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VOLUME 2. NUMBER 49, THE ORANGEBURG NEWS. Published at oranokbuug, s. c. Every Saturday Morning. ?:p:? AXD/IEWS <fc If ALL, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?:o:? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. "One Copy for oao year. $2.00 " " ?? Six Months... 1.00 . Any ono sending TEN DOLLARS. f?r a Clnh of I Now Subscriber*, will receive an EXTRA COPY for ONE YEAR, fr*? of charge. Any one sending FIVE DOLLAR8. for a Club of New Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA. COPY for SIX MONTHS, free of charge. ?:o:? R ATES Of ADVERTISING. I Square 1st Insertion. $1 ftO '* " 2d- *'*?. 1.00 A Square consist* of It) linos Brevier or one inch <of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices.00 Contract Advertisements inscried upon the most liberal terms. ?:o:? MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex cceding one Square, inserted without charge. Terms Cash In Advance. "TS* leb 2? o ly POETRY. - [From Peters' Ulee Hive.] If We Knew. If we knew when walking thoughtless, Thro' tlie noisy crowded way. That some pearl of wondrous whiteness, Close beside our pathway lav ; We would pause when now we hnstou, \Yc would often look around, Lest our thoughtless feet xhould trample, SuUie 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; Roughs or balm und loaves of laurel. We would place within their hands, Linie deed* with pleasant meanings, Hungry hearts can understand. iL I ll pl' l I'lonely press* ro nay "God bye,"' Vilich among the lips that kins us, First, should 'neath the daises lie :^ Wo would thrv>w.our arms around them, Looking on then thro' our tears. Tender words of love eternal, IVe would whisper in their cars. If we knew, alnn' and do we Ever caroor seek to know. Whether herbs or bitter roses, In our neighbor's garden grow, Retter far along life's pathway, Keep this golden rule in view, ??Vou ahonld always care for others, As you'd have them care for you." Tfl'RIO'? s. A Letter from Gen. Lougstrcct The Atlanta Krtc Era publishes the follow ing letter from General Juiucs Lougstreet: Lynciibuuu, Va., Nov.. 24. Afy D*ar Sir?Many of our Southern men seem to have lost sight of the fundamental doctrine?the interest of the people?in their zeal to maintain their ideas of consistency, which consists in adhering to old trutht whether they work for weal or woe. I regrei that I am not better prepared to meet yout wishes for information in regard to the future policy of our new 1'rcsident. Although ] have had the pleasure of several iuterviewi with him within the last- few years, I have no sought to learn hi? appreciation of politica questions of the present or of the future regai d his past course and decided characte as the sorest guarantee of his futuro course} The floating idea that has attached itself IP .the minds of the many that he may yot prov\ ?t?* W a Democrat, is like many oth? r specula-' lions that gain ciroulution aud credence, but ouly serve to deceive those who are credoI?-*?? ?enough to indulge them. If w* rocall to mind the events of the last r*o years, wo shall remember that Gen*"-?'' Grant's position at one time was such as to insure his uominution for President by the party that he might choose ;is most in accord with his views of public jiolicy ; and subsequent events indicate that his personal popularity is such as to have turned the balance iu Iii? favor. It seems to me unreasonable, therefore, to cxpeet to find him, at this late day, seeking alliance with the old party. His antecedents cleurly mark him Its a national man, aud of such he gives 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 its c mipietc and prosperous restorutiou. A fair-minded people must know, however, that no individual, un aided, can accomplish this great purpose. He must needs huve tho assistance of tho North, of the South, of the East and of the West. Having assurance of co-operation from other parts of the country, ho only wants that of the South to complete the combination which will Five Miles Above the Earth. < "*sic ?lull uay in August, just after noon, a balloon rose in the air at tbo foot of Cloct Hills, on the Western edge of the central plain of Knglaud. It was inflated with the buhtest of gases which chemical skill could with tremendous velocity. Four miles above earth a pigeon was let lik>se; it dropped down through the air as if it had been a stone. The . air was too thin to enable it