The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-04-13
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General Sweeney has disbandcd the negro
militia companies Of Augusta
About twenty-five thousand oxen are killed
each week to supply the city of New York
with meat
T!iirty-four coorcd persons in Philadelphia
own property to the amount of S 35S,OOO,
T!;c locomotive ,nw runs four hundred and
fifty miles west 81 ST. Louis, and the track is
being laid at the rate of u mil. every day.
Governor Throckmorton, of Texas, has tcle-'
sraphca that his State will immediately reor-
Yanzc under the Reconstruction Act.
The whole number oc Wcbstcr's Spelling
Book printed has reached 10000 900 1t
sold last year at tho rate Of 5l31 copies for
each working day,
A letter from New Orleans says: : Son Mardi
Gras, one Of The masqucradcrs wore rc' 4 military
dress the cpaulettcs. Of which were made Of
spoons As he PASSED by, the people seeing tho
Spoons even the negroes, too, shouted Butler
I5utlcr'"
The Boston correspondent Of the Now York
Times says the black members of the Mass,-
chusctts Legislature superior to many ,of
the white members, and that Mr.. Walker, Of
ClItrlcstown with age and experience will rank
withtilc first ofour statesmen. 1t is understood
that Hr. VI. Is nn c~r;rnr,e for t:.n :f.,.,nL,.
place III Congress. :,
In Maine. recently, baby was carried of on
train and the mother accidentally left behind.
1hc woman WAS put on board spare cuginc,
which overlook the hyin. train shackled on to
the rear. and thc. woman passed oyer the tender
to the car without the train being stopped, and
found her baby all right.
Few Sundays ago, as the congregations in
the Nashville Cathedral Was quietly engaged
i'll its dcvutionS the bel! fell from its tastcnincs
and vas causht in The timbcr-work above tlo
organ. y local papor says that the worshippcrs
we're very mach startled Qwitc likely.
The value of home manufactures to the South
is poiutcdly alluded to by Southern paper,
which tells its readers that ''Now England
fears III Alabama cotton mill more than she
feared all the regiments that Alabama sert to
the field in the late war"
At Il Conservative, Union County Courcn-
ton held recently at Chattanooga, Tenn, dele
gates 10 the State Convention, were elected
without regard to race or color. There we're
present about five hundred colorcd persons and
three hundred whites. The Resolutions adopt
cd we're i'll favor of a return to ths cnnstitu-
tion, opposed to Brownlow, aud advocated
more liberal school laws and the ccoro omica)
administration of government
Paris is going mad over a sort of hummin.
top, just invented by a patientlcss doctor. 1t
is made to rcvolve by avulgar whipcord and
handle, and when it, reaches its maximum of
rotation six small tops como out Of it and begin
to spin round ii; at the will of the spinner
they return to the bosom of their mother. The
inventor calls this the prolific top; happier
name would be tho opossu,n top.
An explosion occurred on the I'd ut., at tho
Clover Hill Coal Mines near Redmond, Va.
in which sixty-ninc lives were lost-thirty
white and thirty-ninc colorcd. The explosion
WAS caused hy tho accumulation of gas in tho
pits, but little is known of The accident, as tho
mines Immediately took fire. and the northern
Shaft WAS closed to smother it. a bucket, shoe
and lantern were blown by the forco to the top
of the mine, distance ot-79O fcct
\ few days ago the artllcrists of both the
Citadel and the man -oi:w 1l,,uga Mt Quebec,
were engaged i'll target practice on tho ice.
The men of the big Armstrong; in tho Citadel
fired at y mark nearly two miles distaut, max.
ing good shots which would have soon disposed
OF an ordinary vessel a numbcr of fool-hardy
youths dotted the ice in close proximity to tho
targets, to pick up the spent missiles. Coolly
Watching each shot, phcy wcrc often within
only tcw yards of its track, and no sooner had
1t struck the target, on the ice than tho lads
pounced on it Ike yu!turcs, and claimed it. as
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