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t*tm 12 Jf ER ANNUM, J "ON WE MOVE INDIBSOL?BEY FXRMJ GoD ilSD NATURE BID TBE BAH'E " ORANGEBURG, S0I CAROLINA, TfSp i 1(1:3 !? f?inn^j'..h y*">*3 I ' ? '?;?> 'if: -o ' : 3MT HI W0ir.Aj.?3?!0T230flAJ <?;.???... :i. ? " .." > "to TJfJn?ho j; v,..: .. ? Vl , riM ,y (yy,,h wfi4m|i><MJt , DECEMBER 25* 1873* :. f'...,. (rioi O NE ORANGEBURG TIMES la published ovcry THURSDAY, i I WHA NGEBUJRG/C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA Jit NGEBUM THH3S COMPANY. Kirk Robinson, Agt. BATES OF ADVERTISING. i ?pack. 1 In sertion 12 In sertion 24 In-|48 In sertion jsertion square, ?quires, ?quarea, square*, column, column, column, 8 60 6 00 11 00 15 00 18 00 20 50 33 00 10 00 18 00. 25 00 30 00 33 00 GO 00 12 00 27 00 37 00 45 00 57 00 75 00 13 00|.55 00| 83 00|125 00 UUnsCIUPTION RATKS: TRAVELLERS' GUIDE. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. Charleston, S. C7, Oct. 13, 1872. On and alter SUNDAY* Oct. 19, the passenger trains on the South Carolina Railroad will run as follows": for augusta* Leave Charleston ? ?? Arrive at Augusta - rait Columbia. L*Ry> Cii&rl&ittiH Arrive *t Cohtmbftt; Laave Ang^ftf. ? - j'.tivo v' '.umhia' - Airir? at\ ':ij*iesWH - AUfil'STA nioiW fcii;irw**: (^Sundnya xX';ep!t;fl.) K jva-* t? Ch a ri ??*'. or> ^Arrive at Augusta - U fvt AuguMa - Ar.-iy? at t'iiarlfston COl.UHUIA NUJHT EXPRESS B:00 a m 5:00 p m 9:00 a m 5:00 p m 8:20 a m 4:20 pjn ?:4?"a hi 4:20 p m f?:?O p Hi 7:00 n in (i:0i) p ni 5:4(3 a in (S Uli a ays excepted.) I.-?avo Charleston Arrive at Columbia J?Yfl t olumbia Arrivo at Charleston 7:10 p ifc G:30 a m 7:15 p ra 0:45 a m a year> !n advance?$1 for ri*Pr^iontbj2?! JOli PRINTING in ita all uf[Wtme*rT^j neatly execuredt Give us a cajl. 81.MMEKV1U.E TRAIN. 7:25 a m 8:40 a m 3:10 p m 4:30 p in 0:50 am 11:50 a m 1;50 p.in 3:35 p in Laave Summerville Arrive at Charleston Leave Charleston Arrive at Summcrville at ? CAMDEN BRANCH. leave Cam den Irrive at Culumbia L?|Ve Columbia Arrive at Camden Day and Night Trains connect at Au gusta with Macon and Augusta Railroad and Georgia Railroads. This is the quickest and most direct route, and as comfortable and cheap as any other route to Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis aud all other points West aud Northwest. Columbia Night Trains connect with Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and Day and Night Trains connect with Char lotte Road. Through Tickets on sale, via this route to all points North. Camdeif Train connects at Kingville daily (except Sundays) with Day Passen ger Train, and runs through to Columbia A. L. TYLER, Vice-President. S. B. Pic'xens General Ticket. Agent. Sep 27 H H. O. STOI.Ii. Agt.. "Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, JLT Tili.' oll> btand, 28? KING STREET. AVING made arrangements to continue _ the business latciy conducted hy the firm of 8TOLL, WEBB &Co., I respccJfuly inform my friends and customers of Orangeburg county that I have now in store a large assort ment of goods, bought for cash, during the Panic, which 1 am offering as low as any House in the city. Thanking my friends and .customers for the patronage fo liberally bc .Btowcd upon the old firm. I hope hy strict at tention to business to merit a continuance of the flftine. / will adhere ttrictiy to the one price m/itcm. Respectful ly, ? ?T " ? ?TOLL. Agent, n. o. ~*_ Successor to Stoll, Webb ? Co., 2bi SUeot, Charleston, SC. ' I ? ' Nov. 13, 1873 39 ?iu. I W. J. BeTreville, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office at Court House Square,* Orangeburg, S. ?. tnchl3-lyr IZLAE & DIBBLE, attorneys at law, RUSSELL STREET, Orangeburg, S. C. JA8. F. fyLAR. S. DlBBI/e. inch 0-13t i>r. thomas legare, LATZ RESIDENT rnYStdAV TO THE ROPER AND CITY HOSl'lTAL OF CHARLESTON, OFFERS his pretcssional services to the community of Orangeburg and to the pub lic at large Office Hours?From 8 to 9 a. m., 1 to 2, and 7 to 9 at night. Office, Market Street, over store of Jno. A. Hamilton. aug. 14 1873 20 ? Cm MOSES M. BROWN, BABJBE3R-. JlARKET STREET, ' ORANGEBURG, S. C, (next door to Straus & Street's mill.) HAVING permanently located in the town, would respectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens* Every ctibrt will bo used to give satisfaction. June 18. 1873 18 ly THE HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE, T? RF.ST, Because it is perfect in its work Because it has the endorsement of bo many ladies who use it; because it is simple, and because it can be bought complete on table for only $37,00. &z&r?r?1?Jff/LV A, H-LWrrfr?