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|2 3t?ER ANifTJM, ^ Vol. IT. WiJAWMntaaonvG "ON WB MOVE INDI6S?LIJ?LY FIRM; CrOl? AND NATUBE BID THE BAME.' {IK ADVANCE ORANGEBIJRG, SOUTH CAROLINA? THURSDAY, JULY l?, 1873. THE ORANGEBURG TIMES Is published^every T H U RSDAY, at DRA NGEBURG, 0. H., SOUTH CAROLINA ORANQEBURO TIMES COMPANY. Kirk Robinson, Agt. RATES OF ADVERTISING. space. 1 In eertion 1 square, ? - 2 Square?, - ' - 3 squares, ? - 4 squares, - - I column, - - I column, - - 1 column, - - 12 In sertion 24 In Bcrtion 48 In sertion 1 50 3 00 4 00 5 00 5 50 8 50 6 00 11 00 15 00 18 00 20 50 33 00 I 13 00| 55 00| 10 00 18 00 25 00 30 00 33 00 60 00 12 00 27 00 37 00 45 00 67 00 76 00 83 00U26 00 subscription sates: $2 a fear, in advunce?$1 for six months. JOB PRINTING in its all departments .ueatly executed. Give us a call. An Act Ceding the Jurisdiction op . the State or South Carolina to the United States of America over Certain Lands - in the County op Darlinoton, known as the "National Cemetery." Section 1. Be it enacted by the ?Senate and House of Representatives of ?the Stato of South Carolina, now met ?nd sitting iu General Assembly, and by the authority of tbo same, That the jurisdiction of the Stato of South Caro lina is hereby*ceded to the United States ?of America over certain lands situated in the County of Darlington, and near tho 'town of Florence', known as the "Nation al Cemetery :" Provided, That the juris ?diet ion hereby ceded shall not vest until the United States of America shall have acquired the title to the said lands by jgrunt or deed from the owner or owners thereof, and tho evidences of the same ~ shall have- been recorded'Iirtho oftleo Where, by law, tbo title to euch lands is recorded; and tho United States of America are to retain such'jurisdiction v.p long as such lands shall be used for tho purposes in this Act niontined, and no longer; and such jurisdiction is granted upon th'e express condition that (the State of South Carolina shall retain <a concurrent jurisdiction *with the United States in and over the said lands, so far as that civil process, in all cases not affecting the real or personal proper ty of tho United States, and such crimi nal or other process as shall issue uuder * the authority of tho State of South Carolina, against any person or persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors ' committed whithin or without the limits of said lands, may by executed therein in the same way and manner as if no jurisdiction had been hereby oeded. Sec. 2. That all lands and tenements whioh may be granted, as aforesaid, to the United States, shall bo and continue, so long as the same shall bo used for the ?purposes in this Aot mentioned, exone rated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and' other charges whioh may be imposed under the authority of tho State of South Carolina. Approved January 16, 1873. An Act Providing for the Exten sion op the Time for the Pay ment and Collection op Taxes for the Fiscal Year Commencing November 1, 1872. Whereas delay in the levy of certain taxes to meet appropriations for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1872, has continued beyond tho time prescribed by law for the commencement of tbe collection of the same, and the time for tho payment of said taxes be fore penalties muH attach is now un avoidably and unusually limited j there fore, Me it enacted by tho Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by tbe author ity of the same, That if any of the du ties required to bo performed in an Act entitled "An Aet providing for the assessment and taxation of property," or in any Act ol amendment thereto, on or before a certain day, by any officer or person therein named, cannot, for want of proper time, be so performed in the payment or collection of taxes to be loviotl to meet appropriations for tbe fiacsl year commencing November 1, 1812, the Comptroller General, with the oppWal of the Governor, may extend the Vims as long as may bo necessary theroKr. Approved January 16, 1874. An aW to Amend Section 2, Chapter XXV, or the General Statuses of South Carolina. