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Vidette Shoots Again. , , Outpost, S. C, Sept. 4, 1880. Editors Orangeburg Democrat: Is that so Picket? Strange that I Bftid not sec you there. But then, as I ^ said before, I was not watching you Llnit listening to your racket. It may I be that you were not there before I ?was, notwithstanding you say that you were certainly there before you ?kger heard a shot from my rifle, It ?ossiblc that the crack of my rifle IHK not become so familiar from con HPrnual random shooting as to be Treadily recognized by you ; and tell ing shots may have, left the barrel of my old EnQeld, and been attributed by you to others, lie that as it may, f 1 did not thrust myself "Into a posi tion which Picket had chosen," nor, "fire a few shots with his (my) eyes t shut." Ia the first place Picket had no right to choose a place. He should have remained where he-was stationed by his superiors. Vidette notices, too, that Picket had i ntrenched him self before lie began all that random ^hooting. Of course lie had a right ^^do that, but may not that fact ac Epounl for my not discovering your Knoximily sooner? I though*, you Bwerc some distance in tho rear, your ?rifle sounded so de id. Vidette under ?stands now that it was because you were so well under ground. Did you jknow that you were so near to Vidette? If so, then Vidette will have to try again. Did you have a ftte/ cial reason for entrenching your Hclf behind or noar ino ami Men make Kvery effort you could to attract the ? attentiou of the enemy to thai partic F.uUv locality? I must confess thai this entrenching confession lias fear fully shaken my previous convictions Ithat you wanted to win promotion by Ktlliutt conduct. That you wished promotion, I am still satisfied, but think now that "Picket's pei Idea" is the ohl proverb that "everything is fair in love and war." Vidette does not yet change Ida views so far as to .conclude that the furlough business was in Pickel'a mind, but his igno-| rancc of the plan for obtaining a fur-! Hpngh, and his giving me credit for ^originating the idea, confirms a previ ?ous '?diagnosis" ot Videtie'a?viz., Bmtfl1' Picket is a reoruit.; No ''old Huupaiguer" would ever say that thai ?den was new. JL How do you reason, Picket? Vi pdettc admits the allegation that he desires popularity, but it must be a ?strange compound of which the peo ple of "our county" are made, it ho .one desires to be popular,-except for the very selfish purpose of being made an officer. If one prefers not to be an officer must lie snub the people, be cross and overbearing, selfish and (dictatorial?in short, make himself as disagreeublc as possible?A-tb prevent being made one nohns volens? Have 1 we at iast come to "this com plexion," that wo have no higher I? nobler motives for desiring HpT be popular ?hau that of fili ng some office? Videttc's ambition a directed to a higher and nobler ob Bt than that of office, yet he wants P be popular, and when Iiis friends if tbey arc mistaken in his motive, ? s Picket seems to think they will be,) seek to put him in olllcc they 1 will be undeceived by the very de cided, "thank you gcntlcmcu all the s^mc, but no." So I cannot take jjjk/our advice on this point, Picket, though you give it freeig. Vidette is not alarmed at the pros pect of being left alone on "ow ont post." In fact if that "entrenched * position" of yours is of such vital im j portance as soon ns you get your shoulder-straps you will order some I one else to get Into it and I will still jjfgtvc a neighbor. \ViM you be kind Rnongh to instruct him to husband Bhs amunition ? ?And now about that battle of the BBth ult. Can Vidette say ot Picket. Kosit victoriam criputt? Or would the. Ptruth be more exactly rendered, worn ?Vidette to say of Picket's Competitor, [ victoria quodammodo excidit ei e f manibus? L^Hut no matter. It is all the same to Picket. He did act lose his "scalp" and he appears on the roll of thoso recommended for promotion than that his scalp escaped "King Phillip's tomohawk. And now Pick et what arc you going to'llo about it? You say "I will be there and when ?iommissious arc falling around I will see to it that nobody gets mine?if there is one to fall to me." One fell to you, and now I want to sec you do some of your best shooting, for 1 hear that one Abijail Leathcrstrap or some other fellow means to try and get it from you. Abijail may be a very clever fellow, but he don't keep the right kind of company to inspire honorable people with that belief. He fellowships