^ Agent for If." S. 8. Machine, iharcii 1873 tf Kir& Robinson'1 DEALER IN HjOns; Mitsic ami Stationery, and Fancy Articles, bit?kcir street, ORANGEBURG, C. Hi, S. C. mch (> V Geo. S? Hacker Doors Sasli$ Blind Factory CHARLESTOxV. IIIS IS AS LARGE AND COMPLETE, a factory as there is in the Month. All work manufactured at the Factory in this city. The only bouse owned and managed by a Carolin an in this cltv. Send for price list. Address OEO. S. HACKER, i Po?toffiee Rox 170, Cbarlcston, S. C Factory and VVarerooiv.s on King ?treel oppo ?itc Cannon street, on line of City Railway, Oct. 30 iy yy ANTED, TO KENT. A FARM, with about 100 acres cleared land under fence. Dec. 4, 1873 42 tf For sale; A FARM, in the Fork of Edisto. Comfor table dwelling. Price reasonable. Dec. 4, 1S73 42 tf vick's floral guide !FOIi 1874. 200 Pages; f)00 Engravings, and Col ored Plate. Published Quarterly, at 2.r> cents a year. First No. lor 1874 just issued. ? German edition at same price, Address, James Vice, Rochester, N. Y. Nov. 27,1873 41 tf cow lam g raveley. DIRECT IMPORTER OF HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLE MENTS. No. 52, East Ray, .South of t' c old Post Office, Charleston, S. C. AGENT for the sale of the Magnolia Cotton Gins. At the Fairs held at Savannah, Ga. last month, the "Magnolia" cotton Gin ginned l?Olbs seed cotton in three, minutes and fortv live seconds, taking the premium, and also the prize of One Hundred Dollars offered by the Roard of Trade for the best GIN. Several have been sold this season which gin a bale an hour. The same gin alto took the premium at ?'->? States Fair at Aui?u?i?? ? ' ' - gf.? POETHY. THE JUN?FKAU. BY J. II* MOK8K, . ! A world of.watcTB lies between Me and a picture I have seen. It was Rfnid the icy flW Of ?ivor.; from the Alpine snotr. Ail upland field of vernal ground, Where the far echoes, i round and round, Of Alpine horns, rang musical, Blending with sounding waterfall. There, uncouth shepherds Bcrgamasque Plied lazily their day-long task, And heard nil day amid the della The music of a thousand bells. While from the mountains, dense or thin, The rainless clouds poured swiftly in, And left the pastures all aglow, Ere they sank down the vales below. There, late and weary of the way? Ne'er will my heart forget that day? The mist* ran low, and inlnndcd, 1 saw the Jungfrau's lofty head. Snow-crowned, and dazzling in the light, ?Piercing the blue with virgin white, More like a sun-ciff thrown aslant On Earth's most Bolid adamant; More like a broken planet burled One part athwart our steadfast world, And from its black path through the night Plunged suddenly into the light. There standing, all at once a sound Came to me from the far profound, Which left the noise of waterfalls, From inaccessible high walls, >;Like a low murmur heard behind The roaring of an autumn wind? So deep and jarring^ind, ere long, As it came near, so loud and strong. It was an avalanche unseen That, issuing two high crags between, Flowed thundering down the mountain steep Into a chasm black and deep. The clouds uplifted, and a gleam Of sunshine shot athwart the stream, Which, twisting in thegoldcn thread, , k^>c'] "i",1 fr-'1-? The cattle, feeding to tho edge Of that sweet plain, stood on tho ledge, And for a moment, unconcerned, Toward Jungfrau's unveiled bosom turned? Then grazed again, and I could hear Their tinkling bells sound sweet and near; But I could see, for miles and miles, The Obei land break into smiles. Some of its Fruits. Imtil twenty-seven yenrs ago, there was not a State in the Union where tho olliee of judge was fi'.lcd by direct popu lar election; and it is a striking coinci dence that up to that date, tho word judge in this country was a venerable word?gathering into itself in the minds of the people all those ideas of purity, ability, learning, calmness, firmness and impartiality, on which the confidence of the people might perfectly repose. Prior to 184G, in all our annals, there had sel dom been known the instance of a judge to whom we could have uttered Shake speare's sad censure: Your dishonor Mflnglcfl true judgement, and bereaves the State, Of that integrity which cl'.Ouid become it. The old system of selecting judges by appointment had given us invariable an experience of good judges that we per haps ceased to appreciate the the possi bility of ever having bad ones. But just twenty-scvon years ago, New York held a convention for the revision of its Constitution. It was a period of unbounded self-confidence, political rash ness and innovation. Without nny real discussion of the subject, for no