The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, November 13, 1869, Image 1

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rangeourg TWO DOLLAR? PER ANNUM, y GOD AND OTJB COUNTRY. ?{ ALWAY8 IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 3. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13. 1869. NUMBER 3<\ the orangeburg news ?:o:?? PUBLISHED AT ORANGRBUBG, 8. C. Every Saturday Morning, "HAS. IT. HALL <k CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?<?:? TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. <ic? 0?py for on* year. $2.00 ** Six Months... 1.00 \*y on* sending TEN DOLLARS, for ? *C^r\) *f New Subscribers will receive an SCXTRA COPT for ONE TEAR, free of charge. Amt on* sending FIVE DOLLARS, for a Club of New Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA COPT for SIX MONTHS, free of eh&rg*. ??:? BATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Insertion. $1.50 ?? " id " . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or ? as inch of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices, .$5 00 H et ices of Dismissal of Guardians, Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.$0 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon t he meat liberal terms. ??>:? MARRIAGE end FUNERAL NOTICES, net exceeding on* Square, inserted without TSSI. '*r.. "Www- -oSHMEH Owvjii. i**2 Ty ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS. KBR attend <Che Court* in Orangeburg, Beanarell and Beaufort, and the United Stute? dfsjrta. OPPICE AT ORANGEBURG. 8. C. W. M. Hits ox. W. P. HlcsuX. T. K. Lkoabb. jan 23 ? ly klar & dibble, ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, OR A IVO ED URG, S. C. -3**aa P. IiLAB. Sahckl Diunt.r. Ub?2 ? ly ?alcolmT browning, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ?BAX6EBVBQ C. II., So. Ca? *ug21 ly fred/ persnerT DENTIST. Will be in Orangeburg every Thursday, ffriday and Saturday. Office in rears/ BULL, BCOVILL k PIKE. MM tf ml h. w. kennerly, ? BAHCIEB1I KG, TTTAVINO BKMOVED TO THI8 PLACE, 1 1 Respectfully offers his Professional . Service* to the Citizens and Vicinity. Office en Russell Street, opposite Bull, Snevill * Pike'*. aear 18 2m DR. J. R. TOOMER, OR ANGEBU RG, 8. C. RESPECTFIJLLr INFORMS THE CITI ZENS <*f ?Oraogeburg and Vicinity that he ha* resumed the Practice of Medicine, and e*? he found at his Residence on Russell Street. jan If.?]y FASHIONABLE TAILOR, I have the pleasure to announce to my nu merous Customers and the Public generally, that having removed to a Central Position, handy and convenient to all, I am now pre pared Cut, Fit and make Up a GENTLE MAN'S WARDROBE with Neatness end Despatch. Terms liberal and Work War ranted. Thankful for the Patronage of the past, I respectfully, solicit its continuance. Next door to Messrs. Bull, Soovill & Pike, I ?an be round at all times. jan 9?ly D.W.ROBINSON. CKAC'KKBIN AW0 CAKEH. By th* BOX end mi RETAIL, a choice assortment of CRACKERS and CAKES, 8NAPPETS. JUMBLES. CREAM, SODA, A*., &c, MOLASSES CAKES furnished at lew rates by the Barrel or Box. Call and ?** Samples. JOHN A. HAMILTON", ?et??8b* Court HouseJStere, The Homestead Law. We clip the followiug able aitic from the Southern Enterprise, tho on pnper published now at Grecenville, 0., and one as well edited as any in tl State: "A writer in tho Charleston Net signing hiuiseli' ''Jusiice," is insisti thut the enlightened and able decisions of Judge Orr and other Circuit Judy's sustaining the Homestead Law, are ;d! wrong, and he predicts that the Supreme Court of this State will declurc it inope rative, as to debts existing prior to its adoption, as the iundauientul law of the Stute. It may be possible thut the Su preme Court will declare the Homestead Act unconstitutional, but that will not ?nike it so, or convince anybody that docs not want to be convinced?Judges may find ph.usiblu grounds for annulling almost any luw a Statu passe- on the Score of impairing contracts, if they take into consideration mere consequent id considerati<ins; but a general law, like [ the Homestead, to protect families from bciug turned out paupers and beggars into the highways and hedges, does nut directly interfere with anybody's con tracts; least of all. with contracts before the war nud during the War, for they did nut anticipate existing facts or contract upon them. '?Justice,'' ns he si^tis him self, (one ?iilul justice he seems to us) may be gratified tit a decision of the Su preme Court of the Si. te in accordance j with the homo-expelling, uushelleritig and SitCIUiuuiailig policy id