too much with the did courthouse rats. 1 wonder if he thinks that the honest taxpayers of old Orangeburg would ever allow the old ''king rat" and his retinue to occu py those places again. If so, what a poor idea of our manhood and pride he has acquired. Anyone can sec without spectacles that "lciiahod" is ineffaceahly written on their fore heads. JJut for you to make good your word, Picket, that active^ener getic and clone work still lies before yon ; some movo voluntary advice? Be up and tit 'em / Iu hocnigo vinccs! . So "Picket has been casting about to find out what manner of man Vi dette is." Well, so long you have been fishing and caught nothing. ' Need I tell you that you have not yet I "cast your net on the right side of the'ship." In your own words then, Picket, "try ngain." Vidette! Story of a Proverb. The Boston Ttiuixnripii answer to a correspondent's query, retells the ori gin cf the rhyming old saw : ?'There's many a slip * 'J'wccn the cup and lip.'' Some ?f our subscribers who have studied Greek, may have seen the account in the Greek readers : A King of Thrace had planted a vineyard, when one of his slaves, whom hu* had much oppressed in that very workju'ophesied that he should never tasttrof the wine produced in it. The monarch disregarded the predic tion, and when at nn entertainment, lie held a glassful of his own wine made from the -gropes of that vine yard, he sent for the slave and asked him what he thought of his prophecy now. To which tiio owner replied : | "Many ' things fall out between the cup and the lip," and had scarcely [ delivered the singular response before the news was brought that a mon I si ions boar was laying waste the fav orite, vineyard. The King, in a rage, put down the cup which he held iu his hands, and hurried out with his people to attack the boar : but being too eager, the boar rushed upon him and killed him, with out his having tasted of the wine. Petrifaction.. Last Friday, while workmen wore engaged in removing remains from the old DeSnnssurc burying ground in Cainden to the cemetery, they ex humed the body of a lady that had been potrilicd. The form was as pcr I feet as When buried, but had become so heavy that it required live men tq lilt it. The upper portion was ns hard as stone, while the lower limbs, though retaining their shape, had a soft, spongy touch, showing that the process of petrifaction had not been completed. The features, we learn were well preserved. The hair on the head had grown very long anil adhered firmly to whaji was once the scalp. The.remains were of a young j lady who was drowned in Iho Mis i sissippi River over thirty years ago j and her body was brought to Cam den in a zinc-lined coffin for burial. ? Columbia Register. ' A young lady, not accustomed to waltzing at the earnest solicitation of I a friend made the attempt recently. i When the music ceased another friend I approached and said, gayly, "Well, I see you <;ot through all rigid.'' "Yes, [but it was a tight 'squeeze," was the reply. ? Noble Habit There are persons whom you can always believe, because you know they bnvo the habit of telling tbe truth.; They do not "color" n story or enlarge a bit of news in order to make it sound Hue or remarkable. There arc'others whom you hardly know whether to believe or not, be cause, they "stretch" things so. a ' trilling incident grows in size; but'not in quality, by passing through their mouth. They take a small fact or slender bit of news and pad it with j added words, and paint it with high colored adjectives, until it is largely nnrenl ami gives a false impression. Ami one docs not like to listen to folks when so much must be "allow ed for shrinkage." Cultivate this! habit of telling the truth in Hille things as well as in great ones. Pick your words wisely, and use only such as rigidly mean what you wish to nay. Never stretch a story or fact to*mal:e it seem bigger or funnier. Do this, and people will learn to trust and re spect you. This will he bettor than having a name for telling wonderful slories or making foolishly or falsely "funny" remarks. There are enough true funny things happening jn the world, and they are most, entertain ing when told just exactly as they come to pass. One lias well said : "Never deceive for the Sskc of a fool ish jest, or iO excite the laughter of a few companions at the oxi ense of a friend." Dear young friends, bo true. Do the truth. Tell the truth. There arc many false tongues. Let yours speak tho things that aro pu're, love ly, true. What to Teach