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COTTON FACTORS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NORTH ATLANTIC WIIARF, CHARESTON? 8. C> Liberal Advances mado on Consignment. Rarxa to Andrew Simonds, Esq., Pres t let National Bank, Charleston, S. C. may 21 Wee tf WASHINGTON HOUSE BY Mrs. M. W. Stratton, cobnnb GERVAIS k ASSEMBLY STREETS WMJMBIA? S, Oi Convenient to the Oreenvilli and Charleston Railroads and the Business portion of the City, lute of Transient Beard?Two Dollars per Day> ? Regu)ar_Boarders received nt Reasonable Uli ?s*l# ? f THE CHILDREN. BY CHARLES DICKENS. When the tusk nnd the lessons nre ended. And the schools for the day is dismissed, The little ones gather around mo To bid me good night and be kissed; Ob! the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace; Oh ! the smiles that a?.e halos of Heaven, Shedding iicfis&iaf uf love on my face! Oh ! my henrt grows as weak as a woman's, And the fount of my feolinga will tiow, When I think of the paths steep and stony, Where the feet of the dear ones must go; Of the mountain of sin banging o'or them? Of the tempests of Fnte blowing wild, For there's nothing ou earth half so holy As the innocent heart ef a child! They are idols of henrt nnd of households, They nre nngels of Ood in disguise, His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses. His glory still gleams in their eyes I Ob! those truants from home and from Heaven, They hate made me more manly nnd mind And I know, now, how Jesus could liken The kingdom of Uod to a child. I ask not a life for the dear ones ? All radiant an others have done, Rut that life may have just enough shadow To temper the giure of the sun; 1 would pray Ood to guard them from evil. Rut my prayers would bound back to my self; Ab ! n sernph may pray for a sinner, Rut a sinner must pray tor himself. The I wig is so easily bended, 1 have banished the rule and the rod; 1 have taught (hem the geoducss of knowl edge. They have taught toe the goodness of Uod; My bear! is a dungeon of dnrkness. Where I shut theni for breaking a rule, My fr'ewn is suflicicnt corruption. My love is the law of school. I shall leave the old house in the aitt?mh. To traverse its threshold no more; Ah ! ho.v 1 shall sigh tor the do.ii- pne.i That meet n;e each mom at the donr ! 1 ?hall mis* the "good-nights." and the kisses. And the gush of their innocent glee The group on the green, and the flowers That are brought every morning for inc. 1 s' all ni?s them at morn and al even ? Their song in the school and the street ; I shall miss tho low bum oftheir voices, And the tramp of their pattering feet. When the lessons of life are all ended. And Death says, ''The school Is dismissed!' May the little ones gather around me, To bid me good-night and be hissed. Tlia Farmer's Oranges? The farmers of the West In their new movements have called their associations "Granges*" It is a very expressive, but more of an English than American word. It comes from >fninuin, a grain, and its primary signification is probably that of a granary. Its broader meaning is a farm house and its out-buildings. Some illustration will show .these two meanings. From the "Song of the Sower," 60 exquisitely illustrated by the Applctons, we have. And from the distant grange there comes The clatter of the thrasher's flail. In Milton's Cotnus; When for their t.-eming flocks and granges full In wanton dance, they praise the bonuteous Pan. Measure for Measure, third act gives us: will presently to St. Luke's where, in The moated grange, resides this Dejected Mariana. Tennyson's "Mariana in the Moated Grange, with the blue fly singing i' the pane"?about the weakest thing he has written, will be remembered by all. Our farmers could not huve chosen a moro cxpre.-aivc word. Jim. II., out West, tells a good yarn ubout a "?bell bark lawyer." His client was up on two small charges, "frivolous charges," as shell bark designated, (forging a note of hand and stealing a horse.) On running his eye over the jury he didu't liko their looks, so he prepared an affidavit for continuance setting forth tho absence of a principal witoess. He read it in a whisper to tho prisonor, who, shaking bis head, said: "Squiro I ean't swear to that dokymont." "Why F" Rase it baint true*" Old shell iufiated aud exploded loud enough to be heard throughout the room. "What I forgo a note sod steal a horse, an' eau't swoar to a He ! Hang such infernal fools." And he immediate ly Tell the conscientious ono to his fate. Miss Snittle's Protege. Miss t'eggy Snittle being in love with the minister, and determined therefore upon the performance of some signal act of grace, adopted a protege. Sho had no definite plan of how she should