The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-10-05
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I General Sterling Price is dead
Row Joseph Gross D. d., well known
throughout this State, died Of yellow fever in
Houston Texas, last week. .
The Garibaldian, riots have been suppressed,
. :. and it is officially announced that the country
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Ava tourney recently held in Winnsboro,
sAe highest prize was won by boy twelve
years old. Twenty knights entered the liats
rs competitors.
is The yellow fever is still epidemic in New
,,lOrlcans, Mobile, Galveston, Houston and Key
West. At New Orleans there arc from
sixty to seventy deaths daily.
A young man named NIagrath was murdered
near Pocotaligo on Friday last by negro
Cause Mr.. Magraths' having ordered the
negro from his promises. The murderer has
been arrested.
Under the Homestead law, it is said, one
hundred and sixty acres of land can be obtain
/, cd in Missouri for SIS expense. Improved
farms can be bought at from S. to $40 per
acre.
General SCOTS will has just been probatcd
IIc bcqucaths Pulaskis sword to West Point
Academy. His sword, worn in the Mexican
war, to his grandson, Winnfcld Scott IIoyt.
a volunteer rihen,an of Canada recently
fred 120 shots at target at distances Of 500
to 1000 yards and missed but five times,
although no sighting shots were fired He
would be dangerous man for the Fcniuns.
An usher III on English school, seeing one OF
the boys with thick lump in one fhis checks,
asked, Gould est hoc?" to which the lad spat
tcring out large piece of chewing tobacco
replied, "IIoc est quid,'' for which rcpartcc
the master forgavc him.
The President has not yet decided to grant
General Sicklcs' request fora Court of Inquiry
The probability is that Sicklcs will be muster
cd out of service as Major-Gcncral in tho vol
untcer service and assigned to tho command Of
his regiment as Colonel in tho regular Amy.
Information from the rural districts of Vir-
ginia, says dispatch to the New York Herald,
represents that the Union Leagues formed by
the Radical ncgrophilists arc disintcgratng.
White men who joined for fear of coniscation
arc becoming ashamed ofthe company in which
they find themselves, and the negroes begin to
sec that they arc to be tho tools of designing
men, and nothing more. ;'
The New York Herald has special dispatch
from its Richmond correspondent, which states
that it has become definitely settled that Mr.
Davis will be tried at the November term of
tho Circuit Court i'll that city, and that Chief
Jnstioe Chase has expressed his intention to
4 preside. ~
Aaron a. Bradley the notorious negro law
yer of Savannah, has again been successful in
stirring up riot there. This time the antnso-
mist were the conservative city and tho radical
country negroes. On Saturday collision oc-
Cured, which but for the prompt action Of the
municipal and military acthortics, would have
resulted very seriously.
= Quito oommotion was caused among a
colored congregation in Wentworth street,
Charleston, on Monday evening last by tho
firing Of pistol by some person unknown.
Though nobody was hurt a delegation of some
fifty negroes Immediately applied atthc guard
house for satisfaction, but the officials there
were as ignorant Of the offender as we're the
colorcd brethren