Girls. To darn stockings and 6ew cn but tons. To say no, and .mean it, or yes, and stick to it. To keep a house in neat order, with everything in its place. To have nothing tojdo with intem perate and dcsoluta young men. Teach them to regard the morals and not the money of their beaux. That the more one lives within oac's income, the more one will save.' That tight lacing ought to be pre vented by law4aa opium smoking is in China. That the further one gets beyond one's" iihjomo, tho nearer one gets to the poor-house. That a reliable young man with good business qualities is worth n dozen loafers in line harness. Teach them every day some item of dry, hard, practical common sense, anil they will lind time for idealisms. That any amount of tight lacing and pinching of corns cannot improve a form that the Almighty made in his image. I Give them, if possible, a good sub stantial education, and as many of the accomplishments as you can af ford, but never neglect their home training. Republican Frauds. I The city campaign committee of the Democratic party in Philadelphia have notified the assessors and Uni ted States supervisors of elections I thai, under the authority of the coin ! mittec, a careful and accurate can j vass of the legal voters ol each divi ision of Philadelphia has been made, the result of which compared with I the namofl now on the assessor's lists, j shows that over 18,000 legal voters I have been intentionally dropped from the lists by the assessors, and illegal, fraudulent and fictitious names to the number of 41,877, added thereto. The committee gives notice that un less the assessor's lists are immedi ately purged of all the illegal, fraud ulent and fictitious names contained thereon, and the names of all legal voters added thereto, criminal pro ceedings willj be commenced against the assessor's during the present week. Dr. Paul, of Philadelphia, adver tised himself as "tho world-renowned wizzard of human destiny," and of fered to conduct the love and marri age affuirs of others; but he seems to have mismanaged bis own, for he is now in jail for bigamy. Woman's Patience, Jsupposo Job's patience was won derful for a man ; but it was nothing to that of woman. What would Job have done had he been compelled to sit in the house and sew and knit, ami nurse tho children and sec that hun dreds of different Miings were attended to dttrirg the day, and hear children cry, and fret, and complain? Or how would he haVc stood it if, like some poor woman, lie had been obliged to tear a family of ten or twelve children without any help, spending months, years?all thfe prime of life?in wash ing, scouring, scrubbing, mending, cooking, and nursing children ; fast ened to the house and bis offspring from moniing Uli nigbt, and from night till morning ; sick or well, in Storm or sunshine, his nights of ton rendered miserable by watching over hi? cJjihlrcn? How could he have stood all th'Sj anil in addition to a!! other troubles tJ'e curses and even violence oft? drunken companions! IIo would soon-have tupfi of unreward- j ed labor and undeserved biuine. t.Of i after all, though Job endured hie tolls and losses very well for a short lime, they did not endure long enough to test the strength of his patience. Woman tests'her patience by whole life of tiiale, and she does not grum ble at her burdens. We arc honestly of the opinion that women has more patience than Job; and instead ol saying. "Tito patience of Job," we should say ; "the paticsce of women," ?Exchange. A Quickened Conscience. The following extract from a pri vate letter we take the liberty of pub lishing, in the hope that the worthy; example of our friend may be gener ally followed by' subscribers as are in arrears to The People: "Enclosed line my dues to The People to date for subscription. Your paper has been coming to me, a welcome visitor for thr ce years, and, till now, I'have] never paid yon a cent. It is true that you have never dunned me?and therein you may have, been in fault? but just this minute it occurred to me that it would he sad if occasionally a mau could not he found who is will-j ing to pay his just debts without be-J ing importuned. Feeling so I here with hand you. what rightfully belongs! to you, with the sincere hope that many others may do likewise?thus causing the heart of the forlorn bach elor editor to be made glad."