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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
A Character.

FAR awsy down on st. Anthony street
is row of dilapidated buildings, moss.
grown and worm eaten, where the vine
excludes the light, and the shadows Q!
noon are as fresh and cool as the air at
dawn. The central one is inhabited by a
wizard, whom the people around him call
voudou. He is wrinkled and gray with
age, and his long white beard reaches his
waist. STOPPING and palsied, his walk is
slow, but his fierce, black eyes CLEAN with
baleful light. He was sought few days
since by one who had lost some treasure.
It was supposed the old mans supernatu.
raj power could enable him to find it.
The man told his story of how thief in
the dead of night had entered his house,
and carried away his property. The old
man looked at him earnestly for moment,
and then inquired
You want me to find it?"
eyes"
Money them" and he extended his
withered hand for the accustomed dole,
which was readily paid.
"Now listen to me-" said the wizard.
" Do you see this stick?" holding to him
an oaken staff.
eyes"
"Well, now you must mount it, as
when child you rode stick horses, and go
capering up the street, shouting, lost
lostl lost p
"Why people will laugh at me?'
No matter. Do as bid you, and al
most before you know it, a beautiful wo-
man will appear, and lead you where the
stolen treasure is concealed"
Incredible as it may appear, the man
had faith to follow his instructions.
Mounted on his stick horse he went caper-
ing up the street yelling lost lost lost |!
Pee pie poked their heads out of the win
dows to inquire the meaning of the singu-
lar spectacle, but the only reply to eager
questioning was the cry of lost lost lost!
A policeman happening along supposed
the poor fellow crazy and took him to the
lookup, f.om whence next morning he
was sent to the asylum. But it being soon
ascertaineo tat he was only superstitious,
and not mad, he was released thoroughly
cured of his belief in voudou prescience.
He at once instituted suit against the aged
wizard for obtaining money under false
pretences. But the old man contending
that if his instructions had been followed
he would assuredly have met the beautiful
lady and recovered the treasure, the JUS
tice dismissed the case remarking simply
that fool and his money are soon
parted" ."-Ne,o Orleans Picayu1e, May 81.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
Leaving for decrease of debt.
GRANTS VindicatfOn In Dollars and
Cents.

THERE has been much grumbling over
General Grants appointments, and some
of them may have provoked it; but the
fact is not disputed that the current revenue,
since they were made, shows q large in
crease over the corresponding weeks of
last year. Now the taxes have not been
increased our political adversaries say
that the country is not prosperous; and it
will puzzle any one to account for the in
creased receipts into the Treasury on any
other hypothesis than that of increased
efficiency in the collection. We believe
the income of the Government since Gen.
eral Grants Inauguration has exceeded
that of the corresponding period Of last
year by fully five millions Of dollars, and
that our national debt has been reduced,
over and above any reduction expected il
the spring months of 1863, by fully ten
millions We submit these facts az q full
justification of the changes made by Gen
eral Grant.-Nesc York Tribune.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
1)oetrp.
NEEDLES AND PINS.

YE are trivial things,
With invisible wings,
Needles and pins;
Common and mean,
Good pointed and keen,
Useful alike 10 the cook or the queen,
Bright needles AID pins.
Men have waved wroth
~ For the want OF 70 both,
Needles and pins;
Women have rallied,
Reddened and paled,
Hunted and scolded till language has failed,
For needles and pins.
Heads rounded and bright,
Eyes single and light,
Needles and pins
Yc have witnessed strange scenes,
Sharps, blunts and betweens;
Working for angels and working for hends,
Bright needles and pins.
The set of that frill
Is due to your skill,
Needles and pins;
The droop and the grace Nt+
OF yon satin and lace,
face,
Oil needles and pins.
Ye have hidden the rent
In the beggar's garment,
...f... Needles and pins;
As ye've mended his tears,
SO ye've lightened his cares,
Till again he has need of your aid for repairs,
Bright needles and pins.
'But where do you go
When your works done" we'd know,
Needles and pins
What nook DO you find,
So secret and kind,
That mortal no trace of your brightness can find,
Lost needles and pins?
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11

was continually disturbed by imagined
ringings, and my dreams were haunted by
the fancies which almost maddened me
while in the steeple Time cured this as it
does most of our follies; but even at the
present day. if, by chance, my nerves be
unstrung, some particular tones of the
cathedral bell have power to surprise me
into q momentary start. = BatlOu's
N,,ntHLD
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
Do You Take the Responsibility?

