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NUMBER 34. THE ?MNGEB URG NEWS PUULISIIEi) AT :ORANGEBURG, 8. C. Every Saturday Morning. ?:o:? nJTAS. If. HALL A- CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?:o:? f BPMR OF "SUBSCRIPTION. Ort? Copy for one yenr. $2.00 V* Six Months. 1.00 Any ono sending TEN DOLLARS, for a Clnb of New Subscribers, will roccive nn EXTRA COPY- for ONE YEAR, free of charge.' Any ono sending FIVE DOLLAR8, fbr a Club of New Subscribers, will receive nn EXTRA- ?OPV for SIX MONTHS, free of "?"1*1 U i _:o:_ RATE8 OF ADVERTISING. I Square 1st Insertion. $1.50 ?? 2d ?? . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or one inch df Advertising space. Administrator's Notices, .?...$5 00 Notices of Dismissal of Guardians, Ad ministrators, Executors, tic.$0 00 j Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberal tcim*. ?:o:? MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not exceeding one Square, inserted without ehargo. ?:o:? Terms Cash in Advance. *^Ba i_-_ The Warning at the Bridge. In the year l8GT, T was superinten dent of Ihe IIo?, ich nnd Rocky River railroad* It was ;\ line which did n good run of biudrtusa; connecting u$ it did a grcut city with a fl> urishing back country, and Vre r.ut a pretty g od uuniber of trains over the i-iils *.u the course of twenty Fmir hours. Tho daily trains were every hour, but ?Hol- nine in tho evening there was only liuc* train until the steamboat accotn tuodatioti at h-'f-past three in the morn ing This intervening train was the ?elport tantl. It Was made up at Delport, and tan as far as Clinton, express all the Deport was the large city of which 1 have spoken, and it was there that my office was located, for t lie business of the road was all settled nod arranged at thai und of the line. Of course 1 give fictitious names, and the reader need not expect to find llel port on any railway map. 12:30 train, or the midnight mail, us U was more frequently designated, was run by Karl Rogers, a young man of Beven or eight and twenty, who had been employed on the rood for several years. Ho wub the best engine driver on tho ?corporation, and for that reason he had been elected for the train, it being deem ed expedient to place men of the best judgment on tho train, because there was ? better lookout required by night. Kurl, token all in all, was one of tho finest fellows I ever saw. Frank, handsome, generous to a fault, and very yell:educated-. He hud fallen into the vacation of an engiuccr more from his love Of excite ment and danger than anything else, per haps ; and if there wus any particularly ^?orilous business to be done, Earl Rogers was always our man. For some time UQ bad been desperate ly in love Laura Domain, the daughter of a rieb old fellow just on the other fcide of Rocky River, a half dozen miles beyond Bolport. ITke.love was fully returned, for Laura Wu.8 a noble-hearted girl, and did not care for wealth nnd ambition when weighed iu the balance with love : but old JJc Juiain und she were two, and there was no 'probability of his ever giving his con fetti. He had set his heart on her marrying IMnce Carlcton, a young blood of the Vicinity, reputed wealthy, and of an old family. Domain's opposition naturally tnado the love'fst more determined-, and they on ly waited an increase of Earl's salary to he married, in spite of Papa Domain. Karl was a faithtul fellow, atrd I was ^loing^uy best with tho company to get ?n advance for him. with every proba bility of success. Somehow, I took a atrong interest in Earl's low affairs. 1 am an old codger, and love matters tore rather out of my lino, my fort? beiug .the calculating of accounts, the reg Na tion of freight rules, and iho manage ment of business so as to secure the tat est dividends to the stockholders. Perhaps my interest in Earl's love for JjaUra might be because I most cordially dotcslcd Priuco Carlcton. He was ah ways "blowing" our road, finding fault with the rato of spood, with the grade, with the carriages, with the ventilation, with everything in short, for nothing suited him. Then upon one occasion lie and I had had a few words neither very pleasant nor very choice, and he had called me on uld scoundrel, and I had returned the compliment with interest. After that we wore worse friends than ever. One dark rainy uight in November, just after the nine o'clock train had been got off*, and 1 was sitting in the office try ing to bulanee an account that would not balauce, the dour opened and Kurl Hog ers walked in. Ho had on his water proof suit, the hood over his head, and the collar buttoned closely, but I saw that his face was very pale and his eyes gleamed with an unnatural fire. ? "What in the world has happened, Rogors?" said I. "You look as glum as if you were going to your own fune ral." ? Mr. Woodbury," said he, earnestly. ?'Do you believe in present incuts ?" "No," said I. "I certainly do not! They are all old -voiiicn's whims !" "Perhaps so. I wish I could thin!: so," said he, sadly. '"I have been try ing hard to." "What is it, Karl '( Anything gone wrong with Laura V for I did not kuow hut the little jade had been playing off with him after the tnanucr of woman. "No. You will laugh at me, Mr. Woodbury, but I must tell somebody or I shall go out of my wits," said he, half laughing, "mid before leaven, I tell you it is all truth. Thursday afternoon I took a hand car and wcut over to Rocky River Bridge. 