The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-08-07
The Gear DEGREES that parents forcing

their children to marry or to- enter. cons
vents shall be imprisoned.
Chicago has q sdelinaucnt tax list,
which it requires GG columns Of the CHI
cago Post to publish. S @
Of the eighty-feuF steamers which ply
between America and Europe, but yfiyc
are owned by American companies.
The Viceroy of Egypt went shopping
in Paris aud bought $4,000 rifles.
The Bnptists of the United States
number l.l21 1888, an increase OF H.
O62 since last year.
Tobacco paid the United States Trca-
sury 0,O00,O00 last year.
The tax on tobacco has killed ten out
of the fourteen manuf;tctori,s in Dan
vile, Virginia. -
Wanted, n strong adhesive plaster, to
make busy bodies stick to their own bus
mess
General Ames, commanding The De-
partmcnt of Mississippi, has been called
to Long Branch by President Grant.
An extra term of the Circuit Court
will begin ut Abbeville on the third
Monday in August. Judge Orr will
preside.
Most kinds of roots and bark are now
used for medicine, except the cube root
and the bark of Il dog.
Yellow fever, it is stated, prevails 20
an alarming extent ut Pensacola, Fla.
The Republicans have elected dele
gate to Congress from Washington Ter
ritory by 14S majority.
The Hotel Pelham, in Boston, weigh.
ing 5000 tons, and having walls ueurly
100 feet high, is to be moved by iron
rollers distance of fourteen feet.
A bed of green mostled gr.nite, the
first ever found i'll this country, has been
discovered on the line of the Adirondack
Railroad, in New York.
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
has decided that bond given in 1864
for the price of u slave is valid and can
be collected at law.
\ package containing 5000 was re-
Gently stolen from the office of John
Craig, broker, at Augusta, Ga, by an
adroit thief, who still eludcs the dctcc-
tives.
Private johnson, while under the in
fiunnce of liquor, shot and mortally
wounded Sergeant Skinner, in Castle
Pinckney, Charleston harbor OIL Satur
day last. johnson has been arrested.
Two lads named Cain, were hunting
squirrels near Mount Carmel, Abbev:llc
County, recently, when the gun of the
elder accidently went off, killing the
younger almost instantly.
Father G'vizzis in letter to friend
in tic North of England, says, "thats a
crisis in Italy is approaching" and that
nc is preparing for great crusade"
Miss Susan Caroline Godsey, the
sleeping wonder, died ut her mother s
home some eight miles from Hickman.
Kentucky, on "Wednesday, l4th ult.
Mr.. John +. Lark, native of Ian
caster County, in this State was drown
cd in the Ouachita River, La, last week
BY the npsettinS of boat.
1t is said that the cholera which brok G
out in Teheran, Persia, in July last, is
making its way Westward. The nuur-
Der of deaths rose to thirty daily. Du-
ring its prevalence in Europe aud Amcr-
ica in 1882 aud l949, September aud
early October are reported to have be, n
its worst season
The Southern Express Company was
robbed of 81 quo on the line between
Augusta aud Savannah a few days ago.
While messenger Ma. cs W asleep, the
thieves abstractcd lhl grecnbIc 8.
A man committed suicide in I'm LAND
day or two ago, by throwing himself
un'lcr railroad train. On his person
was found number of the securities
robbed from the New York Ocean Bank
some time ago.
The tca-making colony of japanese,
in El Dorado County California, is get
ting along finely.
a garter snake, with two distinct
heads, was killed in North Edgefeld,
near Nashville, Tenn, on Monday last:
1t was taken to DIR. Goan's Store in
Nashville, where it was placed in alcohol
for preservation as curiosity The two