The Oraii emocrat A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORANGEBURG COUNTY. Vol. Ia O?ANGEBUKG, S. C, F?lDAT, ^EBRUARY 21* 1879. * 2STo. 8. SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. subsouiition. Ono Year.$1.50 Six Months.1.00 Mlulstersof tho Gospel.1.00 Advehtisemewts. First Instertton.$1.00 Euch Subsequent Insertion.50 Liberal coutrncts made for 3 mouths and over. JOB OFFICE IB PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OP Job l?2?intiii?? SCHOOL fJlIILDMN, ?o? VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS AMD TEACHERS. It is the time Of the ringing of the school bells. If they could nil be heard together, it would be, in its meaning, the greatest chime of the age. Thousands and tens of thous sands of coming citizens are to be summoned to the public and private schools, there to be fitted, or unfitted, for the work of mature life. The dramatists did not miss it when he made the first school satchel day one of the seven events of "the ages." To all intents, it is a partial .trans > f-. of the ehild to a new parental roof. The teacher, to no small de gree, comes in not only as assistant to the home, but, for the time being, as a principal. T So much of destiny centres around these school building, that we cannot too much feel the greatness of the interests involved. All the more be cause it is not always very manifest destiny. ? Nowadays there are so many sec tions left out of what is called com mon school education. Grandfather worked on the farm when he was a boy; went to winter school, and to night school besides; made a good merchant up to forty ; then a success . ful farmer; and, though not very largely booked, was fitted for and filled his sphere in life. He was fitted to earn a livelihood by industry, as well as to parse. We cannot but start tbe-question whether the education of the present is well-balanced for the attainment of this object. Just now we confine ourselves to the point whether there is proper care for the body in education. If the design is to fit one for life, that moans the work of life; that means vigor, en durance, a maintainenance of the right njustment between a boy's or girl's physical, intellectual and moral self. It is the wholeness of the thing J.hat is sent to school. Unless this fact is comprehended and attend i .1 to?not casually, but esseutially? the e is training for unfitness. '"'-rest riskB and great exposure to kue body are involved in seuding a child to school. It may meau mere ly such mind work as is too much of a tax upon the brain and nervous system. It often means indigestion, from a hurried lunch at noon or a fast until 2 o'clock. It often in volves sitting in constrained positions too long, too close confinement in ill ventilated or ill-heated roorr.8, and other experiences inimical to vigorous growth. A recent book says the first right of a child at school is to feel happy. One element in this ie left out if the conditions arc not such ns favor his good health. Indisposition is a word of double meaning. That of the mind and temper is affected by that of the body. There are most cogent reasons why children at school should be so pro vided for as that all their surround ings tend to a comfortable physical condition. Simon, speaking of arti zans, says "that it is their right that whatever work their employer assem bles them to do, should, as far is as in his power,be divested of all unhealthy circumstances. " It is a poor charity and a poor economy, too, for the State to present to all its children a free school system, if the perils of the school-room are excessive. No school should commence with out a thorough knowledge' on the part of its trustees as to the adequacy' of the buildings, its desks, its hcat f ing and other apparatus, its general fitness, for the conduct of the work u purposed to be done on it. We wish the parents ot the cuilUrqn would just now form themselves into a com mittee of the whole, and wait upon each board and find out just what they know as to sanitary inspection. All the' more, because so lately our .New York boards have certified their 1 competency to superintend all this matter. We happen to know some thing about school infections,(school temperature, school air, and school ' troughs, etc. r, I " . . ...... 