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But nt last, while stand ing thoughtfully, and regarding tho assembled throng with a vacant eye, his attention was suddenly aroused by the nppearance of a person iu a white satin domino, the universal elegance of whoso figure, manner and bearing, eon vi need all that her faco and mind must bo equal to her person in beauty and grace. Though iu so mixed an assembly, still there was a dignity and reserve in tho manner of the white domino that rather repulsed tho idea of a familiar address, and it was some time before the young soldier found courage to speak to bor. Some alarm being given there was a violent rush of the throng toward the door, where, unless assisted, the ladr would have materially suffered. Eugeno Mcrville offered his arm, and with his broad shoulders and stout frame kept off the danger. It wrs a delightful moment, tho lady spoke the purett French, was witty, captivating and fanciful "Ah ! lady, pray raise that mask and reveal to me the charms of feature that must accompany so sweet a voice and graceful a form as you possess!" "Yon would, perhaps, bo disap pointed." ?No, 1 am sure not.' 'Are you so very positive V 'Yes, I feel that you arc beautiful?it cunnot be otherwise.' 'Don't be too sura of that,' replied the domino. 'Have you never heard of the Irish poet Moor's story of tho veiled prophet of Khorasan?how when ho disclosed his countenance ita hideous aspect killed bis beloved ono ? How do you know that I shall not turn out a veiled prophet of Khorasan ?' 'Ah, lady, your overy word convinces mc to the contrary,' replied the enraptur ed solder, whose heart began to feel as it had never felt before; he was already in love. She eludes his efforts at discovery, but permits him to hand hor to her car riage, which drives off in the darkness, aud although ho throws himself upon his fleetest horse, ho is unable to over take her. The young French colonel becomes moody. He has lost his heart and knows not what to do. He wanders hither and thither, shuns former places of amusement,. avoids his military companions, and, in short, is miserable as a lover can well be thuB disappointed. One night, jast as he had left his hotel on foot, a figure, muffled to the very cars stopped him. * Well, mouseiur, what would you with me,' asked tho soldier. 'You would know the name of the white domino,' was the reply. 'I would, indeed, replied the officer, how can it be done V 'Follow me.' 'To the end of the earth if it will bring me to her.' 'But you must be blindfolded.' 'Very well.' 'Step into this vehicle.' 'I am at your command. And away rattled the youthful soldier and his companion. 'This may be a trick',' reasoned Eugene Melville, 'but I have do fears of personal violence. I nm armed with this trusty sabre and can take care of myself.' But thors was no cause for fear since he soon found that the vehiole had stopped, and he was led blindfold into the house. Wbeu the bandage was re moved from his eyes he found himself in a richly furnished bordoir, and hefore him stood the' white domino just ns he bad met her at the masked bull. To fall upon bit knees and tell how much he bad thought of h?*r since their separa tion, that his thoughts had never left her and that he loved her devotedly, waa aa natural as ts breathe; ha did so, gallantly and sincerely. 'Shall I believe all you say V 'Lady let me prove it by any test you niay put upon me/ 'Knew then thai the feelings you avow aro mutual. Nay unloose your arm from my waist, I hava something more to say.' 'Talk on forevar lady, your voice is music to ray cars.' 'Would yeu marry me, knowing no more of me than you do now.' ?Yes lady, if you were to go to the very alter masked,' he roplicd. 'Then I will test you.' 'How, lady V 'For one year be faithful to the love you havo professed, and at the cxpira of that time I will bo yours?as truly as heaven shall spare my life.' 'Oh, cruel suspense.' 'You demur 7' ?Nay dearest lady I shall fulfill your injunctions as 1 promise.' 