The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, February 06, 1875, Image 1
TWO D OLLARS PEK ANNUM. ) GOD A.JNT13 OTJR
VOLUME 8. SATURDAY MORNING, PE1
The Death of Dr. Livingstone.
The following interesting account of
tho laet moments of Dr. Livingstono is
taken from", tho account just published
?with tho last journals of tho great tniv
oler: ?
^??About 11 P. H. Susi, whoso hut was*
cloeo ky, 'as told to go to his master.
At the time there were loud shouts in
the distance, aud ou entering Dr. Liv
ingstone said, 'Are o?r men making,
that noise?' 'No,' replied Susi,'I can
hear from the cries that the people arc
scaring away a buffalo from their dura
fields.' A few minutes afterward he
said slowly and evidently wauderiug,
'Is this tbe Luopula:?'._Susi told hiin
they were -in Clutambo's village, near
the Mililamo, when he was silent for a
while. Again speaking to Susi, in Sua
bell this time, he1 said,'JHow many days
!b it to tho Luap?la V *I think it is
three dayB, master,' replied Susi. A
few secondn after, as if in great pain,
he half sighed, half said, 'Oh dear,
dear,' and tbon dozed off again. It was
an hour later that Susi heard Majwara
again outside tho dqor, 'Dwaua wants
you, kSusi.' On renching tho bed the
doctor told him he wished him to boil
eome water, and for this purpose he
went to the lire outsido and soon re
turned with .tho'^.coppor kottlo full.
^Culling him close he uHked him tobring
hi.-> u.cdkine chest and to hold the
,caV$lc near him, for the man noticed.ho
could hardly Eet. "With great difficulty
Dr. Livingstone selected the calomel,
vbich be told him to phce by his side,
then directed him to pour a little water
into a cup and to put another empty
one by it. He said in a low lccble
voice, 'All right; you can go now.'
These were the last words he was ever
heard to spc It must have been
si bout 4 K "ifWPTTllBHH
VfBTa'b step once more. 'Come to
liwana, I am afraid; 1 don't kuow if
he is alive.' The lad's evident alarm
u.ade J-Uhi luu to mouse Chun.ah, (.'linw
|eie, Matthew and Muangasere, and
the six u.tn went immediately to the
liut. 1 ai-s-ing iu.^ide, he looked toward
the l ed. Dl? Liviligst??c was not lying
on it, but appeared to be engaged in
prayer, and they instinctively drew
backward lor tbe instant. Pointing to
him, Majwara said, "W ben I lay down
he was just as he is now, and it is be
cause I find that he docs not move that
I fear he is deud.' They asked the lad
how lrng he bad slept. Majwara said
he could not tell, but be was sure that
it was some considerable time. 'J he
men drew nearer. A caudle, stuck by
Hb uwn wax to the top ol the box, abed
a light sufficient lor- the m to see bis
form. Dr. Livingstono was kneeling
by the'^sideof bis bed, his body stretch
cd forward, his bead buried in bis hands
?upon tho pillow. For a minute they
watched him; ho did not stir; there was
x.0 sign of breathing. Then one of them,
Matthew, advanced softly to him and
placed his bands to his cheeks. It was
sufficient; .life bad been extinct some
time, und the body was almost cold.
Livingstone was dead. His sad hearted
servants raited, him teudcrly up, and
laid him full length upon tbe bed; then
carefully covering him, they went into
the damp night uir to cousult together.
It was long beforo the cocks crew, aud
it is from this circumstanoc, coupled
with tbe fact that Susi spoke to him
gonctiu.c shortly after midnight, that
no- axe able to utate with tolciable ccr
tninty that he expired early on the 1st
pfMay."
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long Life.
~ The atmosphere of Isorth Carolina ap
pears to be favorable to longevity. Thero
ore now living near Kiuston, in t?.'*t
State, throe old veterans of tho war of
1812, one of whom is ninety six years
old. Tho other two are a few jours
younger. They aro all in good health,
of vigorous constitution and g >od mem
ory. Iu another part of the Stute, fifty
four years ago, a man by the name of
j?ouey bad eight children living, and
tboy uro still are alive and well. Wo
arp not informed if any one of them
bears tbe charmed name of Methuselah,
though they all seem to have scleoted
him' au a mode).