1 ? .! i be- ? introduced. Mr. JaSi Brizzolari, a bro,Uier of Madame Vincent, a young lawyer of fine talent, was coming into notice. He had already risen to the dignity of a place on the Democratic Execu tive Commiltc, and was believed to have good prospects for a scat in the Lower House of the Tennessee Lcgis-r laturc He was tall, handsomo and spirited, and carried himself like a chevalier. His rapid rise to prominence gave promise of a brilliant future, when, in consequence of a newspaper article Which he ttohstr?ed asYeflectihg on him, hr challenged'the'author, a fel low of the legal profession, and a duel ensued, in which he, Brizzolari, was wounded. The duel was con ducted with great'eclat, the combat ants sailing down the river in sepa rate crafts, and saluting each other as they passed, in true chivnlric style. ; . , ; While the public mind was still somewhat- excited over tho "meet ing," and public curiosity about Briz zolari giving place to -sympathy 'for the wounded hero, the announcement fell upon the public car like a clap of thunder, from a clear sky that this brilliant and promising young man eloped ? with his niece, the beautiful and accomplished Miss Baccigalupo. The parents Were deeply mortified that u daughter and nephew should have so disgraced their family name, but time,-which ? heals all. ills, soon blotted out, this episode from the memory of the public, if not from tho minds of those most closely indenti (ied, and when the- elopement was al mosc forgotten,. Brizzolari was heard from, a saloon keener in Fort Smith, Arkansas, his niece, his wife,no long er, living alone in Little Rock. AViothel* actor in the drama, albeit he might have been introduced sooner though he figures in these dramatis personali.in,jthe.last act pf this play, is Angela Alnrre. Like the hero of the story, Marro' was a tall', weit-forined, muscqlar, man, of line physique, and enjoyed a reputation that hisra8soci ates considered enviable'. lie owned a lucnarVb -JraNo^iusTOase, was pop ular, and enjoyed considerable local political influence. 'y'A ? '' was discovered ithati tho o?loc of tho Memphis .Chief of police, the very headquarters of the thief catchers, had iSeetfj burglarjp??ly wppped, the safe broken open j?u(l robbed, ni|ci tlio public was surprised to kiloWthat MArre had been arrested on 'Suspicion of complicity in tho burglary*.1 Marro was indicted, tried and convicted, and sentenced to a long term in the penitentiary. Alter solving some three years ho was pardoned by tile Governor in consideration . of good conduct, and passing by Ins did home, he went to Little Rock, where iie met the late Mrs. Briz'zolari (nee Mjss Baccigalujio) and rhurried lier. They lived together until recently, when the ' fickle'woman le'ft the ex-convict suddenly and returned to' her flfrst husband, her uncle Brizzolnri. ' Again we go back to Madame "Vin cent. Th'a yellow fever epidemic,in Memphis last summer carried off Madame Vincent and her husband, Vincent Buceignlupoj both dyjog'tJud deuly and intestate, and leaving *an estate valued at 8200,000^ ''The lat ter husband of Miss Baccigalup'o, who had been so long absent frpm his old home, returned to the Bluff City 1 and asserting that be hatt'Tq for tried Iiis Ways since his discharge from' llie penitentiary, with an' 'earn est desire to again walk'in the pethr, of rectitude end become an honest and respected cjtizen? sent a petition to the Governor asking to be restored to citizenship. "" } ( . , ; I The recomendations were. . 8u.cu thai the petition was granted,, and shortly, after the ,GoycrtpDr had ?fpr wardcd.the papers, a telegram, v;oh receiVea.in^emphis irons' BrizzoJari asking that the petition^f Marre,for restoration to cilizeuslup be wpot granted until he, Brizzolari, could be heard from.' But it was too lake. Then followed ? suit, just now enter ed, for the possession of the heiress to the piopcrty left in Memphis, euch claiming her as his wife.;?VtcksbUrg Herald. ' -?'? Visit Your Scho?ls.1 , Visiting schools is much neglected by both oflicers and parents.: r?jU*t more attentions should be given to this work few wil) deny.' We'wdujd insist upon the exercise of this duty for the,following reasons: '? 1. For the encouragement of pupils. 2. To encourage, restrain and As sist the'teachers' In their workl" \ 3. That they; as patrons, may sec exactly how .the schools are conduct ed. ' .../ . y4.,.That they ma,y learn, how school* are conducted, with an eye to the im provement in their administration. These propositions"ore so self-evi dent that they need no argument to sustain them. . ,i ... i Parents and oflicers cannot expect to improve their system while they Vernein in total ignorance of what it is, or what it should be. Parents and officers cannot expect to improve their system while they remain in total ignorance of what it is, or what it should bo. The vote of the people boa much power in deciding, what laws shall govern their schools ; .but how igno rant many of these voters 1 The people should study education that they may be able to improve the system and its administration. Parents, do not complain of the school until you have visited it fre quently, i ?'