1 do not mind confessing that I went on purpose to get a glimpse of her home?perhaps of herself. 1 stood at ouo end of the bridge?looking across at the house?enraptured at sight of tt scarlet shawl which 1 knew was hers flitting in and out through the frost bit ten shrubbery of the garden. "And while I was looking at her 1 heard footstcDS. and glancing up, / ?110 myxtlf cftmvig front the opposite side oj the bridge! I was dressed in this suit of water proof?my face was as palo ns death, and my wide open eyes were blank and expressionless 1 "Sir, you think I am dazed, but I'm telling you only the truth ! While 1 stood staring at the vision it disappeared; and weak and trembling I came back to town. By the next day?yesterday, I had reasoned myself out of belief in any thing of the kind. It was a hallucina tion, 1 Said, and to prove it so, I would go out there again and see if it would appear for the secoud time. I went again yesterday, and sir, the same thing was repeated ! It will come once more? and then I shall go to my death V "Nonseuse !" said I. "Come, Earl, be honest, and confess that you had been taking too much whUkcy." "I never drink anything as you know, Mr. Woodbury," returned he, "and this thing wus fearfully real. And of one re sult I am satisfied. If I run the mail train out to-night, 1 shall be killed, and heaven knows what will be the fate of the train ! I suppose it could not be tak en off for to-night 1" "Taken off! What the <ducc do you mean V snapped I?this road runs trains as advertised ! Cowardly engineers to the contrary notwithstanding." He looked at me sadly, reproachfully? and I could have kicked myself for the way I'had spokcu to him. "It was not on my own account, sir,'' said ho, "but it is only a few days before Thanksgiving, and the train will bo a full one. If there is un accident it tuny be a bad one." "Accident!" said I contemptuously, "fiddlestick. Come in to-morrow and let us laugh at you." He bid mo good night gravely, and went out. Presently the Clock struck twelve and 1 heard the three sharp successive whis tles, that told me that the train was nearly ready. A strange feeling of npprchousion seized me. What if anything should hippen ? Yielding to an impulse which would not bo controlled, I threw on my over coat, turned out the gas, locked the office and hurried over to the depot just <ti season to catch the tail of the rear Car and swing myself on board. Barl Rogers stood at his post, pale and silent, yet altered and watchful. By the head light in the locomotive ho could sre the track for a half a mile 4 drag, plunged forward into the gulf. There uus a crash?a succession of shrill whistles from the escaping steain, and all was still! Not one of the carriages wont down ; the first one halted ou the very m ink of the abyss sis if the more fearfully to im press upon the minds of the passengers the torriblo danger they had escaped. Before the train came te a stop I had Ijumped out, and was flying forward, looking for Earl Hogers. They p.tinted into the river in answer to my iuquirics, and Lzising a lantern from the hands of one of the brakesmen, I soon climbed down the bank and found hi in. lie lay under the wreck of the loco motive, pale and bloudy, with no breuth coining from his icy lips. The two stokers were a little way off, I stone doad. I am an old man, but T did not feel the weight of that poor fellow as I tar ried him up the bank, and ou to the house of Domain, which hanncucd to be the nearest residence. Of course old Domain, could no* refuse him admittance*under the circumstances, and in five minutes Laura was with trying to restore the lifeless man to con Bciousness. She was all courage and hope ; but foi her we should have given him up foi lead, and I to this day firmly believ nit her presence and her care, bvoug iim back from death. She never fliuched while the surg tmputated his leg at the knee, it was only way to save him Dr. tJrcon *aid and Laura held the poor head of the pa tient to her bosom and his hands in through the whole operation. The accident, it was found, had occasioned by a stick of timber pin across the track, und the railroad pany offered a reward of a thousand do lars for the discovery of the rascally potrator. No matter bow we found it out, but ' wus ascertained beyond a doubt 'rince Carletou was the guilty party. He confessed it when we had hi snug and safe, and .