tin se who have less sympathy for the unfortunate debtor and the humane and rational side ot the law, than for its technicalities; who, unlike. Judge Orr, have nut the breadth of iniml und heart to take iuto cour,iiiciatioii furl* of the case, and the sound reasouiug arising from those facts. Whatever theoretical view in ay have been expressed by some of the Judges ot the United States Courts as to the State being all the time under the si riet rules of the Constitution of the United Stales, everybody knows that it is not a f ct. Such was not the faet at the time the present Constitution ot* South Caro lina was framed, and '?Justice" caunot, by truth, maintain that it was any Con stitution till vitalized by Act of Congress according to the Reconstruction haws under which we now live, and move und have our being nan State. We were not recognized as u State under the Constitu tion. The truth Is. ns intimated. Courts may give plausible reusoiis for setting aside any Act of the l^egwlafue they pleuse, if you will argue th.it. by some conse quence, they inter/ere with somebody's contract?the liue of argument that some resort to?would annihilate ull State leg islation. Hut there are some laws and remedies for contracts that have been again and again set aside by State legis lation, and scarcely any one has dared to question them ; such, tor instance, us the luw in' arrest and imprisonment for debt. This was a more ellee.uaI remedy, gene rally, than the right to sell the family homestead of a thousand didlais because all men. necessarily, hud bodies to be tortured whereby they could be com pelled to assign everything they had in possession?or in future?money, debts lainlb iu the State nud out of the State. Most men also hnd some telutive or friends that might be forced to go their security, or help theui in some way by this terrible remedy of arrest uud im prisonment luwl'ully possessed by every creditor, and especially b*' every judg ment creditor before our New Constitu tion wns adopted; yet no one ques the coustitutiuuality of theabrogatii this remedy, or tries to set aside thi ble und eulighlencd piovision 0 Constitution udnptcd under the K struction Laws of Congress. One son is, that it would shock the con sense of right in the heart of all i and the only reason th t all men d< sec tho so mo CPiiBtiiutinunlity in thousand dollar Homestead Law, is, it applies only to the deb.or class h. a homestead, which, although I... yet a minority. The obscure farm tenant of uu humble homo it may I ouly fifty or a hundred dollars vulu judicuted with his Ihrnily into com houseless paup rism. Hut ull mo interested in escaping arrost and inj ouuient tor debt, hence the difioren oe iu ihe constitutional argument. Tho (?eoi giu Supremo Court on the one side t f us, and the South Curolina Supreme t on the other side of us, and ccrtamlv or,u>ore of the wisest- aod ablest of 4 ourt one the Death of George Peabody A cable dispatch this morning an nounces the death of the eminent philan thropist. George Peabody, an announce ment which will be received with the deepest regret wherever his name and benevolent d.cds have become knowu. and nowhere more so than in R. It innre. Tbc dispatch is dated London, Novem ber 4th, midnight, and was received hero about eleven o'clock List evening, cnu veying simply the statement that''George Peabody died at 11J o'clock P. which hour. allowing for the difference of time, was nbout the same its eight o'clock in Baltimore. Mr. Peabody was born in Duuvcrs. Muss., February 18, 1895. He was the son ot poor parents, and bis early educa tion was acquired in the district schools, lie was placed as assistant to a grocer in bis town at the uge of eleven, and in bis sixteenth year went to Newburyport as clerk for his elder brother, who had opened a dry goods store there. This es tablishment being burned down, ho wont with au uncle to Georgetown. 