managn tho young idea but she meant he should be truiuod after the rummer of parsons iu general, und I'arson Guuu iu particular. So, bright and early one morning she selected from thai chari table institution of the village a little boy who was to be the young heathen upon whom she wus to expend her time aud patience, aud thereby secure n smull portion of the reward sho so much coveted, l'rflsclyting was a hard task even for the indomitable M iss Snittlo ; but Parson Gunti did such work ?very day nl bis lii'o, nnd why should uot she, who hoped some day to be robed iu glory as the parson's wife '( She did not even know the lad's history, nor bad she auy desiie to inquire into his disposition or gouerul character beyond the fact that he was a very noedy orphan. 'What is your name V she asked at last, alter she had reached her cottage und ushered the urchiu into tho kitchen. 'Jack, ma'am/ '.lack whut, lad V 'Nuthiu, 'cept Jack, as I knows on.' 'What, no other name than Juck V 'Yes, 'in, Flip, Squiu, Pony-.' ?Saints defend us,' cried the astonish' cd lady, 'what would the parson say il he could hear you talk ! You must call yourself Sliitlle, alter me do you hear? 'Then, I'sc Jack Snittle. is I V 'Yes. Now, then, suppose some b >y should nsk }ou directly what your name is, whut would you reply V 'I'd clfck him iu the snoot, aud say mind y'r bis. will ye.' 'Oh, dour me, what have I done to take tili?; creature on my hnnds ; hui fcho.n.* she ndJcd after a name, 'he'll - ? -. m * - bo a cherub when he is converted.' Jack hud uot been accustomed to family prayers, th it was certain, else be would not have rolled over so regularly euch time thut he Was told to knee1 down ; and, before many days had passed, Miss Snittlo found it necessary to ke?*p one eye on the young mao, even while he was ttt his devotions. Jack's place Wua intolerable to him. ! He could not understand why he was made to lead a life thut was so disagree able, when he had been very well con tented where he wus belore. Hut he was inclined to bc-gond natur cd, aud although Miss Snittlo louud it necessary to call iu the parson frequent ly tn talk over the welfare of his soul, he might not have been unruly at all hud uot the alternative be u force 1 Up ou him. The truth ia that Miss Snittle wan so ubsorbed in her admiration for one minister that she thought it would be a groat triumph to make another of Jack, aud so hhc built air castles that would have utnascd the young rascal had he known of them. NoW, Miss Sniitlc did not care a pin for the boy, outside of the part he was to play in the furtherance of her scheme, , aud somehow Juck had found (his out. Children arc wise sometimes, and this youngster kucw as woll perhaps as the idlers ubout the village that her was the sport of a whim, und thut M iss Snittle'fl only feeling for him wus one of utility. She said it was lor the glory of God she was working, but Jack interpreted her motives differently, and iho't that it i Was tO 1 'a 1 .-oil Guitn be WUS indebted for her efforts iu his behalf. He was cent, ub nthor children in the place were, to the free accademy ; but iu the afternoon he was not permitted to play iu the street, us he dearly loved to do, or bung ou the ends of ragons, as he so much desired. Iu view of the brilliant career in store for him he must read ; listen to bis ciders (who happen cd to be aged spinsters und iu so.ue de gree rivals of Miss Snittle,) and repeat a hymn for the amusement uf any ehanco visitor. To lurthcr instruct the child iu 'he duties of his futuro calling, his patron mndc him a surplice und white gown, such us the choir boys in great churches w.ir, aud iu order to deeply impress him with a sense of reverence, sho further added to his un gainly appearance by making him a high crown cup of stiff white uiuoliu. Iu this ouslUuie he wus bedecked and made to mount tbe stool placed bebind thu piano, and give, out texts aud repeat versus and roll his eyes skyward, with the look, mahlen Suittle said, that had woo for J'arrou Guou all L|a fame. 'Hut I don't want to be a Ounii, ma' um,' eaid Juck, 'nur umhin' else like t'other folks.' 