. Without a Newspaper. Nothing presents a ;s*uldcr com mentary upon the present conditibn of society than the large . number of families'in the county that subscribo to ho newspaper at all. Hundreds are thus growing up ignorant of what i's transpiring in the world around them, ignorant of the mighty events of the day. But who can tell the vast injury being infliQtcdd on the risirig' generation', tlioap who are to take our places in the busy world at do',d is t a.. l.d?y~gr?wr^ up without any khowledo of tile present, and study of the past, this ignorance* too being imbued into them by the sr,nc ?tforx bf those whi ahoUld! nml^craot less does, know better, did thoy only think of tho injurious effects of their insane course. Let the head of every family think of tin--, ami pine;; in the hands of those for whom ho is respon sible, the means of acquiring some know ledge of tE(D mo vi ng "panore.ma in which we act the different parts. Mr. Nathan Lyons, of St. Paul, said that M isses Km ma Fabojr and Mary Hendriks Were too proud to do tho duties OF farmer's daughters, and promised them each a fifty dollar silk dr&Tttf??? ^?Itt^riMKT J?Sl a cow through the streets of tho Min nesota metropolis. Accordingly Miss F.ibcr took the cow in tow, with Miss Hcntiricks armed with'ft Woomslick, acting as rearguard, and thus they escorted the animal down Third street and earned their silk dresses. BEECHER ON THUEE THEMES. ?o? IIKTUKNJN? HOARDS, CHINESE EMIUKA , TIOS AND MOKMONISM ALL TOUCHED Ui'ON. ? Mr.: Needier mixed politics with re ligion in his sermon yesterday, and several tiincs'his hearers applauded. There was ho clapping of hands, hut llio Stamping of feet was so rigorous that 1t raised the dfust, aud even Mr. BbeCher himself seemed astonished at such demonstrations in a church. One of the occasions of applause was his reference to the Presidential elec tion'ol 1876, and the vote in Louisi ana, South Carolina and Florida, lie eaid that if Louisiana had been left to herself she would have given such a decided majority that no re turning board could have been in doubt as to the result, or could possi sibly have muddled things so as to raise a doubt. If the State had been let alone, her people would have voted so that a returning board that would have doubted the result would have been swept into the sea. Mr. Beech er also' applied the same re marks in a degree to South Carolina and ? Florida ; but he neglected to. dtale whether the very" decided ma jorities would have ? been in favor of Tilden or Hayes. Mr. Beceher made an indirect allu sion to cipher dispatches when he said that there was too much corrup tion in political matters. lie thought there ought to be more morality in politics. Christianity should per vade* the 'legislative halls and the halls'of jtislidfel ' The Catholic church had a stronger hold than the Protes tant church upon the members be cause she made her morality a cor porate morality. In other words, she made herself responsible for the faith and'practice of her members. She had ft discipline, and . she formed a commonwealth spirituality of which every member was a part. Protes tantism, on the other hand, while having more freedom of thought and action, allowed her members to set up individual systems of morality, in Which There was not sufficient Unity of action. Mr; Beechef also referred to the Chinese question, saying: "Our government professes that it is found ed Upon the principle that all men are equal, and yet we have had our at tention attracted tO a bill excluding Chinamen from the laud. Tho hand of an executive officer who would offer to sign such an outrageous bill should be struck with, paralysis, so that the pen would fall out of his nerveless grasp?" (Applause.) ^The Utah Mormons came for a share of Mr. Bcecher's attention. He thought that the government ought to have! moral firmness onough to stamp'out the curse of polygamy forever from the land. A Celebrated Irish Murder.. Dr. Korwin, the famous Ireland's Eye murderer, has been released from Spike Island prison, in .Queensto'wn harbor, after.twenty-seven years Of incarceration. Tho murder for which this man was convicted, in 1851, was one of the most celebrated criminal cases IrelaUd has ever known. Dr. Kerwin was a Wealthy and very dis tinguished physician in Dublin. Du ring.the early summer of 1851 ho visited tho island, In the harbor of Dublin, known as Ireland's Eye. Soon after the body of bis wife was found on the baaoh Of this island. The* v/om'an had been stabbed to death with the blade of a sword-cane. The'Visit