The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-03-28
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Queen Victoria has twelve grandchildren.

MaEyAuHu mas repeated tnc law requiring
registration of births, marriages and deaths.
Instead of "let us smile," they say in Wash
ington "let US impeach."
Four colored men were elected to the Coun-
ellis of Memphis, Tenn, last Saturday.
The "Israclite," the Jewish organ Of the
West, denounces General Grant.
Harriet Bccchcr Stowe arrived in Charles
ton last week. 'i
The price to be paid for substitutes in tho
French military service is fixed ut $500 francs
The English holders of Confederate cotton
bonds want Newman Hall to plead for them
Two more cotton mills, each of 13, 600 spin
dies, are to be erected in Fall River, Massa-
chusctts,
Mr.. George Peabody has been spending the
winter in Romo, and has enjoyed unusually good
health
a recent fire in Jefferson Texas, destroyed
over million dollars worth of property, and
almost wiped out the town
Thousands of French working,nen are be-
| sccching Napoleon not to renew the treaty of
commerce with England.
A learned bootblack, who has just been ar
rested for u petty crime in London, speaks
English, French, and German.
In Live Oak County, exas only two votes
were polled, both against convention and for
no candidate
| Edwin Forrest has sued Kentucky railroad
for two thousand dollars, the value of lost
wardrobe
The Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton has just received an Angola cat, which has
| fleece and tail like goat.
| Nearly five hundred thousand dollars week
on the average were deposited in the Massa-
cfusctts savings banks last year.
| The news of the impeachment caused o
panic in the Frankfort Jourse, but later news
caused it to subsidc.
General Grant spends couple OF hours every
day with Mr. Stanton, who still remains
intrcnchcd in the war Department
A general change has taken place in the
Turkish cabinet, all the Ministers having re-
signed but one.
Chicago is big city. It's latest large thing
was chicken fight, which lasted all night, in
which one hundred fowls participated.
| Chief Justice Chase is credited at Washing
ton with saying that it would be strange thing
to impcach man for difference of poiiticu
opinions.
William Cole, an Trishman :iiel in Hartford
Sunday evening, nearly one hundred and clover
years old. lie was noyer sick, married thrc,
times, ard had ninotcon ohil,lron.
In Bates county, Missouri, lady who had
been divorced from her husband on account Of
"incompatibility," has again fallen in love witl
him and remarked him.
The Sumter Nc,cs publishes private lette,
from Hon. A. p. Aldrich, in which he says thai
he sees no escape for the country but through
the Red sea Of revolution.
Ward Hunt the now English Chancellor o
! the Exchequer, is only 43 years old, and has
served ton years in Parliament. He has a
great talent for figures.
[ The Legislature of California has authorized
the appointment Of an insurance commissioner
and repealed tic insurance deposit law of that
State.
Leading freedmen in Alabama arc ciroula-
ting the documents of the American Colonial
tion Society, and endeavoring to make up u
colony for Liberia.
gang Of Vicksburg negroes recently cx-
humcd bodies from the Jewish graveyard at
that place, and cut off the fingers of the corpscs
for the sake Of the rings they wore.
Private adviccs from Washington, received
at Springfield, Illinois, declare that Senator
Yates thinks the conviction of the President
very doubtful.
1t is proposed by the government Of the
Dominion of Canada to permit Americans to
take out patents on the same terms that Cana
dians get in the United States.
The negroes of Madison, Georgia, failing to
to get tho lind aid mules promised, run a Rad