1). C. where, for the following two years, the business was conducted in bis name, though a minor. In 1814 be withdrew from the business, and became a partner of Mr. Elisha Rigg*, in the wholesale dry goods trade. Mr Bigg* furnished the ueces?try capital und intrusted the management to Mr. Peabody. The ucxt year the house was removed to this city. Here it attracted a large business, and in 1822 brauch houses were established in New York und Philadelphia. Mr. Peabody's first visit to Europe was in 1827, g*iug to buy goods. In 1820. Mr. Biggs retired, ami Mr Peabody be came senior partner in the bouse. On bis visits to Europo the State of Maryland repeatedly eutrusted him with important negotiations, which were inva bly conduct* d with success. In 1837 be took up bis permanent residenee in Eng land, and iu IS til. having withdrawn from the firm of Pea body, Biggs & Co., he established himself in London as a merchant and banker. II is exertions are said to have contributed greatly to main taining the confidence iu American re sponsibility which bad well nigh failed in the disastrous period of 1837, und bis repeated and important favors iu this re spect to the State of Maryland were gratefully acknowledged, but he refused all compeiisutiou for thctu. In 1856-7 he gave the sum of $300,000. with a pledge to increase it to 8500,000, to found an institute in Baltimore (now known us the Pcabody Institute) for the promotion of science, literature and the line arts. He subsequently increased it to 81.000.000. and more recently udded the sum of 8100,000 iu Virginia and Tennessee bonds. The list of bis charities t.? benevolent and educational purposes, including bis munificent contributions to institutions in his native town of Danvcrs. for lodg ing bouses for the poor of London, for professorships in Yule and other New England colleges, and lastly, but not Icustly, his great donation for education lu the South, reaches iu the aggregate pur \n if they had employed all his wealth in rcariug a monument over his remains, have buill a structuio ^hioh could be seen as far, or bo entwinod by the af fections and admiration of such myriads cf the human race, as the good and generous deeds which have been restricted by no boundaries! of section or sect, or nation, and whien have associated so many throbs of happiness aud gratitude with the venerable and beloved name of George Pcabody. Th.it thore will be proper marks of respect paid the memory of this great philanthropist in Baltimore, as well as at other points, theft cau be no doubt, prompted by reverence for his name and gratitudo tor his deeds.?Sun. - ?h.?? ?? i Tub Bride.?Hpc quits her home, her parents, her companions, her occupa tions, her auniscmeuts?everything on which she has htlherto depended for comfort, for affection, for kindness, for pleasure. The patents by whose advice she has been guido!? the sister to whom she has dared impart every embryo thought and feeling, tho brother who has played with her, bjf turns the counsellor und th?3 counselled, aud tho younger children, to whnuij&hc has hitherto been the mother nud th^ playmate?-all are to be forsaken nt otic fell stroke, every former tie is loosed, the. spring of every hope and notion is changd, and yet she Hies with joy iut.r the uutiodden path bclorc her. Bnojed up by the confi dence of requited1 'love, she bids a fond and grateful adieu jto the life that is past, and turns with cxiy'cd hopes and joyous anticipations of th' happiness to couie.^ Thmi woetothc in" ii wie. can blight such fair hope who oanjp^ja^ird like, break the illusions that havow'bn her. und destroy the confidence whfrh love had inspired. A RoMANCK.|r>Itt? tho year 1807. Hi rr Von Vcchtei; being then nineteen years old, und of rf noble family, entered the Austriau anS\'tis lieutenant, and through regular Gradual ions, in lSb'O rose to tho ra.ik oi, major. In the month of September of fhat year he was in sulted at a luveefby the colonel of his li?(<immi*. J'r.Mji^iid high-*-ptrilod, he i .?-?.??r ed the instill aud a challenge was puSscd between the two officers. They met?pistols at ten puces?and the colo nel fell. With great difficulty Vcchter eluded the authorities, and at last es caped to England. There he remained but a short time, ami finding DO suitable employment he embarked for the United States, and upon his arrival proceeded to Chicago, lie arrived here the day the intelligence of the fall of Fort Sumtcr flashed through the country, and his means being nearly exhausted, hi enlist ed iu the .Ninth Illinois, then being or ganized. The man who had worn the epaulets of au Austriau officer for more than three years carried a musket iu the ranks of that but tuition, and was severe ly wounded at the battle of 1'ittsburg Landing. When he was mustered nut he obtained em; loynient of various kinds and eudared many vicissitudes incident to the lot of a laboring man. He feared to write to h-s relatives as the Austriau Government might learn bis whereabouts and cause his apprehension under tlte ox I tradition trea* v. end so he suffered and i toiled iu silence, tritil finally he found himself iu Galcsburg carrying a hod ou the new hotel. The packet he received yesteidny con tained a full pardon under the sign