'If, at the expiration of a year you do not hoar from tnc, then the contract shall be null and void. Take this half ring, and when I supply the broken por tion I will be yours.' He kissed the little emblem, swore again and again tn be faithful, and pressing her hand to his lips bade her adieri. Ho was conducted away as mysterious ly as he had beeu brought thither; nor could ho by any possible means discover where ho had been, his companion re jecting all bribc3 and even refusing to answer the simplest questions. Months roll away. Colonel Merville is true to his vow, and happy in the anticipation of love. Suddeuly he was ordered on an embassey to Vienna, the gayest of all the European capitals, about the time that Napoleon was plan ning to marry the Archduchess Maria Louisa. The young colonel is manly, handsome, and already distinguished in arms, and of course becomes M ?no? a great favorite ut conrt, everv effort being made by th<i women to captivate him, but in vain, he is constant and true to his vow. But his heart is not made of stone. The very fact that he had entertained ?uch tender feelings for the white domino hud doubtless made him more susceptible than before. At last he met the young baronets Caroline VonwoldofF and iu spite of his vow she captivates htm, and secretly curses the engagement which he had so blindly made at Paris. She seems to wonder at what she seems to believe lo be his devotion?and yet the distance he maintains ! The truth was, that his sense of honor was so great that, theugh he felt he loved the young baroness, ami even that she returned his affection, still he had given his word and it is sacred. The white satin domino was no longer his ideal of his heart, but assumes the most repulsive form in his imagination ; and beeomes in place of his good angel, his evil gcaius. Well, time rolls on. lie is te return in a few days. It is more the carnival season ; Vienna, too, that gay city. He joins iu tho festivi ties of the masked bull, aud wonder fills his braiu when about the middle of the evening, the white domino steals before him in the same white satin dress he had seen her wear a year before at the French Opera House iu Paris. 'I some Colonel Eugene' Merville te hold you to your promise, she said lay ing her haud upon his arm. 'Is this a reality, or a dream 7' asked the amazed soldier. 'Come, follow mi, and ytu shall see that it is a reality,' continued the masked figure pleasantly. ?I will.' 'Have jou been faithful to your promise 7' asked the Botuino as they rc ired iuto a saloon. ?Most truly, lady, to net, but I fear not in heart.' 'Indeed !' 'It is too true, lady, that I havo seen and loved another; though my tow to you has kept me from saying so to her.' 'And who is it that yon thus lovo V 'I will be frank with you, and you will keep my secret 7' 'Most religious ly.' 'It is the Baroness of Von Wollorf,* be said. ?And do you really love her ?' 'Alas I only too dearly,' he replied. 'Nevertheless, I must hold you to your promi-io. Here is the other half of the ring; cau you produce its mate ?' 'Hero it is,' paid Eugene Merville, hand ing it to her. 'Then I, too, keep my promise!' said the domino, raiting her mask, and show ing to hit delighted and astonished gaze the faee of the Bareness of Woldeff. She had seen and loved him for hia man ly character aed spirit, and hating fouud upon inquiry that ho was worthy of her love, she had, Tory adroitly managad this delicate intrigue, and had tested him, and now bestowed upon him her wealth, title and affection. They were married in great pomp, and accompanied tho Arch Duchess to Paris. Napoleon, tft, crown the happi ness of his favorite, made him at once goucral of division. Livkly Cheese.?It is astonishing how effectually an exasperated Gorman mixes the King's English. A case i n point. Iu a certain city there dwells ono George M-, an irritable Teuton, the proprietor of a "beer place" on Main street, wh ).ce favorite expression is "tarn lively." Not long since, George's wife, a burly matron, who a?.-ists in tho management of the afore said "beer place," and is equally irri table, directed her liege lord to buy some good cheese for suloon consump tion. Proccsding to Stewart's grocery ou Lime-stone street, Georgo bailed the proprietor thereof with : "Shim, you got some tam lively cheese wot is'bcttor ?* "Yes, we have Borne lively cheese. How much will you have ?" "Well, I Buppose I dakc a coublc pounds." Having paid for the cheese, George carried it home r.:id gave it to his wife. In attempting to dispense of some of it to a hungry customer she discovered that it contained squatters without number, and, having ;a horror of skip pore, sliw yelled: "13oogB ! och, mius leiber Cottboogs 1 Shorge, if you buy ^rjogs, why don't you bought 'em by tjhc kwart. You yust dook dem aheeseaxight back again, or 1 knook you some tolil out." S"07ing- -J,]m *jjtimj0&g ?ekip'pers' smd their habitation, George made a break for Stewart's in do enviable frame of nun]. Notwithstanding the cheese monger was eugaged *ith a lady custo mer, George saluted him with. "Shim, jou tam rascal, como here right away kwick." "I urn busy, now, George ; just wait until I get