to fly. It was as f^tfcrfi I)irk laden to the dock were to pass from the heavy waters of the sea into an inland uusaline lake; the bark would sink at once in the thiuner water. Up, up, still highor! What a silence profound! The heights of the sky were us still as the deepest depths of the oceati; where, as was found during the search for the lost Atlantic cable, the fine mud lies ns un stirred from year to year ns the dust which imperceptibly gathers on the furniture of a deserted house. No sound, no life, only the bright sun-shine falling through a sky which it could not warm. Up?five miles above the earth! ?higher than the inaccessible summit of f himboruzo or Dswangiri. Dos^ite the sun-rfhine, every thing freezes. The air grows too thin to sup port life, even for a few minutes. Two men only are in that adventurous balloon?the one steering the air-ship, the othor watching the scientific instruments, and recording them with a rapidity broad of long practice. Sud denly, a*) the latter looks at his instruments, his sight grows dim; ho takes a lean- to help his sight, aud only niark3 fro n the fulling barometer that they ?ro tcbting rapidly A bk of brandy lies within a foot of him ; he ied to reach it, but his arm refused to obey s will. He tries to call on his comrade, who a gone up into the riug above; a whisper in at deep silence would suffice?but no .sound ?mos from* his lips?ho is voieelessf The ccrsmati comes down into the car; he aces s comrado in a swoon, and feels his own mscs failing him. lie saw at once that life and death hung up l a few moments. He seised, or tried to izc, the valve, in order to open it and let it the gas. His hands arc purple with intense ild?they arc paralyzed, they will not rcs jud to his will. He seized the valve with is teeth, it opeucd a little?once, twice, thrice, he balloon began to descend. Then the nrooned marksman returned to consciousness, nd saw the steersman standing before him. Ic looked at his instrument; but now the mrometer was rising rapidly; the balloon was lecciidiug. Brandy was used.-They had been lighcr above the earth than mortaUuum or ny living thing had ever been before. One ninote more of inaction?of compulsory inac ion?on the part of the steersman, whose euses were failing him, and the air-ship, with ts intensely rarefied gas, would have been touting unattended, with two corpses, In the vide realms of space. Bloody Tragedy at Mokqomkby, Tkx ^8?Four Men Killed.?The Gulf eat on Yeics, of the 3d instant, says: We learn from a gentleman who resides .a lew miles from the town of Montgomery, in this State, that a bloody tragedy occurred in that place last week. Four men were killed, and the town for a while presented the nppear uncc of a battle field on a small scale. The circumstances, as near as we could gather them from a hasty conversation, arc as follows : A desperado, whose name we did not learn, re cently appeared in Montgomery, and in a short time made himself odious to the citizens by his quarrelsome disposition. He gathered around him, however, several frieuds, who, it proved, lost the?r lives ill endeavoring to stand by him in his difficulties^ This desperado Wji? a>?o ?unpcci co oi p.isaiug^ WlUh'fcTiftirHaio"ney\ and of having beeil a horse thief. On the day of the tragedy he rode his horse into the store of Messrs. Smith & Peal, und on being ordered out, he drew his pistol, hut be fore he could fire it. he was 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 zens who were hunting him for the purpose of arresting him for passing counterfeit money. He ran in another direction, wheu 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 rescue, with p!w tols drawn, when they were firod upon by the crowd, uud all three killed. A Fl out with Knives and Pistols in a Bam. Room.?The I*a Crosse ( Wisconsin) Democrat says : A most 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, and many persons were present. A wo'l-known desperadc by the name of John Oliver was there. There were also in attendance at the party three brothers by the name of Penui?on, who had at some previous time crossed the path of Oliver, and on whom he had sworu 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 talking very loudly, and im me diately draw u large Bowie-knife. Denuison saw him coming, and in attempting to ward off the blow received it through the arm, just above the elbow. The other brothers seeing this, went to their brother's assistance, when Oliver stabbed