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Bepresentives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority ef the same, Tfcat Section 2, of Chapter XXV, of tho General Statutes of South Carolina, be Amended as follows, vis: That Trial Justices shall be distributed as the convenience of tho several Counties vcquivc, and ino number in commission shalf not exceed, in Abbe? . lille, thirteen ; Alken, too ; Anderson, sixteen; Barnwcll, eight; Beaofort, tlirteen ; Charleston, twenty-four; Chos tcr, eight; Clarendon, six; Colleton, tvelvo; Chesterfield^ five; Darlington, tea; Edgefield, fcwohA; Fairfield, eight Gtorgetown, eight; Greenville, nine; Htrry, eleven ; Keraoaw, niao ; Lan caster, nino; Laurena, no von ; Lexing ton, nine; Marion, ten ; Marlboro, six; Novberry, six; Oconeo,' nine; Orange burg, ten; Piokons, ei|ht; Richland, twelve; Spartanbarg, thirteen; Sumter, eigat; Union, eight; Williotnsburg, ten; York, twelve. * \ Approved Jauuary 25, 18^3. ???? \ An Act to Amend Section 12, Chapter CHI, op the General Statutes of South Caroi|na. y>. Be it enacted by tho Senate tied House of Representatives of tic State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and or the authority of tho. eamo, That Sccthn 12, Chapter CHI, of tho General StUutca j of Souih Carolina, ho am ended I fad ding after tho word."doJlars,*'ii line filtccu, these words : "or bo imprispned for a period nob less than one nonth, nor moid thau one year, nt the discretion of the Court." - I Approved January 25, 1873. An Act to Fix the Time op Holiinq the April Term op the Supreme Court. , Section 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate aid House of Representatives of the Statt of South Carolina, now met and sittiig in General Assembly, and by tho authority of the same, That here after the April Term of the Supreme Court stall commence on tho third Tuesday d April in each year. Sec. 2 That all Acts or parts of Acts incoisistcut with this Aot be, and tho same tro hereby, repealed. Approv<d January 25,1873. An Act ro Empower the Supreme Court to Frame Issues and . Diret :he Same to be Tried in the Cibiuit Court, and to Order Rxfxreis in Certain Cases. Section 1. Be it en Acted by the Senate andHouse of Representatives of tho State c* South Caroliua, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by tho atthority of the same, That whenever, in th.0 course of any suit, action or orooeeding in the Supreme Court, arung in tho exeroiao of tho original joisdiction oonfecred upon the Court by tfio Constitution and laws ef the State, n ieauc of fact shall ariso up on the pladings, or whonever an issue of fact siall arise upon a travorso to a return in mandamus, prohibition or cerliorari, >r whenover tho determina tion of aar question of faot shall be necessary b the full exercise of the jurisdiction eonferred on the Supreme Court, the said Court shall havo power to frame m issue therein, and cortify the samo to the Cirouit Court for the County wlorein the eauso shall havo originated, or, in oases of original juris diction, tc tho Cirouit Court of tho County in which the oauso et action shall have risen. Sec. 2. 'hat upon receiving the cori ficato of nob issue* framed, from tho Supremo Gurt, the said Cirouit Court shall fortb/ith eauso the same to be placed at he headAoi the appropriate calendar or docket of said Court, and proceed to try and determine the said issue in its due order, and shall certify the determination, thereof to the Supreme Court immediately after the trial thereof, and, when required, shall settle and sign a case, or a oase contain- \ ing exceptions, according to the practice in other causes tried in the Circuit Court. SbOc 3. That the Supreme Court? shall also have tho same powers for the appointment of Referees to take tcsi- j mony and report thereon, under suoh instructions as may be prescribed by f the said Court, in any oanses arising in the Supreme Court, wherein issues of . fact shall arise, as are now poroessed by the Circuit Court of the Stete. Approved January 25, 1873. - . . ? - ? [for the times.] THE 8T0RT OF A QUEER SCHOOL, OR j the bights master know nothing saw at the great nineteenth century mundane academy. ._ Master Frank Know Nothing was six' years and a half old. "It is high time for him to be sent to school," observed his Aunt, Miss Susan Know Nothing, to his mamma one day. t "I have been thinking," answered Mrs. Know Nothing "of sending him to Mies Ellie and Rudie Mentary, two young ladies, who keep a small school quite near by. His going may help them to get along; for the poor things get very few scholars now-a-days." "That is because they will keep to the old fashioned way of teaching," replied Miss Susan,?beginning at the begin ning of things; whereas it is as* plain) as daylight' the children must gel to the end much more quickly by begin ning there at once; eyen by beginning? in tbe middle aicreat dmil--:uf limu w^* bo