of the doctor to the islaud was readily established, but there was little or no evidence going to show thKtf his Wife accompanied him. The ablest counsel in: Great' Britain de ?'funded'him, but tile jury brought him in guilty of murder in the first degree, and he was sentenced to death. The queen\ however, in consideration of thuifnct that the evidence against hltn was circumstantial, commuted his sen tence- to.imprisonment for life. ?h sd Foetal Telegraph. . ., ThO) report ,o f ,?Ue British Postmas ter General, where, the telegraph is .par^o/^lip.poslia^ system, gives sever al examples of errors in jjtelegraros, ;yyh.ic|}; .tysays,. aro, sometimes Uf I e traced- to .failures of the most trifling kind..; For instance, a pleusure party telegraphing to some friends elated that they had "ai rived alright," but the' messnge-was rendered "we have ?arrived all tight." In another c: so, ?>poor person desiring to state that her daughter was ill, wroto on hor message, ??Mary is bad ;" this was rendered, "Mary is dead." A Boy's Throat Cut to Save His Life. A young Im) named Henry think er, who resides iu Cincinnati, while eating hickory nuts swullowed a piece of one about the sjzc of a dime, which lodged in his throat, and resisted all attempts to remove it by coughing or otherwise. He did not experience from it, however, and wont to bed. About three o'clock in the morning he awoke up choking and deathly sick, and rapidly became wo:sc, flnal becoming almost incapable of breath ing. His step- father, Mr. Schwarte, accompanied by his brother, started out in search of a doctor, but though at that time it was but half-past three o'clock, it was.nine o'clock before they could get one , to come to the bouse. They called on at. least a doxon physicians, all of whom, on one pretense or .another, refused to come to see the boy, though they ! told them be was dying. Finally Dr. I Davis came, but on seeing the lad, the parents sayv told them he was too far gone to do him any good. He gave them a prescription, however, for emetic, which he told them to administer, and* left, promising to re turn at noon. In the meantime another messenger who Iptd been dis patched Tor a physician returned with Drs. Dnweon and MeMeeban, and the latter, on seeing the boy's condi tion, determined to resort to a surgi cal operation to save his life. With Dr. McMcechan's assistance, Dr. I)aw8on made an incision across the throat, and, and, inserting' a dull prone, scraped away the tissue uuti 1 he reached that portion of the wind pipe called the trachea, which he cut open, tie then inserted a wire, with which he lelt around for the obstruc tion. It was found in the larynx, where it bad lodged, and, being sharp-edged, had cut the flesh, aud the blood had got into the bronchial tubes, filling them and rendering breathing almost impossible. Aft.-r < ho -nut-shell had been removed, the patient coughed up a large quantity of this blood. The wound having been scwu up, he breathed quite freely, and the next night after the-operation wa s res ling easily. A Beautiful Story. Coleridge relates a story to this cficot: Alexander, during his march into...Africa, came loa dwelling in peaceful hau, who knew neither war nor conquest. Gold being oilercd him, ho refused it saying that his sole object was to learn the manners ami customs of lie inhabitants. "Slay with us," said the chief, "as long as it pleascth thee." During this interview with the African chief, two of his subjects brought a case bcfoie him for judg ment. The dispute was this: The one had bought a piece of ground, which, after the purchase, was found to contain a treasure* for which he felt himself bound to pay. The oth er refused to receive anything, sta ting that he had sold the ground with what it might bo found to contain, apparent or concealed. Said the chief, looking at the one: 11 You have a sou ;" and to the other: "You have a daughter; let them be married, and the treasure given them as a dowry." i Alexander was astonished. "And what," said the chief, "would have been the decision in your coun try?" . ; . ! "We would have dismissed tho par lies and seized tho treasure for the king's use." "And does tho sun shine in your County?" said the chief {'".docs the rain, fall there? Are there any cat tle there which feud upon herbs aud green grasa?"i m! ; ''Certainly!1? eaid Alexander. "A,b," said the chiei, "it is for the sake of those innocent cattle that the Great Boing permits the sun to shine, the rain to fall and the, grass to grow in your country." , i . . . After all, there is really bat one kind of ''Southern outrage" for which the Radicals have no forgiveness, no bo ml 6 Of compassion. They