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I I 9 I f Vol. II. ORA^GEBURGr, S. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST IB, 188G. isro. as*. ?>.i Compost. Editor Orangdurg Democrat: On reading the article of Dr. J. W. Summers of June 12th on agriculture, we highly appreciate bis notions in some particulars, but at the same time must object to Iiis manner of making and preparing manures. Iiis plan of building stables and - beds for all stock is highly profitable, not for the good keeping of stock alone, but the droppings are at least one hun dred per cent, belter than when left exposed to the sun and rains. But our farmers to a greet extent seem disposed to, travel in tue game old plan of (anhing ; they must plant a great deal of land because it makes but little ; and from the fact that the) plant too much land, they have to work hard to make a support, and have not lime to make all ihe.se ar rangements for making manure. We would suggest to all such to take the j time, build sheds and houses for nil stock as Dr.' Summers recommends, make all the manure you possibly can, raise twenty bushels ol corn where yon now raise five, and yon! will find it not only profitable, but la bor-saving. By making home ma nures 3'ou save the expense of buying commercial fertilizers, which too of ten lake Ihc entire crop to meet lite advances of factors, leaving nothing forlhosc who bear the binden and ho:>.t of tho sun. I look at it in this light: The farmer who spends all the time lie can command in the fall and winter seasons in making compost manure's and in applying them u> his lands when planted, has half his wprk done towards making ri good crop. He suiely does not have mere than half the work, perplexities and anxi lies of t huso fanners who depend on the fertility of the soil lor a support, and have lo plant forty acres to pro duce what he should make five acres do by raising manures in the fall and winter sensors. God only knows the trouble Ihc fanner has who depends on commercial fertilizers, commercial bacon and Hour, Hut this is some what away ftom what J intended when I commecccd writing. We ob ject to J. W. S.'s plan of decompos ing manures, because in his plan ol digestion, which he says must he done before the manure is lit for plant food, we think he must lose some of the most valuable element of his manures. As soon as he places his manure in a position that fermen tation and decomposition takes place, heat must be generated, and he can not avoid an evolution* of ammonia. It is thus set free, and as the manure is in a condition lo cause this stale of things, it cannot cause this evolution of ammonia and retain it at the same time; it must escape in the air. Ab food taken inlo the stomach must un dergo fermentation and decomposi tion before it is lit to nourish the system. What kind ol nourishment would it make if the food were placed in a condition that would cause fer mentation ami decomposition before it be taken into the stomach? Wo lose the most fruitful parts by this process, and contend that decomposi tion must take place as nature devis ed it, in the .stomach. The earth is tue stomach from which plants derive their nourishment, and our immures should be decomposed there, which will take place sufficiently quickly for any crop wc plant, and loo quick very often if a sufficient quantity is not applied. Apply it immediately from your stables lo your lands, and as heat is generated the ammonia is giv en olf, the earth takes il up and retains it lor plant food, and tiie whole pro cess of digestion goes on just as reg ularly as nature devised it. Haul all the straw, leaves and mud from your ponds into your stables and sheds you possibly can ; pen your entitle, sheep and hogs, make your applica tions of salt, cotton seed, stable ma nure and trash under your sheds as the lop becomes lillhy, not applying the cotton seed and stable manures thick enough at a lime to cause loo much heat. Cover it with trash at each application suUlcicntly deep to pack well, and when it is kept packed well no heat is generated, ami the ammonia is all retained. We think this is a much heller plan than plac ing it in compost, heaps, liy making Ihe different applications evenly and regularly, and cutting the bed straight down when hauling to tho held, the whole can he very evenly mixed, and let the fermentation ahd decomposi tion-luku place in your soil, and re lain nit, allowing no escape of am monia at all. Hoping that Dr. J. W. .S. and Dr. J. C. II. will