saved. I am told they peruse that plan at the Great ? Nineteenth Gen tury Mundane Academy; and if you take my advice you will send him there at once. All the rest of our family have graduated there and I don't see why he should not have the same advantages as others." As Mr. Know Nothing, Frank's papa, agreed with Miss Susan, it was decided* that he should be sent to this academy instead of going to the Miss Mentaries ; to loose no time, the nursery maid was ordered to take him to the door of that famous school the very next morning.? They were to call for little Mary Bright Eyes to show them the way. She was a nice little girl, almost as old but nearly as large as Frank; but ehe took about three steps to his one and said j half a dozen words at least in the time it took him to open his mouth. She was djhite able to show the way, for she had been going to the Great Nineteenth Cen tury Mundane Academy for some time/ and already know as much about it as some of the scholars who had been there ten years; for she knew how to make use of a pair of very bright blue eyes that she bad. It is-not every one who ein get such a nice little companion as Mary Bright Eyes when ho goes to the Great Nineteenth Century J^Jundane Academy for tho first time. She knew he was to call for her and was on the look-out for him, sitting on the door steps of her home, when Frank and the flnurse maid called for her.? Nurse, who liked hor very much, said "Good morning, Miss Bright Eyes. I j hope you will keep Master Frame in or der at school. I am just tolling him hbw to behave there." Then she went cn talking to Frank : "You must hold up your head and speak when you are spoken to,?but don't be for putting in your word whon nobody is asking' you anything, like your cousin, Master Phil lip Ihinks-He-Knows-Everything*" "I cant bear that boy," said Mary Bright Eyes. "He thinks entirely too much of himself bocauso ho is going to get the prizo for Advanced Notions." "I hope Master Frank will beat him at them," said Nurse. "I dont know what they are," said Frank. "They are things that seem a little strange at first/' said Mary Bright Eyes; "but you will soon get into tbo way of them, and I hope you will beat Phillip. I have given up having him for a-eweet heart, because ho thinks too much of him self. I like you much better now, Frank.". "That's right, Miss Bright Eyes," said Nurse. "Master Frank is just a dear little Know Nothing, and he knows it and dont pretend to be anything else." "Papa says," observed Prank, "that Phillip's real name is "Know Nothing," like ours; but his papa applied to tho legislature, and had it changed/' i "Ho may apply to the legislature as I much as he likes" said Nurse; "for all ( that he is a Know Nothing and he has I to be a Know Nothing and he will be a j Know Nothing to the end of his days." I "Hello 1 young woman, where are you I taking those children 1" The person who I said this was an old sailor who looked as if he had just come back from the other side of the world?and in fact he had. "You tell him, Miss Mary, I can't call , tho name of the pla3c," said Nurse ; and Mary fright Eyes did so, cutting it off as if it had been one syllable. I "Well," said the old sailor,. "in all my travels I never heard of carrying such young children to a place with a name like that Poor little cod-fish 1" "Well, you are an odd fish," E?id Nurse, and they all laughed. By this time they had arrived at the Great Nineteenth Century Mundane Academy. It was a very tall building with no end of windows. Nurse bade them good bye at the door; for Miss Bright Eyes said she could show Frank the way in and introduce him to the teacher of the infant class. First of all they entered a large hall with ever so I many doors in it, leading into different class rooms. "They make a great de?jJ^?f noise all together," said Frank j? "1 hemt see how I the teachers and scholars can hear each other speak. e-nc -c'jfcx lscar hsmcolf, and 'thai I is the great thing, they dont care so much about hearing each other," said Miss Bright Eyes. "After all, it is only when one is outside in the hall that one is all so confused; when you get into any of the rooms the noise there drowns all that | is going on in the others; yoU forget that there is any outside at all. It is very I queer that the smaller and narrow a room is the less the people seem to re member that there is any other room in the house." *,Mayn'tI peep into some of the rooms?" J asked Frank. "We had better take our places in the infant class now," said