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NEWS .% TIMES. XCflUXD XVKRY SATURDAY MOIININO BY THE ORANOEDURO NEWS COMPANY. flKO. HOLlVEli, Business Manager. J. FELDBK MEYERS, Editor. Terms of Subscription. One Copy one Year.$2 00 " ?? Six Mouths. 1 00 Rntes of Advertising. Ojm Square 1st Insertion.$1 50 Bach Subsequent " . 1 00 Jfotieta inserted in Local Column at 20c per Lint. All Subscriptions and Transient Advertise ments to be paid/brVn Advance J5?gf* No Iiecipls jor Subscription or Advcr H.iements arc Valid unless Signed by Business Manager. So?" We an; in no way responsible for the views or opinions of onr Corrc:ip.oi?d MltH. ... SATURDAY', JU LY 771877. The Stale militia. Adjutant-General Moi.se, in Gen eral Orders No. 1, cads in all State arms, munitions ami equipments not held by organized bodies of Slate militia. They must be delivered within thirty days, or the law ma king it a misdemeanor for any p si'* son to retain military property of tha State will be enforced. Tho anus. &c., may be delivered to the com manding ofliccr of any organized regimeut, battalion or ecu puny, tit the State armory. Companies hav ing State arms or munitions in their possession will, at or.co, report the amount and condition of such pro perty on band on .Tune 10. At tbo comm cnccmcut of Union Co?ego, at Schneetady, New York, Wm. J. DeTrcville, Jr., graduated With the' degreo of Civil Engineer. The Wolfe Scholarship Fund is now aiding about thirty Southern students, and there are several olhcrs not drawing on any fund. South C'nro-" linn has eight representatives in the present graduating class. The ap plicants from various quarters for entrance are more numerous than for Gome years The cost of tuition has been lowered. 820,000 has been added to the scholarship funds. Union, imdor ti?o ?v-pi*?? of tiie cele brated President, Rott, commands the confidence of the whole South. It is now renewing slowl} what it lost in the late difficulties of the country. The Town Council. JBcUtor Orangebnrg Ncics and Times : As our present Council will soon go out of office, unless re-elected, we Buggcst that they publish in your paper a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Town for the past two years. The State Treasurer pub lish such a statement monthly, and it is the invariable custom of other municipal bodies to do so, and wc think it eminently proper. This request is made in no spirit of fault finding, for it gives us pleasure to state, thai the conduct of our Coun cil has given great satislactiou gener ally to the citizens. Let us have then, City Fathers, a statement of the sources u four in come, and of the variou? pnynuuts made, and lor what purposes made, giving both in detail. In these days of reform wc need LiuitTi ICG. Editor Ordngibitrg :y civs and Times : Can yon tell me w hy no one, unless be is sick, can buy ice in this Town, when the weather is unusually wa'nri ? I have observed that the hotter the temperature, the mote difficult it is to buy ice. Ii is true?, you can pur chase a small quantity for the sick, but the merchant looks us if he is doing you a great favor by sellfhg it at 5 cents a pound, and apparen tly wishes you to feel that ho is inflicting on himself a great and lasting injury. It is a reproach to a Town of this size that wc have no market or ice house. I am informed that there is an ice house in Beaufort and that it pays. - Is it not singular that our mer chants, who are so enterprising in many ether respects, have not made flic experiment of keeping ice regu larly for sale, We venture to' say, that if it be tried fairly; if it is ad vor tised that ice can be purchased at all timrs at a reasonable j>ricct and if it is always kept on baud, many familio will purchase every day, aud perhaps some of our eld topers will spend their share of cash in this way in stead of buying fiery whiskey which inflames the blood. Without ice, with the thermometer at 96, how can wo Keep Cool. [communicated.] Rowesville, July 5, 1877. Yesterday was the Fourth of July, and was celebrated as it has not been for years by the people of this com munity. The Sunday School of New Hope