THE moral of the following .anecdOte is
not bounded by its temperance applica-
tion. Who cares to take the responsible
ty Of leading any one into any wrong
doing?
A young man had been sadly intemper-
ate. He was man of great capacity,
fascination and power, but he had pas
sion for brandy which nothing could con-
troll. Often in his walks, friend remon-
strated with him, but in vain; as often, in
turn, would he in vain urge his friend to
take social glass. On one occasion the
latter agreed to yield to him, and as they
walked up to the bar together, the bar
keeper said,-
Gentlemen, what will you have?"
"Wine, sir" was the reply.
The glasses were filled, and the two
friends stood ready to pledge each other
in renewed and eternal friendship, when
he paused and said to his intemperate
friend
"Now, if drink this glass of wine and
become drunkard, will you take the re-
sponsibility ?"
The drunkard looked at him, with Sc
verify and said,-
"Set down that glass"
1t was set down, and the two walked
away without saying word. u
O, the drunkard knows the awful con-
sequences of the first glass; Even in his
madness for liquor, he is not willing to
assume the responsibility of another be-
coming drunkard.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
Grants Administration and the Pub
lie Debt. 93 ID 44

In the month of March, the first month
of President Grants administration, the
decrease of the national debt was over
two millions of dollars. In the month of
April the decrease was considerably over
three millions. And in the present
month, the third of Republican admin
istration, the decrease will be nearly, if
not quite, thirteen millions of dollars.
The books of the Treasury Department
have been balanced up to to-day MAY 29),
and they show for the month, as follows:
Receipts from customs s............ $12, ,549, 600
From internal revenue. ................ T,152,O00
Total. .$Z9,7U1,O ,OOO
Expenditures same period. ........... $500, 600
Leaving for decrease Of debt. $ia, ,901 600
The probabilities are that, for the whole
of the month of May, the excess of re-
ceipts over expenditures will be over,
rather than under, thirteen millions of
dollars Thus, in the. first three months
of the administration, do we find, prac-
tically, reduction of our debt of
about twenty millions Of dollars In
other words, Grant manages to have
the debt reduced even more rap
idly than johnson managed to have it in
creased. Grant has the same party to
sustain him in Congress that johnson had
to carry on the Legislative Department of
the Chicago Post.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11

"MUCK -" WHAT is MUCK ?"-This
question comes to us almost every month
in the year, and now and then We answer
it, as we would be glad to do twelve times
in year if that were necessary. Muck
is money" says an English proverb. Muck
is manure in English parlance, and covers
pretty much everything that is soft or
moist and pasty. We apply the word al
most exclusively in our agricultural tech
nology to the partly decayed vegetable
matter of swamps and peat mosses-even
applying it to peat fit for fuel, if it be used
as manure or as an absorbent in cattle
stalls After getting it out, let it freeze
and thaw, or if ON drying it is not very
hard and lumpy, compost it with lime and
it will become fine and crumbly. 1t is
often rich in ammonia and always useful
in composts.-Americo Agriculturist.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11

THE fastest bycicle time has been made
in Jersey City-a mile in two minutes.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19
iron THE onAxGEDURG NEws.1
C0lletOn County.
PAUL S. FIELDER.
EDIsTo RIVER, juno 10, 1869.

GpioAO ti EN-, a une III, lSEJ.
Messrs. Editors |: Perhaps you would
like to learn the condition of men and
things in this portion of the State, and
as feel communicative this evening. I
shall endeavor to give you truthful ac-
count. Our people are engaged in
variety of pursuits, and Orangeburg is
represented here in every department.
The Messrs. Jennings are running some
four steam mills near the Edisto, and
saw and ship untold quantities of pine
lumber.
The planting portion of the communi-
ty are engaged in the laudable efforts of
raising corn and rice, only small guam
tity of cotton having been planted. Our
crops are looking we'll but in want of
rain. The recent showers have been
partial, in some instances falling plenti-
fully upon one end of the plantation.
and giving only sprinkle on the other.
We are trying almost every fertilizer
offered in the markets, guano, phosphate,
&c, also valuable domestic fertilizer.
brought to our notice few years ago by
Mr.. G. Il. Dukes, worthy man, aud
native of Orangeburg, it is called house
guano, and is obtained by scraping tie
mold or fine earth beneath dwelling
houses, kitchens, cabins, &c. Our mode
of applying it, is to put double hand
full to each hill of corn at the time of
planting, or drill for cotton at the rate Of
about 20 bushels per acre. Thus far it
is equal to the peruvian, wando, pacific
guano, or Cox's phosphate. He that
doubts, come aud sec.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19
Secretary.