-aid that because wanted Earl Hogers out of the way, because he hated tho whole Goosk Stouv.?Three winters ago, stormy ami tempestuous- evening in tum, a friend, then residing in Ar ias, had his attention attracted by a aud singular noiso in lug out he saw a large flockt rhead, steadily winging tl [hward.and on the ground goose, seemingly in the i ill. On cxamitiution ho I'm wings broken, and the birdJwuttuded arious places. From the -nature of injunos, it was supposcdfcfcfc "have In hurt in a squabble with hioflinpan one of ['he Irsutlcnmn broujrht all skill to boar on the wounfpd iowl, with such success that it recovered |dly. It hooamo the genotal pot of whole family, aud mixed, with the |o* geese ns if it had never known a ;r circuit than the farm, pond atid mow. But ut last, when tbo old sea |of migration rolled round again, in let became too Btroug fur the newly tuired civilization. The gdoie disap red. to the distress of the'household atiij the chagrin of its master, who blamed hiuiseli for not haviug secured it by cutting its wing. Last fall, aud ngaiu on a stormy night, tli? family wore awakened by a terrible quacking and screeching, as if u million gchse were clamoring for admittance. When they wont out an iuupenso flock QplgectlO scented hardly ton yard* from tht; ground, and in the contr&of Ilio yard stQod twenty or thirty geese. Quacking a loud faii-v ell. tlic main flock passed in leaving the Miigulur guests bonded by th gT;iy goose the furnier, rei oguized as hi obl protege. He opened the door of tb P?n. The goose marched into her oh qMarters, followed by her hood. No. ddy the gentleman secured tlie.r stay I.} ciopping their wings j ami apart from lb tie r stlcssuess at t-tat oil seas ius, the^ biive remained with him e\or since. The accuracy of this t ile is not to b -*Vubtod. but tbo greatest singularity eon sil :4 Tub South Cauuj^n.a^ Central I'ai!)uoad.? A Corn spo'n'dont ui' the ChurlcBtou Courier writing from Char lotte N. C. says: An enthusiastic meeting was held here a ? few days since in reference to the building of this road. Delegates from Lancaster, Cauideu and adjacent places in South Carolina were present, among whom your correspondent had the pleas ure of recoguieiug several old friends. Spirited speeches were made by Dr. De Saussure, of Cumdcu, Messrs. Moore and Connor, of Lancaster, and Dr. Fox and Con. Darringer, of Charlotte. The lat ter gentleman makes the host railroad speech I have ever heard. Ho uttered one pleasant Sortiment, to which I felt like responding?that the sister Suite, bearing the same name and enjoying the same historic renown, should be united in sympathy aud material enterprise, lie referred gracefully to early personal reminiscences which bound him in affec tion to the Palmetto State. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that the road will be built. Batuing in Oil ?It has often been asked whether it would bo possible for a man to swim in oil. The q liest ion was practically Sc!ved, the other day, by a workman employed in an oil manufactory at Nice. who fell into a tank of olive oil nine feet deep.?He was an export swimmer, bbt he went to the bottom like n plummet, and was only saved from drowning by the timely uid of a comrade Oil is too light to swim hi; it'is'Hot sufficiently buoyant, and does not oiler the resistance necessary to keep a man afloat. Ou the other band, it is worth knowing that if a bath in oil oilers dangers to the swimmer, there are oca siotl on which it may be of valuable use; for it. is the best of all remedies for serious burn's. A Gcnnah ballet girl, whose dress bad caught fire, and who unld been horribly burned in eousoquence^ is put into a bath full of oil by the ief physician of tlic Lejpsio Hospital, ic was suffering atrocious agonies j but n oil ttHUfejd her pains to cease almost ituediatciy. She remained in the bath lie davs and nights, the oil being newed five times during that period ; lid 1 er burns wore then so far healed [at she Could bo taken out without, lin or danger. Three weeks after she id completely recovered. This is an mirubli! form of cure, because it sup rcsscs the intol-itiblo tortures which do [ore to kill iho victims by fire than the .dual gravity of the wounds. U t j for |nnutcly. like most good^tlungs in life, it a remedy beyond the reich of small ?Urses. Only Chiustiaxh;?John Wesley Ilice w;i> troubled in regard to the dis losition of the various soots, and tue liauccs of each in reference to future ' Iiuppiness ur punishment. A dream one light transported him in its uncertain ruuderiiigs tu the gates of lu ll. 