care little for'the \uli\ thleirof nhVelubs, bllll^6^iAgVt^t^Ml^v? aim? all that sort of thing." But it makes their blood boil, and fllla'the air with blbe 'streaks of- profane objurations, to realiac the awful truth that thous ands of their colored fricuds have voluntarily departed from the fold, and with deliberate purpose and in tent, voted the Democratic ticket. This is the mill-log that breaks tlij [Radical camel's buck.? Washington Fast. THE BLACK DEATH. THE PLAGUE WHICH HA8 KE-APPEAC* ED IN HU8SIA. The black death, whieli has again appeared in some parts of Russia, hatf proved very destructive, and caused the greatest alarm. This Is the same disease which, in the fourteenth cci - tury, desolated the globe, and it gets its name from the black spots, symp tomatic of a putrid decomposition, that show themselves at one of Its stuges on the skin of the sufferer. Jt is thought to have had its origin id 1338. some fifteen years before Its outbieak In Europe, and it raged for twenty-five years, while dioughts, fa mines, Hoods, earthquakes thai swal lowed towns and mounlainsf and swarms of locusts spread devastation everywhere. During the same period Europe had as many abnormal condi tions as the East. The order of na ture seemed to be reversed. The seasons were at various times Invert ted ; thunder storms were frequent in mid-winter, and volcanoes, long con sidered extinct, burst forth afresh* The theory is that the extraordinary activity of the earth, accompanied by decomposition of vast organic mass es?myriads of locusts, brutes ami bodies of human beings-?produced .sumo change in the atmosphere inimi cal, to life. Some writers say that the impure air was actually visible as it approached with its burden of death. The plague owed its extension almost wholly to infection and contagion* Three years passed from the date of its appearance in Constantinople bo fore it crept by a huge circle to the Russian territories. Statistics were not obtainable then, but it is estimat ed that in China alone 13,000,000 people died, and in the remainder of the East 24,000,000, while in Europe 25,000,000 persons perished, making a grand and terrible total of 52,000? 000. Although there is little danger of the spread of the pest in Western Europe?for many generations it has been confined to the East?it is not strange that the Russians should be startled by ravages the black deatb has already made. Persons attacked by it are said to die like flies, and superstitious peasantry are so terri fied by it that many are thought to iiave perished of pure fright. Fortu nately, the laws of health and the peculiarities of disease are much bet ter understood now than in centuries gone byT. According to the Radical press, the Republican members of the i'ot ter committee have been earnestly "trying to get at tho trmh," and the Democratic members have been ex erting themselves "to conceal the truth." When the cipher telegrams Wt?e landed in Washington, there was an earnest desire on the part of Morton, Brady, Burbunk, Bullock and others to "get at the truth,7* and as soon as they got at it they stole a good deal of it and bnmed ranch more. 1 he boldness of the Radicals on the Potter committee in overhaul ing telegrams after Morton & Co. bad fixed them is equal to the valor of a militia regiment, at Williatnspott, that actually charged on a line of earthworks fifteen days after they bad been dismantled and abandoned. ?Pos/. Farm Life. Ii is a common complaint that the farm aud farm life are not apprecia ted by our people. We long for the more elegant pursuits, or the ways aud fashions of the town. But tho .farmer has the most sane and natural occupation, and ought to find life sweeter, if less highly seasoned, than any other. Ho alone, strictly speak ing, has ft homo. How can a man tako root and thrive without land? He writes his history upon bis Held How many ties, how many sources he has; bia friendships with bis cat tie, his team* his dog, bis trees, tho satisfaction in bis growing crops, in big improved fields, bis intimacy with Nature, with bird and beast, and with tho quickeuing clomental force* ; bis co-opurations with the clouds, the sUn, the' seasons, heat, wind, frost. Nothing will take the various aovisl diftempera which the city and artifi cial life breed out of a man like farm iug, like direct and loving contact, with the soil. It draws out the. poi son. It bumbles him, tenches him patience and reverence, and restores the proper tone to hssjs cm. Cling to the farm, make much of it, pub yourself into it, bestow your heart and brain upon it. so that u shall s.ivor of ^ou aud r .?imtj your virtunA. alter your day's wo k is done!