Church had its celebration and a pic nic, and it may with truth be said that it was a gala day for New Hope. The Church was most beau tifully decorated and exhibited the good taste of our noble ladies. There was a large and beautiful garland which extended from behind I ie altar on both sides "over ..more than half way, coining down in arch"53 on ev ery window, and wound around the railing 61 the altar; and others hand somely'arranged oh the window be hind the pulpit. Very pretty wreathes were hung in other parts of the church. A pretty cross nicely dressed extended frohi the wall over the pulpit, and on it was written no? no crown, the word cross was left out to be fcuppliiid by the cross itself; And in the aisle several yards from the altar, was a large cross, beau ti lu ly wound around with evergreen and flowers, and standing in a mound of spring mo-:?, on which tho children flung bouquets, and on the lop of this cross hung a very prcily heart, made by the beau tiful daughter of the supcriutendant. This cross added greatly to the ap penranee of the Church. All the garlands were made of evergreen and (lowers. The school w ith the iuvited schools inarched in the church aim ing the well known hymn, "O do not be discouraged," aud were boated. The exercises opened with religious worship conducted by Mr. Berry. The Superiutcndant, Mr. A. M. Cox, made a few appropriate remarks to which the ministers joined with a hearty amen. Master Willie Wolfe delivered the welcome ad dress, and reflected great credit on himself. Next wai a piece of poetry by little Uei tiw?. r>un man, a- nttie girl of three or four years old. She succeeded so well, that the whole congregation was proud of her, and could not keep from applauding her, The tower of strength was then built. It was made of large blocks, which resembled?marble, and each block was put up by a Sunday 'school girl. On each block was written some appropriate motto, as Christ, the Foundation, Love, Forgiveness, Zeal, <!tc. Kaeh one repeated a verse taken from the Bible suited to the motto on her block. The tower stood oil a table covered with white und tri tiled with ivy, and on the front was written in large letters, "Build on the Foundation." Over this mot to stood a real beautiful arch of white tri mud with evergreen and flowers, and on it was written in German Text, "Tlic Christiaus Tower oiStivii'th." The Tower was do signed by Mr. F. F. Barton. The i children ;?.!! did well. Our Pastor the Bev. Mr. Kaysor, addressed the children, and i ntercstcd every one. The Key. Mr. Dant/Jcr of Orange burg Citeuit also spoke to the chil droit. He told them'numerous anec dote;?, and received the strictest attention even from lhv> smallest children. The last speech was made by tho liev. Mr. Webber, of Orangc | buig Station- It tvas certainly a strong address to the whole audience. Not long alter the exercises were I over ths audie nce wore invited to I partake of a dinner which wa3 par ticularly good. The lable was LSI) feet long loaded with the best that the country affords. There were no less than ten pigs, on it. Kvcrybody ate and were stuffed and several baskets of broken food remained. Ice and Ico/Lcmonade were in abun dance, furnished by the generous Capt. Bowman. Kvcrybody pro nounced it the bes t thing of the sort ever in this part of tho country. Respectfully yours, J. W. Bowman. The old Mario n Hi ties have been re-organized with the following offi cers: J B White, Captain, J J Mc Inlyrc, 1st Lieu teuaut; iX K Clark -n l Lieutenant; Jas. Stackhousc, od Lieutenant; John Wilcox, Jr., See rotary. Hartranft's Telegram. 1 - "TO GEN. GRANT, CARE OF QUEEN VICTORIA." Tho Trno History of the Famous Dis patch?Tho Sender's Perplexity?How the Message Was Received?Almost a Miscarriage?The l'rincn of \Ynlcs' Gen erosity. [N'.