, hohliifg crippled little Dan where the sun's w?rm rays could lall upon his stunted body, or trying to keep a wailing baby quiet while the mother of the family regaled herself with a drunken sleep. She remembered him well enough, but" at first she scarcely noticed him. scarcely raised her eyes.when he parted. Jly-t'.nd by>.-however, when it became habituul for.j him to stand or walk beside her, to meet her in her-lonely rambles, to talk with ] her as no. ono else had ever talked, he could seo tho glad crimson flushing her eyes at his ilpproaoh, and yet, as before, ho thought he was doing no harm. People talked aud noticed that Trix was beginning to take moro pains with her personal appearance, that her rags and rents were becoming fewer, her luxti rinnt hair was rescued from its former state of picturesque dishevclnient, that .even her face had lost its old look of apathy, aud flashed into shy, sweet nui-] malion. . They, the little world of gossip,' admired her none the more for it. To tell; the truth, in circles where her name was) familiar, many and many a hard un-; womanly thing was said of her ; but over! and above and apart from their censure,! Trix was happy. On what basis her happiness was found-1 ed she scarcely stopped to consider. Iierv love for him vose as a lawless impulse of her nature, deep, strong, fervent, never to be eradicated, never to I???? separated from her by either height or depth or any. living thing. She never dared to think' ho had any. feeling for her in return, in her untaught, untutored humility she wni satisfied to be with him, to watch him, to worship him. -? "with passion wild, As the Persian worships the glowing sun." And Lindsay '? Well, as t ime wore on, and the stupidity of the place became more unmitigated, his thoughts were con centrated on Trix. lie liked to see the sudden lighting up of her face ; the trem ulous shyness of her voice, he liked to hear; so she, poor child! became en tangled in the nicsh.es of his daily life' until it seemed as if separation vns im possible. Only seemed so, however, for it was possible, as the. proud mother that shared his seclusion knew. Not only possible but probable, so sho tool: no pains to frustrate tho intimacy, ami only smiled when people told her of it. "For you know, my boy, I have every confidence in you," she said, "and I think you love me well enough to preserve my (rhintng fabric. I know that temptations will beset young men,.but you must put them aside as best you can ; anything rather than a misalliance." Lind laughed, but reddened, and th^re ami then with faultless ingenuity she made her plans. "Yon'needn't fear any alliance for a while," he answered, then sauntered down towards the .shore, and standing on a jagged peak of rock, saw Dannie bask ing beneath it?saw Trix sitting on a pile of seaweed, the baby in her arms, the great woof of her hair tumbling over her shoitiders, and the baby face that was sheltered by her pliant, graceful form. "All asleep down thereV" he called out, and then the glory and the shadows chased her face and eyes, and he lountl a place beside her on the sands. "Don't you ever get tirrd of that fellow?" he asked, pointing to her slumbering arm ful. Trix laughed the shy laugh that was so wondrously sweet. "Yes, I'm always tired of him, but there's nobody else to mind him, some and Dannie have to do it." Lind glanced at Dannie's crippled body, and felt one of his old thrills at the girl's subtle generosity, at the innate re finement that crept out of her thoughts and pervaded the homely expressions of her everyday life. 1 thiuK that, in that moment of en thusiasm he might have been tempted to something rash. I think that, dospito his Mother's warnings; he might, while the spell was still upon him, have enacted King Cophctnn, but it was only "a might have been," and he didn't. Dannie fell asleep after n while, and they sat under tho shelter of the rocks. She got in the great gray niche, and tho bright face, the heavy veil of hair, the I bare aims, and tho baby sleeping upon jjbem, Hashed ou^ like the tinted'beauty if an old Vandyke picture. Ho lay Sown nt her feet,' and talked as ho had heyer before talked to ? woman, j He told her of his life's aspirations, h is manhood's aims, aud she, whose every foment was beset withlongings vague ind grand, sold nothing of them, only listened to him as a faithful vassal listens to a lordly master. Once he looked up Wtt her, and, smitten by'ft sudden senso of-his own egotism, said:' "Why don't you talk, Trix? -Here I have been telling you all that I ever wished lor, aud you haven't been a single fcit confidential- What would you like post of anything in the world ?" I An intense hungrincss spread itself over her face, some of the old pathos came |back to her voice, L "I guess I want everything; but I can just go on wanting, for I never get any thing. .Sometimes I'm just sick and tired of life, and then again I wonder if everything will go on just the same until I'm an old woman, and, by way of change, death comes along." M Perhaps you think she wanted to force a proposal of some description, but she didn't. He had more idea just then of taking her to