assigned cause, without the least pretence that the people desired such a measure, and ngainst the votes of the ablest men in the Convention?Charles P. Kirkland, Charles O' Conor, Henry Nicoll, Henry C. Murphy, Samuel J. Tilden, and oth ers?tho convention set aside our ancient system of judicial selection, and made the office of a judge a merely political one, to be set ambled for and held by the lowest tie vices of ollico seeking and par tisan trickery. b'or twenty-scvon years we have tried this system of selecting our judges by tho ordinary competitions of partisan politics. Certainly, we have given the system a fair trial. What are we to think of it? What have been its fruits ? Have they not been such as to justify tho warning sounded by John Stuart Mill, in his "Considerations on Representative Gov ernments," when ho declared: "The practice introduced by some of tho new .-..^w. KjiMio constitutionsot Amo^tOtt of submitting judicial offices to periodical popular reelection, will be found, I npprc hend,fto be one of tho most dangerous error&jever yet committed by democracy." AH men must see that the experiment whichj Lave been trying has brought upon ,tts almost every form of social ca lamity and flhaine?the judicinl office da grsdejd, tho popular mind misled and de bauched, the great legal profession lower ed an^ discouraged, justice made a thing of barter, and the law itself a laughing stock^ It is a system which has within receBVye^rs put upon the bench in this StateS^ges who were as ruffianly and as infaitfoiis as Jeflreyr and, Scroggs. Under this t^stem, according to the testimony of an honored.member of the New York bar, '^murders, manslaughters, abortions, and oilier startling crimes have become 'so much more frequent as to send a thrill of horror and alarm through the com muning TKs greater boldness, frequency and success.;' with which the insidious and BUSpiL'ious defense of insnnity has been interposed, and the newly developed art of excluding nearly all men of strong character and definite opinions from the jury-box in all cases of the higher crimes, have not escaped general attention. The more frequent conflicts of jurisdiction, the discreditable disputes about injunc tions and receiverships, and the multi plicd-nppeals and the increasing rumors of political influence nil over the .State of late years, none but the most dull and indifl -rent have failed to observe. The more crowded condition of our prisons, without crime being more repressed ; tho increasing habit on the part of district a,ltorfreys of delaying or altogether omit ting ?he, trial of those indicted; while Vjurora have been brought more ninTaore under those pnrtisau influen i'C^jghjh enfeeble the sense of duty, are , bar has proclaimed its deep-felt dissatis faction. In the higher literature of the country, and everywhere in the public press of the State, the infidelities of our judicial offices havebeeu proclaimed, so that in every part of the civilized world, for years past, the administration of jus tice in the State of New York has been made the subject of disparaging and h? railiatiuo comment. With open procla mation of a sense of peril, the owucrs of property have fled from our borders to seek the protection of purer judiciary ; and in every monarchy of Europe New York lawyers and merchants have hung their heads in shumc at the mention of our courts." Every word of this awful testimony is true. The case, is not overstated. In deed, it might be made stronger, and still be within the truth. These, then, arc the fruits of tho syatetn of ninh:?ng the office of judge one of &0 ordinary spoils of politico. \Vhateaa be plainer than that it is our duty, at the election which is soon to take place, to cast such ballots as will rescue us from the longer endur ance, and the still more costly calamity, of a bad system, which we v/odded in haste and have had bitter reason to repent of at leisure ? The judge differs from nil other officers, in that ho does not rcpre seut a constituency?that ho is elected to carry out no policy, that he is of side, of no party. lie is removed from all temp tations of passion and partisanihip, that he may determine law and equity with nbsolute impartiality. Is it likely that a people can, during violent political controversies, seleet such an officer wisely? Lightning. Lightning is tho sudden discharge of] electricity from tho clouds to the earth, or from cloud to cloud.lt has various ap pearances. Sometimes it is a zigzag flash, makeing appnrantly n continuous lino of light, bent sharply in two or more places. Again, flashes of light ning illumiuate a large portion of the hea vens with a broad diffused light accout red with thuuder. On warm sum mer nights, the phenomenon called sheet or heat lightning often appears in dif fused flashes generally faint, and unac companicd by thunder. Lastly, the name of lightning is applied to certain luminous meteors, sometimes known as fireballs, concerning which many incred ible stories are told. According to tHn. ""r,"?'