-e York Times.] Yesterday morning Governor Hartrauft, of Pennsylvania, ro3C somewhat subsequent to tho lark's usual hour, ami after grasping the fact that he was in Providence, and had on the previous evening atten ded a meeting of the Grund Army cd the Rcpoblic; immediately became a prey to melancholy, lie remem bered that he had sent a telegram to Gt-neral Grant, ''Care of her Majesty Queen Tien ria, Buckingham Palace, London/' and a terrible doubt as to whether that tel. gram had been pro- | perly directed made h'.s head nein; to a most painful extent. When he di rec el that telcgranij he wanted Io make sure that it would roach the ex-Pic-:den!, and assuming that the lafiiir wa.-j slopping with the Queen, he had no hesitation iti suudiug it in care of her Majesty. It w.n not iui til yesterday im innig that it occut d to him that tha Qtici n might hot Wi at Buckingham Palace ju-t at pre sc lit. He was not at all disturbed hy tho' assertion ef dne of his tiidcs that the Queen constantly resides in I he Tower of London, for h j was well awt.rclbat Buckingham Paia.ee is merely a wing added to the Tower by the late Princ: Consort. What made him uneasy was the recollec tion that the Queen has a country seat at Balmoral, in '.Scotland, where she retires when Buckingham Paiuce is undergoing its uuuual cleaning. If thought he, at this very^pertod Buckingham Pa lace is being scrub bed and whitewashed, and the Queen is nt Balmoral, that telegram may never reach General Grant. What is worse, that box of cigars that was forwarded last Monday, directed precisely as was the telegram, may fail into the bunds of the local color ed ministers who whitewashes the palace, and may ^be smoked by that .....i:...,.-;...;Cc.-iii? vnrusc ana . His per sonal friends. The more Governors Hurt ran ft thought over tlu affair' the worse his hea l ached, and the more clearly he saw that h' ha I baon V too hasty. Had ho directed that * telegram to "- B^acmsfield,. Esq." and requested him to forward ' it to General Grant without delay, , there would have bceu no doubt that j General Grant would have received it As it was, the telegram might never reach the Queen, and if it did reach her, sho being a womau might put it on her mautlcpiece at Bal moral and entirely forget to mention it to General Grant for three or four days. Governor Hart ran ft groaned aloud as this lait conti ugeiicy oceur ed to hint. That a telegram which so chastely and beautifully informed General Grunt that jj"your comrades * * :- desire^ lb rough you io England's Queen, to *iL.itik England for Grant's reception/' should miscar ry, simply because of a mistake in the address, was a bitter thought, and as Governor U urtranftrang for more soda water he inwardly resolved ! never to send another telegram after dinner. It is a pleasure as well a- a duty j to re lieve so oxeoilent a mail as Gov criiDr liar trau ft from his prescht state of painful uncertainty', Fortunately, there itiio didioulty hi 'so doing. Froiirsotirec-s a^ exclu sive and as authentic as thoio from which the IfentlU obtains its war I telegrams, the T!m>.< has received a full account of the reception of the Governor's telegram in Kngland, and can assure him that ii is already in the ex-President's nands. At the same lime that it is proper to add that bad it ?bt been for a lucky aeoi dent that telegram would never have reached its destination. At two o'clock on Wednesday morning tho Prune Minister, who, during bis term of oflicc, always oc cupies the second story fronfbedroom in Buckingham Palace in order tobe bandy if the Queen wakes up in the night nnd thinks she would like a new title, was aroused by a tremend ous knocking at the front door. Hastily springing out of bed nud opening the widow, he saw a boy in the uniform of the At luntic Cable Company standing on the fro ut stop aud whistling "Rule Britannia." To tho Premier's excited demand to kuow whore the fire was, the boy coolly replied, "Telegram for your missus,'' whereupon Lord Beacons field, angrily exclaiming ,"Holy Moses !" closed the widow, put on his trousers, and descending to tho door, told the boy to "hand it over." Now, a cable telegram costs a good deal. There was eight pounds four and three-pence duo on Governor Hnrtrauft's telegram, and the boy refused to deliver it without tho nioucy. Hence it became necessary to wake the Queen. Tho noble Earl had to take this delicate duty upon himself, since the servants remained invisible, and it was