continue their letters on agriculture which are very instructive we must (dose. An Onsr.uvivk. July 20, 1880. A Wise Old Darkey. An aged daikey came into town in the Spring and wanted a lien for $12. The merchant was surprised at tho smallncss of the amount, hut the dar-J key said it was enough ; that his wife had been dead a mouth, and he had nobody to feed but himself. lie said however, that he was looking bur for another helpmeet and had ids eye on a "likely young gal dat dey said v.us> mighty smart", but lie hadn't spoken lo her about it. The next lime ho came in, in answer lo the merchant's question, he said he had "seed do gal, but she wusu't smart enough"?sho had proved ti lillie too smart for liim.1 Tho third time became he told the! merchant that he had married -not "de young gal" but a woman sixty) years old. The merchant expressed j surprise thai ho should have married a woman so old as that, hut the old daikey said. "I looks at it dis way, boss ? U she don't buil me I won't have i I to keep her long, no how." When asked his own age he answered that he was eighty.? Ifcwberrg Herald. DuniNO the past week the thumb screw has been applied lo the cleiks i:i many of the departments at Wash ington in the interest of the Republi can Congressional Committee, and the I result has been that a good many thousands of dollars have been drawn out of the clerks. In one bureau ol the Treasury alone?the Sixth Audi tor's ofllcc?over 85,300 were obtain ed for the committee by passing around a subscription hook and giving j the clerks a knowing wink that (hey had better come down with their two percent. As there arc twenty two j bureaus in the Treasury" department,; some estimate may be formed from the above as lo how much money the Republican Committee will be likely lo obtain from this department, Tim return of Swaila last Monday speaks with certainty more forcible than telegrams or newspaper clip pings, that it is the purpose of the Radical party lo secure our defeat in this county in the coming campaign if possible. It look us entirely by surprise, but with Swails to organize and hold communication, with the greater lights at Washington and Sheriff Jacobs, who proposes to run for Sheriff again, as Lieutenant in Chief, we can undoubtedly look for ward to its lively and live a campaign' as Williamsburg can possible get up. It will, most, likely, if the Rads can organize, as we presume is Swails'] purpose, be a desperate political en counter .?Kingstrev. til:ir. UiN'.vn 1'helps, while, was found in his store at Tyro, Davidson County N-C, n few mornings ago with his head severed from his body. The evidence indicates that the murder was done by a young man name Click in his sleep. He was addicted to sleep-walking, ami was staving to assist Air. Rhelps in an expected at tack from negroes, and probably rose in his sleep, seized a convenient axe, ami beheaded his friend, lie knew nothing of the matter until he found fhelps' dead in Ihe morning. * ?T~, T Many Walker calls tho place,whcre she hangs her clothes, not a cIobcI but a pantry. # Ki.i/.Amnii City is wondering over a black Episcopal minister. A Card. Editors Orangchurg Domoorut : As your highly appreciated paper appears to bo a medium through which all political difficulties may bo settled without the shedding of blood but ink in its stead, I offer in vindi catio of the "Straight-out Demo cratic Club" the denial of many mis (representations Offered to the public mine, by one A. J. Evans as a feeler to assert his own strength aud that, of his associate, W. L. W. Riley, with the Democratic party, aud J intend no sjone .shall be left unturned that will give light to the Democrats on tlie subject, and it the same time I will atfmit of having proposed lb nominale Evans for president, aud would kavc made my promise good, had ii not been for the following cause: Mr. Evans had drawn the darkest pictures imaginable to mo ol W. Li. \V. Riloy, and said he had oneed handled him with gloves off, and on tlie day of the election for of ficers of the club to my utter aston ishment 1 found Riloy and Evans on the ground, the supporters of a bottle! of whiskey, with legs la'glcd and j eyes crossed. Riloy 1 ailed out lhat be would carry Willow Swamp Dem-! ocratie or run every negro off, nod wanted his pledge sealed and confirm ed by every one taking a drink with him, and those lading to drink, to smell. I did not drink or smell, ind, from tlie close association and broth erly love exhibited between these two law abiding