The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-12

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between Russia and Denmark.
One hundred and sixty -fou. steamers
have been destroyed on the Western
rivers since September, 1s67sJ
A man at Tarrytown, New York, on
Tuesday, made four attempts to kill him
self and finally succeeded.
The grasshoppers are devasting Plate
county, Mo-, and tho farmers pray for
somebody to invent grasshopper trap.
England has fifteen yacht clubs, Civ
ing employment to over 100 persons,
and affording recreation for several thou
sand more
Indiana presents for the champion
ship" an old gentleman of 81, who, not
content with reading without speotacles,
has just plowcd up tkffee acres and plant
ed it in corn
Sall,' said lisping Bill, If you love
me thay tho; and if you love and don't
like to thay tho, sqecth my handth.'
Sail squoze it.
The person who cannot keep his own
secret ought not to complain if another
t,Ns it.
fhe temperance organizations arc to
have now lease Of life--an English
apostle named Lees is coming over.
The city bill poster at Lowell stuck
tho notices to milkmen the other day on
the public pumps. certain that they would
be seen there.
Newspaper reporters, in giving ac-
counts of the speeches of lady orators,
generally preface them with descrip-
tion of the lady's dress. This habit the
New York Tribune says sis apt to lead
the lady preachers to get themselves up
with an effect and to the reporters
description"
The Highlander regiment in New
York discards the kilt as too airy.
Fruit growers say that apples will be
scarce this year. Sorry to hear it.
Nearly all ,he Saratoga and long
Branch hotels open during the present
week.
A San Francisco soaker lately sworc
to having drank % bottles of wine in
six hours.
Garibaldi's physicians believe that he
will never again be able to leave his
bed.
Nearly two hundred babies have al
ready been entered for the show in Bos-
ton in u,ssilee week.
The great nuisance at NIss."ra Falls
the hackmen-has been done away with
by the authorities.
Henry Clews, the largest gold dealer
in New York, made several millions by
the late advance.
There is sign in West Broadway,
New York, announcing sausage facto-
ry, by Augustus Mouse.
Many Of the old substantial Xnicker
booker families and watering place habit
ates have gone to Europe.
"Shingle weddings" are becoming
fashionable. They occur when the first
child is old enough to speak.
The fifteenth amendment has been
postponed until January by the Rhode
Island House of Representatives
More than quarter of million of
dollars has been expended on the Phila-
delphia Masonic Hall.
Ice cream saloons on small scale with
little Irritation gardens annexed are in
creasing in number in New York.
| Mississippi has had q hail storm in
which fell hailstones, according to the
local papers, the size Of mans head.
A firm in Brookfeld, Massachusetts,
have one building which turns out FIVE
thousand pairs of mems boots daily.
A paper mill in New York is making
paper out of tobacco stems for cigarette
wrappers, the same being in great de-
mand.
s. 8. Lewis, formerly agent of the
Cunard Steam Ship Company, and a
well known citizens, diod at Boston,
Mass, on Thursday night.
A man in Arkansas is buying up Con.
federate currency ct ten to fifteen cents
on the dollar. He ends plenty ef pee,
pic willing to sell.