?*nn. tho duration ie*pWWW??? "2!!rVYc*a fl***1 tVlC 0"f'vhcVignMv?$ fln ? thousandth part of n second. The fire ball-?, on tho contrary, arc said to last for At least several seconds. We are indebted to art article'iir'Rotik Well's Dictionary'of Science for the fol lowing information concerning the ap pearances and properties of the various kinds . of lightning - above .mentioned. The first kind, namely, the zigzag flash, is seen frequently,"though not so com monly as tho scdond and third kinds. What is seen is simply the line in which the spark travels. It is often of great length, and is generally composed of a number of straight lines of fire, forming with each other one continous line, hav ing several acute angles in it.; This zig zag appearance may be observed on a small scale in taking long sparks from tho prime conductor of a good electric machine. The spark follows the lino of least resistance, which is not generally straight. In the second kind of lignt ningmentioned, tho light is spreftd overa large surface, instead of being concentra ted on a single lino. This kind is inost frequently seen. It is probable due to the light of a spark which is diffused around and reflected, while the line of the spark itself is concealed. Heat lightning, which is unaccompanied by thunder, generally consists of pale flash es near the. horizon; and is often seen even when no definite clouds arc visible. In sonic cases, it isdiio to distant storms, too far off for the thunder to be heard ; the light of the flashes reaching the ob server by reflect ion from clouds or mists. In some cases the light has.been seen in the zenith, and cannot be tints accounted for. Possibly these phen?riienk are du ? l.o discharges in the- atmoBphero.at^very jrcrit heights. Concerning the fireballs, j little seems to be known, They, fall slow ly from the clouds to the earth, the de :!\c,nt pHj?Ku:&; J-M} or more, .ipenrd.?( nod ? are said often to rebound once or tvice upon the ground, and afterwards to ox ylode with great violence: It is .difficult to account for such properties according to any known electric laws. It is not easy, to account for the for-. niation of lightning. It is generally supposed that the small parti?les ?f aqu eous vapor which leave the earth, and which are afterwards condensed to form clouds, arc electrified at the time of va porization, and perhaps in consequence of its occurrence. These particles car ry their electricity away with them. When the cloud is formed they unite and form molecules' the union of which produces drop.'.. The latter arc thus in a state of considerable electrification. It is pro bable that the interior particles, by means of internal discharges, throw a portjqn of their . electricity into the periphery of the cloud; and when the outside of the cloud has become very powerfully electrified, a dischargo takes place toward the earth, or toward an adjacent and opposite-electrified .cloud. The external Inyqr of the c!oud having thus relieved itself, the little globules ol water again begin to discharge iutD each other, their size, and tho electric strain nt their external surfaces, all the time increasing; for it is well known that, in an electrified conductor, tho electricity is disposed in a fine layer at tho exteri or. Again, by a series of internal dis charge.-*, the periphery of the cloud is charged, and a second flash occurs. Cer taiu clectroscopio experiments seem to show that what has just been described actually takes place, and that, for some time previously to the flash, discharges are occurring from part to part within the cloud. Lightning possesses tho same proper- j ties as the ordinary olectric spark, exhib iting them with a power propo: tioual to the enormous quantity of electricity which is expended in the production of a flash. Its physiological (fleets arc too frequent ly recognised. When it strikes an ani mal It usually, though not always, pro duces death. Generally tho spark pas ses through the body, tearing and burn ing it at the places where it enters and loaves, .frequently setting firo to the clothes, and nearly always burning up the hair on all parts of tho body. When