The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, January 23, 1869, Image 1

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**?*ygy~*r^.r-m.- ?mf i.-? < ? n 111 l in i ST r tiffi GOD _A.NI> QUIT COXJNlSRY. URDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23. 1869. . t' ?-,?-? NUMBER 49< the orangeburg news. Published at oranokbuuo, s. c. Erery Saturday Morning. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?:o;? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. "One Copy for one year.?. $2.00 .. 'Month*.1 1.00 Any ono sending TEN DOLLARS, for a Clnb or I*ow Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA COPY far.ONK -YEAR, free of charge. Any one sending FIVE DOLLARS, for a Club of New Subscribers, will receive nn EXTRA. COPY for SIX MONTHS, free of ?barg?. RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Square lit Insertion.,. $] ftn Va " 2d ?. ,.oo A Square counter* of 10 lines Brevier or one inch v,f Advert iiiing space. Administrator's Notices.?.00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberal terms. ??:? MARRIAGE und FUNKRAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding one-Square, inserted without charge. *gr Terms Cash" in Advance. feb o ?(. ly poetry. [From Peters' tilee Uive.J If We Knew. If we know when walking thoughtless, Thro' the noisy crowded way, That somo pearl of wondrous whiteness, (Mose beside our pathway lay ; We would pause when now we hasten, We would often look around, Lost our thoughtfeet should trample, Sutne rare jewel in the ground. If we knew when genius struggled. Thro* the weary nights and days, Sighing for some word of comfort, Little word of hope" and praise ; Booglw of balm uu? leaves of laurel. We would place within their hands, Lit tie deeds with pleasant meanings, Hungry Itonrts van un-lcrataud. Closely press" ro-?fy "<JodT>ye, *~ "Vhieh among the lip* that kiss us, l'ir.-t -hnuld neath the daises lie \p We would throwour arms around them, ' ,. , |^fff|Affon then thro our tears, Tender words of love eternal. If we knew. alas! and do we Ever earo or aeek to know. Whether herbs or bitter roses, In our neighbor's garden grow Better far along life's pathway. Keep this golden rule in view,. ??You should always care for others. As yeu'd have them care for you." TvTr1T?lTs7 A Letter from (Sen. LoiigstreeL The Atlanta A>*c Era publishes the follow ing letter from (Jcueral Janics Lougstreet: Lykcubuuq, Va., Nov.,24. \ J/y Dwr Many of our Southern tuen scorn to have lost, sight of the fundamental^ doctrine?the interest of the people?in thein zeal to maintain their ideas of consistency which consults in adhering to old truth* whether they work for weal or woe. 1 regret that I am not better prepared to meet yout wishes for information in regard to the future policy of our new President. Although 1 have had the pleasure of several iuterviewi with hin within the bat few years, I have no sought to learn his appreciation of petition questions of the present or of the future, regaid his past course and decided characte as the surest guarantee of his futuro course The floating idea that has attached itself 4 the minds of the many that he may yet provtf **? fee a Democrat, is like many other specula tions that gain circulation aud credence, but only serve to deceive those who are credulo*0 ?enough to indulge them. II w? roeall to mind the events of the last years, we shall remember that Qevorai Graut's position at one time was suoh as to insure his nomination for President by the party that h% might choose us most in accord with his views of public policy; and subsequent events indicate that his personal popularity is such as to have turned the balance in his favor. It scents to me unreasonable, therefore, to expect to find him, at this late day, seeking allinuce with the old party* His antecedents clearly murk him as a national man, and of such he given assu rance of his adhesion to the party whose basis is the Union, and that the influence of his ad ministration will be applied to it* complete and prosperous restoration. A fair-minded people must know, however, that no individual, un aided, can accomplish this great purpose. He must mncds have the assistance of the North, of the South, of the East and of the West. Having assurance of co-operation from other parts of the country, he only wants thai of the South to complete the combination which will Fire Miles Above the Earth. *. One dull ?sy ! August, just after noon, a b?Honn rose in . a air at the foot of Cloet Hills, on the' Western edge of the central pluiu of England. It us inflated with the lightest of gases which chemical skill could with tremendous velocity. Four miles above earth a pigeon was let loose; it dropped down through the air as if it had been a stone. The ? air was too thin to cnablo it to fly. It was as | b irk laden to tho dock