The CRoPs IN BARNwELL.-Thc fol-
lowing letter shows the promising pros
poets of the crops in Barnwell. 1t is
written from Three Runs, and dated
juno 12:
Last year 1 came out very well, and in
January had about $1,000 in my factor s
hands in Charleston This season l
hope to du better still, for have put au
equal qauntity of land in corn and pro-
visions as last year, and about fifty acres
more iD cotton, making two hundred
acres in this crop, but have used more
fertilizers and have applied about three
hundred pounds Of the same to each
acre, which think will increase the
yield fully fifty per cent, and we'll repay
me.
All around Inc there has been more
land put in cotton than last year, and
more fertilizers used, and if we have a
good season there will be much more cot
ton made for can harvest all that
can raise, and you J. be certain that
no man will leave any IN his field as long
as it is worth twcnty-cipht cents per
pound.
do not think the cool spring has in.
jured my crop ut all, but rather did it
good, for it kept it back until it gained
strength and the hot sun has made j,
shoot up splendidly, and now have as
good a stand as ever had during my
seventeen years Of planting.
The negroes i'll this neighborhood, Of
all sexes, are working well-better than
they have done since the war.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19

and embellishments of lite must necessari-
ly have been developed.
The use of a orepowerful microscope
will lead 70 the verifcation Of such an
hythothesis, or prove It's fallaey.
as the matter stands, all Who are in
terssted 10 The progress Of sciencc, and
in the spread of Christianity, will feel
the deepest solicitude concerning the pos.
sibility of communicating with these
newly discovered sentient beings in the
microscopic world.
How is that to be accomplished p
Their voices cannot reach our ears, and
to them our voices must be what the
music Of the spheres is to us. Worlds
go whirling through space With cla.ter
that.6lls the universe and becomes to
mundane cars the equivalent Of silence
Such must be the hum of the visible ter.
restrial creation to the microscopic.
Whether the existence of sentient he.
ings in the microscopic world was ever
before suspected we are not prepared to
say, but had such theory been advanced
before the discovery We have recorded,
it would not haye been becoming in q
philosopher to reject it without due con-
sideration.
The magnitude of matter, so far as it
comes within the comprehension of
finite mind, exists only relatively.
TO an inhabitant of the sun surprising
the visible man in magnitude in the
same proportion that the sun surpasses
the earth, the rulers of the earth become
reduced to microscopic beings-Mobile
Tribune
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19
NOTICE.

All applications to the Hon. Reubin Tom
iinson, State Auditor, for an Abatement of
Amounts raised by State Board Of Equaliza-
ton must be handed into this Office on or be-
fore Wednesday, Oath June. 1869. Said ap-
plications must, LIST. set forth the number Of
acres of Available or Plough Lands, 2d the
number Of acres and value of Meadow and
Pasture Lands, Sd number of acres und
value Of Wood, Uncultivated and Marsh
Lands, 4th number of Buildings and their
valuo. Also give the distance to nearest
Market Place, nature and quality Of soil.
JAS. VAN TASSEL,
june l9-lt County Auditor.
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wM. NJ. snULER.
iron THE onAxoEpuno NEWS. 7

FOR THE 0RASGEBuR0 NEWS.
Pursuant tooa notice the citizens Of
Middlepen Township met to take into
consideration the nomination of officers
for the government of snid Township,
after which, on motion, Rev. Thomas
Phillips was called 70 the Chair, and J.
l.. Ayers requested to act as Secretary.
The Chairman was called upon to
state the object Of the meeting, and read
to the house the law on Townships after
which ON motion of DR.. j. HI. O'Cain, a
Committee of IA was appointed by the
Chair, consisting of 2 whites and Z col
cred to nominate Clerk, 3 Selectme n K,
2 Surveyors aud constable.
The Committee retired and after a
few minutes returned and made report
Of the following named gentlemen far
officers: For Clerk, j. l.. Ayers; for
Selectmen, j. p. NJ. Foures, DR.. w. s.
Barton, and Allen Philips; for Sur
veyors, Jacob s. Punches and DR.. John
d. 1nabinet; for Constable, NJ Q. Smith;
after which the meeting adjourned.
THOMAS PHILIPS.
j. L.. AYERS, Chairman.
Secretary.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19

