The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-03-27

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The Sioux indians, call. General Sherman
General Walk-a7heap." ,
Strawberries have appeared in London, and
are sold at three shillings an ounce. "'f' '.'a
Seventy eight prominens Americans have
been snegossed fof Siiniiterri6 Edglsnd,, 81 !,
Russia has just sxileaabogs forty. treasury
officials to Siberia, tfars rebbinlg the govern,
ment.
Boston is in luck Over 6a 900 boxes Of
oranges have arrived there during the past
week. .a'ia;,.n ., 'ri fs i,
A Brooklyn Clergyman was robbed on Mon
day night of a carpctbag full of sermons.
The heirs of Noah Webster are said to re.
ceive $25, 900 annually from the sale of his
dictionary.
In order to dispose Of polygamy at short
notice, it is proposed to give the right of
suffrage to the women Of Utah.
Kentucky has stern parent who keeps his
daughter chained to log, in order to prevent
her marrying contrary to his wishes
1t is said that the Indians of the plains will
not take scs!fs !s.es... he.sls of negro soldiers
killed in battle, 10 Iia 49, .
Amoug the bills reported to the Michigan
Legislature is one to prevent tho shooting Of
any person lin sport"
Spring opened in Northern New Hampshire
with the thermometer thirty -four degrees be
low zero. t1. '.s.
A company at Lexington, Ill, consumes
forty y-niue tons of bccts daily in the manufac-
ture of sugar.
Concord, N. H., has had eighty three days
of uninterrupted slcishing up to last Monday.
Nearly six feet has fallen this winter
Texas has agreed to pay sl00 and to give
forty acres of land to company for every i'm
migrant it brings into the State.
In Texas the wheat crop promises we'll, aad
In some parts of the State coru is rising in
price and is now worth Fifty cents. f
The Louisiana Legislature has passed bill
authorizing the licensing of gambling houses
the price Of the license being fixed at. S5 900
4 story comes from BsIgiam Of two soldiers
who played game of cards. One stakcd his
life; lost; and hanged himself in the morn.
ing.
The New York Telegram wants to know
why actors who are engaged for general utili-
ty always embraces the part of Hamlet.
A three year old child. temporarily left in
charge of its infant brother in Columbus, Ohio
last Saturday evening" got angry with it and
killed it by beating it over the head with the
nursing bottle.
The New York Times says: eff California
is such splendid place for making money,
why is it that there is such rush of Office
seekers froD, there to Washington Is it
easier to make money in public Office than any.
where else
There arc 5b0 American students at the
various German universities, and over 1000
male and female American pupils at first class
German boarding schools.
The Danvllc Register tells of negro well
digger who was buried in well seven hours
Ly its caving in, and covering him to the
depth of twenty feet with stones, &C., and who
was not fatally injured.
Senator Schurz boldly protested against the
appointments for Missouri as proposed by the
President, and for his trouble received the
consoling reply, 81 know the people of Mis-
souri, better than you do"
Petitions, numerously signed by Rcpubli-
cans, are said TO be prepared for presentation
to the new Governor of Tennessee, (Mr. SEN
tcr), asking him to withdraw the militia from
some of the counties now under martial law.
\ scientific lecturer at Sheffield recently told
his audience that when the star fish, which
live principally upon young oysters, finds one
too large to be swallowed, it turns its stomach
inside out, and then envelopes the oyster.
Mr.. Catln, the prairie traveller, communi-
Gates to Trubners American and Oriental
Literary Record the curious statement that a
great river, larger than the Mississippi"
flows under the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Cat
lin is about to publish the evidence which he
has collected in favor of this startling hy-
pothcsis.
An officer who had lost his hand by grape
shot, was in company with young lady, who
remarked that it was cruel ball which de-
prived him of his hand ga noble ball,