'Are there any Roman Catholics here?' iskcd thoughtfully Wesley. 'Yes was the reply. 'Aliy Presbyterians?' 'Yes,' again was the ilUSWor. 'Any Cbngrcgntioualists ?' ?Yes.' 'Any Methodists,'by way of a clincher hsked the pious Wesley. 'Ycsr' to bis great indignation, was Inns? crcd. In the mystic ways of dreams, a sud |den transaction and he stood before the at. - of heaven. Improving his oppor tunity he again inquired : 'Arc there any Roman Catholics here?' ?y >,' was replied. 'Any IV sbyterians ?' ?No.*' 'Any CongrcgationalistsV ?No.' 'Any Methodists V ?No.' 'Well, then,' bo ask. .1. lost in wonder, Who uro they inside?' 'Christians !' was the jubilant answer. A DRUNKARDS' Wii.i..?I lcavo to sociuty a ruined character, wretched example, aud a memory that will soon rot. I leave to my parents during their lives, as much sorrow as humanity in a feeble aud declining state can sustain. I leave to my brothers as much mortifica tion and injury as I could bring upon them. .losh Billingsiayt; Life is like a moun tain?-alter i limbing up one side aud sli ding down the other side, you put up tin sled. New York Fashions. Nkw York, October, T8G9. Ladies are anxiously asking for indications of Winter stylos: asking if flounces will bo still worn, if street suits will bu .longer or shorter, bonucts smaljpr arg"r, heels higher or lower, waists 'rounded or peaked, slc-vcs coat shaped mopftj/ante. To these and similar weighty (jueries we have now got definite ariswers. Flounces will be still worn but will not he so narrow or so numerous.. Many of the most elegant models just received from Paris have but one flounce on the suit, and that is deep and a la Ilussc?' that is pleated with the pleats all fulling one way. This is heavy but appropriate. The tunics may cither be trimmed with a narrow flounce a la llusse or with a heavy ornamented fringe. When plaid is worn?as it will be very extensively, the trimming should be shawl fringe ol the colors of the plaid. Street suits should be made to clear the ground freely. Nothing looks worse than to see the bottom of a suit, evidently designed for short, dragging on the pavement. A skirt must be either a round or train, there is no half way admissible. Ladies who would combine the merits of both must wear trains attached and loop them or let them flow at their option. These trains, which can be slipped on or off as easily as aprons, impart a very, stylish air to the wearer. It is essential that the shape be good?that is that the sides be so sloped us to bring it iu har mony with the bottom of the round skirt?when flowing it must look of a jit'icr with the round skirt, and to lavor this impression the trimming of the round skirt aud train must always be the same only narrower on the train. Tbo pompadour or square waist is going out, the heart shaped neck is more affected, many of our model dresses are quite high iu the neck as the}' ought to be for winter, A new style of collar ealled the '"East Indian" accompanies the high-necked dinner dresses; it is simply a deep yoke of net or inusliu foundation completely covered with insertion and laic, and edged with a deep fall ol lace ; it opens in the back, and is fastened with a couple of small buttons. Yclvjt or sntiu ribbon of a suitablo color may be introduced into these stylish collars. They are designed to be so thick that the dress will not show through them. Muslin or white silk therefore forms a better foundation ?ban net. A shell shaped bow or rather tub is added nod may be worn or not, but v.e cannot think it uu improvement. Crescent shaped ornaments go well with this style of collar if they otherwise become the wearer. In ball and party drosses there is a revival of the old style of peeked waists laeed behind with silk ; waists perfectly plain with, the exeop tiuu uf lace laid on flat, '.he whole design being to show the shape as much 08 possible. Dresses, were never before so simple, so severe iu their outline as they are tills Fall?and for that reason never SO trying when badly lilted or clumsily made, nor so satisfactory to wonrer or beholder as when fitted perfectly and Btnoothly and beautifully made. Many ladies are soparticular about the* smooth sot" of their dresses when on that they will oi.lv have lliem lined with silk, and sti tolled on the GroverJt Raker Machine the so itn of wbiih is at once str u enough and clastic enough to meet the requirements of the fastidious belles who will have tight dresses, and yet who insist on even the tightest having a sence of '-give" to it. 1 hey know from cx poiienoo that the exercise of tbo ball room makes the heart beat fast, and the chest expand, so they go prepared against .cciduuts. The Maria Theresa sleeve ?vill still be worn on paity dresses, but Ion w liking suits the coat sleeve, only lighter than before. Epaulolts are no Ipngcr worn, but bretteles