Mary; "when we have done our lessons, I will ask the teacher to let me show* you around the house." They then went together into a large room where there were a great many lit tle boys and girls of about their age ; for at the Great Nineteenth Century Mun-1 dane Academy boys and girls ore taught together until they are seven or eight years old. All the children Master Know Nothing know wore there, and I many mere besides; he was afraid even to whisper at first, or he would have liked to ask Mary Bright Eyes the names of some of them. The teacher was hearing I a spelling class and took no notice when the two came in; Master Know Noth-1 ing thought they spelt very strangely ; the teacher gave out the words and the children spelt them and gave their mean ings in this way: Teachei-?Spell "Parent." Children?"S-t-n-e-r-a-p. People whose duty it is to mind what their children say." Teache?-Spell "Child." Children?"D-l-i-h-c. One who ought to* be treated like a grown up person, and ought to be seen and heard too." ' Teacher?Spell "Pioper Behaviour." Children?"R-e-p-o-r-p R u oi-v-a-h-e-b Doing what you please, and not minding any body." Master Know Nothing thought it very I queer that the teacher did not tell them j they were wrong; but he presently ceas ed to attend to the spelling and began to look about him; then he found courage to ask Mary Bright Eyes the name of ono of tho boys who was standing on his head near them, and why he did it? Mary Bright Eyes said his name was Will-Have.His-Own.Way, and that, if you asked him why ho stood on his head, he always laid "because he chose to" and | she did not believe ho had any other reason. Another boy who stood in the corner with his finger in his mouth look ing very unhappy, was named Tommy Dont-Care; he, poor child, had no homo. There Were others whose ways Mary de scribed to Frank, but [we have no time now to givo more than their, names, such as Harry Wont Take A Dare,?Polly Proud,?-Sally Silly,?and Molly Mind Everybody's. Business But Her Own.? Phillip Thinks He Knows Eveiything, was seated on the lrout bench. When the teacher had heard the spell ing class, she called Master Know Noth ing and asked him what his name was, which he told her; then she asked him if he knew how to spoil it. His mamma had taught him how, so. he began:? F,r,a,n,k S,t,r,n,i,h,g,t,f,o,r,w,a,r,d K,n,o,w N,o,t,b,i,u,g. Straightforward, you see, was his mid dle name; his mother had been a Miss Straightforward and she had named [ Frank after her ?father, and taught him to spell Straightforward fashion. Frank was very much ashamed when all the children burst out laughing, and even the teacher smiled. Phillip, thinks He Knows Everything, bawled out: ''That' is not the way. It is: K,n,a,r,f D,r,a, w,r,o,f,t,h,g,i,a,r,t,8 G,n,i,h,t,o,n W,o,n,k. "That is spelling backwards," said Frank. ? "It is the way spelling is taught here," said the teacher. . "I am afraid your edu cation has been neglected and I shall have to put you in a very low class. I will now examine you in geography and arithmetic. If the world round or flat?" "Bound,"- answered Master Know Nothing. "Flat," cried Phillip Thinks He Knows Everything. "I am sure it is round,"- said. Frank positively ; he did not like to be correct ed,?(indeed who docs ?) "I see you have been taught in the old fashion way," said tho teacher. "It is now allowed by all that the world is ex ceedingly flat. Can you tell me, into how many races or great families the people of tho earth are divided ?" . Master Know Nothing considered a little while, and then he said :?"Two,? the Know Nothings and everybody else." "That answer is rather better," said the teacher. "Now let nio see what you know of arithmetic. Suppose your mam ma gave you twd apples and I gave you two more, how many would you have V "One," answered Frank. "Four," shouted Phillip. "No," said Frank : "for I would givo one to Mary Bright Eyes, one to Nurse and one to Aunt Susan?no, I think I would only give her a half of one. "That is not the way arithmetic is taught here," said the teacher. "You will have to begin over." She then gave him some books and set him a task in spelling backwards, to be learne^ for tho next day. Mary Bright Eyes now came forward and asked to be allowed to show Master Know Nothing over the academy. "Very well," said the teacher. "It will be good for him to learn something about tho ways of tho school ; so I will excuse you both from any more lessons for the rest of tho day." "Where shall we go first ?" said Frank when they had left tho infant class