patriots, 1 lost all cot Ii donee in Mr. Evans, and naturally went for a more straightout Demo-' eral, and nominated Dr. Dowling in opposition to Mr. Evans. I being one of the 'cilery, gave the vole thus : Evans 10, and Dowling G ; two of the number were ' not members of -the club, yet they voted for Evans. Mr. Evans also says Riley called for proof of my charges, which I failed to {jive. 1 did not ihink it necessary to offer proof against a man who had turned traitor to his country by joining the Radical patty ; but to satisfy the gen man*, I will state that I have been in ?brmed by the king bee of the Radical party lhat Mr. Riley was an honored member of tho Union League, which I think, is sufficient to guarantee to lain all iis blessings. Mr. Evans boasts of his club numbering one hun dred and fifty inumbcrs. 1 class that with tho way Riley had seven dele gates elected, when the. club only nninhered one hundred and sixteen, and would have been entitled to live delegates. Riley moved that we sup pose the club to number one hundicd and fifty which several gentlemen op posed on tho grounds that it would not lie just for them to claim seven delegates iu the convention unless the numbers of the club would war rant them in doing so ; but independ ent ol all that was said, seven dele gotC3 were sent. Mr. Evans refers to my speech as having disgorged myself. I can only Bay it was a part of trie fijnit he gave me of Riley, and it would not slick. Mr. Evans scorns to be filled with false modesty. My opinion is, anything that would shock his modesty would make a starved out blind mule have Ins oats. Mr. Evans refers to Riley as having be longed to J. R. Milhousc'8 club, but I would have your rentiers to remem ber that, he turned traitor to his party alter he was a member. Mr. Evans also refers to Mr. Riley as a member of his company, and a willing subject to meet the Ellenton rioters but, mis construing the intention of his chief Lain, he (Riley) wanted to soi/.e pri vate property in the shape of liquors. Is this not a nice man for Kvans to u y lo bolster up as a sound Demo crat? Mr. Evans sny.-j our club was organized with fourteen names, but lo the contrary, we organized with I twenty-eight names, and now in good working'condition and number einh ly-two names. YV*. C. Mitchell. Willow Swamp, S, C, Aug. 1, 1880. j Tun Garfield boom is to be warmed over, by having every little Republi can club in the country to rcnomi Inate him. * Dots from Sodom. /?'tlitors Orangeburg Democrat: 1 have of ted wanderen why yon did not have a coricspondent from this place. I am sure enough dots might be gathered from Sodom by a skill ful penswun lo interest your renders. I have rover concluded to scribble your.paper until the present and feel as if all this will be lost. As I may send'jyou, however, at an early date my qamo and live dollars as a candi date ;;or cleric of the Court, I will be gin to practice for ihe heller fulfilment of ihjj office. Your readers may noj understand where Sodom lies in this country without further explanation. Well wo afp a people residing in or near the forks of the two Edislos and the locality received its name from ihc heatheiish und rebellious lives of its inhabitants ten or fifteen years ago when a few only were even church goers, much less Christians. What a contrast between then and now. Your correspondent as one of its citi zens, feels proud to say that a few reghleous men were found for the sake of whom our Father spared the city. There is now only a few of Ihcse, non church goers w hom you may not find at church regurlarly and belter slill their childrcd are punctual atcndanls upon the Sunday School a'u Bethlehem Church, which school numbers at pres ent upwards of 130 scholars. Pretty haid lo beat I think. Just here let mesay that this vast improvement in the people is due to nothing more than ihc Sunday School. Just think of it, young men and ladies, a lew years ago violators of the Sabbath, are now faithful S. S. Teachers. Several, old and young men pray in public j aud I for one, do trust God lhat the work is but just begun. I urn glad lo know, Mr. Editor, that you ^are u Sunday School worker. We expect lo have a big picnic tins fall when we will be glad to have you and I feel sure your visit among us will add greatly to your subscription list from this community. Our im provement is as marked in farming as in morals of which 1 will some day with your permission give a few dots. Bell Hall. Mr. W. Mi ISdwardly, editor of the Montgomery (Ala.) Neios Item, has published a statement, in his paper. Me says thai he was an Independent, and had declared that he would sup port Gen. Grant nsagaintst Mr. 