at one of them, cutting an ugly wound in his side, and immediately cliuched the remaining one, and had his knife raised to give the fatul blow, when one of the wounded brothers pulled out a revolver and shot Oliver through the head, und he fell to the floor und expired. Little excitement existed and no arrests will probably be made, for the universal verdict seems to bo (of the villagers) that Oliver got what he wanted and tieeded most. TftAOlC SlIOOTINO AFFAIR NEAR ClIATTA NOOOA.?A tragic affair ooourred on Suit Creek, forty miles below hero, a few days since, the particulars of which are as follows: It seems that Mr. Beuue, a school teacher, at tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison, who resisted aud 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 Beuoe, uod not floding him there, tkey proceoded to his residence Berne ijw them coming, and anticipating the errand, armed himself, as also did Mr, Moore, who happened to be at his house. On their arrival Hutchin son said they intended giving Beane a thrash ing. Moore remonstrated, when Smith drew a pistol and shot him dead. This was a signal for all to produce pistols. Beane shot nnd in stantly killed Cyrus Hutchinson, brother of the school-boy. He had scarcely fired, when Smith, who had -killed Moore, tired another band at Beane f"%kt ball stjruck hut failed to immediately disable him. Beane then turned on Smith and lodged 3 balls in his bodj , inflict ing wounds which resulted mortally in a few mwiu'cs. Twenty minutes after the affair com menced, Moore, Cyrus Hutchinson and Smith lay dead on the ground within a few feet of each other. Hutchinson'? brother was tho only person who escaped unhurt.?Kentucky Ex. A Living Hkadlkss Child.?The De posit (N. Y.) Courier is responsible for the following marvelous story : ~\m the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is a ciild that was born and has lived five years without a head. Mrs.-, the mother, is iho 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 beside her husband during an engagement, when a cannon ball carried his head complete ly away, his body falling into her arms and j covering her with blood. The shock affected I her greatly. When her child was born there wT> not the semblance of a head about it. The liutbs arc perfectly developed, and the should er- where the head and neck should be arc smoothly rounded off. Hut the mast surprising thing of nil is that the face is situated in the breast. Of course there being no neck, the power of turning its head is wanting, except us the whole b >dy is tuoved ; hut this difficulty is overcome by tho singular faculty it possesses of turning its eyes in their sockets, enabling it to see quite as ??11 on either side as those more perfectly t'rrj ?ed.. The upper portion of its body is WJXeSTs itTC-ptli tot G?u?m??*?... ) from tho-f? dowuward is blood red. This strange creature, now an active b??y of five years old, aa if to compensate for hin deformity, possesses the most clear ami bird like tones ever listened to, singing with singular correctness everything it may hear, and its Voice at this ear' :e ac complishes two octaves easily Thk 1'uactical Bkaltiks ok Mormon Polygamy.?A Gentile woman in Utah lately gave a correspondent of the Cincinnati Com mercial this little, but telling sketch of the 1 practical workings of the Mormon system : ' Now, there's Rph. Roberts, over there," pointing to a stouo house near the mountaiu? "he brought a real young, delicate wife from New York, now going on sixteen years ago, and she workedhard, 1 tell you ; why, I've known her to do all her own work, whan Kph. had three hands and tho threshing machinu at his house, and sometimes she worked out in tho field, hound wheat and raked hay, which you know is awful on a delicate New York woman ; 'taint as if she'd been raised to it, like we folks ?and alter all, just last year Kph. went and married another woman, a real young one, not over twenty, and doti't you think, this spring she kuocked Maria?that's his wife?down with the churn-dasher und sealdcJ her. Kph stood by and just said; 'Go in, Luce; kill her if you can.' It all started about a churn, too. Itoth wanted to use it at once. Maria had it, and her butter was a slow n-comin, and they got mad, and Luce struck her, and then snatched the kettle right off the stove and poured hot water on her feet, so she fell down whau she tried to run out. And what was the result tiuully i Well, Maria lull