The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-10-09
+. j. OLrvEnos, Clerk.


A woman was brought in heel
barrow, drunk, to the New Orleans police
station the other night her three little
children following and her infant by her
side; and the paper says sit is not n rare
instance
a party of divers ut Nashville hooked
on to what they supposed was the safe
of steamer sunk some twenty years ago.
After long and hard labor they succeeded
in raising an old cooking stove.
A New York dry goods market re-
port says that Southern buyers mustered
in good force last week, and purchased
large lines, especially in prints, domestics
aud shawls." No mention is mudc of
Western buyers.
A little school girl was playiug on the
railroad track near Newark yesterday,
when she saw "a train approaching. She
hurried to get off the track, but stuck
her foot carelcssly under the rail in her
haste and could not cxtricate it. She
was thus held ON the track until the
train reached and crushed her.
a genius out West has just patented
machine for making chcstnuts out of
sweet potatoes. lie is brother to the
old man who put handles t" prickly pears
and sold them for currycolnbs.
A man recently hanged in Texas re-
fused to cat beans on the day his exc
cu,ion because they always disagreed
with him." aud his dying request was for
purple shroud.
The Imperialist, newspaper pub
lisbed in New York u few months ago,
for the purpose Of holding up to the gaze
of libcrty-loving Americans the beauties
of monarchical form of government, is
dead.
Concerning the practic of sleeping in
church Henry Ward Becchcr says: If
man sleeps under my preaching, l do
not send boy to wake him up, but l
feel that Il boy had better come and wake
me up"
A Memphis telegram says that cotton
picking has fully begun, but it is feared
a large portion Of the crop will be lost
through the inability of planters to OBJ
tain hands. In some localities they are
offering three dollars per day aud cannot
obtain them at that price
New Orleans relates case of absent
mindedncss. a gentleman writing a
letter at his breakfast table dipped his
pen in the coffee and continued his letter.
Noticing his mistake, he put n large
lump of sugar in the ink, and then find
ing his second llunder, poured the COLI
tents of the ink-stand into the coffee cup
to set it right.
Brigham Young has organized CO.
operative stores throughout his kingdom,
the division ofprofts being nine. tcnths
TO the stockholders, aud one. tenth to the
church. Go where you will, you find
sign-hoards inscribed as follows: "Holi-
ness to the Lord, Zion's Cooperative
Mercantile Association"
A certain tavern-kccper, who opened
an oyster- shop as an appeudago to his
other establishment, was upbraidee :;
a neighboring oystermonger US ungoner-
Gus and selfish. "And why (said he)
would you not have me seH.fM"
"You are an excellent packer, said
Don riUant to waitcr who brought him
bottle of vino of very scanty measure.
IL don't understand you, sir, replied
the attendant, "You have oontrived to
pack quart of wine in pint decanter,'
was tho explanation.
The reverse of the "meddle." Byron
woke up one morning aud found himself
famous. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
woke up one morning and found herself
Infamous.
That millincr who is to have FIVE
millions of dollars paid, to her in, Decem-.
'ber, of tho seventeen, boqueathed by her
late lover, won't mind. the price of coal
next winter.