The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-05-08

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The manufacture of beet sugar was
Ibbgun in a small, way at Oshkosh, Wis.
and proved SO remunerative that an i'm
mediate enlargement of the works is con
templated.
! Cincinnati has. developed a new Sin
tercst, that OF dos packing. Deceased
specimens of the canine race are being
preserved for domestic consumption by
wholesale.
hBoLD.- .--Nudier, the author, called
upon LATTE, the banker, one morning,
and said, "You'll think me very bold,
perhaps, sbut 1 want to borrow three
thousand francs" ''Ycs do" replied
Laftte; but you'll admit I'm boldcr
than you, for | propose to lend them to
you.vss ~
b Gov Hoffman is not alone in the use
of tie veto. Governor Palmer, of Illi-
nois,i vetoed about fifty of the 1000 bills
passed by the Legislature, and sent back
about 150imore for amendment.
g, NJ Du ,Chaillu thinks the nation of
dwarfs which he ran across in the Asian
go country are the ycritablc Homeric pig
mics. They are from four to four aud a
half feet in height, and live in houses
made of the branches of trees. They
neitherplant nor SOW, and snbsist only by
trapping game and procuring food in the
woods.
An amateur violinist lately gave as
much latitude in choice of tunes as the
proverbial Hobson used to give in horses.
He remarked, as lie rose with his bow,
aWell boys 1 can't play but one tune,
now which will you have" Which
they all thought they would.
Miss Clara Louisa Kellogg, after con-
senting to sing in New York for the bene-
fit OF the Cuba revolutionits, reconsidered
the matter, and refused, because the gen.
tlcman with whom she has contracted
her professional services had engaged
to bring her out at Havana next autumn
in which case any apparent manifestation
of sympathy for the insurgents here
would be likely to prejudice her popula-
rity.
A clergyman taught an old man in his
parish how to read, and had found him
an apt pupil. After the lessons were
finished he had been unable to call at the
cottage for some time, and when he did
he only found the wife at home. "How's
JohnT said the Clergyman. "He's
canny, sir" said the wife ''How does
he get on With his reading!" "Niccly.
sir" "Ah! L suppose he'll read his
Bible very comfortably now?" "Bible,
sir bless you, he was out Of the Bible
and into the newspapers long ago"
The late Chief Baron O'Grady, tried
two most notorious fellows ut the Carlow
Assizes, for highway robbery. To the
astonishment of the court, as we'll as of
the prisoners themselves, they were
found not guilty. As they were being
removed from the bar the judge, in that
manner so peculiarly his own, addressing
the jailor, said, "Nir, Murphy, you would
greatly case my mind, if you will keep
these two respectable gentlemen until
Z or half-past Z O'Clock for 1 mean to
set out for Dublin at 5, and should like
to have ut least two hours star. of them"
Elections arc very dcmoral;zing. Dur
ing hotly contested election at Shrcws.
bury, in the reign of George L., an old
hallway army officer, who was non-rcsi-
dent burgess: was brought down from
London at the expense Of Mr.. Kynaston,
one OF The vs.,'!idotcss, and Hospitality
entertained fer a week by that gentle
mans political supporters. On the TO-
lowing day he recorded his vote for the
opposition candidates. When asked why
he accepted the hospitalities of the one
side and voted for the other, he iauntily
replied that, following the advice of his
old general, the Duke of Marlborough
he had "quartcred himself on the euemy.
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