'But you shall be, and there's the end of it,' and forthwith Miss Subtle became unusually rigorous in - her devotional instructions, and mado tho luckless ras cal pray for his soul as though under sentence of immediate death.' One day it was so pleasantly warm, and the bright sunshine looked so in viting to the eye of the little martyr, that he could scarcely keep them from off the window The snow was gono oil the ground, and the spring fooling was asserting itself strongly in the bosom of tho child. ? f4 - Subtle didn't think of all this ; nnd while Jack was mentally wishing he had been born a bird, or ovnn a chicken, and could not resist oushing up the window nearest him, ahc arranged bis clerical garb, and orJerud him to pro ceed with the Icssotis of the day. She did not see tho urchins drawing near the open gute, or know that as many as could got there were stooping under the window, hearing all that was going on. Juck did, and hated himself for the plight be was in. He could not tell her of bis audience . for she would then believe he had pbymtd the meet ing ; nor could he avoid the duty she forced him to periortn.,j With a bitter feeling in Iiis In ort he Was compelled to mount tho stuol, rest ene band on the piano-pulpit, point thd; other heaven ward, give i ut the h^m^nnd then hear her sing, in a monotonous drawl, the lines he had been taughnto re-id. '1 he youngsters outside could stand it no h ngcr. They gave a jwiid wh >op and yell, and ran in every direction ; one or two of the most hardened otics going so lar ns to stick their hi ad-, in the door, und . sk if raison Oiinn* pas to hum. Jack sprung out of the* window as she rushed to tl?e door ; iu[d, with surplieo, gown and cap, went.Joying down th ? tuaiu street, of '.Vvv'Cge, followed by ull of the boys, shoutHng at the top of their lungs. As fast as his legs could ?take him he hurried along, surprising everybody, hut scaring nobody half as much as himself. ?It's SnitlL-'s boy I' was the cry. No, t'ain't ; it's her A men!' shouted a butcher b<>y, who was passing just then : and the news flew from mouth to mouth, until half the town w is out on the sidewalk, laughing over the occur rence. Even Parson Gunn himself saw the curious npectuole, aud rushid from the street to bide the laughter he .could not suppress 'It's Suittle's Dominie '.' shoutc 1 tho j mischievous children a< he passed, i 'Dominie it, Pony, anJ don't muldy your night gown !' screamed a little news girls, who joined in the race. 'Hold oa to your mansard, Squinty, when you go under tnef awning,' yellod a bootblack, whoso brudies h id beou kicked into the gutter in the scramble. So away they all went, pell-mell, and poor Jack, utterly exhausted, ran along, obliged, to hoar it all, an 1 tu ist heartily wishing himself back ut the asylum again. Tut be was followed by such ao army of gatnin*, that be w.is glad to escape into a store and divest himself of his uncomfortable adornments. 'It's my preach in' clothes, sir,' he, said to the merchant, who stoo l laugh ing immoderately beside him, 'but I can't take 'em back to Mis* Suittle's. I guess I'll go to work at sonn thing else' Ami so he did, there and then, and with Mis> Suittle's consent, it is beliov cd, for she was uevcr a ft or wards heard to ullude in any manner to her unhappy experience with her protege, or to in quire after his subsequent fate. ii ? - ? ?? ? Feet vs. Feeling.-?"Breaking in a Pair of Boots ". One of the most irritating tompcr spoiling conflicts into which fashion pushes poor civilized men and women, is, I haro lately discovered, that which rages between the feet aud the fellings. Tho opinion seems to be settled that small feet arc handsomer than large ones. 01 course we arc not yet debased to the Chiuese standard, but only tend ing to it, oo that those individuals who have naturally the smallest feet in pro portion to their size and st.ituro are for tunate. Perhaps no fault can he found with this opiniou in point of artistic taste. At any rate fashion has asserted it us a ru n im, aud that is sutficiout for our pp'fuot purpose for iust bore comes |u the. difficulty. Those uafortuatte humans who, on arriviug at years of discretion, aro dissatisfied with thu site of their pedal extrcmeties, incontinently full back on that hoary artifice of a fool ish world which persuades them that if the feet aro not small, tho dofect may be partly overcome by making them look small by some device. Tho dovice constitutes, now-a-da~j, tho shoemaker's art aud mystery, which art this viow of tho matter, may be said to have made great strides. It' you order a pair of boots, I can describe your experience beforehand. You go and have your measure Laken. The muu un the bench is anxious to please, nnd has the most perfect confi dence. You explain to him that, your feet being tender, you desire an easy lit.. 