The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-02-08

struck, which bring in large sums of money to
their owners, but have q bad effect on their
hnbits
The official report to the House of Repre-
scntatives of the expenses of It's investigating
committees gives the whole sum paid for these
committees this season, up to the 9Th of Janua-
ry, at $40 ,50985.
! Good field hands cannot have very hard
time in Louisiana. They aro offered fifteen
dollars month, rations, quarters, peck Of
meal and five pounds of pork weekly, aud an
aero of land to work on their own account.
! he Now York Tribune informs Messrs.
Julian and Chandler "that if tho people want
ed blackguardism, they could get it at cheap
cr rate than $4,000 year, mileage and sta
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Leavcnworth, Kansas, has population of
thirty three thousand, supports six daily news
papers, some thirty churches, fifteen to twenty
schools two theatres, and from five to ten
gambling houses.
| A Partisan left directions before his death
should be placed on his tomb every day The
eccentric request is duly carried out and on
his grave may be seen heap Of musty old
papers. In
The Yorkvillc Enquirer has been informed
that white man, lately belonging to the 9Th
Regiment, United States InfaAtry, was rcgu-
larly married in Chester, to q negro woman,
on last Sunday evening. The, marriage scr
vice was performed by colorcd preacher.
There are sixteen thousand articles subject
to taxation, when there need not be an hun
dred to yield all the revenue we want, relieve
our manufactures of their internal tax and
the country of an army'of collectors and asses
sors. .ir .;i
An irrevcrent and nnti-ritualistic Londoner
was recently fined fifty dollars for intcrruptiug
Clergyman with "n sort of noise IKE turkey
cock = which the roverendh geutlcnar himself
illustrated in court for the benefit Of the Judge
and amusement Of spectators. H
A letter was received at tho Treasury De-
partnicnt at Washington, on Saturday, from a
Catholic priest at ST Vincent's College, Los
Angeles, Calie1nia, enclosing $500 conscience
monsy from party there desiring to make res
titution to the government.
The London (Eng.) 1deertiser says that
Garabaldi had requested the report to be con-
tradcted that he had returned any answer to
an address forwarded to him by the Fenians,
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would support the government.
In the Atlanta convention last week, col.
orcd delegate grew excited and said, "May
God have mercy" when he was raped to or
der by the chairman who stated that "tho per-
son the gentleman called upon was not in
the house.
! The crews of the Peruvian steamers upon
the Amazon River have deserted them and
have gonc to the recently: discovered Brazilian
gold mines. The officers Of these steamers urge
upon the government the propriety of sending
troops to secure tho gncht wealth that lies in
the mountain gorges.
There twenty one Cardinals hats vacant
in the Sacred College, and it is reported that
the Pope has decided to create batch of Car
dnals, and, in Difference to tho wishcs of the
Emperor Napoleon, will include in the number
the Archbishop Of Paris and Prince Lucien
Buonaparte, prelate of his household The
whole number of creations will be fifteen
Duniag 1861, the number of pcrsons killed
by honsss carriages in the streets of London
was ono hundred and sixty-f "a number very
much smaller than in either of the two years
imme ediatslY preceding. 1t is fourd to be a
sufficiently accurate rule that the number Killed
is about ouctcnth of the whole number Injured
~ London paper states that probably the in
jurcs from this cause are more numerous than
those by railway accidents in all England
Attention is being called to .hc use CT cur.
bonic acid as q disinfectant. The Gardeners
Chronicle gives details of its use at the Lodge
Farm in England during tho late prevalence
tho cattle plague, where over one hundred
COWS were saved under circumstances which
must otherwise have proved more or less fatal
The treatment consisted in administering the
diluted ncid internally by the spoonful, and
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