manual of tin: Kmperor The Colonel had only been severely Mounded and freely acknowledged that he alone bad been iu fault, ami that the duel had been of his own seeking. By the death of his uncle. Von V. inherits rich estate and the title ot Baron. Napoleon's Superstition. ? Mr. Win. Henry Hurihut iu one of his Eu ropean letters to the New York World, thu writes : It is worth mentioning, however, that the imperial patient himself has been un favorably affected by a current supersti tion, which deduced from a combination of figures such ns that which cheers the soul of Dr. Cumillillg with constant hopes of the downfall of the opilCdlyptio beast aud of the scarlet Woman, has fixed upon the your lSbll as the tiiinl term of the Nap ne. nie dynnsty. Wulleustein believed iu the s.cis. mid so calm mid practical u modem as the late Lord Kh> gin conceived himself to have been warned of the. illness which ended his life by the bogie of the House of liruce. A young lady who |o?t her appetite while eiMcrUuuing frivolous company, nud reading '-yellow colored literature" in thu parlor, found it again after diligent search, while helpiug her mother in the mi ehe u und garden, und mukiug herself generally useful. Ick Mountain in West Viroimia. On the east batik of the North river iu Hampshire county, West Va , is perhaps one of the greatest curiosities in the State. It is literally an Ice Mountain, in height from 400 to 500 fect. The Weatern side of thia mountain is covered with loose stone, of a light color from base to summit. By removing the stone pure solid crystal ice can be found in the warmest days of summer, and it has been found there as lute as the middle of September. It may exist throughout the entire year if the rocks were removed to a Millieieut dcpih. What seems strange is thai the side of the mountain where the ice is found is exposed to the sun throughout the day, nud it is said that the sun docs not have as much ef fect in melting the ice ns continuous rains. At the base of this mountain is a spring of water very clear and cold. Some years ago, the owner of the pro perty removed tho stone and erected a small log dairy or spring house in which meals can be kept at any season as safe ly ns they can be preserved in an ire house. Flies aud suukes sometimes find their way into the spring house whore they immediately become chilled and torpid. On being removed, they soon recover life and motion. This celebrated mountain is situated 20 miles northeast of Winchester aud 1(5 miles cast of Rom uey, in Hampshire county, W. Yu.? Pan Ilaml'r _\ jcs. The Roll-Cam. in Heaven.?And accident is icL-ed by a chaplain who was in the army during one of our hard fought battles. Tbc ho>pit..l tents bau been ti'ling up fast, as the wounded men b^'d been brought lo the rear.?Anten?: the num'o i was a y**uug man mortally wounded and unable to spa k. It was near mid-night, aud many a loved one ?Vom our homes lay sleeping on the battle field?that sl^ep that knows no waking uutil Jesus ?hall cull |or them.?The surgeons had been their rounds of duty, and for a moment all was quiet. Sud denly this young man. before speechless, calls iu a clear, distinct voice, "Here." The surgeon hastened to his side, und asked him what he wished. "Nothing," be s..id, ' they are culling the roll in Heaven, and I was answering to my mime." He turned his head, and was gone, gone to j -iu the great army whose uniform is washed white in the blood of the Lamb. Header, in the roll call of Eternity, your name will be heard j can you answer uIlcrcT*' Are you one of the Soldiers of Christ, tho great Captulo of Salvation. A bloody affray occurred near Waco, Texas, on Monday week. It appears that two brothers named Grimes, who hud just returned from Kansas, where they bad been with a drove of beeves, while under the influence of liquor, became very boisterous, and, resisting arrest, fired upon the polite, wounding a Federal soldier, named Connelly, in the hand. They then left town, pursued by a squad of soldiers, who overtook them about two miles from town. The brothers Grimes immediately turned and commenced firing on the soldiers, five iu number, who returned the tire with their enrbiuej, killing both of them iostautly They were twenty-two aud twenty-five years of nge respectively, and bad hith erto borne a gmij character. Their lather resides on the Leon River in the edge of Coryel County. A IlAlin Winter COMING.?Scientific men, observant woodsmen, old hunters aud other Wat her wise individuals pro diet that the coming Winter will be of unusual rigor. To the West und North west the beavers and prarie dogs have commenced their prep n ations for frost much earlier than is their wont; and ou the Atlantic coast the frequent storms are harbingers of the wrathful Cold to como. The Winter of 1859 GO Was remarkably mild, only paralleled bv the Winters of 1822, "JS and 84. Since lH?'