through." "Oxkuse me, I thought you didn't knowed who I vas." 1 hiving satisfied the wants of bis lady putron, Stewart turned to bis cousin German and enquired afTectionately af ter bis health. "Shim, dot's a kweer kwestion to ask after solding mo such a lot of boogs ! Hut, Shim, I don't make fun rait you at all. I yust liko to know wot de helina tion is de reason mit dot shoeses ?" Jim diden't explain, but 'leorge got some [ ood cbsese that wasu't quite so "tam lively." An old French shoemaker, who boasted that nothing could frighten him, was put to tho test by two young men. One of them pretended to be dead, and the other going to the shoe maker, induced him to "sit up" with the supposed* corpse. Tho shoemaker, was in a hurry with some work he had promised to be completed the next moruing. So lie took his tools nud leather and began working beside the corpse About twelve o'clock at night a cup of black coffee was brought to him, to keep him awake. He drank it und resumed work. About 1 o'clock, the coflee haviftr, exhilarated him, for getting that he was in the presence of death, he commenced to sing a lively tune, keeping timo with his hammer. Suddenly the corpse arose and sxclaim? od in n hollow voice : "When a mau is in the presence of death be should not sing." Tho shoemaker started ; then ' quietly seizing his stout leather strap, ho euildcntly dealt the corps a blow on the head, exclaiming at the same time : "When a man is dead he should not speak." It was the last time they tried to scare the shoemaker. Grief of the Motloc Women. A correspondent at Fort Klamath says ho was perfectly unproparcd for the fruntio state of griof which the Modoc Indian women worked themselves into, when it was announced that there was no bopo for Captain Jack and his companions. They howled thoir weird death song, and throw themsclTes 00 their doomed iricuds, fawning them all over. Evan the little childrou seemed to catch the infection, and they cried and wept iu the most finished style. Jaok appeared very much afle.oted on meeting his favorite squaw, Lizzie, and the little papoose. His siator Mary was even more affected, and worked herself into a perfect paroxysm of grief. Tho little girl ?Ten, appeared te apprehend the situation, and sobbed bitterly. As Jack gave her one last fond embrace, the squaws returned to the stockade and the murderers were left in their cells, with ne other companions than the gloomy foreboding and anticipation of the morrow. Old Sconchiu met his family without much visible eiu otion, but his children criad bitterly, and the squaws, yelled as if tho world was com ing to an end. Tho chief did not be tray any outward signs of agitation. He kissed his little son repeatedly, and when just before retreat they were taken away, he laid down in the cell and rolled himself like a ball in his blaukets. A Happy Surprise. We have read somowharc of an in genious stratagem, devised by a French lady of fortuno, for socuring a husband. She had kept herself secluded from so ciety, and gave out a report that she was frightfully ugly as a counter influence against her well-known wealth. As she wus not accessible personally to her suitors, they had recourse to their billet deux; and among these one from bclgium pleased her faney, and to this ''missive she replied. An interview was accor ded, aud the fortunate suitor proved to be a man of fortune also, and of noble character. When they met in her salloon, the lady wore a mask. Sho warned him not to risk his happiness by allying him self with one so deformed in face and feature He replied 'Well, accept my hand, and never unmask bat to the eyes of your iT?ab?hdplor he was so charmod with her eloquence ana grace of man ncr. 'I consent,'she replied. 'I shall sur vi re the appearance of a flight aud dis gast?perhsps content?you may feel after marriage.' 'I shall uot shrink from tho proof,' said he. 'It is your heart, andaot your figure that charms inc.' In a few days their marriage took place and notwithstanding his refusal to accept it, the whole of her fortune was settled upon him. Returning from the alter, she threw herself upou her kaees bofore her h us band, and placing her hand upon her mask, lifted it exclaiming. 