reaching from the waist behind over the shoulders down lo the waist in front are to be quite in style for every day dresses. The sieeves for Casaquos will be largo and Hewing. Heels on walking jbuol are worn lower, the uppers are higher than in the Sum mer. The Fulish thape will be the fashion this winter again, only laced at tbo sides instead of buttoned. The Faurhuu bonnet is dead at last. The now hat, a modified sugar-loaf shape, takes ita place. The material is of fine felt of various colors, the liius arc b uind with velvet, the trimming is one, two or more fcathcra. Altogether it is a stylish nffair?it is decidedly aristocratic, and and is called Valois. Jai-onica The Measureless Love.?I can measure pavohtal lovo?how broad, hwfr " long, und- hoW strong and deep it iaf a deep sea which mothers can only fatbjo?. i But the !oye displayed on yondej Jail!, \\ and bloody cross, where God's own fikp? fr is perishing fur us, nor man nor angc) ' has a line to measure. The eircuriiferel im of the earth, the latitude df the *W, th**,:fl distance of the planet ,?these'ha?4 felMB^h determined; hat the height, depth, breadth and length pf tb.e of J^Oj^ passcth knowledge! Such is the Father against whom all of us have sinned a thousand time! Walk the shore whcW? the ocean sleeps in the aunrmeT" calm^-Wr.'-"!' lashed into fury by the winter**; tof mpjurn is thundering on her sands, and when , you have numbered the drops of the. waves, the sand on her sounding beacr... you hayc numbcied God's mercies and . your sins. Well, therefore, may we gvj ?'? to IT tin with the contrition of the prodigal ' in our hearts, and his confession on our ? lips?"Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight." The Spirit of God helping us to go to God, be assured that the father, who, seeing son afar' off. ran to meet him fell on 'Ilia* * neck and kissed him, was but an imago! of Him who, not sparing His own Son. but giving him up to death that we might live, invites aud now awaits your ?Dr. Guthrie ?kj >t% e<l IlEAUT-RENDlNli SCENE AT TI{fT A voni>a lIFti n Eaal.?Whea the coffi.1 ^ was about beiug lowered., iuto one of the long and regular row of excavations .1 woman rushed forward and with de. - potato energy threw liersclf upon" Ak*0" coffin, crying, "You shan't bury ?-??ay 1 William ! you shan't! you shan't! Give j him back fo me ! Or if you won't, bury me with him!" Finally thejxx>r crtjatuny.^ betraying in her distracted face all t?o strongest emotions of a passionate sorrow, was prevailed upon to let the coffin b* lowered to its place. But as the men began to buuvel the earth on top of i.. she threw her eyes up toward heaven, clasped her tremulous hands, and, with an oxp.ouiou of the wildest despairing anguish in her face, which those wfc-i saw wili never be likely to forget, #*,?{,,*. claimed, "Oh, Almighty God I uko;,?? tike me to where my William is!" And with frequent repentinus of thiastrong'' tmpioration she passed with weary step* ' out of the cemetary gutes. instruments IwEQUtaiNG Stamps. ?The following arc the instrumenta fc?T be stamped aud the stumps to be used hi ordinary business transactions. Cut this out and proservo it for reference: All notes and evidences of debt, five cents on each $100 ; if under 3100,%;?! cents; if ever $100, five cents on each ' additional 8100 Or p^rt thereof. All receipts, for any amounts without, limit, ovor $20, two cents j $20,or. nt-m dor nothing.. u. , uw UimMmiml All deeds and deeds of trust, fift. cents on each S50? fn value of the pr*H** pcrty conveyed or the" amounts secured; when a deed of trust is duly. stamped, the note secured must not be ; but thuy \ should be endorsed to show the reason why. All appraisements of estates or of es trays five cents on each sheet or piece of paper. - - UaaeO Affidavits of every description are**rj empt from stamp duty. Acknowledgments of deeds, &c., are also exempt. Contracts and agreements 5 cents, ex cept for rent; when for rent, fifty cents for $300 of rents, or loss ; if over SI?M?, lifty cents for each $100 or leas, our ?300- . : td ',,1.0*1 Any person interested can affix and cancel stamps. - ?1 Mr. A very said he had a case in court the other day in Memphis. A little, fel low was introduced as a witueas. The counsel on the other side desired that the witness should bo interrogated touol - ing bis knowledge of the responsibility of an oath. The Judge (Badic.il) pn> pouuded the usual questions : "My little man, what are you about to do?" "Be sworn as a witncAtf in the case.'* "Are you acquainted with the aataarv, obligations and responsibilities of an o*th?"In .It: ml . mo* - m.bi at *M ' Yes sir, 1 think I am." "Well then, what do you think would be done with you if you were to swear to a lie?" "I don't kuow, sir, without the Bad cals would uoaiioate me for Congress."