'l? den. In consequence of this deelar? atipn he found himself the confidant or Ihe Alabama Republicans, from whom he learned lhat Gen. Weaver's campaign in that State was entirely in the interest of the Republican party. On receiving this news, Mr. Kd wanly abandoned the Independents, with whom he had been working to secure reforms in Stale administration. He says that Gen. Weaver, while public ly assuring his audiences that financi al issues are the only ones to be con sidered, privately holds thai the ?'main object is lo overthrow the Dem ocratic party in ihe South, and lhat can only be done through tho Green back patty." Mr. K iwuidy distinctly charges that Gen. Weaver is in daily communication ?villi ihe New York Times, and as eruthui he (ICdwaidy) acted as amanucsis to Weaver in the dictation ol a news telegram trom Birmingham, Aia. Republicans who nominated and elected Grant lo two terms have now discovered lhat there are grave ob jections to a soldier President. The objections conn; with bail grace from those who were prepared lo vote for a third-term candidate who has no civil recor/1 except such as would cause honest men lo blush. The can didate of the Democrats embodies tho supremacy of the Union ami the su premacy of tiie Constitution and the laws, lie s tisVs die instinct of the average voter, and justifies the aspi ration of the patriot. His record commends him to the American peo ple. He will give to the country an administration as pure, as clean as worthy as lhat of Washington. Letter from Vidette. Outpost, S. C, Aug. 7, 1880, Editors Crangeburg Democrat. All quiet along the lines except now and then a stray "Picket" fires away at random. He either does not dtoatn that I am in front of him here on tho outpost, or else ho is inexcusa bly thoughtless of the great damage one of his random shots might bring about to his own comrades. Back in his rear his fellow-soldiers are sleep ing that sleep which exhaustion of I he physical energies, and a pcifect men tal quietude alone can bring- They need rest for the morrow's work.' When they bivonaced last night they felt that peace which follows, a sense of security. They know lhat a line of pickets had been thrown out between them and their enemies. They relied upon these, their ceaseless vigil to keep until the rolling drum should again awake to action, or at least they were sure that they would not awake with the cncriny in their midst. But alas! for their hopes of quiet repose. Fitful cat-naps illy prepare them for the work which awaits them. This random shooting of pickets along the line drives away the sense of security and In ings ort* a nervousness that for bids repose. This firing at nothing only advises the enermy of your whereabouts and, but for us vidctte . their scouts might pass into tho very camp and then lead a column after them. Then too, Picket might bit one of us yldcttes and then the enemy would nab him sure. I always did dislike to be on vidctte when recruits were put on picket. I would rather have a "dummy" iu the pit. i* felt safer?the army was just as safe and ?well it would save a mortal sight of saltpetre thus uselc sly wasted. "Picket" ought to remember that Stouewall Jackson was the victim of random firing, and although I am not a Jackson nei tffer am I a "stonewall" and I want Picket to mind how ho shoots until I nm relieved any how. If he don't I will slip up on him some of those times, token his rifle is empty. and lead him oiT liko the Hebrew Children. I ilont wonder that he feels mad at the ollieers for they don't have to do picket duty. 1 can tell, loo, from the crack of his rille, that he would like to he an ollicer, and this random shoot ing looks a little like there might be a latent hope that so.nc stray ball might bring about a vacant chair, and Picket end his aspirations there. Now I confidently expect that Pick et will fi re in tlie bushes again, but I beg that he will remember that there is not one of the enemy between mo and him. Aim high and likely your bail, after whistling harmlessly over my head, may knock sand in some of the enemy's eyes. But the best way of all is not to shoot until you sen something, and then as you are a good shot, "scoop 'ein in." VlDETTB, P. S. The reason those follows did not recognize you at'Church, was be cause you had kept them awake by your random shooting and they