The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-05

i Cuba is said to be getting into bad
way financially.
4 Saratoga hotel keepers have come
down from last years prices
The widow of Mr.. Colt, of pistol fame,
has an income of 100000 year.
1t is predicted that the plains will be
stripped of bufialocs in five years.
The whole number of divorces in the
State of Connecticut for 1868 was 1853.
According to the Trenton True Amer
lean, the New Jersey peach crop will be
unusually large.
Lcvcrrier, the astronomer, has daugh-
ter whose voice is said to be far superior
to PATHS.
Romero wants the Mexican Congress
to issue eighteen millions of paper money j..
A Newburg servant girl. routed bur
glar last week with pail of boiling wa
ter
"A negro man named Davis is apply
ing for position on the police force of
New York city.
In tae near neighborhood of Colds
borough, N. c., there are one hundred
acres of land devoted to the cultivation
of Strawberries.
The Easter collection of the Catholic
Churches Of New York City, for the or
phan asylumns OF that church Amounted
to 22,137.49
The Washington Star says that the
new issue of paper money, of all dcnomi-
nations, will be ready for distribution to
the public on the 1st of July.
Two wealthy brothers living in Hud
son county, N. j., have been sentenced
to two years in the State prison for
'kleptomania." They stole nearly all
the turkeys in the ncighborhood
An old man of sixty, who recently
poisoned himself in New Haven. left a
note requesting his minister to preach
III his funeral sermon the same discourse
that had been delivered over his wife.
The New York papers complain that
servant girls, sewing women and other
real laborers are never allowed to have
anything to say at the so-called work
ing womcn's assemblies" in that city.
a colorod man slowed himself away
IN the hole of the steamer Rising Star at
Aspinwall. She sailed to New York.
aud after eight days confinement he was
taken out almost starved to death.
The New Jersey State prison authori-
ties have just contracted for he labor of
about three hundred convicts, to be
employed i'll shocmak ing, ut sixty cents
a day.
a German got drunk in Winchester
last week, went to photoer phist and
had his picture taken, thcu cane back
and tried to shoot the artist.
nc saw iAss''-e'-ss-.
are engaged in saving lumber for the
bridge to be built across East River. to
connect the cities Of New York aud
Brooklyn.
On the day of his jubilee the Pope
received telegram from the frozen reg
ions of Lapland, the bearer of which had
to traverse six hundred miles in order 10
reach Helsin.fors, the extreme telegraph
Office in North Europe.
New York ladies have discovered that
they can easily sour milk by covering
the pan cont lining it with one of the
daily papers of that city whose disposi
ton is ncidulous
a printer, named Robert rcnman,
committed suicide in Washington on
Saturday last, by drowning himself in
the canal. He was about 3S years of
age, and a Scotchman by birth.
Mrs. Hannah f. Andrews. of Lovcl,
Me, who was 100 years old last April,
has had eighteen children, eight of whom
are now living. and two hundred and
twenty descendants. of whom ten are
great-g grandchildren.
A letter from Turkey says that some
time ago the Ottoman Bank received a
lot Of greenbacks from an American
traveller, which We're sent to New York
for negotiation. They have been re-
turned as spurious and counterieits, and
the bank is in for several thousand dol
lars
There are living. in Chattanoog,
County, Tenn, Mr. L. Z. Carroll age>
fity-two years, and his wife, fity-thrc'
years of age, who have had twenty -fou