himself than ever he had before, but he only said : "Why, Trix, child, I thought you were very contented ; I had no idea that you were so.unhappy." Again the lighting of face aud brow;, again the fla-h of deprecating sweetness in the gray, eyes, again the tremulous naivete of the childish voice. ? '1'm not unhappy now, but T u?c?l t?? be all the time mad aud sorry that I couldn't be a lady and dress up and be pure and sweet like ladies always arc. Now, though I don't mind so much, I want things just as bad as ever, but I'm I pretty happy in spite of not gcttin' them." Poor Trix ! That was the last, tho very iMr=t of her peace and happiness! Lind wmt .home that evening, ami, slopping unconsciously into tin breezy dining-room, found awaiting him, a very, very pretty girl. A girl with a bright, laughing face, and a deli cate odor of violets lingering around her.. A girl that to the dainty tips of her rosy nails was every inch a lady. "Lind, this is Miss Kdith Rodney, our nearest neigh tor, I kidnapped her this afternoon, and am going to keep her a long while for my own especial benefit." Lind stood for a moment in mystifien cation, until the laughing face came for ward. 1 Mr. Kirk looks horrified, and I don't wonder, for this invasion i.s unpardonable. 1 live ten miles away, and Mrs. Kirk brought me here this afternoon all un known to the master." He recovered himself by that time, and said, giacef illy : "The master must thank her then for a very unexpected pleasure." So for a time Mrs. Kirk had it her own way. Trix was neglected, and Miss Rod ney filled all the spaces of Lind's life I can't recapitulate the days that fol lowed, cannot tell you how Trix and Dannie and the baby sat on shore alone. How an eager pathos crept into tho dusky eyes, how the childish mouth drooped in the corners, and the tangled black hair went sullenly back to its old negligence. Miss Rodney walked, drove, rode, and sailed with Lind. Sang to him in the evenings, sauntered ({own to the mines with him in the daytime, and nt last she heard of Trix 1 It was nothing, of course. Most girls, I suppose, would have allowed the story to pass unnoticed, but Miss Rodney didn't. Sho waited her opportunity, and by-and-by it came. Lind took her out for a sail one evening just in tho scarlet glow of sunset. Over tho purple waters they floated far into tho blazing west. Over the tiny ripples that Miss Rodney's pink lingers sent into a thousand im patient curves. She was sitting quietly beside him, her delicate profile upturned, her golden hair falling like shafts of lingering sunlight around her face. For a long time he watched her; lazily at first, then admiringly, and at last-his passion culminated, and he asked her to be his wife. She was a girl of Wonderfully-quick perceptions, and I suppose ehe had half expected it, so she turned ? with wo manly honesty iu her brown eyes, wo?, manly tenderness in her clear voice: "Before I answer you, l&r. Kirk, will you reply to one question ? What did you mean by your attentions to Trix Dauby?" "I meant nothing. I paid her no atten tion that could be construed into mean ing anything. Beyond walking and talk ing to her a few tunes, I. know nothing about the girl.". * ? ; The curvo of the scarlet lips deepened perceptibly, the clear voiec became earnest: "Mr. Kirk, we may as well understand each other. You tell me this, and oh. a lady I am bound to believe you ; but ?? assure you it places j'our conduct in no more favorable liglit. You meant noth ing, you say, but whether you menut it or not you know tlie girl loved you. You know that every passion and pleasure of her life has been absorbed by you, that your idle talks, nnd chance meetings have drawn her away from her own ide ality to an ideal world .of sorrow and un huppiness. You thought you were doing no harm. Perhaps you did, but a gentle man would have thought, a gentleman would never have performed such'an action?" "From which I reason that I am not a gentleman. Thank you, Miss Rodney I" His Saxon face .Unshed, with indigimtion as he spoke, but she continued undaunt edly. "Not the least necessity, I assure you. My only regret is llmt I cannot place yon under deeper obligat ions, that my words arc insufficient to till you all 1 think of your cmuluct?the base, ungenjl.omanlv cowardice that could induce any man, thrincd in the*image ?f his Creator, to win a woman's heart merely pour passer lc temp-!. It is common; I know scores und hundreds of your set and compeers, do likewise ; but it is eotilcmptiblu ail the same. In your ease it is more than con temptible, for though the girl's social station is heneath yours, the station and the nature he r (rod has given her is as much above you as the mountains are above the earth.