were to pass from the heavy waters of the sea into an inland unsaline lako; the bark would sink at once in the thinner water. Up, up, still higher! What' a silence profound ! Tho heights of the sky were as still as tho deepest depths of the oceaui where, as was found during the search for the lost Atlantic cable, the fine mud lies as un stirred from year to yoar as the dust which imperceptibly gathers on the furniture of a deserted house. No sound, no lift, only the bright sun-shine falling through a sky which it could not warm. Up?five miles abovo the earth'- ?higher than tho inaccessible summit of Chimbornxo or Dawangiri. Despite the sun-jhino, every thing freezes. The air grows too thin to sup port life, even for a few minut/cs. Two men only arc in that adveuturous balloon?the one steering tho air-ship, the other watching the scientific instruments, and recording them with a rapidity bread of long practice. Sud denly, as the latter looks at his instruments, hit sight grows dim, lie takes a lean- to help his Bi^ht, auJ ' marks from the failing barometer tba . *y aTo tcbting rapidly A tek of broody lies within a foot of him; he ed to reach it, but his arm refused to obey will. He tries to call on his comrade, who |ui gone' up into the ring nbovo; a whisper in 1at deep silence would suffice?but no sound mcs from'his lips?he is voiceless. The sersman comes down into the car; bo sees 3 comrade in a swoon, and feels his own inscs failing him. He saw at once that life and death hung up i a few moments. He seised, or tried to ice, the valve, in order to open it and let it the gas. His hands are purple with intense dd?they are paralysed, they will not rcs [>nd to his will. He seised the valve with is teeth, it opened a little?once, twice, thrice, he baiiuon began to descend. Then the Evooned marksman returned to consciousness, nd saw tho steersman standing before him. le looked at his instrument j bat now the arometer was rising rapidly; the balloon was ecending. Brandy was used.*They had been ligher above the earth than mortal man or ny living thing had ever been before. One uinute more of inaction?of compulsory inac ion?on the part of the steersman, whoso enses were failing him, and ' e air-ship, with ts intensely rarefied gas, would have been loating unattended, with two corpses, in the ride realms of space. ?-' i I Bloody Tragedy at Moncomsst, Tr.x-1 c ks?Four Men Killed.?The Gulveqtou [\Yirs, of the 3d instant, says : We learn from a gentleman who resides ? ew miles from the town of Montgomery, in [this State, that a bloody tragedy occurred in that place last week. Four men were killed, ud the town for a while presented the appear Anee of a bat tic-Hold on a small scale. The [circumstances, ah near an wo could gather them prom a hasty conversation, are as follows : A desperado, whose name wc did not learn, re- J {cently appeared in Montgomery, and in a ?bort kirne made ?bimseIf odious to the citizens by his quarrelsome disposition. He gathered/ around him. however, several frieuds, who, it proved, lost the'?r lives in eudeavortug to stand byjtiu) in his difficulties.^ Tim desperado ggjl \> tsusjicetvu Ol pasalug^ WUm'crteit TxioUey, and of having been a horse thief. Ou the day of the tragedy he rode his horse into the store of Messrs. Smith & Peal, and on being ordered out, he drew his pistol, but bc fire he could fire it. he wua fired upon by Mr. Smith or Peal with a double-barrel shot-gun. Although badly wounded, he ran out into the street, and by some fatality met a party of citi aeus who were huuting him for the purpose of arresting him for passing counterfeit money. He ran in auothcr direction, when some one in the party fired upon him and he fell. A Mr Oliver and two brothers named McGrew (who. it seems, were in the habit of associating with the desperado) ran up to his rcscno, with p?* tola drawn, when they were firod upon by the crowd, and all three killed. A FiaiiT witu Knives and Pistols in a Ball-Boom.?The La Cro?ie (Wisconsin; Democrat says: A moat terrible affray occurred down at Bad Axe City, 12 miles below here, on Christmas eve. There was a ball given at the hotel in that small river town, nod many persons were present. A we'l-known desperado by the name of John Oliver was there. There were also in attendance at the party three brothers by the name of Denuioon, who had at aomc previous time crossed the path of Oliver, and on whom he had sworn vengeance. Those in the ball-room had heard it hinted that if Oli ver got another drink or two there would probably be a collision. About half-past 10, Oliver commenced swearing and talkiug very loudly, and imme diately drew a large Bowie-knife. Denuison saw him coming, and in attempting to ward off the blow received it through the arm, just above tho elbow. The other brothers seeing this, went to their brother's assistance, when