were sleepy?oh so sleepy 1 V Lost Opportunity. "Vo knew your duty but ye did it not," and another name was added to the long list of lost opportunities. It is said that the bitterest dreg in the cup of a wasted life is the thought that haunts us as the shadows of age gather around, of what I might have been. Hut wc can't turn back the pages of our life history and revise and correct the errors and indiscre tions of tho past. Ti.ie past never returns, "and what is writ is writ," and vain regrets or the roll of .centu ries can never change or ellaeo it, Ii is so with governments, communities and individuals. The pres ent is alt that is ours, all over which wo have any control, and the squandered and neglected opportunities ofyesteiday are to-day a part of the irreversible records of ctetnity, as unchanged and unchangeable as the laws of the Modes and Persians.?Palnictlc Yeoman, Garfield, Arthur and Strife ? ? An Enjoyable Affair. St. Matthews, July 29, 1880. Editors Orangeburg Democrat: The citizens of our little town was regaled last night with a musical and dramatic entertainment for tho bene fit of the Baptist Church and Izlar Lodge, A. F. M. One of tho citizens feeling it absolutely essential*that tho dull monotony should be broken, per ceived the idea, and a good one it was. "Poet and Peasant," overture, by Mis8ec Hoffman and Jacobson, on piano, accompanied by Messrs. Kohn and Jacobson on violin, was the in troductory, and was but a specimen of what was to follow. Bliss Jacob son then rendered that enthusiastic song by Milard, "Waiting," and was vociferously encored. Miss Hoffman, of Charleston, and Mr. Jacobson then favored us with a duct from II Trovatore. Miss H.'ts delicate and musical touch on the piauo has won her many musical ad mirers. In this roio Mr. J. also dis played musical talent, which he is fast developing. Violin duet by Messrs. H. Kohn and Jacobson next came. .The ease, grace and dignity with which Mr. K. handled his bow was conclusive evi dence of a natural musical endow ment. The audience was surprised when Miss Jacobson and Mr. Kohn came out in character with song, "Sister Ruth," a comic country love making scene. They brought down the house repeatedly with side splitting laugh ter. By request we then bad a song entitled, "Wake, Lady, Wake." The musical entertainment was then concluded with a march from Fuust by Misses Jacobson and' Hoff man on piano, accompanied by Mes srs. Kohn and Jacobson on violin forming a quartette in the musical role which will compare favorably with and atuaturcs in the land. The old aud time honored farce, "Rough Diamond," concluded tho evening's entertainment, and deserves special mention. Miss Minnie Rich, of Camden, as "Margery," acquitted herself handsomely, berg well up in her part, and having a perception of what was expected in the caste., nerv ed herself to simply perfection. Her support was also perfect. Mr. Weth erhorn as "Capt. Augustus" and Mr. P. Rich, as "Sir Williarr," would have deceived the practiced eye, and mistook them as having been on the the boards for years. Mrs. Rich, aa "Lady Plato." and Mr. J. Chaplin, as "Lord Plato," did credit to their part of the role. Last, but not least in avordupoise, comes "Cousin Joe,u charactered Dy Mr. Witcover, whose appearance, brought roars of laughter from both young and old, It would seem impossible to have better placed that important part of tho play. Na ture having enowed Mr. W. for tho cast. The cnterlainmcnUwas a complete sueccsss beyond doubt, and all came away well pleased, many asking when to look for a repetition. The piano used was kindly loaned by Mrs. E. J. Buyck, and much of the pleasure .ia due lo its sweet and delicate lone. To Mr. Phillip Rich is duo tho honor for it all, lie being the prime mover, aud by his indfatigahlc energy saw hia efforts crowned with success. More Akon. There no longer remains a doubt lhat Chief Justice Williard will not yield the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Caiolinu without an effort to establish his claims to the oflicc, which he believes lie bus been duly elected to fill for tho full term of six years. Tho Chief Justice is in Cashier's Valley, taking his Summer vacation ; but as a mat ter of generai interest wo arc prepar ed lo say positively that he means to lay ids case before the Supreme Court lipon his return lo Columbia, aud that the decision of lhat tribunal will bo invoked before he will con sent to vaoato the Chief Justice's chair.?Ji<g ister. Hancock, English and Peace.