When does Il man sneczc three times?
When he can't help it,
Indiana is said to have eight thousand
square miles of iron and coal lands.
1u Putnam, New York, a lady died
from having too many teeth extracted at
once
Mackcrel are selling in Boston at one
and quarter cents each.
The Western crop of Tobacco is cstima
ted at 10000 hogshcads this year.
a mare that eats chickens and sheep
is the latest production of Missouri stock
breeding.
A gentleman who has been struck by
young lady's beauty, has determined to
follow the injunction and kiss the rod
that smo.e him
Butler has invited Bingham to cat
clans with him, but Binghum either
don't like clans or don't like Butler, for
he has cfuscd to eat.
The First Congregational Church in
Madison, Conn, has had only six pastors
during its existence of 162 years
A Western paper runs two religious
columns, conducted respectively by Epis-
copalian and Romanist clergymen.
The finest camelia in Paris is at pres
ont in full bloom at the Jarden d Accli-
nation. II bears no less than 3,7OO
buds.
The highest prices paid for the wines
Of Prince Metternich were $500 for siu-
gle barrel, and 81 ,26O for one halt cask
The new French twenty-five franc
gold pieces will be called Empereurs.
Miss Ida Greedy, daughter of III. g.,
is one of the officers of the Woman s
Suffrage Association.
No less then twenty-four persons have
"mystcriously disappeared" from New
York during the past two weeks One
of these is young lady Of beauty and
wealth
Rev. DIR. Alonzo Hill of Worcester
Mass, after forty-two years of pastoral
service, rctires with $4,000 contributed
to him by his parishioners.
Connecticut mas iifty -iiyo savings baaka
in which 149,019 dcpositors have put
s4l 800, 900.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19

also doubt whether large majority of
the Democratic party<in the free States
would not prefer Robert E. Lee to Gen.
Grant for President today. 81 Ei
aThs terrible burden ofEthe heavy
Etaxessis all thesyhilo pressing powerful
against tho Republican party. On the
whole it must be admitted that any pru.
dent life insurance company scoald haue
to regard the risk on The Republican
party as extra hazardous ut ate present
time"
just SO, Mr.. Dana. South Carolina
is Democratic State, and we believe
that, uneer all circumstances, she will
remuin Democratic State. If the vote
Of the blacks is not hereafter controlled
by the respectable whites whenever aud
wherever the whites shall 30 choose,
then it will be the .famh Of asc lattcr-a
most ,oretched and tgnommious fault!
The Radicals have had their day in
South Carolina, and in the South gene.
rally, and a long and terrible day it has
been, but We believe its balefal sun is
declining towards the West.
Two or three years more, and the
Scots, and the Platts, and the Pilsburys,
will have returned to their "native noun
tains of Hepsidam," or else have sunk
down. down iuto ignominious obscurity
among the people they are now SO vul-
carly and shamelessly outraging. And
as for the wretched native scalawacs.
their very names will be ever mentioned
with reproach and splitting, and their
children aud grand children, aud great
grand children, will curse them to the
latest geneiation.-Eagefed Adpertiser.
Phew! Did you ever. "He rolls it
under his tongue as sweet morscl.
Now let us make prediction. One
year from next November r. X. Scott
will be reelected Governor of Soutl,
Carolina, until then he uM run the ma
chine as he has been doing for the past
year, with honor to himself and constitu.
ency, and after that date continue to do
tho same thing. Gen. Robert Il. Lee,
has come out in favor of the Conserva-
tive Republican candidate for Governor
of the State of Virginia and advocates
his election. Why don't you Scalawag
him! We don't mind being called scala
wags in company with such men as Gen.
Lee. Gen. Longstrect, Judge Orr, Judge
Carpenter, and host of others, too nu
murous to mention.
The Edgstfeid Adrertiser used to be
dignifed journal. Rotten Northern De.
mocracy, and Southern prejudice, how
ever, are rapidly dcgonerating it into
sycophancy.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19
The Great Collapse.