.l 00 the years have been quite wann, dry and elear. corresponding with a ? insularly light pressure ol the barometer. It seems that we urn lo p:.y for all those benefactions, and tho Winter of 18011 70 will tell severly upou large portions of this country. .Mr- Yick, aged 108 ycurs, living iu Davidson County, Tenn., waa in Nash ville Friday lust to collect her pension.' Tho papers say she is hulo, hearty, and us sprightly as a girl. The priucipal part of the village of S Warth vi lie, California, was burned Octo ber 29. What Planters Should Do With Their Money. The "Now Orleans Picayuue" expects planters to have a surplus of money at the end cf this season. It advises thoui how to spend it: . The planter should determine to in crease the wealth of his plantation, and consequently his own. Should he do it merely by expensive building, he may not effect this; for if his land becomes poor, purchasers will not buy merely to enjoy his builds. But if he improves the fertility of his laud, and though this may not be needed, procures the means for the most thorough cultivation and the most economical sav ing of the crops, set out standard fruit trees of the bast and most profitable sorts, ect., he will effectually add a permanent value to his propcrtj, which will adhorc to it though adverse seasons may tem porarily tend to dishearten him. So the merchant and tradesman should invest of their net gains in railroads, factories, and other enterprises in their rcspectivo localities, thus increasing their real estate, which thoy certainly should acquire, and add to the business prosperi ty and acceptability to traders of their respective localities. One of the faults of the Southern people has been their indisposition to make local improvements, und to build up their fortunes nt their respectire homes. They make money, but they loso it; they arc flush for u while, but soon they are borrowing again. The farm of the planter, and the city of the merchant alike show improvidence and their fortunes nre uot pcreuuino but merely annual p'ants, and the seed in perpetual danger of being lost. Well for them, indeed that it hnpbeus not, that like Jonah's gourd, these may spring up some day and flout ish awhile, and then din suddenly from lack of soil and excess of heat upon it. We must utuend this. Wc mml beget a spirit of home improvtureut both iu country and city, in the former by mak ing our lands richer or developing and refining their riches, and in the latter by bringing into them railways and promot ing manufactures within them. Then may we put for our respective uso ''palatial residences;" but palaces do not b??t deserts or solitudes, and these wc will make of our plantations and towns if wc continue impervious to the demands of improvement and enterprise. Straw for Horses.?The value of straw as feeding substance was never beiter proved than by the following fact: A firm having a large number of heavy wagon horses, hud frequeut occasion for the veterinary surgeon until they were recommended to mix a certain portion of fine cut straw with the clover hay. This has been practiced now for some years and their bill for doctoring is at a minimum. The partner of the firm, who told mc this, said how advantageous it was not to bu deprived as they formerly were of several horses?to say nothing of ihe saving in expense and loss. Ti.e fact is, the food was too rich or too mucilaginous, for I have olteu been told that fiue hay unmixed with bt raw-chaff, balls iu the stomach, and thus is deprived of art inn of tho gastric juic -s. Wc know that too much succulent or rich grasses are injurious uud no doubt straw chaff mixed with it acts mechanically, if not chemically, with advantage. It would be well for our agricultural friouds to know thut for peveral thousand horses belonging to the London Gcueral Omni bus Company, the food is nil passed I through the cutter, with, I believe, a certaiu propoition of straw. While spring grazing our bullock stares, we mix straw with it iu their early growth, but as they advance to thoir flowering uud podding, this is not required, because there is much wheat aud oats grown with this, which gets intermixed ou passing through the ehaff-ttiachine. ? ????