- Furthermore, despite the in tensity of your selfishness and hcrs ignor ance, you loved her." The color faded from his cheeks, he drew one short, hard breath, and tinswci cd nothing. "I repeat it, in a sort of way you loved her, and you do not love me; but my position is more advantageous, and you asked me to be your wife. Facing her wrongs, egotism is disgusting; but with all due deference, 1 will briefly inform you that I am engaged to a man who would scorn the amusement that enter tained you so immensely. She paused out of breath. "And now, Mr. Kirk, will you be kind enough to turn, I have to drive home to night, you must remember?" So he turned, and in perfect silence they floated on their homeward way. She sat at the stern, one hand rippling the waters, both eyes watching the curves she made. Nearer and nearer grew the village, and still neither of them spoke. She be eamo tired of rippling, and, seeing a bough Hunting on the water, stretched one shapely hand towards it, leaned her lithe body forward, and then?then, while Lindsay Kirk was thinking of a moro manly future; was dreaming of Trix a shy face and intensely happy eyes; while Miss Rodney was thinking over her girl ish thoughts ; while a pair of dusky, euger eyes watched them from the shore, the boat upset, and tho two were struggling in the water. The sail Happing lazily ! around, struck Lin.I as ho fell, but Miss Rodney bad just sufficient consciousness to scream, in her c!?ar )*oung ftojec;-~ "Help us ! Oh, my God ! Help ! Wore drowning!" To hear over the water a voice ns sweet and girlish as her own. "Hold on! Hold on to the boat, and I'll bo there in a minute I" So with .energy 'bomqf despttir, fejioy clung tightly on, held wltK supcrriuniaii" strength Jthd nian' sho so ileirpisecli tettU with q?ick, Bfiort strokes, . the boat'of rc? fuge was beside them. - "? Trix, hurry!" she.screamed. /4??r;? - ry, for I can't hold on a minute longer 1" Even while she. spoke, Trix was besido her, and Edith still cried "JrJelp him in first I'll trf to hold on." , ;\... j? ? Sr> Trix, with her strong young arms , helped him iri'firstntjd tlion] ^j^Kod iiey. The next sho hereelf had~-fallen h elplessjy, powerlcssly between tho boats. Ten minutes after, two sturdy miners had rowed to tho rescue*!- Half atthbur lutcr, Lind, opened his eyes, and seeing Miss Rodney (fitting bcj&ter him with a white, awe-stric&en face, murmured :? "Where is Trix ?" ; L?Tlatoo awaited hungrily the answer (t^no gave, for Trix haddrifted out- into the sea of .eternity. Out through'the tippling water.-; to thegolden gates of the |K^riiai Ghy.nvhcrc \?ain nnd sorrow arc ? unkno>vn.J . *.- * . uWt?, ? ?m . ?r ' ' Thd Sunteam. The greatest of physical paradoxes is the sunbeam. It is the most potent nnd versatile force we have, and yet it be haves itself like the guiltiest and most ? accommodating. Isothing can fall invre softly or more silently upon tho earth than the rays of our great luminary?not Cven the leathery flakes ot enow, which thread their way through the atmosphere as if they were too filmy to yield to the demntnU of graviiy, like ^rosmifjthing*. The most delicate tdip of gold-loaf, expos ed as a target to the sun's hhnfts, ia not stirred to the extent of a hoir, [though nil infant's faintest breath would set it into tremulous motion. The tendenst of hu nian organ--?"the pupil of tho eyi? tkbiigh pierced and hullctcd each day by thousands of sunbeams, Millers in? pni.i during the process, but rejoices in their sweetness, and blesses tho useful 1 ght. Vet a few of those rays, insinuating them selves into a mass of iron, like the Britan- 1 nia Tubular Bridge, will .compel tho closcly-kuit particles to separate, and will move the whole.enormous fabric with as much case us a giant would stir a straw. The play of those beams upon our sheets of water lilts up layer alter layer into the atmosphere, and hoists whole rivers from thcr beds, only to drop them again in snows upon the hills, or in fattening showers upon tho plains. Let but tho air drink in a little more sunshine at one place than another, and out of it springs the tempest or the hurricane, which deso lates a whole region in its lunatic wrath. Tho marvel is that a power w hich is capa ble of assuming suclia diversity of forms, and of producing such stupendous results should come to us in so gentle, so peace ful, and so unpretentious a guise.?[Ru ral Carolinian*. New Use for Cats.?The late heavy rains this spring have given us the prom ise of abundance of strawberries. To keep off the hints how simple, how cer tain, how small is the cost of a cat on a small chain sliding on wire, nnd giving the animal the wall', up nnd down tho whole length of the Strawberry beds. A knot at each end ofthewiro readily prevents the cat from twisting round tho post which supports the wire, and a small kennel placed in the middle of the walk affords her a shelter and a home for her kittens. In large gart ens a second cat is required, and tho young ones in their frequent visits, to each other greatly assist in searing away the birds. 1 have for more than lit) years used, and seen used with perfect success, this easy' method of protecting fruit, and the very same plan is equally good in keeping hares and rabbits off flower beds. After the first few days cats in no way dislike this par tial restraint, nnd when set quite free, ftjWft few -fpee&?' wrtt'rh-r^., they will ?f their own accord continue on guard. Tho kittens, more especially, attach them selves to thisgnrden occupation, and of their own accord, become the gardener'i best allies.?[Cor* Land and Water.