Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TL, O O AL. _ J, FELDER MEYERS, Assistant Editor. SATU11DAY, JAN. IG, 1875. Mr. Meroncy is running his wagon. Mr. Moseley lias his fence fixed up again. What.docs Gov. Chamberlain waut to get clear of ? Petitions &c. What is tho most annoying thing to a State Senator ? Answer?A news monger. We iegret to learn of the illness of | Wr. Shcrrod Peeves. C. D. Kortjobn is oD?ring bargains to his customers. His ttorc is crowded with nil one wants. The streets have been so full of mud for the past week that tho Bhino was taken off the shoes of many, a one. Whs.tis a miserable character to him self ? The man who has to mnnuf icturc news upon which to live. ?????fM? . -?????? Grant sticks to Louisiana an 1 Short - dan sticks to Grant. "Let us havo peace. There was some ice this week as su.ro as you live. There could bo no sound walking on Monduy or Tuesday. Tho Grand Lodge of tho Knights of Phythias South Carolina met iu Colum bin on yesterday. Mr. F. DeMars has improved his billiard saloon by inoviug the bar from the front to the rear, lie will open u grocery iu a few days. The water squirts were good at the late fire. Better supply each house hold with one aud dispense with toy eu gi ncs. Mr. L llansdule's udvot ti&ouiout will bo found in another column. Mr. j^iavpJuk-Uijf-ti sple/t&iZ SBsorjtuArOi&Sj?r groceries, &c , aud sells them cheap. The business of Trial Justice J. Fel der Meyers is increasing rapidly. Ho at tet-d.- pri mptly to all business entrusted to him, and will collect all accounts that uro ] laced iu his hands. A joung lady in Combriaborough, tired of "sleeping by herself," has mar ried John Pightbowcr. It is altogether probable she will "order him up" on wiutcr mornings. Mr. Earnest Mentzel, the best black fniilh in the connty, repaired our press, thus saving us the trouble of having to rend it away. Mr. Mentzel is a genius niid we commend him to the public. V ire wells ! lire wells!! fire wells - ?! Fit tun engines! steam engines !! steam cuginch! ! ! "Oh don't" say the tax j ayers, Wtl!. then. What shall wc do to be saved. Mat A'.brecht, the popular Assista nt Chief of the Fire Department, got I unit out on that futul morning of the fjth; hut it is the earliest wish of the customers of our friend Mat that he willsuon bo "right side up again." > Mr. Frantz Briggmann appears in a fresh advertisement elsewhere in to day's paper. Ho offers rare induce ments to tho housckcopors of this placo, and indeed to tho entire public A cd 1 at his tdore will bo profitable to those iu waut of good groceries for family use, Lavo Palme?* has moved his shop from his former stand to tho house on the corner opposite the residence of Mr. Boliver. Ho will carry on his work at that place, and endeavor to give satisfaction to his customers* Dave is a good boot and shoe maker. Sheriff E; I. Cain, Jas. Vau Tusso1 Keq., and Mr. Lewis Fischer, havo our special thanks for thoir czertionB in trying to save a portion of tha Oiian?e buro News. Wo expect to havo up a new office in a low weeks, and have booked those gentlemen for a copy froo 1 ..... for twolvo months. Mr. Wallace- Cannon has a card in another column [which sponk? for itself. Wo adytse his customers to stand uy him. Hin c?i?rgy and pluck will carry him through. Mr. Front-*, Briggmunn's loss was over five hundred dollars by tho lire. We sympathize wito our young und cnor getiic friend. J. W. Mosoley is doing a good busi ness. Ho has a good stock and the public will govern themselves according Kohn & Brother oro in tho Oil Mo Master building. They are selling of their goods at cost, because they do uot desire to move them to their new store. No\V is tho time for bargains Mr. Corhelson his his store crowded yet. Tho people will stick to hint and his popular clerks. John Dauner is "thar," and, although tho Grc scared him, is as polite as ever* Our