The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
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His E.cslie1sy, Coz sooss, has dssidSd
that Magistrates hinder oid Commissions can,
not legally mss saaer tlie nss Constitutes.
A new Commission and subscribing the oath
of fealty to the new Constitution are. required
Co iegaiise thoir acts. ~
The bill to change the County seas of Barn.
we'll County to Blackyilie has passed the
Senate. |r. rtas
The bin to- provide for she payment Of the
Commissioners and Managers of election has
passed tho house. = ,. .'i! my
The Governor has approved the act to es-
tablish State Orphan Asylum. j.
The telegraph tells us that negotiations are
pending for.the transfer Of the Island of Cuba
to The United States s, :. ..,.irf As,f.
"a bill reuosing the political disabilities, of
large number of pos,oa='has passed Congress,
by two-thirds vote. f-e ff
Nine newly married couples put up at the
st. James Hotel, Cincinnati, cn Friday last.
That was sweetness enough for one hotel in
one day, surely. r a'.' st2fats
A Catholic convent and school we're burned
at Titusvil'e, Pa.
Three Of the nilitiainen engagcd in the
outrages on young ladies at Marion, Ark,
have been coartmartialed and shot. ssh.
A Republican meeting was hold in Rich
mond last "Wednesday to oppose the measures
of the Virginia Committee in Washington.
resolution was introduced into the Geor-
gia Legislature yesterday to expel a colorcd
county clerk from Office. The resolution was
referred to the Judiciary Committee =
William Helmcs, for many years associate
editor Of the Missouri Republican, is dead.
Gen. Grant goes to Baltimore tomorrow to
attend the meeting of the trustees of the Pea
body Fund. ,.s
Andy johnson, has nominated Robert C.
Buchanan and Alvin C.. C illcm for Brigadier
Generals, in place of Rousseau aud Hooker.
Three hundred men, recruited chiefly in
the West have been landed safely in Cuba
during tho last week. The vessel is nearly
ready for another trip
1t is said n new paper will soon be started
in Barnwcll. The Sentinel is, We think,
opposed to it.
Position is everything position of a comma
for instance "there's divinity which shapes
our ends rough hew them as we will"
The Charleston Courier says: There are
402 cases on the city and 53 cases on the
country Issue Docket awaiting disposition aHs E
the next term in February. Some of the cases
have beon on the Docket twenty three ternis. -
st. Louis has a new 81 100000 Insane assl-
un,. which is nat used >Loo.,,ee--:..o. ..6f(sES-
officers cannot agree ms to its furniture.
Eight hundred boxes nf :ebacco, worth from
SIC, 600 SO $4,000, were seized at New Ir.
leans, on the 10th ult., by the U S. Revenue
officers.
Gallipolis is excited over avid man, naked,
covered with hair, gigantic in stature and
with eyes 'that st art from their sockets" He
recently attacked venerable citizen of that
place. and would have drank his blood but for
the bravery of Gallipolitan maiden who
broke the wild mans head with big stone,
and sent him off gnashing his teeth.
The Virginia delegation have had an inter
view with General Grant on the subject of
their mission here, aud they express them
selves as much gratifed with his views ON re-
construction. He jocosely told them that
they wanted To get back into the churc. nd
that they should have made the same effort a
Jear ago; and that if they had. the sccesh ele-
rnent would have forced all the Conservatives
| into the Radical ranks before this
A Californian tells story off dog of his
which became Interested in the murieal
soirees, held Mt his house, that onc night the
assembled amateurs, hearing remarkable
noise outside, rushed out and found the dog
with music book opened out before him
beating time with his tail on a th-pan, and
bowling Old Hundred with all the musical
ability Of his gifted race.