-?????? Down io Mississippi they call a colored man a "fifteenth amendment." Eugenic changed her toilette three times a day on her recent tour, mostly on the train when going at tho rate of fort) miles au hour. Unable to dispossess Napoleon of the French Empire, the discontented Pari sian editors ore now endeavoring to dis prove his right to his name. Belle Boyd, late of Virginia, and well known during the war 'Vom her oonnec t ion with the Confederate secret service, has been sent to the California Insano Asylum. 8alt fob thb Throat.?Ab ex change says: "In these days when diseases of the throat prevail, and par ticularly a dry, hacking cough, whio is not only distressing to ourselves bi t to those with whom we are brought inf ? business contact, those thus afflicted m y be benefit tod by trying the followii . remedy :?Last fail we were induced to try what virtue there was in common aalt in about half a tumblerful of cold water, and with this wo gargled the thorn most effectually, just before meal time.-~* The result has been that during the wi. - tcr we were not only froe from the usm-: winter coughs and colds to which, as f r as our memory extends, we have alwo. a becu subject, but the dry, hacking cou. h has entirely disappeared. We attribute it entirely to tho salt gargle, and most cordially recommend it to those f our readers who arc subject to disea-. ' of the throat. - .-ii j How to Make thb Peahly Ha' nb88 Cbmbat.?Our City readers canu? t fail to have noticed the load ofb?v . drawn by a spau of stout horses, 4* whole got up for the purpose of maki .4 an exhibit of and of course for the.s *tf of the pcasly Cement. "It will com ** my leather traces if cut in too, so stroii that they will be quite as strong - ever!.' the vendor is wout to cry. WL... ever may be its nature it ia suid to V. wade iu the following manner: Prepare a solution of 200 parts n white glue iu water, another one of V. parts of isinglass, three of gum aral and three of trngacanth; and final . another of one part of shellac in alcoh-d. Then pour these solutions together; mix them with 24 parts of white lead, and t? least 12 parts of the best glycerine, an I 200 parts of alcohol. The mastic thus obtained should be immediately put 10 iu bottles and well corked.?Manufactu. . and Builder. Butler has been ''interviewed wants "gold to be made an article of flM*"" chaudize." lie adores a metallic cum cy. He is in love with gold and spou>\ on silvet. A modest editor makes the follow! announcement: "Every married ctnj ' ee of the Des Meines Register has bee . presented with a baby, within the | two wcc<s, by the persons authorised to do such things." Miss Nannie Burrows, a young lady of rare accomplishments, residing near C<>\ ? ington, Tcnn., was burned to death 1 ? week by the accidental burning of he dress. There arc now in the United St.. Navy four iron-dads in commission v ... twenty-nine more that can be ready f sea iu two weeks. The number ot sail. [ ing national vessels of all kinds attache! to the navy is fifty. Mrs. Clancy, who butchered her hu* band at New Orleans, about eightcm I mouths ago, as he lay by her side in b ? I has just died in a lunatic asylum. ). dies, you see how it works; so be care..ii bow you carve. A genealogy of the Hall family, mox in progret? at Portland. Me., indicates that the descendants of Hatovil Hail in 1.'>G years have reached a number just beyond 10,000. An exchange says winking at a pret: girl through goggles is like doing busi ncss without an advertisement in th uewspaper. The venture is neither seen nor appreciated. A man out Wfest who read that <?-'? copcras put in a bed of ants would can them to leave, put some in his mother i law's bed to see if she would go. 1 says she was there at last accounts. A non-explosive lamp, filled with nn explosive oil and capped with a oat< mm-explosive burner, exploded iu Clcv< land, Ohio, on Friday night. A gem ? man in tho room suddenly noticed tl. \ "the lamp seemed to enlarge; he dr< v back a ston or two, when the lamp expl. ded, sending a hundred pieces of gin - flying through the room." Itwasafan... ing on a bureau at tho time, ami properly trimmed and in good ojrdbfv; v< 1 with all theso "nnn-cxpiostvee" it d .. explode. The New York Telegram says if or. j place in this country needs a general ore?, hauling and reconstruetio?, it is Indian,*,. Society is in a very disorganised condition there, and vigilance committees are nuun ?. ous. The latter organisations carry things with a higw hand ; murder by them is -, every day occurrence. What adtsgra? ful condition of things for a so raJM ei \ i.. ire! country