The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-04-18
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Lake Champlain ia still covered with ice,
.Mormons ,aru deserting Desoret for the gold
mines; ,,apinq ,4 - ..f..
sA'Fen,ale Ku. Klux Khan has been organized
shGeofgia.i 70 1'i'' y:i' ''f'e 't rai' ~
fhe pe.,icoisefs' HI IL il sug,ges.sd , d .i,le for
shs literary ladies' club. 4'''' ''"'' '.''.''..
sUtah .rxpests ,an. immigration Of 10000
European converts to Mormonism this year
Chicago has cut St. Louis out of the
.'nountain trade" which was worth eight
millions last year. .''i' /" -'4
"A sub Marine dvor in Illinois estimates
thAt nc. has spent three years of his lifo under
water Yu, d @aiiit F atr,h h,tu pI
Sixty thousand tons Of pig iron are annually
produced within three miles Of Columbia,
county,'Pa, aV .rial. l~lutH tp.
The Natural Bridge Of Vitgiuia is advertised
for sale by public auction on the 25th Of
Apsil. ba'"ntl
up1Tnf 3,Dj pt ,U riinu.,t
PARTIES frcm the west agrco in appr chend-
iag a gcneral Iadian war this Summer, in
consequence cf Quful6llod treaties.
MIR. Nicholson of North Oxford, NIassa-
chusctts, &lled four hundred feet of black
snakes IN an old cellar near his house last
Sunday.
Tsle temperance men in England arc agi-
Eating tho question Of law conlpelling-ull
liquor sold to be taken homo and shared
fAirly with tho family.
At the funeral of Father Taafc, which re-
ccntly took place in Lawrence, Mass, eight
hundren ladies wore black dresses and white
wells to their waists. . laH
The Bishop of Calcutta recently visited tho
scene of the Orissa famine, in India, and reports
that call traces Of it seem to have completely
passed away, except when one comes OCCASION
ally on heaps Of human boncs-a sad mcmcnto
Of tho dire calamity.
The growth Of tho Astor estate, in New
York, is aaid to be shown by the increase of
Mr.. William, B. Astors taxes A few years
ago ho paid $4,000 year; now he pays
vzro,uuU, or nearly S7UO a day Commodore
Vanderbilt pays $4,000 a year, at present.
over S1O0 day. A bad estimate
,,i Mrs Gaines, after nearly, thirty years of
litigation, gained her case for hor property in
Louisiana, by decision of tho United States
Supremo Court The estate in litigation was
valued in 1889 at s,4So,OOO, and during the
last thirty years has increased enormously in
value. 1t embraces large portion of the City
nf New Orleans. 8
An English newspaper, in the course of the
discussion of tho Irish question, states that
during the past quarter Of century the largo
landholdera have been gradually swallowing
up tho small ones in Ireland, and that whilst
fhe small holdings are four times fewer than
they wcre in, 1891, the larger onos we're three
sncgre numerous. ga5
'"CorTespondcnts ID Ireland write that the
SxsdnS from that country to the United States
haS' again begun, and that all the steamers
coming to America, and also numerous sailing
vessels, are filed with emigrants The various
ports Of Ireland are also filed with cmgrants
awaiting passage, and the majority arc said to
be from sixteen to twenty five years Of age.
Thurlow Weed Grant man and Ropubli-
can, says: "However blatantly members of
Congress- may infect Southern negro suffrage
in their speeches they know enough to keep
negro Delegates out Of the Chicago Convention.
IF negro delegates appear in that convention
not even General Grants popularity will enable
us to carry Indiana.
Captain Thomas Garnctt, of Chicago, pro-
pesos to cross tho Atlantic in small boat,
twenty feet in length, five feet and half
breath of beam, and two feet six inches depth
from keel to gunwale, and constructed on the
life,boat principle. He will start in the mid
die Of june, going down the ST. Lawrence,
and taking for company only a Newfoundland
dog.
We oaee Aasrd Of An an who went into
Eight expecting to DO killed, but only lost an
arm and leg, and talked hig God that mat
tara woro not u,nSoo II TY,o N nd d;o.la ~ .,x.....