him, of course?she had to, or be killed. It's very niee, though, for the men. I had a dosen chances 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 a* fine feelings as a man. I tell you, if my hus band ever joins 'cm. or tries to get another wife, that day I'll huut another Gcntt'c. Bet your life on that." A Lover in thk Clus bt.?A short time since a vory enterprising young morohaut, who is the happy powessor of a wife as beautiful as heart could desire, had occasion to visit Mobile. He was gone but a week, and retur ned sooner than was expected. Beaching home at an hour wheu the gray of the morn ing was mingling with the shades of night, he of course found tho family all in bed. Pro ceeding directly to his wife's apartment, he rapped for admission, at the seme time announ cing who he was. At the mention of bis name be thought be detected a boioihercd exclama tiou of i,urpri-?c, aud theo some one pot bur ri.lly from the bed and sotlght re-f?gfi W a closet, adjoining his bed-room. All this he heard distinctly, as ho waited in the cold, with the demon of jealousy tugging away at his heart. There was some one in his wife's room, there could be no doubt of that; and that some one had sought refuge in the closet wss equally clear. Who eine could it be than a lover? Mad with jealousy, furious and indignant, he could scarcely wait for the door to he opened before he bunted into the room I and made for the closet. Bis wife interfered aad begged that he wouldn't open the door concealing this dijt urber of domestic peace. He dashed her aside furiously, but she clung to the tails of his coat. The strain made up on those useful appendages at last compelled them to give way, and the angry beuedict threw wide open the door of the closet, and, In! instead of the cunning libertine, his as tonished eyes rested on one of the prettiest girls imaginable She was passing the night with his wife, und tryiug to avoid meeting him in tlithabHlc. brought about a rather em barrassing denouement. The gentleman, how ever, it may be as well to state, prosecuted his searches no further, and, instead, made a hasty retreat.?Acic Orlcan* Picayune. I ^^^^ Why General Grant Keeps Aloof from Andy Johnson.?It is a matter of surprise to many that General Grant refuses to hold any intercourse with President John son, and in their forgetfulness of not long past events attribute it (with expressions of sur prise) to political reasons. Hut any such thought does General Grant injustice. lie is doubtless as free from the folly of permit ting political differences to interfere with social courtesies as any of us, who find it quite pos sible to eat an oyster, smoke a cigar, or driuk a cup of tea with a political opponent. Gene ral Grant's antipathy to Johnson has a better foundation than this. It dates back to the Stau ton imbroglio, when Johnson substantial ly necii^i-d Gcnr Qof f^hjohood !?* his in terpretation of some of the phases of that difficulty. This touched the sensitive soldier upon a tender spot. A million me3 might, as they did, declare him in their opinion unfit lor tiiir*IVe.>:\*eney;- - r'*- if "?Irl lrliftt j' htjf temper or changing the cordiality or his friend ly salute. Hut to be accused of falsehood was a different matter. Coming fram the Presi dent he could not incut the insult in a soldier ly way, and so was 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 Evening Journal. Drop that Paper.?Yes, drop it. Too niggardly and mean to subscribe and pay for your county paper, which is steadily laboring for the promotiou of the welfare of society? for your welfare?you have been sponging ou <?>ur neighbors ever since it was established. You arc always eager to read it, and frequent ly, before it reaches the hands of its honorable owner, it i.s crumpled aud torn by your filching fingers. Drop it ! Never piok 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 know, aud we will send you the paper gratuitously. But it is dowuright meanness in you, when yoo are as able as your neighbor, to send your chil dren through the snow and sleet, and rain to borrow it.?Alton Hax-ille. j The Palindrome.?The palindrome is a line that reads alike backward aud 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 usked by an Englishman if he could have sacked London, replied : ' Able was I ere I saw KIba." The latter is the best paliudromc, probably in the language. HUM 0 RUGS. Put Him Through. Not long since a brace of lovers from the in terior entered an up town phetograph saloon, and wanted their pictures taken. The lady gave precedence to her swain who, she said, "had to be tack fust aud real natural." He brushed up his hair, gave his neck-tic a twist or two, asked hia girl if his eoilor whs O. K., and placed himself in the 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 tocth. "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 ho got over the mea. ales**; aad as this was not an era in bor lover's history particularly worthy of commemoration STiC "TIT." .'