The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-06-08
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Pope Plus IX was .75 years old OH the 18th
Of May. ~ ,<vy X
Maine papers are Mortified ut the increase of
i divorces in that State. s,' .--. ~ ,
The Republican patty in New Orleans has
split into 'Radicals" and 'sUnionists" !"
They have .'baby" in Chesterfield, Va;
aso years old, which weighs 27o pounds.
Gen. swayne has given notice that no no.
,sroes will be appointed on the Mobile police.
A sample Of brandy analysed in Middlcsex,
Mass, has been found to contain camphcnc
Fraser, Trenholm. g. Co.'s circular announ-.
cling suspension, expresses the hope of early
resumption. ~
A Minnesota man realized from his wheat
crop, last year, moro than twice. the amount,
paid for his farm the year before.
Judge King, of Missouri, and Fasor, of
Tennessee, have been impcached by their re-
spective State. .Scnatcs. .
.Maximilian is prisoner in the hands of
Juarcz. So the curtain falls on the Mexican
Imperial drama. -
=, The slave trade is brisk at Havana The new
Goyernor-Gcneral is doing a lucrative business
by winking at it.
g. The English papers arprovc::of the liberation
of Jefferson Davis, considering it a measure at
least Of good policy. s''. - *
It IS pleasant to read that -four has declined
30 per barrel at. Springfield H., and that
mhcat has fell As cents per bushel.
The firm of Barber. & Hawley, tho largest
manufacturers of agricultural implements. in
Illinois, has failed, , >ts -.,sr ~
= Gentlemen from, Paris inform the Boston
Post that Napoleon has declared the 'Exposi-
tion the greatest failure Of the age 49,
The iron-clad Stonewall, formerly "a Con
fcderate cruiser Of English build has been sold
: 70 the Japanese Government for half million
dollars,
Reports from agents of the Freedmcn's Blu
fcau in Gcorgn, Virginia and South Carolina
show an improved condition as regards labor
"tu Aoou' - :. ES% .-,S
s;stated iii; orthern papers that lsepubli'
can Senat tora md sentatiyes have sub
scri6ed over IS, 900 to the fund for sending
radical speakers and doonp,onts to the South.
q Turkey being bankrupt, apd having imposed
taxes on every other imaginable thing, has at
,length rcsortod tor tax on babies, because they
are exempt from military service" ,j:.:
8; France it appears, has not only bought the
Duudorberg, but it is understood chat she has
: bought another. smaller iron-cla from the Gov
ernment, and has paid for it the sum of ST.
900, 600 in gold +ts@-.>
Switzerland, we see It stated, is thinking Of
sending an ambassador to Washington; also,
.wanta a seaport, and display its flag upon the
ocean. The ambassador can be sent easily,
enough, but that seaport business will prove
aiore difficult III 5''3
Tho richest imcmber of the Connecticut
Gensts'is an lrishman, whose property is val
ned at 81 100000, and whose daily incoane is
$1,000. He made his money from an oil farm
iui Peaasylyaaia, which ae purchased for
+. S2,sa94 49,. qtru,s.,,Fh,
The. Offices Of. City Tax Collector, City
Treasurer, Board Of Aldermen an Common
Council of the City of Mobile, are hereby va
.cated by the removal Of the present incumbents.
Tie new appointees will bo inauguratcl i'm
lhcdiately after the PRONUNCIATION of this order.
The long expected conference of the foreign
ministers with the Government Of japan has
taken place at Osaca, and is reported to have
had entirely satisfactory results The ports of
Yeddo, Osaca and Ncgato, will be opened on
the 'ffkt Of January next The Japanese arc
in favor Of progress; some Americans might
profit by their example. ~.
ARREST OF A 'RoBBER.-The Charleston
Mefsnry Of Thursday, says "a man by the
name Of Jennings, who has been committing
various ydepredations upon the inhabitants of
the interior Of the State, has been arrested by
tho military authorities, and was yesterday
matched through the. streets ironcd, and, as we
understand, IN sent to Castle Pinckcy. /.