Oliver stabbed at one of them, outting an ugly wound in his side, and immediately clinehed the remainiug ouo, and had his knife raised to give the fatal blow, when one of the wounded brothers pulled out a revolver and shot Oliver through the bead, ami be fell to tho floor and expired. Little excitement existed and no arrests will probably be made, for tho universal verdict seems to be (of the villagers) that Oliver got what he wanted and needed most. Tragic Shooting Affair near Chatta nooga.?A tragic affair occurred on Salt Creek, forty miles below hero, a few days since, the particulars of whioh are as follows: It seems that Mr. Bonne, a school teacher, at tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison, who resisted and left school. A day or two after ward" young Hutchinson, accompanied by his brother and a man named Smith, visited the school-house for the avowed purpose of chas tising Beane, und not fiading him thore, they proceeded to his raidsacs Bsa&e saw vI;cr> bagel coining, and j^tfctpu ting the errand,'7 arreed himnelf, as also did Mr, Moore, who happened to he at his house. On their arrival Hatching sou said they intended giving Beane a thrash ing. Moore rorooi!5?ratcd, when Smith drew i a pistol and shot him dead. This was a signal fur alt to produce pistols. Benno shot and in itantly killed Cyrus Hutchiuscn, brother oi the school-boy. He had scarcely fired, when Sms??, who had tilled Moa***??red anctb-r ( at Beane|$fen hill bot faUn^o wwi; uiiuuie nia. dumu nwttt tureea j on Smith and lodged 3 balls to his body, inflict ing wounds which resulted mortally in a few -KH*?ites. Twenty minntes after the affair com menced, Moore, Gyros Hutchinson and Smith lay dead on the ground within a few feet of each other. Hutehiuson's brother was. tho ooly person who escaped unhurt.?Kentucky fx. A hi vi no HtADI.Ras Child.?The De posit (X. Y.) Courier is responsible for the following marvelous story: In the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is a jcftild that Was born and has lived five years without a head. Mrs. -, the mother, w the widow of a soldier, formerly living in Marshall county, who enlisted in the 65th or Scotch regiment and was killed at the battle ol Lexington, Missouri. She was standing b'v-idc her husband during an engagetseni, when a cannon ball carried his head complete ly away. *?is body falling into her arms and covering her with Hoed. The shock affected her greatly. When'her child won born there w&not the semblance of a head about it. The limbs are perfectly developed, and the should ers where the head and neek should be are smoothly rou tided off. But the utast surprising thing of all is that the face in situated in the breast. Of course there ben !- no neck, the power of turning its b.e.id is wanting, except as the whole b.?dy is inoved ; but this difficulty is overcome by the singular faculty ft possesses of turning its eyes iu their sockets, enabling it to see quite as Weft oa u.?hcr fide an those nure perfectly frVrwd. The upper portion of its body is Recife itre-pui6>m??^..^ freu? tSo downward is blood red. This strange creature, now an active b?y of five years old, as if to compensate for his deformity, poswesses the most clear and bird like tones ever listened to, singing with singular correctness everything it may hear, and its voice at this early age ac complishes two octaves easily Tin; lMiACTK Ai. Beauties oy Mormon POLYGAMY.?A Gentile woman in Utah lately gave a correspondent of the Ciucinnati Com merciul this little, but telling sketch of the practical workings of the Mormon system : "Now, there's Eph. Roberts, over there," pointing to a stone house near the mountain? "he brought a real young, delicate wife from New York, uow going on sixteen years ago, and she workedhard, I tell yon ; why, I've known her to do all her own work, when Kph. had three hands and tho threshing machine at his house, and sometimes she worked out in the field, bound wheat and raked hay, which you know is awful ou a delicate New York woman; 'taint as if she'd been raised to it, like wo folks ?and after all, just last year Eph. wcut and married another woman, a real young one, not over twenty, and dou't you think, this spring she knocked Maria?that's his wife?down with the churn-dasher and scaldoJ her. Eph stood by and just said; 'Go in, Luce; kill her if you cuu.' It ail started about a churn, too. Both wuuted to use it at once. Maria had it, and her butter was a slow a-comin, and they got mud, aud Luce struck her, and then snatched the kettle right off the stove and poured hot water on her feet, so she fell down when she tried to run out. Aud what was the result finally '! Well, Maria left him, of course?she hud to, or be killed. It's very nice, though, for the men. I had a dosen chauees to marry old Mormons; but law ! I wouldn't give that for all of 