The Lien Law?Important Rulings
We clip the following from the
Lancaster Ledger:
Upon a motion'_ to dissolve; attach
ment on an agricultural lien in the caso
of J. K. Kirkpstrick vs. B. F. Fergu
son, which came before ? hif> Honor
Judge T. J. Mackey, at the recent term
of the Court f or this County, his Honor
ruled as follows:
"That it is essential to the validity
of an agricultural liou that theadvances
made should consist solely of such sup
plies as are essential to thu production
of tho crop. The adrasecs of such sup
plies, however, do uot operate with in
themselves as a lien, thoy must be tng.de
pursuant to au agrcemcut fixing their
value in money, and auch a?rcom ent
must bo catered into nud recorded be
fore any of (he sajyplias furnished. The
reason of tho law in this rcspeot io, that
tho lienee should be guarded agttiust
his own improvidence by a Gxed limit
to his credit and the record Will protect,
others against boiug imposed upou by
a ^secondary ugrccmcnt.
"All costs incident to tho seizure and
sale of tho crop must be paid by the
Uiuor, fur tho crop under the Statute is
bound only for the amouut advanced,
and not for thu disbursements in ouibrc
ing the lien.
"The claim of laborers for sarviccs
rendered in the production of the crop
is a preferred lien aud must be paid be
fore tho lieu for advance is satisfied.
The rent is next to the laborers lieu a
preferred lieu upon tho crop.
"The advances for supplies can only
bind the crops for the agricultural year
iu jvhich they are made. . They cauuot i
oppcrato as a lien upon future crops.
The lion must rest solely upmi the crop-1
and canuot bind wurk an1 i^dj
ly, A horsoj Qr I jfBf^yj
lor the purposeHSTTpTouT^o^ a crop will
operate as a lien upon the crop, it boiug
a .supply within thu meaning of the
Statute.
"Contracts for the renting of Ian 1 for
thct coming year will carry with them a
.statutory lien on ono-fourth ol tho crop,
but if the contract to rout oxprcsHyso
provid cs, tho rental will be a lien upon
one-third of the crop, provided, that the
contract be duly recorded as in the case
of advances made.
??The homestead exemption cannot, be
plead to protect a crop against the
enforcement of a Hen for advances made
to enable a party to produce the crop,
but no mortgage or lien can bo enforced
against a crop raised on the homestead,
except iu the case above staled.
"If a crop produced on a tract of
laud , which, together with the build
ings thereon, dues uot exceed one thous
and dollars iu value, no part of t'.io
crop, however great its value, is subject
to execution for debt."
Yesterday morniug, says the Detroit
Free l'rcss, an old ludy, who lives iu tho
West part cf this county, was Belling
some buttor to a grocer on Michigan
avenue, aud some one incut ioncd some
thing about the Beecher ccaudel.
"What is that thiug, auyhow ?" asked
tho old lady. "It's biu in the papers,
but my oyes are poor, aud I haven't tolt.
liko reading." "Well, it's juut this,"
replied tho grocer, as he scraped ulT the
crock; "you soe, Beecher hirod Mrs.
Tilton to knit him twelve pair of socks,
and when she got 'cm done he tried to
pass a counterfeit bill ou her." "Is
that sol" exclaimed the aged dame;
"well 1 dou't blame the papers a siuglo
bit for showing him up?he's wors'n a
vagaround."
A New England scissors editor is
said to have a plan of spotting any
scrap credited to the Danburg News,
Detroit Free Press, or other papers of
the* kind, and?without readiug it?ox
claims, us ho plios bis shears; "ilod .
That's a good ono 1 I'll capture iL.'
This plan saves time, but renders tho
editor liable to occasionally niuko tho
uiiBtnke of clipping an obituary notice
and placing it among his "F Icnsan
tries."