~n "r!"? miMiiri n**r Sf^'fl. He obeyed and ?lie ettet.'dud biui to tbe tihait; Jfc t "Josh/' said sin?, "just lake kinder smilin , and kinder don't." w4 The poor fellow tried to follow the indefinite injunction. rtLa r said she, "you look kinder all pnek> ered up." One direction followed another, but with as little success. At last, growing impatient and desperate, she resolved to try an experiment, which the considered infallible, and exclaim ed : "I don't keer if there is folks 'round." She enjoined the operator to stand ready at tbe 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 get him?put him through." Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowc admits it. In telling "How we kept Thanksgiving at Old Town, in the Times of 1780," she says : One after another began joining the dance, which, commencing first with tbe chtMfe&K and young people crept gradually upwards among the elders. As it was, grandmother stood with her pleased fuce radiant with satisfaction, as the wave of joyousness crept higher around 1 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 tbe good old days gono by. Aud the elder women begau to blush aud bridle, and to boast of steps that they could take in their youth, and into the dance they went. '?Well, well!" quoth my grandmother, "they are all at it so hearty. 1 don't see why I shouldn't try it myself!" "and into the YU? giuia reel she went, amid screams of laughter from all the younger members of the pnpula tion. .. -why shoou?:. i dj?cf.r she arrived, red and resplendosw^^TTe foot of the set. "Didn't Mr. Despondency, and Miss Mnchafraid, and Mr. Beadytohalt all dance in the Pilgrim's Progress ?" Items The Senate in executive session has cow firmed the nomination of Mr. 0. J. Stoibrand as Superintendent of the Penitentiary, and Mr. ltcubcn Toiulinson as State Auditor of South Carolina. A gentleman of Plainfield, N. J., seventy four years of age, is now cutting a third set of teeth. The dentists are not called in to help I the work forward. A Boston Gentleman, a few days ago3 dined, wi'h a club, aud invited its members to ditro' with him, on Tuesday. At tho time appoint ed they assembled at his house?not to a din ner party, but to attend his funeral. The next Senate of the United States, from iudicatious presented by recent elections of new members, and the complexion of the State Legislatures yet to make elections, will stand, politically, just as the prcseut one does. Bets are already being made about the length of General Grant's inaugural message. It is said that it will be the shortest ever de livered. General Grant authorizes the statement that the articles written by au "Occasional Corres pondent" of the New York World, aud pur porting to relate conversations or furnish'oUN? ions of his in regard to public matters and' public men, are utterly without foundation. At Plymouth, Mass., there is a cat which, in the summer time, will goto? btook, plunge in aud seize trout swimmiug along, which she will bring into the house alive and- lay on tho floor, purring around bhem, and apparently 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 reudcred a verdict of -culpable eon duet" on the part of lit .?sc who manufactured aud sold tho kerosene. Mrs. Klixa Garth, of New York, aged sevcuty-four, has sued1 Bichard Howell, of Flanders, Now Jersy, uged seventy-seven, for ?5,4)00, and got it, for trifling with her virgin affections aud marrying another girl. A Cape Cod yankec has been peddling sca'-r ed tin tubes full of corn meul as "a elarifier of kerosene oil." A Christinas goose, sent by a kind friend to* two prisoners iu a Canada jail, was stuffed with files and steel sews. The SpriBgfield Republican says it would like to see some of the "splendid military talent of the South" back iu the army. Thieves lately stole the oar pet from a church ?eat CiociooaUi, and when it was newly ?er? peted brought back the old one aud towfe the new one.