thanks are due to tho TiniHA and the Free Citizen for courtesies. Such favors are appreciated. Brothers of the quill, should it ever lay iu our pow cr to help you, call on us. Mathews' advertise moot, as barber, is just where it ought to hari been long ago?in the Orangcburg Mrws. And the best of it is, Mathcws is next door. Those who want to bo fixod np in stylo will call upon him. Ho can shave you, cut your hair, and y ou won't know it. TAXES? Our worthy County Treasurer, Mr. John 11 Livingston, informs us that an exteusion for the payment of Taxes ha s been extended to the 30th of this month. There will bo no extensiou beyond that time. Parties had better come up at once. GRAND JURORS? , Josh Edwards, Petor Sistrunk, P I bjessendamnor, Wade IIarrison^HJA^jj^j| pangten, Audrow Aiken, A. P Guc, James MoPhersoh; Benjamin Salley, II Stabler Jackson Knotts, John Brown, Albert Glover, Samuel Marien, 13dward Dikes, James F Griiliu, 11 W Davis, Peter Michael. What does the astute Attorney Gen eral disptso ? Letters asking favors of him by those who four mouths ago would have cut his throat. In his last Spcoch delivered in this place, he said to the crowd, "Call me what you please but pray do n't call me a fool." Letters calling him ''old fellow" und affecting a familiarity, which is unwarranted 'are not tho best ?hings just now, The streets shoul 1 have b toil widen ed ten feet on either side or not at all. Fire will not make a leap off ten feet. As it stands now : ??The difference is too nlco Wherocnds the virtue, or begins the vice?*' We make bold an.'wer that i< in j cnu rious d it position which has laid our town low. Had proper precaution') boon taken, we should not have b :ou in our persent unseemly plight . A dog got burnt up iu Mr. Rich's house. Somo bacon also was destroyed, or cooked. Somo hungry colored men liked the cooked meat, and in hunting for the same came afoul of a part of the cooked dog. They went to eating it right away but upou pulling out more of it from the coals they calno across tho head of "Tcus.er" with the hair on it yet. It is needless to say that they sought an emetic. ?? - PK TIT JURORS? M J Keller, A M Cox, J It Gossen damner, Isaac Berry, Richard Hart, J r C Kcnuorly,' J 11 Fulmore, Wash Davis, Shedriok Cam, P S l.co, Henry Arant, Isaac Haiglor, I P Thompson Sam Tilly, W Martin, .lohn Gates, L K A Cam, Ned Pauling, Jos A Fanning, Jacob Haiglor, W Colonvio, Alex Gaff ney, London Jenkins, Potor Salloy, S B Borr, J W Fttnchos, Wesley llowo, V B Johnson, John Wright, Jacob Wig gius, Elijah Brown, D W Adams, Jim Evans, W Poosor, Sam Foldor, Adam THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH? Bishop IIowo it- expected to day, na j will conduct tho service in tho ab >v Church to-morrow. Mr. Johu English at ?Fischer's, is o-te of tho most wholo-sou'.od soDB of Eri-.i that there is in this benighted country of ours. He helped to save the News from destruction, and he is still helping that prince of good fellows, Augustus Fischer, to sell goods cheaper than any body else. Wc have been reliably in forme J that the lato lire did not originate from a , candle as stated in our last issue but was first discovered at the ki toll on chim icy in rear of Mr Cartmill's store Mr C informs us that there was no fire made up in the kitchen at all in tho evening and cannot account for it unless it was the act of i n ecu diary ism. Cur popular Cost Master met with as many things to perplex him, by the fire, as the most of us. lie lost tho blinds to his olliee, and many valuables inside the building We sincerly sym pathize with our friend Mr. Williams ai d trust that he will recover from his misfortunes. lie makes us a good \ J'ost Master, and none of us could well dispense with Ned and his daily mail It took some courage in him to keep things goiu;r, but wc believe he succeed cd. All honor to him. Listen not to a tale bearer or