death does not follow, doafnes.4, loss of sight, dilation and loss of con credibility of tho pupil of tho eye arc frequently Itemporarily produced. Instances are known, on the other hand, in which weak strokes of lightning have cured disease. Kentucky Tragedy, n *}rl ?? ^arrod9BUKo,Kv, November 2T. Our town- is in a terrible state of ex citement, caused by tbe difficulty which happened' in the Court House- yesterday afternoon and1 which resulted irt the?ikiUcBX? ing of three men and tbe- wounding o&em three others. The parties engaged in ^#Ii affray wore Phil B. Thoavpsony $nyi*Pr old and dietinguised lawyer of otrrloft^ and brother ; of ex.Senator & B. Thomp^ son,.and hi& three sons, viz: D.: IuVTpmjp/*,, aon,.PhilC,; {Thompson, Jy.r Common' wealth's Attorney for,this district^ .sad ' J. B. Thnmpgnn-^.fr- rnnnty A against Theodore ^,-.,Da.yis, Esq,, ancl~~ his three sons, Theodore, Jr., Laruff atftl Cnldwelj. Circuit GouH nas beehitfr'eB^ si on for several days, arid was at the foikwn tlio shooting occurred, with1 Judge Wicfcfu? liffe on the bench, .fib* pptft[ j^,fcf!<$?f/ just retired for a few minutes, when of A Budden a?piatol,shot was hej^J?^wecT^ by twenty-five or thirty others simultane' ously inside of the house, which wa* crowded at tlie time. The excitement. waS intense. Men tumbled headlong out' of the windows and doors, r Doctors, J&jfcK* yers, citizens,- and the Judge himsej^j rushed for a place of safety, pileingooe. upon top of the other, secreting under ana behind benches and pillars."' Ihe's'to'tftf'S and Court House walls were Hterally^rhJ^ died : with bullets, while two? men lay. ? dead on the floor; one other mortally aift} a three others slightly wounded, Theed^rj^^ Davis, Sr., wa3 shot through the .heart . died immediately, and his ' son,'Tiarin?? Davis, after reccving four builds in hi, " body, fell and died in a few minutes* v ?Theodore Davis, Jr., was snot..through'? jhe body and :ni8Q.ip the righ^hand^H^ lived unt^H tins .mpr^g ; andre^niredf about ten o'clock. He walked from tlie*1 Court House to the Adam's Expre? . .office.after ho" was shot; and did net at tho time think he was seriously hurt* Phil B. Thoropsen, Sr, was shot through*;, tho right thigh J. Be and his brothejfy. P.,B., Sr., were wounded slightly and; several had shots through theirjclothing.. D. M., another brother, also had -ins* clothes perforated with bullets. Oft'eH hall passed through his hat. The fight>; though sudden, \;as not wholly unexpect ed, 1'or it was.-gcuerally known that both parties were armed* and Judge Wickli?b had the day previous ordered the sheriff*' to arm himself and deputies, and be ready to quell nuy disturbance that might arise,, and to "nip it in the bud" at all hazardsr However, when the difficulty did h*gi^ tbe danger was thought to have been. 8 ovcr, and the sheriff, with the Judge' permission, had gone home. The lGtb of December has been set for the examin ing trial, and until then no further gar" ticulars will bo brought , to light. 'The* cause of the fight was about a suit which had been brought by oue Mcux against Theodoro Davis for $2,500. Davis swore; that ho had the money, and produced; the note as evidence, tind M., Thumpson,. Sr., contended that tho note had not been' paid, and that it hud been surreptitiously obtained from his desk. Such, I am in formed, was in substance the origin- of" the difficulty which terminated $o seri ously. A father and the three sons were arrayed against a father and three sonsy, and whilst I write a father and two sons lie dead-in ono house while a father and two sons lio wounded in another. Both* families live on .the same street, not far apart. The battle, for such it may bo called, was short, fierce and decisfVci Thcre was no nickering. All tho parties were cool and determined, and not :r shod ans fired at random or.without earn. The dead will be buried in one grave to-mor row, and Wednesday, the 26th of No vember, 1873, will hereafter be known as the "Bloody "Wednesday" 'in the history of Harrodsburg. An Encounter.? A ferocious bull dog "went fur" tho Junior ot this she* bang last Tuesday. The owner of said purp was endeavoring te-tie a tin-box to* the brute's tail, when ho mado his eseaps and tridc to cat up an editor- Bto evi deutly mistook tbe quill-driver for a bone. This occurrence should awaken a deep sympathy in the henrti of every delinquent on our books. If members; of this firm aro getting lean enough, toi bo taken for a bone, it is time that somot paying ny was done, so a fellow can getl oat meal enough to at least make ? ?V I cent shadow,--North Georgian.