?Barn-] well People. Died for Lovo. A Constantinople lad fifteen years old, destroyed himself for the love of; a girl elevon years old, who, not re rpiitling his love, told him pettishly, tnat he might kill himself, perhaps ; after he had threatened to do so. lie j took a dose of cyanide of potassium j and lay tlown in front of the girl's; lather's house, having previously ad j dressed to her the following note: "My Dear Rosa: 1 will have, by the time you get this letter, faithfully obeyed your command by killing my self. Yon bn'ed tue. I loved you. I still remain yonis, W. II. Brace." Boor lad ! Unsympathetic and world hardeued old fellows laugh at what they sometimes call "calf lovo." But early love is a very sei ions thing to some young and poetically sensitive natures. Dante, we read, loved when he was only nine years old, and Burns and Byron were almost as pre cociously inllammable. The papers arc publishing long ac counts of the real circumstances of the killing of the two colored men whose bodies were found in Little River, Laurons County, some weeks since. As previously staled in The Daily Ntiibs, the two were known to have attempted a ioi.l outrage upon a highly respectable lady of the neigh borhood, and were quietly put out of the way!!3y her relatives. They are charged with several similar attempts j upon both white and colored females, ! and their fate seems to have been a ! source of joy to every head of a fumi ? ly of both colors that knew them.? (ire.i nvil'c News, A Radical Outrage. Among the colored men who don> ncd the red shirt and fell into Hue in the Democratic rally yesterday was one Frank Williams, of Winusboro, who came down with the club from that town. After the parade had been dismissed Williams took occa sion to visit an acquaintance who lives somewhere below the State House. As he was returning on his way up town, and whilst in the neigh hood of Griffin's store, ho was sud denly and rudely coufrontcd by three negro men, who, after taunting him in an innocent manner in regard to his affiliation with the Democrats closed in upon him and beat him in n roost shocking and brutal manner. One ol the party he says, used a knife, with which lie administered to hi in a severe cut, just beneath the chin. Both of his eyes arc almost closed, and his face i-' otherwise badly bruisea. No arrests have been made, as 'he ruffi ans were entire strangers to their vic tim at the time of the outrage no po liceman was in sight. His wounds were' attended to Ivy a physician. JYo arc reformed by a gentleman from Winnsbprd that Williams is an honest, Iiane>m?.kli.;' ami inoff.m sivnipersou, and IhV.u,- a gooYi ceputjij tion in the community j.n which lie" lives. ? Columbia Itcgislcr, Hard on Editors. Gen. Haskcll, of the Salvation Army, entertained a large crowd on a St. Louis street corner the other day. He tcld them that he was formerly^ circus man and a good card-player. He said that over in Last St. Louis, the Army bad a camp where fed the hungry; He didn't care who came? if he was right out of the penitentiary and was hungry he should have some thing to eat. It was no use talking religion to a hungry man. luist 1111 his stomach. You could never con vert a hungry man. There had ncv Ji'been" an instance of it on earth. Of the dilfe cut political parlies, he said that there were good men in each party, good men in the Democratic party as well us in the Republican. More than that, there were good men who were editors, and up to Casey County. Ia., George W. Ashton, edit or of the Clarion, had been couvorted to God. the fust instance in the histo ry of Christianity. All Gone. There are no more "Misters," al,l gone glimmering the way of transito ry things. A contemporary regret, fully depicts the demise from its midst of the good, honest, old-fash ioned soul, and says he's nearly all gona now ; once in a while you may see him, but very seldom. He doesn't amount to much any more. He's got to be too common, and as the old-fashioned and comparatively hon est rat was superseded by the high toned and mischievous Norway, so is "Mr." now superseded by "Col." and "Hon." We meet "Mr." very, very seldom on the streets, and in only tolerably high toned assemblages is he to be seen at all. But there you will lind "Col." also, anil no matter where, in the p iper or out of it, he's always prouder than a peacock that hasn't seen his feet for live minutes. "Col." is. We want to be a ''CoJ." too. The Razor Clam. When the tide is out, one may find the razor fish, so called because the shell resembles the handle of A la^or. If laid hold of suddenly, the chances are that before he can be drawn out he will slip out of his shell, leaving that empty in the hand, while, tin "soul and essence" of him has gone down half a fathom into the sand. Yet lie i.