A printer invariably gets out of sorts
when ho reaches tho bottom of hiH
cusp.
How Nick Bowers Was Caught.
Nick Bowers was a member of the or
iginal Christy Miustrels, and in Iiis
da}', was the greatest 'middle intorogn
tor' known in the profession. Nick used
to tell with great merriment, an incident
of his boyhood. To presorvo the flavor
of the relation wo will record it in Nicks
own language, and only regrot that we
cannot accompany it with his inimitable
gesticulations.
'My old man,' Paid Nick, 'r.s a gencr
al thing, was a pretty stoady old gent,
butonco in a while would get oblivious
and water was not the cause of it- I
recollect a certain holiday win approach
and I had becu skinning arouud to get
a little monoy to have a timu with on
that day; but the fates r.ad t'.io purses
were against mo.?It was but two days
prior to the anticipated holiday, and I
hadn't uary a red ou the same afternoon
I came into the house, when lo ! tln.ro
on the floor, totally ovcrco.no by his it
batious, lay my respected dady, and be
side him lay 813 shinning half dollars
which had rolled from his pocket.
Bov'j I've been an honest man all my
life, but once when a boy I had commit
ted a theft. I hooked one of tho.uo half
dollars. Thinks I tc myself the old
uiau ou a jumborce aud wont know how
much he spent, uud will never miss it,
But mark yc, tho next morning I and
niy two brothers were bumnnmed into j
uiy fathers presence. . X'lv? old man's
laoe lowered/, 'I thought of the half dol
lar, and 1 knew that a storm was bow
ing.'.
'Hoys' sail he, 'last night when I
'came home I had six dollars, Cue of
em is gone, your mother didn't take it.
Theres been nobody else iu the house,
Which oue of you took it?'
We all protested our innocence.
5iiyB,J said the old man, 'that h .-ill
|**^g^!ar never walked off, aud I'm going
to find odfr ^Mwrouo of" you ll/idtf"lfc'
Turning about he to ik down from the
wall an old (tint lock blunderbuss. This
he dcliheratolyjoaded wiih powier and
buckshot, then fusttuiug ieto tha
table, cocl.ed it, took a seat behind
ami in so'., mti tones addressed us thusly:
Boys, I'm going io discover the thief
Hid punish him at the same time' You
must each blow into the muzzle of tint
gun. When the guilty oue blows off"
goes bis head. Now, then, you jj have a
chance, will you own up, or blow up ?'
'Ben,' Miid the old man to uiy oldest
brother; 'have jou got that half dol
lar V
'No, Mr.'
''fake a blow.'
'Nick, (eh, boys, 1 tell you the chills
began to roll down my back,) got that
Ii all dollar V
'No, sir,' said I with a defiant swag
ger.
'Blow that gun.'
1 walked up bravely, gave n blow,
and?dodged !
'Nick,' said the old man iu a voice of
thunder, 'where is that half dollar !'
He had inc. The truth dodged out
inc. 'Said I. '^ut in tho barn pap.
Brought it Out.
It is a novelty to sec tho arrival of a
band of burglars in any neighborhood
regarded rather iu the light of a public
beuctit, but such a ease is of recent oe
cureuco. Several burglarious opera
tions took niace in diflercnt parts of
Frederick covuty, Nirginia, causing
groat alarm throughout that region.
This according to the Winchester Times
had the offeel of bringing to the banks
large deposits, which often came from
unexpected quarters. People who have
been suspected of having catdi enough
to pay their taxes in tide their appearance
iu Winchester with Minis for deposit
ranging from hundreds to thousands of
dollars,and the money, market of that
place suddenly became remarkably easy
? till on account of the burglars in
Foderiok county hav)og trightouod the
country men, who had been hoarding
their currency since the panic. This
money now goes iuto general circula
tion.
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A rnck never dreaded by printers?A
galloy rack.
Fowl SynvjL?rty?