'You have not deserved deformity, you merit tho love of beauty.' And a vision of augelic beauty now )o I before him. Tho Social Glass. How very few of those who are in tho habit of indulging in a social glass ever think of the dangers to which they are subjected! How many moderate driuk its arc there in the couutry who think thoy will ever become common street drunkards? The}* aro very scarco, we nil know how many drunkards there arc and also know that every one of them was ouce a moderate driukcr. Aud many a young man who can re sist almost any thing else, canuot resist the invitation to take a drink. Why is it there must be something deeper in an invitation to tako a glass than iu any thing else, an a man is too woak to re sist temptation. The groat trouble is that thoy think there is no harm in ouo glafs. If you over drink the first glass there will bo uo totuptatioc to try the second. It is a social evil, and one of immense I power to do evil in our couutry. { We know that it tnkos moral courage I to stand up firmly and say, No, I will not drink; but you can do it if you will. And to you is recorded the privilege of showing that you can resist temptation if you will. Learn to resist the social glass; learn to say no, whenever the intoxicating cup is offered you, whother by the hand of some fair and beautiful young lady or by the dirty, groasy hand of a bar keeper. If you would shun tho evil of intern pcrance, if you would live as a man should live, if you want to be a man let the social glass aloue. Rut if you would sink your manhood below the brute, if you would kill all qualities that go toward making up the true man, be a moderate drinker. If you want to bo a common stroet drunkard a disgrace to yourself aud fami ly, and a etuiu upon the manhood of your country, partake of tho social glass. If yon would livo a life of shame and die by that terrible disease, delirium tremens, be a moderate drinker.? Tern pie of Honor. Oaks Planted by Squirrels. It is n curious circumstance, and not generally kuewu, that mauy of the oaks which arc called spontaneous are plautcd by the Bijuirrcls The little animal has performed the most essential service to the British Navy. A gentleman walk ing one day in a wood belonging to the Duke of Beaufort, near Trevhouse, iu the Couuty of Monmouth, had his at ten tion diverted by a squirrel, which sat very composedly on the grouud. He stopped to observe his motions, Iu a few moments tho pquirrel darted like lightning to the top of the tree beneath which he had been sitting; and in au instant be war down with an scorn iu bis mouth, an i began to burrow in the earth with his ruws. After digging a hole, he stooped down and deposited the acorn; then coveriug it, he darted up the tree again. Iu a moment, he was down with at other, which he buried in the saaio manner. This ho continued to do as long as he thought proper to watch him. The industry of this little animal is directed to the purpose of securing him self against want iu winter, and, as it is probable that his inenory is not sufli cicntly retentive to enable him to remem ber the spots iu vhich he deposited ev ery acorn the industrious little fellow, no doubt, loses a few every year. A few springs up and are destined to supply the place of the parent treo. Thus is,. '*?rTCfct'?riCa1u~"n7 sTjiiid lucas?re indebted" for her mercantile greatness to the in dustry dud bad memory of a squirrel. The Wages of Solflshness. Many years ago there lived in Egypt an old man named Amin. A time of great famine came upon the land, just as there w.is onao in the days oT Joseph. Amin had a great store of wheat in his granaries. When bread begau to get scarce his neighbors came to him to buy (Train. But he refused to soil it to them He said ho was going to keep his stock till the rest of tho grain in the Ian i was gone, because he could get a higher price for it. Many died; and yet this selfish man kept his stores locked up. At last tho starving people were ready to give him any prico he asked for his grain. He took the great iron key of his vast granary. Ho opened tho door and went iu. Worms had entered the great heaps of his one beautiful grain and destroyed it all. Hungry as the people were, they yet raised a great shout of gladness at what had happened But such was the effect of the disap pointraent on the old man himself, that be fell dead at the door of his granary, "//is tclfithdet* killed him.'