with many mis givings that he knocked at her Majesty's dour, and after informing her that a hoy was waiting with a telegram lor Genera! Grant, and that he wanted eight pounds four and threepence, meekly suggested that she should hand him the money through the crack of the door. The Queen may not ho a particularly inhabit woman, but it was hatdly to be expected that she would get out of bed, strike a light, and boat up her purse without betraying some little annoyance, lei fact, she was extreme ly angry, a ltd net only peremptorily refused to ret'iu'vo Genera! Grant's t> legraihj but informed Lord Beacons field that if he ever woke her up again in the middle of the night to ask \wr to pay nine pounds for some body ele'i? telegrams; she would dis miss hint wit it out a character. "Why, even Gladstone," adde.d the irate Queen 'hasn't imp rtinauco enough to come and 'nmmcr at my door, ami ask for fifteen or twenty pounds at this time of night." After this t' ere seemed nothing lor the Premier to do hot to tell the boy that no person by the name of Grant lived at .that house, and to shut the duor in his , laee. At that moment the fate of: he telegram seemed sealed. The boy started to icturn it to the office, where it would have been en dorsed. "Nut found," and Governor Hurtranft would have been charged with its cost. It so happened, how ever, that Gen. Grant and the Prince of Wales, who had been attending a meeting of the. Society f?r Propagat ing the Gospel Among the Jews, were uii iiit.it ?uy to iiiu nciicral s loug iugs, and, J, parsing Buckingham Pul H(u:, met the boy descending the front steps. The Prince stopped and ques tioned him, and, on learning that the Queen had refused to pay for a tele gram, remarked to General Grant thnt somo day "mother would get into difficulties by refusing to pny for tele trams," and generously told the boy to give him the telegrame und he would call and pay for it the next day. Meanwhile, Gen. Grant had caught sight of the address, and there upon paid the boy, opened the tele gram on the spot and read it. I Thus Governor Hartrimft's tele gram reached its destination, and i when be reads this morning's Times he will regain hs usual spirits. He is a good soldier and a good Governor, but it does nut scent as if nature in tended him tosend telegrams to t\ President.1: in England. No man can do all J thing.?, tin,-. IlaVlianit ought to recognize this fact, and t > concede that sending telegrams t i General Giant in tare oi Queen Victoria is not a practice for which he is pcculi nfly fitted. j A dujxuc's JoKi:.?In sentencing John Johnston, convicted yesterday | for grand lateeny, his Honor Judge Choke j said that he had been of late years associating with drummers, and liked tlitiii so well that he had con eluded to go info tho business of drumming also. His business would be to get up laborers to work on the Blue Bulge Bail road. He then asked the prisoner how long he thought it would take to complete that road. The prisoner answering that he did not know, his Honor said he thought it would take five years, and that the sentence of the churl in his, the prisoner's case, was that he be confined in penitentiary at hard labor fur live years.? Greenville Neics '3d <?*/. The child cant sleep. An army of worms is eating it up. One doso of Shtinor's Indian Vermifugo will des troy them and save its life. Only 25 cents a bottle or five for one dollar. Sold by Dr. A. C. Dukes. Wanted?every one to be free from Pimples, Blotches, Boils, etc., which can bo done by purifying the blood with Dr. Bull's Blood Mixture. Used everywhere. A Town Struck by Lightning. Si'r?nge Freak of Electjcity in South Carolina. An extraordinary electric dis charge occurred in this city yesterday afternoon, about 5 o'clock. Though several persons narrowly escaped, nobody was hurt, and the damage done was comparatively light. The shock was so general that it was for some time before it was discovered where the volume struck the earth. The residence of Mr. Whitmire.on Broad street, near the river, suffered worst?one prong of the current de scending through one corner of tho building, demolishing (lowerjars, and tearing off the weathcrboarding. airs. Whitmire and daughter were in the tipper story of the building at the time, and, strange to say, they did not feel the severity of the shock, nor did thoy discover the damage dune and tho danger they encountered until sonic time afterwards. The current seems to have divided, one prong ploughing i!j) the earth for twenty or thhty feet down the street, under the yard paling, completely overturning it, shooting across the street fur -ariics distance, knocking down a horse standing near and a negro woman who was walking along the street. The store of W."A. Hudson & j? >., on the corner, was struck in two places, but scarcely any damage done, the outer wall being torn loose in o:ie place. The shock extended over the whole centre of the city; a hoi* c was knock ed down in front of the Moseley House, and Col. Mose l ey was stun ned lor a moment'; a man was knock ed off his wagon hear the Courthouse Square; Mrs. J. H. McGee, on Broad Street, was thrown Iron.' a chair with a child in her arms, and several otheis along Maiu street were nearly thrown from their feet. Altogether the freak was a very strange one, und it is for tunate that no more ?laniagu was done. Its caprice is attributed to the dampness of the earth. Besides the strange lightning freak yesterday afternoon, there was a remarkable meteor at U o'clock last night, which startled those who saw it, and made the Indies think the end was hi hand,? Grci'tuuffn A'iucs .'). Tili New 850 Gold Coin, which is to be struck from a die how in course of preparation hy tiic officers of the government mint, will not, as has been supposed, be the first coin of j that value struck in the * United States. In lfcol. 850 gold coins were issued at the Unite! .States Assay Office in San Francisco. Millions of dollars of this denomination were coined anil went into use, but they gradually disappeared, for the reason that they were intrinsic illy worth more than 850 in gold by reason of the silver they contained in evcess of the staudard. Thus they came to be used for mechanical purposes, or they were sent to the mint for recoinage. One of these coins can be seen iti the fore ign and domestic collection at the mint in l'hi'adclphia. DiSTiu^siNtt AcumkxT.?It is ro ported by passengers on the mount ing Charleston train of last Tuesday j evening, says the Columbia Keif ister t that a little child passenger oh the train, while passing from one ear to another, lost her footing; fell between the coaches, and was lost in the water while the train was passing the bridge between Kinjrvil 1 and Kurt Motto; Ovarici' I.ii'lii 1 > i-:v.^o< >ii--. Attend the Anniversary M i-it:.-i _m ur 1*011.5 :11.y oh Tuesday lUth inst., ?itS.-Ji? A. M. A lull attei.ihosee is requesii.d as tlien will he an Kleeiion 'for olliiers to serve for the eiisuiing year, and other business of importance. Ifv order <>l ihn Captain. 15. I>. I.Ki:. Secretary. July Tili It. TO II EXT. The STORK occupied at present hy Dr. A.S. Hydrick. Apply 10 M US. ROSA OLiVKUOS. july 7 3?" Notice. OFFICE Ol' CO. COMMISSIONKU'S, ?KANOUliuUO LOUNIY, OUAKCIBUUUU, .July 2d 1877. Whereas, it has couic within the know ledge of the Hoard of the County Counhis sioncrs, that there are cerlaiu County Checks as well as Juiy Tickets in circula tion which have already hem paid hy furnier County Treasurer; Therefore be it, Jtcfolvetl, That the County Treasurer he notified hy thie Board not to pay any County Cheeks or luror Tickets, unless the same he tirdt examined hy tho Board and Endorsed hy the Clerk of this Hoard. The Board adjourned to meet again Jutv loth 1877. 