Thero is an nuihent*&j story of a largo
flock of s wallows that yjvongcd a wrong
committed oa tvfo of t-Lbjr number. A
pair of WT0U3 had dnvcji out those two
swallow from a uest, riid usurped pos -
seGsiou Tho injure^ Toncs twittered
their complaints to associates, anl after
a short couforenco tltCFT'holu company
began to take up mu^-in their bills from
tho stroot an d continued to work unt il
tbay hftd plastor cd up the entrance to
the nest, and buried Inc guilty wrcus in
a living tomb. This Kuriotu incident
showed a power of talWiug ?-in swallo-/
language?and a poorer of sympathy
aud of planning to wo'.k togcthor.
A case of sympathy without the t:\lk
iug and plauniug happened recently iu
Nowtou, Mass. Some pet heus and pig
cons ere fed together' daily, and have
boocino good frionds cud well actiua :u
ted. One day a "at sprang from
place of ambush ou tho pigcou, and
saized one in iis claw. Tl
struggled hard t*> escape, bei flapped
its v/iags in terror, L uc ia vain. Its
doom './as sarej if uuuolpcd. Help cam e
Irom aa uuexpotod so urc?. The 1i?::j
looked ou surprised at the salde:0<s oi
the attack, but at length, as if e i uprc
hendiug the situation, two ro tsiers and
three or four lions rushed at tho oa t,
aud by vigorous pcoking compelled it
to givo up the prey and take to its heels
iu scU" defeuee. Before a spectator, who
saw tho who'tu scene could reich the
svot, the pigeon wainrce aul had down
to his ho use
The Bessemer >?.IU|),,. system has .
been applied, by a jfu {[ ml. y Oiffard to \
?i hanging railroad |(lfj W;, ,.\ hie ti
tested with sucees^u t jlQ \uv} 0f tnc
.Vorthern railway \i\ b\ xa:c Seated in
this car. which hiu^oa 0| a stjc >prir)gs
the traveller expor)., ncc3 ,ua Miisatibij
_nf reposing iu a^u^,,,,,,, Jrcc lroill
I tho vibrations ?iid DUtUplUgS. of the or
ordinary car At ti in es the car undti
lntes as do03 a bo-it ou a calm sea. The
movement is described as a very gentle
one, and tho traveller is enable I to read
without fatigue and write with ease
1'ho principle o*' this car; applied to am
bulnucea, doubtless would be a iircit
boon to the wouuJjd who inty bo eon
veyed in them.
An American writes from London
"I never, iu tho whole course of my life,
met such a collection ul idiots and numb
skulls as 1 did at the so called fashion
able clubs. 1 asked Lord-at
dinner, oue night, il he had ever been
to America. 'Yeth, all, yelh,' said he.
?And did you like the country and the
people'/' I inquired. 'Yeth, ah, yeth.'
The two countries,'said 1,'have much
iu common?wo .speak the same Ian
guagc, and many of our habits and ous
toms nro identical.' 'Yeth, ah, yeth,'
lisped 'milord' lb the cud of the conve
satiou. And now 1 hear the words
?yotli, ah, yeth,' continually, in imagina
lion, aud 1 am almost crazy."
A Pennsylvania man ate four quarti
of peanuts at one sholliug and thou iu
the beautiful luaguago of Tyndall,'ra
ded like a streak i l* moruiug cloud,
into (hg inliuito azure of -ho pist,'
Hi:; friend possessed of that touching
doiicisy aud thoughtfuluesa which al
way.i characterized the bestowal of inor
tuary honors in ^Pennsylvania, buri ed
the shells with him
Au ambitious printer iu Philadelphia,
has published a busiuess card, in cullers,
on which uro found the following mot
toes :
??We mix our colors with brains."
"Me work our presses with speed."
"Wo set our types with intelligonoo."
A critic, ou examining the card, con
eludes that the brains have been re
dueed, or they are very light and of an
iultrior quality. W. C.
Poor young thing! >Sue fainted
a way at tho wash-tub, and her pretty
ooso went kerslop into the- soapsuds.