slander rer, for he tells thee nolhiugout of good viil; but. as he discovcrcth of tho secrets ol* others, so he will of thine in turn ? Socrates, FOR 1ALE That fine two story ST >ltH and LOT on Church Street, lately occupied by tho Citizens Savings Hank and Mr. Kirk Robinson, fronting Court House Square. Terms reasonable. Apply to JOHN 1?. STROMAN Esq., or to IZI.A It & D1BULE. Orangcburg S. oct. 10 1^71 :5in. The State of South Carolina COUNTY OF ORANGEHCKT, Court of Common Pleas Jolin L. Moorer, Plaintiff, ) Against Mary B. Oliver, Adminis t rut rix, Fred'k Oliver, Summons. Huulicl K. Spignor, Luw rouoo E. Marshall and For Relief. Harriot 8. Marshall, his [ wifc, Jnby 0. Oliver, j Complaint not Sullio M. Oliver, Annie Nellio OHvor, Jnli.i Thorn- I Served, us Oliver und Marion Lee Oliver, Defandants T ih, Defendants? FREDFRICK K. OLIVER, RAC17EL E. SriGNEK und SALLIE M. OLIVER: Yon are hereby summoned und required l o ant \\ i r the eomphunt in this notion which is filed in the oliiee.of the Clerk of Common Pleas, for the raid County and to serve a oopy cf your answer to the Bitid complaint oil the subscribers n't shcir office, Hu./tell FtrcM t, Orangeburg, South Carolina, within l.wonly days utter the s< rvi e hereof, exclu sive of the day of such service; und if you fall t<> answer tho within complaint within the lime aforesaid, the plaint ill* in this ac tion will apply to the Court for the relict demanded iu the complaint. Dated Dec. 19, 1874. l/.LAR DIDDLE, tf Plaintiff's Attorneys. The State of South Carolina COUNTY OF ORANGEBURG, COURT OF common PLEAS. Mary B.Oliver, Administratrix*) of Thomas Oliver, PlaintifT. I against I Summons Frederick K. Oliver. H?chel E Spigner, Lawrence It. Mar shall anil Harriet his w ife Juby | for Relief. C. Oliver, Snllic M. Oliver ton! Annie Nellie Oliver, Julia Thomas Oliver und Murion j Complaint Lee Oliver, by II. W. Kcnnerly, their Guardian, <iJ lit urn, and Adam Smoke, creditor, and | not Served '.be other creditors of Intes tate, Defendants. j 7*0 the Defendants? SALLIE M. OLIVER, RACHEL E. SPIG NER, F. T. K. OLIVER : Von tire hereby aummoncd and required to [answer the compluiut In this uction, which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Court for said County and to ?-ervo a cony of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber tit his office in town of Ornngcbnrg, opposite Court House Square, within twenty days after the service here of, exclusive of the day of such Bewies; und if you foil to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Deo. 11, 187-1. VY. J. Dr.TREVILLE, ,'vo J2?fit Plnintiffis Attorney. Notwithstanding the. GREAT FIRE and tho bOS3E3 mot with, I hivoonhml and wiil constantly kei-;. n I'L L!, SUPPLY of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, And the BEST CHEW TNG TOBACCO and FIVE C13NT SEGAR in the town, besides other Una lirands, with in:iny othar umlul articles . Please call an 1 EX \M1NE for yourselves. L. RANSDALE, Hroughtou Street, jan 10 Ts7"> 18 ly IS OFFERING to his CUSTOMERS and the PUULIC generally RARE INDUCEMENTS! My STOCK of GOODS is COM PL ET 12 in all tho Different Departments, And PRICES so LOW that all will purohas and go away FULLY SATISF1E I) that they RECEIVED BARGAINS. AT SAME OLD STAND jan 10 1875 c eavy Losses It is true my LOSSES have been HEAVY, but my CUSTOMEAS and the PEOPLE will find that 1 am STILL AIM.ft o SUPPLY them with all tlioy need in my LINE AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES! I AM ADDING DAILY TO MY STOCK And EM BOUND to PLEASE ALL that CALLS on me next to MOSELEY'S STORE Fire! Fire! T. KOHN & BROTHER AHE NOW LOCATED AT McMASTER'S BRICK STORE -^ ? y AND ARE DETERMINED TO CLOSE OUT THEIR ENTIRE RESCUED STOCK OF Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, * I i' ? WITHOUT REGARD TO TO COST 03a LOSS!!! * COME SOON' AS WE ?JEAN BUSINESS AND MONEY THEODORE KOHN & BROTHER,