The Orangeburg democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, September 17, 1880, Image 1
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."