15. T. lt. SM OAK, Chairman of Board of Co. Com.'a july 7 41 TAX NOTICE. Office of County Tbeasubeb, Okanoewuro County. Orangeburg, S. C, July 6th 1877. Iu accordance, with An Act of tho General Assembly, Entitled "An Act to raise supplies aud make appro priations for the fiscal year com mencing November 1st 1876, ap proved Juno 8th 1877." Section 7 and 9 of which nets nrc as follows : Sec. 7. All Taxes assessed herein, shall be due and payable in two equal instalments, as follows: The first instalment shall be due and pay able from t he first day of July to" the first day of August 1877, and the second instalment shall bo due and payable from the first day of October to the thirty-first day of October 1877, Provided, that it shall he and is hereby, left to the option of any person either to pay the amount of the first instalment at the time above mentioned or to pay the whole amount at the time of the payment of the second iustalmsnt thereof. Pro vided further, that ifany person or persons shall fail or refuse to pay his or her Taxes due under the hrst in stalment, he, she or they shall bo charged with interest thereupon from the first day of August 1877, to the time of the payment thereof at the rate of one per centum per month, and tho several County Treasurers shall c dloct the same in the manner prescribed by law, and give receipts therefore to the several parties pay ing the same, in which the lie il Estate paid on shall be brieily dis eribed, an I tin valuo of the pjnr.ial property paid on shall be staled, together w'.t'i the time such taxasaro paid, and the. amount of thosanid. Provided, nothing herein contained shall operate to prevent any tax paycr from paying the whole amount of his tax at the time the first instal ment is payable " Sec. V. When the taxes and as sessments charged against a iy (i.irty or property on'the duplicate for the present fiscal year shall not bo pa id on or before the 31st day of October 1877, or when the remainder of such taxes, and assessments shall not bo paid on or by the said time with in terest at the rate of one per centuui dor month as aforesaid, the County Treasurer shall proceed to cohojt the same by distress or dtho.aviS'j, a* now prescribed by law, together ?vith a penalty of fifteen per am on the amount so delinquent, and if tiu amount of such delinquent tixc, is sessmenls ami penalties shall not lie paid on or before the 15th November 1877. or collected by distress or oil) erwise the .same shall be treated us delinquent taxes on such real and personal property, ami shall he col leetcd by sale nt such real and per sonn I property" on the first Monday in December 1377. Notice is hereby given that my office will be open for tlie collection id' Taxes on and after Monday the 9th day of July, A. D. I?77, aud and will remain open until the first day of August A. D. 1877. I will receive in payment of sail Tuxes, Gold and Silver Co u, United States Currency, National Uauk Notes, and all receipts given by the Hon. Thomas W. Glover, Agent for the Collec'ion of the "Hampton Tax" iu all cases where the same arc pre sented. The rate per centum wi'd ba .-a follows : 1. For general State purposes seven {7) mills o:i the doli.it. 2. County purposes three (3) mills on the dollar. 3. For Court House (special) three and one-fourth (31) mills oa the dol lar. 4. For poll tax per capita ono dollar. Tax payers mu t call for the tax on each piece of property in the township where ii is situate. llonsuT Copes, Cu.tnty Treasurer O. C. july 7 1 NOTICE. OFFICF OF CO. COMMISSIONERS, OKAxdhuuno County. OniUgoburg, S. C? July 2d 1S77. NoiiC" is hereby given, that on anilafier this date the County Commissioner*.will not be responsible tor :uiy damage to any one crossing the following Bridges namely: !?'?-? 11Idle Swaihp Bridges on Five Chop Road, Half Way Swamp Bridges ohHuge* Jtofid anil Shillings Bridge over North Fdisto Kiver, until the same can bo Repaired. By Order of the Board. UFO. BO LIVER, Clerk of Board, july 7 St TAX NOTiO?. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, Okax?euuuu County. July 5th 1877. Notice is hereby given that this office w ill be open to receive Returns of Persona) Property for the fiscal year 1877, on Tues day ttif 1 Oth day of J uly 1877. AH pcrwra over 21 years ami under 60 years of age, arc required to pay a CAPITATION TAX of one Dollar. Taxpayers will carefully note any transfers of Real Ft lata made sine* June 1st 1870 to June 1st 1877, All pro perty in the posso.wu ni, or under the control of every person on the 1st day of Juno 1877 (not exempt from taxation) must bo Uttum? cd. JAS. VAN TASSEL, County Auditor, july 7 3t