The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-09-12
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Tho Louisiana Legislature has authorized
tho City Of New Orleans to negotiate o loan
of 100000, if possible.
There are only one hundred papers in the
United Dtates that have ten thousand oiroula-
| tion.3 So .sy ttfls .s-saH
There Is no daily newspaper west Of New
York that has bona ode circulation Of twenty
thousand copies.
The City Council of Nashville. is to pay
blind man Eve hundred dollars to walk across
| the river on slack wire
Tho fall style in gontlemou's hats has ap.
pcarcd in New York. They ure the old
Oxford, improved upon. is fof /
Miss Louisa Pyne has signed contract to
como to this country this year and give con
certs in the principal cities.
Wheatley's fortune made out of the Black
Crook is said to be 100000 and wisely he
| retiros.'. ,4 a .s,,: r,,ts ttfGeair, 4. ~,
Herr Lcngel, the lion tanner, was lately bad
ly bitten and torn by lion in Madison, Indi-
ana, but will probably survive.
1t is estimated that Staunton, Virginia, now
contains seven thousand inhabitants, IN in
crease of three thousand FIVE hundred since
| the war. s t,e - m.r
| The extensive woollen and Touring mills of
the Shaker settlement, near South Union, KY,
were destroyed by on incendiary fire on the
I'd inst. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
A gorgeous Cathedral to the momory Of Car
dinal Wisoman is to erected in London. A
thrcc-acrc lot near Buckingham Palace has
been purchased for the purpose
Now York is fercely enraged at the silly
Brooklyn paper which announced that there
was no more credit for Southern merchants
there. Baltimore rather likes it.
| A negro boy, fourteen years Of age, killed.
young negro girl with butcher knife, in
tho streets Of Newborn, North Carolina, on
the 29th ult The difficulty grew out of
dispute about cent. u
Chickens goiug home to roost: Thad Stey.
cna end Bruner, Of the N. .. Rtpubtican i The
devil will soon get l}rownlow, and then hi
will soc sights g
| Tho Washington Express is in receipt Of. tho
most cheering news from Ohio, from perfectly
reliable sources. Tho State is cert certain for Seyy
nour and Blair, and q handsome majority is
confidently expected. ''' !--,s'
\ The Chicago RtpaJltcan of Monday ssays !:
"Ihe cattle disease is now ubuting! The spc-
/ cific poison, whatever it was, which pervadcd
the system Of those unsounl cattle is now Weld
ing to medical treutmont.' Il 51,N aI.siI.
The Democratic vote in Vermont has as inl ins
creased largely since 1864, while the Rcpubli-
can poll remains the same. The Democracy
has not made such u show Of votes for twenty
years, and tho Montpelier Argus says the vote
for Seymour and Blair would be 10000 to.
day ''i ~ 2'1Hi2i 0'd iVaafA rtis
We sec q. statement going the rounds that
Hon. Jefferson Davis will be rendered the pre-
sidency Of Randolph Macon College, at Ash
land, Virginia, SO soon as he is freed from the
loyal cmbaEassmonts by!whicchl, ii, be i. now. s
tered. -
| There was heavy storm in Now Y ok on
Saturday morning People wero washed ont
of their houses in Brooklyn, and in, W illianis-
burg, Long Island, it is estimated that $3.50,
600 damage was done by tho storm and food
ing of cellars. N ,iilfls i.,h.n,,
The RAIDS give it up that, Of the Cabinet,
at least, Randall, Browning, McCulloch and
Wclles are ip favor of Seymour, whlo Seward
and Schofcld are against Grant and Colfax.
It costs them many tears to see an old leader
like Seward deserting them, and they, have i
queer way Of chronioling his departure;@9- 80
Richmond Enquirer '''''l'' "2.@ 7'sH 2
A gentleman, whose Office adjoined that of
the Citizen, said he once know Gen. Halpine
to enter the editorial room at five o'clock in
the afternoon, commence writing vigorously,
aud continue through the night, being found
hard at work when his neighbor came to un-
lock his own door at nine next morning. His
face was suffused with blood, every drop Of
which seemed to have found its way to his
brnin-his head was bound up with wet towels
and the veins on his brow swollen to fearful