'em. Why, just turn things arouud and let a woman have two or three men, and see how they'd like that. There wouldn't be no murderin' done in these parts?oh, no ! And I reckon a woman has as fine feelings us a man. I tell you, if my hus band ever joins 'em, or tries to get another wife, that day I'll huut another Genti'c. Bet your Hfc on that." A Lovui in the Closet.?A short time since a very enterprising young morohaut, who is tho happy poweasor of a wife as beautiful as heart could desire, had occasion to visit Mobile, lie was gone but a week, and retur ned sooner than was expected. Beaching homo at an hour when the gray of the morn ing was mingling with the shades of night, he of course found the family all in bod. Pro ceeding directly to hi* wife's apartment, be rapped for admission, at the same time announ cing wh* he was. At the mention at hie namo he thought he detected a saseabeitd exclama tion of surprise, a?d fctoen sou.e one got nur ridrr from the bed and sought ref?g? i*i a closet, adjoining his bed-room. Ali tliifl be heard distinctly, as ho waited in^he *?^t with the demon of jealousy tagging away at htti heart. There was some one. in his wife's room, there could be no doufJTbf thatj and that **6me one had sought refuge in the closet was equally clea?; #Wbo efdfceould it be than a lover 7 Mad with jealonay, furious and ?ndiguaat, he could scarcely wait for the door to he opened before be banted into tbe room and neede for the closet. His wire SaterQred aad be^gefl thkt be wWdn't open the door concealing this duMtrber of domestic peace. He- dashed her aside furiously, but she clung to the taint of his coat. The strain made up on those useful appendages at last compelled them to give way, and ^ he angry benedict threw wide open the door of the closet, and, lol instead of the cunning libertine, his as tonished eyes rested on one of the prettiest girls imaginable. She was passing the night with, bis wife, and trying to avoid meet:ag him in dishabille, brought about a rather em barrassing denouement. The gentleman, how ever, it may be as well to state, prosecuted his searches no farther, sad, instead, made ? hasty ratreat.?Acic Orleans Picayune. Wuy General Grant Kerfs Aloof from Andy Johnson.?It is a matter of surprise to many that General Grant refuses to hold any inter#oojae 'with President John son, and in their forgetfulness of not long past events attribute it (with expressions cf sur prise) to* political reasons. But any sucb thought does General Grant injustice. He is doubtless as free from tho folly of permit ting political differences to interfere with social courtesies as any of us, who find it quite pos sible to cat an oyster, smoke a cigar, or drink ? cap. uf tea with a pwiwcai opponent. Gene ral Grant's antipathy to Johnson has a better foundation thau this. It dates back to the Stauten :;::brcg!;o, when Johnson ?nuaiaulini ly accused Gen. Grant of falsehood in his in terpretation of some of the phases of that difficulty. This touched the sensitive soldier upon a tender spot. A million men might, as they did, declare him in their opinion unfit tor tinr^rrcsfihnicy,- ?^lu,ut^i*n?M$i&?t temper or changing the cordiality of his friend ly salute. Hut to be accused of falsehood was a different matter. Coming frem the Presi dent he cunld not meet the Insult in a soldier ly way, and so wns obliged to treat it as an offence to be punished by gentlemanly con tempt. This is why General Grant keeps aloof from Andy Johnson.?Albany Etcning Jonmal. Drop that Paper.?Yes, drop it. Too niggardly and mean to subscribe and pay for your county paper, which is steadily laboring for the promotion of the welfare of society? for your welfare?you have been sponging on j*?ur neighbors ever sinco it was established. You are always eagor to read it, and frequent ly, before it reaches tho hands of its honorable owuer, it is crumpled and torn by your filching fingers. Drop it ! Never pio'. it up and read it again, unless you can do so with the proud consciousness that you have the right?a right secured in a legitimate way. If you are too poor to aid in sustaining it, let us knew, aud we will send you tbe paper gratuitously. But it is downright meanness in you, when yew are as able as your neighbor, to send your chil dren through the snow and sleet, and rai?