Some said it was overwork; others, how
ever, whispered that her beau had peep
ed over the back fence and called out :
"Hullo, there, Bridget, is Mias Alice
at home If"
A Startling Metamorphosis.
Somo one who baa been viewing the
Siamese jugglers says : "One trick
Minham performed was a very superior
version of the mango troo feat of tho
Indian jugglers. He took au orange,
cut it open, ami produced a serpent.
This he took do'.rn into the audience,
nud borrowing a robe from one, cut the
snake's head off and covered it with tho
robe. When tho robe was lifted agaiu
a fox was in placo of the snake. The
fox's head was cut off two robes bor
roned, and when they were raised, there
win' a wolf, which was killed with a
sword. Throe robt-j, aud a leopard; it
was slaiu with a javelin. Four robes
covet ed a ^most savago looking buffalo ,
that was killed with an axe. Five robes
covered iu part, but uot altogether, a
lordly elephant, who, whoa tho sword
v/tu pointed at him, seized Miuhiuau by
the neck and tossed him violently up.
Ho mouutcd feet foromost, and finally
by his toes to the capital of one of ihj
columns. Toapada now leaded from
the -tage aud alighted upon the eljp h
a.it'c rhouldcra. With a short sw^rd It c
goaded tho beast on tho head, until
shrinking, the unwioldy animal roared
upcu his hind feet, twined his trunk
about otio of the great columns, aud
seemed trying to lift itself from the
ground r.ud wrap its body arouud the
great pillar. The music clashed out
barbarously. Norodom 11 ashed forth a
dazzling firework of some sort, and the
elephant disappeared, aud Tepi da lay
upou tho stage writhing in the folds of
a great boa constrictor aud holding up
MiTrhnian upon his feet."
A postmasterTTriHS"^1 received a
letter the other day dirccttTlriiSii^ws:
Wond
Asm'
Mass,
After puzzling over it for some t mo
ho made it out ni .follows: John Uu lor
wood Audovcr.
An ancient, bin -enoroui hearted fe
male, named Hannah Goldsmith, doWu
in Jefferson Co , wants to give 550 to
W ads the erection of a homo for.superan
nuated editors who never publish ??! a lie,
an i who never charged fur <>!<l pa\ ers
to put under <-<trprt.<."' Who is first to
apply for room '.
One of the Syacusc daily papers in
speaking of the Ononduga S. S. C'invon
t ion and a show by Duprez k Benedict's
Minstrols got things mixed, thusly:
"An ftddre^s was delivered before the
school by Ucv. Benedict, who is the best
tOOg aud dance man in tlie business."
Dixie.
. miii hi ? ? ?- n "'
A follower of Kaust, named Buld,
war. paying his addresses to ,i young
lady named lto.se. After a while ho
popped the question. "Rose wilt thou
be miue Rose answered, "I am sor
ry it cannot be; for a Rose cahuot be
turnod into a Budd."
Mr. Fred. Aplin left Wyoming Co.
four years ago not worth a cent. lie
located in a "priutshop" in Michigan,
and .Ian. 15, 1 7, lie look au iuvcutory
and it resulted : Tobacco, 10c; pips,
25c; box efeollars, 25c; cash, 15o; total,
75c. "(io wcm, youug man I"
'Why don't you got marriod,'said a
young lady to ubaclioior friends, * I h ive
been trying for tho past tivo years to
liud some one who was silly enough to
have me,' he answered. 'I guess you
havn't been up our way,' was tho *lusin
uatiug rejoinder.
A new weekly paper to be called the
Pastoral Reminder has been issued at
Ferry Center, -V Y., by Rev. .J. F.
Root. Not having seen a copy, can't
elucidate the position it takes, but the
tu'uio is wonderfully significant.