< not more slippery than many an individual, vvhoj when pressed to do some magnanimous deed in behalf of I he community, slips out of his shell, and, losin'g the y.i ip, you can no more find I he soul and essence of him than you can lind the sou! of Ibis ra zor Iis!-,, which has gone deep into the muck and ?and. In either instance, the empty shell is the only sign of the things wanted. A Utabjragedy. " ~> : A fatal shooting .affray occurred Ott" M1 the Utah Southern tralu on Thursday. 1 - Dr. 13. C. Snedeker, formerly of Lex?- ; ington, Jvy-i an(^ a Scotchman namcti- do lt. J. Smith, engaged chiefly in miur ing, had u quarrel. Dr. Sbedeker bad attended professionally; the daughter of Daniel Pavidson, another of whose daughters ^roith was *x> mar?/ ' ry. Davidson became suspicious of ' something wfang bctweon his dangle I tor and Snodcker. Snedeher. Was ' ? about to leavo town with-his, brother to let the matter blow over, and had, 1 taken his seat in the car when Smith who was on his way tcv .liinghmn ? ? Mines, came in the forward end of the 1 v car, and a& he approached, Snedeker: arose and shot him through the ctom-. ach. Smith fell in the-aislc and the people rusned from the.- car. - A po*-;-? lineman entered and disarmed, ?nedtf kcr, and was loading hita.uutof the''? roar of t he cA'r under txvcsl when, .Smith, who was .supposed to be dead or dying, rose, drew a revolver, and shot Snedekcr twive in the back, kill- oi ing him instantly. Since he was shot Smith has made a -jvill, leering all his property to Davio'son. A dispatch last jiight-/w-y?-; th'dt!"?,; Smith died last night- He Tcrnde no Statement as to tlui double' tfa^'^T-'' Snei'JeUer'a fiiends say nothing im^ut*1''' per ever p^scd^bctween him and Mk*** Daviden. The latter Is Waff deinen-1 ' ted over the tragedy, and is inaccessi ble to reporters. "i>plh men being dead, probably nothing will ever bo certainly known about the real cause of the quarrel.. How to Mako Meat Tender. If the fact can bo demonstrated to a cook that tough meat can bfc made ' tender by softening the fibres with ! tho action of a little vinegar, there "' will be no reason why she should ->ii hereafter send tough steak to the! tn- ? 1 1 blp. If she can be convinced that it ? / is better to turn it over on a plate containing a little vinegar, salid oil and pep per, four or five times in a couple ot hours, instead of trying to make it tender by battering it'with a rolling pin or cleaver, and so forcing out all ol its juices,,she must be ob stinate indeed if she prefers the lat ter method, and the sooner/her ser? vices aro dispensed with the; better ; '?<? for the temper and stomach of be? employer. , of'! *nu Lg :-~T . # -1 .a ... , -j ? oi ?: Admiration, {1 . 7J f< } Every man of sense and refinement admires a woman as a woman ; but when she steps out of this character, a thousand things that in their appro- , pi iate sphere would he admired be*-.; come disgusting and offensive. Tho appropriate character of a woman de mands the delicacy of appearance- * and manners, refinement of scim*'0'"' mcnt, gentleness of speech, modesty ? in, feeling aud action, a shrinking from notoriety and public gage, aven sion to all that is coarse and ta&}M\ and an instinctive abhorrence of-, aljr' ?"' that tends to indelicacy and imjiurity' either in principle or action. These' are the traits which are admired and" - sought for in a woman. A couple of disbelievers in spiritu alism attended a seance in San Fran cisco, last week, and after the materi alized .spirit of an Indian naicJen named Star Eye had given one'of' them a lot of glucose "rrora Ins deo^. sister," though he never had a sister, he slipped a policeman's nippers on tho wrist of the "spirit" unii held her'' till his friends turned up'the gas, 1 The spirit proved to bo the wife of the medium. Tho medium then ap> ; i penred with a materialized club, and j wafted the man over the . head with ' tho subtle influence, cutting a ?ble Iti11 1 I ilia scalp, and the two barely escaped' . with their, lives. ?Tho Vmanifesta^fl 1 j lions" were vury **strong" during the ! evcii'ihsi all the conditions being high I ly favorable, for a row. 1 ? ..^.,._.t_J__i? . :.?>/:?; A Little Uoek dispatch says: Plnrii jdioaiiona arc that at the election for ,, all Malu and Couniy officers and | members of the Legislature tho Democrats have cat ried the election j by the usual majority, The election was very quiet and peaceable."