* And or Mie felt any pity for him. That must have boon tho most horrible thing of all. To have others feel for us, wc must feel for them, and that was just what tbe old man did not do. It is a good glnu, perhaps somo of you have tried it already, to endeavor to make some one happy every day. See how quickly the figures mount up. Iu otic year thoro would be three hundred and sixty five persons to whom you hud given some pleasures, nud in ton yoars they would number three thousaud six bundled and fifty uot countitig yourself, i he happiest of all. An Indian Story There is an Eastern story which has its version iu many languages, of a beautiful damso), to whom a gouius of surpassing power desired to give a talisman. Ho onjniucd her to take hor self across a field of standing earn, sho was to pluck the tallest aud largest ear she could find, but she was to gather it as she went forward and never pause in her path, or to step backward in search of her object. Iu proportion to tho siae and ricbuess of tho car, so would be its power as a talisman. Sho want out upon her quest, says the logond, and en toroJ upon the field. Mauy a tall stalk of surpassing excellence met her glauoc, but she atill walked ouward oxpooting always to find ono nioro excellent still. At last she reached a portion of the field ?where tbe crops were thinner and the can were stunted. She regretted Um tall and graceful stalle aha had left ba hind, but disdained to pick those whioh foil so far below what her ideas were of a perfect car. But, alas! the stems grew more ragged and more scanty as she toed onward; on the margin of tha field they wero mildewed, and when she bad to complished her walk through tha waring grain, she emerged on tho other side without having gathered any ear what ever. The geuius rebuked her for bar folly, but wc are not told that he gare her an opportunity or retrieving her ex ror. We may apply this mystic little Indiau fable to the realities of daily life. Pity the PooF Printer. "Working for forty editors and scores of authors, every one of whom is as sensitive as a sore thumb, and ae lively and interesting as a hornet, no wonder that printers die young, and only pachydcrdamateus grizzly, mulish, specimens get their share of life. Huppy infant", early blest! Rest in peaceful slumber, "rest; Rescued from the t humps and jeers, Which increase with gre wing years." "Tho writer wishes hi coullofiev himself as an awful example of the perils whioh environ the men Ttho meddles with cold?type. A thorough ly trained printer should hare had ? step mother, and then a step-father, and then been bound out to a tanner, aid then have married a scolding wife, and lived in a smoking bouse, and had e> family of babies who wore afflicted with tho colio. He sh ould hare added to all this discipline, a thorough knowledge of science, tho arts, law, language*, theology, history and biography. If, in addition, he,; *as a vicious 'looking countenance and an amiable disposition, he may stand somo chance with those authors and editors ; but the probabili ties are, after all, that they will worry him to death." A rural couple came to town last week to see the wonders of Wood'* hi use um, and stopping square in front of the structure, they gazed intently at its dazzling frontage. At last the young man, overeotne by feelings, tightened his arms around his companion's waist and said: 'I'll bet I know what you are think ing of, Salina.' 'I'll bet you don't,' said Saline. 'You was thinking that yon wished me and you was married and living in such a house as that?come now, wasn't you, Saliua ?' 'No, you fool, I was thinking whether [ fed them hogs their swill this mem- - ing before we started?for if I didn't, father'll skiu me alive when I get home/ To Club Toothachk.? A weU known dentist, who has tried the remedy on some nervous people who have old roots of broken teeth, and are too timid to permit an attempt to re move them, makes the following public, for the beucht cf all whom it may con cern : To persona having a hollow tooth, allowing the air to reach the nerve, I would advise that they jet some nitre aad mix with alum; sali rate a little cotton with it and apply it to the cavity. If the pain extends up wards to the eye, or takes the form of neuralgia,.procure some horse radish leaves, take out the stems, wet them and apply on the face over the pain, and I think you will get relief. If you have no radish, try beet leaves; they may answer the same purpose. The Republican Party standssquarely on the following platform : Opposition to the back pay legis!? tion. Opposition to all monopolies that tend to oppress labor or interfere with the rights of the people. Opposition to the Lobby and all other influence which tend to corrupt or inter fere with honest legislation. Opposition to further land grants, ex cept for educational purposes or imme duttc settlement. Opposition to anything that tends tw extravagance or corruption in the ad ministration of the Government. Bustle is not industry, nor impudence courage. Egg shells givou to bans will make them lay, it is said; Black silk or velvet should not be wore as deep mourning.