Rev. Wat. Johnson Daboll, an ok
Baptist ..Met hod ist.a u d-U ui Versal ist dt
vino, now talks of starting a papar
called the Cre.sto Lamp Lighter, iu
Kansas. Docs ho expect to have his
journal used for illuminating purposes'{
A Vormont woman has forwarded
live bibles to tho grasshopper sufferers
;ilems. j / j
The hardest thiug "to deal "with?an
old pack of .ards
Nothing ^comcs home to tt roan bo
much as an unsettled bill . ?. iM-?r?t
No unfortunate tradesman looks -aft
down in the mouth aa a dentist j {j
They are disputing Goldsmith Maids
time Is she willing to leave it tonn |n
vcstigatinR committee ?
? ? , n ,!ri?
Gravity is no more an evidenco of
wisdom than a paper collar is -of a
shirt
"$"Bctwccn Spinner* and Briatow
former oaths arc s?iid to bo the iriost so
morons . ' ? i
*^Mrs. Furuess's "Concordance to the
Poems of Shakspcaro," contains 33,(j
entries.
? ? t uliq
A young man in 'Frisco etnbczzelod
a diamond to pay his tailor's bill. Tail
ors are at liberty to cut this out and
soud it to their customers. h i A
We soe it auuounced by posters on
the streets that 'Seltzer's Aporient' hut
it don't soy whether it^is a boy jotft
sirl;
'I each or?Peter you are suoh a bad
boy that you are not tit to sit with do
cent boys. Co uc up here sir: JOorao
up here and sit hire by mo sir-.' ,l * 1
An Alabama cditorjwiuds up' an' ar
tide on the late corn crop, with thVtfo
mark :3g We have ou exhibition in our
sanctum a pair of magnificent ears/.,;
Partium litis written to this city for
newspaper man""* reported - to have "ost
SI,000. lie would like to have him in
,. ' '
his.muscum.
A ".man* in San Francisco recently
wroto a letter ^to. another asking*) Mrh
for his wife, without so much as cucb"
^ing a postage stamp
Tue1
rush to'J"
ol a rubber
partners.
The Norwegians in,this ^country sTfT"
insiat that Lief Eridsonjdiscovcd%Ameri
ca before Columbus did. William Tell
has gone aud now farewell to Chris. !f*VV.
A porson^was ^boasting -?that ^he Was
from a high family, 'yes said a bystand
er, T havo^sce 1 soino^ol your^fainily
high that their feet couldn't touch tho
grouud.'
. i ti'jii ,
A weatorukp9stinu3tor j [writos to tho
post master general that holl will bo
j full of couutry^poJtmiitsrs boforj ( long,
j it'they de uot got iuj;'? p i/ _than is al
lowed his office.
A Kansas farmer solemnly] declares
that a grass hopper sat on a fence post
and took iug k 1 im straight in thaaaface
soi?l. 'Willtau liryaut, where in thuu
j der is the baluueo ofthat cold meat ?'
A lady asked a pup'l at school '?wha.t
was the sin of the Pharisee?' 'Kating
camels; maru,' replied the child. She
J had read J that the Pharisee strained at a
gnat and sworlowed a camel.
It is asserted as a fact that Disraeli
is quite .*poony ontthe Empress Eugenio
aud all because the premier has takaa
to wearing forgot^mo nots in his ^button
bole
A Chicago gentleman who recently
traveled through Ohio, says that ovory
body ho met called patatoes 'taters,' ox
cept one young lady, whoj called him a
sm ill pcrthtcv.'
There's a $10 000: hoiross in South
Jersey, who has so many lovers sitting
on the len'ie waiting for her etO corns
of nights, that she has givon her entire
fortune to endow a lunatic asylum.
'Well pa/said littlo Tommy, running
into tho house ono dar, 'I liko to have
sold my pig just nowl' Why, how is
that, my sou?' 'Well I naked a man it
he'd buy ho it an 1 ho said No.' If ho
had just said yes, I'd have sold it'
Lumber! Lumber I!
1 will dollver first class LUMBER in any
quahties to all persons favoring mo With
their bills at $11 par thousand fei t, at the
shortest notice.
Addross II. D. SALLES*
WMiston 8. 0.
Or to A. J. JACKSON,
Orangeburg S. O.
jan 10 1?7? 3t