The chief business Of the New York
HkrGld nowadays is to prophecy "the
snevitable collapse of the whole radical
concern" Day by day the inconstant
Bennett foretells the doom of the Rcpub-
lican party, and seems to chucklo might
~ over his representations. A sharp
old man is Bennct; and VIC chuckle with
hina right heartily.
But greater source Of comfort to us
sill, 10 che language lately used by Mr..
Daaa of the New York Sun. His words
sSe I'll The more worthy of consideration
from the fact that they come from a
write gho has ever been the most dang.
cross, because the most insidious, foe of
The Democracy. Mr.. Dana speaks more
OF the Republican party in the Southern
States. Aud it is~indeed time for Or
ganisatipp aud action among us of the
South, when the New York SUI, gives
Mitsfanos to such strong and pointed
mosss asthese which follow:
1--WE do not for the present question,
and We do not promise to discuss, the in
tsinsie wisdom of this policy. We de.
sign silDPiyy 70 call attention to The pros
lpect which it opens to the Republican
Pssty, That prospect is Me grape.
"Whsevcr suppose that the money aud
the braius Of the white rebels will not
be more than match for the negroes
and the few scattering white Republicans
'ih tho former slave States, has conf
Sdence which we dp not shave. Thesc
States may be expected to vote solid, or
neatly 80, for Democratic candidate for
President at the next election. And We
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19
Astounding Discovery.
\ RACE OF SESTIENT BEINGS INvIsI-
BILE TO TIE NAKED EYE Discover
ED WITH MICROSCOPE.

We accepted an invitation yesterday
to examine the most wonderful aud awful
discovery ever made by man, commu-
nifty of microscopic human beings!
The gentleman who made the discov
cry is well-known citizen of Mobile
whose name we are not at liberty to re-
veal, but whom for the sake of conven-
ience we shall cal; iir. A.
Mr.. A. is gentleman in easy circum-
stances, who has devoted much time to
scientific pursuits particularly to expert
ments with tho microscope. 1t was
while examining with this instrument
specimen of moss or lichen taken from
the roots oi live oak tree near the
Spring Hill road, that Mr. A. made his
astounding discovery. He saw clinging
to the minute branches of the ichen that
he had been turning about so uucere-
moniously, human being, perfect in
form, and with countenance revealing
the widest terror. The microscope man
was magni6ed to the size of a small red
ant, and wheu he first met tho eye of
Mr.. A. it is doubtful which of the two
were the more terrified, the experimentcr
at the unexpected discovery, or his
microscopic fellow-croature at finding
himself subjected to such rough treat
Hent
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19

JUDGE ORR AND THE HOMESTEAD
LAVA Greenvillc correspondent Of
the Charleston Courier, says: His Honor
Judge Orr has written long argument
sustaining the Homestead Act. AS
regards liens existing prior to the Act
he says, IF the Homestead provisions
had been Objectionable to Congress,
applying to existing liens at the date of
the adoption Of the Constitution, it
would doubtless have been excepted to
in the Act admitting the State to repre-
sentatiou, as was done by Congress with
reference to certain features in the Con-
stitution of Georgia.
1T is said, again, that if the dwelling
house and out buildings are not excluded
from the estimate, that an unfortunate
debtor whose dwelling and outbuildings
exceeded one thousand dollars in value
would be excluded from all ,eucfit from
the Act. IT is conceded that the lcgisla-
'ioN Oh THIS point Is defective, and that
some provision should be made when the
debtors dwelling is worth more than
on thousand dollars, to retain for him in
trust that snn when sold, To purchase
Il homestead but this argument cannot
be allowed to withdraw and defeat the
plain provisions of TIC Constitution and
Act already quoted
"lt may be that appraisers would be
authorized on examining dwelling and
out-buildings, and concluding the same
to be worth more than one thousand
dollars, that they would be authorized to
appraise only, and assign only part of
the dwelling and out-buildiuss, or even
certain rooms as homestead"
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-19
The young white mon have accepted

The young white mon have accepted
the situation, and gone to the plow.
some of the colorcd boys have followed
:hc;r example, while others spend too
much of their time fishing, shooting and
picking berries.
The system of labor which I find most
satisfactory to both parties, is TO pay my
laborers some cash every month, furnish
them patch, rations, medicines, &C.,
and work them on the usual plan, from
Monday until Saturday, IL N. 1 set
out last January with six young men ON
this plan, they work well, aud are more
cheerful and contented than any con.
tract hands, or uny hands In this cou,-
munity working on another plan.
Yours, &C.,