> to borrow it.?Alton Reveille. The Palindrome.?The paliudromc is a line that reads aiiko backward and forward. One of the best is Adam's first introduction of himself to Eve : "Madam, I'm Adam !" Another is the story that Napoleon, when at St. Helena, being asked by an Englishman if he could have sacked London, replied : ? Able was I ere I saw Elba." The latter is the best palindrome, probably in the language. ( 11^??RIJ?8T~ Put Him Through. Not long since a brace of lovers from the in terior entered an up town photograph saloon, and wanted their pictures taken. The lady gave precedence to her swain who, she said, "had to be tack fust and real natural." He brushed up his hair, gave his neck-tic a twist or two, kt<ked his girl if his eotlor was O. K., and placed himself in tbe operators chair, where be assumed the physiognomical characteristics of a poor mortal in the dentist's hands, and about to part with one of his teeth. "Now look purty," begged the lady, easting one of her languishing faces., The picture was taken. When produced' it reminded the girl, as she expressed it, "just how Josh looked when be got over the mea sles" ; and as this was net en are in hex lover's history partiauhxrtT worthy of commemoration sue iMewet? tr*?* "fee en^nVi m y$*yn " little success. At lost, growing impatient ami desperate, j&e renolved to tr? an experiment, which she considered infallible, and exclaim ed : "I don't kcer if there is folks 'round." She enjoined the operator to stand ready nt the camera. She then set in her fellow's lap, and, throwing her arms around his neck, man aged to east a shower of flaxen ringlets as a screen between the artists and the proceedings, which were betrayed by sounds which re vealed what was taking place. When the billing and cooing had lasted long enough to produce the desired effect, the cun ning girl leaped from Josh's lap, clapped her * hands, and cried to the astonished artist: "Now you've got him?put him through." Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe admits it. In telling "How we kept Thanksgiving at Old Town, n. the Times of 1780," she says: I One after another began joining the daneer I which, commencing first with the chiklfc? and young people crept gradually, upward* among the elders. As it was, grandmother stood with net' pleased face radiant with satisfaction, as the wave of joyousness crept higher around her. till the elders, who stood keeping time with ' their heads and feet, began to tell each other how they had danced with their sweethearts in the good old days gono by. Aud the elder women began to blush and bridle, and to boast of steps that they could take in their youth, and into the dauce they went. "Well, well!" quo Lu my grandmother, "they are all at.it 89 hearty, I dou't see why I shouldn't try it myself!" and into the Vir ginia reel she went, amid screams of laughter from all the younger members of the popula tion. she ajrrivea7ire0uoa^ffi the set. "Didn't Mr. Despondency, and Miss Muchafraid, and Mr. Readytohalt all dance in the Pilgrim's Progress i" Items The Senate in executive scssiou has cow fir mod the nomination of Mr. C. J. Stoibrand as Superintendent of the Penitentiary, and Mr. Reuben Tomlinson as State Auditor of South Carolina. A gentleman of Pia infield, N. J., seventy four years of age, is now cutting a third set of teeth. Tho dentists are not called in to help the work forward. A Boston Gentleman, a few days ago, dined with a club, aud invited its members to dine with him, on Tuesday. At the time appoint ed they assembled at his house?not to a din ner party, but to attend hi* funeral. The next Senate of the United States, from indications presented by recent elections of new members, and tho complexion of the ' Stakt Legislatures yet to make elections, will stand, politically, just as the present one does. Bets ore already being made about the rCn^th of (Jener-1 Graut':-, inaugural message. It is said that it will be the shortest ever de livered. General Graut authorizes thestatemont that the articles written by an "Occasional Corres pondent" of the New York World, aud pus porting to relate con venations or furniafroyw ions of his in regard to public matters and* public men, are utterly without foundation. At Plymouth, Mais., there is a oat which, in tho summer time, will go t o a biovk, plunge in aud seise trout swimming along, which she will bring into the house alive and lay on tho floor, purring srotnid bhem, aud r ^parent ly claiming praise for her piscatory feats. In a '-kerosene murder" in New York, on Saturday, by which a girl was killed, the coro ner's jury rendered a verdict of "oulpublu eon' duct" on the part of thjse who manufactured aud sold the kerosene. Mrs. Elisa Garth, of New York, aged seventy-four, has sued Kiohard llowell, of Flanders, New Jersy, aged seventy -seven, Tut $5,000, and got it, for tufting with her virgin affections and marrying another girl. A Capo Cod yankec has been peddling sca' ed tin tubes full of corn meal as "a clarificr of kerosene oil." A Christmas goose, sent by n kract friend to* two prisoners in a Canada jail, was staffed with files and steel aaws. The 8priigfield Republican says it would like to see some of the "splendid miKtavy talent of the 8o?fh" back in tho ar?y Teievtt lately stole the carpet from a church ana* CiacionaUJ, and when it wan newly car peted brought back the old one and toon the