'Oh, certainly! Of course !' and down go the figures. After a reason able time you call for your boots. Thoy arc finished and look handsome enough. At the shoemaker's suggestion you try t hem ou ; to speak more exactly, you try iiicm part way on. Then you arc compelled to back off until the obliging shoemaker, who takes ull this as a mat tor of course, had daubed your stocking with 'pulverized soapstoue or something similar, and handed you a pair of boot hooks, over which you bow yourself, lifting until you are very red in the face. The man of leather, who knows his part, meanwhile gets on his knees, and fur ther assists by rubbing vigorously until at length you have tho exquisite seusa tion caused by your poor hoels slipping inside the 'counter.' Then with two or three vigorous stamps tho boot is on. The shoemaker, in positive glee, rubs it a little more to make sure there is no wrinkle, then Steps back, casts an admir ing gaze, and assures you al! is right. The boots are a 'splendid fit ;' 'like a glove ;' 'like a duck's foot iu the niudV 'Jauniet's best French uppers, an I oak tanned soles;' 'after they are broken in they will be easy, and such a fit.' (After they aro !brcie inJ^niTiid you.) Yuur foot, as i? protrudes from yenr trowserj, docs certainly appear much daintier than usual, and although the joints of your toes show through Jaum et's best uppers like little knuckles.you feelings are immensely tickled thereby. Unwilling to remove so elegant a fit, or doubting your ability to put them on again unaided, you decide to Wear them, home, thus getting them panly 'broke iu.' So you wrap the old pair iu a piece of brown paper aud take your departure, indulging in pleasant fancies of the effect such dainty leather must have on the susceptibilities of Maria jane. l?ut before you reach home your feel iug have bad their day, and your feet begin to assert thetuielvos You dis cover that they ache badly, in faet, are partly beiiumbed, so that they feel like wookou feet, or like a tooth which the d Mitist has 'wedged.' This inten sifics each minute, au L whan you finally limp into your awn friendly room tho ?lino' boots come off in a hurry and go slain into the closet. They Buttered your feelings, but oh, how they hurt your feet. After a dozen or more such experi ences you began to philosophize upon tho nutter, und end by uttering tho following aphorisms : 1. Never 'breike in' boots or shoes. If they are not easy when new, don't take the n, tor the hoots will break your feet oftcner than your feat will brake the boots. 2. If y ni go bn 'breaking in' boot leather, you will nc-d a special last ? i.ole with all Hurts of kn>bs unl prjtu beranocs to correspond with your dis torted joints. Then you will be sorry. 3. If you hive large feet, admit it iu all honesty, and have your boots made accordingly. Then you will be Happy. Fight Between a Whale and a Sea Serpent' The fotlowitig description of an en counter bet wee i a whulo and a sea serpent is extracted from an affidavit of a Captain West, of Hallowell, Maine: About 6 o'clock in the aftoruoon Capo Ann bearing west southwest about two leagues, steering a course north north east, saw dirottly ahcrtd, distant about three filths of & mile, an object whioh I uave no doubt .vas the so i serpent so ubou mentioned by others engaged with a whale that was endeavoring to elude the attack. The serpent threw up his tail from twenty five to thirty feet in a p? rpeu iicular direction, striking the whale with tremendous blows rapioJy repeated, which, were distinctly heard, nnd. very loud, for two or three minutes. Thoy then both disappeared for several minutes, moving in a west southwest direction, when they reappeared in shore of us. and about under tho oun, tho re flection of which was so strong as to prevent our seeiug so distinctly as be fore, when tho tremendous blows were repeated and as clearly heard as before. They then went down again for a short lime, and again came up to the surfaco under our larboard quarter, tho whale appearing first aud tho sorpeot in pur% suit. Hero our view was very fair. The serpent shot up his tail through the water to the height before tnentioued, which he hold out of the witcr some time waving it in the nir, and at the same time, while his tail remained in this position raised his b cau rather leisurely, fiftceu or twenty-feet, as if taking a view of the surface of the sea. After remaining in this situation a short time be again sunk into the wat er, disappeared, and was njt afterwards seen by any on board. The serpent'* body was larger, in my opinion, than the mast of any ship [ ever saw, his tail appeared very ragge 1 and rough, and was shaped something like an eel's, and his head like that of a lanl serpent's IVmg woll ac [uainted with whaling, I think tho while wai endeavoring to escape, as he spoute 1 but onco at a time on coming to the surfa^?. The whale's back was distinctly seen, as well as his spouting, and tho last time he appeared be went down before the serpent came up. The above was seen by all on board amounting to fifteen or eighteen persons as well :?s myself with the exception of one woman. During our view th: com bataots had passed