room, and were out sn the hall again. "Let us go to tho painting room," said Mary Bright Eyes. "It is great fun to look at the pictures. They are all paint ed by the blind." "Oh yes! Let us go there," cried Master Know Nothing who thought they must be wouderful pictures indeed; and so they were, as you shall hear. Tho blind people sat in a row, each with a paint box by him, a brush in his hand and a picture before him, which he was painting as fast as ho could. The teacher walked up and down tho room, ^topping every now and then to see how one dr another was getting along. He was very polite at first to Frank and Mary, and invited them to look at the work his scholars were at. "It looks very easy," remarked Master Know Nothing. "It appears to be pleas ant work. I mean to ask papa to let me learn it Only I cant quite make out what the things are that they are paint* Ing." "Perhaps you would prefer to see some of their finished works/' said the teacher obligingly. "As you see, we have quite a large collection of pictures hung on the walls,?they paint very rapidly. Master Know Nothing now perceived that the walls were covered with paint nigs. ' . ' ?' "Is that a watermelon, sir T" he en quired, pointing to a picture Which struck his fancy, (for he was partial to that fruit.) "A rose, you mean/' said the teacher of painting. "Is it not exquisitely slut" ded?". ? ? "That looks like a fine green cabbage" observed Mary Bright Eyea,looklng at another picture. "That 1" exclaimed the teacher.? "Why it is a picture of the rising sun." "But I meant that other one," said Mary Bright ?ye>. "That is Diogenes in his tub/' said the teacher. "Look at those two dogs fighting over a bone," cried Frank. "I think it is the lion and the unicorn fighting for the crown,?isn't it, sur/" Mary asked the teacher. "Where are your eyes?" said he.-' Cant you see it is the town and country j mouse. "Ohl Frank, just see that hen with the dear little chickens 1" exclaimed Mary. "Nonscnso! It is a man driving pigs tp'market," said Frank. "What-stupid chUdrenl" cried the teacher, growing quite angry. "It is lit tle Bopeep, with her flock of sheep." They were ashamed of having. made such mistakes, and after this took care, to. ask what the pictures were, before they said anything about tHem. The teacher was soon in a good humor again, and he showed them a picture of Mount Vesu rias, looking like a fire-cracker going off; one of the battle of Waterloo, like a whole pack or them; a crocodile like a cricket ; the babes in the wood, like a pair of dried herrings; the desert of Sa hara, like a buckwheat cake; a comet, like a long tailed kite; Saint George killing the Dragoon, like a butter-fly ! and a grasshopper; and a picture of the [globe, Rooking,, as Mary Bright Eyes thought, like a house on fire, hut as Master. Know Nothing said, like an ant's nest. At last he came to the largest picture in the room and pointing to it, the teacher said with much pride. This is our mas terpiece. "What is it a picture of, sir?" asked, the children. "Alexander's Feast," replied the teacher. "I took it for a funeral," said .Miss Bright Eyes. "And I thought it was a firemen's pa rade," said Frank. The teacher did not seem to hear these I remarks, bnt went on pointing to different parts of th* picture saying: "Observe the fine expression of the hero's counte nance. Notice the fall ofthat drapery." "Oh, I see it!" cried Mary,?"ii I00? like a iittle spider running away." "Is this real stupidity, or is it willful ignorance?" shouted the little man, fly ing into another passion, and beginning to walk up and down, stamping his feet so^tbat it was quite alarming. "We beg your pardon sir. We did not mean any harm," said the children; then the teacher was pacified again. "I suppose," said ho, "it is your mis-, fortune, not your fault, that you are not able to understand the beauties of art." They were glad to be let off so easily, and, begging to be excused from seeing any more, made their escape back into' the hall, where they agreed that they had I never seen such a disagreeable little j man. [c0nclu*bED in otjb next.] Notoriety.?One Erastratus set fire to and destroyed the magnificent temple at Ephesus. When asked why he com* mitted this great crime; his reply was "to gain notoriety." i "Our opinions of all kinds are strongly ! affected by society and sympathy, and it is almost impoeable for us to support any principle, or sentiment, against the universal consent of those with whom we may have any friendship or corres pondence.?HajME,