a mile or mote. The whale was a humpback aud a pretty large one. I ?inrk Twain VTributo to Woman. At the annual banquet of the Wash ington Correspondents' Club, the follow ing toast was read : "Womuu : .The pride ol the professions aud tho jowcl of I our*. ' To which Murk Twain respond ed as follows : Human intelligence cannot estimate what wc owe to vmnan, sir. She sews on buttons, sbu ropes us in at tho church fairs, she confides in us, tells whatever she cau fiud out about the little private affairs of our neighbors, she gives us a piece * f bur mind sometimes, aud sometime all of it. In all relations of life, sir, it is a just aud grateful tri bute to say of her she is a "brick 1" Wherever you place woman, sir, in whatever posit ioh or estate, sho is an or uaiueut to the place she occupies, uud a treasure to the world. Look at tho names of history ! Look at Deadetnooa ! Iiook at Lncretia Borgia ! Look at mother Kvc ! I ropeat, sir, look at the illustrious names' of history ! L >ok at Elizabeth Cady Sttt&tOU ! Look at George Francis Train ! Aud, sir, I say, with bowed bead and deepest veneration, lo ik at tho mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not lie ; but ho never had a chance. It tnig'it have beeu different if be had belonged to a news paper correspondents' club. [Murk looked aroui 1 placidly upon his excited audience, and resumed :] 1 repeat, sir, that in whatever position you put a woman, she is an ornament to society, and a trcsureto the World. As a sweetheart bbc has few equals, aud no superior. As a wealthy graudmother with an incurable distemper, she is gor geous. As a wet nurso, she has no equal among meu. What, sir, would tho people of the earth bo without women / They would be scarce, sir, ai mighty scarce I Theft let us give hor our sup port, our sympathy?ourselves, if wo get u chance. But, jesting aside, Mr. I'roaidoot, w> man is lovable, gracious, kind oi heart, beautiful, worthy of respect, of ail esteem, of all deference. No one here will refuse to drink her health right cordially, for each and every one of us his personally kuown, loved uud honor* cd the best id them all ? his own mother. A Detroit girl named Marion Dixon, w ho was formerly one of the most beauti ful and accomplished of the y mug ladies of that city appears continually in the polioe courts for drunkenness ???mmmmmm-?<anasaanwB Mosquitoes are very lively in Lo ujs. ville, and the people are sorry for the harsh things they sung and said about the beautiful snow. Death of SJiaek Nasty J ack. Again are we called upon to perform the peinful duty of announcing the death of one who, if not altogether love ly was chief among a fraction of thou sand spirits who are tint yet made per. feet. We refer to "Shack Nasty Jack," the genial wholcsouled, or perhaps (con o idering his mixed parentage) we should say halfoolcd copper colored gentleman, who recently died peacefully, and in pieces, in his little lava bed. Jack did not wray what little drapery he had nbout him and lie down to pleasant dreams, and his demise was hastened by a seven-inch shell that entered and ?X ploded in his diaghragm, ruining a de gestive apparatus that had never been disturbed by banquets of roistdjg, salt horse, washed down by copinua dranghts of fiery untamed benzine and needle -gun whiskey. As we recall the virtues of the deceased our pen unconsciously drifts into the Leger form of mourning, and we are led to exclaim? Dearest Shack, thou has left us, No more horses thou wilt steal. Hut twns Oilera that berefitus, He cna all our sorrows h-jal. First wc thought it was Sohoachin. Then wc heard 'tw.vs scar-f.iced Cuarlet), But the latest news, Shaok Nasty, Says 'tis you have quit, earth's snarls. Gone but not forgotten. Friends of the family invited to at tend covered carriges for all who Wear gloves. Horn of poor, but honorable parents, "Jack" manifested at an early age those traits that in after years made him famous, and would io time hive sont bim t/\ Congress if hia anni had net been shelled out oi his ephemeral shell by a cast iron namc-ake. He served bis tribe as tax collector, President of a base ball club and was about organizing a Young Men's Horse Plagiarizing Association, when he felt a sensation of goneness at the pit of his stomach, and was gone. "Possessing many of the virtues .that marked the Credit Mobilier operators, Scback Nasty was also as generous as the increase!! salary voter?, who only drew their back salary to pay o9F the public debt, an l tho news of his sudden death will cause a thrill of anguish ia many bosoms?anguish that he was not premitted to die slower and by in. A Comio paper, in interest of the temperancs cause, is announced ia LoodoQ. . * . .?i :Z.i*